Touch That Tush.
August has featured an American giallo in Eyes of Laura Mars, a Spanish ghost story in The Others, and a Jewish horror comedy in Shiva Baby. Now it’s time to head back to literal summer camp with director Michael A. Simpson‘s very silly horror comedy: Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988).
In this sequel to the notorious original, Angela (Pamela Springsteen) is all grown up and working as a camp counselor. She’s transitioned and is seemingly very comfortable with herself, but she can’t shake Aunt Martha’s pesky pious moral code. This sends her into a murderous rage whenever the other counselors – and even some of the campers – break her rules.
What follows is all manner of silly/horrible deaths, albeit with less of the great practical effects of the Og film. Still, it’s fun to watch Angela take out an entire camp...
August has featured an American giallo in Eyes of Laura Mars, a Spanish ghost story in The Others, and a Jewish horror comedy in Shiva Baby. Now it’s time to head back to literal summer camp with director Michael A. Simpson‘s very silly horror comedy: Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988).
In this sequel to the notorious original, Angela (Pamela Springsteen) is all grown up and working as a camp counselor. She’s transitioned and is seemingly very comfortable with herself, but she can’t shake Aunt Martha’s pesky pious moral code. This sends her into a murderous rage whenever the other counselors – and even some of the campers – break her rules.
What follows is all manner of silly/horrible deaths, albeit with less of the great practical effects of the Og film. Still, it’s fun to watch Angela take out an entire camp...
- 8/28/2023
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s time for a new episode of the Real Slashers video series, and with this one we’re looking back at the 1989 release Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (watch it Here). You can find out all about it by watching the video embedded above!
Directed by Michael A. Simpson from a screenplay written by Fritz Gordon (a.k.a. Michael Hitchcock), Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland started filming three days after Sleepaway Camp 2 wrapped. This one has the following synopsis: Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity.
Directed by Michael A. Simpson from a screenplay written by Fritz Gordon (a.k.a. Michael Hitchcock), Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland started filming three days after Sleepaway Camp 2 wrapped. This one has the following synopsis: Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity.
- 5/9/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
As a special treat for those in our Corpse Club membership system, we've recorded a new audio commentary to Michael A. Simpson's Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers!
Recorded by Corpse Club podcast co-host Bryan Christopher and special guest Joe Lipsett, the new Sleepaway Camp II audio commentary is an exclusive gift for Corpse Club members to enjoy! The next time you watch Sleepaway Camp II, you can listen as Bryan and Joe take a deep dive into the 1988 horror comedy, including its summer camp setting, memorable murders, killer blend of humor and horror, and Pamela Springsteen's portrayal of Angela.
Corpse Club members are being sent an audio file of the new commentary, so the next time you watch Sleepaway Camp II, all you have to do is press "play" to listen to Bryan and Joe's new audio commentary. It’s like watching a movie with the Corpse Club.
Recorded by Corpse Club podcast co-host Bryan Christopher and special guest Joe Lipsett, the new Sleepaway Camp II audio commentary is an exclusive gift for Corpse Club members to enjoy! The next time you watch Sleepaway Camp II, you can listen as Bryan and Joe take a deep dive into the 1988 horror comedy, including its summer camp setting, memorable murders, killer blend of humor and horror, and Pamela Springsteen's portrayal of Angela.
Corpse Club members are being sent an audio file of the new commentary, so the next time you watch Sleepaway Camp II, all you have to do is press "play" to listen to Bryan and Joe's new audio commentary. It’s like watching a movie with the Corpse Club.
- 7/1/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Back in November, Bloody Disgusting revealed that Felissa Rose was going to executive produce an official documentary about the making of Sleepaway Camp, and with summer fast approaching, horror fans can look forward to being happy campers once again, because an Indiegogo campaign has been launched for the definitive documentary.
