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From the 1930s into the ‘50s, Universal brought the horror genre some of its greatest icons. Dracula. Frankenstein’s Monster. The Wolf Man. The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The Invisible Man. The Mummy. The studio has returned to these characters multiple times over the decades. But the one that has had the most successful revival was the Mummy, who was brought back to the screen in a family friendly adventure film in 1999. A film that mixed monsters with Indiana Jones style action… and became a blockbuster that’s now seen as a beloved classic. So let’s take a look back at the making of The Mummy ‘99 and find out What the F*ck Happened to This Horror Movie.

To properly cover The Mummy, we first have to flash back to 1922. That’s when the discovery – and the opening – of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb captured the world’s imagination.

There's a lot of surprising things about David Gordon Green's "Halloween Kills," and not all of them are good surprising. There is, however, a very random, very weird, and very neat easter egg hidden in the movie that a lot of fans missed on first viewing: Bob Odenkirk's cameo.

Yes, Bob "Better Call Saul" Odenkirk (or Bob "Mr. Show" Odenkirk if you're an ancient one like yours truly), shows up in "Halloween Kills" ... kinda. You may remember the bar scene where the residents of Haddonfield gather to remember that awful night in 1978 when Michael Myers first returned home. They're alerted to a new series of killings via a news report that then calls back to those killed 40 years prior. You see pictures of Pj Soles as Lynda and her sweet departed boyfriend Bob, except the nerdy high school yearbook picture they used isn't the original actor John Michael Graham,...

John Carpenter's 1978 film "Halloween" begins with a prologue in 1963 wherein a six-year-old Michael Myers (Will Sandin), with no discernible motivation, takes a knife from his family kitchen, brings it upstairs, and slays his big sister Judith (Sandy Johnson). Michael was immediately taken to a mental asylum where he didn't speak a word for 15 years. His psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) tried to reach through to Michael, aiming to discern why he might have killed his sister, but ultimately found that Michael was merely, irretrievably evil. Naturally, in 1978, Michael escaped the asylum and returned to his childhood home in Haddonfield, Illinois. 

There is a notable scene wherein Dr. Loomis visits the grave of Judith Myers in 1978, only to find that the tombstone had been dug up out of the ground and stolen. The tombstone will reappear late in the film when Michael, now wearing a mask and committing multiple murders,...

"Halloween Kills" might be one of the weaker installments in the long-running "Halloween" franchise, but one of its stars is anything but. The new book "Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends" includes a whole bunch of great behind-the-scenes stories about the new trilogy's production, including one about "Halloween Kills" actor Kyle Richards. Richards, a former child actress who is perhaps now best known as a castmate on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," played Michael Myers survivor Lindsey in the recent David Gordon Green movie (a role she originated in the 1978 classic), and apparently went above and beyond when it came to the film's stunt scenes.

In one scene, according to Abbie Bernstein's book, Richards was tasked with smacking the seemingly invincible killer known as The Shape with a sack of foam meant to be a stand-in for a bag of bricks. The foam...

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The 2000s were full of remakes of beloved horror franchises. "Nightmare on Elm Street," "Friday the 13th," "Halloween," "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," and many more were reinvented for a new generation. There were enough of these that the idea of rebooting horror franchises became the main satire target of "Scream 4" — the best of that franchise's sequels. But despite how many of these there were, most failed to leave a lasting impact.

This is why it was so surprising that "Halloween" would find such big success with its second reboot — technically, it's third, if you count "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later." David Gordon Green reinvented the classic horror movie in a legacy sequel that served as a love letter to fans. As /Film critic Chris Evangelista described it back in 2018, the film is "a brutal, scary and sometimes funny...

John Carpenter, perhaps true to his name, is a workmanlike director. He doesn't possess any outwardly striking, signature aesthetic habits or camera tricks that one may call "Carpenterian." However, he still possesses a subtle mastery of the craft that is uniquely his. He simply knows where to place a camera to most effectively get a shot, shoots it, and moves on. He is practical with no pretenses toward being an artist. This is the man who, at a horror convention, was once asked how he felt about other filmmakers remaking his movies and running the risk of tainting his original artistic vision. Carpenter said that he actually loves it when others remake his movies because he gets money without having to work. His philosophy to remakes is one of "pay me." 

