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Argentina’s StoryLab and Telecom SVOD platform Flow have announced that the country’s first new post-covid 19 series, “Post Mortem,” will be available to stream on Oct. 8.

Starring Julieta Zylberberg (“Wild Tales”), Esteban Pérez and Alejandro Awada (“Nine Queens”), “Post Mortem” is created and produced by Nacho Viale and Diego Palacio for StoryLab in co-production with TECtv, the channel of Argentina’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Palacio directs the screenplays written by Lucas Molteni and Luciana Porchietto.

“’Post Mortem’ is a strong bet by StoryLab, and we are proud to be able to launch a fiction series of this quality at a time and in a place where we badly need to tell new stories and see actors back on screen. This was a great team effort that we can now celebrate together with Flow,” said Palacio.

“Post Mortem” turns on a pair of Buenos Aires journalists, Florencia...

When Pablo Larraín started out, he arrived at the Berlinale in 2008 with extracts from his second feature, “Tony Manero,” starring Chilean actor, playwright and theater director Alfredo Castro as an off-the-rails, impoverished, over-the-hill imitator of John Travolta’s character in “Saturday Night Fever.”

A symbol of cultural alienation, Castro’s character practices his disco moves as Augusto Pinochet’s tanks rumble through the streets of Santiago de Chile, clamping down on any opposition.

For the next near decade from that breakthrough through to 2015’s “The Club,” Larraín’s passport to English-language filmmaking – Natalie Portman watched it, accepted “Jackie” – the filmmaker pinned his colors to Castro’s mast, casting him in leading role in “Post Mortem,” and a co-star in “No” and “The Club.”

As an actor, Castro’s transformative powers are evident, from his turn as a coroner’s assistant in “Post Mortem” to Gael Garcia Bernal’s casual chic...

Fangoria has lost contributing horror icons Joe Bob Briggs, Barbara Crampton and a slew of podcasts and supporters over a recent sexual misconduct scandal at Cinestate. Additionally, Fangoria is now looking for a new buyer to continue their successful reboot which began 2 years ago.

Everything came to a head earlier this week when an expose from The Daily Beast about Cinestate producer Adam Donaghey spread through the film community like wildfire. Donaghey was arrested in 2017 for the rape of a 16-year old girl and tales of his sexual misconduct have been told behind-the-scenes for years now. "The first time I was ever on set I was warned about Adam Donaghey," a female filmmaker says. "I was told he was the Harvey Weinstein of Dallas."

However, things went past the original focus on Adam Donaghey. Cinestate founder Dallas Sonnier and producing partner Amanda Presmyk reportedly turned a blind eye to the...

This past Christmas I treated myself and got a subscription to Shudder the thriller and horror streaming service. Shudder has a lot of treats to offer horror fans including the hit series Creepshow and Joe Bob Briggs Last Drive-In just to name a few. The movies Shudder has to offer range from the supernatural to the slashers. One of the selling points in getting Shudder was the movie that I’m about to review called Nightmare Cinema. I’m a huge Mick Garris fan, and when I heard about this film while listening to his podcast Post Mortem, I couldn’t wait to check it out. Nightmare Cinema was the first film I watched on Shudder. The film is an anthology series that follows five strangers into an abandoned theater where they watch their deepest fears playout on the big screen. It was a treat to see Mickey Rourke playing...

Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. Horror has always been cyclical, and if that’s true, we have lucked out to be swirling around in a lot of good stuff. The best thing about 2019 in horror has been the variety: if you wanted a straight-up slasher, it was there. Ghosts? Covered as well. Creature features? Check. But in the world of horror, enough is never enough, so I’m going to plow through a whole whack of things I’ve liked and loved this past year.

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A busy bee, I’ve been mostly sampling podcasts as I go; I will say that all my favorites continue to be so, and you’d do worse than to check them out:

Faculty of Horror, Kill By Kill, F This Movie!, Splathouse, Dead Ringers, Shock Waves, Hellbent For Horror, The Pod and the Pendulum, Post Mortem with Mick Garris,...