Directed and produced by Michael Perez, the official Sleepaway Camp documentary (titled Angela: The Angel of Death) can now be supported on its official Indiegogo page, and you can learn more in the details and trailer below:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/angela-the-official-sleepaway-camp-documentary#/
"From Michael Perez Entertainment and Mpso Ent, maker of More Brains! A Return To The Living Dead, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th, You're so cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night and RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop comes this brand-new documentary Angela ~ The Definitive Sleepaway Camp Documentary. A fully independent retrospective into...
Directed and produced by Michael Perez, the official Sleepaway Camp documentary (titled Angela: The Angel of Death) can now be supported on its official Indiegogo page, and you can learn more in the details and trailer below:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/angela-the-official-sleepaway-camp-documentary#/
"From Michael Perez Entertainment and Mpso Ent, maker of More Brains! A Return To The Living Dead, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th, You're so cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night and RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop comes this brand-new documentary Angela ~ The Definitive Sleepaway Camp Documentary. A fully independent retrospective into...
- 4/6/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The weather may be getting colder outside, but that doesn't mean horror fans can't have summer camp on their minds. And when it comes to summer camp horror movies, if you treasure the Sleepaway Camp franchise alongside the likes of Friday the 13th and The Burning, then you're in for a real treat, because a new documentary on the Sleepaway Camp movies is in development, with Angela herself, Felissa Rose, on board as an executive producer.
Bloody Disgusting exclusively shared the news that Angela: The Official Sleepaway Camp Documentary is "in the works" at Michael Perez Entertainment.
Expected to be four hours long, Angela: The Official Sleepaway Camp Documentary will look at the making of the four finished films in the franchise: Sleepaway Camp, Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers, Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, and Return to Sleepaway Camp (there's no word yet if the unfinished Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor...
Bloody Disgusting exclusively shared the news that Angela: The Official Sleepaway Camp Documentary is "in the works" at Michael Perez Entertainment.
Expected to be four hours long, Angela: The Official Sleepaway Camp Documentary will look at the making of the four finished films in the franchise: Sleepaway Camp, Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers, Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, and Return to Sleepaway Camp (there's no word yet if the unfinished Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor...
- 11/15/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Mondo has revealed a limited edition killer-rific poster for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter by artist Jonathan Bartlett. If that wasn't awesome enough, Mondo has revived their Camp Crystal Lake enamel pin. Also: the Music Box of Horrors lineup and Family of Fear's debut on iTunes.
Mondo's Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Poster and Camp Crystal Lake Enamel Pin Details: "October is the best month. This is just a fact. Case closed. It's spooky and scary and one big horror movie marathon. Over the next couple of weeks we'll have plenty of horror products coming your way... so sleep with one eye open...
First up is this poster for Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter by Jonathan Bartlett! Arguably the best entry in the iconic slasher series, we love Jonathan's rendering of Jason and treatment for the film. This is our first time working with Jonathan and we...
Mondo's Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Poster and Camp Crystal Lake Enamel Pin Details: "October is the best month. This is just a fact. Case closed. It's spooky and scary and one big horror movie marathon. Over the next couple of weeks we'll have plenty of horror products coming your way... so sleep with one eye open...
First up is this poster for Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter by Jonathan Bartlett! Arguably the best entry in the iconic slasher series, we love Jonathan's rendering of Jason and treatment for the film. This is our first time working with Jonathan and we...
- 10/11/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers is actually the first movie in the Sleepaway Camp franchise that I’d ever seen. The VHS cover art lured me in as a kid by teasing possible appearances from iconic villains, with Freddy’s glove and Jason’s hockey mask poking out of a woman’s backpack. I was a bit too young to understand the concept of trademarks at that age, so you can imagine my disappointment when neither character made so much as a cameo. Since I hadn’t seen the first film and didn’t have any context for the franchise as a whole (or that twist), I just thought of the movie as low-budget trash.
As I’ve grown older, however, I’ve discovered that low-budget trash can be a lovely thing. And I think it’s important to distinguish trash from “so bad they’re good” movies like Troll 2...
As I’ve grown older, however, I’ve discovered that low-budget trash can be a lovely thing. And I think it’s important to distinguish trash from “so bad they’re good” movies like Troll 2...
