Mania is the latest film to be directed by Jessica Cameron, which has been selected to play at the Horror-on-Sea Film Festival on Saturday 20th January. I got chance to talk to Jessica and ask her a few questions about what we can expect from Mania, the inspirations behind the story and the difficulties of working on an independent film.
What can we expect from Mania?
Mania is a lesbian love story which has been described as a cross between Thelma and Louise (1991) and Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) which I think is an accurate description. It’s about these women who have been in a relationship for a couple of years. They are madly, passionately, deeply in love and unfortunately, one of the women suffers from Mania. Circumstances in the first five minutes of the film cause anxiety to spike and shit happens. Her lover’s reaction is...
What can we expect from Mania?
Mania is a lesbian love story which has been described as a cross between Thelma and Louise (1991) and Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) which I think is an accurate description. It’s about these women who have been in a relationship for a couple of years. They are madly, passionately, deeply in love and unfortunately, one of the women suffers from Mania. Circumstances in the first five minutes of the film cause anxiety to spike and shit happens. Her lover’s reaction is...
- 12/8/2017
- by Philip Rogers
- Nerdly
The critically lauded Netflix web-series Stranger Things has returned for a second season and it’s an entertainingly odd sophomore year. Most of the first-year cast is back, along with a few newbies, as the town of Hawkins, Indiana faces more Domogorgons from the Upside-Down. Beware of spoilers.
Many shows that have such a popular first season often start to drop in quality during the second year. Fans will be glad to know that the second season of Stranger Things is just as good as the first. Better in some ways, worse in others, but overall, on the same level, which is good. Since fan expectations were higher this year than they were when the show started, it’s a relief that they didn’t drop the ball. The Spielberg/Steven King quality is still there, and the continuity from year one is good, without rehashing too much.
Spoilers ahead…...
Many shows that have such a popular first season often start to drop in quality during the second year. Fans will be glad to know that the second season of Stranger Things is just as good as the first. Better in some ways, worse in others, but overall, on the same level, which is good. Since fan expectations were higher this year than they were when the show started, it’s a relief that they didn’t drop the ball. The Spielberg/Steven King quality is still there, and the continuity from year one is good, without rehashing too much.
Spoilers ahead…...
- 11/4/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
Sideshow Collectibles has added another imposing (and beautifully crafted) character to the ranks of their Court of the Dead with the new Mortighull Premium Format Figure that's featured in today's Horror Highlights, which also includes an update on Space Goat Productions' Evil Dead 2 Kickstarter campaign, a teaser trailer for Lilith (starring Jessica Cameron), a new clip from the anthology series By Night: Origins, details on the world premiere of The Redeeming, the first short film from the new anthology series Ao-Terror-Oa, The Gatehouse release info, the cast for Killer Kate!, and UK and Ireland release details for Whispers.
Sideshow Reveals New Reaper Premium Format Figure: From Sideshow: "Sideshow is proud to present Mortighull: The Risen Reaper General Premium Format™Figure, a terrifying new addition to our original Court of the Dead collection…
The Reaper General Mortighull is far from a mirror image of his mentor, the resolute Demithyle. Mortighull...
Sideshow Reveals New Reaper Premium Format Figure: From Sideshow: "Sideshow is proud to present Mortighull: The Risen Reaper General Premium Format™Figure, a terrifying new addition to our original Court of the Dead collection…
The Reaper General Mortighull is far from a mirror image of his mentor, the resolute Demithyle. Mortighull...
- 11/3/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
From Producer Mem Ferda and Small Town Girl Productions comes the new teaser trailer for the indie feature film Lilith. The film stars Jessica Cameron (Truth or Dare, American Guinea Pig: Song of Solomon), Carlo Mendez (Parks and Recreation, The Bay), Ryan Kiser (Truth or Dare, In Harms Way) and Ali Ferda (An Ending, The Sleeper). […]
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- 11/1/2017
- by Jeff Stevens
- ShockYa
Ryan Lambie Aug 29, 2017
We ventured out to the fringes of London to check on the progress of the action thriller, American Assassin. Here's how we got on...
It comes to something when you’re so lily-livered that gunshot makes you jump even after you’re told that it’s coming. It’s early October 2016, and I’m sitting in a darkened warehouse in London where filming on American Assassin is taking place. Actor Dylan O'Brien is on set, holding a machine gun in a darkened tunnel. Illuminated by diffuse light from above, he looks lean and bestubbled, his firearm pointed straight towards the camera.
