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Things You Didn't Know About 'The Thing'

Things You Didn’t Know About ‘The Thing’

The Thing, directed by John Carpenter was released in 1982 and became a classic. Odds are, you’ve seen it at least once. But there are some things that you probably don’t know about the masterpiece. We’re here to correct that. In the film, a research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. It’s Origins The Thing is actually both a reboot and an adaptation. The original movie, released in 1951, was titled The Thing From Another World. The Thing is a more faithful adaptation of the story that both films are based on, Who Goes There, by John W. Campbell,, Jr. which was first published back in 1938 in the magazine Outstanding Science Fiction. The Director John Carpenter was not the original choice for director, Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw) was. Universal wasn’t a fan of the script he had ,written so he was removed. John Landis (American Werewolf) was the next

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 16, 2022
Movie Reviews: “Dawning” and Short Films “Kageboshi,” “Good Taste,” and “Dikit” (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival)

Movie Reviews: “Dawning” and Short Films “Kageboshi,” “Good Taste,” and “Dikit” (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival)

Dawning Young Min Kim makes his feature film directorial debut — he also wrote the screenplay — with Dawning, a psychological horror outing heavy on family drama. Haejin Park (Kim Ellis) may have physically left her home after her father’s suicide (shown in the film’s opening scenes) for a new life in New York, but the trauma of that memory still weighs heavily on her. She goes back to the California farm where she grew up to console her younger sister Soojin (Veronica Kim), who has just split up with her abusive boyfriend. There, dark secrets are uncovered and supernatural overtones are introduced. Writer/director Kim shows a deft hand at the helm, serving up some twists and turns that raise the suspense while addressing the scars that PTSD and trauma can cause. Although the dialogue is a bit stiff at times, Dawning looks great, boasts fine performances from its two leads, and leaves viewers with much to think about. Kageboshi

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Joseph Perry
May 25, 2022
Full Slate Of New Shows, Seasons, And More Announced For Travel Channel & Discovery+

Full Slate Of New Shows, Seasons, And More Announced For Travel Channel & Discovery+

When it comes to the paranormal and the supernatural two places come to mind, the Travel Channel and discovery+ who can be called the ultimate homes for all things that go bump in the night. As the superior creators of this genre, the streaming service and network announced today a full slate of new series, specials, and new seasons of the most terrifying television with the buzziest and most prolific talent in the business. A new deal with paranormal investigator Zak Bagans will bring multiple projects from the master of horror Eli Roth and paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne and a new show starring global pop superstar Kesha anchor the schedule with series and specials debuting throughout 2022. This fall, when the fifth annual Ghostober celebration kicks off with spooky, scary programs that even bleed into our sister networks. “Travel Channel and discovery+ have tapped into what paranormal and horror fans love the most – a huge slate of brand-new content

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 18, 2022
Blu-ray Review: The Halfway House (2004)

Blu-ray Review: The Halfway House (2004)

Things start off with that hot n’ heavy jogging action so popular with the youth of today before dovetailing into a naked sacrifice to a monster… so begins Kenneth J. Hall’s horror-comedy/creature-feature/softcore sex flick, The Halfway House! So about that jogger… well, she’s the sister of one Larissa Morgan (Janet Tracy Keijser) and she isn’t the type to take a missing sister lying down… unless she’s busy fucking a detective, one Dick Sheen (Shawn Savage) by name, to convince her to help her find her missing sib. Said investigation leads to our heroine going undercover at the local church-run halfway house for wayward “girls” lorded over by the stern Sister Cecilia (genre legend Mary Woronov of Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000 fame… and about a billion others), who by day keeps the ladies in line through a healthy dose of fear, and by night sacrifices anyone that tries to escape the house’s wicked walls to the tooth and tentacle heavy

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DanXIII
May 15, 2022
Tubi Releases Two New Horror Originals, 'Teardrop' & 'Scariest Monsters In America'

Tubi Releases Two New Horror Originals, ‘Teardrop’ & ‘Scariest Monsters In America’

Tubi has been busy. Earlier today we reported that the trailer for their upcoming Terror Train reboot has just been released. Now, we are here to let you know that the free streaming service that features over 10,000 horror and thrillers, has just released two new original horror films, Teardrop and Scariest Monsters in America. In Teardrop, directed by Steven R. Monroe and written by Spyder Dobrofsky, an aspirational writer working as a teacher takes his students on a field trip to explore the history of an off-the-map ghost town, which happens to be the subject of his next book. His family ties have brought him back to the haunted location, but what does this mean for the safety of his class? Scariest Monsters in America explores the fact that in each U.S. state, stories of monsters living amongst us have been used to scare children and warn sinners away from misbehavior. But which of these bogeymen brings the biggest

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 12, 2022
Are Horror-Themed Slots Spooky?

