Stephen King's books are frequently adapted into successful movies, but Hollywood often expands on the worlds King has created with original sequels that are bizarre or poorly written. One of the worst examples are the "Children of the Corn" movies, which mushroomed from an adaptation of King's single short story into a hackneyed 11-film saga. Likewise, films such as "Return to Salem's Lot" and "Pet Sematary" use Stephen King's name and established concepts to lure audiences in, but they pale in comparison to his prolific originals.
One of the exceptions to the rule is "The Rage: Carrie 2." Initially called "The Curse," Rafael Moreu's screenplay had nothing to do with Stephen King's masterful debut, but then shoehorned elements of Carrie White lore into the storyline (via Fangoria). The protagonist, Rachel Lang, is Carrie's secret half-sister and shares her telekinetic abilities. However, she is not as much of a social pariah as Carrie White,...
One of the exceptions to the rule is "The Rage: Carrie 2." Initially called "The Curse," Rafael Moreu's screenplay had nothing to do with Stephen King's masterful debut, but then shoehorned elements of Carrie White lore into the storyline (via Fangoria). The protagonist, Rachel Lang, is Carrie's secret half-sister and shares her telekinetic abilities. However, she is not as much of a social pariah as Carrie White,...
- 3/2/2024
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
Hidden in the darker recesses of the internet are some sinister and threatening places which act as insidious catalysts for a variety of radicalising groups amongst them Incels (Involuntary celibates), whose alarming appeal to isolated men is starkly depicted in Robin Summons’ latest short Victim. The Australian filmmaker – who we last saw on Dn’s pages with thought-provoking therapist drama Occupation – doesn’t however focus on the expected vantage point of his disturbing subject matter but instead examines the impact such radicalisation has on a mother and son’s relationship, and the terrifying conflict of emotions faced by any parent in such a situation. Shot entirely on 16mm, Victim focuses on the mundanity of this escalating suburban nightmare as it metastasizes behind the locked door of a teenage bedroom, stoking the parental terror of knowing that your increasingly distant child has not only the capacity but perhaps the intention do real irrevocable harm.
- 10/30/2023
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
I’ll admit, I went into “Promising Young Woman” in the utterly blind way that trauma victims probably shouldn’t go into anything.
My decision to rent it was inevitable after reading rave reviews on social media from a wide cross-section of colleagues, young and older, which is perhaps why I also made the mistake of watching it with my mother. The lip-sticked, candy-colored promotions allured and deceived me exactly as director Emerald Fennell intended (just as the film’s protagonist lures unconscionable culprits). I’d imagined we were in for a rom-com.
We collectively cringed in the opening scene, when Seth Cohen — rather, Jerry (Adam Brody — how brilliant was the casting of archetypal “nice guys” in these predatory roles?) escorted a seemingly blitzed Cassie (Carey Mulligan) out of the club.
We both held our breath, even as he redirected the cab to his place. I refused to meet my mother’s eyes.
My decision to rent it was inevitable after reading rave reviews on social media from a wide cross-section of colleagues, young and older, which is perhaps why I also made the mistake of watching it with my mother. The lip-sticked, candy-colored promotions allured and deceived me exactly as director Emerald Fennell intended (just as the film’s protagonist lures unconscionable culprits). I’d imagined we were in for a rom-com.
We collectively cringed in the opening scene, when Seth Cohen — rather, Jerry (Adam Brody — how brilliant was the casting of archetypal “nice guys” in these predatory roles?) escorted a seemingly blitzed Cassie (Carey Mulligan) out of the club.
We both held our breath, even as he redirected the cab to his place. I refused to meet my mother’s eyes.
- 3/24/2021
- by Jasmin Rosemberg
- Variety Film + TV
Kitty Green did not set out to make the first movie about Harvey Weinstein. For her follow-up to Casting JonBenet — a 2017 genre-bender that mixed documentary interviews with re-enactments — the 35-year-old Australian director was developing a project about "consent and power structures on college campuses," she says.
It was Oct. 5, 2017 — just over a year after Stanford undergrad Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in jail for felony sexual assault — and Green was interviewing a group of Stanford students. That's when she was interrupted by a news alert on her ...