Earlier this year it was revealed that Preston Fassel's Our Lady of the Inferno—the first book in the "Fangoria Presents" line from Cinestate—is coming to life in audio form, and to add even more next-level atmosphere to the adaptation, it's been announced that James Malone (lead singer of the heavy metal band Arsis) will compose an original soundtrack for the audio version of Our Lady of the Inferno.

Malone will bring original music to an audio adaptation that already features a talented voice cast that includes Barbara Crampton, Doug Bradley, and Mick Garris.

Below, we have the official press release with full details on the new addition to the Our Lady of the Inferno audio adaptation, and in case you missed it, a film adaptation of Fassel's novel is also in the works at Fangoria.

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA- The eagerly anticipated fully-cast audio adaptation of Fangoria’s award-winning novel,...

Exclusive: Shock Waves, the popular Blumhouse horror podcast that has interviewed guests including Jordan Peele, Robert Eggers, Elijah Wood and Udo Kier, is being absorbed into horror brand Fangoria’s network of podcasts.

First launched back in 2016, Shock Waves is hosted by filmmaker Rebekah McKendry, Fangoria’s Rob Galluzzo, Elric Kane and Blumhouse’s VP of development Ryan Turek. Every week, listeners tune in to hear the hosts discuss the latest news from the horror world, and regularly welcome notable guests from the genre.

From episode 170, which launches at midnight on Friday, December 13, the show will join fellow podcasts including Post Mortem With Mick Garris, The Movie Crypt and Nightmare University as an official part of the Fangoria Podcast Network. The latest edition of Shock Waves will see the trio count down their top 10 horror movies of 2019, plus their 10 favorite genre pics of the decade.

“We all grew up with Fangoria Magazine,...

Stephen King's The Stand, which made its network television debut in 1994, finally got a proper high definition release this week on Blu-ray. Complete with a brilliant restoration of the footage and enhanced visual effects, there has never been a better time to revisit the classic miniseries than right now. In celebration of the release, we have copies of the Blu-ray to giveaway to our readers which have been signed by director and horror legend, Mick Garris! Comment on the article below or share this story on social media for a chance to win. We'll select a winner at random and notify you if you've won!

The Stand Collector's Edition Blu-Ray comes packed with special features from the six-hour Emmy Award-winning 1994 miniseries, including audio commentary from Stephen King and director Mick Garris and a behind-the-scenes featurette showcasing the making of the miniseries. Led by an all-star cast, including Gary Sinise...

"I'm going to make sure you never forget what he told you." The Match Factory unveiled the first official promo trailer for Ema, the latest film from acclaimed, award-winning Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín. This is premiering at the Venice Film Festival this week, and then will hit the Toronto Film Festival next. Mariana Di Girolamo stars as Ema, a reggaeton dancer who "sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation" in the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart. Also starring Gael García Bernal, Paola Giannini, and Santiago Cabrera. The first poster for this is also stunning - such attention-grabbing imagery! And this trailer is splendid, setting the tone and introducing this colorful story. I'm a big fan of Larrain and can't wait to see this in Venice soon. Here's the first festival promo trailer (+ poster) for Pablo Larrain's Ema, direct from Tmf's YouTube...

While CBS All Access is moving forward with a new adaptation of Stephen King's epic post-apocalyptic novel The Stand, this year also marks the 25th anniversary of the first adaptation of the book, directed by Mick Garris from a screenplay by King. As previously announced, CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment are celebrating the milestone anniversary this September with a Collector's Edition Blu-ray release of the 1994 miniseries, and as a special treat for Daily Dead readers, we've been provided with two exclusive images that compare the miniseries' original video quality to its vibrant high-definition restoration.

Stephen King's The Stand (1994) miniseries will be released on Blu-ray on September 24th, and if the wait is making you feel like you have a case of Captain Trips, we have just the remedy you need with our exclusive before-and-after images below.

Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on The Stand miniseries Blu-ray,...

It's been a long time coming, but it looks like we're finally getting a blu-ray release of the mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand! Release is slated for September 24, 2019.

The announcement is surprising seeing how just in April, director Mick Garris told Dead Entertainment that there was "zero percent chance" a blu-ray release of The Stand would ever happen, citing that since the mini-series was shot on 16mm film it would very expensive for the studio to go back to the original negative and create an HD version of the show. Fortunately, it looks like with excitement building around the upcoming reboot of The Stand, it's a no-brainer to capitalize on the success of one of Stephen King's best-selling books and give this mid-90s adaptation a proper release.

