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Omg wait no talk to me more about horror that’s so cool how dare you hide that all in the tags

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Horror has literally been my special interest for over 5 years now. It's my biggest percentage in both dvds and books and Halloween brings me the most joy of all the holidays or annual celebrations.

Like. I have fixated so much on this genre. I love all of it so much. I love the old Alfred Hitchcock movies I've seen. Funnily enough I watched the Birds before Psycho, but I did see the original Psycho in theatres thanks to a showing they were doing for its anniversary close to two years ago. (Though I'll never watch it again thanks to something that happened after seeing it.)

I love 80s movies like halloween and slashers like that. I've only seen the first sleep away camp but that was my second thought when you sent the ask before this. Because that movie is filled with those sorts of outfits.

I hate Friday the 13th because it's boring. But I love Halloween because it's also boring.

CHUCKY IS THE BEST FRANCHISE. I love that little shit and his mini empire filled with returning cast and writers and directors and prop teams, puppeteers, special effects departments. I love the families that have grown with the series. I love queer horror. Full, unabashed, campy queer horror. And that's what he turns into. And now we have the dramatic horror with teen angst and Devon Sawa's presence every season. I'm so??? AAAAA.

And then you have one off movies, like trick r Treat and Killer Klowns!! Trick r Treat has such a soft spot in my heart and I love Sam as a character. I love the intertwined stories with him at the center of all of them. I LOVE KILLER KLOWNS. It's so bad it's good! And the intro is amazing!

I love modern gore horror! I love terrifier and Saw and I love gore for the sake of gore! I love practical effects! I love watching Art the Clown torture somebody just because he finds it funny. I love the hypocrisy of John Kramer and his devoted disciples, each with their own reasoning for following in his footsteps.

I love modern horror by Jordan Peele! Every horror movie he's made has been in my favourite movies from the year I watched it in. I loved nope last year. I loved get out and us. I love every inch of detail.

I LOVE SHAUN OF THE DEAD AND PARODIES. They're always so much fun!

I love office horror. With the belko experiment and mayhem. They were both fun watches!

I LOVE EXPERIMENTAL HORROR LIKE SKINAMARINK!!!! God I loved that movie so much. It made me genuinely uncomfortable.

I love easy going horror. I love horror comedy. I love how broad horror is. I love every subgenre of horror.

Now I'm just waxing poetic about horror movies but yeah. I could probably easily give over 50 horror movie recommendations and I'd be holding back.

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Wild America (1997)

Wild America is a film without a purpose. It tells a story no one wanted to see. Based on true events, it opens in 1967 and tells the story of Marshall Stouffer (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) and his brothers Mark (Devon Sawa) and Marty (Scott Bairstow) who would eventually become great nature documentarians.

This is one of the worst family movies I've seen in a long time. I won’t pretend to know what happened behind the scenes or what the film's pitch was like but the goal had to be something like this: Wild America is a nature documentary show that played on PBS from 1982 to 1994. It was insanely popular. Now let's tell everyone what inspired the prolific documentarians. The brand recognition combined with the popular teen actors should equal a license to print money... in this case, a lot of $3 bills.

No aspect of this film is convincing. The comedic and adventurous tone means everyone in the film is a cartoon. I doubt the Stouffer's first wilderness trip included nearly getting blown up while in the middle of a military weapons testing ground or nearly getting eaten while discovering a mythical cave filled with bears. The tone and characters' actions are all over the place and several developments will leave you utterly bewildered.

You would think that because the title is Wild America and it’s telling us how the Stouffer brothers began as filmmakers that this picture would focus on nature and wildlife. Instead, the attention is given to wild antics. It isn't interested in the majesty of the flora and fauna of North America, nearly as much as people getting attacked by moose and loudly screaming while holding onto their antlers for dear life.

You won't be able to stand anyone in the film. The three heroes are bland and immature. Their only redeeming quality is their inexplicable luck when it comes to accidentally capturing footage of animals. Their father (Jamey Sheridan) is a jerk who deliberately attempts to crush their dreams like an empty can of cheap beer. We get some one-dimensional bullies thrown in for kicks. Everyone else is a comedic sketch or bizarrely out of place. Bet you'd never expect a group of nude hippies or a lady Two-Face in here but just wait. With a lame-brained story that consists of the boys falling into one situation where they get an awesome shot of animals after another and then a cheesy plot about father/son bonding, its only hope is decent cinematography and animal footage. Instead, how about some awful special effects? It’s easy to tell the animatronic animal heads (and there are many) from the real deal and several prolonged shots of what is clearly a man in a phony bear costume pretending to be roaring while stock sounds play gave me flashbacks to Meet the Spartans. I would've been laughing if the barrage of anti-comedy hadn’t sucked every last chuckle out of my body.