- 7/30/2018
- by Bryan Christopher
- DailyDead
The Sleepaway Camp series has been a longtime favorite of mine, as I’ve always found Angela Baker to be one of the more fascinating villains and cinematic serial killers the genre has ever seen. When we first meet her in the original Sleepaway Camp, she’s a precocious pre-teen (portrayed by Felissa Rose) who has endured one messed up childhood. By the time we are reunited with an adult Angela (Pamela Springsteen) for the next two sequels, she’s embraced her complicated nature through the "help" of some professionals and has evolved into the perfect camp counselor.
Far more decisively comedic in tone than their predecessor, both Sleepaway Camp II and III are a ridiculous amount of fun for anyone who grew up on a steady diet of slasher movies. They do a fantastic job of fully embracing and celebrating everything great that was happening in the horror genre at that time.
Far more decisively comedic in tone than their predecessor, both Sleepaway Camp II and III are a ridiculous amount of fun for anyone who grew up on a steady diet of slasher movies. They do a fantastic job of fully embracing and celebrating everything great that was happening in the horror genre at that time.
- 6/9/2015
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
After making blood-splattered summer memories at Camp Arawak, the Sleepaway Camp franchise pointed its cameras at two new seasonal spots: Camp Rolling Hills and Camp New Horizons. Crackling bonfires, burned flesh, and slice-and-dice slayings wound their way into the busy camp curriculums in both Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, and to help kick off their Summer of Fear: Part 2, Scream Factory will release both Pamela Springsteen-starring sequels in bonus features-packed Blu-ray / DVD Collector's Editions on June 9th:
Press Release - "This summer, Scream Factory™ invites horror enthusiasts and movie collectors to further venture into the great outdoors and experience what Camp Rolling Hills and Camp New Horizons have to offer – nature walks, randy campers, puritanical camp counselor, murder and a feast of gory goodness! Fans of the popular Sleepaway Camp movies rejoice as the collector’s editions of Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers...
Press Release - "This summer, Scream Factory™ invites horror enthusiasts and movie collectors to further venture into the great outdoors and experience what Camp Rolling Hills and Camp New Horizons have to offer – nature walks, randy campers, puritanical camp counselor, murder and a feast of gory goodness! Fans of the popular Sleepaway Camp movies rejoice as the collector’s editions of Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers...
- 4/10/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
I. The Rattigan Version
After his first dramatic success, The Winslow Boy, Terence Rattigan conceived a double bill of one-act plays in 1946. Producers dismissed the project, even Rattigan’s collaborator Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont. Actor John Gielgud agreed. “They’ve seen me in so much first rate stuff,” Gielgud asked Rattigan; “Do you really think they will like me in anything second rate?” Rattigan insisted he wasn’t “content writing a play to please an audience today, but to write a play that will be remembered in fifty years’ time.”
Ultimately, Rattigan paired a brooding character study, The Browning Version, with a light farce, Harlequinade. Entitled Playbill, the show was finally produced by Stephen Mitchell in September 1948, starring Eric Portman, and became a runaway hit. While Harlequinade faded into a footnote, the first half proved an instant classic. Harold Hobson wrote that “Mr. Portman’s playing and Mr. Rattigan’s writing...
After his first dramatic success, The Winslow Boy, Terence Rattigan conceived a double bill of one-act plays in 1946. Producers dismissed the project, even Rattigan’s collaborator Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont. Actor John Gielgud agreed. “They’ve seen me in so much first rate stuff,” Gielgud asked Rattigan; “Do you really think they will like me in anything second rate?” Rattigan insisted he wasn’t “content writing a play to please an audience today, but to write a play that will be remembered in fifty years’ time.”
Ultimately, Rattigan paired a brooding character study, The Browning Version, with a light farce, Harlequinade. Entitled Playbill, the show was finally produced by Stephen Mitchell in September 1948, starring Eric Portman, and became a runaway hit. While Harlequinade faded into a footnote, the first half proved an instant classic. Harold Hobson wrote that “Mr. Portman’s playing and Mr. Rattigan’s writing...
