There have been prevailing rumors over the years that Kevin Williamson had to completely rewrite the ending of Scream 2 after a script leak, early into production. This mythical story is easy to get lost in, as the idea of different killers in a Scream movie is just about as exciting as can be. So let's take a look at who would have been the killers and what would have been different as we look at the alternate version of Scream 2.
Mar 03, 2023•11 min
One of the most controversial directors to emerge from the 1980s is definitely Oliver Stone. A Vietnam vet with a strong political bent, he first plied his trade as a screenwriter on movies such as 1978’s Midnight Express, 1983’s Scarface and 1985’s Year of the Dragon, before moving into directing with two masterpieces that came out within months of each other, the James Woods fact-based thriller Salvador (1986) and the stone-cold Vietnam classic Platoon. From there, his career kicked into high ...
Feb 27, 2023•26 min
Danny DeVito’s pitch black children’s TV satire Death to Smoochy was one of the biggest financial flops of 2002. The film only grossed $8.3 million on a $50 million budget for Warner Bros, despite the presence of Robin Williams and Edward Norton in the leads, as disgraced host Rainbow Randolph and Smoochy the Rhino, respectively. Critics savaged the film, and co-star Jon Stewart has not stopped apologizing for it in the years since its release. The thing is, though, Death to Smoochy isn’t a bad ...
Feb 24, 2023•15 min
There have been plenty of unmade sequels out there that would have likely been better than the sequels we DID get. From Elm Street to Halloween, the lesser idea has won out time and time again. And you would think that the return of the original screenwriter would result in absolute gold. But what we got instead was anything but, so join us as we dive into Bernard Rose's Candyman: The Midnight Meat Train.
Feb 20, 2023•11 min
The ending of Halloween 4 teased young Jamie Lloyd taking on the mantle of The Shape from her Uncle Mike. But that's not the movie we received the following year when Halloween 5 released. So what happened to prevent us to get a movie about an evil Jamie? Well we're diving into all of it today as we take a look at Halloween 5: The Killer Inside Me.
Feb 17, 2023•11 min
Combining horror and film noir wasn't something audiences were used to seeing in the 90's. The elevator pitch here could be: “The Exorcist meets Chinatown,” and it would follow a hard-boiled private detective into the rarely seen underworld of magic and illusion. That's right, today, we're taking a look at Clive Barker's Lord Of Illusions!
Feb 13, 2023•14 min
It’s safe to say that since Disney bought the rights to Star Wars from Lucasfilm, the road toward producing a series of Star Wars films that would appeal to generations old and young has been bumpy. Tales of behind-the-scenes turmoil plagued Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but the most infamous project remains Lord and Miller’s Solo. The film, which was to be a Han Solo origin tale, was to be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, two talented directors famed for their 21 Jump Street reboot...
Feb 10, 2023•10 min
Josh Hartnett was the biggest heartthrob of the late nineties. Bursting onto the scene in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty, his status was reaffirmed by Halloween H20 and Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. However, his career hit its stride in the early 2000s when he became a leading man in movies like Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and more. Yet, towards the middle of the decade, his career started to cool after a string of flops. He disappeared from the scene for a ...
Feb 06, 2023•22 min
For a film that somehow pulled off simultaneously paying homage to multiple genres, Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL was unable to pull off being a film without production difficulties and controversies. Yet, whatever issues they had behind the scenes, no one can deny the brilliance of Tarantino's movie, with Uma Thurman iconic as The Bride, with ace backup from genre stalwarts like Gordon Liu, Sonny Chiba, and the amazing David Carradine as Bill himself. And once the drama behind the scenes was in...
Feb 03, 2023•18 min
Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Michael Myers, and Pinhead. These icons of the modern age of horror have become their own mythology. They seem to have been around forever, and each of them has something that has kept them alive and kicking (well sort of) for decades for horror movie fans. Over the last few years, we’ve seen that very thing happen thanks to a very creepy clown in a very tiny hat. David Howard Thornton took over the role of Art The Clown in the feature film Terrifier and has since bui...
