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R.I.P. Dick Miller, Star of ‘Gremlins’, ‘Piranha’, ‘The Howling’ and ‘Terminator’
Dick Miller, the prolific screen actor best known for his role as Murray Futterman in Joe Dante’s 1984 classic horror film Gremlins, and its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch, has died, reports Variety. He was 90.
With a career spanning more than 60 years, Miller has made hundreds of on screen appearances, beginning in the 1950s with legendary director and producer Roger Corman. It was then that he starred as Walter Paisley in the cult classic A Bucket of Blood, before going on to land roles on projects such as Fame and even James Cameron’s The Terminator.
Us horror fans celebrate his genre work that also included Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs, The Howling, Piranha and The Hole, as well as Roger Corman’s 1959 A Bucket of Blood, the 1960 Little Shop of Horrors, The Terror (1963), Death Race 2000, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Explorers, Chopping Mall, Night of the Creeps, Amityville 1992: It’s About Time, and Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight!
As the site noted, Miller reprised the role of Walter Paisely for a final time as a rabbi in Eben McGarr’s horror film Hanukkah.
He is quite simply a legend.
Enjoy this two-part retrospective put together by Texas Frightmare several years ago…
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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