Mark Harrison Oct 31, 2017
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This feature contains broad spoilers for several horror movies featuring cats, including Alien, Cat People, Drag Me To Hell, Fallen, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Pet Sematary and The Voices.
The relationship between humans and cats over time has given way to a number of cultural impressions and outright superstitions. Ancient Egyptians associated them with gods. In the Middle Ages, they were linked with witches and killed en masse, which probably hastened the spread of the Black Plague through the rodent population. And in the modern day, it's interchangeably lucky or not if a black cat crosses your path.
Like anything with such a wide array of symbolic links, movies have presented cats as characters in different ways over the years. It's their abiding association with the supernatural – whether as an omen...
Want to enhance your horror movie? Make sure you sign up a cat...
This feature contains broad spoilers for several horror movies featuring cats, including Alien, Cat People, Drag Me To Hell, Fallen, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Pet Sematary and The Voices.
The relationship between humans and cats over time has given way to a number of cultural impressions and outright superstitions. Ancient Egyptians associated them with gods. In the Middle Ages, they were linked with witches and killed en masse, which probably hastened the spread of the Black Plague through the rodent population. And in the modern day, it's interchangeably lucky or not if a black cat crosses your path.
Like anything with such a wide array of symbolic links, movies have presented cats as characters in different ways over the years. It's their abiding association with the supernatural – whether as an omen...
- 10/29/2017
- Den of Geek
The Watcher in the Woods was originally a novel written by Florence Randall in 1976 that was later adapted into a movie that was produced by Disney Studios. While the 1980 movie is a cult classic it is remembered by most as being an epic studio disaster with multiple delays, reshoots, and being pulled from theaters after the ending had a negative response from moviegoers. Although the original movie is considered a disaster by economic and studio standards it has maintained a cult audience and the story continues to be a family favorite around Halloween.
Melissa Joan Hart, who is best know for her roles on Clarissa Explains It All, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Melissa and Joey, is starting to make the transition from actor to director with The Watcher In The Wood being her biggest project yet. Melissa, who is also executive producer along with her mother, has been in...
Melissa Joan Hart, who is best know for her roles on Clarissa Explains It All, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Melissa and Joey, is starting to make the transition from actor to director with The Watcher In The Wood being her biggest project yet. Melissa, who is also executive producer along with her mother, has been in...
- 7/21/2017
- by Michael Connally
- LRMonline.com
We begin in a quiet house, after the joyous occasion of a baby’s baptism. An innocuous question—why is one of the house’s beams so withered and small?—leads to the unraveling of a dark story involving unjust cruelty, desperate choices, and satanic vengeance. Many fantastical stories of the 18th and 19th centuries feature such plot devices, but none of them reach the viscerally horrific heights of Jeremias Gotthelf’s The Black Spider.
This titular character is the villain of a moral nightmare, written by an actual pastor in the mid 19th century. His story starts in a medieval village, overseen by a cruel landlord who makes an impossible demand of his tenants: to uproot a distant grove of trees and replant them near his castle. Driven to desperation, they encounter a seeming savior in the form of a green-clad woodsman. He promises to complete their task for them,...
This titular character is the villain of a moral nightmare, written by an actual pastor in the mid 19th century. His story starts in a medieval village, overseen by a cruel landlord who makes an impossible demand of his tenants: to uproot a distant grove of trees and replant them near his castle. Driven to desperation, they encounter a seeming savior in the form of a green-clad woodsman. He promises to complete their task for them,...
- 5/12/2017
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
The stories on American Crime are making more sense and gelling better now that we're two episodes in.
On American Crime Season 3 Episode 2, Kimara still continues to be central to the season. She's dealing with personal and professional crises that make for compelling television.
Meanwhile, the undocumented worker story is really taking off and Jeannette is showing that she may be protagonist material with her determination to find out what really happened during that fire.
One of the things that impresses me most about these stories is that the characters each actor plays are so different from the ones they played last season. It's a testimony to all of the actors, especially Regina King and Felicity Huffman, that the transition is flawless and that their new characters are completely believable.
Although Kimara continues to be my favorite because of the social worker angle, I found myself becoming very interested in Jeannette.
On American Crime Season 3 Episode 2, Kimara still continues to be central to the season. She's dealing with personal and professional crises that make for compelling television.