In Abbie Bernstein's new book "Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills, and Halloween Ends," the authors...

This article contains spoilers for "Halloween Ends."

Like all slasher films, David Gordon Green's "Halloween" trilogy will be heavily debated between generations of horror fans until the sun burns out, with people still screaming out "Team Corey!" or "It sucked!" with their last, gasping breaths. Regardless of how anyone personally feels about the trilogy, there's one thing we can all agree on — there are some pretty damn gnarly kills on display. "Halloween Ends" is home to some particularly shocking kill sequences, with the massacre at the salvage yard easily one of the best. During the scene, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) gets revenge on a gang of bullies who torment him, including Terry Tramer (Michael Barbieri), Stacy (Destiny Mone), Margo (Joey Harris), and Billy (Marteen). Terry takes a blowtorch to the face, Stacy gets her head smashed by a wrench, Billy gets a drumstick stabbed through his head, and Margo...

David Gordon Green's 2018 film "Halloween," which picks up the story of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and slasher icon Michael Myers decades after the events of John Carpenter's original 1978 "Halloween," comes to an end when three generations of Laurie's family -- Laurie; her daughter, Karen (Judy Greer); and her granddaughter, Allyson (Andi Matichak) -- trap Michael in the basement of Laurie's home and ultimately burn it to the ground, thinking they killed him in the process. (Spoiler alert: They did not actually kill him.) 

But that ending wasn't what the filmmakers initially cooked up. In the new book "Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends," author Abbie Bernstein spoke with several of the key creatives behind the making of the movie and got some details about what the initial ending would have included. Let's take a look at those details, and explore why that climactic...

David Gordon Green's 2022 slasher film "Halloween Ends" is an unusual entry in the series in many ways. In it, the vicious masked serial killer Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) has been living in a sewer and stays out of the film's central action for the bulk of its running time. "Ends," instead, focuses largely on a character named Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), a man who, two years ago, accidentally killed the young boy he was babysitting. Green envisioned Corey's hometown town of Haddonfield, Illinois as a bitter and wounded place, full of spiteful, hurt people who cannot heal from the murderous damage that Michael caused way back in 1978, as well as his return in 2018. Every citizen is bitter, angry, and paranoid. Corey is bullied and picked on, unable to outlive his mistake. 

When Corey wanders into Michael's sewer (he was fleeing bullies), he finds Michael and a strange transference occurs.

In David Gordon Green's "Halloween Kills," it's revealed that Michael Myers is responsible for the trauma of an entire town, not just a few victims. The survivors of Myers' 1978 rampage and the citizens of Haddonfield, Il in general are shown to still be dealing with the aftershocks of The Shape's evil, a condition that has lain dormant for 40 years until his reemergence in 2018. Myers' new reign of terror causes a mounting mass hysteria within Haddonfield, resulting in violent and erratic behavior from a mob previously made up of good people that can only be described as self-destructive.

The leader of that mob, Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall), has been particularly traumatized ever since he and Lindsay Wallace (Kyle Richards) were saved by their babysitter, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), on that fateful night in '78. So it's no surprise that in an earlier draft of the script for "Kills,...

An early draft of Halloween Kills included multiple extended flashbacks to Laurie in 1978 during the events of John Carpenter's original film. These flashbacks were removed because recasting Laurie wasn't an option, VFX was too expensive, and director David Gordon Green wanted to continue the story from the 2018 movie. Despite the issues inherent in including Laurie flashbacks, Halloween Kills proved quite divisive, and returning to the roots of Carpenter's movie may have proven more popular.

A new book reveals that Halloween Kills' original script featured 1978 Laurie Strode flashback scenes, but they were ultimately removed. The second installment in director David Gordon Green's divisive Halloween reboot trilogy, the 2021 horror flick sees Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie and her family once again facing off against the unstoppable Michael Myers. The film was met with a very mixed critical reception, but was a box office success.

According to Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween,...

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Spoilers for "Halloween Ends" follow.

