When I was 9 years old, I was obsessed with the Disney Channel monster-of-the-week series, "So Weird." The show centered on a strong-willed teenage girl named Fiona "Fi" Phillips (Cara DeLizia) who used the power of information gathered from online research to help make sense of ghosts, monsters, folk legends, and other supernatural occurrences that seemed to follow her and her rockstar mom while they traveled the country on her comeback tour.
I wasn't yet a teenager and I certainly didn't own a laptop, but I could feel deep in my bones that I was just like Fi Phillips, and often fantasized what it would be like to live her life. Sometimes, the wind would blow a little too strong as I walked home from school or I'd hear a disembodied voice that was probably the result of my own imagination, and the line between my favorite TV show and my own life would blur.
I wasn't yet a teenager and I certainly didn't own a laptop, but I could feel deep in my bones that I was just like Fi Phillips, and often fantasized what it would be like to live her life. Sometimes, the wind would blow a little too strong as I walked home from school or I'd hear a disembodied voice that was probably the result of my own imagination, and the line between my favorite TV show and my own life would blur.
- 4/8/2024
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
There’s something about Eerie, Indiana that brings out even more early ’90s nostalgia than a pair of Mc Hammer pants or A.C. Slater slamming you into a locker. Right up there with Are You Afraid of the Dark? as some of the all-time best gateway TV horror for kids, Eerie always felt like a must watch if you could catch it on Disney or eventually Saturday mornings on Fox Kids Network. The show idea was simple and easy to relate to when you were a kid because every adult in suburbia seemed weird as fuck at the time. Hell, they still do.
In the show, Marshall Teller (Omri Katz) and his friend Simon (Justin Shenkarow) investigate the weird and possibly sinister happenings of their neighborhood and as usual… the adults never believe them.
Eerie, Indiana is jam packed with Halloween atmosphere and horror goodness and it just so...
In the show, Marshall Teller (Omri Katz) and his friend Simon (Justin Shenkarow) investigate the weird and possibly sinister happenings of their neighborhood and as usual… the adults never believe them.
Eerie, Indiana is jam packed with Halloween atmosphere and horror goodness and it just so...
- 10/23/2023
- by Mike Holtz
- bloody-disgusting.com
Donald Lee Harris, the longtime Grey’s Anatomy production designer whose credits also include The Office, American Housewife, Malcolm in the Middle and dozens of other shows, died November 1 of cancer, his family told Deadline. He was 78.
Harris began his Grey’s Anatomy stint with Season 3 in 2006 and stayed with the show through the Season 11 final in 2015, spanning more than 200 episodes of the ABC hospital drama. His most recent gig was on the 2016-21 ABC sitcom American Housewife, working on all of its 103 episodes.
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Harris began his Grey’s Anatomy stint with Season 3 in 2006 and stayed with the show through the Season 11 final in 2015, spanning more than 200 episodes of the ABC hospital drama. His most recent gig was on the 2016-21 ABC sitcom American Housewife, working on all of its 103 episodes.
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“He rarely let anything ruffle his feathers, and was appreciated for his incredible design acumen, calm and kind demeanor,...
- 11/4/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Hocus Pocus star Omri Katz is returning to Salem this Halloween! The actor, who played Max Dennison in the perennial favorite, will be in the historic Massachusetts town for a pair of special events on October 22.
Katz will appear at Silver Moon Comics from 1-5pm for a signing followed by a Hocus Pocus screening and Q&a at 7pm at Cinema Salem. Both locations are in the Witch City Mall. Less than 25 tickets are left for the screening before it sells out, so grab one soon for 35. The signing does not require a ticket.
At the age of 17, Katz starred in the 1993 film alongside Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Thora Birch, and Vinessa Shaw. Kenny Ortega directed from a script by Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) and Neil Cuthbert (Mystery Men).
Katz also starred in Eerie, Indiana, Matinee, Dallas, and Adventures in Dinosaur City. His character does...