It was Oct. 5, 2017 — just over a year after Stanford undergrad Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in jail for felony sexual assault — and Green was interviewing a group of Stanford students. That's when she was interrupted by a news alert on her ...
Kitty Green did not set out to make the first movie about Harvey Weinstein. For her follow-up to Casting JonBenet — a 2017 genre-bender that mixed documentary interviews with re-enactments — the 35-year-old Australian director was developing a project about "consent and power structures on college campuses," she says.
It was Oct. 5, 2017 — just over a year after Stanford undergrad Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in jail for felony sexual assault — and Green was interviewing a group of Stanford students. That's when she was interrupted by a news alert on her ...
It was Oct. 5, 2017 — just over a year after Stanford undergrad Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in jail for felony sexual assault — and Green was interviewing a group of Stanford students. That's when she was interrupted by a news alert on her ...
Chanel Miller, the sexual assault survivor at the center of the Stanford swimmer Brock Turner case whose victim’s statement generated international sympathy and outrage, has come forward in a new interview with 60 Minutes. The interview marks the first time Miller has publicly revealed her name and her face.
Miller, who was identified during the trial as Emily Doe, gave the interview to 60 Minutes in advance of the publication of her upcoming memoir, Know My Name, which is scheduled for release on September 24th.
In a clip from the upcoming segment,...
Miller, who was identified during the trial as Emily Doe, gave the interview to 60 Minutes in advance of the publication of her upcoming memoir, Know My Name, which is scheduled for release on September 24th.
In a clip from the upcoming segment,...
- 9/4/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
The Suicide Squad that is. Storm Reid from A Wrinkle In Time has signed on to join James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. Now it is being reported that Reid is set to play Idris Elba’s daughter in the film. Elba, who was recently revealed to be portraying Brock Turner aka Bronze Tiger in the film will be part […]
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- 7/11/2019
- by Jay Washington
- Cinelinx
In 1989, members of the Glen Ridge, New Jersey football team raped a 17-year-old girl in the basement of one of the boys’ houses. The girl had an intellectual disability, and was later reported to have an Iq of about 64. The boys took turns orally and vaginally penetrating her, and then penetrated her with a broom and a baseball bat, both of which were covered in baggies coated with Vaseline. One of them said they should stop, a suggestion that was ignored. The boys then told the girl not to tell anyone,...
- 7/9/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Ex-49ers star Dana Stubblefield believes Santa Clara prosecutors are so afraid of looking soft on sexual assault cases in the wake of the Brock Turner debacle, they're gonna go extra hard on him instead. Stubblefield is accused of raping a mentally disabled woman back in 2015 -- though he's pled not guilty to all 5 felony counts and vows to prove his innocence. Now, the 47-year-old has filed new court docs saying he's worried he'll be...
- 10/15/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The timing could hardly be worse for “Brian Banks,” a well-meaning and emotionally engaging movie about the California Innocence Project’s incredible battle to exonerate a Long Beach football player who lost 11 years of his life to prison and parole after a high school classmate falsely accused him of rape. Independently made and still seeking distribution, the compelling biopic — a stark departure from lowbrow studio comedies for “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” director Tom Shadyac — faces an uphill path not unlike the one Cip lawyer Justin Brooks (played here by Greg Kinnear) accepted when he took Banks’ case (a chance-of-a-lifetime role for Aldis Hodge).
In a sign that this solid social-justice drama stands apart from current events — an exceptional case that neither contradicts nor enhances the #MeToo movement — “Brian Banks” was met with multiple standing ovations at its L.A. Film Festival premiere, even as the nation’s attention was turned...
In a sign that this solid social-justice drama stands apart from current events — an exceptional case that neither contradicts nor enhances the #MeToo movement — “Brian Banks” was met with multiple standing ovations at its L.A. Film Festival premiere, even as the nation’s attention was turned...
- 9/29/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
At Saturday’s MTV Movie and TV Awards, “13 Reasons Why” star Alisha Boe said the sexual assault case against former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner shaped her performance as a rape survivor pursuing justice against her rapist.
