The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are back this year and bigger than ever.
Once again airing on AMC’s Shudder, the 2024 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards has shifted the annual awards show’s shift to October; as such, the window of this year’s eligible horrors is an expanded one, encompassing all of 2023 and the first half of 2024. That means a much bigger selection of horror titles to pull from, and with the expanded categories this year, that means a massive list of 46 nominees. They even have a new category this year: Best Video Game.
Here’s where you come in; Fangoria needs your vote to decide on the winners! We have it on good authority that some of the categories are extremely competitive right now. And voting happens to be officially open for the awards show.
Participants can cast their votes via the official Fangoria website at www.fangoria.com/vote/. Voting...
Once again airing on AMC’s Shudder, the 2024 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards has shifted the annual awards show’s shift to October; as such, the window of this year’s eligible horrors is an expanded one, encompassing all of 2023 and the first half of 2024. That means a much bigger selection of horror titles to pull from, and with the expanded categories this year, that means a massive list of 46 nominees. They even have a new category this year: Best Video Game.
Here’s where you come in; Fangoria needs your vote to decide on the winners! We have it on good authority that some of the categories are extremely competitive right now. And voting happens to be officially open for the awards show.
Participants can cast their votes via the official Fangoria website at www.fangoria.com/vote/. Voting...
- 7/17/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The only award season that matters is here! Joking (kind of), but seriously, Fangoria just released the complete list of nominees for the 2024 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. Considering how often horror gets shut out of the mainstream award shows, it's nice to have at least one thing we can rely on year after year.
Last year's Chainsaw Awards included big wins for movies like The Black Phone, Terrifier 2, and Prey. This time, the categories are again stacked, with films like Abigail, Evil Dead Rise, The First Omen, Talk To Me, Late Night with the Devil, and many more going head to head.
Specific performances are also being highlighted, like Tobin Bell in Saw X and Kathryn Newton for both Lisa Frankenstein and Abigail. It's been a fantastic few years for horror, and it'll be exciting to see which movies pull ahead this time around.
In addition to popular categories such as Best Wide Release,...
Last year's Chainsaw Awards included big wins for movies like The Black Phone, Terrifier 2, and Prey. This time, the categories are again stacked, with films like Abigail, Evil Dead Rise, The First Omen, Talk To Me, Late Night with the Devil, and many more going head to head.
Specific performances are also being highlighted, like Tobin Bell in Saw X and Kathryn Newton for both Lisa Frankenstein and Abigail. It's been a fantastic few years for horror, and it'll be exciting to see which movies pull ahead this time around.
In addition to popular categories such as Best Wide Release,...
- 7/8/2024
- by Mads Lennon
- 1428 Elm
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
King Kong (1976) SteelBook 4K Uhd from Paramount
The 1976 remake of King Kong is now available on SteelBook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray via Paramount. The 134-minute theatrical version is presented in 4K with Hdr., while the 182-minute TV cut is included on Blu-ray. No other special features are included.
From producer Dino De Laurentiis, the monster movie is directed by John Guillermin and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Flash Gordon). Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, and Jessica Lange star.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Apparel from Gutter Garbs
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter turns 40 tomorrow, and Gutter Garbs is celebrating with a design by Sam Coyne.
T-shirts for $30, long sleeves for $40, zip-up hoodies for...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
King Kong (1976) SteelBook 4K Uhd from Paramount
The 1976 remake of King Kong is now available on SteelBook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray via Paramount. The 134-minute theatrical version is presented in 4K with Hdr., while the 182-minute TV cut is included on Blu-ray. No other special features are included.
From producer Dino De Laurentiis, the monster movie is directed by John Guillermin and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Flash Gordon). Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, and Jessica Lange star.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Apparel from Gutter Garbs
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter turns 40 tomorrow, and Gutter Garbs is celebrating with a design by Sam Coyne.
T-shirts for $30, long sleeves for $40, zip-up hoodies for...
- 4/12/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Plot: A young novitiate in Rome (Nell Tiger Free) is warned by an ex-communicated priest (Ralph Ineson) that she’s at the center of a sinister conspiracy at her church dedicated to spawning the anti-Christ.
Review: I’ve always really enjoyed The Omen as a franchise. Even as a kid, I found something about the original trilogy centring around Damien Thorn especially gripping. However, I never had much use for the cheap TV movie sequel (Omen IV: The Awakening) or the scene-for-scene remake, which, despite a game cast, didn’t come close to recapturing the grisly spirit of Richard Donner’s original.
As such, I figured The First Omen would be just another would-be franchise starter, but I have to give 20th Century Studios and Disney credit – they made one hell of a cool horror flick (pun intended). In some ways, it’s a bit like Wonka (bear with...
Review: I’ve always really enjoyed The Omen as a franchise. Even as a kid, I found something about the original trilogy centring around Damien Thorn especially gripping. However, I never had much use for the cheap TV movie sequel (Omen IV: The Awakening) or the scene-for-scene remake, which, despite a game cast, didn’t come close to recapturing the grisly spirit of Richard Donner’s original.
As such, I figured The First Omen would be just another would-be franchise starter, but I have to give 20th Century Studios and Disney credit – they made one hell of a cool horror flick (pun intended). In some ways, it’s a bit like Wonka (bear with...
- 4/5/2024
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Sanguis bibimus! Corpus edimus! In a partnership between Mutant, Hollywood Records, and 20th Century Films, the haunting soundtrack to "The First Omen" can soon be yours on vinyl. The prequel to Richard Donner's 1976 masterpiece, director Arkashsa Stevenson's most excellent "The First Omen" is the rare example of a legacy film done right, and what /Film's Witney Seibold described in his review, as "a film of dank, bloody, spittle-flecked dread, made no less powerful by the foregone conclusion." Donner's original film shocked audiences upon release and is believed to this day to be a cursed film, but Stevenson's prequel film had to fight with the MPA to avoid an Nc-17 rating, so the franchise tradition of scaring the squares is alive and well.
"The Omen" was scored by Jerry Goldsmith, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Score, but took home the "Best Original Song" statue for the movie's theme "Ave Satani,...
"The Omen" was scored by Jerry Goldsmith, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Score, but took home the "Best Original Song" statue for the movie's theme "Ave Satani,...
- 4/5/2024
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
The First Omen releases in theaters on April 5th, 2024.
I don’t know to what extent The Omen (1976) is considered a classic, but the truth is that it was one of the most profitable films of its respective year, it has one of the most memorable scores of that decade – so much so that it even won an Oscar, something extremely rare considering the genre – and, of course, it spawned several sequels and even a remake over all these years. The First Omen is the sixth installment of the franchise and, as the title indicates, it’s a prequel to the original movie. It’s also the directorial debut of Arkasha Stevenson who also co-writes the screenplay along with Tim Smith and Keith Tomas (Firestarter).
