#james vanderbilt

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Jump Scare, a new quarterly horror zine, has launched its first issue for $5. Created by journalist Matt Cohen, it includes essays on experimental horror and nu metal horror, an interview with Scream VI writer/producer James Vanderbilt, and more. Stephanie Monohan illustrated the cover art.

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Who wants to play a game? Ready or Not Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (2019)

Blackram Hall: whodunit, murder mystery, hardboiled, noir, pulp, italian giallo, crime, thriller, spy stories, detectives and serial killers, vintage, manor houses, art, life and death.

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Scream VI (2023)

If there’s a horror franchise no one should’ve expected to continue for over 20 years, it's Scream. Every entry has found something new to say about the horror films it both pays tribute to and makes fun of while delivering visceral thrills and compelling mysteries. Scream VI, starts promisingly but winds up delivering mostly more of what we’ve seen before rather than innovating, which is a disappointment. It’s still worth seeing but isn’t essential, and when you’re this deep into a franchise, you need to be.

It’s been one year since the events of Scream V. In New York City, Sam and Tara Carpenter (Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega), along with Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown) are brought in for interrogation after a string of murders committed by someone dressed in a Ghostface costume. In no time, Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) is there reporting and everyone receives threatening phone calls from someone who wants to continue the “movie” Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman started. With everyone and their roommates (which include Tara’s roommate, played by Liana Liberato, Chad’s roommate, played by Jack Champion and Mindy’s girlfriend, played by Devyn Nekoda) threatened, are they supposed to stay close together and keep an eye on each other, or stay apart and risk being alone when the killer shows up?

The meta angle of this film is that it is not really a continuation of the Scream franchise; it’s a sequel to 2022’s Scream a.k.a. Scream 5 and a post-revival, post requel sequel. This means - in theory - that Ghostface is “the main character” in the same way Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger were in the later chapters of their series. Ghostface is now the face of the franchise. Everyone else is expendable, to be replaced with new victims in the future so we can have a steady flow of blood and gore. It also means that we’re now following Tara, Sam, Chad and Mindy - rather than legacy characters like Sidney (Neve Campbell doesn’t appear in the film) - but we still have a link to the past for old fans thanks to Gale. That’s neat, but the downside is that ultimately, it’s doing a lot of what Scream 2 was doing, because Scream 5 was “a do-over” of Scream. Aside from a scene that breaks down the rules of this movie (and one after the credits that's pretty rad), there isn’t much here that feels novel. Aside from a few scenes where characters start becoming slightly indestructible, however, it’s still a well-made whodunnit that will keep you guessing.

Once more, the film’s success comes from the characters. We’ve only met the “core four” one movie ago but already, the thought of them getting killed or grievously injured fills you with anxiety. There’s something about these young performers, their camaraderie and the way they fit in the film that makes you want to see them live. A part of us also wants to see people die, however, so we get plenty of carnage. The killings are particularly brutal and there are a good amount of laughs thrown in too. Basically, everything you want to see in a Scream movie is present. This chapter brings a couple of novel elements to the killing floor, with one attack in a grocery store being particularly effective. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a slasher movie do that trick. Then, there’s the mystery aspect, which is also satisfying. The script by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick keeps you wondering. As you think you're ready to reveal your prediction, someone bites the dust, or narrowly survives an attack (to be fair the latter doesn’t even necessarily clear them, since several of the films have featured multiple killers). The conclusion is particularly well done, even as it sometimes approaches the realm of "preposterous" because it elegantly wipes the slate clean should we get more of these.

What sort of place Scream VI has in the series will be determined by what follows. If we get a weak Scream VII, or nothing at all, the best this film can hope for is to be watched as part of a Scream marathon that's determined to go on to the end. I have some reservations about Scream VI but can already feel this story growing on me, mostly for some clever meta aspects, the core characters, for Gale, and for Roger L. Jackson as the voice of Ghostface. (June 29, 2023)

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Who are your favorite scream writers?

