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Segments: John Carpenter’s ‘Body Bags’!
In today’s special “Out of Print” edition of Segments we’ll be revisiting the classic Showtime horror anthology John Carpenter’s Body Bags, a made-for-cable flick I first viewed on rental VHS waaaaay back in the summer of 1995, and hadn’t seen again until this past week. Initially conceived as a basic cable horror series to compete with HBO’s Tales from the Crypt, the concept was eventually scrapped by Showtime, who decided to release the already filmed stories as a horror anthology centered around a spooky coroner played by John Carpenter. It received a brief DVD release around the turn of the century––both as a stand-alone disc and as part of a “Scarefest” collectors’ pack that featured Body Bags, Witchboard, and Rumplestilskin––but it’s been on moratorium for the past 10 years. Click here to read!
J.J. Abrams is directing top secret sci-fi movie The Great Beyond for Warner Bros., which had originally been scheduled for theatrical release on November 13, 2026. But we’ve learned this morning that The Great Beyond has been moved out of this year entirely.
The Great Beyond will now release in theaters and IMAX on October 1, 2027.
Deadline explains, “We understand that there was a test screening of The Great Beyond at the Regal Irvine with Warners deciding that they wanted 70MM Imax prints of the pic. Abrams has been busy editing and was expected to finish post in September. Now, the filmmaker has more time to complete his original Bad Robot opus which he wrote.”
The mysterious film is being described as a science fiction fantasy.
Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday”) and Glen Powell (The Running Man) will star alongside Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Merritt Wever, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Stay tuned for much more on The Great Beyond as we learn it.