Ask FlickChick Is The Dark Knight a cursed production Plus the celebrity name game name that movie and more movie questions answeredSend your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion Do you believe that some movies are cursed I know it sounds ridiculous but theres been some talk about a curse of The Dark Knight and it seems as though a lot of bad things have happened to people who were involved starting with Heath Ledger -- KaraFlickChick In a word no In a few more words I think the twin curses of recklessness and cutting corners to save money have caused more grief than any malevolent supernatural forces In the case of The Dark Knight a visual effects technician named Conway Wickliffe died during a test run of a car stunt on September 25 2007 before principal shooting started By all accounts that was simply a very unfortunate accident -- Wycliffe was on a camera truck which ran into a tree -- he wasnt even in the stunt car which was unmanned Heath Ledger died
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Poltergeist courtesy Warner Home Video
Hollywoods horror-movie remake train just keeps chugging along According to Variety MGM has tapped scary scribes Stiles White and Juliet Snowden Boogeyman to write its remake of Poltergeist No director has been named for the projectThe original flick which was released in 1982 and spawned two sequels was based on a script by Steven Spielberg directed by Tobe Hooper and starred JoBeth Williams and Craig T Nelson White and Snowden know the horror remake genre well having recently penned Universals The Birds redo The duo also cowrote the upcoming Nicolas Cage starrer Knowing Adam Bryant
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This was a very strong new episode, and worth waiting for. Any show with cute animals gets bonus points from me. I'd always been a cat person until I got married and wound up with two "dog babies" of my own. Now I love dogs as much as I love cats, each for different reasons. Do you all remember the last episode with Bob the dog, when I'd mentioned that Melinda needed to learn about "calm assertive energy"? See? I was right! I would have liked for the scene with Cesar Millan to be a little bit longer, but it was cute. The whole Homer-Bob story was a fun way to lighten up a pretty dark and intense episode.I don't know that it was intentional, but in the beginning of the show, when they were focusing in on creepy doll faces and clown faces, one of the clowns made me think of the movie Poltergeist, which wound up being the big mislead until the ghost showed herself. I'm glad that they milked the poltergeist angle for a while, because getting Payne into the Gordons' house with all of tha...
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"When you see the lightning, count 'til you hear the thunder. lf you can count higher each time... that means the storm's moving away."On Wednesday night — and by night, I mean, like, 2 am — one of my twin 4-year-old sons was awoken by the thunder of an arriving storm. And by awoken, I mean screaming for Mommy and Daddy, craving some edification on what that booming noise was.I explained to the boy — as I have done before, yes, but when you're that young and the noise is that scary, things don't sometimes stick — that it was simply thunder, which sometimes comes with the rain. I then reached into my vast archive of trivial knowledge to explain that as the time between the flash of lightning and the boom of thunder gets longer, it means the storm is going away.Where did I first learn that little chestnut? Poltergeist, as told by Craig T. Nelson to li'l Carol Anne (and quoted above). Thank goodness the similarities ended there, and no tree limbs came reaching throu...
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Now Fear This!
Ah... my favorite time of year... the leaves are turning, Halloween plans churning, and Masters of Horror Season 2 is off to a screaming premiere tomorrow night [10PM ET/PT on Showtime]. As I weave my dark tvguide.com web here for the new season, I wanted to give Season 1 a short "re-capitation," and take us all through Season 2 "ghoul school."The Premise and The ExtremeMasters of Horror began as a dinner conversation among acclaimed horror directors, which soon became TV history-in-the-making. Director Mick Garris became the series Creator and Executive Producer, and his vision was to allow the "chosen 13" directors as much creative freedom possible. Showtime was up for this premise, and without MPAA intervention, 13 seriously extreme 1-hour horror films found a home on cable TV.And Then There Were 12The horror and cult community eagerly anticipated the 13th and final episode, directed by Japan's legendary Takashi Miike [Audition; Ichi the Killer]. However, finding it way too extre...
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Reunion1991 Soundtrack: R.E.M. "Losing My Religion"; Jesus Jones "Right Here, Right Now"; EMF "Unbelievable"; James "Top of the World."
I gotta tell you — Chyler Leigh was fierce while George Newbern was just plain scary. The "sleeping with the enemy" story line brought out some good performances. Seriously. I never knew that Newbern could be such a good lurker. He always seems to play nice guys. AbusivePaul isn't nice. At all. And our Carla has been trapped in a relationship with him in order to protect Sam's kid. After she engineered an escape for Amy (to her adopted mother), she trained a gun on him and made him call the police and tell them all was well.
Basic Instinct played out in the present-day scenes with Captain MajorHott
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Go into the light, Danny. All are welcome! All are welcome! Yup, Poltergeist's Jobeth Williams played the mysterious lady friend of Danny's late father. In a turn of events that shocked absolutely no one, she and Rachael Leigh Cook ended up being mother-daughter grifters, trying to trick our man out of 100,000 bucks. Even though on the surface Danny seems hot and clueless, that's all an act (well, except the hot part). He caught the thieves before they could hightail it out of town. Then we were treated to one of those awkward scenes where Penny Posin was like (I'm paraphrasing here), "I really, really like you. It just started out as a scheme but once I really, really saw you and once I really, really slept with you, I changed my mind. I realized that the money meant nothing because I was like really, really into you. Seriously. It was better than Cats. Forgive me." And then Cook made her grand exit. It was a touching scene. I almost cried. That is, un
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