#director/writer scott derrickson

[elennemigo]

With Doctor Strange 3, reportedly/allegedly/rumored being now added to Marvel's schedule...

[brokehorrorfan]

The Black Phone will be released on 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) on September 19 via Universal. The 2021 horror-thriller is based on a 2004 short story by Joe Hill.

Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Doctor Strange) directs from a script he penned with writing partner C. Robert Cargill. Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone star. Blumhouse produces.

Existing special features are included; they're detailed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer Scott Derrickson

Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone featurette

Ethan Hawke’s Evil Turn featurette

Devil in the Design featurette

Super 8 Set featurette

2 deleted scenes

Shadowprowler - 2021 short film by Scott Derrickson

Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

Pre-order The Black Phone.

[fathersonholygore]

V/H/S 85: A Gruesome Analog Trip Back to 1980s North America

V/H/S/85 (2023) Directors: David Bruckner, Scott Derrickson, Natasha Kermani, Mike P. Nelson, & Gigi Saul Guerrero Writers: C. Robert Cargill, Scott Derrickson, Zoe Cooper, Mike P. Nelson, Evan Dickson, & Gigi Saul Guerrero Starring Freddy Rodriguez, Kelli Garner, James Ransone, Jordan Belfi, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Chelsey Grant, Shelby Steel, Justen Jones, Chivonne Michelle, & Dashiell…

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V/H/S/85 (2023) Movie Review

V/H/S/85 – Movie Review Director: David Bruckner, Scott Derrickson, Natasha Kermani, Mike P Nelson, Gigi Saul Guerrero Writer: C Robert Cargill, Zoe Cooper, Scott Derrickson, Evan Dickson, Mike P Nelson, Gigi Saul Guerrero (Screenplay) Cast Kelli Garner (What Josiah Saw) Freddy Rodriguez (Planet Terror) James Ransone (It Chapter Two) Jordan Belfi (Foster Boy) Gigi Saul Guerrero (El…

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

As a supernatural horror legal drama, The Exorcism of Emily Rose must be judged in three ways. First, as an exorcism movie, then as a legal drama and finally as a film that blends the two. As it only mostly succeeds at two of these three, the film is a letdown that may still appeal to audiences interested in the premise.

Lawyer Erin Bruner (Laura Linney) is assigned to defend Father Richard Moore (Tom Wilkinson), a Catholic priest charged with negligent homicide following the attempted exorcism of 19-year-old Emily Rose (Campbell Scott). The difficult court case is made more challenging by the Church's insistence that Moore not be permitted to testify.

If you’re checking out this film, it’s probably for the titular exorcism. Unfortunately, it's the picture's weakest aspect. Director Scott Derrickson wants to keep things grounded. He and co-writer Paul Harris Boardman want everything that happens to Emily to be explainable through traditional medical terms. This means we never see anything that rivals The Exorcist, the film all exorcism movies are judged against. The frightening apparitions that plague her seem quite tame, in fact. Demonic possession is a frightening idea but this picture isn't. There are a few scenes in the present time when Erin begins suspecting that demonic forces are attempting to sabotage the court case but the flashbacks to Emily’s affliction won’t be giving anyone nightmares unless this is the first demonic possession film they’ve ever seen.

In terms of a legal thriller, the picture fares better. The story is framed in a way that makes Emily and her family’s belief that she needed an exorcism feel correct (there is some doubt, though not much) but you understand Erin’s predicament. You can’t just use the existence of demons as proof that Father Moore was doing the right thing. Seeing her put together a defense that will hold up in court without making nutty newspaper headlines is a thrill… though it once again reminded me of another, better film. It’s not going to be the one you think of. It’s Miracle on 34th Street. They both deal with a lawyer taking on a very strange case whose final verdict rests on the belief in the supernatural/divine (They call him Saint Nicholas after all). It's an unfair comparison, but if you have to choose only one, there’s no contest. You’ll always go with the 1947 black-and-white classic.

Twice now we’ve compared The Exorcism of Emily Rose to other, better films. What saves this picture from being completely derivative is that it blends two genres effectively. You know the truth. You want to see Father Moore exonerated. You’re also curious about the exorcism. You know it failed… but why? Having Erin as a neutral party stuck in the middle also makes you wonder what will happen. It’s a horror movie, so the ending is more uncertain than it would be in say… a children’s holiday classic. There’s just enough novelty in the blend of genres to keep you invested.