Margaret Daino (Nell Tiger Free) is a young American woman sent to Rome to start a devout life for the church, but she encounters strange...
I don’t know to what extent The Omen (1976) is considered a classic, but the truth is that it was one of the most profitable films of its respective year, it has one of the most memorable scores of that decade – so much so that it even won an Oscar, something extremely rare considering the genre – and, of course, it spawned several sequels and even a remake over all these years. The First Omen is the sixth installment of the franchise and, as the title indicates, it’s a prequel to the original movie. It’s also the directorial debut of Arkasha Stevenson who also co-writes the screenplay along with Tim Smith and Keith Tomas (Firestarter).
Margaret Daino (Nell Tiger Free) is a young American woman sent to Rome to start a devout life for the church, but she encounters strange...
- 4/5/2024
- by Manuel São Bento
- FandomWire
The First Omen Movie Review Rating:
Star Cast: Nell Tiger Free, Tawkeef Barhom, Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy
Director: Arkasha Stevenson
The First Omen Movie Review Out ( Photo Credit – IMDb )
What’s Good: The story and the performances
What’s Bad: The first half is a bit slow
Loo Break: You can take one in the first half if you can’t control
Watch or Not?: If you are craving some good horror & are a fan of the franchise – Yes
Language: English
Available On: Theatrical release
Runtime: 120 Minutes
User Rating:
The First Omen is a prequel to The Omen (1976) that gave us the horrific world of Damien and everything evil that followed. The 2024 film is set in 1971. Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), a young American, arrives in Rome to work at the Vizzardeli Orphanage, where she will take the veil. The more time Margaret spends in the orphanage, the...
Star Cast: Nell Tiger Free, Tawkeef Barhom, Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy
Director: Arkasha Stevenson
The First Omen Movie Review Out ( Photo Credit – IMDb )
What’s Good: The story and the performances
What’s Bad: The first half is a bit slow
Loo Break: You can take one in the first half if you can’t control
Watch or Not?: If you are craving some good horror & are a fan of the franchise – Yes
Language: English
Available On: Theatrical release
Runtime: 120 Minutes
User Rating:
The First Omen is a prequel to The Omen (1976) that gave us the horrific world of Damien and everything evil that followed. The 2024 film is set in 1971. Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), a young American, arrives in Rome to work at the Vizzardeli Orphanage, where she will take the veil. The more time Margaret spends in the orphanage, the...
- 4/5/2024
- by Pooja Darade
- KoiMoi
I am not sure the world asked for yet another take on 20th Century Fox’s Omen franchise, the constantly regurgitated series with Damien (who made the numbers 666 iconic) and company. Since the 1976 original, when Damien first appeared in the movie with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick, we have had Damien: Omen II, The Final Conflict, Omen IV: The Awakening (in which a girl becomes the antichrist for the first time), the 2006 remake The Omen, and even a 2016 Damien TV series. Of course, like all these horror franchises, it is inevitable someone would come up with the idea for an origin story, and that is what we now have with The First Omen, which is, of course, not the first, just the latest. But, set in 1971, it does attempt to take us right to the doorstep of the actual first, the Richard Donner-directed 1976 starter.
The past few months have...
The past few months have...
- 4/4/2024
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Donner’s The Omen begins June 6, at 6 am in Rome, with the birth of the Antichrist and his adoption into an affluent American family. Damien Thorn’s birth and subsequent reign of terror, preordained by franchise canon, make approaching a prequel to a heralded horror classic a daunting task. Director Arkasha Stevenson makes it look effortless with The First Omen, a masterclass in form matched by its compelling horror and characters.
The First Omen, set in 1971, follows American novitiate Margaret Daino (“Servant” star Nell Tiger Free) as she’s sent to Rome to work in an orphanage before she takes the veil. As Margaret adapts to not just her new vocation but an entirely new country and a city in the throes of unrest, she finds herself drawn to socially withdrawn orphan Carlita (Nicole Sorace). It’s through her bond with and concern for Carlita that Margaret notices something amiss within the convent.
The First Omen, set in 1971, follows American novitiate Margaret Daino (“Servant” star Nell Tiger Free) as she’s sent to Rome to work in an orphanage before she takes the veil. As Margaret adapts to not just her new vocation but an entirely new country and a city in the throes of unrest, she finds herself drawn to socially withdrawn orphan Carlita (Nicole Sorace). It’s through her bond with and concern for Carlita that Margaret notices something amiss within the convent.
- 4/4/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
When a young American woman is dispatched to Rome to embark on a life devoted to serving the Catholic Church she encounters a malevolent force that prompts her to question her own beliefs. Unveiling a chilling conspiracy aimed at ushering in the birth of pure evil, she soon finds herself grappling with profound existential doubts and utter terror.
Sound familiar? Remarkably, this isn’t the plot of the recently acclaimed horror film Immaculate starring Sidney Sweeney, which has garnered immense praise from horror enthusiasts and is poised to join the ranks of cult classics. Instead, it serves as the premise for the latest installment in the long-standing Omen franchise, set for release a mere two weeks after Sweeney’s film.
Directed by Arkasha Stevenson and based on a story by screenwriter Ben Jacoby, The First Omen serves as a direct prequel to Richard Donner and David Seltzer’s 1976 film and...
Sound familiar? Remarkably, this isn’t the plot of the recently acclaimed horror film Immaculate starring Sidney Sweeney, which has garnered immense praise from horror enthusiasts and is poised to join the ranks of cult classics. Instead, it serves as the premise for the latest installment in the long-standing Omen franchise, set for release a mere two weeks after Sweeney’s film.
Directed by Arkasha Stevenson and based on a story by screenwriter Ben Jacoby, The First Omen serves as a direct prequel to Richard Donner and David Seltzer’s 1976 film and...
- 4/4/2024
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Amélie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren, Nancy Lenehan, Wyatt Russell, and Kerry Condon in ‘Night Swim’ (Photo © 2023 Universal Studios)
January is here. That’s the time when studios will traditionally and unceremoniously dump movies in which they don’t have a lot of confidence. That usually includes a lot of horror movies. But last year, January gave us such well-received offerings as M3GAN, Knock at the Cabin, and Skinamarink. So, what does this January have in store for us? We shall see. First up – the new Blumhouse Studios movie Night Swim.
Night Swim is about a former baseball player named Ray Waller (Overlord’s Wyatt Russell) who is suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. Along with his wife Eve (Kerry Condon from The Banshees of Inisherin) and kids Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and Elliot (Fear the Walking Dead’s Gavin Warren), he seems to find...
