Tag: Leone

  • ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’s Production Was an Explosive Mess

    ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’s Production Was an Explosive Mess

    If one were to make a list of the best Westerns of all time, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly would be at the top. The Spaghetti Western, the third in director Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, finds three men competing against one another to find a buried stash of Confederate gold. Clint Eastwood, aka…

  • This Clint Eastwood Movie Has the Best Saloon in Any Western

    This Clint Eastwood Movie Has the Best Saloon in Any Western

    Even those with little familiarity (or interest) in the Western genre have some basic knowledge of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The iconic Western epic from Sergio Leone doesn’t just stand as one of the greatest Westerns ever, but one of the best movies of all-time. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…

  • Where to Watch ‘Terrifier 2’

    Where to Watch ‘Terrifier 2’

    The sequel to Terrifier was unleashed on thrill-seeking audiences on October 6, 2022, and went on to get an extended stay at the theaters by popular demand. Terrifier 2 picks up where the first film left off, with Samantha Scaffidi reprising her role as the severely disfigured Victoria. Written, directed, and produced by Damien Leone,…

  • ‘Terrifier 2’ Returns to Theaters This Fall With “Special Surprises”

    ‘Terrifier 2’ Returns to Theaters This Fall With “Special Surprises”

    It feels like in the last few years horror fans have been spoiled by an endless number of great new slashers — one of those is Damien Leone’s Terrifier 2. The sequel to the cult classic 2016 blood bath quickly became one of the most profitable films of 2022 last Halloween. Now to make the…

  • Charles Bronson & Toshirō Mifune Teamed Up in This Samurai Spaghetti Western

    Charles Bronson & Toshirō Mifune Teamed Up in This Samurai Spaghetti Western

    Looking through the lens of pop culture, it can sometimes seem that the Spaghetti Western genre begins and ends with Sergio Leone. The same lens can also reduce the samurai genre down to the work of Akira Kurosawa. Not that being so completely defined by two masters of cinema is such a bad thing, but…

  • ‘Any Which Way You Can’ Has More Monkey Sex Scenes Than Every Other Clint Eastwood Movie Combined

    ‘Any Which Way You Can’ Has More Monkey Sex Scenes Than Every Other Clint Eastwood Movie Combined

    On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.The…

  • ‘Terrifier 3’: Everything We Know About Art the Clown’s Return

    ‘Terrifier 3’: Everything We Know About Art the Clown’s Return

    From the twisted mind of Damien Leone, Art the Clown will return as the famously silent killer clown in the third installment of the Terrifier franchise. Since the release of the original film in 2018, which had a budget of only $35,000, the movie became an immediate cult classic among indie horror fans because of…