It’s an adventure movie that’s badly written and populated with characters you dislike, it's predictable, cheap, and even includes a couple of bad performances to round it off nicely. As the end credits began to roll, I had a glimpse of hope. Next to the list of sinners who partook in this effort is actual footage shot for the Wild America TV series. I was excited... until I realized I was watching a Full-screen VHS. To allow the image to fit, everything is squashed. Now the credits are illegible and the wildlife footage is but a ghost of what it must've looked like in real life. Aside from a couple of shots where the mountains, forests, and rivers look good, there's nothing to like about Wild America. (Full-screen version on VHS, April 30, 2015)

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1999 Was The Pinnacle For The Dark Teen Comedy. Then It Disappeared.

As the Halloween dance rages — a gymnasium of high schoolers in cheap costumes bouncing around to the sounds of The Offspring — one teen arrives with murder on the brain. Anton (Devon Sawa) cuts through the crowd, vaults onstage and waves the bleeding stump of his arm at his schoolmates.

“Everybody go home! There’s a psycho killer here!” he shouts, as annoyed kids laugh and pelt him with garbage. “I cut off my hand, and it’s going to kill you all!” The lead singer wrestles the mic away from Anton and tries to restart the show, but he can’t: The possessed, bodiless hand has dropped onto his head and ripped off his scalp.

This is the climax of “Idle Hands,” a horror-comedy about a happy-go-lucky stoner too baked to realize that his hand has been possessed by a demon until well into his appendage’s murder spree. By this point in the movie, his hand has brutally killed his parents and his two best friends, who are resurrected as wisecracking zombies. He finally cut his hand off, only to realize that this wouldn’t put an end to the rampage. Once the lead singer of The Offspring has been summarily dispatched, a bloody night at the once-idyllic high school begins. The ensuing mayhem, all peppered with jokes, leaves students dead or horribly maimed.

“Idle Hands” opened in U.S. theaters on April 30, 1999. Ten days earlier, two seniors had entered Columbine High School in Colorado, each bearing two guns, and murdered 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves. For critics, film executives and American society at large, the unhappy coincidence forced the question: Was the movie not just bad, but wrong?

“If timing is everything, then the recent carnage at Columbine High School indicates that now could scarcely be less opportune for the opening of ‘Idle Hands,’” wrote Lawrence Van Gelder in The New York Times. The Hartford Courant’s Malcolm Johnson was blunter: His review appeared under the blaring headline “WHY WAS THIS MOVIE EVEN MADE?”  

Columbia Pictures executives met prior to the release to discuss “whether it might be prudent to move the release date of ‘Idle Hands,’ for fear of offending the public’s still-raw sensibilities,” according to CNN. Instead, they issued a statement insisting that the film bore “no resemblance to that tragedy.” The movie opened on schedule.

Even the framing of that question — the concept that moving the release date back a few weeks could sufficiently remove the specter of real-life mass murder from the public’s mind to protect the film’s reception — seems painfully quaint in 2019, when the threat of mass shootings is unrelenting.

But back then, “Idle Hands” was not an outlier.

1999 saw several other teen comedies revolving around gruesome violence in and around schools, like “Drop Dead Gorgeous.” In August, the release of “Teaching Mrs. Tingle” (pre-Columbine title: “Killing Mrs. Tingle”) still faced a raw, grieving public. “Jawbreaker,” a “Heathers” retread about a trio of popular teen girls who accidentally kill their best friend by gagging her with a jawbreaker during a playful birthday “kidnapping,” narrowly avoided direct comparison to Columbine by hitting theaters two months before the massacre, in February. (Reviews were nonetheless unkind.) And then there were the edgy 1999 comedies for teens that didn’t feature explicit gore, like “Election” and “But I’m a Cheerleader.”

What made 1999 the year of the dark teen comedy? And why has the genre nearly disappeared from theaters in the ensuing two decades?

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Noah Centineo, Shameless Heartthrob

My date with the best thirst architect the internet’s ever seen.

Now, I put my hand here,” Noah Centineo instructs as he slides his hand in the back pocket of my jeans. “And then we walk a little, like this.” He leads me around the Coney Island Aquarium like that: hip to hip, smiling at each other, his hand, to reiterate, in the back pocket of my jeans. I’ve just shamelessly asked him to re-create his signature move from Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, an adaptation of Jenny Han’s YA novel, in which he plays Peter Kavinsky, the high-school jock at the center of the film’s romantic plotline. I watched the movie and mentally flagged this scene — where he’s trying to convince a cafeteria full of students he’s dating the protagonist, Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor) — as the one that made me wonder, Who is that guy? It’s a moment that belongs in a clip reel of classic, chemistry-laden movie moments, and I, a journalist, wondered if it could inspire the same feelings when executed in real life.