January is here. That’s the time when studios will traditionally and unceremoniously dump movies in which they don’t have a lot of confidence. That usually includes a lot of horror movies. But last year, January gave us such well-received offerings as M3GAN, Knock at the Cabin, and Skinamarink. So, what does this January have in store for us? We shall see. First up – the new Blumhouse Studios movie Night Swim.
Night Swim is about a former baseball player named Ray Waller (Overlord’s Wyatt Russell) who is suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. Along with his wife Eve (Kerry Condon from The Banshees of Inisherin) and kids Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and Elliot (Fear the Walking Dead’s Gavin Warren), he seems to find...
- 1/4/2024
- by James Jay Edwards
- Showbiz Junkies
With the Technical Test for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre just a week away, and to go along with the release of the “Lo-fi Leatherface” Youtube channel, Gun Interactive has released to digital streaming services the Official Soundtrack to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. To go along with the soundtrack, they’ve also released “Remains”, a companion album by Gun CEO Wes Keltner and composer Jim Bonney.
Now digitally available on Spotify and Apple Music, the pair of albums allow fans to get a taste of what’s in store. For example, “The Massacre”, the main theme song from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre soundtrack, is composed of pig screams, chainsaws, and scraped metal, as well as other equipment like the Soma Lyra drone machine. It also features Keltner performing on the Apprehension Engine, the custom-made musical instrument played by the likes of Mark Korven and Trent Reznor, and which...
Now digitally available on Spotify and Apple Music, the pair of albums allow fans to get a taste of what’s in store. For example, “The Massacre”, the main theme song from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre soundtrack, is composed of pig screams, chainsaws, and scraped metal, as well as other equipment like the Soma Lyra drone machine. It also features Keltner performing on the Apprehension Engine, the custom-made musical instrument played by the likes of Mark Korven and Trent Reznor, and which...
- 5/19/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Robert Eggers movie The Lighthouse has gotten a 4K Ultra HD upgrade from A24 in the form of a Special Collector’s Edition release that’s now available from their online shop.
The Special collector’s edition of Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is available in Standard Blu-ray and—for the very first time!—4K Uhd with a new Hdr master.
Featuring original artwork by Tobias Kaspar and a 64-page interior booklet, the printed discpack comes enclosed in an embossed wave-textured slipcase.
Disc extras include:
Exclusive mini documentary on composer Mark Korven Costume walkthrough and interview with costume designer Linda Muir 2019 making-of featurette Deleted scenes
Book contents include:
Storyboard excerpts by David Cullen Production design drawings by Craig Lathrop BTS photography by Eric Chakeen Bib-front shirt pattern made by Marvin Schlichting to Linda Muir’s design
You can grab your copy on Blu-ray ($45) or 4K Uhd ($47) from A24’s website right now.
The Special collector’s edition of Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is available in Standard Blu-ray and—for the very first time!—4K Uhd with a new Hdr master.
Featuring original artwork by Tobias Kaspar and a 64-page interior booklet, the printed discpack comes enclosed in an embossed wave-textured slipcase.
Disc extras include:
Exclusive mini documentary on composer Mark Korven Costume walkthrough and interview with costume designer Linda Muir 2019 making-of featurette Deleted scenes
Book contents include:
Storyboard excerpts by David Cullen Production design drawings by Craig Lathrop BTS photography by Eric Chakeen Bib-front shirt pattern made by Marvin Schlichting to Linda Muir’s design
You can grab your copy on Blu-ray ($45) or 4K Uhd ($47) from A24’s website right now.
- 3/20/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Music is intrinsically and irrevocably intertwined with cinema; it is never more vital than in horror. What builds mood, tension, and fear better than sound design and an unsettling score?
This Gift Guide is for the music lover. More specifically, it’s for the horror fan that collects vinyl soundtracks, from recent releases to recently unearthed rarities and beyond.
Here’s what you need this year…
The Black Phone Ost
“The score for the film was created by composer Mark Korven, the mastermind behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Into the Tall Grass. Korven is a Toronto-based award winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his innovation and experimental approach to film scoring. In 2016, Korven conceived the notorious horror musical instrument, The Apprehension Engine.”
In other words, a unique horror film score worth grabbing on vinyl.
Firestarter (2022) Ost
“The horror master John Carpenter is back with his Halloween franchise...
This Gift Guide is for the music lover. More specifically, it’s for the horror fan that collects vinyl soundtracks, from recent releases to recently unearthed rarities and beyond.
Here’s what you need this year…
The Black Phone Ost
“The score for the film was created by composer Mark Korven, the mastermind behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Into the Tall Grass. Korven is a Toronto-based award winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his innovation and experimental approach to film scoring. In 2016, Korven conceived the notorious horror musical instrument, The Apprehension Engine.”
In other words, a unique horror film score worth grabbing on vinyl.
Firestarter (2022) Ost
“The horror master John Carpenter is back with his Halloween franchise...
- 12/9/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Since the beginning, writer/director Scott Derrickson has had a varied career in horror filmmaking, one that even branched out into the comic book movie juggernaut the MCU and gifted Marvel their most psychedelic film in 2016’s Doctor Strange, To date, his greatest achievement has to be the truly disturbing 2012 Ethan Hawke starring chiller Sinister…until now. As Derrickson re-teams with Hawke for The Black Phone, a film that is undisputedly his greatest work yet as a filmmaker.
Based on the 2004 short story by Joe Hill, The Black Phone sees a child abductor/murderer known as ‘The Grabber’ (Hawke) petrify a Denver suburb in 1978. Brother and sister Finney (Mason Thames) and Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) fear for who is next, as Gwen keeps experiencing visions that are coming true. Inevitably The Grabber strikes again, this time capturing Finney, but this lad is not going to play the masked madman’s twisted games,...
Based on the 2004 short story by Joe Hill, The Black Phone sees a child abductor/murderer known as ‘The Grabber’ (Hawke) petrify a Denver suburb in 1978. Brother and sister Finney (Mason Thames) and Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) fear for who is next, as Gwen keeps experiencing visions that are coming true. Inevitably The Grabber strikes again, this time capturing Finney, but this lad is not going to play the masked madman’s twisted games,...
