The The Thing (1982) episode of Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? was Written by Cody Hamman, Edited by Joseph Wilson, Narrated by Jason Hewlett, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
John Carpenter’s The Thing (watch or buy it Here) didn’t go over well at all when it was released in 1982. Ignored by movie-goers, it was a box office failure. Reviled by critics, it even saw Carpenter being labelled a pornographer of violence by some reviewers. It was such a disappointment for the studio, they took another project away from Carpenter as punishment. But it gradually found its audience, building up a cult following. And soon, a legion of fans and critics alike began calling it one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It didn’t take long for The Thing to go from being known as reprehensible trash to being considered an all-time classic.
John Carpenter’s The Thing (watch or buy it Here) didn’t go over well at all when it was released in 1982. Ignored by movie-goers, it was a box office failure. Reviled by critics, it even saw Carpenter being labelled a pornographer of violence by some reviewers. It was such a disappointment for the studio, they took another project away from Carpenter as punishment. But it gradually found its audience, building up a cult following. And soon, a legion of fans and critics alike began calling it one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It didn’t take long for The Thing to go from being known as reprehensible trash to being considered an all-time classic.
- 4/30/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The red carpet will soon roll out for the 77th Festival de Cannes. The international film festival, playing out May 14-25, has a distinct American voice this year. “Barbie” filmmaker Greta Gerwig is the first U.S. female director name jury president. Many veteran American helmers are heading to the French Rivera resort town. George Lucas, who turns 80 on May 14, will receive an honorary Palme d’Or. Francis Ford Coppola’s much-anticipated “Megalopolis” is screening in competition, as is Paul Schrader’s “Oh Canada.” Kevin Costner’s new Western “Horizon, An American Saga” will premiere out of competition and Oliver Stone’s “Lula” is part of the special screening showcase.
Fifty years ago, Coppola was the toast of the 27th Cannes Film Festival. His brilliant psychological thriller “The Conversation” starring Gene Hackman won the Palme D’Or and well as a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury. The film would earn three Oscar nominations: picture,...
Fifty years ago, Coppola was the toast of the 27th Cannes Film Festival. His brilliant psychological thriller “The Conversation” starring Gene Hackman won the Palme D’Or and well as a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury. The film would earn three Oscar nominations: picture,...
- 4/25/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that they will be giving the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer a 4K Uhd and Blu-ray release on March 21st – and copies are already available for pre-order at This Link! The discs will include over an hour of new special features, as well as an audio commentary with Dragonslayer director Matthew Robbins (who wrote the screenplay with Hal Barwood) and Dragonslayer fan Guillermo del Toro.
Robbins and del Toro have worked together several times over the years, co-writing the screenplays for Mimic, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Crimson Peak, and Pinocchio.
Dragonslayer has the following synopsis: Set in sixth-century England, an ill-tempered, fire-breathing creature—ominously known as Vermithrax Pejorative—terrorizes its citizens until a young sorcerer’s apprentice named Galen (Peter MacNicol) is reluctantly tasked with confronting the beast. For Galen to succeed, it will take more than magic to defeat the dragon.
A press release...
Robbins and del Toro have worked together several times over the years, co-writing the screenplays for Mimic, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Crimson Peak, and Pinocchio.
Dragonslayer has the following synopsis: Set in sixth-century England, an ill-tempered, fire-breathing creature—ominously known as Vermithrax Pejorative—terrorizes its citizens until a young sorcerer’s apprentice named Galen (Peter MacNicol) is reluctantly tasked with confronting the beast. For Galen to succeed, it will take more than magic to defeat the dragon.
A press release...
- 2/1/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Throughout his long career, Steven Spielberg has received a total of 19 Oscar nominations (and three wins) in the categories of Best Picture and Best Director. This year it looks like he’ll be recognized for the very first time as a writer in the category of Best Original Screenplay for “The Fabelmans.”
Spielberg’s latest film is loosely based on his childhood growing up in a post-World War II era Arizona. Shown from age 7 to 18, Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel Labelle) discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of movies help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.
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Writing screenplays is something Spielberg himself rarely does. He previously received story credit on 1973’s “Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies” as well as 1985’s “The Goonies.” He...
Spielberg’s latest film is loosely based on his childhood growing up in a post-World War II era Arizona. Shown from age 7 to 18, Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel Labelle) discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of movies help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.
SEEJamie Lee Curtis (‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’): 5 reasons why she could (and should) earn her first Oscar nomination
Writing screenplays is something Spielberg himself rarely does. He previously received story credit on 1973’s “Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies” as well as 1985’s “The Goonies.” He...
