A new episode of the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series has just been released, and in this one we’re looking back at the 1982 slasher Alone in the Dark (buy it Here), a movie that hasn’t reached enough genre fans despite the fact that it has an awesome cast: Jack Palance! Donald Pleasence! Martin Landau! To find out all about Alone in the Dark, check out the video embedded above.
Directed by future A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge and The Hidden director Jack Sholder, who also wrote the screenplay with Michael Harrpster and New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye, Alone in the Dark has the following synopsis: When benign psychiatrist Dr. Leo Bain hires Dan Potter as his new mental hospital assistant, four violent psychotic inmates see the newcomer as a threat to their security. Convinced that Potter has killed Bain,...
Directed by future A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge and The Hidden director Jack Sholder, who also wrote the screenplay with Michael Harrpster and New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye, Alone in the Dark has the following synopsis: When benign psychiatrist Dr. Leo Bain hires Dan Potter as his new mental hospital assistant, four violent psychotic inmates see the newcomer as a threat to their security. Convinced that Potter has killed Bain,...
- 2/9/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
For his performance on HBO’s “Mare of Easttown,” Evan Peters won the Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor prize at last year’s Emmys and has now scooped up Critics’ Choice and Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations. Created by Brad Ingelsby and directed by Craig Zobel, the seven-episode limited series stars Kate Winslet as Mare Sheehan, a small-town Pennsylvania detective investigating a local murder as her life starts to spiral out of control. Peters plays Colin Zabel, a county detective who is known for recently solving a nearby cold case and is brought in to assist Mare. In our exclusive video interview (watch above), Peters discusses with Gold Derby Zabel’s path to learning how to “live with the vulnerability but be confident and move forward with his life.”
Peters’ preparatory work for this role included working with dialect coach Susanne Sulby on the distinctive Delco accent, communicating...
Peters’ preparatory work for this role included working with dialect coach Susanne Sulby on the distinctive Delco accent, communicating...
- 1/31/2022
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Evan Peters is doing double duty these days filming both the latest installment of “AHS” for FX and the title role in the Netflix limited series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” Earlier this year, he had a buzzed-about cameo in the Disney+ limited series “WandaVision,” as an ersatz portrayer of Wanda’s brother Pietro (he had played this role for real in the “X-Men” film franchise). And for this spring, he surprised fans with his change-of-pace part in the acclaimed HBO limited series “Mare of Easttown.” The actor readily admits he was drawn to this role of detective Colin Zabel for the chance to play opposite Kate Winslet as the title character, Mare Sheehan. (Be warned: Spoilers ahead)
Peters says he learned as much from the Oscar and Emmy-winning actress as Zabel did from Sheehan. “I am still learning my process and Colin has gone through a lot of that.
Peters says he learned as much from the Oscar and Emmy-winning actress as Zabel did from Sheehan. “I am still learning my process and Colin has gone through a lot of that.
- 6/16/2021
- by Paul Sheehan and Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Stars: Azura Skye, Bryce Pinkham, Ashley Bell, Zach Rand, Taen Phillips, Liam Seib, Deborah Hedwall, Dan Daily | Written and Directed by Dean Kapsalis
Holly seems to have it all: two kids, a nice house, a good job as a teacher, and a husband with an upwardly mobile career. But there are troubling signs that all is not right in her world thanks to a combination of insomnia and the disturbing dreams that result from the medication she takes for it…
It’s not an obvious choice to base your horror movie around but mental health and depression has been used in horror for many years now. From Psycho to Split to The Babadook, it’s becoming more and more common. The Swerve is the latest genre movie to tackle the subject.
Azura Skye is the perfect choice for the lead role and although it would be unfair to say she...
Holly seems to have it all: two kids, a nice house, a good job as a teacher, and a husband with an upwardly mobile career. But there are troubling signs that all is not right in her world thanks to a combination of insomnia and the disturbing dreams that result from the medication she takes for it…
It’s not an obvious choice to base your horror movie around but mental health and depression has been used in horror for many years now. From Psycho to Split to The Babadook, it’s becoming more and more common. The Swerve is the latest genre movie to tackle the subject.
Azura Skye is the perfect choice for the lead role and although it would be unfair to say she...
- 9/3/2020
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
"Better Living" makes for one of those viewing experiences in which it would have been nice to have the filmmaker and cast on hand after the screening so you could ask them probing, pertinent questions like, "What the heck were you thinking?"
