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[R.I.P.] ‘Creepshow’ and ‘The Fog’ Actor Hal Holbrook Has Passed Away
A true legend in the world of acting whose career spanned an incredible seven decades, we’ve learned the sad news this morning that Hal Holbrook has passed away at 95 years old.
Throughout his career, Hal Holbrook earned ten Primetime Emmy awards nominations across three decades for his work in television, winning four of those awards for “The Bold Ones: The Senator,” “Pueblo,” “Lincoln” and “Portrait of America.” Holbrook was years later nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award at the Oscars in 2008, for Into the Wild.
Holbrook is also known for his long-running one-man-show Mark Twain Tonight!, along with the films Wild in the Streets, Magnum Force, Capricorn One, The Star Chamber, Wall Street, All the President’s Men, Water for Elephants, Promised Land and Spielberg’s Lincoln. Holbrook recently played the role of Nate Madock for five episodes of “Sons of Anarchy.”
Here in the world of horror, Hal Holbrook made his mark in the early 1980s, starring in both John Carpenter’s The Fog and George A. Romero & Stephen King’s Creepshow. Holbrook played Father Malone in The Fog, and Henry Northrup in Creepshow segment “The Crate.”
Other genre roles for Holbrook include Rituals (1977), The Unholy (1988), Hush (1998), and the episode titled “Final Appeal” from “The Outer Limits” that aired in the year 2000.
Hal Holbrook is survived by his children Victoria, David and Eve.
Are you watching? Ishana Night Shyamalan has clearly been paying attention to her father, M. Night Shyamalan. Not only is she following in his footsteps as a filmmaker, but she’s also embracing a similar mystique surrounding her work.
The new trailer for her feature directorial debut, The Watchers, gives viewers a taste of what’s in store. AreYouWatching.com has launched with even more clues.
Visit the site to join the mysterious creatures that lurk in the Irish forest as you observe a shelter. From the time the sun sets at 7:30 PM until it rises at 5:55 AM, four strangers — played by Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan, and Olwen Fouere — can be seen trapped inside.
You’ll find several interactive items. Click on the gramophone to set the mood with some spooky music. Tap on the birdcage to hear an ominous message from the parrot inside: “I’m going out, try not to die.” Press on the TV to watch clips from a fake reality show called Lair of Love. And if you tap on the window during the daytime … they’ll tap back.
There are also Easter eggs hidden at specific times. We’ve discovered three: a disorienting shot of Fanning’s character’s car at 5:52 PM, a closer view of the captives at 11:11 PM, and a glimpse of monitors at 12:46 AM. Let us know if you find any more in the comments…
The Watchers opens in theaters on June 14 via New Line Cinema. Ishana Night Shyamalan writes and directs, based on the 2022 novel of the same name by A.M. Shine. M. Night Shyamalan produces.
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