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Universal rolls out its first all-female monster maze. Here’s why it matters for horror
3 months ago

Universal rolls out its first all-female monster maze. Here’s why it matters for horror

LA Times  

Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, like all major theme park haunt events, hopes to scare its guests. “So I was like, ‘I kinda want to do that this time.’” The resulting maze — “Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines” — is one that focuses on characters who have received little, or sometimes zero, screen time in Universal’s films. “When you …

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Review: ‘Monsters of the American Cinema’ confronts the horror in grief
8 months, 1 week ago

Review: ‘Monsters of the American Cinema’ confronts the horror in grief

LA Times  

Logan Leonardo Arditty, left, and Kevin Daniels perform in “Monsters of the American Cinema” at the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles. The first thing you notice about the set for “Monsters of the American Cinema,” a recent play by Christian St. Croix that’s having its Los Angeles premiere at the Matrix Theatre in a Rogue Machine production, is the glow …

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Wyatt Russell says ‘Thunderbolts’ is “not a straightforward Marvel movie”
1 year ago

Wyatt Russell says ‘Thunderbolts’ is “not a straightforward Marvel movie”

The Hindu  

During an interaction for the promotion of the Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, actor Wyatt Russell spilt the beans about his upcoming Marvel film, Thunderbolts. “Despite that, I have confidence it’s gonna be good,” said Wyatt, according to an article on The Hollywood Reporter. But it’s not a straightforward Marvel movie as you’ve seen in the past. I …

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‘Sweet Home’ K-drama review: Humanity hunts for answers in this gory horror-thriller
1 year ago

‘Sweet Home’ K-drama review: Humanity hunts for answers in this gory horror-thriller

The Hindu  

Early on in Sweet Home, after a monster wreaks havoc and leaves the residents of the very grandly-named Green Home Mansion apartment rattled, one of them is quick with his questions to another resident—a firefighter. In the first part, we’re introduced to the residents: Cha Hyun-Su, a depressed high school student whose struggles start much before the emerging monster apocalypse; …

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Hiding behind monsters: spotting the queer in Hollywood’s horror movies
1 year, 11 months ago

Hiding behind monsters: spotting the queer in Hollywood’s horror movies

The Hindu  

In a secluded opera box in 1931, Bela Lugosi as Dracula looms over Mina Seward, Jonathan Harker, and Lucy Weston. Collaborating with other queer artists of the time, Whale directed Universal Studios’ slate of horror films including Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, and Bride of Frankenstein. Man’s horror companion: the Vampire To identify a hero, we need a villain, and …

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'Monsters': Ukrainian Women Recount Horror of 'Packed Cells, Hunger, Abuse, Humiliation' in Russian Jails
2 years, 1 month ago

'Monsters': Ukrainian Women Recount Horror of 'Packed Cells, Hunger, Abuse, Humiliation' in Russian Jails

News 18  

When Ukrainian medic Tetyana Vasylchenko was released from Russian captivity and, on the bus back to freedom, handed a Ukrainian flag, she finally broke down. “But when I was given a Ukrainian flag on the bus, I burst out crying.” Vasylchenko and 107 other women were freed from Russian detention last week as part of a long-negotiated prisoner exchange with …

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Stranger Things 4 threads on repetitive themes, almost pandering to fan service nostalgia
2 years, 6 months ago

Stranger Things 4 threads on repetitive themes, almost pandering to fan service nostalgia

Firstpost  

The problem with Stranger Things 4 is not its widely publicised length but when the payoffs arrive, they’re deflatingly familiar — the show has gone from lovingly echoing 1980s touchstones to industriously copying itself. And the many devotees of Stranger Things have been lucky, because as the show’s fourth season — which premiered with seven of its nine episodes Friday …

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How a father-son battle spawned Hollywood’s classic monsters
2 years, 7 months ago

How a father-son battle spawned Hollywood’s classic monsters

LA Times  

On the Shelf It's Alive! Junior Laemmle is the hero of “It’s Alive!,” Julian David Stone’s new madcap historical showbiz novel about the making of James Whale’s “Frankenstein”. Julian David Stone’s novel “It’s Alive!” tracks the birth of the monster movie industry at Universal. In the novel, as Junior pushes ahead with “Frankenstein,” he’s not even sure who will play …

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Monsters At Work review: Pixar show is all horror and humour, froth and fright
3 years, 3 months ago

Monsters At Work review: Pixar show is all horror and humour, froth and fright

Firstpost  

Pixar is now walking the Marvel path of extending its IP into the web-series format. Developed by Bob Gannaway, Monsters At Work refashions this idea, which began with Pixar Animation’s Monsters Inc, in a web-show format — 10 episodes, 20 minutes each. Monstropolis’ Monsters Inc, whose tagline was “We scare because we care” has now been overhauled, its space repurposed …

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‘New kinds of monsters’: The rise of Southeast Asian horror films
3 years, 6 months ago

‘New kinds of monsters’: The rise of Southeast Asian horror films

Al Jazeera  

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The Netflix and Disney+ Hotstar premiere of Roh, a supernatural demonic horror movie and the first feature-length film by Malaysian director Emir Ezwan, marks another international achievement for a new wave of low-budget horror works produced in Southeast Asia. Bloody innovations Thomas Barker, lecturer in film and television at the University of Nottingham Malaysia near Kuala …

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A Quiet Place Part II review round-up: John Krasinski directorial, starring Emily Blunt, is an 'effective and engrossing follow-up'
3 years, 7 months ago

A Quiet Place Part II review round-up: John Krasinski directorial, starring Emily Blunt, is an 'effective and engrossing follow-up'

Firstpost  

Critics have lauded Krasinski’s xpert delivery of ‘jump-out-of-your-seat’ scares, and compared his style of filmmaking to that of Steven Spielberg. Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place Part II will be hitting the US theatres on 28 May. The basic plotline of A Quiet Place Part II is about a family trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world with monsters that have …

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Lovecraft Country is a powerful, albeit divisive, TV show about horror, racism and America
4 years, 1 month ago

Lovecraft Country is a powerful, albeit divisive, TV show about horror, racism and America

ABC  

As the dust settles on a drawn-out US election, one thing that is clear from close counts across the country is that America is a divided nation, grappling with its history and identity. Early in the series, protagonist Atticus Freeman, AKA Tic, describes the city of Ardham, Massachusetts — one of the story's key settings — as "Lovecraft country" because …

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