A shrill, over-the-top, patience-testing mass of confusion written and directed by respected stage director Max Mayer, who was nevertheless able to get Olympia Dukakis, Roy Scheider and Edward Herrmann to commit -- and with performances like these they ought to be committed -- the black comedy is certain to disappear without a trace following what will be a very brief theatrical run.
While the story obviously holds deeply personal meaning for Mayer, who dedicates the film to his father, others will be left out in the cold trying to figure out what this high-pitched allegorical tale about a thoroughly dysfunctional family had in mind from the start.
Holding down the fort somewhat is Dukakis' Nora, the nuttier-by-the-minute matriarch whose behavior is beginning to disturb her three high-strung daughters (Deborah Hedwall, Catherine Corpeny and Wendy Hoopes).
For reasons that are never really clear, even to herself, Nora is tunneling out her basement to build a backyard extension to her suburban New York home. Help soon arrives in the unlikely form of her estranged husband, Tom (Scheider), a former cop who went AWOL some 15 years earlier and has returned with the intention of saving his family.
Commandeering Nora's construction project, Tom adopts a regimented and highly crazed plan of attack that threatens to permanently bust apart his already coming-apart-at-the-seams wife and daughters.
To be fair, there really isn't all that much Dukakis, Scheider and Herrmann, who plays Nora's low-key clergyman brother, can do with Mayer's grating characters and their inexplicable motivations.
Like the dug-up backyard, his script ends up throwing a lot of junk around without ever putting anything satisfactorily in place. Meanwhile, his play-it-to-the-rafters directing style, which might have fared better in a live theater setting, quickly grows obnoxious on screen.
BETTER LIVING
Cowboy Booking International
Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer
Producers: Ron Kastner, Lemore Syvan
Director of photography: Kurt Lennig
Production designer: Mark Ricker
Editor: Steve Silkenson
Costume designer: Laura Bauer
Music: John M. Davis
Color/stereo
Cast:
Nora: Olympia Dukakis
Tom: Roy Scheider
Jack: Edward Herrmann
Elizabeth: Deborah Hedwall
Maryann: Catherine Corpeny
Gail: Wendy Hoopes
Junior: James Villemaire
Running time - 97 minutes
No MPAA...
A shrill, over-the-top, patience-testing mass of confusion written and directed by respected stage director Max Mayer, who was nevertheless able to get Olympia Dukakis, Roy Scheider and Edward Herrmann to commit -- and with performances like these they ought to be committed -- the black comedy is certain to disappear without a trace following what will be a very brief theatrical run.
While the story obviously holds deeply personal meaning for Mayer, who dedicates the film to his father, others will be left out in the cold trying to figure out what this high-pitched allegorical tale about a thoroughly dysfunctional family had in mind from the start.
Holding down the fort somewhat is Dukakis' Nora, the nuttier-by-the-minute matriarch whose behavior is beginning to disturb her three high-strung daughters (Deborah Hedwall, Catherine Corpeny and Wendy Hoopes).
For reasons that are never really clear, even to herself, Nora is tunneling out her basement to build a backyard extension to her suburban New York home. Help soon arrives in the unlikely form of her estranged husband, Tom (Scheider), a former cop who went AWOL some 15 years earlier and has returned with the intention of saving his family.
Commandeering Nora's construction project, Tom adopts a regimented and highly crazed plan of attack that threatens to permanently bust apart his already coming-apart-at-the-seams wife and daughters.
To be fair, there really isn't all that much Dukakis, Scheider and Herrmann, who plays Nora's low-key clergyman brother, can do with Mayer's grating characters and their inexplicable motivations.
Like the dug-up backyard, his script ends up throwing a lot of junk around without ever putting anything satisfactorily in place. Meanwhile, his play-it-to-the-rafters directing style, which might have fared better in a live theater setting, quickly grows obnoxious on screen.
BETTER LIVING
Cowboy Booking International
Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer
Producers: Ron Kastner, Lemore Syvan
Director of photography: Kurt Lennig
Production designer: Mark Ricker
Editor: Steve Silkenson
Costume designer: Laura Bauer
Music: John M. Davis
Color/stereo
Cast:
Nora: Olympia Dukakis
Tom: Roy Scheider
Jack: Edward Herrmann
Elizabeth: Deborah Hedwall
Maryann: Catherine Corpeny
Gail: Wendy Hoopes
Junior: James Villemaire
Running time - 97 minutes
No MPAA...
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