See related Game Of Thrones season 8: filming to get underway in October Game Of Thrones season 7 episode 7 review: The Dragon And The Wolf Game Of Thrones season 7: episode 7 questions answered
A crewmember has dutifully handed out ear plugs with the warning that the gunfire...
We ventured out to the fringes of London to check on the progress of the action thriller, American Assassin. Here's how we got on...
It comes to something when you’re so lily-livered that gunshot makes you jump even after you’re told that it’s coming. It’s early October 2016, and I’m sitting in a darkened warehouse in London where filming on American Assassin is taking place. Actor Dylan O'Brien is on set, holding a machine gun in a darkened tunnel. Illuminated by diffuse light from above, he looks lean and bestubbled, his firearm pointed straight towards the camera.
See related Game Of Thrones season 8: filming to get underway in October Game Of Thrones season 7 episode 7 review: The Dragon And The Wolf Game Of Thrones season 7: episode 7 questions answered
A crewmember has dutifully handed out ear plugs with the warning that the gunfire...
- 8/17/2017
- Den of Geek
The worst of the Cannes slate is often characterized by self-importance mixed with complete wrong-headedness. That’s certainly true of Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Loveless and reportedly even truer of Kornél Mundruczó’s Jupiter’s Moon, both of which are competing for the Palme d’Or this year. But that goes a long way to explaining why unpretentious genre fare can be such a refreshing prospect amidst the arthouse torpor. That’s a slot that, in the competition slate at least, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja should have filled—and for a while, it looks like it may fulfill that promise. Opening ca. 2007 New York with a garish infomercial for the Miranda Corporation, headed by CEO Lucy Mirando (a blonde-wigged Tilda Swinton with bright silver braces), the sequence is a fluid mix of exposition and sprightly satire. World hunger is the problem and Lucy Miranda has the solution: a 10-year competition where...
- 5/22/2017
- MUBI
’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a... well, anyone, because they're all dead! A Q&A with actress Jessica Cameron from All Through the House kicks off today's Horror Highlights! Also: details on Josh Hasty's 31 documentary, In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn, Ghostbusters 101 comic book series details, and Wizard World's new partnership with Front Gate Tickets.
All Through the House Q&A with Jessica Cameron: All Through the House: "The Christmas-themed horror film All Through The House made its U.S. debut on all major VOD platforms October 4, 2016 and is released by Gravitas Ventures. VOD Platforms include: iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Playstation 4, Amazon Instant Video, and Microsoft Xbox. The DVD/Blu-ray version is available on Amazon."
"A deranged masked Santa-Slayer comes to town for some yuletide-terror. He leaves behind a bloody trail of mutilated bodies as he...
All Through the House Q&A with Jessica Cameron: All Through the House: "The Christmas-themed horror film All Through The House made its U.S. debut on all major VOD platforms October 4, 2016 and is released by Gravitas Ventures. VOD Platforms include: iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Playstation 4, Amazon Instant Video, and Microsoft Xbox. The DVD/Blu-ray version is available on Amazon."
"A deranged masked Santa-Slayer comes to town for some yuletide-terror. He leaves behind a bloody trail of mutilated bodies as he...
- 12/22/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
She’s called Shannon Beador a c—, told Tamra Judge she was to blame for her daughter not speaking to her anymore, and threw around such fowl language and hurtful accusations that even the ever-poised Heather Dubrow lost her cool — but Kelly Dodd has no apologies.
The 40-year-old reality star stood behind her bad behavior on Monday’s second part of a three-part Real Housewives of Orange County reunion, and told host Andy Cohen, “There’s no shame in my game.”
It was a shocking reversal of behavior for Dodd, who had spent much of the season raging against her...
The 40-year-old reality star stood behind her bad behavior on Monday’s second part of a three-part Real Housewives of Orange County reunion, and told host Andy Cohen, “There’s no shame in my game.”
It was a shocking reversal of behavior for Dodd, who had spent much of the season raging against her...
- 11/15/2016
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
The Real Housewives of Orange County might have wrapped up another tumultuous season, but the drama isn’t over quite yet.
“We have three reunion episodes coming up and they're certainly not going to disappoint,” Heather Dubrow teases Et. “For me, it's always about the reunion … You can make amends to people, you can really repair relationships, or maybe, you think you're empirically right, and you don't think you need to do those things, and it's very interesting this reunion to see who does what.”
From the looks of the teaser trailer Bravo dropped last week, the reunion will see Shannon Beador, Tamra Judge and Heather battle with Vicki Gunvalson and Kelly Dodd over the events of the season, which included accusations that Shannon is a victim of spousal abuse, and that Tamra is a neglectful mother.