- 3/25/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
With Christmas songs on the airwaves, presents being placed under trees, and holiday gatherings taking place, summer camp might be the furthest thing from your mind, but the folks at Scream Factory will have you reminiscing about crackling bonfires and blood-splattered fun in the sun, as they have revealed that they will release the first two Sleepaway Camp sequels on Collector’s Edition Blu-rays next year.
Due to the requests that came in when they released Sleepaway Camp on a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray in late May, Scream Factory has revealed that sometime next summer they will release Collector’s Edition Blu-rays of Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, both of which were directed by Michael A. Simpson, written by Fritz Gordon, and starred Pamela Springsteen as Angela Baker.
There’s no word yet on what special features will be included on the releases, but...
Due to the requests that came in when they released Sleepaway Camp on a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray in late May, Scream Factory has revealed that sometime next summer they will release Collector’s Edition Blu-rays of Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, both of which were directed by Michael A. Simpson, written by Fritz Gordon, and starred Pamela Springsteen as Angela Baker.
There’s no word yet on what special features will be included on the releases, but...
- 12/19/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
A cannibal clan cheers on their elder to finish off a victim with a hammer: this pivotal scene from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre sounds like a horror story that would be told around the campfire in Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers. Tobe Hooper’s classic 1974 film and Michael A. Simpson’s 1988 sequel to the cult movie, Sleepaway Camp, are both featured in new Fright Rags T-shirts.
Now available from Fright Rags, the “Grandpa Does It Best” T-shirt showcases Grandpa Sawyer slumped in his bone-crowned throne while holding a hammer in one hand, similar to how he appeared in the 1974 film before trying to kill the tough-as-nails Sally Hardesty. Emblazoned on the back of the T-shirt are the words, “Grandpa Does It Best.”
Reminiscent of the Say Cheese and Die! R. L. Stine Goosebumps covers, the Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers T-shirt features four skeletons dressed as humans and lounging...
Now available from Fright Rags, the “Grandpa Does It Best” T-shirt showcases Grandpa Sawyer slumped in his bone-crowned throne while holding a hammer in one hand, similar to how he appeared in the 1974 film before trying to kill the tough-as-nails Sally Hardesty. Emblazoned on the back of the T-shirt are the words, “Grandpa Does It Best.”
Reminiscent of the Say Cheese and Die! R. L. Stine Goosebumps covers, the Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers T-shirt features four skeletons dressed as humans and lounging...
- 8/14/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
There are three kinds of sequels in this world. The sequel that continues the story of the previous installment in a series, the sequel that has fuck-all to do with the original and creates a completely new story in lieu of the absolutely workable earlier installment and sequels in name only. So I ask you where a movie like Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers fits in? Sure it continues the original story with its focal point still on Angela Baker though we now refer to her as Angela Johnson, but if you mean to tell me that Michael A. Simpson created a continuation story from the original Robert Hiltzik classic as anything more than a way to get exploitable elements on screen then you might not have seen Return to Sleepaway Camp, a true continuation of Hiltzik’s vision. When I watch Sleepaway Camp II I think of it as...
- 7/3/2014
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
Kathy Bates, Dustin Hoffman and Alfred Molina are set to star in The Red Violin director Francois Girard's new film, Boychoir , says a story today at The Hollywood Reporter . The original screenplay arrives from Source Code scribe Ben Ripley and follows a choirmaster and his relationship with a troubled 11-year old who is sent to the school that he runs alongside Bates and Molina's characters, the headmistress and a teacher, respectively. The role of the boy, a central character to the production, has not yet been cast. Boychoir is produced by Carol Baum, Judy Cairo and Jane Goldernring of Informant Media. Executive producers include Eric Brenner, Ben Ripley and Michael A. Simpson. (Photo Credit: Nikki Nelson / FayesVision / WENN.com)...