Needless to say, horror fans, Stephen King fans, Mick Garris fans...rejoice! The Stand is finally getting its due.

Here we are folks, in the prime Stephen King remake time. It seems like everything of his is getting a remake or even a first edition adaptation. In the past few years we’ve had The Dark Tower, Carrie, Pet Sematary, It, as well as the series Mr. Mercedes and Castle Rock to name a few.

Looking at King’s IMDb page is staggering. He has 64 titles that he is somehow involved in that are in development or production. It’s pretty crazy! But it’s also pretty cool because so many of the old film adaptations of King’s movies were made for TV and were hindered by low budgets and by censorship. So it’s nice for fans and King himself to see this series and movies get proper adaptations.

In a recent interview on the podcast Post Mortem, King talked a bit about his feelings on his upcoming project,...

Two of my favorite people will once again be teaming up, Stephen King will be making a rare appearance on writer/director Mick Garris’s podcast Post Mortem. It seems like everybody has a podcast nowadays. Even I have a podcast called Coffee and Conspiracy. Podcasting can be a positive thing for many reasons. One of those reasons being that if you are a fan of something, you can get an insight into the creative mind of the creator.

I first saw the name Mick Garris in a book of short stories called Splatter Punks. Garris’s short story “ A Life in the Cinema”, was one of my favorites. Garris went onto creating, the Maters of Horror, an anthology series bringing all your favorite horror writers and directors together to deliver one- hour stories to terrify your soul. I wrote a story and a script for the show. Just because...

Last year, Daily Dead was proud to once again sponsor and experience The Overlook Film Festival, which took place in the historic (and quite possibly haunted) confines of New Orleans. We're looking forward to sponsoring the third Overlook Film Festival, which is returning to The Big Easy May 30th–June 2nd for another round of immersive events, essential screenings, and live performances, and this year's killer lineup has now been announced!

Featuring The Dead Don't Die as the opening night film and The Lodge as the closing night movie, with plenty of must-see screenings and events in between, including episode two of Swamp Thing, a master class presentation by Robert Rodriguez, two live presentations by author Grady Hendrix, a live recording of Post Mortem With Mick Garris, The Pumpkin Pie Show one-on-ones by Clay McLeod Chapman, and the world premiere of Fangoria's Satanic Panic (directed by Chelsea Stardust).

The third...

“Teenkahon” is one of the smartest and most sophisticated Bengali films of recent times. This sophistication lies in the story-telling approach which is rare in Bengali films. The three stories of love of different kinds – Nabalok, Post Mortem and Telephone, set in three different periods are brilliantly handled by the director Bauddhayan Mukherji, who paces the movie in such a timely way that it gives the feeling of a single story with three different phases of love in life where the climax reaches and unfolds in an unexpected way in the last story, which is scripted brilliantly by the director himself.

The movie deals with the difficult subject of extramarital affair which starts through the adolescence of “Nabalok” – the protagonist of the first story. The lovely visuals exploit the narration beautiful and kick start the amazing journey of Teenkahon. The second story “Post Mortem” deals with the...

Maintaining Chile’s protracted awards honeymoon with international festivals, Jorge Riqeulme’s “Some Beasts,” starring Alfredo Castro and Paulina Garcia, swept Toulouse’s 35th Films in Progress, a pix-in-post competition which also serves as a traditional launch-pad for selection at the Cannes Festival.

“Some Beasts” won three of the four prizes on offer: Toulouse Films in Progress Prize; the Cine Plus Films in Progress Prize and the Distributors and Exhibitors Prize.

Mactari awarded its Sound Prize to “Ceniza negra,” from Argentine-Costa Rican Sofía Quirós.

“Some Beasts” stars maybe the two most best-known of Chilean actors: Castro, a Pablo Larraín regular seen last year in Alfonso Ruizpalacios’ Berlin winner “Museo”; and García, a Berlin best actress winner for “Gloria,” from Academy Award winning director Sebastián Lelio (“A Fantastic Woman”), which inspired his 2018 remake, “Gloria Bell,” with Julianne Moore. García also appeared in Ira Sachs’ “Little Men,” and, like Castro, “Narcos.”

