Noah Schnapp was featured in a video promoting stickers with phrases like ‘Zionism is sexy’ and ‘Hamas is ISIS.’ This video has triggered outrage among social media users, with many fans labeling his actions as disgusting. The backlash has escalated to the extent that many people are now advocating for a boycott of the final season of Stranger Things.
In addition to Schnapp, Brett Gelman, recognized for his role as Murray Bauman, has come under scrutiny for sharing anti-Muslim posts on social media. Beyond the cast, there is criticism directed at Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy and the show’s writers, The Duffer Brothers. They are facing backlash for endorsing a letter in support of Israel, further fueling the controversy surrounding the show.
— Read on strangerthingshub.com/stranger-things-fans-are-leaving-the-fandom-after-new-controversy/
This is amazing! Keep spiting those reviewers who don’t matter!
Enjoy the season!
This from DEADLINE:
SATURDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s is meeting the expectations of all those crazy projections that were out there. Since yesterday midday when we saw $68M, the Emma Tammi directed feature take of the videogame, which is also co-written by the game’s creator Scott Cawthon is looking at $78M weekend. Some have this movie at near Oppenheimer‘s opening ($82.4M), not that the movie will leg out to north of $300M in the end, but it’s fun to see how Universal in its marketing, literally repeated that type of moviegoer turnout again; another title here that’s harnessed the spirit of fans.
— Read on deadline.com/2023/10/box-office-five-nights-at-freddys-1235584788/
“Caught between PG and R, as well as lost at the crossroads of inadvertent comedy and horror, the PG-13 Five Nights at Freddy’s has to go down as one of the poorest films in any genre this year.”
“A weird horror concoction, fleetingly clever in the early going before gumming up the gears down the home stretch.”
“One problem is that the title imposes a stop-and-start structure which keeps killing the momentum. One scary night would work better than five with time-outs for daytime plot about the evil auntie or a deep backstory.”
“Expanding the game’s simple, primal premise with a surfeit of character melodrama, it’s a Five Nights at Freddy’s that labors under the bizarre assumption that the loyal fanbase wants a lot of extraneous plot surrounding the fun-center horror.”
But does it matter???
We are getting word of this tonight: Five Nights at Freddy‘s is eyeing a $50 million-plus start and possibly even more. At that level, it would make it the second-best domestic box office opening of the fall behind Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour!!
It will hit theaters on Sunday, October 1 at 4pm and 7pm local time, and Wednesday, October 4 at 7pm local time.
The limited engagement puts the spotlight on William Friedkin’sExtended Director’s Cut, sourced from the Original 1973 Cut Camera Negative with newly restored and remastered picture and sound in stunning 4k—removing dirt, scratches, and other defects, while maintaining the film’s original creative integrity…
BLOODY DISGUSTING first reported this news today followed by the Hollywood Reporter..
Spyglass “has tapped Christopher Landon, a scary movie stalwart whose credits include the Happy Death Day movies as well as body-switching horror-comedy Freaky, to direct the seventh installment of the long-running franchise.” Scream and Scream VI directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Radio Silence) will remain on board as executive producers, as will Chad Villella.
At this point it is assumed but there is no official word yet on who will be writing Scream 7, but THR reports that Melissa Barrera and Mason Gooding are expected to return.
Of course this is all this contingent on Hollywood actually coming back soon from a writers strike..
Unless you want to? Seriously, go see it if you do. You may never see a movie like this in a theater again.
We traveled to Reading PA to see a late night showing of the film Sunday night–a few friends were mad it wasn’t in their hometown of Philadelphia but a smaller venue like the AMC in Berks County.
It was not overly crowded for our showing, just a few people sprinkled around the theater, mostly with blankets and their feet up.
The Horror Report will make the valiant attempt of keeping spoilers mostly out, but expect a few here and there.
There is a simple (we think) premise:
In the year 1995, two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished. Kyle Edward Ball, the writer of the low budget movie *$15,000!* takes us on a journey from there..
From the moment the film begins until the second it ends, you feel automatic frustration. There is anger over the camera angles–why do they only show the tops and bottom of doors! Why only feet! Why only legos over and over and over again. Then when the TV starts playing? Sheesh.. We quickly had our fill of old fashioned creepy cartoons. Fast.
