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MARCH 28 |
PHANTASM Turns 46
This movie in acting, directing, editing, and more is as rough and unpolished as it gets. There is nothing developed and committee compromised, and all of the other professional major studio gloss to this one. No big city artistry here in expensive rigs, lighting, sight or sound. And yet, creator Don Coscarelli did the impossible. He somehow committed an actual nightmare to film. A movie that continues in your dreams to haunt and threaten you, for years to come.
I've met so many people who told me they weren't scared the entire time they watched it, yet it came back in their memories to give them scariest nightmares they ever had. Crazier still: over the years when they least expect it, it returns in their dreams. Once you watch Don Coscarelli's masterpiece, it may haunt you for the rest of your life. This is the uncanny power of PHANTASM.
But it's just a movie...
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Writer, Actor, Producer, Nick Frost (SPACED [TV], SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, GRINDHOUSE, HYPERDRIVE, ATTACK THE BLOCK, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN [both], THE WORLD'S END, MONSTER FAMILY [both], TRUTH SEEKERS [TV], SCOOBY-DOO: THE SWORD AND THE SCOOB, THE NEVERS [TV], TIMESTALKER, GETAWAY, BLACK CAB) is 53.
Look for Nick in the upcoming 2024, 2025 Horror movie, WHISTLE.
Writer, Director Richard Kelly (DONNIE DARKO, SOUTHLAND TALES, THE BOX) is 50.
Actor Stephen Ure (XENIA: WARRIOR PRINCESS [TV], DARK STORIES: TALES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, EXPOSURE, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, PERFECT CREATURE, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, ASH VS THE EVIL DEAD [TV], DEATHGASM, MORTAL ENGINES, X) is
68.
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MARCH 27 |
MONSTERS VS ALIENS Turns 16
It doesn't have everything animation fans cherish in a Pixar movie, but it also doesn't have all of the fast aging, topical preachy trendy pop-culture see it coming a mile away jokes (well, okay, it has some) of a Dreamworks movie (which this is). Instead it has Illumination-style surprise, cheese, and cornball humor lightly scented with Dreamworks' brand of Eu de fluvia.
It's not great, but it's fun and you might even laugh out loud a few times. Even better, you can watch it more than once without muttering, "Why did I buy this shit?" like you've probably done so many times with various other Dreamworks animation. We know that Dreamworks can bring it when they want to, so why don't they want to do it more?
You know, like they did with MONSTERS VS ALIENS?
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THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT Turns 16
Okay, just what the hell was going on in 2009 on March 27? Because theaters opened the weekend with MONSTERS VS ALIENS for the leedle kiddies and this movie for the older young'uns and the adults. Yet both were Family Monster Movies!
I enjoyed both, though I never understood the whole bit about how to tell who is possessed by sitting around a table until someone pukes up a bedsheet.
Don't get me wrong, you don't see that every day, or at least I don't. But that's only one of the mysteries in THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT.
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Actor Nathan Fillion (DRACULA 2000, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV], FIREFLY [TV], WATER'S EDGE, SERENITY, SLITHER, WHITE NOISE 2: THE LIGHT, DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG, SUPER, CASTLE [TV], PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, GRAVITY FALLS [TV], YAMASONG: MARCH OF THE HALLOWS, A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS [TV], THE VENTURE BROS. [TV], SANTA CLARITA DIET [TV], THE SUICIDE SQUAD, RESIDENT ALIEN [TV]) is 54.
Horror Writer Steven L. Shrewsbury (GODFORSAKEN, THOROUGHBRED, WHORE OF JERICHO) is 55.
No introduction needed here, The Man:
Writer / Director / Producer / Actor Quentin Tarantino (RESERVOIR DOGS, PAST MIDNIGHT, PULP FICTION, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN [all], LITTLE NICKY, KILL BILL Vol. 1, KILL BILL Vol. 2, SIN CITY, HOSTEL [both], GRINDHOUSE, PLANET TERROR, DEATH PROOF, DJANGO UNCHAINED, THE HATEFUL EIGHT, #15 SECOND SCARE, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES [TV]) is 62.
Actor Michael York (MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, LOGAN'S RUN, THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU [1977], FINAL ASSIGNMENT, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA [TV], DARK MANSIONS [TV], UN DELITTO POCO COMUNE, KILLING BLUE, DISCRETION ASSURED, NOT OF THIS EARTH, DARK PLANET, THE RIPPER [TV], THE OMEGA CODE, THE HAUNTING OF HELL HOUSE, MEGIDDO: THE OMEGA CODE 2, CRUSADER, MIKA I ALFRED, TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, THE JUSTICE OF WOLVES) is 83.
Actor Caroline Williams (STEPFATHER 2, LEATHERFACE: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III, DECONSTRUCTING SARAH, LEPRECHAUN 3, Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN II, THE UNLEASHED, ABOLITION, MONSTERPIECE THEATER VOLUME 1, HATCHET III, CONTRACTED, THE PROFANE EXHIBIT, SEED 2, TALES OF POE, TALES OF HALLOWEEN, MARTIAN LAND, BLOOD FEAST, BLOODY BALLET, PSYCHO GRANNY, VEROTIKA, BLIND, GREENLIGHT, HANUKKAH, TEN MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT, COLD BLOODED KILLERS, CUDDLY TOYS, RENFIELD, HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING) is 68.
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