Tag: Coming-of-age story

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone Dials For Horror, Gets a Wrong Number

October 5, 2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

If Stephen King wrote two words down on a napkin, Hollywood would likely scramble to adapt it into a movie. Since Brian DePalma turned King’s first novel, Carrie, into a horror classic, studios and filmmakers have turned to the author’s work time and time again. Some of these efforts – The Shining, Misery, It, The […]

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Hellbender: Indie Horror Casts a Spell in Haunting Coming-of-Age Story

February 25, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

No, not that Addams Family. That’s Adams Family, with just one ‘d’. With their latest collaborative effort, Hellbender, debuting on Shudder, the family filmmakers return horror to the same DIY roots of early George Romero and Sam Raimi. And it’s indeed a family affair with husband-and-wife John Adams and Toby Poser sharing writing and directing […]

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