Top 10 Possession/Haunting Films By WVM

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9 years ago

October 28, 2014

2. The Shining (1980)

Kubrick is perhaps my all-time favorite director, and this movie is mind numbingly perfect. It’s done in a very old fashioned story telling way. There are many moments in this film that make me think there is another movie entirely going on, sort of a subtext of another topic entirely. But I’ll stick to the general plot, which is Stephen King’s classic story. The hotel in this movie is every bit as much a character as the actors. The building is haunted with a history that engulfs its longtime companion Jack Torrance upon his return. A place Jack can never really escape from, not even in death. I have never seen an actor as possessed by a role as Jack Nicholson was in this movie. It’s a transformation you rarely see in film and the stories of Kubrick’s perfectionism overshadow everything else behind the scenes. There is a tremendous amount of detail in this movie, details that are meant to unsettle the mind subconsciously, from the typewriter changing color – white to black the more Jack became enraged with thoughts of massacring his family – to the continuity mistakes of chairs missing and reappearing frame to frame, which I think Kubrick did intentionally to create tension subconsciously in the mind of the viewer. The ending is bone chillingly perfect. “The Shining” is one of the greatest films ever made in any genre.

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Daniel Roebuck Has Joined the Cast of ‘Terrifier 3’! [Exclusive]

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1 week ago

April 12, 2024

Alex DiVincenzo

Daniel Roebuck has been cast as Santa Claus in Terrifier 3, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report.

Writer-director Damien Leone is currently wrapping production on the highly-anticipated sequel, in which Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.

“I’ve been holding this secret for a long time!” Roebuck tells Bloody Disgusting. “I’ve been really excited about it. I’m actually entering into the movies that I watch. It’s extraordinary. This is Terrifier bigger, badder, best.”

Roebuck appears in Terrifier 3 alongside returning cast members David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliot Fullam, and AEW superstar Chris Jericho.

No stranger to iconic horror properties, Roebuck has squared off against Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, played The Count in Zombie’s The Munsters, succumbed to The Tall Man’s sphere in Phantasm: Ravager, and investigated death in Final Destination.

A distinguished character actor with over 250 credits, Roebuck has also appeared in The Devil’s Rejects, 3 from Hell, Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End, The Fugitive, Lost, Agent Cody Banks, and The Man in the High Castle. Incidentally, he’s also playing Santa in the family drama Saint Nick of Bethlehem, due out later this year.

Terrifier 3 will be released in theaters nationwide later this year via Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting in conjunction with our partner on Terrifier 2, Iconic Events Releasing.

Terrifier 3 comes courtesy of Dark Age Cinema Productions. Phil Falcone Produces with Lisa Falcone acting as Executive Producer. Co-producers include Mike Leavy, Jason Leavy, George Steuber, and Steve Della Salla. Brad Miska, Brandon Hill, and Erick Opeka Executive Produce for Cineverse. Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor also Executive Produce.