Haunted (1995)
Lewis Gilbert made a literal ton of movies — more than forty over six decades — including Sink the Bismark!, Alfie, You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and Educating Rita, Here, he’s doing an adaption of a James Herbert novel. You may know the writer from his multiple books dealing with plagues of rats which were turned […]
Clownhouse (1989)
Impressed by writer/director Victor Salva (Jeepers Creepers, Powder) short Something in the Basement, Francis Ford Coppola gave him $250,000 to make Clownhouse, gave him the same cameras George Lucas shot American Graffiti with and even allowed him to film it in his Napa Valley home. Clownhouse premiered at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival and believe it or not, it was nominated […]
Ghost Ship (2002)
Steve Beck came from ILM — where he did effects on The Abyss, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The Hunt for Red October — before he directed 2001’s Thir13en Ghosts. The follow-up, Ghost Ship, starts with one of the most audacious openings I’ve ever seen in a horror film. That first scene, set in May of 1962 aboard […]
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