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Wes Craven’s Best Scenes
The entertainment industry was dealt a devastating blow this month when legendary horror movie director Wes Craven passed away at age 76. Craven created some of the most memorable bogeymen in film and it is impossible to understate the impact he had on the horror genre – from his provocative 1970’s boundary-pushing indie films to the […] More
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SOS This Week #22: The Crazy, Tangled World of Fan Theories (with guest Josh Spiegel)
Fan theories seem to be everywhere nowadays with something for everyone, including making The Joker a good guy in The Dark Knight, linking Andy’s mom to Jessie in Toy Story 2, and tying every Pixar movie together in one crazed timeline. But are those good for movie fans or bad? We bring on the Managing […] More
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‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ – a near masterpiece of independent genre filmmaking
Wes Craven intended Nightmare to be an exploration of surreal horror as opposed to just another stalk-and-slash horror movie, and not only did Nightmare offer a wildly imaginative, inspired concept, but it was a solid commercial genre entry for the dating crowd More
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Video Tribute to the Life and Work of the Late Master of Horror Wes Craven
Nelson Carvajal from RogerEbert.com has created a video tribute to the life and work of Wes Craven who recently passed away after a battle with brain cancer at the age of 76. Craven created some of the most memorable bogeymen in film, and it is impossible to understate the impact he had on the horror […] More
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Scream, Ep. 1.08 to 1.10: Strong direction makes for an exciting finale
Scream, Season 1, Episodes 8 to 10 Created by Jill E. Blotevogel, Jay Beattie, and Dan Dworkin Aired Tuesdays at 10pm (ET) on MTV There’s something we’ve got to talk about before we can talk about the final three episodes of Scream, and that’s about the sad passing of Wes Craven on Sunday, August 30th. There’s a thousand […] More
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Scream, Ep. 1.01 to 1.03: Sharpen your knives, this could actually be good
If one glances around at the Movie-to-TV adaptation landscape, things are looking surprisingly good. Hannibal is the best show on television right now, Fargo was one of the best surprises of last year and looks like it will continue as such in its second season this fall, and now MTV is adding one more Movie-to-TV adaptation to its roster; shout out to MTV’s other Movie-to-TV breadwinner Teen Wolf, More
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Wes Craven to return to television with Syfy
Beloved horror filmmaker Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes II, Scream) is working with Universal Cable Productions to produce content for NBCUniversal and affiliated networks, Deadline reports. At Syfy, Craven is set to write and direct author Daryl Gregory’s dark fiction We Are All Completely Fine. Gregory’s story is about an experimental psychologist with a support group […] More
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New on Video: ‘The Beyond’
What [Fulci] did best within the [horror] genre, he did as well as any other filmmaker…. And arguably his finest achievement, certainly one that perfectly showcases his style and skill, is The Beyond (1981), out now on an extensive 3-disc collectors edition Blu-ray. More
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Fear When You’re At Rest – ‘Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master’
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Written by Robert Shaye and Rachel Talalay Directed by Renny Harlin USA 1988 The first death of the fourth film in the Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise is one of the scariest for me personally because I have an irrational fear of cars. Kincaid, one of […] More
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‘Scream’ TV series moving forward with cast and director announcement
Wes Craven’s 1996 Scream was easily one of the best and most influential horror films of the 1990s. Its sequel in 1997 was just as successful with critics, audiences, and at the box office. The franchise faltered with 2000’s Scream 3, but started to take a step back in the right direction with 2011’s Scream […] More
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Attack of the Trilogies
E. B. White once wrote, “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” Analyzing trilogies seems to the same. The entire point is to enjoy them. Still, given the many sins to be found in film, there are worse things than movie trilogies but few have […] More
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