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Experience ‘The Happening’ On The Big Screen Again!
One of the more difficult interviews I’ve had to conduct for Bloody Disgusting was with M. Night Shyamalan back in the summer of 2008. Not that HE was difficult; on the contrary, he was a great and enthusiastic guy. The problem was FOX wouldn’t let us see The Happening before the interview, so it was hard to come up with questions about the film, when so much of it was a mystery. Then I saw it and understood why – it was about killer trees. And thus I sat in confused disbelief the whole time I watched it, and missed out on the fact that it’s actually one of the most drop-dead hilarious movies of all time. Well, thanks to the Nuart Cinema, I will get a chance to see it on the big screen *correctly*, and I want you all to join me! This Friday, January 28th, at 11:59 PM, Bloody-Disgusting will host a rare 35mm screening of this legendary misfire at the Nuart Cinema in Los Angeles, located right off the 405 at 11272 Santa Monica Blvd. Tickets are 10 bucks at the door or available online HERE. See you there! Check below for one of the film’s more batshit scenes.
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)
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