Re-Animator the Musical, Beyond The Gates, Almost Human, SEQUENCE BREAK, RATED R SPEAKEASY, NIGHT SCHOOL & author of GODZILLA: THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE KOTM
I’ve been seeing a lot of tweets shaming kids for hearing Running Up That Hill for the first time on Stranger Things, as if we all didn’t hear Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time in Wayne’s World.
It’s official:
#RRRMovie
’s FYC awards/Oscars campaign is going for Best Picture,
@ssrajamouli
for Best Director, Actor (both Jr NTR & Ram Charan), Screenplay, Original Song, Score, Editing, Cinematography, Sound, Production Design, VFX and more categories
#RRRforOscars
#OscaRRRs
Harry Dean Stanton came and saw a performance of Re-Animator the Musical, and afterwards spent about an hour drinking whiskey & smoking weed with us in front of the theatre, regaling us with stories. The nicest guy. A true legend.
When you’re doing a location scout in Bastrop, TX, it’s legally required that you pay a visit to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre gas station. May the horror gods smile upon us. Amen.
Hey reviewers, just a heads up that tagging actors in movies in (very) negative reviews of their films isn’t a cool thing to do. Not that I care that much, but it’s still a bummer to be tagged in a tweet only to read it and see it’s all bad. Just unnecessary.
Older Hispanic man at this bar raving about
@RealGDT
films, w the best titles as he recalls them: The Vampire, The Orphanage, The Strange Maze, The Devil’s Son, The Beautiful Ghost House, and now Water Love
Girl Scout just came to my door selling cookies. She admired my zombie in my front yard & flipped when I said I made horror movies. She said she wanted to make them too. So I gave her my
@FANGORIA
v2
#1
& she was THRILLED. Her mother? Not so much. Oh & I bought cookies obviously.
So I rewatched HALLOWEEN ENDS, aaaaand…I love it. The shock of it the first time left me a bit dazed, but it’s won me over. It’s a wild direction for the franchise, but I think it touched on themes much bigger than just LvM. Some clunkiness but I love its weirdo heart.
Why in Halloween Kills didn’t we get to see the asshole neighbors who turned their lights out on Laurie crying for help on their porch, and their decades of therapy. They’re the true evil that needed to die that night.
I just got home from the airport and look what was waiting for me! I’m so excited to finally get my hands on it! Thanks
@Godzilla_Toho
&
@welbeckpublish
for letting me be the scribe for this epic (and gorgeous) compendium of the King of the Monsters!
As I continue to process our dog Mu’s death, it strikes me that he was dreaming vividly as he went. Fully running & barking and then…nothing. I’d be lying if I said The Sandman and the idea of Dream & Death working in tandem wasn’t comforting & profound for us now.
@neilhimself
MALIGNANT is top tier Wan. Self-aware outrageous horror comedy with a third act that had me giggling & grinning ear to ear.
My top 3 Wan films:
1. Dead Silence
2. Malignant
3. Saw
HALLOWEEN ENDS…I am standing applauding the gargantuan swing they took, but uncertain if it was a good one? I predict time will be kind to this film. I need a rewatch to really form an opinion. But that was a hell of a risk taken, and I’m a fan of that.
Had a surreal experience at a movie theatre yesterday. There’s a cineplex near where I’m staying in Dallas, and as yesterday was a day off I decided to go old school and just show up to the theatre and see what was playing. (1/)
HIS HOUSE is a hell of a film. One of the more powerful, affecting, and frightening horror films I’ve seen in a while. Fantastic lead performances. I’m shocked more people aren’t singing its praises.
HELLRAISER rules. Super violent, beautiful gore, poetic, genuinely scary, and bathing deeply in Barkerian themes.
@MsJamieClayton
is elegant & terrifying, the script by
@luke_piotrowski
&
@BDavisCollins
soaks in lore & love &
@bruckmachina
absolutely crushes it. So excited.
@YorkshireTX
I’m not saying it wasn’t famous before Wayne’s World - what I meant is that we’re acting all high and mighty scoffing at kids learning about Kate Bush via a TV show when a lot of us learned about Queen in a similar way.
My wife: Who is Robert De Niro?
Me: The actor, from Raging Bull?
Wife: Isn’t he really short?
Me: I dunno, maybe...
Wife: Show me a picture of him.
(Shows pic)
Wife: Not him, the short bald guy!
(Shows pic of Joe Pesci)
Wife: yeah him! From Always sunny!
Me: that’s Danny DeVito.
@barbaracrampton
Stop filling people’s twitter feeds with reminders of why to come see you at some convention. You’re living off of nostalgia, and despite the fact I support working horror innovators, they are too busy working and creating to dominate my feed.
Then a long pause and she says “Are you sure this isn’t your popcorn? There’s no one else here.”
