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[OMFG] Leigh Whannell Weighs In On ‘Dud Silence’!
Didn’t like Dead Silence? Well, you’re not alone. Leigh Whannell doesn’t like it all that much either and he wrote the damn thing!
A recent post on his blog bears the title “Dud Silence: The Hellish Experience Of Making A Bad Horror Film” and almost reads as the horror appendix to Lennon and Garant’s book “Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at The Box Office and You Can Too”.
Except this time out there’s no real glory (and probably not as much money). Per Whannell, “The shooting of the film was just as nightmarish for James Wan, the director, but I’ll let him tell you that story in his blog one day. I’ll finish by saying that when the film was released, Universal did zero promotion and dumped the film into theaters like toxic waste into a river. Insult, meet injury.”
Another choice quote? “Only in a place as fucking stupid as Hollywood would someone use the word `rules’ when talking about shape-shifting cat demons. The only logical response to Chad and Debbie’s question is “THERE ARE NO RULES, IT’S A SUPERNATURAL CAT YOU DICKHEAD.”
It’s definitely worth a read. Check it out.
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‘Ebenezer’ Official Trailer – Ti West Turns Johnny Depp into ‘A Christmas Carol’ Icon Scrooge
Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is back with the upcoming Ebenezer starring Johnny Depp, a fresh new take on the classic tale of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens.
Johnny Depp will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer, and Paramount is bringing the film to theaters on November 13, 2026. Watch the official trailer down below.
The tagline? “The name you know. The story you don’t.”
Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”) also star.
Deadline had detailed in a recent report, “This version, a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present and future and fight for a second chance. Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman to executive produce.”
Nathaniel Halpern wrote the adaptation for Ti West to direct.
Written by Charles Dickens, the classic tale of A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the screen countless times over the years, with notable film adaptations including Scrooge (1951) starring Alastair Sim, Scrooge (1970) starring Albert Finney, A Christmas Carol (1984) starring George C. Scott, Scrooged (1988) starring Bill Murray, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) starring Michael Caine, and A Christmas Carol (2009) starring Jim Carrey.
A Christmas Carol is classically a period piece ghost story. As Luiz H.C. wrote here on Bloody Disgusting, “Isn’t it weird how the single most influential piece of Christmas-related media is technically a horror story? One can even make the argument that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol paved the way for the rise of Victorian Spiritualism during the following decade.”
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