INTERVIEW: MATT SOBEL ON EXPLORING THE HORRORS OF SELF WITH NAOMI WATTS IN “GOODNIGHT MOMMY” By SHAWN MACOMBER You’re skeptical of remakes? Well, so is director Matt Sobel. When producers Animal Kingdom asked the Take Me to the River/Brand New Cherry Flavor helmer...
INTERVIEW: JEFF FAHEY BRINGS A BIGGER BOAT (AND A BIT OF JAZZ) TO KILLER SHARK THRILLER “MANEATER” By SHAWN MACOMBER Back in the ’70s, Jeff Fahey spent a year working on a commercial fishing boat, going out for three or four weeks at a time on the open seas....
INTERVIEW: FINNISH ARTIST JUSSI PIIRONEN COLLABORATES WITH JOE R. LANSDALE TO BRING NEW LIFE TO “MUCHO MOJO” By SHAWN MACOMBER Culture is like water flowing down a mountain: It finds a way to where it needs to be. Which is to say, though Jussi Piironen grew up in a...
TERESSA LIANE ON BATTLING SHARKS AND TRAUMA IN “THE REEF: STALKED” By SHAWN MACOMBER Usually, when we’re talking about a shark film having heart, it’s a still half-beating one floating up out of a chomped-in-two chest cavity and taking a sunset cruise...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “GATLOPP” WRITER/STAR JIM MAHONEY ON BOARD GAMES AS A PORTAL TO SCARES, LAUGHS, & HELL By SHAWN MACOMBER Jean-Paul Sartre famously posited “Hell is other people,” but the raucous, imaginative new board game-centered horror-comedy GATLOPP...