So I said “Yes, this is my popcorn.” And I walked into an empty theatre and watched the movie by myself, ate the popcorn, and as I left, yet again the lobby was empty. (End)
Stuart was one of the most important people in my life. I am incredibly lucky to have gotten to work with him, much less be his friend. I'll miss my lunches with him the most. Love you, Stu. I hope you and Buechler are working on something truly bonkers right now.
I’m showing my wife Scream for the first time (the original) and she is extremely distraught at the opening scene. “I thought this was a parody! Is this scary??” I’ve told her “trust me, it’s a comedy.” We’ll see if I’m still married in 90 minutes.
Rewatched Bram Stoker’s Dracula this morning and it is a MASTERPIECE. It somehow manages to be a big budget prestige film AND a grimy B horror midnight movie.
This is one of the most egregious, hilarious(ly bad), idiotic cinematic “re-edit” type of things I’ve ever seen. Why even do this? 1) Spielberg is perhaps our greatest living cinematic image creators. 2) You want to see…more grass? More sky? Why?
So stupid.
Just a reminder, for International Women’s Day, that many of your very favorite horror films wouldn’t exist without women artists. You like Carpenter? He doesn’t have a career without Debra Hill. Cameron? Not without Gale Ann Hurd. Women are the backbone of horror! Don’t forget!
…have started a letter writing campaign to “The Grinch” basically telling her to quit being a jerk and leave Santa alone. And there’s talk of a protest of angry children at her house. It’s a full on uprising to protect Santa. I love it.
Sending love to everyone over at
@Shudder
, which has been such a home and sacred place for horror these last many years. They released my film Sequence Break as a fledgling service & have continued to support indie horror in a way no one else could. My love to them always.
Last year for Halloween I showed my 8 year old niece Monster Squad (she calls it Monster Team) for the first time. Just found out this weekend she’s having a sleepover and she’s going to introduce her friends to it cause it’s “her Halloween movie”. Beaming with joy.
@andregower
My grandmother was a witch. A legit witch. She used to hold seances for the neighborhood. On her death bed, when my father begged her to not haunt him after she was dead, opened her eyes after a week of being in a coma, smiled, WINKEDAT HIM, and then died.
#Epic
My mom’s review of VFW:
“Graham we watched VFW and it’s actually really good! It has a story and everything! It’s very violent but those punks had it coming.”
My mom, new
@FANGORIA
fan!
Cc:
@VFWmovie
@joebegos
@josh_ethier
Now that I can finally talk about it, I’m in a movie called A SUITABLE FLESH! It’s super weird and violent and horny, and I have a scene with
@barbaracrampton
, it’s directed by
@TheJoeLynch
, and it’s an amazing tribute to Stuart Gordon. Available now! Go watch it!!
For Wes’s birthday, I want to talk about NEW NIGHTMARE. Just imagine any other director tasked with rebooting their own franchise. Clearly a cash-in, right? Not for Wes. He asks: how do I both reboot it and also acknowledge the original? He thinks, “we go meta”…
@QueenWillRock
ROCKED! JFC
@adamlambert
can sing. What a fun show, so grateful I finally got to see them live. And on Brian May’s birthday, no less!
#Queen
THE INVISIBLE MAN is A+ wonderful. Brilliant use of horror to highlight the very real life horror of being in toxic relationships. Genuinely scary, powerful, Elizabeth Moss is incredible, and Zeus is the hero we all want on our side.
@LWhannell
crushed this. A cinematic home run.
My non-horror father-in-law just texted that he’d seen “this movie called Suspiria” on Amazon and had I heard of it. He watched of his own volition! I don’t know that I’ve ever been more proud!
I’m seeing posts of people setting up their Xmas lights again to brighten the spirit of everyone else in quarantine, and I’m honestly considering setting up my Halloween display for the same reason...
My book GODZILLA: THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE KING OF THE MONSTERS hits store shelves TODAY! If you see it in a bookstore somewhere, please snap a photo and tag me! I'm so proud of the book and can't wait for you all to dive in. Thanks for all your support!
Staying at my mom’s house in TX. This exchange just happened:
Mom: Put whatever on the TV!
Me: Anything?
Mom: Sure!
(Quickly downloads
@shudder
on her TV)
Me: I’m gonna put on a socially conscious movie narrated by a Texan!
Mom: Sounds lovely!
@therealjoebob
@kinky_horror
What was your favorite opening night theatrical movie experience?
Mine was SCREAM. The opening death shattered my friends and me. I’ll never forget that moment - at the (now closed) Palace 9 in Ft Worth, TX.
Our neighborhood has an HOA, and one of our neighbors is a professional Santa. Which is really a year round identity for him (dresses in red, all the kids know him as Santa, etc). So he recently posted on our neighborhood FB page that the HOA had sent him a letter… (1/)
I don’t care if you don’t like horror movies, but this is one of the stupidest, unnecessarily mean, ignorant things I’ve ever read. Guess
@nypost
lets bullies write their reviews now? Bad journalism. Shameful. And of course very, very wrong.