While you can imagine the better movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose could have been, you won't be sad to have seen it. The questions of faith, combined with the difficult-to-untangle legal case and the so-so exorcism story add up to more than the sum of its parts. Jennifer Carpenter gives a solid performance that elevates the horror flashbacks and the scenes in the present make you wonder what the real-life event was like. Even if this was all made up, it's worth seeing… the one time. (On DVD, October 24, 2021)

[swashbuckler5e]

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a 2022 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to Doctor Strange (2016) and the 28th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Sam Raimi, written by Michael Waldron, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Jochitel Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Rachel McAdams. In the film, Stephen Strange and Wong (Wong) must protect America Chavez (Gomez), a teenager capable of multiverse travel, from Wanda Maximoff (Olsen) who has transformed into the evil Scarlet Witch. Doctor Strange director and co-writer Scott Derrickson planned to produce a sequel by October 2016. He signed on to return as director in December 2018, when Cumberbatch was confirmed to return. The film's title was announced with Olsen's involvement in July 2019, while Jade Haley Bartlett was hired to write the film in October. Derrickson stepped down as director in January 2020, citing creative differences. Waldron and Raimi joined the following month and started over, adding elements of the horror genre Raimi had previously worked with and making Wanda the film's villain, continuing her story from the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision (2021). Filming began in London in November 2020 but was postponed to January 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Production resumes by March 2021 and ends in Somerset in mid-April. Shooting also took place in Surrey and Los Angeles. With a production budget of $294.5 million, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is one of the most expensive films ever made. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness premiered on May 2, 2022 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and was released in the United States on May 6 as part of the fourth installment of the MCU. The film grossed $955.8 million worldwide, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2022.

[moaninmoonen]

Sinister 2 (2015) = 4.1/5

Plot …………. 4.5

Acting ……… 4

Production… 4.5

Concept ..….. 3.5

“A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death...“

Director:

Ciarán Foy

Writers:

Scott Derrickson

C. Robert Cargill

Stars:

James Ransone

Shannyn Sossamon

Robert Daniel Sloan

Dartanian Sloan

IMDb

*spoilers...*

[sbaldy20]

Entry 1 (Description)

The 2000s, especially the 2010s, were great years for supernatural/paranormal horror films. Supernatural horror is a sub-genre of horror that is centered around the involvement paranormal/supernatural occurrences. This commonly includes ghosts, demons, spirits, etc; oftentimes having characters becoming possessed by the supernatural. It is not a requirement for films in this genre to involve religion, but many do. It is also worth noting that many viewers of this sub-genre of horror find movies that are either true stories or based on true stories to be scarier. This is largely due to the psychological factor of knowing that what they are watching occured in real life, and could potentially even happen to the viewer. One such movie that falls into this genre, is based on a true story, and is one of the most popular movies of the 2010s for this sub-genre of horror is The Conjuring. Released in 2013, this movie follows a family as they move into their new home and are quickly met with resistance from demonic spirits that are present due to murders that occurred at the house in the past. Demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren help free the family by performing an exorcism on the mother, who has become possessed. This is not only a key movie for this sub-genre, but it was also directed by one of the most well-known/respected directors for this sub-genre of horror in the 2010s. That director's name would be James Wan. He is responsible for co-creating the Conjuring franchise and the Insidious franchise, both of which are extremely popular and successful supernatural horror franchises. He also co-created the Saw movies, which are wildly popular, although don't fall into the sub-genre of paranormal horror. Another well-known director in this sub-genre is Scott Derrickson. One of his more popular movies is titled "Sinister" and that is personally one of my favorite horror movies. It involves an evil entity possessing the youngest child of every family that moves into a particular home to murder their entire family and film it. Yes, I know, it is very dark stuff, but the plot of Sinister and Sinister 2 are both phenomenal in my opinion. Derrickson also has directed successful horror movies such as The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Deliver Us From the Devil. Another movie from this sub-genre that had a lot of success is "It" which follows Pennywise the clown. What's interesting about this 2017 film is that it is based off of a novel written by the "father of horror" Stephen King. It is interesting to see the connection between book and movie. While doing my research on this topic, I also noticed that a lot of movies that fall into the sub-genre include Oujia boards. This makes sense because Oujia boards are centered around spirits and other paranormal activity, it was just interesting to me to see how directors and screenwriters incorporated Oujia boards/other supernatural "games"/items into their movies. Another common theme that many movies involve are exorcisms. Many movies even have this buzzword in the title of their films. Again, this all adds up because an exorcism involves removing an evil spirit from someone. One final movie that I wanted to highlight for this sub-genre of horror is a movie that we have already covered in class, The Witch. When I selected this topic to cover for my blog, I immediately made the connection that The Witch could fall into this category, and was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was one of the most successful paranormal movies of the 2010s. I personally enjoyed the movie a lot, especially the ending, and I can definitely see how it fall into this category, especially regarding the character Black Philip and the presence of witches. I chose this topic because I am a big fan of supernatural/paranormal horror movies, and I am excited to dive deeper into the topic over the next couple of weeks!