- 10/31/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Sam Worthington ("Avatar"), Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood"), Jim Sturgess ("Upside Down"), and Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen are set to join Anthony Hopkins in the action-thriller "Kidnapping Freddy Heineken" from Informant Media.
The story chronicles the 1983 kidnapping of Dutch beer magnate Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer. The two were released after payment of a record ransom of around $50 million.
Daniel Alfredson ("The Girl Who Played with Fire") directs from a script by William Brookfield ("Rough Magic") based on a book by Peter R. de Vries.
Howard Meltzer, Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson will produce. Filming begins late October in Belgium.
Source: Variety...
The story chronicles the 1983 kidnapping of Dutch beer magnate Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer. The two were released after payment of a record ransom of around $50 million.
Daniel Alfredson ("The Girl Who Played with Fire") directs from a script by William Brookfield ("Rough Magic") based on a book by Peter R. de Vries.
Howard Meltzer, Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson will produce. Filming begins late October in Belgium.
Source: Variety...
- 10/9/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood"), Jim Sturgess ( Cloud Atlas ) and Sam Worthington ( Avatar ) are set to star opposite the previously-announced Anthony Hopkins in Kidnapping Freddy Heineken , Variety reports. Daniel Alfredson ( The Girl Who Played with Fire ) is directing from a script by William Brookfield, in turn based on Peter R. de Vries. book of the same name. The true crime thriller, which, as the title implies, details the 1983 kidnapping of the beer magnate, Alfred Henry "Freddy" Heineken and his driver. Kidnapping Freddy Heineken is set to shoot this month in Belgium with additional production planned for both Amsterdam and New Orleans. Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson are producing through Informant Media, as is Howard Meltzer for Informant...
- 10/8/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Welcome back to the Sleepaway Camp Retrospective series. Today Jeff Konopka and Jimmy Terror are back to discuss Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3, Unhappy Campers and Teenage Wasteland respectively. These are not the serious horror pictures that the original tried to be. Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3 are full of cheesy gore, 80’s fashion and style as well as well-timed comic relief. Oh and boobs. And Bruce Springsteen’s sister. These two entries are personal favorites of mine. Sleepaway Camp 2 was one of the first VHS tapes I ever bought (if not the first one). I nearly wore the tape out and memorized the fairly short, one liner equipped movie. My retinas have been burned with the breasts of Valerie Hartman and crew. If you’re a fan of the 80’s slasher boom, early, borderline meta-horror and creative kills a-go-go, Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3, companion movies filmed at the same time, are perfect for you.
- 10/4/2013
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and this October we see a couple of items that we could certainly circle as potential Cannes 2014 bait. Thanks to our friends at Production Weekly for the helping hand in curating our list of future must see items.
Among the top foreign film productions, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover‘s Peter Greenaway is looking at a late October, possible November start to begin filming a fragment of the great Soviet master filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s bio timeline. Eisenstein In Guanajuato will cover the portion of the filmmaker’s post Battleship Potemkin career, with Eisenstein landing in Mexico after Hollywood studios balked at the idea of working with him and in its place finds romance. The Girl Who Played with Fire‘s Daniel Alfredson...
Among the top foreign film productions, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover‘s Peter Greenaway is looking at a late October, possible November start to begin filming a fragment of the great Soviet master filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s bio timeline. Eisenstein In Guanajuato will cover the portion of the filmmaker’s post Battleship Potemkin career, with Eisenstein landing in Mexico after Hollywood studios balked at the idea of working with him and in its place finds romance. The Girl Who Played with Fire‘s Daniel Alfredson...
- 10/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
In its second acquisition of the week, Millennium Entertainment has picked up U.S. rights to debut filmmaker Josh Boone’s “Writers,” which had its world premiere Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The company acquired “What Maisie Knew,” directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, on Wednesday. Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Nat Wolff, Liana Liberato and Kristen Bell star in “Writers,” which follows an acclaimed writer and his family over the course of a tumultuous year. Read More: Toronto 2012: Millennium Entertainment Acquires Drama 'What Maisie Knew' Starring Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan Judy Cairo produced for Informant Media. Informant's Michael A. Simpson and Eric Brenner are executive producers, along with Lisa Wilson, Myles Nestel, Patrick Dugan, Jeff Rice, Dale Johnson, Julie May, Glenn Murray and Mike Ilitch, Jr. “Boone is truly a breakout talent...