- 7/29/2022
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
Writer/director Johannes Roberts discusses his favorite Stephen King adaptations of the ’80s with host Josh Olson.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
47 Meters Down (2017)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Great White a.k.a. The Last Shark (1981)
The Exorcist III (1990) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City (2021)
The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018)
Carrie (1976) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
The Shining (1980) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary
Children of the Corn (1984)
The Night Flier (1997)
Christine (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary
Cujo (1983) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary
Roar (1981) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
The Thing (1982) – Jesus Trevino’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s’ Blu-ray review
Halloween (1978) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing, Alex Kirschenbaum’s timeline and movie power rankings
Assault On Precinct 13 (1976) – Neil Marshall’s trailer commentary
Pet Sematary (1989) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review
Pet Sematary (2019)
Blade Runner...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
47 Meters Down (2017)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Great White a.k.a. The Last Shark (1981)
The Exorcist III (1990) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City (2021)
The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018)
Carrie (1976) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
The Shining (1980) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary
Children of the Corn (1984)
The Night Flier (1997)
Christine (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary
Cujo (1983) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary
Roar (1981) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
The Thing (1982) – Jesus Trevino’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s’ Blu-ray review
Halloween (1978) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing, Alex Kirschenbaum’s timeline and movie power rankings
Assault On Precinct 13 (1976) – Neil Marshall’s trailer commentary
Pet Sematary (1989) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review
Pet Sematary (2019)
Blade Runner...
- 11/16/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Emmy-award winning composer Joseph LoDuca has been providing horror fans with delightfully ominous music since he created the scary score for The Evil Dead, and his artistic talents can currently be heard on Don Mancini's Chucky series on Syfy and USA Network. We had the great pleasure of catching up with LoDuca in our latest Q&a feature to discuss how he got involved with the beloved new series, creating the main theme for the iconic Good Guys doll, and he also reflects on returning to the Evil Dead franchise for Evil Dead: The Game.
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer these for us! Having collaborated with Don Mancini on Curse of Chucky and Cult of Chucky, when did you first become aware that there was going to be a Chucky series and what discussions or direction did you initially receive from Don Mancini?
The...
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer these for us! Having collaborated with Don Mancini on Curse of Chucky and Cult of Chucky, when did you first become aware that there was going to be a Chucky series and what discussions or direction did you initially receive from Don Mancini?
The...
- 11/16/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
An electro-acoustic cello for a comic-book villain. Sampled whistling for young revolutionaries in a Latin American jungle. A German rendition of a Beatles song for a satire on the Third Reich. A retro synth score for the tribulations of a gambling addict. Angry, dissonant music for two men alone in a 19th-century lighthouse. Avant-garde saxophone solos digitally inserted into a soundtrack.
The rulebook for film composers has been thrown out, it seems. A number of this year’s films feature daring musical approaches, suggesting that filmmakers are more open to unusual soundscapes, which in turn makes their films even more interesting and provocative.
“It seems like there’s an openness of spirit, especially on the outskirts of Hollywood,” says Mica Levi, the British composer whose overpowering music for “Jackie” earned her a 2016 Oscar nomination. “There are always people who are interested in making something they haven’t seen, and therefore are open to taking risks.
The rulebook for film composers has been thrown out, it seems. A number of this year’s films feature daring musical approaches, suggesting that filmmakers are more open to unusual soundscapes, which in turn makes their films even more interesting and provocative.
“It seems like there’s an openness of spirit, especially on the outskirts of Hollywood,” says Mica Levi, the British composer whose overpowering music for “Jackie” earned her a 2016 Oscar nomination. “There are always people who are interested in making something they haven’t seen, and therefore are open to taking risks.
- 11/14/2019
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
It’s the 1890s. The world is a sea of mist, and a boat punches through it, foghorns blasting and engine chugging. Were it not for the waves breaking under the bow you couldn’t quite tell where the ocean ends and the sky begins: it hangs like some cerebral and color-scrubbed obstacle in a rainy haze. Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse opens with this oneiric, perturbing vision, and hangs in that same nebulous universe all throughout, straddling dreams and nightmares. A follow-up to his fulminating 2015 folk horror debut The Witch, this is an entrancing and feverish descent into hell, peppered with a dark, alcohol-fueled, wry comic edge. Aboard the steamboat are Willem Dafoe’s Thomas Wake and Robert Pattinson’s Ephraim Winslow. Wake is spirited-eyed, spiky-haired and rotten-toothed ex-sailor with a penchant for liquor, flatulence, and sea-dog stories. Winslow is his right hand—a bookish, taciturn, and cash-strapped former logger...
- 10/20/2019
- MUBI
Anyone who saw Robert Eggers’ prior outing The Witch knows that he’s a pretty weird dude. His film are odd, to say the least. Well, opening this week, his newest outing, The Lighthouse, manages to make The Witch appear mainstream by comparison. Ponder that for a moment. Though featuring a pair of bigger names in his cast this time, Eggers is doubling down on bizarre imagery and unusual filmmaking. A24 is going to have an interesting time convincing audiences to see this one. Luckily, one thing they have on their side is that, if you gird your loins and subject yourself to its weirdness, a certain type of cinematic nirvana takes over. It’s hard to explain, but while this isn’t a great work, it’s a good and, more importantly, an interesting one. Sometimes, that’s all that matters. The movie is described on IMDb as “The...
- 10/14/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
From the stark contrast “Stuck In The Middle With You” provided for Mr. Blonde torturing a cop in “Reservior Dogs” to Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega’s iconic dance to Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” in “Pulp Fiction,” Quentin Tarantino is a proven master in choosing just the right song, and the extensive track list in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is no exception.
Tarantino discussed the music of his latest film during a 90-minute event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles this week alongside guests who included Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders, a band that contributed three pieces of sonic ’60s history to the movie.
Here are five things we learned from the event.
For the opening credits, the song made the sequence
The director said he had two songs in mind for the opening-credit sequence, which involves scenes of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie...
Tarantino discussed the music of his latest film during a 90-minute event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles this week alongside guests who included Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders, a band that contributed three pieces of sonic ’60s history to the movie.
Here are five things we learned from the event.
For the opening credits, the song made the sequence
The director said he had two songs in mind for the opening-credit sequence, which involves scenes of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie...
- 10/6/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Filming “The Lighthouse” was an arduous affair for director Robert Eggers, his crew, and his leading actors Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe (the shoot was so physically demanding that Pattinson almost punched Dafoe), but apparently no one went as mad as Pattinson. A new Esquire profile of Pattinson and Dafoe written by editor-in-chief Alex Bilmes reveals the extreme lengths Pattinson went to embody his lighthouse keeper character. Pattinson did not go fully method during the entire production, but when it came time to film he fully threw himself into his character’s shoes. The decision meant that as Pattinson’s character went mad in the script so did the actor on set.
“Because you’re playing a mad person, it means you can sort of be mad the whole time,” Pattinson said. “Well, not the whole time, but for like an hour before the scene. You can literally just be...
“Because you’re playing a mad person, it means you can sort of be mad the whole time,” Pattinson said. “Well, not the whole time, but for like an hour before the scene. You can literally just be...