- 10/27/2022
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
In Warning Sign, a deadly virus not only infects its victims, it turns them into cold-blooded killing machines as well. Starring Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, and Yaphet Kotto, Warning Sign is coming to Blu-ray on May 26th from the team at Scream Factory, and they've provided us with the full release details for the Blu-ray, including a new interview with director/co-writer Hal Barwood.
Press Release: When tampering with the natural order of things, man must not ignore the Warning Sign. Making its Blu-ray debut on March 26th, 2019 from Scream Factory, the suspenseful thriller Warning Sign also includes a number of bonus features, including a new interview with director/co-writer Hal Barwood and a new interview with producer Jim Bloom, as well as a still gallery, theatrical trailers and more! Fans can pre-order their copies now by visiting ShoutFactory.com
In the rolling Utah countryside, a small town is host to a fortress-like research facility,...
Press Release: When tampering with the natural order of things, man must not ignore the Warning Sign. Making its Blu-ray debut on March 26th, 2019 from Scream Factory, the suspenseful thriller Warning Sign also includes a number of bonus features, including a new interview with director/co-writer Hal Barwood and a new interview with producer Jim Bloom, as well as a still gallery, theatrical trailers and more! Fans can pre-order their copies now by visiting ShoutFactory.com
In the rolling Utah countryside, a small town is host to a fortress-like research facility,...
- 2/8/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
With 2018 coming to an end, Scream Factory is giving horror fans plenty of titles to get excited about in 2019 with a bunch of new Blu-ray announcements for March, including 1955's Tarantula, Man's Best Friend (1993), 1966's The Witches (starring Joan Fontaine), and more!
From Scream Factory: "We’re being attacked by giant insects next Spring as the 1950s cult favorites Tarantula and The Deadly Mantis both scuttle to Blu-ray on March 19th!
Tarantula (1955) – Biochemist Gerald Deemer has a plan to feed the world by using a growth formula on plants and animals. Instead he creates terror beyond imagining when his work spawns a spider of mammoth proportions! Feeding on cattle and humans, this towering tarantula has the people of Desert Rock, Arizona running for their lives. Can this horrifying creature be stopped or will the world succumb to its giant claws? This classic sci-fi film from director Jack Arnold stars John Agar...
From Scream Factory: "We’re being attacked by giant insects next Spring as the 1950s cult favorites Tarantula and The Deadly Mantis both scuttle to Blu-ray on March 19th!
Tarantula (1955) – Biochemist Gerald Deemer has a plan to feed the world by using a growth formula on plants and animals. Instead he creates terror beyond imagining when his work spawns a spider of mammoth proportions! Feeding on cattle and humans, this towering tarantula has the people of Desert Rock, Arizona running for their lives. Can this horrifying creature be stopped or will the world succumb to its giant claws? This classic sci-fi film from director Jack Arnold stars John Agar...
- 12/4/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Cannes Fest gets Lincoln director to preside jury Steven Spielberg may have lost the Best Director Academy Award last Sunday evening, but he has won the presidency of the jury of this year's upcoming Cannes Film Festival. Following on the footsteps of Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti, who headed last year's jury that awarded Michael Haneke's drama Amour the coveted Palme d'Or, Spielberg will preside the jury at the next Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 15 to 26. (Pictured above: Steven Spielberg looking straight at the camera.) So far, Spielberg has won only one award at the Cannes Fest: as one of the writers (along with Matthew Robbins and Hal Barwood) of the 1974 drama The Sugarland Express, starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton, and which Spielberg himself directed. Also, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial had its world premiere at Cannes as the closing-night gala film in 1982, while the melodrama The Color Purple...
- 2/28/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
June 25, 1982, was a good day for genre fans. Hell, that summer saw a spate of genre classics released, including "The Road Warrior," "Poltergeist," and "E.T." But June 25th in particular saw not only the release, as we discussed earlier today, of "Blade Runner," but also another legendary sci-fi picture, which like Ridley Scott's film, wasn't well-received at the time, and flopped at the box office, but went on to be enshrined in the geek hall of fame. No, it's not Barry Bostwyck vehicle "MegaForce," but John Carpenter's terrifying "The Thing," which despite the efforts of last year's poor retread/prequel, remains one of the greatest sci-fi/horrors ever made.
Technically a remake of Howard Hawks' well-loved 1951 "The Thing From Another World," which Carpenter pays tribute to in the opening moments, the new film took a very different approach, ramping up both the paranoia and the eye-popping physical effects,...
