LEATHERFACE: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III has always been one of the red-headed stepchildren of the TEXAS CHAINSAW series. As the first non-Tobe Hooper sequel, part three had the misfortune of not only being gutted by the MPAA but banned in most overseas countries. Critics and audience members hated it and it was widely agreed upon as a violent cash grab that didn't have the intensity of the original or the sequel's fun and vibrant campiness. The intention for part three was to make an '80s t...
Nov 18, 2022•12 min
While Marvel fans got an incredible send-off for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in James Mangold's Logan, another Wolverine movie was planned a few years earlier that would've taken the character in an edgier direction. Indeed, Darren Aronofsky was all set to reunite with his The Fountain star Hugh Jackman for the second spin-off sequel for the character, The Wolverine. In the end, Aronofsky left the project, with James Mangold taking over. While the finished film wasn't particularly well-loved by fan...
Nov 14, 2022•12 min
Love him or hate him, there are very few actors out there as consistently great as Edward Norton. From his first, explosive starring role in Primal Fear (opposite Richard Gere) through co-starring parts in The People Vs Larry Flynt and more, Norton became one of the hottest stars of the nineties in pretty short order. Within two years of his debut, he was leading American History X, in a performance that drew raves but also revealed the extent of his demand for control behind the scenes, with hi...
Nov 11, 2022•35 min
After five bombastic blockbusters, director Michael Bay attempted something a bit more cerebral with the sci-fi clone thriller THE ISLAND, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. But after an accelerated timeline, an inflating budget, various production complications and mishandled marketing, it arrived in the summer of 2005… and became Bay’s first box office flop. Get your organs ready and find out “WTF Happened to THE ISLAND!”
Nov 07, 2022•16 min
In today's episode, we're diving into the film that was originally going to be Rob Zombie's first production. What's his unique take on The Crow franchise? Does it still feature all of the elements that we've grown to expect from a Rob Zombie film? Find out exactly what this film was all about, as we dive into Rob Zombie's "The Crow: 2037."
Nov 04, 2022•11 min
After coming off the mammoth success of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET in 1984, Wes Craven, who was offered a job to direct A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE, passed on that to head to Warner Bros, hoping to branch out from the horror genre by signing on to direct a science-fiction thriller called FRIEND, which was to be the vein of John Carpenter’s STARMAN. The end result was a film that was nothing at all like the gentle tale Craven had hoped to make. The Studio LOVED what he did with E...
Oct 31, 2022•13 min
In the wake of Star Trek Beyond’s middle underwhelming box office, there were various plans to get another Star Trek movie underway. One would have involved bringing back Chris Hemsworth, who played Captain Kirk’s doomed father before he was a star in 2009’s Star Trek, but economically, that proved to be unfeasible. Another, perhaps more intriguing idea, was hatched by none other than Quentin Tarantino, who was to write a script with The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith. While ultimately it didn’t get m...
Oct 28, 2022•11 min
If you’re a child of the eighties, you’ll remember Rick Moranis. He was one of the biggest comic stars of the era, with iconic roles in GHOSTBUSTERS I & II, HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS and many more. But, somewhere around the mid-nineties, Moranis seemed to drop off the map, vanishing from sight, only returning for the occasional voice role in things like Disney’s BROTHER BEAR. In our latest edition of WTF Happened to This Celebrity, we try to figure out why Moranis seemingly abandoned his thri...
Oct 24, 2022•24 min
WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at troubled productions, curious creative decisions, box-office failures, surprising successes, and cult favorites! By now, everyone is familiar with the fictional American holiday known as THE PURGE, where violent crime is legal for a single night each year. The high-concept series has achieved global recognition, but it started with small beginnings. How did the first low-budget movie (starring Ethan Hawke) seemingly come out of nowhere...
Oct 21, 2022•13 min
Robert Englund would go on to become this generations Vincent Price, the erudite character within the horror genre. Robert Englund would go beyond Freddy Krueger and into a realm all his own. He’d create new characters, homage others, and would do so while creating a rabid fanbase that’s got multiple generations within it. On this episode of WTF Happened to This Horror Celebrity, we’re meeting the man of your dreams as we find out WTF Happened to Robert Englund!