- 10/4/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Robert Eggers’ much-anticipated followup to his breakout horror hit “The Witch” follows a pair of unlikely co-workers — Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as 1890s lighthouse keepers in remote New England — so it’s only fitting that the filmmaker would reunite with one of his own previous compatriots to craft the sonic chills for “The Lighthouse.” Eggers has reteamed with his “Witch” composer Mark Korven for “The Lighthouse,” resulting in a bombastic and bold musical accompaniment that amps up the film’s chills and drama to full effect.
“The Lighthouse” debuted in May to critical acclaim at Directors’ Fortnight, where it was named the best film of the Cannes’ sidebar by the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci). In his A- review out of Cannes, IndieWire’s chief critic Eric Kohn raved, “The film is a stunning showcase for Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to unleash their wildest extremes, by positioning...
“The Lighthouse” debuted in May to critical acclaim at Directors’ Fortnight, where it was named the best film of the Cannes’ sidebar by the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci). In his A- review out of Cannes, IndieWire’s chief critic Eric Kohn raved, “The film is a stunning showcase for Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to unleash their wildest extremes, by positioning...
- 9/25/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The entire film world will be anticipating the buzz around “The Irishman” when it kicks off the New York Film Festival this week, but as Nyff launches the second half of the fall festival season, there is a lot more to its lineup than opening night. Each year, the New York gathering loads up on the some of the buzziest titles of an awards season in the making, but its tightly curated lineup ranges from hidden gems to new documentaries. Some of the most exciting films from earlier festivals — such as “Marriage Story,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” and “Parasite” — will receive a new wave of attention, but no must-see list of Nyff titles is complete without a few discoveries.
You can’t go wrong with these 10 highlights from this year’s lineup. The 2019 New York Film Festival runs September 27 – October 13, and you check out the main slate right here.
You can’t go wrong with these 10 highlights from this year’s lineup. The 2019 New York Film Festival runs September 27 – October 13, and you check out the main slate right here.
- 9/25/2019
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Christian Blauvelt, David Ehrlich, Tambay Obenson and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse builds off the contradictory nature of its vocational beacon. Designed to steer sea voyagers away from the cusps of danger, it’s a heralded symbol of security, marking the end of a journey. But sailors who use the light as a guide do so with the knowledge that the threat only grows the nearer the light gets. With his highly anticipated follow-up to 2015’s The Witch, Eggers confirms that this tenet applies beyond the rocky barriers of sea travel all the way to the source, where insanity boils into practice.
Much like his 2015 debut, the thrill comes in observing unseen menaces take their toll on an intimate cast of characters. The acute descent into madness is propelled once again by isolation, unforgiving elements, and twirling suspicions. But set against the backdrop of late 19th century New England, the addition of booze barrels leaves plenty of room...
Much like his 2015 debut, the thrill comes in observing unseen menaces take their toll on an intimate cast of characters. The acute descent into madness is propelled once again by isolation, unforgiving elements, and twirling suspicions. But set against the backdrop of late 19th century New England, the addition of booze barrels leaves plenty of room...
- 9/6/2019
- by Luke Parker
- We Got This Covered
For all its finely considered dread, the reason Robert Eggers’ ungulate-deifying debut The Witch made such a cultural mark had far more to do with its sense of mischief. Sure, puritan religious life is fine, Eggers seemed to say, but have you ever tried living deliciously? His second feature, The Lighthouse, brilliantly confirms that taste for devilry and narrative subterfuge. It’s a ghost story drenched in gritty, saltwater-flecked period accuracy and anchored in cautionary maritime fables, but one with a boozy, amorous, and darkly comic edge that made me think of everything from The Birds to Ben Wheatley’s similarly trippy A Field in England. Needless to say, it rules.
Shot in black-and-white on a piece of Atlantic rock off the coast of Nova Scotia, Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson give two outstanding performances in what can hardly have been the most pleasant shoot. A story goes that when...
Shot in black-and-white on a piece of Atlantic rock off the coast of Nova Scotia, Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson give two outstanding performances in what can hardly have been the most pleasant shoot. A story goes that when...
- 5/19/2019
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
For his follow-up to The Witch, Robert Eggers launches a salty story of two men trapped in a turret. Think Steptoe and Son at sea and in hell
Robert Eggers’s gripping nightmare shows two lighthouse-keepers in 19th-century Maine going melancholy mad together: a toxic marriage, a dance of death. It is explosively scary and captivatingly beautiful in cinematographer Jarin Blaschke’s fierce monochrome, like a daguerreotype of fear. And the performances from Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson have a sledgehammer punch – Pattinson, in particular, just gets better and better.
There is rare excitement in seeing these two actors butt heads and trade difficult, complex period dialogue with such mastery and flair. And the screenplay by Robert and Max Eggers is a delicious and often outrageous homage to maritime speech and sea-dog lore, saltier than an underwater sodium chloride factory. Their script is barnacled with resemblances to Coleridge, Shakespeare, Melville...
Robert Eggers’s gripping nightmare shows two lighthouse-keepers in 19th-century Maine going melancholy mad together: a toxic marriage, a dance of death. It is explosively scary and captivatingly beautiful in cinematographer Jarin Blaschke’s fierce monochrome, like a daguerreotype of fear. And the performances from Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson have a sledgehammer punch – Pattinson, in particular, just gets better and better.
There is rare excitement in seeing these two actors butt heads and trade difficult, complex period dialogue with such mastery and flair. And the screenplay by Robert and Max Eggers is a delicious and often outrageous homage to maritime speech and sea-dog lore, saltier than an underwater sodium chloride factory. Their script is barnacled with resemblances to Coleridge, Shakespeare, Melville...
- 5/19/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“The Lighthouse,” Robert Eggers’ gripping black-and-white nautical psychodrama, draws from a sea of potent references. The filmmaker’s hypnotic follow-up to “The Witch” conjures the ghosts of Herman Melville and Andrei Tarkovsky, with ample doses of Stanley Kubrick and Bela Tarr for good measure. It’s a stunning showcase for Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to unleash their wildest extremes, by positioning them at the center of a two-hander about a descent into madness in the middle of nowhere. It’s the best movie about bad roommates ever made.
As with “The Witch,” Eggers’ sophomore feature once again centers on a small group of characters surrounded by the elements and consumed by invisible forces, driving each other mad in the process. And once again, the title says it all: Set sometime in the 1890’s, “The Lighthouse” finds Thomas Wake (Dafoe) and Efraim Winslow (Pattinson) arriving at that remote post, where...
As with “The Witch,” Eggers’ sophomore feature once again centers on a small group of characters surrounded by the elements and consumed by invisible forces, driving each other mad in the process. And once again, the title says it all: Set sometime in the 1890’s, “The Lighthouse” finds Thomas Wake (Dafoe) and Efraim Winslow (Pattinson) arriving at that remote post, where...
