Reno Roop, the veteran stage actor who appeared on Broadway opposite Rex Harrison, Ellen Burstyn and Richard Chamberlain, has died. He was 80.
Roop died Friday at his home in New York after a battle with Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia, his family announced.
Roop made his Broadway debut opposite Harrison as the councilor Berthold in 1973's The Emperor Henry IV and appeared with Burstyn in Sacrilege (1995). Later, he was in 1998 and '99 revivals of The Sound of Music (the latter with Chamberlain) and in an original production of Judgment at Nuremburg with Maximilian ...
Roop died Friday at his home in New York after a battle with Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia, his family announced.
Roop made his Broadway debut opposite Harrison as the councilor Berthold in 1973's The Emperor Henry IV and appeared with Burstyn in Sacrilege (1995). Later, he was in 1998 and '99 revivals of The Sound of Music (the latter with Chamberlain) and in an original production of Judgment at Nuremburg with Maximilian ...
Even after 20 years and change, Scream‘s profound impact on the slasher genre cannot be overstated.
Wes Craven’s seminal horror flick inspired a generation, all the while producing nine kinds of sub-par knockoffs. But in the eyes of Gary J. Tunnicliffe, Scream‘s rise to prominence came at the expense of Hellraiser, the cult horror series of Cenobites and sadomasochism.
In a candid interview with ComicBook.com, the filmmaker, who just recently launched the direct-to-video Judgment, traced Hellraiser‘s journey thus far – one defined by delightful, blood-soaked highs and crippling lows.
This series has stumbled and faltered and struggled along the way because the reality is you can’t shoehorn this franchise into a commercially successful movie without stripping away the things from it that make it what it is. And this is where [producer] Bob [Weinstein] and the guys have had a problem because Bob really isn’t a fan of sadomasochistic sexual perversity,...
Wes Craven’s seminal horror flick inspired a generation, all the while producing nine kinds of sub-par knockoffs. But in the eyes of Gary J. Tunnicliffe, Scream‘s rise to prominence came at the expense of Hellraiser, the cult horror series of Cenobites and sadomasochism.
In a candid interview with ComicBook.com, the filmmaker, who just recently launched the direct-to-video Judgment, traced Hellraiser‘s journey thus far – one defined by delightful, blood-soaked highs and crippling lows.
This series has stumbled and faltered and struggled along the way because the reality is you can’t shoehorn this franchise into a commercially successful movie without stripping away the things from it that make it what it is. And this is where [producer] Bob [Weinstein] and the guys have had a problem because Bob really isn’t a fan of sadomasochistic sexual perversity,...
- 2/14/2018
- by Michael Briers
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