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TV: “Haunted” Sounds Like Every Other Show On TV But With Ghosts
Honestly, the fact that Haunted is a procedural makes it sound to me like it’s just going to end up being a show like “Bones” or “The Closer” only with ghosts. There’s noting wrong with that, and I’m keeping an eye on it to see if it becomes anything more – but I seriously doubt we’re going to have something here that appeals to genre fans as much as “Supernatural”, “True Blood” or “American Horror Story”. But ya never know!
ABC bought the project from Cory Goodman (who wrote Priest) with National Treasure director Jon Turtletaub attached to direct the pilot. A silver lining? One of the producers is Adam Goldworm, who had a guiding hand in “Masters Of Horror”. Perhaps he can steer the ship in the right direction? TV is more of a writer’s medium than film, so I’d say that Turtletaub’s influence on this project won’t be all that heavy. He might even be out after directing the pilot.
So we’ll see. There’s some potential here. But again, it’s a procedural on a major network.
Per Deadline, “‘Haunted’ is a supernatural character procedural that follows Jessica Garrity, a paranormal investigator who each week helps the living move on from a spirit that can’t let go.”
One of these guys is Jon Turtletaub.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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