Tag: The Black Phone
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‘V/H/S/85’ Director Reveals How It Connects to ‘The Black Phone’
Beloved filmmaker Scott Derrickson has directed a short for the newest film in the found footage horror anthology franchise, V/H/S. V/H/S/85 will premiere on Shudder on October 6 and features Derrickson’s sci-fi serial killer short, Dreamkill. Dreamkill follows a detective (Freddy Rodriguez) who begins to receive a series of videotapes depicting brutal murders. In a…
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New ‘V/H/S/85’ Trailer: The Latest In The Horror Anthology Series Goes Back To The ’80s, Hits Shudder On October 6
The latest installment in the “V/H/S” horror anthology series premieres at Fantastic Fest tomorrow before it streams exclusively on Shudder next month. And to drum up hype for the “V/H/S/85,” here’s an all-new trailer for the movie, which features shorts from the likes of “The Night House” and “Hellraiser” director David Bruckner and Scott Derrickson,…
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‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ Trailer: The Horror Game Phenomenon Arrives In October via Blumhouse
Can you survive five nights? Say what you will about the idea of a terrifying horror game phenomenon turned into a blood-chilling cinematic event; eye-roll all you want. And we might agree with you normally. But the adaptation of the creepy video game “Five Nights At Freddy’s” comes from Blumhouse— the production company and producers…
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Black Phone Director Scott Derrickson Goes Found Footage Horror In VHS 85 Trailer
The “V/H/S” franchise is back once again with another installment this year, bringing more found footage spooky goodness to 2023’s Halloween season. This time around, “V/H/S/85″ will bring the long-running anthology series to the 1980s when slasher movies reigned supreme and the home video market was just beginning to explode. And the folks at Shudder…
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16 Movies Stephen King Doesn’t Like, from ‘Transformers’ to ‘Kill Bill’
Stephen King is among history’s most frequently adapted writers, up there with Charles Dickens, the Brothers Grimm, and William Shakespeare for inspiring the most successful page-to-picture creations. From Rob Reiner and David Cronenberg to Mike Flanagan and Andy Muschietti, genre filmmakers have clamored to take on King’s words for decades.There’s no shortage of material to…
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The Gorge: Everything We Know About Scott Derrickson’s New Movie Starring Miles Teller And Anya Taylor-Joy
“Follow your passion” seems to be Scott Derrickson’s guiding philosophy as a director, and so far it’s served him pretty well.The key, it appears, is his ability to bounce back from disappointment by channeling his energy into something he really believes in. After his big-budget 2008 film remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still”…
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The Black Phone Villain Was Originally Going To Be A Clown, But Then It Happened
One of the scariest movie villains of 2022 so far is the Grabber (Ethan Hawke), the antagonist of Scott Derrickson’s supernatural horror film “The Black Phone.” The otherwise unnamed villain is a child abductor and killer, plucking kids off the streets in 1970s Colorado. The Grabber isn’t onscreen for much of the movie and we…
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Universal Owns the VOD Charts This Week, Led by ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’
Universal is usually strong on VOD charts, but this week it dominates by holding 13 out of 30 possible slots with the just-released “
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‘Nope’ Debuts To 44 Million, The Best For An Original Film Since Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ In 2019
Writer/Director Jordan Peele is back with Nope, the UFO-centered horror film starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, and Peele once again proves that he is one of Hollywood’s few directors whose name can consistently lure audiences into cinemas. The 44 million launch fell quite a bit short of Peele’s previous film Us, which opened…