Technically a remake of Howard Hawks' well-loved 1951 "The Thing From Another World," which Carpenter pays tribute to in the opening moments, the new film took a very different approach, ramping up both the paranoia and the eye-popping physical effects,...
- 6/25/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Conceptual artist who brought Star Wars to life
George Lucas may have thought up the Star Wars series, but it would have looked very different without the imaginative breadth of the conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie, who has died aged 82. McQuarrie's style was characterised by competing strains of industrial realism and aesthetic grandeur. "I've always had sort of a dreamworld approach to sitting and sketching for myself," he said. "I go for the romantic and what looks interesting while half my mind is occupied with practicality."
Nowhere was this more apparent than in his design of Darth Vader, the terrifying Dark Lord from the Star Wars films. "The first thing I thought was, 'Shouldn't he have some sort of breathing apparatus if he's entering the vacuum of space?' I asked George and he said, 'Fine, give him a breath mask.'" A movie legend was born, along with millions of childhood nightmares.
George Lucas may have thought up the Star Wars series, but it would have looked very different without the imaginative breadth of the conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie, who has died aged 82. McQuarrie's style was characterised by competing strains of industrial realism and aesthetic grandeur. "I've always had sort of a dreamworld approach to sitting and sketching for myself," he said. "I go for the romantic and what looks interesting while half my mind is occupied with practicality."
Nowhere was this more apparent than in his design of Darth Vader, the terrifying Dark Lord from the Star Wars films. "The first thing I thought was, 'Shouldn't he have some sort of breathing apparatus if he's entering the vacuum of space?' I asked George and he said, 'Fine, give him a breath mask.'" A movie legend was born, along with millions of childhood nightmares.
- 3/6/2012
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
This week we hitch a ride on The Sugarland Express as we continue our journey through the filmography of Steven Spielberg. As his first theatrical release, does The Sugarland Express stack up to the rest of his films, or is it a car crash of epic proportions? Find out after the jump.
The Basics:
Recently released ex-convict Lou-Jean is mortified when she finds out her child had been taken from her by the State of Texas. Despite serving her time and staying well behaved, the State of Texas finds her to be an "unsuitable" mother. In an act of desperation, she breaks her husband out of minimum security prison and plots to take back her son from his foster parents up in Sugarland. But things go awry when the couple have no choice but to take a police officer hostage and steal his vehicle. Soon enough, the entire state of...
The Basics:
Recently released ex-convict Lou-Jean is mortified when she finds out her child had been taken from her by the State of Texas. Despite serving her time and staying well behaved, the State of Texas finds her to be an "unsuitable" mother. In an act of desperation, she breaks her husband out of minimum security prison and plots to take back her son from his foster parents up in Sugarland. But things go awry when the couple have no choice but to take a police officer hostage and steal his vehicle. Soon enough, the entire state of...
- 7/17/2011
- Cinelinx
The fantasy genre has gotten a bad rep over the years and I think I know why. Too many factions of role players, larpers and W.O.W-ers have joined forces over the world wide web to become this massive, unstoppable goliath of an easy target. What was once little groups of in-the-know outcasts playing Magic in highschool hallways is so visible that they've turned it into an easy punchline for bad comedians and films like Role Models or Your Highness to take a stab at. But That's just my theory.
The other downside to fantasy's perceived dorkery is I think it's led to a slowing down of mainstream fantasy film production and the films that do get made that fully embrace their fantasy roots either get savages by critics or dumped onto SyFy. Lord of the Rings is really the only series of films I can think of that got through unscathed.
The other downside to fantasy's perceived dorkery is I think it's led to a slowing down of mainstream fantasy film production and the films that do get made that fully embrace their fantasy roots either get savages by critics or dumped onto SyFy. Lord of the Rings is really the only series of films I can think of that got through unscathed.
- 5/9/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Some of you long time Qe readers may remember I used to write the odd "retro review" which were essentially looks back at older titles that, while old news now, still deserved mention here on these pages. Well, as stuff gets crazier around here and we continue to grow it's becoming harder to crank them out as much I would like. Of course that doesn't mean that I don't watch old films, in fact the opposite is true. I'm a complete retro addict, always trying to catch up on films that have slipped through the cracks of my collection over the years. Hence these new "retro slave" posts which will pop up now and then, basically whenever I'm swayed by the awesomeness of an older title. Hal Barwood's 1985 plague flick, Warning Sign, is just one of those films.
A claustrophobic underground plague thriller about trying to contain a virus outbreak,...
A claustrophobic underground plague thriller about trying to contain a virus outbreak,...
- 8/9/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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