Centineo tells me how he totally improvised the move during filming. It was a thing he used to do with his ex-girlfriend. They’d be walking around, like we are now, and he’d realized he could sort of dance her around by the pocket and turn her, “just like this,” and boom, propelled by just a tug on my pocket, I’m suddenly facing him. We’re pelvis to pelvis. He’s smiling, comfortably, and I’m confronted with his hazel eyes, the scent of clean laundry, and pure pheromones. I sort of squeal, I think? Who can say, because I definitely black out for a second.

If I seem thirsty, well, isn’t that the point? At 22, Centineo is the most effective, addictive sort of heartthrob: the kind who absolutely loves being one, the kind who does everything in his power to make us thirst harder than we’ve ever thirsted before — and, yeah, it works. When the movie came out in August, Noah Centineo was immediately, breathlessly given the title of Internet’s Boyfriend. Now, with his second Netflix rom-com, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, in which he plays yet another lovable, evolved jock, Centineo has graduated to full-on cultural obsession.

In less than a month his Instagram followers went from just under 800,000 to 9.5 million. In the movie, his character drives crosstown to buy his love interest her favorite Korean yogurt drinks — and no joke — Yakult stock has been going up. This man’s floppy hair is actually driving the market. He’s been stalked by fans and now employs an omnipresent security guard named Dave. He’s been the subject of a leaked nude scandal (“I understand why you have to ask that question,” he demurred when I asked him about a certain video that’s been making the rounds. “I just hope you understand why I’m not gonna answer it.”). His Twitter mentions are an anthology of fantasies — some chaste and some really not — written by women of all ages. “Tell them all to hit my line,” he says with a laugh.

We decide to tour the aquarium, where I’m idly waiting for him in the lobby when he walks in shirtless. Shirtless. Without a shirt. Holding his black T-shirt in his hand, instead of wearing it on his torso, which I can see right now. With my eyes. He has a real reason. He’s just been outside, taking pictures on a boardwalk in nearly 100-degree weather. But even with a rational explanation as to why he has no shirt on, the entrance is so on the nose it’s almost ridiculous: a smoking-hot leading man, walking into a room sweaty and half-naked. It’s like there should be a slowed-down frame rate, a treacly indie-pop song playing, a zoom-in of my pupils turning into those hunga hunga hearts. He hands his ticket to the woman at the front desk and apologizes, for some reason, for his bare chest. She makes him put his shirt back on, and greets me with a smile so huge, I can assure you he has zero cavities.

Even offscreen, Centineo, I observe immediately, has that whole thing. It wasn’t just good directing or the right song cued at the right moment that created the effect. He has all the qualities deemed necessary by early-in-life fans of Teen Bop and Devon Sawa at the end of Casper: white sneakers (Vans, of course), an easy charm, and a tendency to play it fast and loose with knowing, meaningful eye contact that says “I see you.” He knows the right way to lean against a wall, how to twirl a specific clump of hair so it slouches over one eye. He’s even got an imperfection you can moon over: this tiny scar on his chin from where his dog tried to rip his face off when he was a kid. When he greets me with a hug, it’s the kind of genuine, intentional, full-body contact that makes me feel like he’d write me a letter every day and build me a house.

“I’ve always played the love interest,” Centineo says. “I’ve trained for it for a while. These roles are just molds I can pour myself into.” He grew up in Miami, with a few years’ interlude in Park City, which he hated because he never felt like he fit in. He started acting as a preteen when he attended a general casting call sort of on a lark, but he enjoyed it so much he eventually dropped out of his Boca Raton high school sophomore year and moved to Los Angeles with his mom to pursue it full-time. Since then Centineo’s been playing graduating levels of “crush”: first on a tween-friendly Disney show Austin & Ally, then on a teen-friendly Freeform show, The Fosters, and now for admiring audiences of all ages on Netflix rom-coms (To All the Boys, Sierra Burgess, and one deep cut for the algorithm-determined real fans, SPF 18.)

“I like this rowboat. Do you want to sit in this rowboat,” he asks, upon discovering a fake rowboat stuck in the corner of an exhibition about ponds. (Fake rowboat, a move.) Ever the leading man, he gets in first to steady the fake boat, and helps me in. Then, he directs yet another adorable moment for us, and starts rocking the boat back and forth, like we’re on a real pond, laughing this huge, full-throated laugh like the only thing he’s ever wanted to do was crouch in a plastic rowboat with me. And even though we both know the answer to the question, I ask, “Why do you think everyone is going nuts over you right now?”

“People love love,” he says, and begins to explain how both of his recent movies “empower” people. “I think these are just great examples of feel-good films, how could you not like something that makes you feel good?”

He stops talking and looks at me, a little concerned. “If you’re still warm, we should move,” he suggests, perhaps noticing the sweat pouring from my forehead and rolling down to my chin. It’s such a hot day, even the AC inside has given up. “I just want you to feel comfortable,” he says thoughtfully, adding, “Don’t worry, I also sweat like a motherfucker.”

