Interviews

‘Night Swim’ Director Bryce McGuire on Bringing His Haunted Swimming Pool to Life [Interview]

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This week brings the arrival of Night Swim, a high concept horror feature from writer/director Bryce McGuire that follows a family who awakens a terrifying supernatural presence in the backyard swimming pool of their new home. Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell (Overlord, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”) as Ray Waller, a […]

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Researcher Fred Andersson Talks History of UFOs in Sweden and New Paranormal Docuseries [Interview]

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Welcome back to DEAD Time. If you live in the U.S., you might assume that other countries’ views on the paranormal are the same as our own. This month, I had a fascinating chat with Fred Andersson, a Swedish investigator and researcher, who told me that discussions around high strangeness, and even the way it’s […]

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‘Thanksgiving’ – Nell Verlaque and Milo Manheim on Slasher Kills and Collaborating with Eli Roth

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A new holiday horror classic emerged this season with the arrival of Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, now playing in theaters and on PVOD.  In Thanksgiving, “After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.”  Roth directed from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Rendell.  For the slasher’s surprise […]

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Exclusive Interview: Matthew Lillard Is Excited to Have a Brand New Horror Movie Franchise to Call Home

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From Stu Macher in Scream to Shaggy in Scooby-Doo, Matthew Lillard is no stranger to iconic roles — but the fervent fanbase that accompanied his casting as William Afton in Five Nights at Freddy’s came as a surprise. The wildly popular video game franchise yielded Blumhouse’s highest-grossing film of all-time. The affable actor knew of […]

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“30 Coins” Season 2 Finally Gave Paul Giamatti the Chance to Play a James Bond Villain [Interview]

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This is it. The season two finale of the HBO Original Series “30 Coins” arrives on Monday, December 11, concluding a season long, high stakes battle between our heroes and ruthless enemies led by sycophant billionaire Christian Barbrow (Paul Giamatti). Expect things to get wild as hell. Directed and co-written by Álex de la Iglesia, along with […]

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‘I Know What You Need’: Julia Marchese on Maine, Monsters, and Directing a Stephen King Dollar Baby

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The following contains major spoilers for the short story “I Know What You Need.” Ever since Brian De Palma’s Carrie set fire to the silver screen, Stephen King has been one of the hottest names in cinematic horror. With hundreds of titles in his extensive catalog, there’s seemingly no end to the list of adaptable […]

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William Brent Bell Co-Wrote the Theme Song for Folk Horror Movie ‘Lord of Misrule’ [Interview]

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Director William Brent Bell (Orphan: First Kill) is back this week with brand new horror movie Lord of Misrule, a folk horror movie starring Tuppence Middleton and Ralph Ineson (The Witch, Green Knight). Magnet Releasing will release Lord of Misrule in theaters and on VOD on December 8, 2023. Tom de Ville’s (The Quiet Ones) script has been said to echo The Wicker Man and Midsommar. Like The Wicker […]

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Exclusive Interview: ‘Jason Goes to Hell’ Director Adam Marcus Talks ‘Secret Santa’ and What’s Next

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Horror fans will recognize Adam Marcus as the director of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and the co-writer of Texas Chainsaw 3D, two divisive but oft-discussed entries in their respective franchises. He recently returned to the genre to helm Secret Santa, a holiday horror-comedy streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX. The final installment in our […]

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‘Lord of Misrule’ – William Brent Bell on Casting Ralph Ineson in Villainous Role Written for a Woman

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There’s a familiar face leading the folk horror in Orphan: First Kill director William Brent Bell‘s Lord of Misrule. Ralph Ineson (The Witch, Green Knight) takes a villainous turn in Bell’s latest, playing a character initially written as a woman. Magnet Releasing will release Lord of Misrule in theaters and on VOD on December 8, 2023. The film follows “Rebecca Holland (Tuppence Middleton), who has […]

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‘The Sacrifice Game’ Director Jenn Wexler on Keeping Christmas Bloody and Her Horror Influences

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Director/Producer Jenn Wexler’s sophomore feature, The Sacrifice Game, arrives on Shudder on December 8, just in time to spread holiday fear for the season. With co-writer Sean Redlitz, Wexler’s latest infuses Yuletide horror with a maniacal Satanic cult set at a boarding school in the ’70s. Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Olympian Gus Kenworthy, Chloë Levine, Madison Baines, Derek Johns, […]

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‘Raging Grace’ – Paris Zarcilla on Crafting Personal Horror Story and ‘Rage’ Trilogy Plans

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Billed as a “coming of rage” story, writer/director Paris Zarcilla’s genre-bending debut feature, Raging Grace, arrives in limited theaters today. The gothic tale leans into psychological and the supernatural, but all of it is deeply personal to the filmmaker. And it’s only the beginning of a planned “Rage” trilogy. The film follows “Joy, an undocumented Filipino immigrant who […]

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Exclusive Interview: Writer Adam Marcus Reveals the Version of ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ We Never Got

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Horror fans will recognize Adam Marcus as the director of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and the co-writer of Texas Chainsaw, two divisive but oft-discussed entries in their respective franchises. He recently returned to the genre to helm Secret Santa, a holiday horror-comedy streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX. The second installment in our three-part […]

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Exclusive Interview: Director Adam Marcus Reflects on ‘Jason Goes to Hell’ and Teases Creighton Duke Spinoff Movie

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Horror fans will recognize Adam Marcus as the director of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and the co-writer of Texas Chainsaw, two divisive but oft-discussed entries in their respective franchises. He recently returned to the genre to helm Secret Santa, a holiday horror-comedy streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX. The first installment in our three-part […]

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‘Biters and Bleeders’: Charlie Carson Monroe on Demonic Bed Bugs and the Beauty in the Grotesque [Interview]

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Few sensations are as unnerving as an insect scuttling across your skin in the dead of night. Is that tiny pinprick on the tip of your toe just an itch or merely the beginning of an infestation that will ravage your skin and destroy your sanity? As bed bugs make a global resurgence (sadly), writer […]

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“Goosebumps” – Creators of Disney Series on Breathing New Life into R.L. Stine’s Universe [Interview]

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The monstrous Goosebumps handle has dripped and oozed its green-tinged ichor for the past three decades, seeping into the imaginations of the countless kids who dared traverse the pages of R.L. Stine’s paperback terrors. In time the words on the page leapt onto the screen and eventually into theaters, transforming playfully frightful prose into equally […]

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