A...

This weekend’s third-best U.S. screen average of the year for “Gloria Bell,” which he produced, or the Oscar last for “A Fantastic Woman,” both point in the same direction: Arguably, no producer in Latin American has been so successful in the last decade as Juan de Dios Larraín.

The Ibero-American Mayahuel Larraín will now receive at Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival merely underscores that suggestion. Why is another matter. Prizes are a “consequence not a cause,” Juan de Dios Larraín argues. Variety digs deeper:

1.Fabula: A Talent Center

Above all else, Hollywood is a talent center. So too the BBC in its heydays. With brother, director and fellow-producer, Pablo Larraín, described by Guy Lodge in his Variety review of Natalie Portman starrer “Jackie” as the most daring and prodigious political filmmaker of his generation, Larraín formed a natural talent center setting up Fabula in Santiago de Chile in 2004. Talent,...

Don Mancini, who created the creepy-doll franchise that introduced us to Chucky, is angry about the upcoming “Child’s Play” reboot. Despite writing all seven films to date and directing the last three, Mancini has no involvement with the remake starring Aubrey Plaza and Brian Tyree Henry.

“Obviously my feelings were hurt,” he said during an appearance on the Post Mortem podcast, per Flickering Myth. “You know, I had just done two movies…forgive me if I sound defensive, [they] were both at 83 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Even though they didn’t get theatrical releases, they were well regarded. And I did create the character and nurture the franchise for three fucking decades.”

Making the situation more difficult for him is the fact that his own version of the series hasn’t actually ended. “It was hard not to feel like I was being patronized. They just wanted our approval, which I strenuously denied them,...

The Child’s Play franchise is returning to cinemas next year for a reboot, something that’s upset longtime fans of the horror series – as well as creator Don Mancini himself. However, due to the rights being split between Universal and MGM, Mancini’s able to continue working with the original continuity of the franchise via an upcoming TV show.

The Child’s Play series will follow the narrative of the previous films – yes, Brad Dourif will return to voice Chucky – and is expected to have an 8-part first season. While speaking on the Post Mortem podcast, Mancini explained why he’s decided to expand the franchise onto the small screen, citing the extra space you get from multiple episodes as a big reason for the jump across platforms.

“From having worked on Hannibal and Channel Zero, I just really enjoyed it, and I saw an opportunity to reinvent the franchise yet again.

Chatting with Mick Garris on the latest episode of Post Mortem this week, Don Mancini was pretty open about his feelings on MGM/Orion’s remake of Child’s Play, arriving in theaters next year, but he also teased some details for the upcoming “Child’s Play” TV series that he’s working on. Yes, the series is still happening […]...

Child’s Play is the latest horror franchise to get the reboot treatment, with a remake of the classic tongue-in-cheek slasher featuring Chuckie the evil doll having already been filmed and due to hit theaters this coming June. Unlike, say, the recent new Halloween, however, the original creator of the property isn’t involved in the project in any way.

You see, the reboot’s the product of MGM and Orion who had the rights to remake the first movie. Creator Don Mancini, meanwhile, continues to work on his own expansion of the franchise over at Universal. As he’s been very hands-on with the world of Child’s Play ever since the original came out in 1988, Mancini understandably isn’t too pleased with the fact that a reboot without his involvement’s on the way.

While speaking on the Post Mortem podcast, the filmmaker talked openly about his feelings...

The incongruously intimate story of a 1963 Turkish army coup attempt allows Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun the scope to take his mordant wit to new heights in his deadly serious yet deeply sardonic third feature, “The Announcement.” Rigidly composed fixed camera shots designed to heighten the atmosphere of entrapment do double duty as a self-reflexive commentary on the nature of characters who follow orders with no thought, while the stationary lens amusingly parallels the deadpan humor. Unquestionably a commentary on the Turkish present as much as the past, yet aiming for an enigmatic quality likely to confound the country’s censorship-happy authorities, “The Announcement” may struggle to find an audience aware of the political situation as well as open to the film’s funny side, but it deserves considerable festival play.

Nighttime in a taxi somewhere in Istanbul: Two stone-faced men are tense passengers as the driver nervously takes them through a...