Jan 30, 2023•44 min
Not all musicians turned filmmakers can make a successful horror film, but some manage to create a truly disturbing piece of cinematic art that eventually become cult films. One such film is 2003 House of 1000 Corpses by Rob Zombie, yet shot in 2000. So what made the original studio unhappy to the point of not wanting to release it? You know the drill. Let's find out on this episode of WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
Jan 27, 2023•11 min
If you're a hardcore Quentin Tarantino fan, you'll know that Michael Madsen's sadistic Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs and John Travolta's Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction are brothers. Despite both characters dying in their respective films, Quentin Tarantino toyed with the idea of spinning the characters off into a prequel movie for many years. Eventually, Travolta and Madsen likely aged out of the idea, given that they would have had to convincingly play younger than they did in Reservoir Dogs and Pul...
Jan 23, 2023•9 min
Banderas has had his ups and downs at the box office in the years since. The Legend of Zorro proved to be an underwhelming sequel, while his follow-up to Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, got a mixed reaction from fans. After that, he had starring roles in the Spy Kids franchise, which demonstrated a flair for comedy, and had a major success voicing Puss in Boots in the Shrek franchise. However, by the 2010s, he was mainly doing DTV action flicks, although some of them, such as the underrat...
Jan 20, 2023•28 min
2010 was a year that saw many attempts at entries into the superhero/comic book genre. Some have withstood the test of time, and some, well, failed miserably. But one film to come out of that year has only grown in popularity over the last decade, that being Edgar Wright's SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD. Despite how it's seen today, in 2010 the film was a box office bomb. Let's crank up the bass, and find out "WTF Happened to SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (2010)?"
Jan 16, 2023•14 min
Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Michael Myers, and Pinhead. These icons of the modern age of horror have become their own mythology. They seem to have been around forever, and each of them has something that has kept them alive and kicking (well sort of) for decades for horror movie fans. Over the last few years, we’ve seen that very thing happen thanks to a very creepy clown in a very tiny hat. David Howard Thornton took over the role of Art The Clown in the feature film Terrifier and has since bui...
Jan 13, 2023•44 min
After Freddy vs Jason released in 2003, fans eagerly awaited more versus films featuring other famous horror icons. But what they don't know is just how close we were to a John Carpenter directed and Clive Barker written film, featuring the two of the biggest villains in horror clashing with each other. I'm of course talking about Michael vs Pinhead.
Jan 09, 2023•11 min
Overall, The Mist was not as big of a critical hit or fan favorite as some might have expected it to be, but it did quite well at the box office, and fans of it are still very much enthused with it. For those who didn’t like it originally, a re-watch may be in order, perhaps in black and white, to see it with new eyes and a new angle, given the changes that have happened in the world since 2007. Today we discuss The Mist, directed by Frank Darabont on this episode of WTF Happened To This Horror ...
Jan 06, 2023•11 min
Ok, so technically, we’re cheating a bit as the Batgirl movie starring Leslie Grace isn’t technically “unmade.” In fact, the movie was pretty close to complete, with only the VFX and score needed, although reshoots and more were scheduled before the film could have been ever really called complete. Yet, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s movie was scrapped and in this episode of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie; we try to give our audience an idea of…well…WTF happened, along with a look at differ...
Jan 03, 2023•12 min
Naomi Watts is widely considered one of the best actresses of her generation. Born in England but raised in Australia, Watts is a contemporary of close friend Nicole Kidman and made her American debut in the cult film Tank Girl. She broke out after starring in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, which began life as a TV pilot before being reshot and re-edited into one of the most acclaimed films of the 2000s. From there, stardom was a given, with her becoming extremely bankable after playing the lea...
Dec 30, 2022•22 min
After THE MATRIX trilogy (when it was still a trilogy), the Wachowskis could make pretty much anything. And what they chose was a big-screen live-action adaptation of the cult 1960s anime show SPEED RACER. The directors would continue pushing the boundaries of digital technology with dizzying races, eyeball-bursting colors and unconventional creative decisions, but the costly effort failed to resonate with critics or moviegoers, and crashed and burned at the box office. Rev up your engine and fi...