It’s now his mission to find the coolest spot in the aquarium. He leads me down some stairs, back up the same stairs once he realizes they lead to a bathroom. We go around all the exhibits, while he looks up at the ceiling, in the corners, searching for an air vent, determined to find the perfect spot to get the full blast. We finally do. “Can you feel it?” he asks, one last time, before he seems satisfied, parked in front of a manmade reef. It’s a specific sort of gallantry I recognize from his roles, the ones he describes as manly and masculine, but also “sensitive, emotionally intelligent, loving, nurturing, and protective.”

“That’s just what a great man is in life and in general,” he shrugs. In his two most well-known parts (both of which occurred in the past month) he plays an updated version of a familiar type of crush. In To All the Boys, a lacrosse player who loves Fight Club but drinks kombucha and falls for the film’s Korean-American protagonist. In the other, Sierra Burgess, a quarterback who thinks the cheerleader is way hot, but instead falls for the brainy girl who catfishes him. In both, he displays a preference for the unexpected love interest. In both, he drives a Jeep Wrangler, the preeminent car of teen crushes. He’s not the mysterious, brooding type à la Robert Pattinson in Twilight, he doesn’t have the cold, intellectual appeal of Timothée Chalamet’s character in Lady Bird. He’s not pure Zac Efron dumb-hot-frat boy or even the misunderstood, sexually experienced bad boy like the ones Adam Driver plays. What Centineo does well — and what nobody has really done with such conviction since Freddie Prinze Jr. — is play a simple, suburban-mall kind of crush with Stanislavski dedication. That’s it. He’s just fully nice and hot at a time that feels like “nice and hot” is a rare resource. He’s a throwback to a more classic sort of wish fulfillment.

In fact, Centineo can see a whole career based around this: being good at love. He imagines all the potential types of roles he can explore: romantic dramas, other types of rom-coms, action romantic comedies, edgier, more toxic and dangerous types of love. “There’s so many degrees to love. I think I have a lot more to offer the space,” he says. He’s got a few projects lined up already, most notably a movie coming out in 2019 called The Stand-In. He plays a post-grad who launches a start-up, which requires him to loan himself out as a fake boyfriend.

“Whoa whoa! That motherfucker just came through so quick! He ran up on us with his boy.”

Centineo jumps back and marvels at some large fish that just came swimming right at his head. He makes a kissy-fish face back at the fish. What a lovely time we’re having. Looking at fish! Then he points to a placard and carefully reads out the description for Slippery Dick, a type of fish native to this particular tank, and chuckles. Then I read one about the French Grunt. I have no idea what’s going on. I point to a particularly fascinating fish, and he leans in to see, angling his head so his hair brushes my hand. Our arms accidentally touch.

“How’d you get so good at flirting,” I’m compelled to ask.

“Am I flirting?” he laughs and leans and looks down at the floor. “I don’t know — I’m fucking so romantic. Like, such a romantic — it’s not even funny. I can’t help it. I swear to God, like, every day, the majority of my day is sentimental. You know, I’m thinking about past relationships I’ve been in, how I miss them so much or what I would do different, or why I wanna be with them again, or just moments I’d like to go back to or I know why I shouldn’t go back, and then you know, it’s just constantly love, love, love.”

He’s a Taurus, ruled by Venus, he offers by way of explanation. “That means a couple things: one, like I need a lot of nurturing, and two, Venus is love, I’m ruled by love.” His favorite movie is Gaspar Noe’s Love, his favorite feeling is being in love (which he has been, twice). I bet if you could cook Love and serve it over pasta, it would be his favorite meal. He lives, breathes, and expels love. His Instagram is a steady stream of soul-baring, puppy-dog-eyed selfies — “I’m pretty vain,” he jokes. His Twitter alternates between sort of yoga studio platitudes and vague flirtations like “Fuck…you’re so cute,” or, more in line with my personal interests, “THE BLACKER THE BERRY.”The messages are to nobody specific, he says — he’s single right now — they could be to somebody he just met, or he met before, or he saw across the room, or just to everybody.

Dating is going to be hard for him from now on, he suspects, even though he really doesn’t want to change how he pursues someone he likes (open-heartedly, passionately, purely) but he’s started worrying about the reasons people want to date him. Is it just because he’s more famous now? Do they just want to date Peter Kavinksy? But are Kavinsky and Centineo really so different?  “I’m definitely not as innocent—” he says, with a gaze, because why say anything if you aren’t going to commit.

