Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t know she was about to take on three more “Halloween” movies when she said yes to David Gordon Green’s 2018 film, the sequel to her 1978 film.
During a SXSW panel titled, “If Not Now, When, if Not Me, Who? Pivoting and Manifesting,” Curtis opened up about filmmaking and her career as an actress and producer. She first named her appreciation for Jason Blum.
“The only reason I am sitting in this chair today is because of Jason. Jason Blum, who runs Blumhouse, is the one who brought back the ‘Halloween’ movies,” she said. However, when she got the call, she thought it was one movie and didn’t hear until way later that they were planning to do more..
A24’s indie horror movie undertonehit $4.3M on opening day and it’s still gunning for $10M in third place by the conclusion to the weekend box office release..
The film has had some high praise from several in the horror community.. the movie has a lot more to do with the scariness of sound rather than visual fright..
We didn’t see undertone yet but are excited too and hope to in a theater with a great sound system.. While it is being criticized in various circles, as always you just need to give movies like this a try.. We spoke before about how PONTYPOOL was a favorite of ours and this one may rank eventually in the same category..
As far as the box office? Onward to streaming quickly perhaps..
The 59-second 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, seen by billions of people over the decades, is often cited by proponents as proof that the giant, hairy creature exists
A new documentary — Capturing Bigfoot — uses recently unearthed footage to prove that the 1967 film was an “incredible hoax,” says director Marq Evans
“I think for a lot of people who have so much history and belief tied up in this story, it’s going to be really hard to accept,” says filmmaker Evans
The Bigfoot Society, a podcast and online community dedicated to collecting eyewitness accounts of Sasquatch encounters, says it had received six separate reports between March 6 and March 10 in wooded areas near Mantua and Garrettsville, southeast of Cleveland.
The group has described the cluster as a possible “flap,” a term used in cryptozoology for multiple sightings within a short time span.
“It’s normal for there to be Bigfoot sightings all over the United States, but it’s not normal to have multiple sightings in a small area within a short number of days,” Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, told Fox 8.
William Neil McCasland, 68, was reported missing after leaving his Albuquerque, N.M., home on foot, according to local authorities, who have teamed up with the FBI to find the former military official.
To Coulthart, the way McCasland vanished — reportedly along a running trail without his watch and phone — suggests something nefarious…
Dmitry Peskov had the hopeful message being reported in world fish wrappers..
Putin’s mouthpiece said today: ‘There have been worse things in human history… but we weren’t alive then, so it seems to us that the end of the world is upon us.’
Amid the war in the Middle East, Putin, who illegally invaded Ukraine four years ago, believes ‘we have all lost what we call international law’, said Peskov.
‘To be honest, I don’t even understand how anyone can call on others to follow the norms and principles of international law. It no longer exists.”
Sometimes a movie just sort of appears out of nowhere and you realize Hollywood expected it to be a big deal, but the audience never really got the memo.
That seems to be what happened with The Bride!, the new Frankenstein-inspired film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. On paper, the movie had some things going for it. The Gyllenhaal name carries weight in Hollywood, the source material comes from one of the most famous monster stories ever created, and studios have been trying for years to find a way to revive the old Universal-style monster movies for modern audiences. But when the film actually arrived in theaters this weekend, the numbers told a very different story.
The film opened to roughly $7.3 million domestically, with another $6.3 million internationally, bringing its global opening weekend to around $13.6 million worldwide. That would be fine for a small horror movie, but The Bride! reportedly cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $80 to $90 million to produce, which suddenly makes that opening weekend look extremely rough.
What makes the situation even more interesting is that many people, including horror fans, seemed genuinely confused about what the movie actually was. The trailers presented it as a strange mix of gothic horror, romance, and what almost looked like an art-house style period piece. That might work for a smaller experimental film, but it is a harder sell when you are spending blockbuster-level money.
The marketing also did not seem to find its audience. Personally, I only saw a few ads for it, and even then it was not clear what niche the film was trying to target. Was it meant to be a serious monster movie, a dark romantic drama, or a stylized reinterpretation of the classic Bride of Frankenstein story? The messaging never quite landed.
To make matters worse, the movie opened against more broadly appealing releases, including a major animated film that dominated the weekend box office. That kind of competition is always risky, but it becomes even more dangerous when the film you are releasing already has a somewhat unclear identity.
In the end, The Bride! might become one of those films that finds a second life later on streaming, where audiences sometimes embrace unusual projects that struggled in theaters. But at least for now, the opening weekend suggests this was a big-budget gamble on a very niche idea, and it is one that did not quite connect with audiences the way the studio probably hoped.