This Sunday marks one year since the passing of filmmaker Tobe Hooper. Last year we celebrated Hooper's legacy on a very special and solemn episode of our podcast, and one of the co-hosts on that episode was of course film journalist Patrick Bromley. Nobody on the planet has celebrated Hooper's work like Bromley has over the years, especially in the months after the director's unexpected passing, and Bromley's celebration of the influential director will continue in its biggest installment yet this Sunday in a live video tribute featuring some very special guests that will pay their respects to one of the horror genre's unsung heroes.

Beginning at 10:00am Cst on Sunday, August 26th on F This Movie! and running throughout the day, Patrick Bromley's live tribute to Tobe Hooper will feature special guests who worked with Hooper, including filmmaker and Post Mortem podcast host Mick Garris and actress Caroline Williams.

Top brass unveil full line-up.

The 22nd edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal will close with the world premiere of Donnie Yen martial arts film Big Brother and the Canadian premiere of Nicolas Cage action thriller Mandy.

On Thursday (June 28) the festival released its complete line-up of more than 125 features and 220 shorts, including more than 100 premieres. It runs from July 12-August 1.

Five of the features on the roster originated through Fantasia’s film production market, Frontieres. These are Chained For Life, The Dark, Knuckleball, The Night Eats The World, and The Ranger.

Other Canadian premieres include Demian Rugna’s Terrified,...

It’s fitting that Masters of Horror wouldn’t exist without Mick Garris. As the series creator and producer, it was Garris who dreamed up the idea to have his friends and colleagues in the genre direct episodes of a new anthology series with total creative freedom. But going all the way back to his days as a publicist in the late 1970s and early ’80s, Garris was shining a light on horror and horror directors with his Z Channel interview show. It’s from this show that the legendary panel interview with John Landis, John Carpenter, and Mick Garris comes. Though he would go on to become a hugely successful filmmaker and author in his own right, Garris has always been the one to keep the home fires of horror burning, all the way up to his current Post Mortem podcast, a regular conversation with the biggest and most influential names in the genre.

Bob Ross was a popular figure on the PBS network throughout the 80s and 90s, hosting his show, The Joy of Painting. Ross had the calming voice and is most famous for showing everybody how to paint those iconic happy little trees. Sadly, the artist passed away in 1995 from Lymphoma at the age of 52, but he left a lasting imprint on popular culture. And now, actor David Arquette recently revealed that he attended an instructional Bob Ross painting course and he's now certified to teach everybody how to paint those happy little trees.

In a recent interview, David Arquette revealed that he became obsessed with Bob Ross and The Joy of Painting, leaving him to wonder if there were any courses to teach you how to paint like Ross. After some searching, Arquette found a class and promptly took it. The actor noted that it really relaxed him and that he became obsessed with it.

John Carpenter, the director of movie classics such as Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Christine, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, Escape From New York, and more, hasn't made a film since The Ward back in 2010. Fans like myself have been wondering if he would return to helm another film again. As it turns out, he might! It all just depends on if it's the right project.

During a recent appearance on the Post Mortem podcast, host Mick Garris asked Carpenter if he was interested in directing again and this was the filmmaker's reply:

“Sure, if it’s right. Maybe. [I’m] working on a couple ideas.”

These days Carpenter has mostly been focused on his music. He has gone on tour and has released two albums of original music and another album that includes revamped versions of his classic movie themes. The most recent thing he directed was a music video for his Christine score,...

The Post Mortem Podcast with Mick Garris has launched a new season and their first guest is none other than the legendary horror director/composer John Carpenter! The two sat down for a near hour-long back-and-forth interview where Carpenter opened up about his early years, his love of all kinds of music, how he got into […]

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Jason Voorhees met Freddy Krueger in that classic crossover slasher we all know and love, but you know who the machete-wielding psycho never encountered? Cheech and Chong. According to “Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI” director Tom McLoughlin, that dream matchup almost happened following his 1986 contribution to the enduring slasher franchise — but producer/buzzkill Frank Mancuso wouldn’t hear of it.

