David Bruckner’s The Night House is supposedly the movie that led David Goyer to choose him to direct Hulu’s Hellraiser reboot, which is really interesting because there’s little about that movie that would make him a good choice for that role. Brucker is very methodical and measured in how he approaches his projects and typically […]
Most remakes are pointless, though there are instances they offer something the original didn’t. Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch’s remake of Pet Sematary is definitely the former. That it’s so similar to the 1989 movie–directed by Mary Lambert–which makes sense since they’re both based on the same source material. This leads to the question: Why […]
A new trailer for the upcoming reboot of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary dropped a day or two ago, and…it looks pretty good, which is understandable you realize it’s directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer (the directors of the great Starry Eyes). My greatest problem is that the original Pet Sematary (I literally just realized–after […]
Stephen King was a cottage industry long before this apparent frenzy–likely due to the bazillion dollars IT made; a movie that was…fine but by no means as anything as people seemed to think–to remake his books came into play. Which when you think about it is a bit odd because it’s not like King doesn’t […]
You’ve got to give it to Nicholas Winding Refn–he of the awfully cool name–who, visually speaking, is probably one of the most interesting directors working today. The way he uses color reminds me of Guillermo Del Toro, who also uses it to indicate a certain atmosphere and feel. So it goes without saying that the trailer is […]
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