For many horror fans, Shudder and Joe Bob Briggs have almost become synonymous over the past several years. Since “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” launched in 2018 as a one-night marathon event, it quickly grew into the platform’s flagship program, hosting hundreds of cult and horror films and building a fiercely loyal fanbase along the way.
That’s why the recent announcement that the show’s regular run has come to an end caught many viewers completely off guard. While Shudder has confirmed that Joe Bob will return for several special events throughout the year, the traditional season format that fans have grown used to is apparently finished.
The surprise nature of the announcement has led to some frustration among fans online. Many subscribers have openly admitted that Joe Bob’s show was the primary reason they signed up for Shudder in the first place, and for them the end of the regular series feels like losing the platform’s main attraction. As a result, social media and horror forums have filled with people claiming they plan to cancel their subscriptions, believing that Shudder made the decision to cancel the program rather than simply restructure it.
At the moment, there’s no official confirmation of any behind-the-scenes conflict or controversy. The most likely explanation appears to be that the show is transitioning into a special-event format, something that would allow Shudder to continue featuring Joe Bob while reducing the cost and complexity of producing full seasons built around licensing dozens of films.
Still, the lack of a clear explanation has left plenty of room for speculation, and horror fans tend to be very protective of the things they love. Joe Bob is one of the most quintessential characters in modern horror and he’s been around for a long time.
Clearly fans took to him years ago and continue to do so, and if the ship goes down they’ll go with it.
The news keeps getting better about this film we already know it’s a complete reimagining and now we’re hearing about more stars some of the names you’ll know. ..
Per Deadline, joining The Exorcist are 11 members of the so-called Flanafamily, including Rahul Kohli, Hamish Linklater, Gil Bellows, Carl Lumbly, Robert Longstreet, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Benjamin Pajak, and Carla Gugino, most of whom have appeared across myriad Flanagan projects from Midnight Mass to The Life of Chuck.
Flanagan’s Exorcist is confirmed to be an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and is not a sequel to David Gordon Green’s ill-fated The Exorcist:Believer from 2023. According to The Hollywood Reporter, while plot details for The Exorcist are being kept under the sheets, it is known that Scarlett Johansson plays a mother and Jupe her son. Leguizamo may be playing an antagonist. No word yet on who anyone else will be playing
Let’s talk a bit about Mandela Effects, and specifically one strange Mandela Effect that I didn’t even know existed until tonight. I watched a video about how people say it existed, and once it became an issue in my mind, it started to bother me like it really did exist.
Let me explain.
You know those things above baby cribs? You know the word—a mobile. We’ve always called it a mobile. It’s always been known as a mobile. People for generations have said it’s a mobile. As a society we can agree on that, right?
Until you don’t.
Here’s the catch: tons of Reddit forums and different threads across the internet talk about how people remember there being a different word than mobile. They remember it to the point where it’s on the tip of their tongue, and they believe the word was something else entirely. For me.. and believe me, there are some Mandela Effects I really can’t explain.. this one immediately felt fanciful and a bit silly. The word was always mobile. I don’t remember anything different.
Until I started thinking about how other people remember the word being different. Then I started to wonder if the word potentially was different, and maybe I’m the one who’s wrong. I nearly second-guessed my sanity. I started second-guessing the idea that the word was always mobile to the point where I was calling family members and asking friends what they thought the word was.
They all convincingly responded: mobile. But when you sit with this idea long enough—when you let it dwell and fester—your brain starts to play tricks on you. You begin to wonder if it really was mobile, or if the people remembering a different word they can’t quite recall are actually right.
I’m a big fan of the movie Pontypool. It’s one of my favorite zombie horror films, about a mild-mannered, somewhat egotistical radio host broadcasting in the middle of the night from a snowy town. I love that theme. But in the film, people in the town begin to get infected by a strange virus that spreads through language. Words stop meaning what they should, and people begin to lose their understanding of them. It’s kind of like that old Twilight Zone episode from the 1980s called “Wordplay.” The one where a man slowly goes nuts while the entire world starts using words in ways that make no sense to him.
There’s something about forgetting words that’s genuinely frightening.
Maybe it’s because if you’ve seen Alzheimer’s or dementia in your family, there’s a real horror in forgetting words and forgetting things. Forgetting so much that you eventually become a vessel that feels empty.. without the material that used to fill your mind.
But Pontypool is all about language breaking down. In that movie it’s a zombie virus, of course, you have to make it scary somehow.
But the idea of words changing their meaning, people losing vocabulary, or even losing language entirely… that really gets under my skin. And it probably does for you too.
It’s strange how something so benign and mundane can somehow still be so terrifying. And that’s what makes this Mandela Effect a little eerie.
It’s not the usual example like the Berenstain Bears, or the story about Sinbad supposedly making a genie movie that he now says never existed. Instead, this one is about the most basic words we’ve known since babyhood.