Meanwhile, the undocumented worker story is really taking off and Jeannette is showing that she may be protagonist material with her determination to find out what really happened during that fire.
One of the things that impresses me most about these stories is that the characters each actor plays are so different from the ones they played last season. It's a testimony to all of the actors, especially Regina King and Felicity Huffman, that the transition is flawless and that their new characters are completely believable.
Although Kimara continues to be my favorite because of the social worker angle, I found myself becoming very interested in Jeannette.
- 3/20/2017
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
Pride and Prejudice and...zombies? It may sound like a strange combination, but the parody novel written by Seth Grahame-Smith has already hit number three on the New York Times bestseller list, moved up on Amazon's catalog of popular novels from a spot in the 300s all the way up to number 27, and sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. Mainly derived from Jane Austen's iconic 1813 Regency romance novel, mixed with an impending zombie apocalypse and warrior-trained daughters, this kooky mashup has been received shockingly well, and even spawned several books of the same nature by other authors, hoping to cash in on Smith's clever trend.
Much like the source material, the plot revolves around the Bennet family, consisting of Elizabeth and her four sisters, their mother, who desperately tries to marry the girls off, and their father, who trains them for battle. When a promising bachelor named Mr. Bingley moves...
Much like the source material, the plot revolves around the Bennet family, consisting of Elizabeth and her four sisters, their mother, who desperately tries to marry the girls off, and their father, who trains them for battle. When a promising bachelor named Mr. Bingley moves...
- 1/27/2016
- by Kalyn Corrigan
- DailyDead
Here's something you might not have been expecting: Nick Cannon is the latest celeb to weigh in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, doing so Sunday with spoken-word rhymes spread across his social-media accounts. Titled "Oscar," Cannon's powerful poem seeks to wrest attention away from mainstream validation and reward, and to put the focus more on vital societal and global issues:"It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues," Cannon spits. "It's just fake gold and plastic." In what the entertainer calls "not another trophy rant," he places heavier emphases on America's prison system; "The Black Plague"; and the deaths of "Oscar Grant, Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray," among other concerns. In a way, his verses echo similar sentiments initially brought up in Janet Hubert's recent video — his digs, however, are much less personal and more open-ended. ("Oscar" comes not long after calls...
- 1/25/2016
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
If this were Law & Order: Black Magic, which it almost seems like it wants to be, it’d be a helluva lot more interesting than it is. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
First of all, why is Vin Diesel the last witch hunter? It doesn’t make any sense. There should be lots of witch hunters. It’s not like the need for them died out. Sure, Diesel’s Kaulder (K: the sexy new C) has been around since the Middle Ages, cuz a witch cursed him with immortality and stuff — bloody typical — but he was a witch hunter before that when he was still mortal. He doesn’t have superpowers or anything. He’s just a guy doing a job, and it’s a job that still needs doing, even in the 21st century.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
First of all, why is Vin Diesel the last witch hunter? It doesn’t make any sense. There should be lots of witch hunters. It’s not like the need for them died out. Sure, Diesel’s Kaulder (K: the sexy new C) has been around since the Middle Ages, cuz a witch cursed him with immortality and stuff — bloody typical — but he was a witch hunter before that when he was still mortal. He doesn’t have superpowers or anything. He’s just a guy doing a job, and it’s a job that still needs doing, even in the 21st century.
- 10/21/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Vin Diesel battles immortal witches with badass blades in the new trailer for “The Last Witch Hunter.” Diesel plays Kaulder, who was once a member of a group of witch hunters and attempted to slay the Queen Witch (Julie Engelbrecht) and her minions who sought to unleash the Black Plague upon the world. She cursed Kaulder with her immortality, and these days he is the only one of his kind left. Now, the evil Queen Witch is back, and he must fight for humanity once again. Also Read: Vin Diesel Fights 'A War Between Our World and The Next' in...
- 8/6/2015
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Guys, what if Vin Diesel, changed history? That's the basic route that's being taken with "The Last Witch Hunter," a new supernatural action film starring the "Fast & Furious" anchor. “Vin’s character has inextricably shaped the history that we live with today — and nobody knows it,” director Breck Eisner told EW. “We posit the battle between witches and humans began with the Black Plague, an incredibly powerful global curse by witches.” So that's the basic foundation of this movie, which also features Michael Caine, Rose Leslie, and Elijah Wood, in the story that follows Kaulder, who is cursed with immortality, and spends his time hunting witches, until of course, he has to fight to save the human race. Here's the synopsis: The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world.