I’m a good sport about bad reviews. Come on, I made 11-11-11. But
@nypost
I know a few horror fans that would disagree with these ridiculous statements about “these types” of movies.
At the grocery store wearing my
@BeyondFest
Cronenberg For President shirt & this guy walks up to me, points at my shirt, and says in a conspiratorial whisper: “I was there too, man. Beyond Fest forever.” Then he winked at me and disappeared into the yogurt aisle.
And furthermore, it should be noted that in my experience horror fans tend to be some of the kindest, gentlest, most welcoming people on the planet. No judgment for liking what you like, just a common hope for more cool art existing in the world. This review makes me so mad.
I don’t care if you don’t like horror movies, but this is one of the stupidest, unnecessarily mean, ignorant things I’ve ever read. Guess
@nypost
lets bullies write their reviews now? Bad journalism. Shameful. And of course very, very wrong.
I got to visit Dracula’s Castle, y’all. Pilgrimage complete. (Yes yes I know Vlad didn’t actually live here, but it *was* the castle Stoker described in the novel, so it *is* Dracula’s castle dammit)
Um THE BEACH HOUSE fucking rules. Total Lovecraft down to its DNA, excellent performances...go in as blind as possible. I wish I could go sit in a bar and talk about its themes and implications with people right now. Blown away. On
@Shudder
.
What I do is I pretend someone at a Q&A has asked me what it’s about, and what the moment I’m stuck on meant. Then I talk out loud as if I’m answering the question. So my wife just walked in to me giving a Q&A to an audience that doesn’t exist for a film that hasn’t been made.
I can’t believe it’s been a year since we lost Stuart Gordon. An icon who quite literally gave me the career I have today. A good friend and a man I deeply admired. We miss you down here, Stu. Thank you for everything.
I only have vague, terrifying memories of RETURN TO OZ and am rewatching now. And I can confirm this film is FUCKED UP. Super well made, dark as hell, incredibly inventive. I can both see why this became a cult classic and can’t believe it’s not considered a kids’ classic.
If once upon a time you’d told 12 year old Graham that Fango would be wishing him a happy birthday, he’d have laughed in your face. I’m an exceedingly lucky human. Much love to you all, and thank you for being my horror family.
My 18 year old cousin is just getting into horror and has seen most of the “classics.” He said “I loved Audition and Hills Have Eyes, what should I watch now?” This is the homework I gave him:
Tetsuo
Inside
Martyrs
Castle Freak
Green Room
Dead Ringers
Candyman
Pray for him.
So many people responded to this with some variation on “sorry about your divorce” and it’s like, no, this is one of the greatest gifts ever! To watch a movie like this with someone who’s never seen it?? Never happens! It was a great night.
To say I am honored to be a small part of this film - and Stuart’s continued legacy - is an enormous understatement. Thank you thank you thank you
@TheJoeLynch
&
@barbaracrampton
This sorta crap makes me so mad. Why can’t we build up movies we like? Who cares if people laud films you don’t like? Laud the films you do. This world has enough negativity in it without blasting into a bullhorn “hey people liked these movies but I didn’t so there.”
16 of this yr's Most Overrated Films:
1. Roma
2. If Beale Street...
3. First Man
4. Cold War
5. The Favourite
6. Vice
7. Leave No Trace
8. Support the Girls
9. First Reformed
10. YWNRH
11. Sorry to Bother You
12. Burning
13. Annihilation
14. Mandy
15. Suspiria
16. BlacKkKlansman
Hey guess what? I MADE A NEW MOVIE! Surprise! Made this weird, dark, strange little sci-fi/fantasy/horror/fairy tale film in secret, thanks to the incredible team at V Channels Media, and the official poster just dropped. Super thankful & stoked to show you what eve put together!
I am very very sad to say that our beloved Mufasa, the absolute best boy in the world, has passed away. To say we’ll miss him is the understatement of the century. He was so sweet, pure love, and wise like a sage. Thank you for bringing such love into the world, Bubba.
My sister asked for a rec for a true crime doc and I told her to watch Lake Mungo and said it was totally factual and I am thrilled that I can still do an older brother prank like this when we’re almost 40.
I was just reminded by
@josh_ethier
that 8 years ago today we started shooting Almost Human. Look at these babies, setting out to make movies in the woods. Still one of the best times of my life, and a project that changed my life.
@joebegos
Been doing a big Hellraiser rewatch and gotta say
@scottderrickson
INFERNO is a - forgive me - hell of an entry. Sweaty neo-noir detective story with a surrealist Lynchian angle to it. Really dig it and fully appreciate art made within what I’m sure were many constraints.
A Robocop poster signed by Peter Weller that he inscribed “My friends call my Murphy”, which my mom sold for $3 at a garage sale when I was away at college.
They should have a “scrolling thru Twitter while your spouse is asleep next to you” mode on your phone so you don’t accidentally hit a video & blast cacophonous sound into a dark silent room, resulting in an angry wife, a freaked out dog, and you blindly shouting “it’s ok!”