Katz will appear at Silver Moon Comics from 1-5pm for a signing followed by a Hocus Pocus screening and Q&a at 7pm at Cinema Salem. Both locations are in the Witch City Mall. Less than 25 tickets are left for the screening before it sells out, so grab one soon for 35. The signing does not require a ticket.
At the age of 17, Katz starred in the 1993 film alongside Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Thora Birch, and Vinessa Shaw. Kenny Ortega directed from a script by Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) and Neil Cuthbert (Mystery Men).
Katz also starred in Eerie, Indiana, Matinee, Dallas, and Adventures in Dinosaur City. His character does...
- 9/6/2022
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On director/co-writer/co-editor Dean Fleischer-Camp discusses some of his favorite movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2022)
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2010)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
San Andreas (2015)
Airplane! (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Ghost (1990)
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
Beetlejuice (1988) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review
Batman (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Batman Returns (1992) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Ed Wood (1994)
Mars Attacks (1996)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
8 ½ (1963) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Westworld (1973) – Ed Neumeier’s trailer commentary
Robocop (1987) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray reviews
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Alien (1979) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
Aliens (1986) – Glenn Erickson’s...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2022)
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2010)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
San Andreas (2015)
Airplane! (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Ghost (1990)
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
Beetlejuice (1988) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review
Batman (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Batman Returns (1992) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Ed Wood (1994)
Mars Attacks (1996)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
8 ½ (1963) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Westworld (1973) – Ed Neumeier’s trailer commentary
Robocop (1987) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray reviews
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Alien (1979) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
Aliens (1986) – Glenn Erickson’s...
- 7/19/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Emmy award winning show runner Mitch Watson discusses some of the movies he saw when he was a kid that ruined him for life.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
A History Of Violence (2005)
On The Border (1998)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976) – Jon Davison’s trailer commentary
Gremlins (1984) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Tfh’s Mogwai Madness celebration
E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (1964)
Harold and Maude (1971) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Witchfinder General (1968) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s review
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Shampoo (1975) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Swashbuckler (1976)
Jaws (1975) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Tfh’s Shark Attack At Hero Complex Gallery
The Neverending Story (1984)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
Videodrome (1983) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary
Don’t Look Up (2021)
Starship Troopers (1997)
They Live (1988)
Magic (1978)
Dead Of Night...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
A History Of Violence (2005)
On The Border (1998)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976) – Jon Davison’s trailer commentary
Gremlins (1984) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Tfh’s Mogwai Madness celebration
E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (1964)
Harold and Maude (1971) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Witchfinder General (1968) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s review
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Shampoo (1975) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Swashbuckler (1976)
Jaws (1975) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Tfh’s Shark Attack At Hero Complex Gallery
The Neverending Story (1984)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
Videodrome (1983) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary
Don’t Look Up (2021)
Starship Troopers (1997)
They Live (1988)
Magic (1978)
Dead Of Night...
- 4/26/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
The 1990s were the perfect time to be a kid who liked all things scary. Thanks to shows like "Goosebumps," "Eerie, Indiana," "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters," "The Addams Family," "Mona the Vampire," "The Real Ghostbusters," and "Tales from the Crypt Keeper," youth-friendly horror shows were plentiful. It feels unfair to pit the abundance of quality programming against one another, but if any show served as the king of the castle, the distinction belonged to Nickelodeon's "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" The horror anthology series centered on the members of "The Midnight Society," a group of teenagers who gather each...
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- 4/12/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
In this spooky, Halloween edition of Gone But Not Forgotten, we're taking you way back to the early nineties, when NBC let Joe Dante (Gremlins) take a chance with perhaps the weirdest and most fondly remembered prime-time kids cult classic of the nineties, "Eerie, Indiana"! Despite running only nineteen episodes, the show has had a strong afterlife, being rebooted (badly) years later, and remaining a cult favorite to us children of the eighties and nineties. Join us as…...
