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
Tony Tanner, an actor, director and choreographer who received a pair of Tony nominations for his work on the original 1982 Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has died. He was 88.
Tanner died Sept. 8 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his husband, Henry Selvitelle, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Tanner also directed a 1981 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey starring Amanda Plummer, Valerie French and Keith Reddin that was nominated for the Tony for best revival. He directed and choreographed Something’s Afoot in 1976 and Prince of Central Park, starring Jo Ann Worley, in ...
Tanner died Sept. 8 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his husband, Henry Selvitelle, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Tanner also directed a 1981 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey starring Amanda Plummer, Valerie French and Keith Reddin that was nominated for the Tony for best revival. He directed and choreographed Something’s Afoot in 1976 and Prince of Central Park, starring Jo Ann Worley, in ...
- 9/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tony Tanner, an actor, director and choreographer who received a pair of Tony nominations for his work on the original 1982 Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has died. He was 88.
Tanner died Sept. 8 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his husband, Henry Selvitelle, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Tanner also directed a 1981 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey starring Amanda Plummer, Valerie French and Keith Reddin that was nominated for the Tony for best revival. He directed and choreographed Something’s Afoot in 1976 and Prince of Central Park, starring Jo Ann Worley, in ...
Tanner died Sept. 8 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his husband, Henry Selvitelle, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Tanner also directed a 1981 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey starring Amanda Plummer, Valerie French and Keith Reddin that was nominated for the Tony for best revival. He directed and choreographed Something’s Afoot in 1976 and Prince of Central Park, starring Jo Ann Worley, in ...
- 9/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Melinda Page Hamilton, best known as the wife of the real Don Draper who befriends Jon Hamm’s identity thief in Mad Men, has been cast as the female lead opposite Kevin Bacon in Hartford Stage’s world premiere production of Rear Window. Playwright Keith Reddin’s adaptation is based on the Cornell Wollrich short story (about a man confined to his New York apartment who believes he’s witnessed a murder), which also served as the basis of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954…...
- 9/30/2015
- Deadline TV
Testing the waters for a Broadway return after 13 years, actor and rocker Kevin Bacon (X Men, Cop Car) is heading to Hartford this fall to take on an iconic James Stewart role in the world premiere of Rear Window. Adapted for the stage by playwright/actor Keith Reddin and directed by Hartford Stage chief Darko Tresnjak, the show is slated to run from October 22 through November 15. Producers Charlie Lyons, Jay Russell and Jeff Steen are attached. Bacon last appeared on…...
- 8/25/2015
- Deadline
Kevin Bacon will be channeling Jimmy Stewart in a stage version of the classic crime story “Rear Window” to play this fall at Connecticut’s Hartford Stage. Tony winner Darko Tresnjak (“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”) will direct the production, which will run from October 22-November 15. Keith Reddin adapted the play from Cornwell Woolrich’s short story, which was also the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1954 thriller starring Stewart as a man confined to his big-city apartment who thinks he may have witnessed a murder by his cross-the-courtyard neighbor. Also Read: Forest Whitaker to Make Broadway Debut in Eugene O'Neill's.
- 8/25/2015
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
NEW YORK --Formerly titled "Life During Wartime", Evan Dunsky's debut film has the studied artificiality of the kind of off-Broadway play (by Keith Reddin) from which it was adapted.
A quirky black comedy about a security systems salesman who gets in over his head both professionally and personally, the film is a would-be allegory about American business that reveals more than a little Mametian influence. It is ultimately too clever for its own good, but some very funny dialogue and a beautifully nuanced performance by Stanley Tucci are redeeming features.
The film, which screened at the Toronto and Sundance festivals, stars David Arquette as Tommy, a young salesman who's just started work at a home-security company owned by fast-talking, slick, supersalesman Heinrich (Tucci). Heinrich talks a great game, but, as Tommy soon finds out, he doesn't just rely on his persuasive sales techniques to grow his business. To fuel his potential and current customers' paranoia, he breaks into their homes in order to demonstrate their need for his systems.
