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‘The Boogeyman’ Director Ulli Lommel Has Passed Away
Multiple sources report that Ulli Lommel passed away Saturday due to heart failure. He was 72.
Director of the cult classic The Boogeyman (1980), he was at the forefront of the New German Cinema movement and was behind genre films such as Tenderness of the Wolves (1973), Brainwaves (1982) and Blank Generation (1980).
In recent years he was behind a slew of horrid direct-to-video titles from Green River Killer to B.T.K. Killer and Black Dahlia, among many more.
We send our best to his family and friends, and say goodbye to another horror legend in a year filled with loss.
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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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