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Today, with all the hype around "The Matrix 4," we thought it would be a good idea to dive into some other Wachowski work. So we're going all the way back to their first ever screenplay and diving into the cannibalistic world of a Chicago based soup kitchen in The Wachowski's "Carnivore."
Oct 14, 2022•11 min
After the mammoth success of THE CROW in 1994; of course a sequel was bound to happen. THE CROW CITY OF ANGELS (1996) looked promising at first (the book The Crow - City of Angels : A Diary of the Film promised a much better picture). The original intent was to create a very different kind of film when compared to the original, out of respect for the late Brandon Lee. Alas the Weinsteins (aka Harvey and Bob Weinstein aka meddling producers) got in there (again) and went scissor happy in the edit...
Oct 11, 2022•15 min
Matt Reeves’s gritty take on The Batman is currently cleaning up at the box office, with critics and audiences praising the director and star Robert Pattinson’s new approach to the Caped Crusader. It’s worth mentioning, though, that even before the franchise was ultra-successfully rebooted by Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, there were many other proposed Batman films pitched at Warner Bros in the wake of Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin. One that got close to happening was Darren ...
Oct 07, 2022•13 min
Where’s Joe Pesci? That was the question everyone spent most of the 2000’s asking themselves, with the star opting to retire early following his final turn as Leo Getz in LETHAL WEAPON 4. Only returning to the screen for a brief cameo in pal Robert De Niro’s THE GOOD SHEPHERD, Pesci mostly stuck to his guns, other than a brief re-emergence in 2010 to star opposite Helen Mirren in LOVE RANCH. Of course, Pesci did re-emerge one last time for none other than Martin Scorsese in THE IRISHMAN, resulti...
Oct 03, 2022•23 min
On the big screen, the exploits of famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) have launched a lucrative movie franchise, beginning in 2013 with THE CONJURING. Director James Wan's unsettling supernatural thriller is based on the real-life haunting of the Perron family home in the 1970s, but just how accurately depicted is this terrifying tale? Fill your canteen with holy water and find out "WTF REALLY Happened to THE CONJURING!"
Sep 30, 2022•17 min
Today we’re going to showcase an actress who has actually pulled off the rare hat trick of surviving through every one of her appearances in the franchise she helped make amazing. I’m talking about Ashley Laurence, who brought to life on screen one of the most unlucky daughters and nieces in the history of horror films, Kirsty Cotton, in Clive Barker’s classic Hellraiser. Ashley has since taken her place alongside other heroines of horror history. So, let’s open the box and peer inside to find o...
Sep 26, 2022•10 min
This week's episode is diving back into the world of Elm Street, only this time we're getting away from the prequel discussion. Instead, we're doing one of the many different SEQUEL scripts that were never made. And it wasn't written by just anyone. No, this is taking a look at the time that Peter Jackson almost stepped into the Nightmarescape with "A Nightmare On Elm Street 6: The Dream Lover."
Sep 23, 2022•10 min
FREDDY VS. JASON was a mash-up of genre icons that fans had been hearing about for since the mid-1980s, but the film didn't hit the big screen until 2003. In the latest episode of WTF HAPPENED TO THIS HORROR MOVIE, we claw and machete deep into the years the project spent in development hell. Tap the video and find out exactly why it took so long for Freddy and Jason to go mano et mano on the big screen
Sep 19, 2022•18 min
In the lead-up to Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead hitting Netflix later this week, the director's been openly describing his continuing, fraught relationship with Warner Bros. With WarnerMedia now being under a new owner, could #RestoreTheSnyderverse still one day become a reality, or is the relationship between Snyder and WB too damaged? Whatever the case, join us as we take a look at what the proposed Justice League sequels would have been! Restore the Snyderverse!
Sep 16, 2022•10 min
In our latest episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity, we take a look at the career of one of the biggest comedy stars of all time, Adam Sandler. While critics have often savaged his work, it can't be denied that with movies like PUNCH DRUNK LOVE and the recent UNCUT GEMS, Adam Sandler has acting chops to spare, and is a MAJOR talent. We take a look at his ups and downs, including his early days as a scene-stealer on Saturday Night Live, through his early classics, BILLY MADISON and HAPPY GILM...