Dec 27, 2022•13 min
George A Romero is the godfather of all things zombie. He created what we know when we think of the standard, shambling zombie. So when The Walking Dead took the world by storm, the horror world turned to Romero to see if he'd return to the subgenre he helped to create. But with George's passing we never received his final opus. So join us today, as we cover the zombie film he was never able to make, with George A. Romero's Road of the Dead.
Dec 23, 2022•11 min
Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock had almost fifty films to his name when he decided to take on an adaptation of a Robert Bloch novel that was inspired by a grisly true crime story. The studio didn’t want him to make the movie. He was warned against it, told the subject matter was in poor taste. So he financed it with his own money. The result: the most popular and financially successful film of his already impressive career. The film was PSYCHO, and we’re going to find out WTF Happened to Thi...
Dec 19, 2022•25 min
Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Predator, the first (and best) Jack Ryan film, The Hunt for Red October, and Last Action Hero, which a lot of people hate but is a cult classic around these parts. His career continued going strong in the nineties, with Die Hard With A Vengeance and The Thomas Crown Affair. Still, bad experiences of The 13th Warrior and Rollerball led to a cooling period. Even worse, he wound up in jail due to a long, convoluted story which we dig into here. So will McTiernan ever m...
Dec 16, 2022•26 min
First appearing on Saturday Night Live shorts in 2007, Will Forte's dimwitted bomb-detonating special agent MACGRUBER certainly didn't seem like feature film material. But he proved popular enough to justify an R-rated 2010 movie... which completely flopped at the box office. And then, a cult following over the next decade somehow brought the character back to life for a streaming series. Time to pound some Cunth and find out "WTF Happened to MACGRUBER!"
Dec 12, 2022•12 min
It's rare when a Horror Host gets so big that they become an icon to the levels we've seen of Elvira and Zacherle, but it's even rarer when a moniker can get passed on and still be the host with the most for over 50 years. That, my friends, is a legend. And in this episode of WTF Happened To This Horror Celebrity, we're going to dodge some rubber chickens and open the coffin of the legend that is Svengoolie!
Dec 09, 2022•11 min
The Amityville Horror was a watershed event in the history of horror movies. A darker film compared to the first movie, Amityville 2 The Possession, was initially made as a much more uncompromising, sinister, and taboo-breaking horror experience that outraged test audiences and movie studio executives alike, leading us to ask in this video: WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
Dec 05, 2022•12 min
Zack Snyder’s Watchmen was relatively well-received by fans and overall was a box office success. Devoted to making a faithful adaptation of the Alan Moore/ Dave Gibbons graphic novel, the fact that Snyder’s Watchmen film got made on the scale it did is a miracle. However, several other versions of Watchmen were in the works before Snyder got involved, with several coming close to being made. In this episode of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie, we dig into versions that almost got made involvin...
Dec 02, 2022•12 min
Halle Berry ranks as one of the most iconic actresses of her generation. Yet, despite winning an Oscar and having an enviable track record, she wasn’t always getting the juicy roles she deserved until recently. Indeed, after years of being sidelined in more minor roles, Berry took the reins of her career by directing and starring in the MMA drama BRUISED which is generating serious Oscar buzz for Berry - and not only as an actress but as a director too. In this episode of WTF Happened to this Ce...
Nov 28, 2022•30 min
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, conceived and produced (but not directed) by eccentric filmmaker Tim Burton, is now a beloved dual-holiday classic. But the 1993 animated musical faced numerous challenges, from creative clashes and the technical complications of the stop-motion process to the story's originator occupied making another feature at the same time. Hop in the sleigh with Jack and find out "WTF Happened To THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS!"
Nov 25, 2022•17 min
With the recent release of David Gordon Green's "Halloween Kills" we thought it was time to dive back into the Halloween franchise. While the series has had many ups and downs over the years, there always seems to be a new film in development. We're taking a look back at 2015, when the series was in limbo, and we were almost treated to Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton's "Halloween Returns."
Nov 21, 2022•11 min