- 5/19/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
On November 30, Lakeshore Records will be releasing The Witch composer Mark Korven’s original soundtrack for the sci-fi/horror film Our House on 1xLP 140 gram black vinyl and we’re here to exclusively premiere the artwork from that release! You can see the packaging to the right and pre-order your copy right here. “A machine that […]
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- 10/29/2018
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
When men talk fondly about “the girl next door,” they never mean someone like Isabelle, who turns that all-American fantasy into a real nightmare for the sweet middle-class couple who move next door to a Satanic family in Rob Heydon’s run-of-the-mill chiller. Named after the creepy neighbors’ godforsaken daughter, “Isabelle” is curiously old-fashioned and not at all original enough to distinguish itself in American release. In the context of its world premiere at South Korea’s Busan Film Festival, however, this by-the-numbers midnight movie could work well for export to countries that put stock in ghosts and possession — a context in which the American cast and setting might actually serve as novelties.
Matt (Adam Scott) is a successful lawyer and doting husband whose new job brings him and pregnant wife Larissa (Amanda Crew) to Sarasota Springs. They are the kind of perfect-looking couple routinely depicted in real estate advertisements,...
Matt (Adam Scott) is a successful lawyer and doting husband whose new job brings him and pregnant wife Larissa (Amanda Crew) to Sarasota Springs. They are the kind of perfect-looking couple routinely depicted in real estate advertisements,...
- 10/10/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Tomorrow sees the digital release of the soundtrack to the upcoming supernatural sci-fi/horror film Our House. Composed by Mark Korven (The Witch), the brooding score elevates the tension and suspense of the film several levels with its mix of synth and classical influences, playfully teasing audiences and their expectations before slamming them with pure terror. […]
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- 7/26/2018
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
An illustration of how bigger often isn’t better when it comes to remakes, “Our House” applies a coat a professional polish to Matt Osterman’s no-budget 2010 regional indie “Phasma Ex Machina” (aka “Ghost in the Machine”) that wipes the personality clean off this supernatural tale about messing with forces beyond one’s control. The story basics remain, involving a machine that summons spirits both wanted and unwanted to a grieving family. But what this still modest yet considerably slicker upgrade gains in surface gloss and FX, it loses in psychological intensity and suspension of disbelief — qualities the prior film’s hand-made auspices heightened.
In their place, we get what now feels like a very ordinary if competent haunted-horror story about a nuclear family that’s bound to look rather pedestrian in the immediate wake of “Hereditary.” However, there’s reason to suspect first-time feature helmer Anthony Scott Burns and...
In their place, we get what now feels like a very ordinary if competent haunted-horror story about a nuclear family that’s bound to look rather pedestrian in the immediate wake of “Hereditary.” However, there’s reason to suspect first-time feature helmer Anthony Scott Burns and...
- 7/25/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Composer Mark Korven terrorized audiences last year with his haunting score for The Witch (review), the critically acclaimed horror film from A24. His ability to marry traditional instruments with terrifying sonic landscapes resulted in one of the most effective horror… Continue Reading →
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- 6/22/2017
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
When director Yam Laranas first saw the creepy, imposing house where he would shoot his new horror film “The Wanting,” he knew the film’s score would need a dense, avante-garde vibe — the kind composer Mark Korven created for “The Witch.” But he assumed hiring Korven would be a lost cause. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, and Laranas needed a Canadian composer under terms set by his Canadian investors, Lazarus Effects Inc., and the production and tax support he received from Ontario Media Development Corporation. Then Laranas’ editor, Diane Brunjes, asked him something that surprised him: “You know that Mark Korven is Canadian,...
- 6/19/2017
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Filipino director Yam Laranas’ (The Echo, The Road) psychological thriller The Wanting took to Cannes where Lakeshore International boarded the film as a sales agent. Now, we have word that The Witch composer Mark Korven will create the haunting score for the chiller! Adam Brody (Jennifer’s Body) and Amanda Crew (Final Destination 3; “Silicon Valley”) star in the film, which […]...
- 6/19/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Halloween is only six months away, which means it’s time for anyone who claims to take the holiday seriously to start sound-designing their lawn display. Luckily, you can save yourself thousands on clanking chains and howling wind machines this year by getting yourself a handy-dandy Apprehension Engine. The instrument, built by Tony Duggan-Smith and conceived by the score composer for The Witch, Mark Korven, allows you to recreate nearly every sound from a horror movie, from ominous tones to jarring metal grinding, giving the listener whatever the opposite of Asmr is.
According to the YouTube description, the completed instrument “consists of metal rulers which are bowed, a hurdy gurdy like mechanism … some long metal rods, magnets, trash, anything at all to get unnerving sounds.” All in all, it looks like a decorative piece of furniture from a restaurant going for an industrial chic vibe, but it certainly gets the...
According to the YouTube description, the completed instrument “consists of metal rulers which are bowed, a hurdy gurdy like mechanism … some long metal rods, magnets, trash, anything at all to get unnerving sounds.” All in all, it looks like a decorative piece of furniture from a restaurant going for an industrial chic vibe, but it certainly gets the...
- 4/28/2017
- by Dan Neilan
- avclub.com
Tiff audiences will get the chance to see the first three episodes of the new season of Jill Soloway’s acclaimed Emmy-winning Amazon Studios series Transparent.
The return for the second year of the Primetime television roster includes new episodes from Charlie Brooker’s unsettling anthology series Black Mirror, a look at Kenyan procedural Tuko Macho, mystery series Wasteland from the Czech Republic and the previously announced nirvanna the band the show from Canada.
Highlights at the seven-day Tiff Industry Conference are expected to include Mogul sessions with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and The Weinstein Company president and COO David Glasser.
Doug Liman will give a Master Class address on Vr, while panel discussions will cover the potential impact of Brexit on the UK film industry, East-West alliances, gender, and conversations with Jonathan Demme and Steve James.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18 and the Tiff Industry Conference runs from September 9-15.
Primetime...
The return for the second year of the Primetime television roster includes new episodes from Charlie Brooker’s unsettling anthology series Black Mirror, a look at Kenyan procedural Tuko Macho, mystery series Wasteland from the Czech Republic and the previously announced nirvanna the band the show from Canada.
Highlights at the seven-day Tiff Industry Conference are expected to include Mogul sessions with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and The Weinstein Company president and COO David Glasser.
Doug Liman will give a Master Class address on Vr, while panel discussions will cover the potential impact of Brexit on the UK film industry, East-West alliances, gender, and conversations with Jonathan Demme and Steve James.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18 and the Tiff Industry Conference runs from September 9-15.