Centineo continues to list the differences, both philosophical and material: He’s more apt to jump out of a plane or just sit in nature than his characters. He doesn’t live in the suburbs, he lives in Los Angeles with his older sister and her boyfriend. He likes yoga and martial arts. He parties with friends. He starts every day at 6 a.m. with oatmeal, the recipe for which he begins detail, slowly: “I do Irish steel-cut oats, I do almond butter, coconut butter uh, coconut oil, honey, uh, chopped bananas, and, and, uh, like, hemp granola,” and I’m struck with this familiar feeling of being completely entranced by a man saying absolutely nothing interesting to me, which, oh right, yes, is infatuation.

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Welcome to the Dollhouse: Inside the Chucky TV Series

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After seven films and an ill-advised reboot, Chucky is set to deploy a new torrent of neighborhood carnage. The killer doll has gone through several reinventions over the years, but  now that he’s back in the hands of original creator Don Mancini, he’ll find yet another unsuspecting family to terrorize in his very own TV series.

Chucky has certainly navigated a wild path to the small screen. The Child’s Play franchise started out playing the character straight by charting his efforts to get his murderous psychological hooks into innocent little Andy Barclay, but films one through three were also embracing a slasher genre that appeared to be on its last legs. 

Even Mancini thought he may have reached the end of the road with 1991’s Child’s Play 3, but when the horror game changed with Wes Craven’s meta movie Scream in the late-‘90s, Mancini suddenly found a way to bring Chucky back from the dead.

“That was really inspiring to me,” Mancini says. “We were able to reinvent the franchise with Bride of Chucky as a horror-comedy and embrace the absurdist particulars that are really endemic to the material. Rather than try to keep denying it, we thought, ‘what if we embrace that and acknowledge it and use it as part of the fun?’”

After Bride of Chucky came Seed of Chucky, which Mancini used to brand the horror franchise as LGBTQ-inclusive. “I wanted to find new stories to tell and new ways to make it interesting for myself as a writer and then eventually director, but also for the audience.”

Mancini then took some time to consider where the flame-haired horror icon might fit into the zeitgeist going forwards. 

“With Curse of Chucky, we decided to bring it back to a more traditionally straightforward Gothic horror movie, and that was also successful,” he explains. “It showed me that continual reinvention is a good way to keep a character and a franchise alive.”

Discovering fresh ways for Chucky to manipulate any new owners could be seen as quite the challenge after over three decades of slashing, slicing, and dicing, but the doll that contains the soul of maniacal serial killer Charles Lee Ray will use his TV series to start a conversation about bullying that will advance the franchise’s exploration of LGBTQ issues: the show’s protagonist is a gay teen called Jake Wheeler, who is struggling with his sexuality. 

“The culture of bullying that exists in recent years among today’s youth is in itself a true life horror story,” Mancini says. “We use Chucky as a metaphor, as the ultimate bully. He is charming and he’s funny. Bullies can appear to us in that guise and be seductive. That’s one of the things we’re doing in the TV series that’s brand new.”

Chucky will see an entire town thrown into chaos after the cursed doll turns up at a yard sale and sets out to commit a series of horrifying murders, exposing deep hypocrisies and hidden secrets. Old friends and foes from Chucky’s past also return and threaten to reveal the truth behind his mysterious origins. But while Chucky will bring back familiar Child’s Play franchise stalwarts like Jennifer Tilly, Alex Vincent, Fiona Dourif, and her father Brad, there are some new faces in the mix, including Final Destination and Idle Hands star Devon Sawa. 

Mancini says he’s always been a big fan of the actor, and that Sawa was such an instant hit with the established Chucky family that we’ll likely see him pop again in the future. “One of our habits that we’ve developed over the course of the films is adding to our family, and finding ways to keep them around. I would certainly like to do that with Devon.”

Mancini also reveals that the series has allowed him to take the brakes off in a way that he wasn’t able to with the films. Having eight hours of storytelling real estate to play with has given him an opportunity to delve into the serial killer’s disturbing backstory – one that core fans have been patiently awaiting for decades. Although Charles Lee Ray’s origins have been explored before in Matthew Costello’s problematic Child’s Play 2 novelization, Mancini reassures us that they’ve gone in a different direction with Chucky.

“Fans have been asking a lot of questions about Chucky’s origins ever since he first appeared in ’88,” Mancini teases. “How did he become a killer in the first place? How did he come to dabble in voodoo? I think people will find all of that stuff really interesting.”

Those same fans might be wondering about an elephant in the room: the 2019 Child’s Play reboot movie, where Mark Hamill was brought in to voice Chucky and Mancini was essentially pushed out of the conversation. At one point, he was concerned that the reboot would take hold and that there might end up being two Chucky franchises running at the same time, so when plans to make another movie with the rebooted cast and crew fell apart, Mancini found working on the new series cathartic and validating.

“I never bore any kind of ire toward the filmmakers themselves because I know that they were doing their jobs and it was an exciting opportunity to get a toehold in the industry with a franchise character,” Mancini says. “I get that. But at the same time, I’m relieved how it all worked out.”

