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26 Oct

How Hollywood Changed Werewolf Lore Forever

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“Beware the moon, lads,” two young Americans are told by a cranky pub regular in An American Werewolf in London (1981). Alas, the summer break tourists with sheep shit in their backpacks did not stick to the roads and instead crossed the moors beneath a full moon. After all, that guy sounded crazy. But by the movie’s end, who’s howling now? Horror movies make lycanthropes out to be lunatics, but only during certain moments of the lunar cycle. Why does the wolfman have to wait for a full moon to change though? There are werewolves reading this who are hungry…
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26 Oct

Oscar Isaac Just Gave Away What’s Holding Back the Metal Gear Solid Movie

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Rumors of a live-action Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation have been floating around almost as long as the franchise itself. Every year brings with it new rumors as well as new doubts that this Moby Dick of video game adaptations will ever actually happen. Still, what is a pipe dream to some is a guarantee for others, especially those with a vested interest in a Metal Gear film. And no, we’re not talking about Konami. In 2020, Deadline reported that Oscar Isaac, who you’ve seen most recently as the MCU’s Moon Knight and Duke Leto Atreides in Dune, had signed…
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25 Oct

James Gunn Just Confirmed New Era for DC Studios and DCEU Movies

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We don’t know where filmmaker James Gunn is at the moment, but we’d like to think he is dancing real groovy-like to some a.m. radio classics based on the news that was just made public. Because the Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad director is joining producer Peter Safran to act as co-chair and co-CEO of DC Studios. The stunning revelation, which was broken Tuesday afternoon by The Hollywood Reporter, confirms the pair will be reporting directly to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. They also replace former DC Films president Walter Hamada, who exited the company last…
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25 Oct

The School for Good and Evil Ending Explained: How It Sets Up Part 2

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The School for Good and Evil, Paul Feig’s fantasy adventure film based on Soman Chainani’s YA book series, explores the gray areas in fairy tale morality through a pair of girls who are whisked away to the titular Schools for Good and Evil (SGE for short). Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso), who has always considered herself something of an unappreciated Cinderella within the town of Gavaldon, longs to be the kind of princess she’s only read about in fairy tales. Agatha (Sofia Wylie), regarded as the town witch, only wants Sophie to be happy.  When Sophie writes to the SGE begging…
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25 Oct

The Batman Movie Universe Easter Egg Ties Together Riddler’s Entire History

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The Riddler: Year One is a unique, even historic comic book event. Not only is it a DC book that functions as a prequel to one of the biggest movies in the year in The Batman, telling the tale of how a put upon, socially awkward accountant eventually becomes a terrifying serial killer and Gotham City villain of note, but it’s written by the actor who played the character himself, Paul Dano. We spoke with Dano about how this book helped him utilize some of the backstory he had created in his mind when formulating his Riddler performance, and you…
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25 Oct

The Best Horror Movies Based on True Stories

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Despite what popular perception might be, a lot of horror fans watch scary movies to get away from life’s harsh realities. So in a way, basing a horror on something that actually happened defeats the point. But the fact is it’s all in the telling. We’ve been quite strict about not including things that were just loosely inspired by a real event, with the majority of the story a fiction. So no Psycho or Texas Chain Saw Massacre (both inspired by Ed Gein) and no The Exorcist (the book was inspired by a real boy) etc. Without further ado, here…
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24 Oct

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Trailer Isn’t Fooling Anyone

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It’s trailer time once again in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While the House of Mouse is largely focused on promoting Black Panther: Wakanda Forever right now, let’s remember Phase 5 is also kicking off with a bang thanks to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. In fact, things are looking darker than every before in the first trailer for the latter film. This doesn’t quite look like the usual comedic adventure you’ve come to expect from these subatomic heroes. The clue is in the name that Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang/Ant-Man will once again be sharing the screen with Evangeline Lilly’s Hope…
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24 Oct

Link Tank: Stream These Horror Movies FREE on Crackle in October

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The latest episode of POPPED CULTURE powered by Crackle features five *killer* titles. Satisfy your spooky season fix by catching horror favorites Train to Busan, Silent Scream, When A Stranger Calls, and The Blob on Crackle this month. Host Aaron Sagers and guest Chris Woolsey also discuss a bonus title, John Carpenter’s iconic slasher Halloween, which is streaming for FREE on RedBox. Additional spooky season titles streaming on Crackle this month include: V/H/S, Dahmer, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Lake Placid 2, and more. Check them out here. Watch Episode 3 of Popped Culture: Spooky Season Edition below. Simon Pegg…
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24 Oct

Barbarian: Where to Watch the Scariest Horror Movie on Streaming

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Every once in a while a horror movie comes along that takes audiences—and the box office—by surprise. Barbarian, written and directed by Zach Cregger and starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long, seems to be 2022’s out-of-nowhere surprise hit thanks to a wildly fun narrative structure with some genuinely jaw-dropping twists and turns. To say more about the film’s story would ruin the fun, and that sort of tight-lipped response from folks recommending the movie is part of the reason the film has grossed over $40 million worldwide on a $4 million budget. While smaller-budget comedies and dramas tend…
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24 Oct

DC Finally Confirms Future of Henry Cavill Superman Movies

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This article contains Black Adam spoilers. Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird! No, it’s a plane! No, it’s the social media cloud of millions of DC fans rejoicing because Superman is coming back to the big screen! Finally. Five years after Henry Cavill last donned the red and blue tights in the much maligned Justice League theatrical cut of 2017, and more than six since Superman got to be a marquee name (while sharing space with Batman), DC Comics’ Man of Tomorrow finally can look forward to a tomorrow on the big screen. This was strongly teased during…
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24 Oct

Upcoming Star Wars Movies and TV Series Release Schedule: Will a New Film Ever Come Out?