Sep 12, 2022•41 min
In 1986, long before the Avengers assembled on the big screen and transformed the Marvel Cinematic Universe into an unstoppable Hollywood juggernaut, a significantly different comic character marked the first live-action Marvel feature film: HOWARD THE DUCK. But not even George Lucas, along with his AMERICAN GRAFFITI and STAR WARS collaborators Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, could turn this wise-quacking waterfowl into box office gold. All that despite a score by John Barry, songs by Thomas Dolb...
Sep 09, 2022•15 min
It’s amazing when an actor brings gravitas and respect to a genre like horror, which for a long time didn’t get that much in the way of props and accolades. So today, we’re showcasing one of the best and a guy who’s more than just a doll face, Brad Dourif!
Sep 02, 2022•17 min
In this week's episode, things are a little bit different. Not only are we spotlighting one of the most famous directors of all time, we're also looking at a movie that KIND OF already was made. Ever heard of E.T.? Or Poltergeist? Or Gremlins? Well we would have none of those if it weren't for Steven Spielberg's "Night Skies."
Aug 29, 2022•11 min
From the mind of House on Haunted Hill creator William Malone comes a Geoffrey Wright film, that became a Walter Hill film, that became a Jack Sholder film and that became a final product that was disowned by everyone involved. Yup SUPERNOVA starring James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robin Tunney and Peter Facinelli is an ideal candidate for our WTF column. Rivals ALIEN 3 in terms of production woes. What was to be a modest HELLRAISER meets DEAD CALM in space op...
Aug 26, 2022•16 min
he Disney-produced Star Wars sequels had a great start with the smash box-office success of J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens in 2015, then the wildly divisive follow-up The Last Jedi - written and directed by Rian Johnson - a couple year later. However, it all crashed and burned with universally maligned The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, directed again by TFA's J.J. Abrams. But did it have to be that way? As many fans know, filmmaker Colin Trevorrow was hired to co-write and d...
Aug 22, 2022•11 min
He's been called Hong Kong's King of Cool, and indeed there's no one cooler than Chow Yun-Fat. From blasting onto the screen as the pistol packing gangster Mark Gor in John Woo's A BETTER TOMORROW, to other Woo classics such as THE KILLER, and HARD-BOILED, Chow Yun-Fat was the greatest Hong Kong icon since perhaps Bruce Lee. His career in the eighties and nineties was storied, with leading roles in "heroic bloodshed" action pics like FULL CONTACT, GOD OF GAMBLERS and Ringo Lam's "ON FIRE" trilog...
Aug 19, 2022•29 min
Director Robert Eggers followed the sleeper horror hit THE WITCH with his 2019 sophomore effort THE LIGHTHOUSE, an unsettling and claustrophobic Willem Dafoe/Robert Pattinson tale. It was intended to be “small and easy”, but proved to be quite the opposite thanks to experimental acting, merciless weather and outdated filmmaking techniques. Order the lobster and find out “WTF Happened to THE LIGHTHOUSE!”
Aug 15, 2022•13 min
Female icons in the horror genre have grown over the years, but it seemed like they started becoming more celebrated in the '80s, with the final girl trope becoming the staple of today's genre. But one of the true standouts in the genre is a woman who's comfortable as not only the hero role but also can step into the shoes of the monster without batting a perfectly mascaraed lash. And the icon we're talking about is Barbara Crampton on this episode of WTF Happened To This Horror Celebrity?...
Aug 12, 2022•26 min
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is one of the most famous franchises in all of horror and the villain at its helm may just be the most popular to ever come from the horror genre, Freddy Krueger. A villain unlike any other, Krueger haunts his victim's nightmares, to kill them in increasingly torturous ways. But how did Freddy come to be? Was he always an awful child murderer? Was he falsely accused? We take a look at the John Saxon Elm Street Prequel in today's episode of "The Horror Movie That Almos...
Aug 08, 2022•10 min
The 1992 ALIEN 3 is the ideal example of a Studio clusterf*ck. The development/pre-production process of that picture was a fiasco of epic proportions with way too many cooks in the kitchen. A slew of writers had a shot at it, namely: William Gibson, Eric Red, David Twohy and John Fasano. And before David FIncher took the helm, Vincent Ward and Renny Harlin were at some point slated to direct. Pop that Pop Corn and enjoy the ride as we take you through the long and tortuous journey that ALIEN 3 ...
Aug 05, 2022•19 min
