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Terrible News: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Perfect Horror Movie, ‘Pulse’ (2001), Is Getting a Remake
‘Pulse’ is a techno-horror movie that scared audiences using little more than shadows and silence. Now Sony wants to redo it for the internet age. According to Deadline, ‘Never After Dark’ director Dave Boyle will helm a reimagining of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 classic. The original follows two groups of people who find evidence that spirits…
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Underwhelmed by the First Take of Henry Winkler’s Death Scene in Scream, Wes Craven Asked, “Do You Think It Might Be More Excruciating?”
Henry Winkler will readily admit he is not a horror fan. Despite playing Principal Arthur Himbry in Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher classic ‘Scream,’ the actor says he’s never actually seen the finished film — he watched the premiere through his fingers. Winkler landed the small but memorable role through his friendship with Craven, who invited…
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Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner Are Playing the Doomed Couple in a Remake of One of the Most Disturbing Horror Films Ever Made
The movie being remade is “Possession,” Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 cult horror film, a Cold War nightmare about a marriage collapsing into something monstrous. It’s remembered above all for Isabelle Adjani’s Cannes-winning performance and a subway-tunnel breakdown routinely cited as one of the most extreme scenes in horror. Now Parker Finn, the mind behind “Smile,” is…
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The Man From ‘Death of the Pastor’s Wife’ on Netflix is Still Preaching in Myrtle Beach
Death of the Pastor’s Wife is the three-part Netflix documentary that shot up the charts after its August 26, 2026 release. It shows the life and death of Mica Miller, a 30-year-old worship leader at Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She was married to the church’s pastor, John-Paul “JP” Miller. Mica’s family…
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Edward Norton Is Still Talking About Death to Smoochy 23 Years Later, Probably Because It’s the Best Weird Movie Ever Made
Roger Ebert called it so bad that only talented people could have made it. Norton calls it one of the proudest things he’s done. Death to Smoochy opened on March 29, 2002, opposite Panic Room over Easter weekend. It grossed just $8.36 million domestically against a budget of roughly $50 million, earned a C from…
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Netflix’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ Lets You Watch Its 8 Episodes in Any Order, and the Sequence You Pick Changes the Whole Story
Seven episodes, one story, and you pick the sequence. Watch them out of order and you get a mystery. Watch them chronologically and you get a straight con. Whatever order you pick ends with episode 8. The heist at the center of Kaleidoscope is worth $7 billion, and the crew pulling it off falls apart…
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How a Parody of ‘Obsession’ Became the Most Hated Golf Ad of the Year
Horror movies can be violent. Golf ads usually aren’t. That is the short version of why a Callaway campaign blew up this week. The ad was for a co-branded driver with Good Good and Callaway. It shows a man rush towards a woman as she reaches for his golf clubs. He shoves her to the…
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Maisie Williams Paid Homage to Sandra Bullock at the ‘Practical Magic 2’ London Premiere
Maisie Williams didn’t just play Sandra Bullock’s on-screen daughter — she dressed like one. On the London red carpet, she stepped out in a custom burgundy 2-piece gown designed to echo the T-shirt-and-skirt combo Bullock wore back in 1999. The dress, a bespoke burgundy set by British designer Ellie Misner, made its debut at the…
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Chris Hansen Is Weighing Legal Action Against A24 Over Robert Pattinson Movie
Chris Hansen isn’t thrilled about A24’s upcoming film, Primetime, and he’s floating the idea of doing something about it. “You could have done the same movie without it,” he says of the studio’s decision to use his real name in the project, in which Robert Pattinson plays him. “The reason why they used it is…
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The Frantic Third Act of ‘Clue’ (1985) Left Tim Curry So Breathless a Doctor Put Him on Blood Pressure Medication
Tim Curry spends the last stretch of Clue (1985) sprinting from room to room, reconstructing every murder in real time. The movie had three theatrical endings, and on VHS — which is how most people actually saw it — they play back to back. Curry’s Wadsworth spends that frantic third act in a full-on sprint.…
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Tim Curry and Why ‘Beep Beep Richie’ Became the Scariest Line in ‘IT’
“Beep beep, Richie” starts as a Losers Club in-joke. In Stephen King’s novel, the phrase belongs to the Losers Club. Richie never stops talking. When the bits go too far, the others tap the brakes: “Beep beep, Richie.” It is a car horn, a Road Runner gag, and a friendship ritual. It means we know…
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Watch Some Behind-the-Scenes Footage of ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’!
Toho and Gkids have released a new behind-the-scenes video for Godzilla Minus Zero! Clips include set building, filming on location and in the studio, and director Takashi Yamazaki inspiring the crew by saying things like, “I believe this team can create something greater than the last film.” The fact that Godzilla Minus Zero is the…
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Full Moon’s Head of the Family Sequel Is Finally Getting Underway After Nearly 30 Years
Head of the Family was released in 1996 by low-budget genre studio Full Moon. The movie is about a family of mutants led by Myron, a man with a giant head and a tiny body. It’s a goofy, fun B-movie that did well enough to prompt Full Moon founder Charles Band to announce a sequel…
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The Netflix ‘False Prophet’ Just Found Out How Much Time He’ll Serve for Keeping 3 Girls Locked in an Unventilated Cargo Trailer
Samuel Bateman, 50, will serve 24 more years in state prison. The number came on top of a sentence he’s already serving that runs half a century. The self-proclaimed prophet led a polygamous offshoot of the FLDS and was convicted on three counts of child abuse in Coconino County, one for each girl found locked…
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Tim Curry Wasn’t a Conventional Leading Man — and That Was the Point
Most actors who break through with a striking screen presence spend the rest of their careers chasing the romantic lead — the polished, handsome parts Hollywood keeps steering talent toward. Tim Curry went the other way. He chased roles that were eccentric, flamboyant, and villainous. He also had a working habit of taking “a sharp…
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Tim Curry Played the Devil in ‘Legend’ and Pennywise in ‘IT,’ but the Darkest Role He Ever Took Was a Two-Episode Serial Killer Arc on ‘Criminal Minds’
Curry played the Devil in Legend and Pennywise in the 1990 IT, but the role that rattled him most was a two-episode guest spot on “Criminal Minds,” and he bullied his way onto the show to get it. “I am a demented fan,” Tim Curry said of Criminal Minds. “I’ve seen every episode at least…
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Pennywise Is Gone: Tim Curry, Horror Icon of ‘IT’ and ‘Rocky Horror,’ Dies at 80
Tim Curry, who terrified a generation as the child-eating clown Pennywise and made a cult legend of himself as Frank-N-Furter, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles at 80. He’d been recovering from a serious stroke since 2012. Curry died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, his longtime agent and manager Marcia Hurwitz…
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A shark/werewolf Hybrid Terrorizes a Resort Town in the No-Budget Movie ‘Wereshark’, Now on Fandango at Home
I’m not sure this one needs a ton of explaining, but here goes: Wereshark is about a part-werewolf part-shark monster that attacks and kills people. People then try to stop the wereshark. The movie is from co-writers and co-directors Curtis Everitt and Robbie Lopez. Looking at IMDB, Everitt has over 100 credits in micro-budget filmmaking.…