Primetime...
- 8/18/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tiff audiences will get the chance to see the first three episodes of the new season of Jill Soloway’s acclaimed Emmy-winning Amazon Studios series Transparent.
The return for the second year of the Primetime television roster includes new episodes from Charlie Brooker’s unsettling anthology series Black Mirror, a look at Kenyan procedural Tuko Macho, mystery series Wasteland from the Czech Republic and the previously announced nirvanna the band the show from Canada.
Highlights at the seven-day Tiff Industry Conference are expected to include Mogul sessions with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and The Weinstein Company president and COO David Glasser.
Doug Liman will give a Master Class address on Vr, while panel discussions will cover the potential impact of Brexit on the UK film industry, East-West alliances, gender, and conversations with Jonathan Demme and Steve James.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18 and the Tiff Industry Conference runs from September 9-15.
Primetime...
The return for the second year of the Primetime television roster includes new episodes from Charlie Brooker’s unsettling anthology series Black Mirror, a look at Kenyan procedural Tuko Macho, mystery series Wasteland from the Czech Republic and the previously announced nirvanna the band the show from Canada.
Highlights at the seven-day Tiff Industry Conference are expected to include Mogul sessions with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and The Weinstein Company president and COO David Glasser.
Doug Liman will give a Master Class address on Vr, while panel discussions will cover the potential impact of Brexit on the UK film industry, East-West alliances, gender, and conversations with Jonathan Demme and Steve James.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18 and the Tiff Industry Conference runs from September 9-15.
Primetime...
- 8/18/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tiff audiences will get the chance to see the first three episodes of the new season of Jill Soloway’s acclaimed Emmy-winning Amazon Studios series Transparent.
The return for the second year of the Primetime television roster includes new episodes from Charlie Brooker’s unsettling anthology series Black Mirror, a look at Kenyan procedural Tuko Macho, mystery series Wasteland from the Czech Republic and the previously announced nirvanna the band the show from Canada.
Highlights at the seven-day Tiff Industry Conference are expected to include Mogul sessions with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and The Weinstein Company president and COO David Glasser.
Doug Liman will give a Master Class address on Vr, while panel discussions will cover the potential impact of Brexit on the UK film industry, East-West alliances, gender, and conversations with Jonathan Demme and Steve James.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18.
Primetime
“This peak era for television has ushered in a gold...
The return for the second year of the Primetime television roster includes new episodes from Charlie Brooker’s unsettling anthology series Black Mirror, a look at Kenyan procedural Tuko Macho, mystery series Wasteland from the Czech Republic and the previously announced nirvanna the band the show from Canada.
Highlights at the seven-day Tiff Industry Conference are expected to include Mogul sessions with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and The Weinstein Company president and COO David Glasser.
Doug Liman will give a Master Class address on Vr, while panel discussions will cover the potential impact of Brexit on the UK film industry, East-West alliances, gender, and conversations with Jonathan Demme and Steve James.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18.
Primetime
“This peak era for television has ushered in a gold...
- 8/18/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Audiences will get the chance to see the first three episodes of the new season of Jill Soloway’s acclaimed Emmy-winning Amazon Studios series Transparent.
The return for the second year of the Primetime television roster includes new episodes from Charlie Brooker’s unsettling anthology series Black Mirror, a look at Kenyan procedural Tuko Macho, mystery series Wasteland from the Czech Republic and the previously announced nirvanna the band the show from Canada.
Highlights at the seven-day Tiff Industry Conference are expected to include Mogul sessions with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and The Weinstein Company president and COO David Glasser.
Doug Liman will give a Master Class address on Vr, while panel discussions will cover the potential impact of Brexit on the UK film industry, East-West alliances, gender, and conversations with Jonathan Demme and Steve James.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18.
Primetime
“This peak era for television has ushered in a gold...
The return for the second year of the Primetime television roster includes new episodes from Charlie Brooker’s unsettling anthology series Black Mirror, a look at Kenyan procedural Tuko Macho, mystery series Wasteland from the Czech Republic and the previously announced nirvanna the band the show from Canada.
Highlights at the seven-day Tiff Industry Conference are expected to include Mogul sessions with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and The Weinstein Company president and COO David Glasser.
Doug Liman will give a Master Class address on Vr, while panel discussions will cover the potential impact of Brexit on the UK film industry, East-West alliances, gender, and conversations with Jonathan Demme and Steve James.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 to 18.
Primetime
“This peak era for television has ushered in a gold...
- 8/18/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
This is not your garden-variety horror picture -- its scares stem from primal guilt and fear of supernatural demons and devils that we can't entirely dismiss because people still believe in them enough to do terrible things. Robert Eggers' first film is the best-reviewed horror picture of its year, and quite an achievement. The VVitch: A New-England Folktale Blu-ray + Digital HD Lionsgate/ A24 2015 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date May 17, 2016 / 24.99 Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson, Bathsheba Garnett, Sarah Stephens. Cinematography Jarin Blaschke Film Editor Louise Ford Original Music Mark Korven Produced by Daniel Bekerman, Lars Knudsen, Jodi Redmond, Rodrigo Teixeira, Jay Van Hoy Written and Directed by Robert Eggers
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I don't find most modern horror pictures scary. The ones that scare usually do so with ideas, reaching beyond our defenses to find and exploit a personal weakness.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I don't find most modern horror pictures scary. The ones that scare usually do so with ideas, reaching beyond our defenses to find and exploit a personal weakness.
- 5/16/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Considering it’s made over $24 million here in the United States alone, if The Witch was on your radar this past February, you likely got a chance to see it. However, with the wide release options slim this upcoming weekend — and certainly before you check out a certain superhero feature — the opportunity is now available to revisit Robert Eggers‘ debut, or bring a few newcomers along.
A24 have announced the horror feature will return to the perfect amount of 666 theaters nationwide this weekend, so it’s likely playing somewhere near you. To celebrate the re-release, they’ve unveiled a gruesome new trailer, which of course highlights Black F*cking Phillip, as well as some other spine-chilling elements. Check it out below, and read our interviews with Eggers, composer Mark Korven, and more here.
Synopsis: In this exquisitely made and terrifying new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic...
A24 have announced the horror feature will return to the perfect amount of 666 theaters nationwide this weekend, so it’s likely playing somewhere near you. To celebrate the re-release, they’ve unveiled a gruesome new trailer, which of course highlights Black F*cking Phillip, as well as some other spine-chilling elements. Check it out below, and read our interviews with Eggers, composer Mark Korven, and more here.
Synopsis: In this exquisitely made and terrifying new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic...