- 10/29/2020
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Our Halloween episode! The legendary actor and star of Shudder’s The Mortuary Collection talks about his favorite horror movies from his childhood.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Mortuary Collection (2020), now streaming on Shudder!
Nightmare Cinema (2019)
We Come In Pieces: The Rebirth of the Horror Anthology Film (2014)
Bad Boys (1983)
Gentle Giant (1967)
Gone In 60 Seconds (1974)
The Green Slime (1969)
Battle Royale (2000)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Tarzan’s Three Challenges (1963)
The Professionals (1966)
Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)
Ultraman (1967)
Batman (1966)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Jack The Ripper (1959)
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1974)
Count Dracula (1977)
Son of Dracula (1943)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
The Haunting (1963)
The Haunting (1999)
The Others (2001)
The Babysitter Murders (2015)
Halloween (1978)
Frankenstein (1931)
King Kong (1933)
Scanners (1981)
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Bride (1985)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
The Love Bug (1968)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Son of Kong (1933)
The Road Back (1937)
Crimson Peak...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Mortuary Collection (2020), now streaming on Shudder!
Nightmare Cinema (2019)
We Come In Pieces: The Rebirth of the Horror Anthology Film (2014)
Bad Boys (1983)
Gentle Giant (1967)
Gone In 60 Seconds (1974)
The Green Slime (1969)
Battle Royale (2000)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Tarzan’s Three Challenges (1963)
The Professionals (1966)
Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)
Ultraman (1967)
Batman (1966)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Jack The Ripper (1959)
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1974)
Count Dracula (1977)
Son of Dracula (1943)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
The Haunting (1963)
The Haunting (1999)
The Others (2001)
The Babysitter Murders (2015)
Halloween (1978)
Frankenstein (1931)
King Kong (1933)
Scanners (1981)
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Bride (1985)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
The Love Bug (1968)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Son of Kong (1933)
The Road Back (1937)
Crimson Peak...
- 10/27/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
“Quiet town, peaceful, low maintenance. It can stay that way,” says a federal agent to the sheriff of the small town at the center of the new ABC drama “The Crossing,” airing on April 2 at 10 p.m./9 p.m. Ct. Yeah, good luck with that. In TV and movies, crazy, creepy, sci-fi, monster movie junk always goes down in quaint, tiny, Middle American suburbs far more often than it does in a big city. Who has time for aliens in New York? Give me a full on invasion or nothing. Leave the odd-goings on and the mysterious, unsolved disappearances to the town folk. This list charts the history of America’s fictional creepy small towns from kind of weird to David Lynchian-grade bananas.
Collinsport, Maine – “Dark Shadows” (1966)
The classic soap “Dark Shadows” started out as just the story of a woman trying to trace down her wealthy family’s mysterious...
Collinsport, Maine – “Dark Shadows” (1966)
The classic soap “Dark Shadows” started out as just the story of a woman trying to trace down her wealthy family’s mysterious...
- 2/24/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Whether you grew up watching Gremlins, The ’Burbs, Matinee, Small Soldiers, or The Hole, Joe Dante's films have spanned generations and given countless viewers something to lean on in their formative years and beyond into adulthood. While he's perhaps best known as a director, Dante is now paying it forward to the next generation of filmmakers (much like his friend Roger Corman) as an executive producer, with his latest project being Andy Palmer's Camp Cold Brook, a film that follows a team of paranormal investigators to a haunted summer camp where they encounter more than they bargained for when it comes to communicating with the other side.
With Camp Cold Brook now in theaters and on Digital and VOD from Shout! Studios, Daily Dead recently had the honor of speaking with Dante about working with Palmer and Shout! Factory on the new horror film. During our chat, Dante...
With Camp Cold Brook now in theaters and on Digital and VOD from Shout! Studios, Daily Dead recently had the honor of speaking with Dante about working with Palmer and Shout! Factory on the new horror film. During our chat, Dante...
- 2/15/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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