- 9/14/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Aaron Eckhart will star in the action film "The Expatriate." According to Variety, Philipp Stolzl ("North Face") will direct from a screenplay by A.E. Amel.Eckhart will play a former CIA agent who looks to rebuild his relationship with his estranged 15-year-old daughter. He moves to Belgium to work as a security expert and one day discovers that his colleagues have mysteriously disappeared and an assassin has been hired to kill him and his daughter.Informant Media's Judy Cairo ("Crazy Heart"), Michael A. Simpson ("Crazy Heart") and Howard Meltzer are producing along with Harry Winer of Smash Media. Shooting begins in early 2011 in Belgium and Montreal. Eckhart will be seen in John Cameron Mitchell's upcoming drama "Rabbit Hole," opposite Nicole Kidman.
- 11/5/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Exclusive: Aaron Eckhart will star in The Expatriate, playing an ex-cia agent in a drama that will begin production early next year in Belgium and Montreal. Philipp Stolzl (North Face) is directing a script by A.E. Amel. Informant Media's Judy Cairo is producing with Smash Media's Harry Winer and Michael A. Simpson and Howard Meltzer. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales at Afm, and will be executive producer. The film is being financed partly through the Informant Media Film Fund. In The Expatriate, Eckhart plays a former CIA agent who hopes to make a fresh start with his estranged 15-year old daughter. He takes a job in Belgium as a security expert for a multinational corporation and arrives one day to find the corporation no longer exists, his coworkers are gone, and his assistant is really a trained operative out to kill him and his daughter. Father and daughter...
- 11/4/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Variety confirms that Maggie Gyllenhaal has joined the project and breaks the news that Hugh Dancy will be ready for the October shoot of Hysteria, the true story about the invention of the first vibrator set in Victorian England to be directed by Tanya Wexler. Gyllenhaal would be replacing the once attached Sally Hawkins and seeing that this will play as a comedy, my thinking is we can expect something in the tone of a Calender Girls and Kinsey, so I don't imagine her having to put a brave face a la Secretary or Sherrybaby for the role. Synopsis: Scripted by Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer, this is set in Victorian England, 1880. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), a young doctor sick of his colleagues' medieval practices, starts working for Dr Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce), who treats women's "hysteria" by offering them intimate manual relief... Demand is so great that Mortimer fears...
- 8/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
By Lisa Horowitz
Following up its first film, Oscar winner "Crazy Heart," Informant Media has set its production slate for 2010.
Partners Judy Cairo, Michael A. Simpson and Eric Brenner also announced that Informant has added producer Howard Meltzer as partner. He produced feature film "Tenderness" and executive produced TV movie "Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay," among others.
Informant's upcoming features include "Hysteria," a romantic comedy by Stephen and Jonah Lisa Dyer set in Victorian England, about the invention of the vibrator. S...
Following up its first film, Oscar winner "Crazy Heart," Informant Media has set its production slate for 2010.
Partners Judy Cairo, Michael A. Simpson and Eric Brenner also announced that Informant has added producer Howard Meltzer as partner. He produced feature film "Tenderness" and executive produced TV movie "Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay," among others.
Informant's upcoming features include "Hysteria," a romantic comedy by Stephen and Jonah Lisa Dyer set in Victorian England, about the invention of the vibrator. S...
- 4/22/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
This month sees the release of A Nightmare on Elm Street, a remake that’s been a long time coming. With so many slasher revivals going on, be they remakes or original properties, it’s important now to look back on the genre and learn a few of its intricacies. The wealth of material to cover is staggering. The films that follow do not necessarily represent the finest work the genre has to offer, but were selected for their uniqueness and appeal.