There are scenes of confusion. Scenes where there are subtitles for sentences that you can clearly understand, but no subtitles for muffled words being said in dark hallways or upstairs in the house.
There were moments of Twilight Zone vibes when toilets vanished and reappeared, or blood streaked and then went backwards. But so many other scenes clearly expanded this movie longer than it should have been. What would have been a great 15-minute turned into an hour and 40 minutes of confusion. Mania. Anxiety.
So in that sense, it also worked.
Look, we don’t know if Kyle Ball wants us to like this movie or hate it. It divided the horror world since its inception. But while it seems hard to watch, you can also become trapped by it. You are painfully watching each camera angle and slow movement, you are vaguely understanding what is going on but it all takes place off camera. So you are just a witness to something happening somewhere else, constantly. You never quite see the full story, just hear bits and pieces.
The magic of this frustration is overwhelming in concept: You are stuck in the house with these kids. Whether you are stuck in a dream, their dream, your dream, or some paranormal realm, you are stuck. The imagery, in all its mundane attire, is perfect for the theme: These dark corners, long hallways, and shadows created by a cartoon at midnight, are all things kids are frightened of. They are the origins of dreams, or at least confusion when you are trying to wake from a dream but somehow still being held in it.
There is a scene in the film that so perfectly illustrates that stuckness.. It is a moment when a cartoon continuously repeats over. And over. And over. And over and over.. again..
At the same time for all the positive statements just made, Skinamarink was at the same time almost unwatchable. Almost. But we watched. Perhaps that was a bit of the goal of film makers? Give us a movie that is so dreadful it is boring, so dark it becomes overdone?
There is also a sense of sadness in this house. While we cannot put our finger quite on it, the kids don’t have normal reactions. As a matter of fact, we grew to somewhat dislike the kids, eventually you end up not even feeling emotion towards them. Quite frankly, this is one of the few movies ever with little character development. You are simply just a fly on the wall, stuck in the house watching kids react to not having parents, windows, or doors. SPOILER: Even when the girl gets her mouth taken off and the boy stabs himself in the eye, you are so done with them that you lose interest. For all the sadness you felt now you just feel like you want to get out of the theater just as much as they want to get out of the house.
So yes indeed we watched.
We watched until the end when the movie simply said ‘the end.’ And THAT may have been the most frustrating part of all.
Schoenbrun’s feature takes place almost entirely in the home of its young lead as well, but when it does head outside, it never shows another human being in its tableaus of big-box stores and multilane roads. Similarly, Skinamarink pushes its few human characters to the corners of the frame (when it shows them at all), shooting them from behind or in fragments. The house is the point, this bustling domestic place turned into an eerie limbo. Those unhurried shots of the upstairs hallway, the craggy Lego landscapes across a stretch of carpet, and a dining-room chair mysteriously attached to the ceiling all recall, more than anything, the liminal-spaces aesthetic that sprang out of message boards like 4Chan and Reddit a few years ago and has since spread across the larger internet.
After all these years of speculation.. finally some hard news on a movie that has been talked about since 2014..
Deadline confirmed that the FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S movie is going to feature Scream icon Matthew Lillard and The Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson.
Jason Blum confirmed on Twitter earlier this year that filming for Five Nights at Freddy’s would start in February 2023, with Emma Tammi (The Wind, Into the Dark) directing and FNaF series creator Scott Cawthon writing and producing.
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop will be working alongside Blumhouse to bring the game’s animatronics to life..
Everything seriously sounds like it’s finally coming together .. crossing fingers for a watchable adaptation!!
Deadline and others have been reporting the news.. Leslie Odom Jr has been hit with a health issue that is promoting production to delay until 2023, everyone is getting an early Christmas break..
Deadline reported, “Sources cited an unspecified health issue involving Leslie Odom Jr., who stars alongside Ellen Burstyn, reprising her role as Chris MacNeil from the original 1973 movie.”
The site describes the shut down as “an early and not cost insignificant” situation. The report adds, “They hope to have [Odom Jr.] back along with the rest of the cast in January..
Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass) has made it official: he and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures are developing a TV show based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series..
But will it appear on Netflix or Amazon?
Platform besides, it promises to be another amazing horror story from Flanagan coming..
Nothing but good entertainment from Flanagan on a constant basis. The man is a genius ..
