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[BD Review] Evan Dickson Says ‘The World’s End’ Is Personal and Powerful!
While I was never enamored by the trailers or spots for Universal’s The World’s End, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright’s new movie starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan, the reviews have been beyond positive. In fact, our own Evan Dickson raves about the third film in the “Cornetto Trilogy”.
“Where ‘Shaun of the Dead’ was a horror film and ‘Hot Fuzz’ was an action movie, ‘The World’s End’ is a sci-fi adventure that harkens back to ‘Invasion Of the Body Snatchers’ (its emphasis on allegory, particularly relating to the dilemma of its protagonist, also has a bit of a John Carpenter bent),” says Dickson.
“It’s also the most mature film in the trilogy,” before adding that “[it’s] full of laughs.”
Click the title above for the entire review and check it out in theaters everywhere tomorrow.
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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