Archive for the ‘Horror’ Category
The Innkeepers – Sara Paxton asks ‘are there ghosts’
Sara Paxton didn’t have much time to think about moving into an infamous haunted inn, The Yankee Pedlar, when she got the role of Claire in The Innkeepers, as she flew to Torrington, Connecticut, and began shooting the movie the next morning…
Kill List – Film Review
This slow-building mystery starts out resembling a grim reality-based conspiracy thriller about a pair of brutal working-class hit men. But by the time the end credits roll, the most likely audience reaction may be “what the hell was that?”…
The Grey – Film Review
Suicidal sharpshooter John Ottway (Liam Neeson) is both haunted and hunted in this impressive disaster/adventure thriller. Hired to kill wolves that come too close to a far-north oil refinery, Ottway and six other workers become the maneaters’ prey when their jet crashes in a far-from-civilization frozen wasteland…
The Divide – Film Review
The frantic first 90 seconds of this after-the-bomb psychodrama make for one of the most gripping and instantly immersive openings you’re likely to see all year, which is one of the few reasons the movie doesn’t get a zero-star rating…
American Horror Story – Connie Britton gets creeped out
After a long run portraying Tami Taylor in the critically acclaimed series Friday Night Lights, Connie Britton has faced her aversion to the horror genre to star in F/X’s new hit, American Horror Story. Tami tells here how she wanted to do something that was really, really different..
American Horror Story – Why Dylan McDermott followed his instinct
One of the biggest hits this TV season is F/X’s series American Horror Story created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. In the show Dylan McDermott portrays Ben Harmon, a psychiatrist who has moved from Boston to Los Angeles to begin a new life with his wife…
Martha Marcy May Marlene – Film Review
With patiently naturalistic pacing, Martha Marcy May Marlene takes its time to build from a sense of something’s-not-right strangeness to genuinely disturbing terror. One reason the creepiness is so convincing is because the movie’s monsters are frighteningly human…
Bedlam – Writer David Allison on the genesis of the series
This is modern day take on the haunted house story written by David Allison. Kate lives and works at Bedlam Heights, has a checkered past of mental health issues, which includes seeing ghosts. David spoke with us at the TV Critics tour about his popular BBC series…
Bedlam – Theo James seeing ghosts
Theo James was deemed by UK’s InStyle magazine, ‘The man behind the hotness,’ in BBC’s Bedlam. Only Theo is aware of the dangers that fill the structure, which used to be an insane asylum, and is overflowing with ghosts who are out for revenge…
The Thing (2011) – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on creatures
British-born actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (of Lost fame), pushing the film in a very different direction in terms of fear and paranoia. Adewale agreed to a sit-down interview between takes to discuss his character in more general terms…