In the last decade Mancini has fielded writing jobs on the likes of Hannibal and Channel Zero and he still has irons in the fire when it comes to non-Chucky-related projects, but he says he’s embraced his prolific role in the horror genre regardless.

“When you’re an actor, you can get pigeonholed. That happens with writer-directors too. It can be challenging, but at the same time I’m grateful for it. The older I get, the more I realize it’s good to have a niche. I’m honestly really thrilled that I still get to do this after thirty-odd years.”

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Chucky will premiere on Syfy and the USA Network on October 12.

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Devon Sawa Interview: The Fanatic | Screen Rant

When John Travolta texted him regarding his new film, The Fanatic, Devon Sawa knew he would stop at nothing to get the second lead role in the Fred Durst-directed thriller. Sawa stars as Hunter Dunbar, a movie star on the edge of sanity with a wide variety of stresses in his life. Meanwhile, Travolta plays Moose, a mentally unstable megafan who idolizes the Hollywood icons he sees on the big screen. Naturally, these two men find themselves on a crash course with one another.

Fred Durst is best known as the frontman for Limp Bizkit, but he's also an accomplished film director, and The Fanatic is his latest and greatest work, combining black comedy, psychological terror, and passionate empathy to create a truly unique work of art.

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While promoting the film, actor Devon Sawa spoke with Screen Rant about his work on the film and his friendship with his co-star, John Travolta. He also discusses how he still gets starstruck from time to time, and how director Fred Durst brought Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' energy to the set.

This movie is so deliciously uncomfortable. It's my kind of movie!

Good. That's it, that's what we we went for! I'm glad you said that, because that ending, the climax scene, is what we want. We should be thinking somewhere between uncomfortable and confused. So that's good!

I want to talk about it without spoiling it for the Screen Rant reader, but was that ending part of what made you sign on to The Fanatic? What was the process of getting this movie in your oeuvre?

The process of getting this movie was a very big fight on my behalf. I'm gonna be open about that. Travolta and I worked together on another film, and Travolta had suggested me to Fred Durst for this part. Fred wasn't completely sold on me. He hadn't seen me on anything mainstream for quite a bit of time. I had been doing TV and whatnot. So I had to fight my ass off for this film. And I did it because I knew... John sent me a picture of what he was going to look like, and he told me a little about what he was going to do, and I had to get it. I laid every single scene from the movie down with another actor. We did the whole thing on tape and sent it to Fred. Fred took it for a few days, and finally I got it. It was a fight. I have a text from John Travolta, saying "This is what I'm going to look like in the movie," and I was like, oh my God, that's crazy... That's when I decided to fight for it.

You've worked with John before, and part of this movie is about fandom and having a disconnect from reality when it comes to movie stars. I know you've been an actor for many years, but I can't imagine anyone meeting someone like John Travolta and not having a moment where you just have to tell him, "Oh my God, I loved you in Grease."

Yeah. Well, it was Pulp Fiction for me. I was 14 or something like that when it came out, and it was life-changing for me. Up until that point, I was just going to set to be with other kids and have fun and giggle and have that whole thing. But when I saw Pulp Fiction, I don't know if it was just the right timing, but seeing Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, and John Travolta as these larger-than-life characters in a different world, it just changed things for me. I remember the first time I met John on the movie, Life on the Line, and I was very nervous. He came into that room and you just felt like a movie star walked in. I was super nervous for that table read. That was the first day on set. John comes with the greatest stories ever. Like, he has stories of Marlon Brando. He has stories of Muhammad Ali... He's amazing, that's all I can say.

Have you ever had that with any of your other co-stars who you've loved and adored for years, and then you get to see them as peers?

Yeah, Stallone was another guy I worked with, last year. If you told 12-year-old me that I'd be working with Stallone, I would never have believed you! But believe me... And we did a fight scene! I got there two weeks before, and I had a choreographed fight scene with the John Wick stunt crew, and when we got to set, he didn't like it. So he said, "we're just gonna fight for real. We'll see what happens. If we don't like it, we'll go back to the choreographed scene. But let's just go in there and pull our punches." He started going, "remember Rocky 2, when I did this?" And I was like, dude, do I remember Rocky 2? Are we really doing this right now?

That's amazing.

So amazing.

You're working in this movie, not just with John Travolta, but with Fred Durst, who casual viewers might not recognize as a filmmaker, even though he's been doing movies for more than a decade, and I think he has a really great eye in this movie.

I'm glad you mentioned that, because there were a couple of movies I did where they thought this was Fred's first movie. But Fred has put in his dues. He did a slew of music videos before he got The Education of Charlie Banks. That was a critical success for him. Then he did more videos and then the Ice Cube movie (The Longshots). He's put in his dues. This is just another stepping stone for him to the next big thing he does. He's got a great energy, he knows what he wants. Like, he knew which DP he wanted. And Travolta spent the whole time in character. He never left character. We called him Moose, and all that. He and Fred would talk, and he would be Moose, and Fred would be his buddy. They would do a little improv before they would start a scene, and it was awesome to watch. Fred is the real deal, man! And I won't lie, he does bring that Limp Bizkit flavor to the set. There is a little bit of that Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' sh** going down, you know what I mean? You feel that energy, and it's nice!