During his first day on the job, Tommy visits prospective client Gale, a beautiful older widow (Kate Capshaw) who turns out to be both his first client and a willing lover. The two begin a torrid affair, complicated only by the unexpected arrival of Gale's teenage son Howard (Ryan Reynolds). Tommy attempts to be a counselor to the young man, but it's Howard who teaches Tommy a thing or two.
Things turn darker in the film's second half, when a brutal murder occurs and Tommy becomes increasingly convinced that Heinrich was responsible.
"The Alarmist" is a genuinely offbeat effort, distinguished by funny and perceptive dialogue, sharp performances and a fresh subject matter. But it ultimately veers off in too many directions at once, with writer-director Dunsky not fully able to handle the many shifts of tone. Although it might have been effective onstage, the material merely seems awkward when transferred to the more realistic film medium.
Still, it does display much more imagination than most indie efforts, and the acting is superb. Tucci, one of the most vital and reactive actors working today, is compelling as the boss who is as strangely lovable as he is creepy. Arquette is the personification of awkward naivete, and Capshaw is appealing and surprisingly funny as the widow -- although, between this and "The Locusts", she might want to stay away from the older woman/younger man thing for a while.
THE ALARMIST
Lions Gate Releasing
Credits: Director-screenplay: Evan Dunsky; Producers: Dan Stone, Lisa Zimble; Executive producers: Beau Flynn, Stefan Simchowitz, Matthias Emeke, Thomas Augsberger; Director of photography: Alex Nepomniaschy; Editor: Norman Buckley; Music: Christopher Beck. Cast: Tommy: David Arquette; Heinrich: Stanley Tucci; Gale: Kate Capshaw; Sally: Mary McCormack; Howard: Ryan Reynolds; April: Tricia Vessey. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 93 minutes.
A quirky black comedy about a security systems salesman who gets in over his head both professionally and personally, the film is a would-be allegory about American business that reveals more than a little Mametian influence. It is ultimately too clever for its own good, but some very funny dialogue and a beautifully nuanced performance by Stanley Tucci are redeeming features.
The film, which screened at the Toronto and Sundance festivals, stars David Arquette as Tommy, a young salesman who's just started work at a home-security company owned by fast-talking, slick, supersalesman Heinrich (Tucci). Heinrich talks a great game, but, as Tommy soon finds out, he doesn't just rely on his persuasive sales techniques to grow his business. To fuel his potential and current customers' paranoia, he breaks into their homes in order to demonstrate their need for his systems.
During his first day on the job, Tommy visits prospective client Gale, a beautiful older widow (Kate Capshaw) who turns out to be both his first client and a willing lover. The two begin a torrid affair, complicated only by the unexpected arrival of Gale's teenage son Howard (Ryan Reynolds). Tommy attempts to be a counselor to the young man, but it's Howard who teaches Tommy a thing or two.
Things turn darker in the film's second half, when a brutal murder occurs and Tommy becomes increasingly convinced that Heinrich was responsible.
"The Alarmist" is a genuinely offbeat effort, distinguished by funny and perceptive dialogue, sharp performances and a fresh subject matter. But it ultimately veers off in too many directions at once, with writer-director Dunsky not fully able to handle the many shifts of tone. Although it might have been effective onstage, the material merely seems awkward when transferred to the more realistic film medium.
Still, it does display much more imagination than most indie efforts, and the acting is superb. Tucci, one of the most vital and reactive actors working today, is compelling as the boss who is as strangely lovable as he is creepy. Arquette is the personification of awkward naivete, and Capshaw is appealing and surprisingly funny as the widow -- although, between this and "The Locusts", she might want to stay away from the older woman/younger man thing for a while.
THE ALARMIST
Lions Gate Releasing
Credits: Director-screenplay: Evan Dunsky; Producers: Dan Stone, Lisa Zimble; Executive producers: Beau Flynn, Stefan Simchowitz, Matthias Emeke, Thomas Augsberger; Director of photography: Alex Nepomniaschy; Editor: Norman Buckley; Music: Christopher Beck. Cast: Tommy: David Arquette; Heinrich: Stanley Tucci; Gale: Kate Capshaw; Sally: Mary McCormack; Howard: Ryan Reynolds; April: Tricia Vessey. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 93 minutes.
- 10/20/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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