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During an appearance on the Post Mortem podcast, McLoughlin says that Mancuso “wanted me to do another film after we did Jason, and I said, ‘What are you thinking? I don’t know what it could be now.’ And he said, ‘Well, what do you think about Freddy and Jason?’ And I go, ‘But Freddy’s at New Line and the guys at Paramount have [Jason].’ And it’s like, ‘Well, we...

Almost 30 years ago, director Tom McLoughlin brought Jason Voorhees back from the brink for the appropriately titled sequel, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. But it turns out McLoughlin initially planned for a follow-up back in ’86, and let’s just say things got weird.

While appearing on the latest episode of Post Mortem (with a tip of the hat to Bloody Disgusting), Tom McLoughlin spoke to fellow horror director Mick Garris about his proposed Jason Lives sequel, and how it would’ve drafted comedy duo Cheech and Chong (!) into the equation.

As McLoughlin recalls down below, this idea came into being soon after producer Frank Mancuso Jr. discovered that New Line held the screen rights to Freddy Krueger, thereby nixing any potential crossover with A Nightmare on Elm Street at the time.

[Producer] Frank Mancuso Jr. came to me… he wanted me to do another film after we did [Jason Lives]. He said,...

Hollywood was inches away from getting a cinematic masterpiece, but they couldn't see the vision. The news comes from Mick Garris' podcast Post Mortem which had Tom McLoughlin as their guest. According to director McLoughlin, Paramount wanted to do Freddy vs. Jason a full 17 years before they actually were able to, which prompted him to make an alternative suggestion in the meantime:

“I said, ‘You know what? You guys own Cheech and Chong. What if we do Cheech and Chong-meets-Jason? They’re like camp counselors or something. It’s like, ‘Hey, man, I saw Jason out there.’ ‘No, man, that’s a myth.’ But he said, ‘You know what? No.’”

It sounds like a silly idea, but I think in hindsight we can all agree if they would've went into the future and saw Freddy vs. Jason, they would've just went ahead with Cheech and Chong. I'm really disappointed this didn't happen guys,...

Stoner comedians Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are classic cut-ups — but imagine if they got cut up by that ultimate slasher villain Jason Voorhees. Tom McLoughlin, the writer-director of 1986’s “Jason Lives: Friday the 13th VI,” said he once pitched the idea of a mashup of the two big-screen franchises to “Friday the 13th” series producer Frank Mancuso Jr. “What if we do ‘Cheech and Chong Meets Jason?'” McLoughlin recalled telling Mancuso on Wednesday’s edition of horror filmmaker Mick Garris’ Post Mortem podcast. “They’re like camp counselors or something. It’s like, ‘Hey, man, I saw Jason out there.

When Jason Lives: Friday The 13th Part VI was released in 1986, it had been just six years since the birth of the franchise, and with just as many films under their belts, you could sense that the producers were scrambling for gimmicks to keep Jason Voorhees hacking up campers for years to come. While speaking with Mick Garris on Post Mortem, Jason Lives director Tom McLoughlin revealed that Friday the... Read More...

Throughout the history of the Friday the 13th franchise, some strange things have happened to Jason. And some even stranger things have been proposed. Some of them cool, some of them weird and some of them flat out baffling. This could have been any one of those things, depending on how it went. As revealed by Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives director Tom McLoughlin, a Jason vs. Cheech and Chong movie could have happened in the late 80s/early 90s.

The director was recently a guest on the Post Mortem podcast. During the conversation, Tom McLoughlin reveals that he was approached to do another Friday the 13th movie. At first, the eventual Freddy vs. Jason movie was pitched, but he didn't feel that was a real possibility. Here's what he had to say about it.

"[Frank Mancuso Jr.] wanted me to do another film after we did Jason [Lives]...And I said,...

It's been four years since it was officially announced that Michael Dougherty would write and direct Trick 'r Treat 2. It's been a slow-moving project and since it was announced Doughtery has been busy. He made the Christmas horror film Krampus and he's currently shooting Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Well, it looks like Dougherty is finally going to get around to making Trick 'r Treat 2! While doing an interview on the podacst Post Mortem (via Dread Central), Dougherty revealed that he will start working on it when he's finished with Godzilla: King of the Monsters:

“My hope is that once Godzilla has been put to rest that I can dive back into [Trick ‘r Treat 2]…I would love to finish writing it in post-production [of Godzilla] and then I’d love to make it my next project.”