The "Halloween Ends" defender has logged on. I know a lot of people hold David Gordon Green's trilogy conclusion in low-regard, but I firmly believe it's one of the most interesting "Halloween" sequels ever made. Green and company take some mighty big swings, telling a story not so much about Michael Myers and Laurie Strode as it is about evil as a kind of infectious disease, almost surely a reaction to the Covid-19 era. The story, for those of you who forgot, finds Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) trying to live a normal life following the return of Michael Myers and the death of her daughter Karen (Judy Greer). As for old Mikey, aka The Shape, he's retreated underground, still healing from wounds inflicted upon him by an angry mob of Haddonfieldians.

In the midst...

David Gordon Green's 2018 slasher film "Halloween," a direct sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 slasher film also called "Halloween," famously ignored the nine "Halloween" sequels and remakes made from 1981 to 2009. The original film starred Jamie Lee Curtis as a teenage babysitter named Laurie Strode who ran afoul of a mysterious, silent masked killer named Michael Myers. In the original "Halloween II," it was revealed that Laurie was Michael's long-lost sister, a conceit Green would handily abandon for his 2018 update. Instead, Laurie was, 40 years later, still wounded by the events of the 1978 film, and had become a ragged survivalist, outfitting her home with booby traps and training herself how to use weapons in the off chance that Michael should ever escape the local mental institution and begin his killing spree again. Perhaps predictably, that very thing happens. 

Green's "Halloween" ends with Laurie trapping Michael in a burning building, seemingly to die forever.

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The "Halloween" franchise has been through it. John Carpenter's masterful 1978 original essentially launched the slasher craze, but the filmmaker had little creative interest in mapping out a horror franchise. He wanted to use his 1980s box office clout to make increasingly ambitious movies in all manner of fantastic genres. Still, there was simply too much money to be made off his low-budget triumph, so he reluctantly participated in its exploitation as a producer and, for a couple of films at least, story generator.

And when audiences rejected his (brilliant) non-Michael Myers installment, "Halloween III: Season of the Witch," he checked out entirely, allowing the producers to mine the white-masked fiend for a series of quick-and-progressively-silly cash-ins.

After a failed attempt at building a Druidic lore around Michael (while turning Danielle Harris' young Jamie Lloyd into a potential slasher...

Perhaps the most intensely discussed horror reboot of the 21st century is David Gordon Green's "Halloween." With a 79% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and a 72% audience score, it seems like most of the intended crowd for the slasher legacyquel walked away satisfied, so Universal Pictures quickly put two more sequels on its calendar. Unfortunately, "Halloween Kills" was a drastic step down, earning only a 39% critics score. Sure, the audience score only dropped a bit to 66%, but when you're dedicated to the franchise, you're bound to be fairly pleased with whatever you get. "Halloween Ends" didn't fare much better, with just a 40% from critics, and a steeper drop to 57% from fans, officially taking it into rotten territory on both counts.

It's that last movie that has sparked some debate among longtime "Halloween" fans, with some appreciating the bold new direction that Green takes the franchise by making new character Corey Cunningham...

Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills & Halloween Ends provides an extensive behind-the-scenes look at David Gordon Green's divisive sequel trilogy. The book evolved from originally covering the first film to becoming a comprehensive look at the entire trilogy, including interviews with the cast and crew. Author Abbie Bernstein had the opportunity to interview Jamie Lee Curtis and had moments of nerves and excitement while discussing the franchise with her.

David Gordon Green's divisive sequel trilogy is getting an extensive behind-the-scenes look in Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills & Halloween Ends. Comedy veteran Green made his horror genre debut with 2018's revival of the John Carpenter-created franchise, acting as a direct sequel to his 1978 original with Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode having to face the demon of her past as Michael Myers escapes and goes on another murderous rampage through Haddonfield.

While 2018's Halloween...

David Gordon Green wrapped up his Halloween trilogy last year with the release of Halloween Ends and now fans will get to read how his reimagining of a horror classic came together with the release of an official making-of companion book.

