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Director Damien Leone Thinks Terrifier’s Key Is That It’s Never Tongue In Cheek Dread Central Presents By Matthew Bilodeau/Nov. 3, 2022 12:30 pm EST It’s been wild to see the “Terrifier” film series branch out beyond the horror crowd in 2022. The destructive bloody rampage of Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) has been going strong since 2008 with director Damien Leone’s short film “The 9th Circle,” along with the 2013 horror anthology film “All Hallows’ Eve....

Doug Jones Was Ready To Be Done With Prosthetics Until He Was Offered Star Trek: Discovery Paramount+ By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 14, 2022 5:09 pm EST It’s hard to imagine anyone else on the planet with more memorable performances as prosthetic-laden characters as the incomparable Doug Jones. If his name or (human) face doesn’t ring a bell, it’s likely because you’ve been enjoying his character work for decades, and have yet to realize that they’ve all been played by the same person....

Ed Harris Knows Westworld Season 3 Went A Little Off The Rails HBO By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 9, 2022 4:48 pm EST “Westworld” has always been an intricate show in terms of plot. Its first season secretly moves back and forth in time as its lead, an android or “host” at an interactive Western-themed amusement park named Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), slowly begins to recall memories that were forcibly wiped from her mind....

Everything You Need To Know About Corinthian From The Sandman DC Comics By Jamie Gerber/July 29, 2022 6:52 pm EST Spoilers for “The Sandman” comics follow. What do your nightmares look like? Dreams are strange, often abstract things, but the Corinthian is definitely the stuff nightmares are made of. While the world of “The Sandman” is populated by a host of unforgettable characters, he is probably the most terrifying. This creature looks human, but behind his sunglasses are two rows of teeth where each of his eyes should be....

How H. Jon Benjamin Handles Archer’s Constant Genre Hopping FX By Debopriyaa Dutta/Dec. 3, 2022 5:35 pm EST Adam Reed’s animated sitcom, “Archer,” has undergone massive tonal shifts and genre changes over the course of its 13-season run. Reed initially conceived “Archer” as a genre parody of spy thrillers that featured overt satire and quick-witted humor. The first few seasons of the show were glorious, following the shenanigans of Sterling Archer (voiced by H....

The change in setting Netflix The other big difference between the first film and the sequel is that “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is set on a sunny island in Greece, not a cozy New England manor in the middle of autumn. From the trailers alone, this change in scenery creates a whole different feel from the first movie. It’s a lot sunnier, and a lot more colorful in general....

How The Rings Of Power Connects To Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 2, 2022 3:43 pm EST After months of build-up, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is finally hitting our eyeballs today in all its wildly expensive glory. While the first two episodes of the new series offer plenty of moments worth talking about, from the arrival of a mysterious meteor man to the ultra-cool adventures of young Galadriel, one burgeoning plot point already has fans making major connections between the prequel and the Tolkein stories we know and love....

Infinity Train Creator Says Animation Teams Were Given No Warning Before HBO Max Purge Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 21, 2022 2:51 pm EST There have been major changes going down at HBO Max because of Warner Bros. merger with Discovery, and animated titles have been a major casualty. A whole slew of shows were removed from the streaming platform without any real reasoning or warning, and fans were shocked and dismayed....

Jon Favreau Originally Turned Down A Darker, PG-13 Version Of Elf New Line Cinema By Michael Boyle/Nov. 28, 2022 12:30 pm EST In light of Will Ferrell’s other comedy films in the mid-2000s, “Elf” is a little surprising. Unlike movies like “Anchorman,” “Talladega Nights,” “Stepbrothers,” or “The Other Guys,” the 2003 Christmas film is surprisingly clean-cut and wholesome. It fits comfortably within its PG rating, never spoiling the truth about Santa to younger viewers, and avoiding most of the raunchy humor that so many of Ferrell’s movies are full of....

A 21st Century monster Searchlight Pictures The ethics are questionable here, but “Not Okay” is a film that intimately understands the social media landscape and navigating the world today as a twenty-something. After all, influencers fake things all the time to convey a certain image — you can even rent out plane interiors to make it look like you’re flying first class, so what’s the big deal? It’s definitely weird, and probably, well, not okay, but it’s fairly innocuous until the proverbial hammer drops....