Sources:

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Co-writer and director Scott Derrickson directs Tom Wilkinson and Jennifer Carpenter in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005). Scott was born in Denver and has ten director credits from a 1995 short to 2021. His other notable credit is Doctor Strange.

[mianmimi]

Take this with a healthy dose of skepticism. It's just the word of a random scooper on twitter. But apparently DS2 has been fast track and Scott Derrickson will come back! Mashallah! I don't know if he will come back as a director, I'd like to see him as the writer and main producer and have someone else direct, but as long as Raimi and Waldron are as far away as humanly possible from the DS IP I am okay with it.

I would take nearly anyone besides Waldron as a writer. What he did was so insulting in many ways. Talk about butchering characters and spitting on the foundation given to you. *heavy sigh* On the other hand…..omg I would love for those rumors of Scott Derrickson coming back to be true! Especially with all the concept art that was released for his initial vision for DS2.

I can’t help but hope dear Nonny. I’m hopelessly hopeful 🥲🥰

[the-desolated-quill]

The hell does doctor yellow face mean

Oh boy. Okay. Sit down. This may take a while.

So, Doctor Strange was created by Steve Ditko in the 60s. It was trippy, psychedelic, and philosophical. It was also unbelievably fucking racist. Asian stereotyping, white saviour nonsense, slanty eyes, the works. It’s really quite appalling.

Fast forward to 2014. You’re a Marvel exec looking to expand your multi-million dollar omnishambles of a shared universe, and you think to yourself ‘hey, why not adapt Doctor Strange?’ There’s just one problem. The racism. What are you to do? Well obviously you hire writers and filmmakers from an Asian background who are willing to put in the time and effort to carefully iron out the racist elements and create a version of Doctor Strange that’s much more politically correct and respectful toward… NAH! I’M JUST MESSING WITH YOU! THEY WHITEWASH THE SHIT OUT OF IT!

So that’s what happened. They hired horror director Scott Derrickson to make the film (he made that film Sinister. Do you remember Sinister? Don’t worry. Nobody does) and C. Robert Cargill to write the script (he wrote Prometheus. Need I say more?). They cast Benedryl Cucumberflaps to play Strange, but don’t worry. He’s not going to be a white saviour. It’s hard to be a white saviour when everyone else is white too.

So all the Asian parts are given to distinctly non-Asian people. Baron Mordo is played by Chiwetel Ejiofor (he’ll be your token black guy for this evening), Tilda Swinton plays the Ancient One in order to provide us with that much needed Celtic representation we’ve all been crying out for (I’m not joking. That’s actually the reason they give), and the villain Kaecilius is played by Mads Mikkelson, who presumably needed the money after Hannibal got cancelled. Oh but Strange’s manservant Wong was kept Asian, so that’s nice. I bet Asian audiences really appreciated that.

They then proceeded to strip any and all Asian influences out of the film. They moved the characters from Tibet to Nepal in order to appease the Chinese market, even though Deadpool was released the same year and was the highest grossing R rated film at the time despite not being released in China, there’s no mention of Buddhism or anything like that, and the Ancient One’s monastery becomes more like a discount Hogwarts.

Oh and just to add insult to injury, in the sequel we have Scarlet Witch, a whitewashed Romani Jew, and American Chavez, a character who was dark skinned and gay until Marvel got their claws on her and made her light-skinned and not. Plus we then get ‘gothic influences’ despite the fact that Strange has never at any point been gothic and the fact that goth is, you guessed it, not Asian.

The MCU’s Doctor Strange is a plethora of racist bullshit. It’s white people in Asian fancy dress. It’s Cultural Appropriation: The Movie. They took a comic book that was already pretty racist and effectively made it even more racist.

And that is why I call it Doctor Yellowface. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 😇

[brokehorrorfan]

The Black Phone will be released on Digital on August 12 and on Blu-ray and DVD on August 16 via Universal. Produced by Blumhouse, the 2021 horror-thriller is currently available on VOD.

Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Doctor Strange) directs from a script he co-wrote with writing partner C. Robert Cargill, based on the 2004 short story by Joe Hill. Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone star.

Unfortunately no 4K Ultra HD release is planned, but at least we get some good special features. They’re listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer Scott Derrickson

Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone featurette

Ethan Hawke’s Evil Turn featurette

Devil in the Design featurette

Super 8 Set featurette

2 deleted scenes

Shadowprowler - 2021 short film by Scott Derrickson

Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

Pre-order The Black Phone.

[tinyreviews]

Word is, original writer has pitched a “wonderful idea” for a sequel to the writer-director. I am stoked for it! MUST WATCH!

The Black Phone is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, who both produced with Jason Blum. It is an adaptation of the 2004 short story of the same name by Joe Hill. The film stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, James Ransone, and Ethan Hawke.

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

I think Wanda originally was going to have a much different part in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Like, she was still going to be in the movie when Scott Derrickson was still signed on as director and C. Robert Cargill was the writer. She was revealed at the same time the movie was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, with Elizabeth Olsen coming on stage alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Scott Derrickson.

I think in Derrickson's version of the movie, Nightmare was going to be the villain and they were going to do more with that post-credits scene of Mordo starting his crusade to rid the world of sorcerers, with Wanda having a "Natasha in Captain America: The Winter Soldier"-sized role.

Ultimately, Wanda being the villain was a change that happened when Derrickson and Cargill dropped out and Sam Raimi and Michael Waldron came in to take their place and rewrote the script entirely over the summer of 2020. I mean, Olsen herself didn't even know what her role was in this movie until she was nearly done with shooting WandaVision (and she was surprised that she was going be the main villain); before that she only knew she'd be in it in some capacity, and probably expected that she'd be a supporting protagonist given the events of WandaVision.

According to this thread (I don't know if it's accurate or not) Wanda was supposed to kill Mordo at the beginning of MoM. Some fans claim that scene was leaked and so they ended up changing it for the movie but who knows.

The more I think about it the more I want Derrickson to go on record with the story he had in mind because I'm convinced it would have worked a million times better than what we got. It must have been a trip for Lizzie as well going from "you're in a series that addresses Wanda's grief and in the end she accepts her loses" to "you're a full on villain and you murder innocents with a smile on your face" 😲🤦

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

People are already panicking about the new show when we don't even have a full writers' room yet. Who's to say we won't get some of the same writers who worked on the original show? I mean Echo has writers from both DD and Punisher working on it so I'm hoping the new show gets the same

People panicking over literally anything is not new. Best to just ignore the groaning until we get more information about the show. Based on what I've read, all we know is that there are two confirmed writers. We don't even know if they'll be the showrunners. So right now, it feels like worrying over nothing.

"Oh, but the writers don't have a good track record!" Well, first of all, they made "Covert Affairs", which was a pretty decent show. Second, if we're judging people based on their previous work:

Doug Petrie, one of Daredevil season 2's showrunners, wrote the 2005 Fantastic Four movie and Harriet the Spy.

David Callaham, one of Shang-Chi's writers, wrote the 2005 Doom movie, two Expendables movies, Wonder Woman 1984, and the Mortal Kombat reboot.

Scott Derrickson, the director of the first Doctor Strange movie, also directed the 2008 Day the Earth Stood Still movie, Deliver Us From Evil, and wrote Sinister 2.

I'm just saying, every writer/director has a dud in their credits that it's pointless to already write off the reboot based on what they've written in the past and without knowing what the full team will look like.

Side note, it feels like people are also forgetting that Daredevil kept switching showrunners each season.

[greatghuleh]

and also basically, this is just another example that MCU is not this planned out masterpiece. 

as everything I’ve been able to kind of understand and piece together.  MoM was kind of stitched together “last minute”. 

as it wasn’t meant to basically be an unhinged Scarlet Witch movie. 

It was, again from everything I can gather, meant to be a more Doctor Strange centric movie with Nightmare as the villain.  but things changed after development began with a creative helmed by Scott Derrickson (the director of the first Doctor Strange movie and a HUGE Doctor Strange fan himself).   He suddenly left the sequel, him and marvel saying “Creative Differences”

and with some other info from some artists it seems the entire direction of the movie had shifted.  and new writers (Waldron *sigh*) and director were grabbed up quick to fill the roles. 

I think getting Raimi and that Cumberbatch himself being very hands on with the character are the only reasons MoM is as good as it is in general, and especially for Strange.  even though its still a bit of a mess.