Mask of Thorn is a throwback to the classic 80 slashers from writer and director Mj Dixon, which has been selected to play at the Horror-on-Sea Film Festival on Friday 19th January. I got chance to ask Mj a few questions about the continuing legacy of Thorn, his influences in horror and what else is coming in the ever expanding Mycho horror universe.
What can we expect from the film?
I guess it’s hard to say without giving too much away, but we usually try to take the classic slasher formula that the Mychoverse is built on and then turn it upside down and at least approach it from a very different angle. We’re not really interested in making the same film again and again, so it was important find a fresh way to tell the next part of the story. I guess the influences for the film were...
What can we expect from the film?
I guess it’s hard to say without giving too much away, but we usually try to take the classic slasher formula that the Mychoverse is built on and then turn it upside down and at least approach it from a very different angle. We’re not really interested in making the same film again and again, so it was important find a fresh way to tell the next part of the story. I guess the influences for the film were...
- 12/6/2017
- by Philip Rogers
- Nerdly
The Killer Clown is a new documentary profiling the serial killer known as “The Killer Clown,” who raped and murdered over two dozen men and boys. John Wayne Gacy was a notorious rapist and serial killer who is known to have murdered at least 33 people in the 1970s. Gacy lured his victims to his Northwood Park ranch in Cook County, Illinois, where he’d then strangle them to death. He became known as the “Killer Clown” due to the “Pogo the Clown” character that he used when he was carrying out charity events and doing kid’s parties. Gacy targeted young...read more...
- 10/31/2017
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
A 54-year-old Virginia woman is finally behind bars nearly 30 years after she allegedly dressed as a clown and shot her boyfriend’s wife in the head in Florida – a case dubbed the “Killer Clown.”
Sheila Keen Warren was arrested in Washington County, Virginia, on Tuesday after a grand jury indicted her on a first-degree murder charge in August, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office announced in a statement on Tuesday.
The arrest comes 27 years after Keen Warren allegedly put on an orange wig and white face paint and headed to Marlene Warren’s Wellington home with flowers, two balloons and a gun,...
Sheila Keen Warren was arrested in Washington County, Virginia, on Tuesday after a grand jury indicted her on a first-degree murder charge in August, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office announced in a statement on Tuesday.
The arrest comes 27 years after Keen Warren allegedly put on an orange wig and white face paint and headed to Marlene Warren’s Wellington home with flowers, two balloons and a gun,...
- 9/27/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
After the drought of summer box office, “It” is a monsoon. It doubled already-high advance predictions, but most of all, one well-received horror film gives hope that a bad year could recover.
Records, even adjusted ones, get broken sometime. But to this degree is almost unheard of. Previously, the biggest September opening in adjusted grosses was “Rush Hour” in 1998 ($62 million). The $123 million estimate essentially doubled that number — and likely would have been about around $7 million-$8 million more, had Florida theaters not been closed.
Read More:‘It’ Review: Stephen King’s Killer Clown Faithfully Comes to Life, But Don’t Expect Any Surprises
This above-and-beyond performance happened on the traditionally comatose weekend after Labor Day. Last year, Warners took a similar risk in releasing Clint Eastwood’s “Sully,” a rare “A” title for the post-Labor Day weekend, and set a record (adjusted) at $35 million. This is 250 percent bigger.
Its success might be isolated.
Records, even adjusted ones, get broken sometime. But to this degree is almost unheard of. Previously, the biggest September opening in adjusted grosses was “Rush Hour” in 1998 ($62 million). The $123 million estimate essentially doubled that number — and likely would have been about around $7 million-$8 million more, had Florida theaters not been closed.
Read More:‘It’ Review: Stephen King’s Killer Clown Faithfully Comes to Life, But Don’t Expect Any Surprises
This above-and-beyond performance happened on the traditionally comatose weekend after Labor Day. Last year, Warners took a similar risk in releasing Clint Eastwood’s “Sully,” a rare “A” title for the post-Labor Day weekend, and set a record (adjusted) at $35 million. This is 250 percent bigger.
Its success might be isolated.
- 9/10/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Now that “It” has finally opened to favorable reviews from those coastal elites we call film critics and made beaucoup bucks at the box office, the question readers have been asking for months has finally been answered: Does it include that weird orgy scene from the book? No, reader. No it does not. Stephen King has addressed the omission of that key event, which takes place among a group of children.
Read More:‘It’ Review: Stephen King’s Killer Clown Faithfully Comes to Life, But Don’t Expect Any Surprises
Vulture unearthed King’s comments, which came from a message-board post a few years back:
“I wasn’t really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood –1958 and Grown Ups. The grown ups don’t remember their childhood. None of us remember what we did as children–we think we do, but we don...