You know, I genuinely think all the movies were written exceptionally well for their own purposes. I mean Kevin Williamson is obviously the ideal for writing the 1st Scream, so I guess we could all agree that he deserves top tier kudos haha????? However I fell in love with 5 and 6 for many different reasons, so James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick have my top tier kudos as well 🫡

thanks for the question!! 🩶

[spookytuesdaypod]

ok credit where credit is due: ghostface is def getting more creative when it comes to getting victims on the phone in this modern age

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Scream (2022) Directed by Radio Silence - Bela Lugosi's Undead - Season 2 Premiere

We (finally) drop our episode on Scream (2022) to kick off Season 2 of Bela Lugosi's Undead. Expect new episodes every Wednesday as Alan and Ryan kick off our weekly horror club meetings. On the docket in Season 2? Skinamarink, Terrifier 2, and more.

We are back for Season 2 of Bela Lugosi’s Undead! After a bit of a hiatus, the Bela Boys are back at it with an old episode that never got a chance to release in Season 1. Scream (2022) not only surprised us both with its ingenuity, but it made for an exciting new chapter in the Woodsboro/Ghostface story. The audio was broken and seemed lost, but since we brought it back from the dead, we’re…

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SCREAM VI (2023) Now with the first full trailer!

Scream VI is a 2023 American slasher horror film and obviously, the fifth sequel in the successful franchise. The movie takes place in New York City. The Radio Silence team’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have returning to direct the slasher sequel with James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick back on board having written the screenplay. Previously, we reported that the movie’s cast expanded…

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Scream VI (2023)

"Now I see something red."

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Zodiac (2007)

Dir. David Fincher

This amazing achievement of cinema was released in theaters on this day in 2007!

In the late 1960s and 1970s, fear grips the city of San Francisco as a serial killer called Zodiac stalks its residents. Investigators (Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) and reporters (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.) become obsessed with learning the killer's identity and bringing him to justice. Meanwhile, Zodiac claims victim after victim and taunts the authorities with cryptic messages, cyphers and menacing phone calls.

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Scream VI Trailer  **Graphic**

Following the Ghostface killings of Scream V, the four survivors leave Woodsboro to start fresh in New York City. 

Scream VI stars Melissa Barrera (Sam Carpenter), Jasmin Savoy Brown (Mindy Meeks-Martin), Mason Gooding (Chad Meeks-Martin), Jenna Ortega (Tara Carpenter), Hayden Panettiere (Kirby Reed), Courteney Cox (Gale Weathers), Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Liana Liberato, Dermot Mulroney, Devyn Nekoda, Tony Revolori, Josh Segarra, and Samara Weaving. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett direct from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick.

Scream VI hits theaters on March 10, 2023.

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Russell Crowe, Rami Malek y Michael Shannon se preparan para el drama histórico de James Vanderbilt 'Nuremberg'...

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Pânico 7 precisa se reinventar sem Barrera e Ortega

🔪 Depois da saída de Jenna Ortega e Melissa Barrera, a produção de Pânico 7 busca a volta de Neve Campbell e Patrick Dempsey, de Pânico 3! Vem ver: #panico7

Depois de perder suas duas protagonistas, Pânico 7 enfrenta reinicialização criativa completa. Isso porque nesta semana, a franquia desligou da produção Melissa Barrera e Jenna Ortega, estrelas que davam vida às irmãs Tara e Sam Carpenter, respectivamente. Neste momento, a produção precisa se reinventar. Barrera e Ortega estrelaram na sequência em Pânico 5, lançado em 2022. No longa, a…

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Scream (2022)

I doubt anyone in 1996 expected the Scream franchise to become the most successful slasher series, particularly since the first had a definitive conclusion and by the third film, it sort of felt like the sequels were becoming the very material it was originally parodying. When you look at the numbers, however, it’s hard to argue otherwise. Even the weakest installment - Scream 3 - is high and above the likes of Jason Takes Manhattan, The Dream Child, or Halloween 3. For this reason, I was apprehensive at the thought of a fifth film. How many more times could a killer go after Sidney Prescott? Now, I say keep ‘em coming.