The season, of course, ended with both Tamra and Shannon saying they were done trying to be friends with Vicki...
“We have three reunion episodes coming up and they're certainly not going to disappoint,” Heather Dubrow teases Et. “For me, it's always about the reunion … You can make amends to people, you can really repair relationships, or maybe, you think you're empirically right, and you don't think you need to do those things, and it's very interesting this reunion to see who does what.”
From the looks of the teaser trailer Bravo dropped last week, the reunion will see Shannon Beador, Tamra Judge and Heather battle with Vicki Gunvalson and Kelly Dodd over the events of the season, which included accusations that Shannon is a victim of spousal abuse, and that Tamra is a neglectful mother.
The season, of course, ended with both Tamra and Shannon saying they were done trying to be friends with Vicki...
- 11/7/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Feature Aliya Whiteley 3 Apr 2014 - 07:22
Tend to think of Richard Attenborough as a kindly old man? Aliya digs into his early career to find some far nastier roles...
British cinema has always liked its angry young men: Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Laurence Harvey and others all played the 1950s and 60s social animal, raging against the class system and the staid attitudes of post-war Britain.
But they weren’t the first angry young man on the screen. Maybe that crown could be claimed by an unlikely actor – Richard Attenborough. Attenborough is best known now as a director and producer, for films such as Gandhi, Chaplin and Shadowlands. When he gets thought of as an actor, it’s often as a kindly old man with a white beard. Misguided, sometimes, as when he played John Hammond, the owner of Jurassic Park, but not downright nasty. A lot of his earlier...
Tend to think of Richard Attenborough as a kindly old man? Aliya digs into his early career to find some far nastier roles...
British cinema has always liked its angry young men: Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Laurence Harvey and others all played the 1950s and 60s social animal, raging against the class system and the staid attitudes of post-war Britain.
But they weren’t the first angry young man on the screen. Maybe that crown could be claimed by an unlikely actor – Richard Attenborough. Attenborough is best known now as a director and producer, for films such as Gandhi, Chaplin and Shadowlands. When he gets thought of as an actor, it’s often as a kindly old man with a white beard. Misguided, sometimes, as when he played John Hammond, the owner of Jurassic Park, but not downright nasty. A lot of his earlier...
- 4/1/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Cinematographer on the first Star Wars film who worked with the Boulting Brothers, Hitchcock and Polanski
The British cinematographer Gilbert Taylor, who has died aged 99, was best known for his camerawork on the first Star Wars movie (1977). Though its special effects and set designs somewhat stole his thunder, it was Taylor who set the visual tone of George Lucas's six-part space opera.
"I wanted to give it a unique visual style that would distinguish it from other films in the science-fiction genre," Taylor declared. "I wanted Star Wars to have clarity because I don't think space is out of focus … I thought the look of the film should be absolutely clean … But George [Lucas] saw it differently … For example, he asked to set up one shot on the robots with a 300mm camera lens and the sand and sky of the Tunisian desert just meshed together. I told him it wouldn't work,...
The British cinematographer Gilbert Taylor, who has died aged 99, was best known for his camerawork on the first Star Wars movie (1977). Though its special effects and set designs somewhat stole his thunder, it was Taylor who set the visual tone of George Lucas's six-part space opera.
"I wanted to give it a unique visual style that would distinguish it from other films in the science-fiction genre," Taylor declared. "I wanted Star Wars to have clarity because I don't think space is out of focus … I thought the look of the film should be absolutely clean … But George [Lucas] saw it differently … For example, he asked to set up one shot on the robots with a 300mm camera lens and the sand and sky of the Tunisian desert just meshed together. I told him it wouldn't work,...
- 8/25/2013
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Influential and respected cinematographer Gilbert Taylor, whose career encompassed the likes of Dr. Strangelove, Star Wars and A Hard Day’s Night, has died at the age of 99.Though he might be best remembered by fans for working on George Lucas’ original space fantasy, his career was long and fascinating, and saw him work with many of the world’s most respected directors. Born in Bushey Heath in 1914, he got his break into the film industry in 1929 at London’s Gainsborough Studios, where he began working as a camera assistant. While his career was interrupted by military service during World War II, he still managed to find a creative outlet, filming nighttime raids over Germany for the Royal Air Force.Among the films he worked on either as Camera Assisstant or Cinematographer are such notable titles as Brighton Rock, The Outsider, Ice Cold In Alex, Repulsion, Cul-de-sac, Frenzy and Flash Gordon.