Read More:‘It’ Review: Stephen King’s Killer Clown Faithfully Comes to Life, But Don’t Expect Any Surprises
Vulture unearthed King’s comments, which came from a message-board post a few years back:
“I wasn’t really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood –1958 and Grown Ups. The grown ups don’t remember their childhood. None of us remember what we did as children–we think we do, but we don...
- 9/9/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Clowns were always creepy, but then Stephen King came along. In 1986, King published “It,” which introduced the world to seven scrappy kids nicknamed The Losers Club, who faced off against a child-killing, shape-shifting clown named Pennywise, an evil entity that was infesting their hometown of Derry, Maine. Derry had popped up in several King novels before “It,” including “Pet Cemetery” and the novella “The Body,” which served as the source material for the film “Stand By Me,” but it wasn’t until “It” that King fans really got to know the dark history and evil lurking in the sewers of the fictional Maine town.
With King’s mammoth novel sitting around 1,138 pages, the bloody details of Derry’s darkest days are fleshed out across multiple time periods. But, as with so many film adaptations of classic novels, not everything in the book makes the final cut. Even 1990’s “It” TV mini-series,...
With King’s mammoth novel sitting around 1,138 pages, the bloody details of Derry’s darkest days are fleshed out across multiple time periods. But, as with so many film adaptations of classic novels, not everything in the book makes the final cut. Even 1990’s “It” TV mini-series,...
- 9/8/2017
- by Jamie Righetti
- Indiewire
Pennywise ain't the only killer clown around...
The post The Other Clown in Town: Killjoy Goes to Hell Hits Amazon appeared first on ComingSoon.net.
The post The Other Clown in Town: Killjoy Goes to Hell Hits Amazon appeared first on ComingSoon.net.
- 9/8/2017
- by Chris Alexander
- Comingsoon.net
“It” is the much-anticipated and much-needed Stephen King adaptation. In addition to opening Friday with high box-office expectations, “It” also represents the fervent wish of every exhibitor that the dreadful summer of 2017 will recede like a bad dream.
Advance estimates suggest “It” could reach $70 million for its opening weekend. Anything over $62.5 million would top “Rush Hour,” the September record holder (in adjusted figures). Even if it did as little as $50 million, it should propel the weekend to a height it hasn’t seen in three months: More people would go to theaters than the same weekend in 2016.
Read More:It’s the Worst Labor Day Box Office Ever, as ‘Hitman’s Bodyguard’ is #1 by Default
The year-to-date total for North America is just under $7.6 billion, about $500 million less than the 2016 post-Labor Day box office. However, there’s still four months left — a full third of the year — to make up the gap.
Advance estimates suggest “It” could reach $70 million for its opening weekend. Anything over $62.5 million would top “Rush Hour,” the September record holder (in adjusted figures). Even if it did as little as $50 million, it should propel the weekend to a height it hasn’t seen in three months: More people would go to theaters than the same weekend in 2016.
Read More:It’s the Worst Labor Day Box Office Ever, as ‘Hitman’s Bodyguard’ is #1 by Default
The year-to-date total for North America is just under $7.6 billion, about $500 million less than the 2016 post-Labor Day box office. However, there’s still four months left — a full third of the year — to make up the gap.
- 9/7/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
The anticipation for “It” has been building tremendously ever since the debut teaser broke records and became the most watched trailer in its first 24 hours. The Andy Muschietti adaptation of the Stephen King novel finally opens nationwide this Friday, and the first wave of reviews have debuted and, unfortunately, they aren’t exactly glowing.
Every critic seems to agree “It” is a satisfying adaptation, especially since adapting half of King’s 1,138 page book is no easy feat, but critics can’t help but feel the movie drops the ball when it comes to being an effective horror film.
The movie has plenty of scares, but they’re nearly all jump scares regulated to individual set pieces. As a result, the film just doesn’t add up. As IndieWire’s Eric Kohn says in his B- review, “‘It’ simplifies its appeal with jump scares…For much of King’s novel, Pennywise...
Every critic seems to agree “It” is a satisfying adaptation, especially since adapting half of King’s 1,138 page book is no easy feat, but critics can’t help but feel the movie drops the ball when it comes to being an effective horror film.
The movie has plenty of scares, but they’re nearly all jump scares regulated to individual set pieces. As a result, the film just doesn’t add up. As IndieWire’s Eric Kohn says in his B- review, “‘It’ simplifies its appeal with jump scares…For much of King’s novel, Pennywise...
- 9/6/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
It ain’t easy being a clown in the modern world. Thanks to real-life serial killers like John Wayne Gacy, who was known as the “Killer Clown,” as well as shows like American Horror Story: Freak Show, it’s impossible for some audience members to separate the fictional horrifying clowns to those who are just trying to make a living putting smiles on people’s faces.