You said Travolta was method. Do you have any rituals like that? To be honest, five minutes before this interview, I felt nervous, kind of scared, because you can be so mean and scary in the movie! Like, I know you're an actor, it's the job but when you're playing an actor, there's an extra layer of reality, at least to someone on the outside looking in. How do you get into that persona?

I'm not method. I do take moments before doing a scene, I think of where my character has been before this, where he's going, the whole backstory thing. For this character, I drew on the breaking points we've seen from different actors over the years. Like, Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Britney Spears. The breaking point with the paparazzi, they pick on them just enough where they hit them with an umbrella or throw a punch or knock the camera out of their hands. That's what I drew on. Moose is my breaking point. All this stuff is going on in Hunter Dunbar's life: the wife, the maid, the agent, the son. All this stuff is going on, and Moose is the breaking point. That's when I break, you know what I mean?

Yes, absolutely. This is a question I like to ask everyone I interview. Do you have a movie or a show, anything that you're particularly proud of, from your career, that you feel didn't get the attention it deserved at the time, that you'd like to shout-out for the Screen Rant reader?

Oh yeah, I mean, Idle Hands was supposed to be a lot bigger than it was. Who knows? They ended up pulling it from a lot of different states, especially Colorado, since it was coming out the weekend after Columbine had just happened. They cancelled the premiere, they stopped doing press, they stopped playing the promos on TV. We never got to see how it would have done in real life. It was kind of buried because it's about a kid whose hand goes on a killing spree in a high school. It was obviously not appropriate. But we never got to see what it would have done.

More: 10 Gory Teen Horror Movies From The ‘90s We All Forgot About (Including Idle Hands)

The Fanatic hits theaters on August 30.

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Sawa Teen 19th March, 2017

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12-year-old Jason Schwartzman had his initial flavor of show business as a production intern for the comedy film Bed & Breakfast (1992), produced by his father and starring his mother. A year later, he tried his hand in acting and auditioned for the role of Tom Hanks†matchmaking child in Sleepless in Seattle. Unfortunately, the role went to Ross Malinger. Undaunted, young Schwartzman went on to pursue his other passion, music. The grandson of Academy Award-winning composer Carmine Coppola then formed a pop rock band in 1994 called Phantom Planet where he assisted as a drummer and songwriter. With his group, he released a debut album, Phantom Planet Is Missing, with Geffen Records in the late 1998s.

Shortly after, Schwartzman enjoyed success as an actor with his debut film, Rushmore (1998), directed by Wes Anderson and written by Anderson and Owen Wilson. In the comedy, he starred as Max Fischer, a homely 10th grader who befriends a miserable local factory worker, Blume (played by Bill Murray) and falls in love with an older woman, Ms. Cross (played by Olivia Williams), a recently widowed teacher. Delivering a bravura performance, the actor was handed a YoungStar for Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy Film and a Lone Star Film & Television for Best Actor, as well as received a Teen Choice nomination for Film – Choice Hissy Fit and a Chicago Film Critics Association nomination for Most Promising Actor.

After the victory, Schwartzman kept a low profile and spent time with his band. He also took on small, odd roles in television, including his guest stint as a greasy fake-ID dealer, Howie Gelfand, in the NBC brief-lived series “Freaks and Geeks” (2000). His next film, Slackers, an anti-high school comedy costarring Devon Sawa and Jason Segel, was originally set for release in 2000, but was postponed to 2001 and once more to early 2002. He also appeared in the Cannes-screened CQ (2001), the directorial debut of cousin Roman Coppola, and located himself acting with Al Pacino and Winona Ryder in the sci-fi film Simone (2002).

In August 2003, after scoring the hit single “California” with Phantom Planet, which became the theme song for the popular Fox melodrama “The O.C.,” Schwartzman announced he was leaving his band to concentrate on his acting career. This effort paid off when he made a substantial impression for playing a role on the critically applauded Spun (2003). The same year, he also starred as a 1960â€s teenager residing with his blasphemous, eccentric mother in actor Joe Pantolianoâ€s directorial debut, Just Like Mona.