- 8/25/2013
- EmpireOnline
Sadly timed with talk of the new, yet retro-minded generation of Star Wars cinematography, today also brings news of the death of Gilbert Taylor, the director of photography whose credits include the first Star Wars film, Dr. Strangelove, The Omen, Repulsion, and many other classics. Taylor was 99. Taylor began working in the British film industry in 1929 as a camera assistant, later serving during World War II by shooting the results of nighttime bombing raids. His first credit as a cinematographer, on 1948’s The Guinea Pig, kicked off a long and incredibly diverse career that included working with ...
- 8/23/2013
- avclub.com
In the 1940s and 50s, the Boulting brothers won over filmgoers and critics with a series of classics – from Brighton Rock to Private's Progress. As the BFI begins a retrospective, Michael Newton explores their version of Britain
The history of the Boulting brothers is the history of British cinema in miniature. The brilliance, the comforts and the disappointments are all there. In the 1940s, they take off from documentary realism to reach the heights of noir extravagance, before falling back into a gently unexciting worthiness. At the start of the 1950s they produce two fascinating oddities, characteristic of the oddity of the times. Later that decade, they turn to cosily satirical farce, the products of an exasperated, grump. The 1960s see them trying to get with it and making a middle-aged effort to "swing", but also creating one work that finds a vulnerable, extraordinary beauty in ordinary lives. And after that comes a petering out,...
The history of the Boulting brothers is the history of British cinema in miniature. The brilliance, the comforts and the disappointments are all there. In the 1940s, they take off from documentary realism to reach the heights of noir extravagance, before falling back into a gently unexciting worthiness. At the start of the 1950s they produce two fascinating oddities, characteristic of the oddity of the times. Later that decade, they turn to cosily satirical farce, the products of an exasperated, grump. The 1960s see them trying to get with it and making a middle-aged effort to "swing", but also creating one work that finds a vulnerable, extraordinary beauty in ordinary lives. And after that comes a petering out,...
- 7/26/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
My friend the actor John Forrest, who has died aged 80, combined a distinguished film career with work as a stage magician. He had his first success as a child actor, in David Lean's classic movie Great Expectations (1946), as the "pale young gentleman" – the young Herbert Pocket.
Known later for his many supporting roles playing very "British" characters such as Grassy Green in Very Important Person (1961), he was in fact born in the Us, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His English mother, an artist, had married an American lawyer, and when the marriage broke up after a few years, she brought John and his sister to England where they lived in the village of Cookham, Berkshire. Their neighbours were the painter Stanley Spencer and his equally eccentric brother, Horace, who taught John magic.
Following his early film success, John acted alongside such distinguished actors as David Niven, in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948), Richard Attenborough,...
Known later for his many supporting roles playing very "British" characters such as Grassy Green in Very Important Person (1961), he was in fact born in the Us, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His English mother, an artist, had married an American lawyer, and when the marriage broke up after a few years, she brought John and his sister to England where they lived in the village of Cookham, Berkshire. Their neighbours were the painter Stanley Spencer and his equally eccentric brother, Horace, who taught John magic.
Following his early film success, John acted alongside such distinguished actors as David Niven, in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948), Richard Attenborough,...
- 5/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
It might look rather old school today, but St Trinian's was once a subversive force in British cinema
I blame Harry Potter. I blame him for a lot of stuff: for the resurrection of those weedy Cs Lewis novels, for inducting a generation of new readers through the door marked "Fantasy", and I even blame him for the new generation of St Trinian's movies, which should have remained where they belonged and made most sense: in sexually repressed, austerity-ridden 1950s England.
Remove the hussies and hoydens of St Trinian's – referred to in the last St film as "Hogwarts for pikeys" – from that context and they deteriorate into anachronism, like National Service comedies or Carry On films made after 1969. They belong to a period when public schools, which educated only a minuscule percentage of Britons, seemed so much part of the national psyche that the entire country was familiar with their strange,...
I blame Harry Potter. I blame him for a lot of stuff: for the resurrection of those weedy Cs Lewis novels, for inducting a generation of new readers through the door marked "Fantasy", and I even blame him for the new generation of St Trinian's movies, which should have remained where they belonged and made most sense: in sexually repressed, austerity-ridden 1950s England.
Remove the hussies and hoydens of St Trinian's – referred to in the last St film as "Hogwarts for pikeys" – from that context and they deteriorate into anachronism, like National Service comedies or Carry On films made after 1969. They belong to a period when public schools, which educated only a minuscule percentage of Britons, seemed so much part of the national psyche that the entire country was familiar with their strange,...
- 12/12/2009
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
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