“The Brock Turner case was my bible and what I drew a lot of inspiration from,” Boe told Variety on the red carpet. “Brock Turner walked away with a slap on the wrist, and he got three months, famously, so we just really wanted to shed some light on the reality of what it’s like for a [rape survivor] to go against her attacker.”
#13ReasonsWhy's @AlishaBoe on controversial Season 2 storylines and gun control: "Enough is enough" #MTVAwards https://t.co/WUK5j3LLqV pic.twitter.com/nlpN8useWk
— Variety (@Variety) June 17, 2018
A major plot line in the show’s sophomore season follows Boe’s character, Jessica Davis, as she struggles to confront her assailant,...
“The Brock Turner case was my bible and what I drew a lot of inspiration from,” Boe told Variety on the red carpet. “Brock Turner walked away with a slap on the wrist, and he got three months, famously, so we just really wanted to shed some light on the reality of what it’s like for a [rape survivor] to go against her attacker.”
#13ReasonsWhy's @AlishaBoe on controversial Season 2 storylines and gun control: "Enough is enough" #MTVAwards https://t.co/WUK5j3LLqV pic.twitter.com/nlpN8useWk
— Variety (@Variety) June 17, 2018
A major plot line in the show’s sophomore season follows Boe’s character, Jessica Davis, as she struggles to confront her assailant,...
- 6/17/2018
- by Christi Carras
- Variety Film + TV
On July 28, 1999, insurance executive Paul Scott Howell was shot in the head and robbed of his Gmc Suburban in his parents' driveway in Edmond, Ok. The 45-year-old was returning from a back-to-school shopping trip with his two young daughters and his sister. Nearly two-and-a-half years later, 21-year-old Julius Jones was convicted of first-degree murder in the case, as well as conspiracy to commit a felony. He was a University of Oklahoma freshman on a Presidential Leadership Scholarship at the time. And now, after nearly two decades on death row, Jones is the subject of national news again as one of the subjects of new ABC docu-series The Last Defense. Like Darlie Routier, the other death-row inmate profiled on the series, Jones has always maintained his innocence. During his trial, his attorneys put the blame on Jones' co-defendant, then-22-year-old Christopher Jordan, who had admitted to telling different stories. In his closing argument,...
- 6/10/2018
- by Dan Clarendon
- In Touch Weekly
What a terrible tragedy. Tyrone Fleming of the 848 YouTube series has been pronounced dead. Sources report that the 40-year-old was found stabbed to death in his Bronx apartment on June 6. According to Wabc, Tyrone's girlfriend discovered him just after 5 p.m. His body was half in the apartment, half in the hallway. He had been stabbed multiple times in the lower back. The police reviewed the surveillance to find someone dressed in all black leaving the building shortly after the time Tyrone was found dead. He or she is now considered a potential suspect, but nothing concrete has been released. Tyrone, who was affectionately referred to as Tye Banga, starred in a crime drama web series. The channel has nearly 20,000 followers, making Tyrone somewhat of an Internet celebrity. In addition, based on his Instagram posts, Tyrone was a father-of-two. Though, it’s unclear if his current girlfriend is also the mother of his children.
- 6/7/2018
- by In Touch Weekly
- In Touch Weekly
(Spoilers ahead for Seasons 1 and 2 of “13 Reasons Why”)
Justin Prentice is nothing like the rapist he plays on Netflix’s teen drama “13 Reasons Why.” In fact, he’s just as angry as you are about his character’s light sentence of three months probation.
Prentice is well aware of all the controversy surrounding “13 Reasons.” Critics say that the show, which was based on Jay Asher’s novel of the same name in Season 1 but ventures beyond the source material for the second season, too realistically depicts the suicide of its main character, Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford). In Season 2, there is a graphic sexual assault scene that caused an uproar online, and the show’s La premiere was canceled after a recent school shooting in Texas because of a thwarted school shooting storyline at the end of the sophomore run.
But Prentice wants viewers to start conversations of their own and “change the world.
