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The Best Horror Star Cameos In Sam Raimi Movies Starz By Joe Garza/June 16, 2022 2:48 pm EST Sam Raimi is one of the most unique and inventive filmmakers of our time. Coming out of an independent background, his early films are noted for their daring style and wacky sense of humor, elements that Raimi would carry over into his big-budget Hollywood films. Even in his more mainstream work like the “Spider-Man” trilogy, “The Quick and the Dead,” “Oz the Great and Powerful,” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” you can easily tell that Raimi hasn’t lost his imaginative spark....

The Effects In The Night House Were Terrifyingly Real Searchlight Pictures By BJ Colangelo/April 11, 2022 4:20 pm EST Three years after David Bruckner terrified Netflix viewers with “The Ritual,” he returned to the world of horror features with the Rebecca Hall-starring supernatural horror thriller, “The Night House.” Hall plays a woman named Beth, whose husband recently died by suicide. She spends her days wandering through the beautiful home on the lake he designed and built for her, but every night, she is plagued by ghastly nightmares, and finds herself overwhelmed with unexplainable visions of a presence in her home....

The Morning Watch: Behind The Scenes Of The Adam Project, The 2022 Oscars Honest Trailer & More Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/March 24, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.)...

Hulu’s summer slate is heating up Searchlight Pictures Together, these films line up an exciting summer slate for Hulu Originals. First up is Andrew Ahn’s “Fire Island,” slated to hit Hulu on June 3, 2022. This modern take on “Pride and Prejudice” is set at the legendary LGBTQ-friendly island. An Asian-led gay retelling of the classic story, the film comes from writer and star Joel Kim Booster, and centers around “two best friends who set out to have a legendary week-long summer vacation with the help of cheap rosé and a cadre of eclectic friends....

Under The Banner Of Heaven Teaser: Andrew Garfield Investigates A Murder 20th Television By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 23, 2022 3:07 pm EST Very few types of genre stories are doing as well right now as true-crime retellings, as evidenced by popular shows like “Mindhunter” in recent years and a spate of projects such as Netflix’s “Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer” and the upcoming HBO Max series “The Staircase.” Now, it’s FX on Hulu and actor Andrew Garfield’s turn to take a swing at some dark, disturbing, and strangely compelling material....

Westworld Season 4 Trailer: Question Your Reality (Again) HBO By Jeremy Mathai/June 16, 2022 2:30 pm EST It’s been a long two years since HBO’s “Westworld” last graced the airwaves with its futuristic, disturbing, and sometimes outright confounding story full of robots and existential concerns. Though anyone who’s stuck with the sci-fi series for this long is undoubtedly invested in the series by now, even the most hardcore fans would likely need a bit of a refresher in the time since season 3 aired its season finale way back in May of 2020....

Harrelson didn’t feel much connection to Haymitch Lionsgate Considering how well-cast “The Hunger Games” ended up being it’s hard to imagine anyone else playing Haymitch so spectacularly as Harrelson. But in an interview with the Independent, the actor initially didn’t see himself having much to offer the role. “I turned it down and they re-offered it and I turned it down again. Then [the first film’s writer and director] Gary Ross called me and convinced me to do it on the phone....

Cat People RKO Radio Pictures Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 film, “Cat People,” is iconic. Not only does it contain one of the most chilling jump scares of all time, but its queer-coded narrative speaks directly to the repression of the LGBTQ+ community. From 1934 to 1968, the Hays Code (officially known as the “Motion Picture Production Code”) set strict guidelines for cinematic content, running the gamut from graphic violence to overtly queer depictions....

After Over 40 Years, Boba Fett Is Finally A Star Wars Lead Lucasfilm By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 29, 2021 7:55 am EST Though he now insists he’s #NotABountyHunter, Boba Fett has been knocking about the galaxy — and, yes, bounty hunting — since 1978 when he first appeared in a different color scheme and in animated form in the notorious “Star Wars Holiday Special” (now in 4K). As of today, Fett is officially the star of his own Disney+ series, “The Book of Boba Fett,” the first episode of which is now available to stream....

Black Crab Review: A Post-Apocalyptic War Movie On Ice Netflix By Chris Evangelista/March 17, 2022 1:37 pm EST I’ll say one thing for “Black Crab”: I’m pretty sure this is the first and only post-apocalyptic movie where the characters spend the majority of the runtime ice skating. Directed by Adam Berg, this bleak Swedish pic is set in the midst of a cataclysmic war. It’s vague enough to seem timely, with people fighting over seemingly nothing but their raw hatred....