- 8/6/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
He’s already got one billion dollar baby in the Fast & Furious franchise, and Lionsgate is hoping Vin Diesel can launch another this fall in The Last Witch Hunter, an action fantasy that finds the star playing Kaulder, an immortal warrior who carries a flaming broadsword and deals out death and destruction to any witches or warlocks he encounters as part of an eternal quest to avenge the murders of his wife and daughter. Over the centuries, he’s come up against sorcerers around the world and quietly changed the course of history in his travels.
“Vin’s character has inextricably shaped the history that we live with today—and nobody knows it,” director Breck Eisner told EW, which debuted the above image. “We posit the battle between witches and humans began with the Black Plague, an incredibly powerful global curse by witches.”
In order to prevent another cataclysmic event initiated by the spellcasters,...
“Vin’s character has inextricably shaped the history that we live with today—and nobody knows it,” director Breck Eisner told EW, which debuted the above image. “We posit the battle between witches and humans began with the Black Plague, an incredibly powerful global curse by witches.”
In order to prevent another cataclysmic event initiated by the spellcasters,...
- 7/3/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Zombie Western Bullets for the Dead is due to roll in Queensland in July, the first in a slate of low-budget genre films from a new joint venture between Cathy Overett.s Brisbane-based Cathartic Pictures and UK sales agent Stealth Media Group.
Overett told If the aim is to produce two or three films a year, each budgeted at $3 million, using the 40 per cent Australian producer tax offset, which Stealth will sell internationally. The $2 million Bullets for the Dead marks the feature debut of Australian writers-directors Joshua C. Birch and Michael Du-Shane, developed from a 3-minute film, 26 Bullets Dead, which they shot in 2011 when they were students at the Griffith Film School.
The plot revolves around a bounty hunter (Christopher Sommers) who escorts a fiery young woman (Kathryn Beck) and her gang of misfits to the sheriff. En route he discovers the remains of a massacre and rescues its sole survivor,...
Overett told If the aim is to produce two or three films a year, each budgeted at $3 million, using the 40 per cent Australian producer tax offset, which Stealth will sell internationally. The $2 million Bullets for the Dead marks the feature debut of Australian writers-directors Joshua C. Birch and Michael Du-Shane, developed from a 3-minute film, 26 Bullets Dead, which they shot in 2011 when they were students at the Griffith Film School.
The plot revolves around a bounty hunter (Christopher Sommers) who escorts a fiery young woman (Kathryn Beck) and her gang of misfits to the sheriff. En route he discovers the remains of a massacre and rescues its sole survivor,...
- 5/23/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
‘Skyfall’ On Track To Beat ‘Quantum’s China Cume In 7 Days As of Thursday night, Skyfall’s 4-day cume in China was $17.9M, handily breaking the coveted 100M yuan mark. The film opened Monday and is playing on 8,079 screens in the country’s widest release ever. Sony says the 23rd James Bond film that has already broken the $1B mark internationally, is on track to outgross the last Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, in its first seven days in China. The movie’s release on Monday, at $5.1M, was almost three times that of Quantum. It came out amid reports of some tweaks by the local censors and calls by film industry insiders for reforms to the movie review system. Shi Chuan, a professor at Shanghai University’s school of film & TV arts and technology, proposed laws be put in place for censors to follow and said, “Movie regulators should respect the producers’ original ideas,...
- 1/26/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
NEW YORK -- Fresh off signing to lead the cast of the period drama Castle of Lies, James Caan has agreed to star in the indie feature Jericho Mansions opposite Jennifer Tilly and Maribel Verdu. After his Jericho role, Caan will segue to Castle, the highest-budgeted independent New Zealand-based film ever made (HR 10/1). Alberto Sciamma, whose medieval thriller Anazapta was recently acquired by Los Angeles-based international distribution company Lightning Entertainment, is directing Jericho. The film begins production in Canada this week. A psychological thriller set in an apartment building where a series of murders has occurred, Jericho is being produced by Kate Robbins under the Snow Falls Films banner. Caan portrays the reclusive building superintendent at the center of the murder investigation. Caan will be seen later this year in Matt Dillon's directorial debut, City of Ghosts, for United Artists, and in Lars von Trier's Dogville. Caan is repped by Endeavor.
- 10/3/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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