Per Bloody Disgusting, Halloween 2018-2022: The Official Making of the Films is set to be released on Oct. 17 from Titan Books. Written by Abbie Bernstein, the book will dive into the production with behind-the-scenes photos and interviews with the cast and crew across all three films. As described on Amazon, this is a "must for all horror fans" as the book will reveal "the method behind the terror."

Related: John Carpenter's Halloween Among Horror Films Screening at Orpheum Theater

Bernstein is no stranger to pop culture as she is the author of several film and TV companion books such as The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road,...

Director David Gordon Green has wrapped up the trilogy of Halloween sequels he was making for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, and now he has moved on to making a trilogy of sequels to The Exorcist – also for Universal and Blumhouse. The first entry in that trilogy, The Exorcist: Believer, is set to reach theatres on October 6th… but soon after, on October 17th, Titan Books will be looking back on the making of Green’s Halloween trilogy with the publication of the 240 page hardcover book Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends. Copies are available for pre-order at This Link.

Written by Abbie Bernstein, Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends has the following description: Official companion book to the most recent trilogy of Halloween films featuring behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with cast and crew.

Four decades after the original Halloween took the world by storm,...

David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy came to an end last October with Halloween Ends, and now an official companion book is set to slice deep into the entire trilogy.

Releasing on October 17 from Titan Books and author Abbie Bernstein, Halloween 2018–2022: The Official Making of the Films reveals the method behind the terror.

The official companion book features behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with cast and crew, and it promises to cover the making of the trilogy in “fascinating detail.”

“The creative processes behind the stunts, costumes, production design and make-up effects are revealed through interviews with the cast and crew, while captivating on-set photography captures the shooting of the key scenes and action set-pieces. A must for all horror fans, Halloween 2018–2022: The Official Making of the Films reveals the method behind the terror.”

You can pre-order your copy of the 240-page Hardcover book from Amazon today.

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In 1999, Universal Studios released The Mummy, a remake of their classic monster movie. Despite hitting theaters just one week before the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, The Mummy struck a chord with audiences around the world, bringing in more than $400 million dollars at the global box office. Viewers fell in love with Branden Fraser and his charming Rick O’Connell, reminding them of the fun, globe-trotting adventure films that dominated cinemas in the 80.

However, before Sommers boarded the project, producers James Jacks and Sean Daniel had a very different vision for the movie. The Mummy was originally intended to be a low-budget horror movie, and the first entry in a proposed trilogy of films. The two producers spent close to ten years working with multiple directors - including George Romero, Joe Dante, and Clive Barker - but every idea was shot down by the studio for either being too dark or too expensive.

Renowned Hollywood producer Reginald Hudlin earned Oscar and PGA nominations for “Django Unchained” (2012) and an Emmy bid for producing the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony, and now he’s back in the awards conversation thanks to “Emperor.” Sobini Films’ production is inspired by the true story of Shields “Emperor” Green (played by Dayo Okeniyi), a slave in 1850s South Carolina who kills his owners and flees his plantation after his son is whipped. “I’ve taken lashes my whole life to keep my family safe, but they will never whip my son again,” Emperor proclaims in the trailer (watch above).

SEEReginald Hudlin on unmasking ‘The Black Godfather’ behind so many icons: Clarence Avant ‘has made a difference in everyone’s lives’ [Exclusive Video Interview]

Mark Amin co-wrote (with Pat Charles) and directed the movie that follows Emperor’s harrowing journey through pre-Civil War America. Eventually the man joins up with iconic historical figures John Brown...

Altered Carbon is one of the few ”cyberpunk” adaptations on science fiction television that tackles issues of mortality and identity in a digital future. We’ve been fans of the show since season one, and we spoke to season 2 showrunner Alison Schapker on Sci Fi Fidelity. We’re therefore excited to announce another prize giveaway to help promote the podcast and show our appreciation for the series, which Netflix released on February 27, 2020.

Three lucky listeners of the podcast can win their very own copy of Altered Carbon: The Art and Making of the Series, an official companion to the sci-fi series from Titan Books that features everything from behind-the-scenes interviews to character and concept art. With the stunning visuals associated with the cyberpunk world of Altered Carbon, this coffee table book could make the perfect gift for any fan.

Here’s the official description of the book by Abbie Bernstein,...