In Woodsboro, high school student Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega) is attacked by someone in a Ghostface costume. It’s only the first attack in a series. Tara's estranged older sister Samantha (Melissa Barrera) and boyfriend Richie (Jack Quaid) come to comfort her. When they realize the victims are all tied to Billy Loomis and Stu Macher’s killing spree 25 years earlier, they reach out to Dewey Riley (David Arquette), Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) for help.

While I must acknowledge that it is getting increasingly strange for the cast of familiar characters to be embroiled in yet another whodunnit with the “same” killer as before, writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick make it all seem organic. See, in the Scream universe, what happened in Woodsboro was dramatized in a series of movies (the “Stab” franchise) and they were big hits. By the time we get to this story, they’re up to Stab 8, though it’s not called Stab 8, it was just Stab because it wasn’t quite a remake, or a sequel, it was a “requel”; a newish cinematic trend that the film explains in detail thanks to Mindy Meeks-Martin and her twin brother Chad (Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding). Without giving too much away, the film weaves together the structure of a Scream movie, a commentary about “requels”, toxic fandoms, and so-called “elevated horror” together. Between all of these, there’s a lot to dig into.

If I were to highlight one element as the most interesting - besides the central mystery - it would be the fandom of the Stab franchise. See, the killer (or killers, there have been more than one several times now) is/are fans… but they’re more like fans of the events that transpired in Woosdboro back in the day IN THEORY than in practice. After all, this Ghostface has no love for Sidney Prescott, Dewey Riley or Gale Weathers. They just want to lure them to the town so they can slaughter them in ways their predecessors only dreamed of. Their murder spree is birthed from a desire to “correct” the past by repeating what happened to a greater extreme. They don’t want survivors to keep the series going. Shouldn’t a fan… like the protagonists of the story? It makes you think. Fans of the Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th series are not like fans of Jurassic Park and The Terminator. Both want the stories to continue but so often, we’re in love with the events in these movies, with the monsters, and less with the humans who just want to survive. In this story, who are we? Are we like Sydney, who just wants to return to a normal life? Or are we like Ghostface, who wants to see her put in peril once more?

2022’s Scream (whose title might be brilliant, awful, a marketing ploy, or all of the above) makes a lot of comments and observations about “requels” but it doesn’t look down upon them because in the end, it is a requel itself - a good one. Skeet Ulrich, whose character Billy Loomis is long dead, returns as a hallucination, along with Marley Shelton as now-Sheriff Judy Hicks, on top of the previously-mentioned trio of Campbell, Cox and Arquette. The film brings back locations and visuals from its predecessors. These work as homages and as efforts by the killer to “capture what made the series good in the first place” once more. The mystery is compelling because it is legitimately difficult to figure out who the killer(s) are, even when the rules of this story are spelled out by Dewey because the film knows what kind of story it is and buckles the audience’s expectations several times. The new crew of teenagers introduced are likable (maybe not as much as Sidney and her friends were, but close) and there’s just enough humor sprinkled throughout to keep you on your toes.

You’d think that by now, the Scream franchise would lose steam and degenerate into absurdity with supernatural elements, trips to space, or whatever but 2022's Scream a.k.a. Scream 5 proves there's a lot of life left in this series. (June 7, 2022)

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Murder Mystery 2 (12): Glass Onion-lite with Sandler and Aniston.

#onemannsmovies review of "Murder Mystery 2" (2023). #MurderMystery2. An undemanding #netflix comedy with a few laughs to be found. 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Murder Mystery 2” (2023). I must admit I never saw the original “Murder Mystery” from 2019: it requires a certain amount of willpower from me to sit and watch an Adam Sandler comedy. But here comes the sequel, imaginatively called “Murder Mystery 2” (even though there isn’t a mystery involving a murder!). The movie is currently streaming on Netflix. Bob the Movie…

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Scream VI (dirs. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett).

Its opening subverts audience expectations and sets a new path before needlessly upping the killing, violence, and sheer brutality of the murders. If anything, [the filmmakers] double down on the iconography and familiar elements of Scream to the point of exhaustion. Still, the sequel extends the slasher franchise's durability and formula for on-screen thrills in both new and expected ways.