Oliver Stone Thinks Val Kilmer’s Performance In The Doors Was Doomed To Be Snubbed From The Start Tri-Star Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 3, 2022 12:05 pm EST Val Kilmer was on a real transformative streak in the early 1990s. Two of the “Top Gun” actor’s most memorable, chameleonic performances — Jim Morrison in “The Doors” and Doc Holliday in “Tombstone” — came within two years of each other. “The Doors” hit in 1991 and “Tombstone” hit in 1993, the same year Kilmer also played a convincing Elvis Presley hallucination in “True Romance....

Robert Duvall Knew The Godfather Was Special Before Filming Had Even Wrapped Paramount Pictures By Andrew Korpan/Sept. 12, 2022 3:53 pm EST Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel, “The Godfather,” is one of the most acclaimed films of all time. Whether or not you’ve seen the film, you’ll likely recognize some of the iconic lines such as, “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,” or “Leave the gun....

Runaway Horror Hit Smile Has Now Passed $200 Million At The Worldwide Box Office Paramount By Mike Shutt/Nov. 6, 2022 2:34 pm EST Horror continues to show why it is the second most valuable genre at the box office behind the superhero industrial complex. This year’s major horror success comes from Paramount with “Smile,” which just crossed $200 million at the worldwide box office. The film, written and directed by Parker Finn, is now only $8 million behind the Chinese dramedy “Nice View” to become the highest grossing film of the year not based on any previous material....

Ryan Gosling Wants Greta Gerwig’s Barbie To Be A Redemption For Ken Warner Bros. By Jenna Busch/Dec. 6, 2022 4:06 pm EST Ever since the “Toy Story” films made us think of our toys as sentient (or at least confirmed it for some people), a small part of the brain feels bad for the ones who don’t get played with. You are not alone if you have a soft spot in your heart for Ken, the companion of Barbie (and understand why his name has to be qualified by his relationship with her)....

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Writer Says Oscar Isaac’s Spider-Man 2099 Is ‘Not The Villain’ Sony Pictures Animation By Miyako Pleines/Dec. 19, 2022 5:24 pm EST The “Spider-Man” multiverse definitely has its fair share of Spider-people, and no film in the franchise has been more enthusiastic about the vast array of Spideys than 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” The animated movie introduced audiences to a plethora of web slingers; along with the film’s main Spider-Man being none other than alternate universe Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), we also got to see everything from Jake Johnson’s Peter B....

Studios Wrongly Thought Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed Would Need To Be X-Rated Sony Pictures Animation By Witney Seibold/Aug. 6, 2022 9:00 pm EST Animator Genndy Tartakovsky began his professional career as an assistant animator on the seminal ’90s cartoon “Tiny Toon Adventures,” right when the medium was evolving into a new animal. Thanks to the late-’80s and early ’90s success of creator-based cartoons like “Beavis and Butt-Head” and “The Ren & Stimpy Show” animators like Tartakovsky suddenly found themselves in a marketplace that was aching for edgier, unique cartoons that were not based on existing IP....

‘Art is more confident this time around’ Bloody Disgusting Thank you guys for doing this. Am I the first person you guys are talking to? Thornton: Yes. Well, that’s awesome. Congratulations on the movie. It’s been six years since the original. How did “Terrifier 2” finally come about? Leone: I always knew that we wanted to make a sequel. I had so much more of a story to tell with this character....

Terrifier 2 Review: A Bigger, Weirder, Bloodier Sequel Bloody Disgusting By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 7, 2022 4:00 pm EST I won’t mince words: the first “Terrifier” is what I’d call “crap.” That’s not always a bad thing — I like a lot of crap! But not this. While I freely admit the film is loaded with some incredibly practical gore, the movie itself is little more than a plotless, storyless, valueless excuse to showcase that gore and not much else....

The Darth Bane trilogy Lucasfilm/Del Rey Set one thousand years prior to the events of “The Phantom Menace,” the Darth Bane trilogy tells the life story of a pivotal Sith lord. Bane was a grizzled miner who discovered his aptitude for the dark side and joined the ranks of the Brotherhood of Darkness, an army of Sith that waged a war against the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order. While he relished the chance to join the group, Bane grew concerned that the competing Sith lords were too obsessed with securing power to rule the galaxy....

What Happens in The Bad Batch? Neon “The Bad Batch” is a stylish look at the end of the world, set in a dust-covered dystopian landscape that looks as if Burning Man had a baby with “Mad Max.” The film gets its title from the label slapped on people deemed unfit for civilized society and left to fend for themselves in the lawless badlands. From the beginning, it’s clear that the bad batch are made up of outsiders, the poor, those struggling with mental illness, and a disproportionate amount of people of color....