- 3/30/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Mark Korven is a Toronto-based, award-winning composer of music for film and television, and has also composed feature film scores for acclaimed directors Deepa Mehta, Patricia Rozema and Vincenzo Natale. His latest work, for Robert Eggers‘ feature The Witch, helped elevate the truly unsettling film. The story follows a family of seven who are pulled apart at the seams by a malevolent force; while there are prolonged moments of downtime, it is still non-stop tension. The film is a “folk-tale” and if there’s anything to be learned, it is to honor your Mother and Father, don’t make a pact with Black Phillip (or any goat for that matter), and never play peek-a-boo with an infant in a New England field.
Sometimes, a film and its music are so symbiotic it’s impossible to separate one from the other. For instance, were you to only listen to the music from Timecrimes,...
Sometimes, a film and its music are so symbiotic it’s impossible to separate one from the other. For instance, were you to only listen to the music from Timecrimes,...
- 3/28/2016
- by Marc Ciafardini
- The Film Stage
A New England folktale envisioned by production designer turned director Robert Eggers has become a critical and box office darling. As striking as The Witch‘s imagery of a 17th century Puritan family exiled to live beside an ominous forest is, it is made even more haunting when combined with the score conceived by Toronto-based composer Mark Korven (Cube). Filmmaker: You must be pleased with the critical and box office reaction to The Witch. Korven: Both have been amazing. I certainly didn’t expect for the movie to go this far. When I started working on it I thought that a lot of people weren’t going […]...
- 3/21/2016
- by Trevor Hogg
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Judging from the slate of new releases this weekend, one’s time would be far greater spent checking out Robert Eggers‘ The Witch, a frightfully entertaining horror tale. Whether you saw it last weekend or plan to catch it soon, you’ll certainly want to give Mark Korven‘s terrifying score another spin and it’s now finally available to listen to in full.
“We both wanted to keep things quite minimal, and keep any human imperfections in the score. The score is tense and dissonant, but there’s also a certain fragility there, which reflects these people living on the edge of existence,” he tells Bloody Disgusting. ” The claustrophobic feeling was really something that Robert was shooting for. He wanted the film to just lay on top of people like a 90 minute puritan nightmare. I think he said once that in order for it to be horror, it had to be horrifying.
“We both wanted to keep things quite minimal, and keep any human imperfections in the score. The score is tense and dissonant, but there’s also a certain fragility there, which reflects these people living on the edge of existence,” he tells Bloody Disgusting. ” The claustrophobic feeling was really something that Robert was shooting for. He wanted the film to just lay on top of people like a 90 minute puritan nightmare. I think he said once that in order for it to be horror, it had to be horrifying.
- 2/26/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
One of the greatest things I get to do here at GeekTyrant (and GameTyrant!) is interview some of the greatest minds in geek culture. Add Mark Korven to that list of brilliant artists, as I had the chance to speak with him about his genius new work on the new horror film The Witch.
Mark has worked in films since the '80s; if you caught that Twilight Zone reboot back then, that was one of his first gigs. So the guy definitely knows what’s up, as he’s been composing music for movies and TV since I had to flick the Uhf/Vhf channels and hook up bunny ears to my wood-grained TV.
Working on The Witch, Korven talks about how director Robert Eggers had a very clear idea in mind as to what he wanted for every aspect of this film. I hope you enjoy creepy sounds,...
Mark has worked in films since the '80s; if you caught that Twilight Zone reboot back then, that was one of his first gigs. So the guy definitely knows what’s up, as he’s been composing music for movies and TV since I had to flick the Uhf/Vhf channels and hook up bunny ears to my wood-grained TV.
Working on The Witch, Korven talks about how director Robert Eggers had a very clear idea in mind as to what he wanted for every aspect of this film. I hope you enjoy creepy sounds,...
- 2/20/2016
- by Nick Borrego
- GeekTyrant
Back in December, part of the marketing campaign around the Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy Sisters involved the hashtag #YouCanSeeBoth, which reminded audiences that despite opening opposite the biggest movie of the year (ahem, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), there was still enough time for moviegoers to check out Sisters during its theatrical run. Ignoring the fact that seeing two films in theaters within the span of a single week (or even a single month) is not the financial reality for a sizable portion of the moviegoing audience, it was a winning slogan that seems to have worked: Sisters turned in a solid performance at the box-office, taking in a very good $86 million domestically on a budget of $35 million despite opening opposite J.J. Abrams' four-quadrant behemoth. This weekend I would like to co-opt the #YouCanSeeBoth hashtag for another title: writer/director Robert Eggers' fantastic, dread-steeped horror film The Witch,...
- 2/17/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Canadian composer Mark Korven discusses sculpting the sound of The Witch. The Witch is one of the more deservedly acclaimed debuts in recent memory, a creepy period parable of loneliness, isolation, witchcraft, religious hysteria, and the monstrous feminine. A layered historical piece, it’s the mesmerizing score from Canadian composer Mark Korven that makes the film’s…
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- 2/16/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
On February 19th, Mark Korven's unsettling score will accompany a New England family's encounters with evil in The Witch. Ahead of the film's theatrical release from A24, we've been provided with three The Witch soundtrack CDs to give away.
Mark Korven's The Witch soundtrack will be released digitally on February 19th, followed by a March 4th CD release from Milan Records, with a vinyl debut scheduled for May.
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) CD copy of The Witch soundtrack.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject "The Witch Soundtrack Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on February 9th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
Mark Korven's The Witch soundtrack will be released digitally on February 19th, followed by a March 4th CD release from Milan Records, with a vinyl debut scheduled for May.
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) CD copy of The Witch soundtrack.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject "The Witch Soundtrack Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on February 9th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
- 2/3/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
As a horror fan, one of the things I've enjoyed most over the years is when the music is executed just right with orchestral instruments. Hearing Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho score was my first realization of this concept at a very young age. The same exact instruments that could be used to create bright and cheerful scores are used in opposite fashion to set the tone for something horrifying. The resulting combination of sounds establish a sense of dread and foreboding that sinks in deep.
Mark Korven’s score for The Witch executes this idea with tension, atmosphere, and an air of looming danger. Despite being a fantastic recording, there is little sense of studio edit magic, resulting in a cohesive production that’s as powerful, raw, and organic as the film set in the 1630s.
I am excited that we will have an interview with Korven soon about his score for this film,...
Mark Korven’s score for The Witch executes this idea with tension, atmosphere, and an air of looming danger. Despite being a fantastic recording, there is little sense of studio edit magic, resulting in a cohesive production that’s as powerful, raw, and organic as the film set in the 1630s.
I am excited that we will have an interview with Korven soon about his score for this film,...
- 2/2/2016
- by Nick Borrego
- GeekTyrant
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