Are Horror-Themed Slots Spooky?

Horror themes may be found in practically every kind of entertainment or art. Images, noises, or concepts that are difficult to confront and make us feel uncomfortable and fearful are examples. They may also make people feel uneasy by showing them pictures and stories that make them feel anxious. Scares and openly unsettling visuals, however, do not explain the genre’s success. So are horror-themed slots spooky? The answer is simply yes, there are horror-themed slots that are spooky in one way or the other. You can find some of these slots at Koi casino. These games are meant to titillate your fearful senses, but they’re also meant to delight and entertain you. What makes spooky horror-themed slots popular? They help us explore our dark side The beast inside hypothesis is one explanation for why frightening horror slots are so popular. According to this notion, we all have a dark part of the mind that is typically unexplored for good reason.

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Ella Rebecca Horton
May 7, 2022
Movie Review: “Allegoria” (Panic Fest) 

Movie Review: “Allegoria” (Panic Fest) 

Allegoria, the debut feature from writer/director Spider One, finds tortured artists and torturing artists alike. This anthology film is a dark dive into the psyches of musicians, painters, actors, and others and serves up a variety of horror elements. In the opening installment, acting teacher Robert Anderson Wright (John Ennis) demands that his students show him a monster. Ennis is pitch perfect as a hard-nosed instructor, giving an all-in performance that isn’t short on flying spittle. Next up, angry artist Marcus Muller (Bryce Johnson) gets inspiration for his latest painting from a decidedly dark source. Johnson invests Muller with the proper amount of pretentiousness and cynicism, and what he confronts is disturbingly realized. In the third segment — and probably the most viscerally brutal — screenwriter Eddie (Edward Hong) gets a lesson in crafting a slasher flick from an expert source (Adam Marcinowski). If it’s slasher action you crave, this section delivers. Next, sculptor Ivy (Scout Compton) volunteers to help

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Joseph Perry
May 6, 2022
The Chattanooga Film Festival Announces the First Wave of Its Virtual Lineup

The Chattanooga Film Festival Announces the First Wave of Its Virtual Lineup

The Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF) continues its tradition of serving up a mouth-watering selection of chillers, thrillers, the horrific, and the humorous, and this year’s edition goes virtual again. The fest has announced its first wave of films, and from the frightening (such as The Ones You Didn’t Burn) to the funny (the slasher comedies The Third Saturday in October Part 1 and Part V,), CFF has something for genre-fan cinephiles of all stripes. Following is the official press announcement. Two years after blazing a trail as the first film festival to go completely virtual amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF) returns for their ninth consecutive year this summer June 23–28. Taking place again virtually, this year’s lineup showcases an eclectic mix of the wild and wonderful features and events the festival has become well-known for through its eight previous editions. Highlights of this year’s first half include a pair of world premieres co-curated in partnership with

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Joseph Perry
Apr 28, 2022
Three New Out Of This World Clips Released To Celebrate 'Moonfall's' Landing

Movie Review: Sci-Fi Disaster Movie ‘Moonfall’ Is A Bit Of A Disaster Itself

Ten years ago Patrick Wilson‘s (The Conjuring franchise) Brian Harper, an astronaut, was disgraced after claiming to see something strange in space. Now, Brian, along with Halle Berry’s Jocinda Fowler, and John Bradley’s JC. is the world’s only hope after the moon leaves its orbit, threatening the complete destruction of the earth in Moonfall. Directed by Roland Emmerich, who penned the script along with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen, Moonfall is a part disaster movie and part sci-fi flick and features out-of-this-world special effects including everything from giant waves taking out cities, pieces of the moon pelting the world, and amazing outerspace structures. Here’s where the spoilers start. The reason the moon is out of orbit is that it isn’t made of rock as we believe. Instead, it is a superstructure built by the ancestors of man to find planets where they could resettle after a war with AI gone bad. Now, one of the giant, biomechanical creatures has found

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 22, 2022
Mysteries Begin To Unravel In The Season Finale Of Epix's "From" (Preview)

Mysteries Begin To Unravel In The Season Finale Of Epix’s “From” (Preview)

All good things must come to an end, hopefully, this week’s season finale of Epix‘s series “From” won’t be the end, but just the beginning of the excellent series (Epix, I hope you’re listening). Fans of the horror series, this writer included, have become attached to the characters and we all want to uncover the truth about the mysterious town’s origins and for the characters to find a way home. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that we’ll get a second (and third) season. The series unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down. In Episode 9: Into The Woods, Boyd leads Sara into the woods still in handcuffs, and who could blame him? She is

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 21, 2022
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