Next, Schwartzman had a lead opposite Dustin Hoffmann, Jude Law and Naomi Watts in writer-director David O. Russellâ€s I Heart Huckabees (2004), as a bothered rival named Albert Markovski, supported Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman in the remake of Bewitched (2005), playing Ferrellâ€s deeply focused, truth-impaired Hollywood agent, as well as costarred with Steve Martin and Claire Danes in Shopgirl (2005), based on Martinâ€s bestselling novella of the same name. The latter project saw him as Ray, an unrefined, not-so-flourishing bachelor who vied with an affluent sophisticate (played by Martin) for the love of a Beverly Hills glove salesgirl (played by Danes). Meanwhile, on the small screen, he made his debut as a series regular with a role as a student who moves into a Beverly Hills familyâ€s guest house on the Mike White-designed “Cracking Up” (2004). The Fox sitcom, however, was cancelled after only nine episodes. In 2006, he shared top billing with Kirsten Dunst for the Oscar winner Marie Antoinette, directed by Sofia Coppola. Additionally, he contributed to Ben Leeâ€s 2005 album Awake Is The New Sleep.

In 2007, multi-talented Schwartzman created the pop/rock solo act Coconut Records and released a first CD on March 20 on iTunes. It contains such songs as “Nighttiming,” “West Coast” and “This Old Machine.” He also still composes music for a lot of movies. On the movie front, he has three upcoming projects. He will rejoin director Wes Anderson for the biopic The Darjeeling Limited (2007), costarring Natalie Portman, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Anjelica Huston, and star with Ben Stiller in the comedy The Marc Pease Experience (2008). He is also set to team up with George Clooney and Cate Blanchett for Andersonâ€s animated feature The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2008).

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the spooky october movie series, pt. IV

halloween is drawing near, so it's time for this year's edition (series four) of the spooky film series!

as film aficionados, we try to select five movies that have a deliciously horror or spooky vibe, because i know i'm tired of watching hocus pocus year after year. this year we've got films ranging from the 1950's to this decade. i chose two, alex chose two, and our halloween night film was chosen together. 

i rate the films on a scale of one to five ghosts depending on how "halloween-ish" i feel the movie is, but also accounting for quality.

week 1: the addams family values (1991), barry sonnenfeld

my pick. this one isn't exactly obscure, but it is undeniably a wonderful halloween-season watch. maybe a bit "spicier" than the first, who doesn't love the whole "summer camp" sub-plot? there are also plenty of hilarious morticia lines. it's a classic. a bit more mainstream than our typical picks, but i haven't seen it since i was a kid so it seemed like a great time to re-watch.

4/5 ghosts -- worthy of halloween night viewing, for sure.

week 2: it follows (2014), david robert  mitchell

alex’s pick. i didn't really know what to expect with this one, but it was better than the trailer made it out to be. nineteen year-old jay is continuously haunted by "the thing" which slowly follows her wherever she goes. as someone who doesn't love the horror genre, i found this film a perfect middle ground between creepy and haunting and a very "adult" teen drama with excellent character development, and also being absolutely beautifully shot. another bonus is all of the interesting detroit-area filming locations, as the story takes place in the detroit suburbs. highly recommended -- will absolutely watch again.

5/5 ghosts for light horror, excellent cinematography and story. (but beware: it may haunt you dreams just a little bit)

week 3: house of usher (1960), roger corman

alex’s pick. oh, why was it only this year that i was introduced to the brilliant gothic world of vincent price films?! the house of usher couldn't be more halloween-appropriate. set vaguely sometime in the 20th century, a man visits the haunted house of the usher family where his fiancé has been living recently to receive some terrible news about their future together -- he has to make it past the overbearing older brother first in a strange turn of overprotective sibling drama with a huge secret. based on a story from edgar allen poe.

5/5 ghosts for a foggy haunted house, undead themes, crypts & more. this has got it all.

week 4: idle hands (1999), rodman flender

my pick. when i saw there was a late 90's teen horror comedy starring devon sawa and seth green set during halloween night that i had somehow missed in my youth, i had to see it. loose plot line: a stoner high school student realizes that his hand (yes, his hand) has become murderous. jessica alba (in her first film role) plays the girl next door love interest. i can only really recommend this film if you seriously LOVE late 90's teen comedies. this film oozes 1999 from the soundtrack, clothes, references... it's a time capsule. it's not exactly a great film or anything (so try to have no expectations), but there is a fantastic cameo from the band the offspring that surprised and delighted me.

2/5 ghosts -- undeniably halloween appropriate BUT couldn't recommend to just everyone based on quality

halloween night: house on haunted hill (1959), william castle

because i couldn’t get enough vincent price goth fabulousness (see ‘house of usher’ above) the original version of house on haunted hill absolutely fits the bill. the plot seems perfect: “a millionaire offers $10,000 to the guest that can outlast the others, staying in his haunted house”. it sounds like a reality show and 1950′s horror all in one! i’m in.

what are you planning on watching this year? if you are celebrating, hope you have a wonderfully spooky halloween!

ps, more spooky movie inspiration on lists from past years: series one, two, & three.

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Sawa Teen 8 March, 2017

Sawa Teen 8 March, 2017

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