‘The Woman in the Yard’ – Blumhouse Thriller from ‘The Shallows’ Director Will Star Danielle Deadwyler

The director behind horror favorites House of Wax, Orphan, and The Shallows, Jaume Collet-Serra, is set to helm the Universal and Blumhouse thriller The Woman in the Yard. Per Variety, the thriller has also found its star in Danielle Deadwyler. The Woman in the Yard is scheduled to be released in theaters on January 10, […]

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‘The River’ – Rediscovering the ‘Paranormal Activity’ Director’s Found Footage TV Series

In the finale of the 2012 television series The River, a character says what everyone else is thinking: “It’s never gonna let us go.” This foreboding last line is, of course, in reference to the show’s sinuous and uncanny namesake. From there the audience is left to wonder what happened to the crew of the […]

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Exploiting an Heiress in the ‘House of Wax’ Marketing Campaign [Horror Queers Podcast]

See Paris Cry. After kicking off 2023 with a re-do of one of our earliest episodes (The Perfection), we moved on to Todd Haynes’ AIDS allegory Safe before tackling Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance Crimson Peak. Now, we’re venturing back into the world of Dark Castle Entertainment with a fun discussion of Jaume Collet-Serra‘s 2005 remake House […]

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‘Carry On’ – Jaume Collet-Serra Directing Thriller for Netflix Starring Jason Bateman

Up next from Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, The Shallows) is the Netflix thriller Carry On, and Deadline reports today that Jason Bateman and Taron Egerton are on board to star. “The thriller centers on Ethan Kopek, a young TSA agent who gets blackmailed by a mysterious traveler to let a dangerous package slip through security and […]

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How ‘Orphan’ Brought Something New and Exciting to Horror’s Killer Kid Table [Young Blood]

The small but effective subgenre of “adoption horror” has a certain formula it follows. The newly adopted gradually dismantles the family unit, whether that means manipulating the systems around them or simply taking matters into their own little hands. Then, once someone gets wise to the evildoing, they either stop the young threat or they […]

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‘Black Adam’ Trailer – Heroes Don’t Kill People, But Dwayne Johnson Does

Box office juggernaut Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is DC’s Black Adam in the upcoming feature film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, The Shallows), and the official trailer has arrived this morning. Black Adam will release in theaters on October 21, 2022. The hierarchy of power is set to change with Black Adam, and the official trailer […]

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‘House of Wax’ 2005 Turned a 1950s Horror Movie into a Slasher Spectacle [Revenge of the Remakes]

Jaume Collet-Serra‘s 2005 House of Wax remake is a mashup of influences and intentions. It’s supposedly based on Andre DeToth‘s 1953 thriller of the same name, itself a remake of 1933’s Mystery of the Wax Museum — but you couldn’t tell based on watches alone. Collet-Serra admits in Fangoria Magazine that his House of Wax […]

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