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There’s never been a better time to be a Star Wars fan in terms of quantity. There’s more Star Wars on screen and on the page now than ever before in the franchise’s history. From Disney+ series to video games to The High Republic books and Marvel comics, you can experience new adventures in the galaxy far, far away pretty much any way you want it right now. If Lucasfilm were able to get some movies off the ground, we’d be able to say that the franchise is firing on all cylinders. Whether or not we finally do get some…
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24 Oct

Outlander Star Breaks Down His Failed James Bond Audition

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Quick, what words come to mind when you hear the name “James Bond”? Sauve? Lethal? British? Those are all qualities enjoyed by Sam Heughan, which is why the Outlander star has been among the most popular fan casts for James Bond since Pierce Bronsan was removed from the role after 2002’s Die Another Day. And yet, one key quality kept Heughan from getting his license to kill. According to his new memoir Waypoints (via Entertainment Weekly), Heughan explained that he’s just too nice to be 007. The Scottish actor got his shot during pre-production on Casino Royale when he was…
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24 Oct

How Hocus Pocus Helped Popularize Halloween Outside U.S.

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Hocus Pocus (1993) might be a well-known staple of the Halloween season now, and one that brings spooky magic to households all over the globe, but back when writer/producer David Kirschner conceived it, there was nothing even remotely similar out there. It really was one of the first films to fully export the USA’s colorful autumnal holiday of fear across the world. Originally a much darker story that was conceived as a bedtime tale for Kirschner’s daughters, the producer was soon pitching the flick to studios as the quintessential Halloween movie. Leaning into the film’s original title of Halloween House,…
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24 Oct

How Prey For The Devil Found a New Angle on Exorcism Movies

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It turns out that Daniel Stamm’s 2010 film The Last Exorcism wasn’t the last after all. Twelve years after the release of the movie that put the German director on the horror map, he is returning to the subgenre for another possession movie. But in some ways, the two films couldn’t be more different. While The Last Exorcism played heavily on the ambiguity of whether the central character was afflicted or faking it, Prey for the Devil cuts right to the chase. “I love that because in most movies, you have to do the half an hour of doubt, and…
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23 Oct

Can Black Adam Box Office Save the DCEU?

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Black Adam just enjoyed the biggest solo opening of Dwayne Johnson’s career. That has got to feel good for an actor who’s pursued the DC antihero since at least 2006—back when he was first approached about playing the character in a Shazam! movie. Almost 20 years later, Johnson was able to finally don the black onesie in a solo movie where Black Adam was neither hero nor villain… in fact, he was quite a bit like Johnson’s old school WWF wrestling persona: The Rock, the People’s Champion. So the fact that Black Adam grossed $67 million over this past weekend…
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23 Oct

Best Horror Movies on Hulu for Halloween 2022

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Halloween is approaching, which means now is the best time of year to watch horror movies all night long for days on end. Problem is, there are so many scary movies to choose from that it’s hard not to get lost in the streaming service shuffle, scrolling aimlessly as dozens of movies you kind of want to watch fly across your screen. You can ultimately end up forgetting why you were looking in the first place. To help narrow things down, we’ve compiled a list of the best horror movies streaming on Hulu right now, from obscure indie midnight movies…
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23 Oct

Dracula Stands Above All Other Vampires and Horror Icons

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“To die, to truly be dead, that must be glorious,” Bela Lugosi’s eternal vampire once enthused on the silver screen. But true legendary antiheroes never attain the sweet reward of oblivion. Before Universal Pictures’ classic 1931 film, Dracula was most famous in English speaking countries as the repellent vampire created by author Bram Stoker in a minor publishing novelty from 1897. Gruesome but not significant. Now, of course, he casts the largest shadow in horror, and it grows with every swing of his cape. Historical Roots of Dracula’s Name Stoker only took the name of “Dracula” from Vlad Dracul III,…
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22 Oct

Is Zack Snyder’s Justice League Canon Thanks to Black Adam?

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The official position of Warner Bros. when it comes to DCEU movie continuity (inasmuch as that is even actually a thing these days) is that the beleaguered theatrical version of Justice League is the one that is official canon. The extended (and holy moley, we do mean extended) director’s cut known as Zack Snyder’s Justice League that you can watch on HBO Max is basically just a courtesy to the filmmaker and fans (not to mention a way for them to drive HBO Max subscriptions at launch). That being said, even as someone who doesn’t consider himself much of a…
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22 Oct

Best Horror Movies of 2022 (So Far)

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Horror movies experienced something of a renaissance during the previous decade. Once designated as a lesser genre because of critical narrow-mindedness (and also because there’s admittedly a fair amount of delicious schlock out there), stories of fear and pulse-pounding dread received reappraisal in the 2010s. While the term “elevated horror” feels like a back-handed compliment from those too obtuse to realize there has always been challenging, artful horror out there, recent times really have been boom years for ambitious young filmmakers, and a few veterans, pushing chillers to new heights. Which is why the general dearth of a wide-range of…
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22 Oct

Black Adam Ending Explained: Doctor Fate, The JSA, and the Future of Kahndaq

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This article contains Black Adam spoilers. Believe it or not, the ending of Black Adam is a lot deeper than your average superhero movie. At the very least, there’s more going on, and given how little backstory it provides for pivotal characters like Doctor Fate and Hawkman, not to mention the deep DC lore tied to Black Adam himself, means that a little extra context might help you keep track of everything that went down. Let’s try to get at this… Doctor Fate’s Vision The seeds for the ending of the film are planted midway through the film’s first act,…
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