Justin Prentice is nothing like the rapist he plays on Netflix’s teen drama “13 Reasons Why.” In fact, he’s just as angry as you are about his character’s light sentence of three months probation.
Prentice is well aware of all the controversy surrounding “13 Reasons.” Critics say that the show, which was based on Jay Asher’s novel of the same name in Season 1 but ventures beyond the source material for the second season, too realistically depicts the suicide of its main character, Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford). In Season 2, there is a graphic sexual assault scene that caused an uproar online, and the show’s La premiere was canceled after a recent school shooting in Texas because of a thwarted school shooting storyline at the end of the sophomore run.
But Prentice wants viewers to start conversations of their own and “change the world.
- 6/6/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Aaron Persky! The judge who gave former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner a six-month sentence for sexual assault has been removed. California voters chose to recall the 56-year-old on Wednesday, June 6 — a decision that hasn't happened in the state in more than 80 years. In January, a statement made by the Santa Clara County Superior Court revealed that a petition to recall Persky received enough valid signatures to proceed to the ballot. "After conducting a random sampling of the 94,539 signatures submitted by a campaign to recall Judge Aaron Persky from the Santa Clara County Superior Court, the Registrar of Voters (Rov) found a sufficient number of them to be valid," the statement read. Turner sexually assaulted an unconscious woman at a party in 2015, and a jury convicted him on all three charges: sexual penetration with a foreign object of an intoxicated person,...
- 6/6/2018
- by Megan Heintz
- In Touch Weekly
Kathy Griffin is set to appear as trusted Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway on the upcoming hour-long Comedy Central special, Make America Great-a-Thon: A President Show Special, debuting Tuesday, April 3 at 11:00 Pm Et/Pt.
President Donald Trump, played by creator/executive producer Anthony Atamanuik, will host the telethon to raise money for all the projects he can’t get Congress to fund. That includes The Wall, and infrastructure (“plus these mouthy porn stars aren’t going to pay themselves off,” Comedy Central noted in its announcement).
Vice President Mike Pence, played by executive producer Peter Grosz, will join Trump in the Oval Office to raise funds via telethon.
Griffin’s career has been rising like a phoenix from the ashes of late. Earlier this month, she announced an eight-stop tour of North America as well as a Carnegie Hall date and another at the Kennedy Center.
She’s also said...
President Donald Trump, played by creator/executive producer Anthony Atamanuik, will host the telethon to raise money for all the projects he can’t get Congress to fund. That includes The Wall, and infrastructure (“plus these mouthy porn stars aren’t going to pay themselves off,” Comedy Central noted in its announcement).
Vice President Mike Pence, played by executive producer Peter Grosz, will join Trump in the Oval Office to raise funds via telethon.
Griffin’s career has been rising like a phoenix from the ashes of late. Earlier this month, she announced an eight-stop tour of North America as well as a Carnegie Hall date and another at the Kennedy Center.
She’s also said...
- 3/29/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
For Rock Steady Row, first-time feature filmmaker Trevor Stevens utilizes a collegiate setting for his post-apocalyptic mash-up that follows a freshman on his first day of school at Rock Steady University, where society has broken down and two fraternities wield all the power over both the student body as well as Rsu’s shrewd Dean (played by veteran comedic actor Larry Miller).
Rock Steady Row is set to debut today at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival (which is being held in Park City, Utah, along with the Sundance Film Festival), and Daily Dead was thrilled to speak with director Stevens about taking his debut to the prestigious fest, how his entire cast and crew came together to support his wild vision for the project, and the thrill of collaborating with legendary funny man Miller.
Congrats on Slamdance, Trevor. I'm sure nerves are kind of settling in a little bit now, but...
Rock Steady Row is set to debut today at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival (which is being held in Park City, Utah, along with the Sundance Film Festival), and Daily Dead was thrilled to speak with director Stevens about taking his debut to the prestigious fest, how his entire cast and crew came together to support his wild vision for the project, and the thrill of collaborating with legendary funny man Miller.
Congrats on Slamdance, Trevor. I'm sure nerves are kind of settling in a little bit now, but...
- 1/19/2018
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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