Trick ‘r Treat, is my number one favorite Halloween movie of all time. It is the perfect Halloween film.

It's been a while, but it looks like Michael Dougherty is still hoping to make Trick 'r Treat 2 happen. The original anthology horror movie has become a huge favorite in the years since its release and, since it was made for next to nothing, it became sort of a sleeper hit for Legendary Pictures as well. Even though Dougherty is busy finishing post-production on Godzilla 2 right now, which recently wrapped filming, the director hopes to make Trick 'r Treat 2 his next movie. Here's what he had to say about it in a recent interview.

"My hope is that once Godzilla has been put to rest that I can dive back into [Trick 'r Treat 2]. I would love to finish writing it in post-production [of Godzilla] and then I'd love to make it my next project. But we'll see."

While he seems a little non-committal here, it does sound like Michael Dougherty is serious...

While some of you out there may be sitting down with a collected edition of H.P. Lovecraft’s more notable works this Halloween, those who also enjoy the cinematic side of things may indulge themselves with anthologies of a different sort. Sure, we may flock to standards such as Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street on an annual basis, but you have to admit that flicks such as Tales from the Darkside and V/H/S bring something different to the table.

On that note, it stands to reason that the 2007 cult classic that was Trick ‘r Treat may also be on your viewing list this October. Granted, it’s been a while since I’ve last watched it myself, but I fondly remember how well Michael Dougherty spun those bite-sized stories which actually ended up tying together. Really, it’s no wonder why horror junkies have...

Michael Dougherty is currently hard at work on his monster movie sequel Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Recently he was a guest on director Mick Garris’ podcast Post Mortem (a must-listen-to podcast for horror fans if there ever was one) and dropped… Continue Reading →

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With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm)

Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint.” That’s what he dubbed “the art life,” and what an image – as featured in the many contemporary photos seen in this new documentary – it is, the bequiffed 20-something Lynch sitting back in his Philadelphia studio,...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Evolution (Lucile Hadžihalilovic)

Near the beginning of Evolution, there’s a shot that hangs underwater, showing a seemingly harmonious aquatic eco-system that’s glimpsed just long enough to create the sense of something that, while somewhat familiar, is distinctly outside the human world. This fleeting image though shows the promise of the film Evolution could’ve been. – Ethan V. (full review)

Where to Stream: Netflix

Fire at Sea and...

Last week, Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie,” starring Natalie Portman as the embattled, shellshocked and grieving First Lady in the days immediately following the assassination of her husband JFK, came to Blu-ray. It’s a stunning film, one that marks the English-language debut of one of our favorite working filmmakers and that picked up three Oscar nominations. It’s also the highest-profile Larraín film to date, but really it only represents the crystallization of his building buzz, which dates back to his “Tony Manero” (2008), “Post Mortem” (2010) and “No” (2012) days.

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What a weird year it's been for Chilean cinema. If anything, it was a demonstration that the work critics do can sometimes weigh on the decisions that Hollywood makes. None of the films directed by Pablo Larraín (No, Post Mortem) were box office hits, but they had enough love from the critics (and enough prizes from awards groups and even the Oscars) so that he got the gig to direct Jackie, another critical darling that will eventually get some nominations to the Oscars. I personally haven't seen the film, and consider that his other 2016 film, Neruda, is somewhat a misfire in his recent ouvre (a reminder that I did like The Club, as it made my list last year), but this makes me think...

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Holding the festival is an incredibly difficult task especially after the recent attempted military coup in Turkey. The West cannot lose Turkey, a modern and western nation which is also Islamic and is the literal bridge between the West and the East. The Antalya Film Festival feels it is imperative to show that life still goes on after the coup, and the creative and recreative power of entertainment leads the show.Military Coup Blocks Bridge Over the Bosphorus — bbc.co.ukInspired by the failed July 15th coup, films about life under coups suggest what might have happened had the July attempt succeeded. The Sun’s Eclipse program is a powerful testament to the importance of democracy and human rights, and includes films from Turkey, Brazil, USA, Chile, Argentina.

We in the west often regard Turkey more as Eastern than Western…understanding why leads us to recognize the power of our...