If any of these tickle your fancy, I've included some Amazon links to buy the ones that are still in print. Unless otherwise noted, all of these releases present the films in their original aspect ratio and in their most complete versions available to date.
[Note: While extensive measures have been taken to eliminate graphic details in deconstructing the films, trailers and clips have been provided wherever applicable. They can at times be exceedingly violent, and quite spoiler-heavy. We urge you to use judgment before viewing them. Thank you.]
Inferno (IMDb)
1980, Dario Argento
The core difference between director Dario Argento’s celebrated Suspiria and its overlooked follow-up, Inferno, is simple: Inferno hates you.
If any of these tickle your fancy, I've included some Amazon links to buy the ones that are still in print. Unless otherwise noted, all of these releases present the films in their original aspect ratio and in their most complete versions available to date.
[Note: While extensive measures have been taken to eliminate graphic details in deconstructing the films, trailers and clips have been provided wherever applicable. They can at times be exceedingly violent, and quite spoiler-heavy. We urge you to use judgment before viewing them. Thank you.]
Inferno (IMDb)
1980, Dario Argento
The core difference between director Dario Argento’s celebrated Suspiria and its overlooked follow-up, Inferno, is simple: Inferno hates you.
- 4/1/2010
- by SaulB
- JustPressPlay.net
Chicago – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 admit-two run-of-engagement movie passes up for grabs to the new film “Crazy Heart” with Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall!
The film also stars Brian Gleason, Rick Dial, William Sterchi, Richard W. Gallegos, William Marquez, LeAnne Lynch, David Manzanares, J. Michael Oliva and Ryil Adamson from writer and director Scott Cooper. “Crazy Heart” is based on the novel by the same name from Thomas Cobb.
To win your free “Crazy Heart” movie pass to any Chicago-area Landmark Theatre at the time of your choosing, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! “Crazy Heart” opened in Chicago on Dec. 25, 2009. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Crazy Heart” with Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
The film also stars Brian Gleason, Rick Dial, William Sterchi, Richard W. Gallegos, William Marquez, LeAnne Lynch, David Manzanares, J. Michael Oliva and Ryil Adamson from writer and director Scott Cooper. “Crazy Heart” is based on the novel by the same name from Thomas Cobb.
To win your free “Crazy Heart” movie pass to any Chicago-area Landmark Theatre at the time of your choosing, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! “Crazy Heart” opened in Chicago on Dec. 25, 2009. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Crazy Heart” with Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
- 1/6/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Are you really confused by the The Sleepaway Camp sequels? You probably should be, and the sad part is I really do not know if I understand it all myself, but I will try to explain it anyway. Basically the Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit -- a boxset collecting the first three Camp movies -- came with a bonus DVD that featured scenes from a fourth and unfinished movie titled, Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor. It seemed like the plans for that sequel were scrapped and in 2008 the original director, Robert Hiltzik, released Return to Sleepaway Camp, and announced plans to make Sleepaway Camp Reunion 3D. Basically ignoring the fact that Michael A. Simpson made Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland.
- 6/8/2009
- by wil
- HorrorYearbook
- Alcoholism and bad luck: it's all in a day's work for a washed up country singer, and Jeff Bridges is about to find out. Bridges, as well as Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall, are set to star in Crazy Heart.The film, written and directed by Scott Cooper, follows a musician attempting to regain his career and his personal life. It is based on a novel by Thomas Cobb. Following in the footsteps of Walk the Line, Bridges will be performing original songs for Crazy Heart. T Bone Burnett will be doing the soundtrack. Producers include Duvall and Robert Carliner (Butchers Run Films), Judy Cairo, Cooper, and Burnett. Bridges, Michael A. Simpson, Eric Brenner, and Jeff Yapp will executive produce. The film will be released through Cmt Films (Viacom/MTV Networks) and Informant Media. Shooting is slated to begin next month in Santa Fe, New Mexico....
- 7/17/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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