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“Adventures In VHS” Needs Your Help To Happen!
It’s really quite astonishing how the internet has opened so many doors for horror fans. Communities, niche websites like Scream! Factory and Fright-Rags, and crowdfunding have all made my life as a horror fan a lot better. Adventures in VHS is a budding idea from author Noel Mellor who fell in love with horror at the height of VHS. The project is obviously a passion project for Mellor, and it’s one I’d love to see come into reality.
From the Author Synopsis:
The shockwaves of the home video explosion were also felt in Hollywood. A new generation of film-makers emerged, providing low-budget, straight to video shockers. Noel has tracked down and interviewed many of the key film makers: Lloyd Kaufman (Class of Nuke ‘Em High, The Toxic Avenger), Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall, The Return of the Swamp Thing), Ted Nicolaou (Terrorvision, Subspecies), Harry Bromley Davenport (Xtro trilogy) and David DeCoteau, creator of the incredible Creepozoids, who provides a foreword. The 1980s was a unique period in movie culture, shaping a whole generation of film obsessives. Before Netflix, before Blu-Ray, before multiplexes, there were Adventures in VHS.
If you want a little preview of the book you can go to the Adventures In VHS page and there is even a podcast to go with it.
The Wayans are out to cancel the Cancel Culture with Scary Movie, and the cast assures it will do just that.
“They sort of have an across-the-board style,” Anna Faris tells EW. “It’s always been a part of the Wayans Brothers, their electricity. ‘Can we offend you? Will you still love us? Come on, you still love us, don’t you?'”
Regina Hall concurs, promising the “boundary-pushing” sixth installment in the horror parody franchise will “offend everyone.”
EW has shared a batch of behind-the-scenes images from Scary Movie, which hits theaters June 5 via Paramount.
Faris and Hall are joined by fellow franchise favorites Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, and Jon Abrahams in the legacy sequel.
The ensemble includes Damon Wayans Jr., Gregg Wayans, Kim Wayans, Benny Zielke, Cameron Scott Roberts, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Ruby Snowber, Savannah Lee Nassif, Sydney Park, Kenan Thompson, and Felissa Rose.
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) directs from a script by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, original Scary Movie director Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans (Scary Movie 2), and Rick Alvarez (A Haunted House).
The film will slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final.
Scary Movie launched in 2000, followed by Scary Movie 2 in 2001. The Wayans’ involvement ended there, but the series continued with 2003’s Scary Movie 3, 2006’s Scary Movie 4, and 2013’s Scary Movie 5.
Regina Hall & Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans & Regina Hall on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Michael Tiddes & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Regina Hall & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
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