Stephen King also didn’t help much with his novel It, which saw shapeshifter usually take on the form of Pennywise the Clown. This effect was amplified in 1990 when the miniseries came out, and with the new film on the horizon, there has been an increase in creepy clown sightings that are presumed to have been influenced by fans of King.
World Clown Association president Pam Moody spoke with THR regarding the difficulties that such sightings created for them.
"Last year we were really blindsided.
Stephen King also didn’t help much with his novel It, which saw shapeshifter usually take on the form of Pennywise the Clown. This effect was amplified in 1990 when the miniseries came out, and with the new film on the horizon, there has been an increase in creepy clown sightings that are presumed to have been influenced by fans of King.
World Clown Association president Pam Moody spoke with THR regarding the difficulties that such sightings created for them.
"Last year we were really blindsided.
- 8/29/2017
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
Scary clowns are usually consigned to works of fiction — and the recent fad where people dress up as them to scare others. But real ones Do exist, as the case of John Wayne Gacy shows. Gacy was a serial killer and rapist, whose chilling story is told in The Real Killer Clown on REELZChannel. The monster murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men after sexually assaulting and torturing them. He got his nickname the Killer Clown before his sideline dressing as Pogo the Clown at kids’ parties, fundraisers and in parades. He also previously worked as a...read more...
- 5/26/2017
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
Evoking the ghost of Donnie Darko, this weird horror hybrid is a darkly funny trip through the mind of a would-be killer
“Fear is a really weird thing,” says the antihero of this scalpel-sharp, blackly comic adaptation of Dan Wells’s 2009 Ya bestseller. “People are afraid of things, but they’re never afraid of their own actions.” Not so John Wayne Cleaver, the serial killer-obsessed teenager whose therapist agrees that he exhibits all three of the “Macdonald triad” predictors of violent sociopathy. “But you’re in control of your own destiny,” Karl Geary’s Dr Neblin assures John hollowly. “You’re a good person.”
Yet death is close at hand, stalking the streets of the miserable midwest town of Clayton, where an animalistic killer is stealing people’s organs and leaving a trail of sticky black goo. John, whose name evokes the real-life Illinois “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy, is fascinated by the murders,...
“Fear is a really weird thing,” says the antihero of this scalpel-sharp, blackly comic adaptation of Dan Wells’s 2009 Ya bestseller. “People are afraid of things, but they’re never afraid of their own actions.” Not so John Wayne Cleaver, the serial killer-obsessed teenager whose therapist agrees that he exhibits all three of the “Macdonald triad” predictors of violent sociopathy. “But you’re in control of your own destiny,” Karl Geary’s Dr Neblin assures John hollowly. “You’re a good person.”
Yet death is close at hand, stalking the streets of the miserable midwest town of Clayton, where an animalistic killer is stealing people’s organs and leaving a trail of sticky black goo. John, whose name evokes the real-life Illinois “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy, is fascinated by the murders,...
- 12/11/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Aleph Records will release the Tales Of Halloween – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack exclusively on iTunes on October 23, 2015.
The film is a horror anthology featuring original music by Joseph Bishara (The Conjuring), Michael Sean Colin (Killjoy Goes To Hell), Christopher Drake (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns video games), Christian Henson (The Devil’S Double), Bobby Johnston (Wristcutters: A Love Story), Jimmy Psycho (The Jimmy Psycho Experiment), Sean Spillane (Jug Face), Edwin Wendler (Unnatural), and Austin Wintory (Dark Summer).
The film features main titles by legendary composer Lalo Schifrin (The Amityville Horror), whose son Ryan Schifrin directed one of the segments.
“This film is our love letter to the holiday of Halloween. And to have a main title from the man that wrote the Academy Award nominated score for The Amityville Horror is setting the bar even higher,” said Ryan. “What makes Tales Of Halloween really special is that you have one...
The film is a horror anthology featuring original music by Joseph Bishara (The Conjuring), Michael Sean Colin (Killjoy Goes To Hell), Christopher Drake (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns video games), Christian Henson (The Devil’S Double), Bobby Johnston (Wristcutters: A Love Story), Jimmy Psycho (The Jimmy Psycho Experiment), Sean Spillane (Jug Face), Edwin Wendler (Unnatural), and Austin Wintory (Dark Summer).
The film features main titles by legendary composer Lalo Schifrin (The Amityville Horror), whose son Ryan Schifrin directed one of the segments.
“This film is our love letter to the holiday of Halloween. And to have a main title from the man that wrote the Academy Award nominated score for The Amityville Horror is setting the bar even higher,” said Ryan. “What makes Tales Of Halloween really special is that you have one...
- 10/15/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Two's company and three's a crowd--but four can soar! At least that's what the good folks at haRFMFul Productions, Sick Puppy Pictures, MOnsterworks66 and Lion Arch Productions believe as they prep a three-feature slate to shoot in Louisiana later this year or early in 2016!