Murphy’s rise Paramount In a 2013 oral history about the making of “Trading Places,” director John Landis claimed that the “studio was very unhappy with almost everybody they wanted me to cast.” When the movie was initially conceived, it was going to star Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, casting a huge shadow over any other prospective stars. When you consider that Dan Aykroyd — playing moneyed clown Louis Winthorpe III — was a weak box office draw since the death of his comedy partner John Belushi, it made sense for the studio to be nervous about his co-star as well....

Doctor Strange’s Multiverse Of Madness Isn’t Nearly As Impressive As Miles Morales’ Spider-Verse Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/May 9, 2022 5:00 pm EST Warning: This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” finally brings the concept of the multiverse to the MCU after a long lead-up that sort of started in “WandaVision” (until Ralph Bohner ruined that) and then carried over to the surprisingly great “What If…?...

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Arrives In Theaters This Summer Crunchyroll/Toei Animation By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 11, 2022 9:51 am EST Good news: “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” is coming to theaters this summer, courtesy of a worldwide theatrical release by Crunchyroll. As per a recent press release, “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” is the latest film in the “Dragon Ball” franchise, with the first “Dragon Ball Super: Broly” being released in 2018, which performed fairly well at the box office....

Hellbound: Hellraiser II New World Pictures Based on the events of Tony Randel’s 1988 sequel “Hellbound: Hellraiser II,” contestants receive a vision from a skinless dead friend or relative, enticing them to enter Hell to rescue them. The Hell in the mythos of the long-running “Hellraiser” series — now 10 films deep, with a remake on the way — is not the fire-and-brimstone realm popularly seen in Warner Bros. cartoons, but a surreal, stony labyrinth full of hedonistic S&M enthusiasts who want to either seduce your or rip you to shreds, mostly both....

Every Sam Raimi TV Series Ranked Starz Entertainment By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/May 9, 2022 2:28 pm EST Sam Raimi, what a guy. His latest movie, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” incorporates his horror roots and signature cinematographic style into the massive Marvel blockbustet. But he also blessed us with the Tobey Maguire led “Spider-Man” trilogy, giving us Willam Dafoe as the Green Goblin — a villain so good, he was able to terrorize three different versions of Peter Parker simultaneously in “Spider-Man: No Way Home....

James Wan Gave 5 Expert Tips For Making A Successful Horror Film, And We’ve Got Recs Warner Bros. Entertainment By Anya Stanley/Feb. 28, 2022 11:44 am EST Back in 2016 when “The Conjuring 2” was on its way to a $320,392,818 worldwide box office, director James Wan sat with Indiewire and offered five rules to follow for a commercially successful horror movie. The tips seem simple on paper: find new twists on old concepts, upend audience expectations, etc....

Nimona Faced Pushback From Disney Over Same-Sex Kiss, Say Former Blue Sky Studios Staffers Quill Tree Books By Witney Seibold/March 18, 2022 9:10 am EST One of Disney’s many acquisitions from the $71.3 billion merger was Blue Sky Studios, the animation studio behind “Ice Age,” “Robots,” “The Peanuts Movie,” and “Ferdinand.” Blue Sky was founded 1987 by a team of computer animators including Carl Ludwig, Eugene Troubetzkoy, Alison Brown, David Brown, Michael Ferraro, and Chris Wedge, who directed “Ice Age” and “Robots” among others....

‘Ooh! C**kacidal maniac.’ StudioCanal Frost’s ad-lib comes during the scene where Ed is trying to cheer Shaun up at the pub after Liz has broken up with him. Liz didn’t like hanging out at The Winchester all the time, but Ed tries to defend it as place full of “rich, interesting characters.” He goes around the room, offering his own backstories for each barfly, and when he lands on an older woman who’s dressed like a schoolmarm or librarian, he says, “Ooh!...

Rob Zombie Debuts Herman’s Full Makeup In The Munsters NBC By BJ Colangelo/June 1, 2022 4:06 pm EST Rob Zombie’s continued behind-the-scenes updates from the set of “The Munsters” has been an absolute gift for monster kids everywhere. Zombie has been delivering tasty treats of casting announcements, first looks at costumes, on-set photos, and stunning lighting designs on his personal Instagram. Today, he’s given the most in-depth look at Jeff Daniel Phillips (“The Lords of Salem,” “Agents of S....

Stranger Things 4 Felt Like An Uninspired D&D Game Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/July 5, 2022 8:49 am EST This post contains major spoilers for the final two episodes of “Stranger Things” season 4. From the moment it premiered, “Stranger Things” became a smash hit, with its buffet of ’80s nostalgia and references to everything from Amblin movies to Stephen King. Together with “It: Chapter One,” the show helped cement the 2010s as the second coming of the 1980s....