Month: July 2024

30 Jul

The Fog (2005) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

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A new episode of the Revisited video series has arrived online this morning… and this time around, we’re looking back at a movie that has a very bad reputation: director Rupert Wainwright’s 2005 remake of the John Carpenter cult classic The Fog (you can watch the remake HERE). This video sets out to explain “Why The Fog fails,” and you can hear all about it in the embed above.

Directed by Wainwright from a screenplay written by Cooper Layne, The Fog remake feels like an attempt to put a J-horror-style twist on the ideas from Carpenter’s film. It has the following synopsis: The prosperous town of Antonio Bay, Oregon is born in blood, as the town’s founders get their money by murdering a colony of lepers. But the truth of what they did is concealed from subsequent generations. More than 100 years later, Elizabeth Williams, whose family lives in Antonio Bay, returns just as a statue in tribute to the founders is to be unveiled. When a mysterious fog rolls in, Elizabeth and her boyfriend soon discover it has vengeful supernatural powers.

The film stars Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, DeRay Davis, Kenneth Welsh, Adrian Hough, Sara Botsford, Cole Heppell, Mary Black, Jonathon Young, R. Nelson Brown, Christian Bocher, Douglas H. Arthurs, Yves Cameron, Charles André, Rade Šerbedžija, Matthew Currie Holmes, Sonja Bennett, Meghan Heffern, Alex Bruhanski, Dan Shea, and Rick Pearce.

The The Fog remake episode of Revisited was Written, Narrated, and Edited by Lance Vlcek, Produced by Tyler Nichols and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

What do you think of the remake of The Fog? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

Two previous episodes of Revisited can be seen below. To see more of our shows, head over to the JoBlo Horror Originals channel – and subscribe while you’re at it!

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30 Jul

Josh Hartnett on his Hollywood hiatus, stalker incident

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Josh Hartnett

In the late ‘90s and early aughts, Josh Hartnett was at the top of the heartthrob list, making his big screen debut in Halloween: H20 and launching into a stream of movies that easily placed him in the public eye – especially that of the teenage girl. But with that came the obsessive and the stalkers, which was part of why Hartnett started to shy away from the industry.

Although far removed from the days of being the type who gets plastered all over peoples’ bedroom walls or mirror, Josh Hartnett still remembers backing away when things got overwhelming. “I just didn’t want my life to be swallowed up by my work. And there was a notion at that time you just kind of give it all up. And you saw what happened to some people back then. They got obliterated by it. I didn’t want that for myself.”

In the first five years of Josh Hartnett’s big screen career, he made twice as many features, most of which centered around his looks (so rarely do the teeny bopper types get recognized for their acting; then again, most shouldn’t): Here on Earth, O, Pearl Harbor, 40 Days and 40 Nights…And then there was The Faculty, which, even as a high school drug dealer battling pod people, he was still the cute factor.

While he did take a break from acting – albeit not a long one, at under two years – he noted just how obsessed some fans got…and he’s not just talking about his target audience. “People’s attention to me at the time was borderline unhealthy…Look, I don’t want to give this a lot of weight. There were incidents. People showed up at my house. People that were stalking me…A guy showed up at one of my premieres with a gun, claiming to be my father. He ended up in prison. There were lots of things. It was a weird time. And I wasn’t going to be grist for the mill.”

With the wackos long subsiding, Josh Hartnett has been on a tear as of late, a mid-life resurrection that has found him appearing in Best Picture winner Oppenheimer, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest Trap and even a one-off spot on The Bear.

What is your favorite Josh Hartnett role? What are your thoughts on his career shift?

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30 Jul

Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne encounter space madness as a crucial mission unravels in Mikael Håfström’s Slingshot trailer

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Space travel is not for the weak. It takes a special kind of person to brave the cosmos and not recoil from insignificance while coming to grips with how small we are in an ocean of stars and infinite possibilities. If you’re not careful, the weight of your mission and the isolation that comes with the job can warp your senses, making you see and hear things that are not there. In Mikael Håfström’s Slingshot trailer, Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea, A Ghost Story, Light of My Life), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, John Wick, Contagion), and Tomer Capone (The Boys, Fauda, One Week and a Day) star in a psychological thriller about three astronauts making Ren and Stimpy’s case of space madness look like child’s play.

Here’s the official synopsis for Slingshot courtesy of Bleecker Street:

A psychological thriller starring Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne, Slingshot follows an elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. As the team gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot maneuver that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space, it becomes increasingly difficult for one astronaut to maintain his grip on reality.

Mikael Håfström (The Rite, 1408, Evil) directs Slingshot from a script by R. Scott Adams and Nathan Parker. Emily Beecham (Daphne, Little Joe) and David Morrissey (The Walking Dead) also star.

Slingshot, trailer, Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne

In today’s Slingshot trailer, Affleck, Fishburne, and Capone embark on a mission to Titan. Groggy from years of cryosleep, the crew wonders if hibernation, stress, and loneliness are beginning to warp their minds, with Affleck’s character being affected the most. When parts of the ship become damaged, and the call to abandon the mission or risk it all with a dangerous slingshot maneuver presents itself, the team starts to unravel with nowhere to turn. Remember. In space, no one can hear you scream.

Today’s Slingshot trailer depicts an intense thriller with gripping performances and distorted reality taking center stage. Audiences won’t have to wait long to join Affleck, Laurence, and Capone on their life-altering missions, as Slingshot charts a course for theaters on August 30, 2024.

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30 Jul

Edge of Tomorrow sequel: Doug Liman still hasn’t cracked the third act

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Edge of Tomorrow

Director Doug Liman‘s time loop / alien invasion sci-fi adventure Edge of Tomorrow (watch it HERE) did not set the box office on fire – in fact, compared to another notable under-performer starring Tom Cruise, it made less money than 2017’s The Mummy, on a higher budget. But that hasn’t stopped talk of a sequel from popping up every now and then over the ten years since the film’s release. Liman, Cruise, and co-star Emily Blunt have all dropped positive quotes about the possibility of an Edge of Tomorrow follow-up over the years… but one reason why it hasn’t made it into production yet (other than the fact that Cruise is incredibly busy) is that Liman and his collaborators still haven’t been able to crack the script.

Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s manga All You Need Is Kill, the first Edge of Tomorrow was set in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop — forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again… and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.

Liman has said the sequel’s title may be Live Die Repeat and Repeat, a play on the first film’s tagline “Live Die Repeat” (which some felt should have been the movie’s title instead of its tagline). But before we get there, we need a completed script.

Speaking with Collider, Liman said, “Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise have never been more on top of their game than they are right now. I’d be crazy not to be trying to, you know, figure out how to make a sequel. So I am spending time trying to crack it. On the flip side, time travel’s really tough. Like really, really tough. All you have to do is develop a movie with time travel to come to the conclusion that humans will never travel through time because it’s hard to figure out a third act in a movie with time travel. So I know for a fact humans are never going to travel through time but I am trying to crack it.“

At the start of this year, Tom Cruise signed a deal to partner with Warner Bros., and studios chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy are reportedly hoping that an Edge of Tomorrow sequel will be one of the projects that comes out of their deal. So it might end up happening one of these days after all. We might be closer to Edge of Tomorrow 2 / Live Die Repeat and Repeat to becoming a reality than we ever have been before. If they can finish the script.

Are you hoping to see a sequel to Edge of Tomorrow? What would you like to see in a follow-up to that film? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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