Rycke Foreman (haRMFul), Phil Condit (Sick Puppy), Maria Olsen (MO66) and Lionel Archuleta (Lion Arch) are developing a slate of three horror-comedies for production in Louisiana and are presently attaching cast and finalizing budgets before approaching La. investors. The three films, Happy Ending, Hacked Off and Grizzled! (#Hehog) are all zany romps through HorCom Land featuring lovely ladies, buckets of blood, hunky heroes and terrifyingly funny Big Bads.
The films may all live in the same genre, but they each have their own special stamp of entertaining insanity:
Happy Ending is no stranger to MoreHorror fans who will remember that, at Madam Wang's House of Happy Ending...
Rycke Foreman (haRMFul), Phil Condit (Sick Puppy), Maria Olsen (MO66) and Lionel Archuleta (Lion Arch) are developing a slate of three horror-comedies for production in Louisiana and are presently attaching cast and finalizing budgets before approaching La. investors. The three films, Happy Ending, Hacked Off and Grizzled! (#Hehog) are all zany romps through HorCom Land featuring lovely ladies, buckets of blood, hunky heroes and terrifyingly funny Big Bads.
The films may all live in the same genre, but they each have their own special stamp of entertaining insanity:
Happy Ending is no stranger to MoreHorror fans who will remember that, at Madam Wang's House of Happy Ending...
- 5/28/2015
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Stars: Angel Vargas, Trent Haaga | Written by Carl Washington, Douglas Snauffer, Tammi Sutton, John Lechago | Directed by Craig Ross, Tammi Sutton, John Lechago
In the late 90s/early 2000′s there was a distinct new trend in the horror genre: that of “urban horror”. A genre that brought urban black cinema, and all-black casts, together with the horror genre in much the same way as it did in the 70s during the blaxploitation era. Whilst films like Bones and Vampire in Brooklyn (despite being something of a critical failure) had iconic stars such as Snoop Dogg and Eddie Murphy respectively, it was smaller movies such as Rusty Cundieff’s Tales From the Hood that had all the ideas (if you haven’t seen Tales… you should really track it down).
Not one to miss a trick when it comes to cashing in on popular crazes, Full Moon head honcho Charles Band...
In the late 90s/early 2000′s there was a distinct new trend in the horror genre: that of “urban horror”. A genre that brought urban black cinema, and all-black casts, together with the horror genre in much the same way as it did in the 70s during the blaxploitation era. Whilst films like Bones and Vampire in Brooklyn (despite being something of a critical failure) had iconic stars such as Snoop Dogg and Eddie Murphy respectively, it was smaller movies such as Rusty Cundieff’s Tales From the Hood that had all the ideas (if you haven’t seen Tales… you should really track it down).
Not one to miss a trick when it comes to cashing in on popular crazes, Full Moon head honcho Charles Band...
- 10/16/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by Full Moon Features. Director/writer: John Lechago. Cast: Trent Haaga, Victoria De Mare, Al Burke, Tai Chan Ngo, John Karyus, Aqueela Zoll, Jason R. Moore, Cecil Burroughs, Randy Mermell, Stephen F. Cardwell, Lisa Goodman, Ian Roberts, and Jessica Whitaker. Killjoy the killer clown returns for a third sequel in Killjoy Goes to Hell. Actor Trent Haaga returns as Killjoy and John Lechago pulls double duty as writer and director. Killjoy Goes to Hell blends campiness with sex appeal and a little bit of violence to create a visually stunning film. Very funny, this latest edition to the series is a truly enjoyable time. This title directly follows the events of the previous film, Killjoy 3. In the previous film, four college students were harassed by an insane demon. Unfortunately for Killjoy, one of his non-studious victims, Sandie (Jessica Whitaker), survived.
- 9/30/2012
- by [email protected] (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Tagline: "The bad clown is going down." The first trailer for Killjoy Goes to Hell was released this week. This is the fourth film from Full Moon Features, which deals with a demonic clown. Actor Trent Haaga will reprise his role and this time Killjoy finds himself in the fiery blazes below. In the story for the film, this white-faced clown is accused of being too soft on mortals. He must prove that he is still evil or lose his powers forever. Killjoy will have to bring his fellow demons to the witness stand including: Batty Boop (Victoria De Mare), Punchy (Al Burke) and Freakshow (Tai Chan Ngo). Only then will he have a chance to prove he is still the most cunning demon around. See Killjoy's opening statement in the trailer below. Director: John Lechago. Cast: Victoria De Mare, Trent Haaga, David Cohen, Al Burke, Tai Chan Ngo, and Cecil Burroughs.
- 8/19/2012
- by [email protected] (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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