There are several pivotal moments in Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie,” but one truly epitomizes the director’s primary obsession. Days after she sat next to her husband as a bullet struck his brain, the bereaved Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman) peers out a tinted window. Even in the midst of tumultuous grief, she recognizes the need to solidify his legacy with an elaborate funeral march. She’s completing his story while keeping her own in the shadows, but in a single powerful moment, the two collide.

With the former First Lady’s reflection on the window, Larraín superimposes archival images of the crowds that showed up to salute their dead president. The intimate experiences of a single traumatized character collide with the public’s absorption of the mythology surrounding her. As viewers, we’re left to sort out the truth.

From the melding of anti-Pinochet campaign propaganda and a scripted narrative in “No,...

Pablo Larraín really and seriously screws up for the first time with Neruda. Few saw or recall the existence of his debut, 2006’s Fuga, which received a middling response on the festival circuit; I seem to recall interviews around the time of 2008’s amusingly appalling (and vice-versa) reputation-establisher Tony Manero where Larraín said Fuga‘s indifferent reception prompted him to rethink a rather conventional aesthetic and come up with something inescapably different. Each film since his coming-out has, in variously scabrous ways, dealt with Pinochet’s legacy: Manero and Post Mortem taking place at the moment of his coup, the late-’80s-set No a crowdpleasingly cynical comedy re: the political machinations around the dictator’s removal via referendum. Jumping to the present, The […]...

Pablo Larrain has been a constant source of cinematic pleasure from the entertaining Tony Manero via the more intense Post Mortem to his recent oneiric Neruda. Jackie is Larrain’s first foray into English-language film and his first attempt to tackle non-Chilean political issues. The result is supremely accomplished and fascinating. The film recounts JFK’s assassination, […]

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Pablo Larrain has been a constant source of cinematic pleasure from the entertaining Tony Manero via the more intense Post Mortem to his recent oneiric Neruda. Jackie is Larrain’s first foray into English-language film and his first attempt to tackle non-Chilean political issues. The result is supremely accomplished and fascinating. The film recounts JFK’s assassination, […]

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Later this week, 2016 will cross the halfway mark, so now’s the time to take a look back at its first six months and round up our favorite films thus far. While the end of this year will bring personal favorites from all of our writers, think of the below 30 entries as a comprehensive rundown of what should be seen before heading into a promising fall line-up.

As a note, this feature is based solely on U.S. theatrical releases from 2016, with many currently widely available on home video, streaming platforms, or theatrically. Check them out below, as organized alphabetically, followed by honorable mentions and films to keep on your radar for the remaining summer months. One can also see the full list on Letterboxd.

10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)

Forget the Cloverfield connection. The actors who were in this film didn’t even know what the title was until moments before the first trailer dropped.

After nearly two weeks of viewing some of the best that cinema will have to offer this year, the 69th Cannes Film Festival has concluded. With Ken Loach‘s I, Daniel Blake taking the top jury prize of Palme d’Or (full list of winners here), we’ve set out to wrap up our experience with our 10 favorite films from the festival, which extends to the Un Certain Regard and Directors’ Fortnight side bars.

It should be noted that The Nice Guys, which screened out of competition, was among our favorites of the festival (review here), but, considering it’s now in wide release, we’ve elected to give room to other titles. Check out our top 13 films below, followed by the rest of the reviews and all of our features. One can also return in the coming months as we learn of distribution news for all of the mentioned films.

Pablo Larraín is not finished wrestling with his nation’s psyche. His first three films, Tony Manero, Post Mortem, and No, formed a loose triptych that confronted the trauma of the Augusto Pinochet years from different angles. His fourth, The Club, was a blistering attack against the contemporary institution of the Catholic Church in Chile, which accused it of deep-seated corruption and of collusion with the Pinochet regime. With Neruda he returns to the past, back to 1948, the year the eminent poet and Communist senator Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) went into hiding after the Chilean president outlawed Communism in the country.

As radical a reinvention of the biopic as Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There, Neruda is Larraín’s most conceptual and also his most demanding film yet. Like Haynes, Larraín attempts to create a hybrid between his subject’s art and biography, and, like Haynes’ film, Larraín’s is...