Tag: davidwong
New To Netflix: Miscellany Or Potpourri?
In this edition of our biweekly Netflix column, the complete lack of focus is exactly the point. From a huge Oscar-winning animated film to a micro-sized black and white period piece on the early days of computer chess, and...
Now on Blu-ray: Don Coscarelli Double Feature - PHANTASM II, JOHN DIES AT THE END
Don Coscarelli isn't a name that sends studio heads scrambling for their checkbooks, but if you're a fan of esoteric and bloody horror films, you know the guy's work. Coscarelli's largest contribution to the world of horror cinema in undoubtedly the...
Brussels 2013 Wrap: Blood, Guts, Singing Filmmakers
During the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, I saw vengeful ghosts, vampire threesomes, transvestite killers, monstrous gorillas, giant spiders and at least a dozen decapitations. Just as entertaining though, were the multiple directors that I saw singing a cappella to...
Cineplex Entertainment and Raven Banner Launch New Monthly Horror Series SINISTER CINEMA
Good news for fans of horror film here in Canada. If you have been lamenting that some of the buzz titles from festival circuits or limited release films haven't been playing at a cinema near you then your day just...
Opening: JOHN DIES AT THE END, A Fun Ride That Fails to Fully Deliver
"David Wong can see things that other people can't. Strange things. Frightening things. Sometimes dead things and creatures from other dimensions. "So can his friend John, with whom he has set up something of a cottage business eliminating supernatural pests....
Coscarelli's JOHN DIES AT THE END Gets A Red Band Trailer
What's better than a movie revolving around the end of the world and rampant drug use? A trailer for a movie revolving around the end of the world and rampant drug use that includes breasts. Yes, Don Coscarelli's John Dies...
Stay Away From Red Meat And Watch The New JOHN DIES AT THE END Trailer
After a great deal of chatter and a lengthy festival run, Don Coscarelli's adaptation of David Wong's cult hit novel John Dies At The End hits iTunes December 27th prior to a January 25th theatrical release. And impending releases mean...
JOHN DIES AT THE END Lands Some Quality Poster Art
There's very little to say about Don Coscarelli's adaptation of David Wong's John Dies At The End that we haven't said already - check the links below - but here's a little something new: Final poster art for the film...
THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It!!!
Waitaminute! A trailer for a book? When that trailer is for the book sequel to David Wong's breakout cult hit John Dies at the End? Oh, hell. And yes. While reactions to the film adaptation of Wong's book have been...
TIFF 2012 Review: JOHN DIES AT THE END, An Initially Entertaining But Deeply Flawed Adaptation
David Wong can see things that other people can't. Strange things. Frightening things. Sometimes dead things and creatures from other dimensions. So can his friend John, with whom he has set up something of a cottage business eliminating supernatural pests....
Magnet Grabs JOHN DIES AT THE END for Worldwide Release
The worldwide distribution rights to Don Coscarelli's John Dies at the End have been acquired by Magnet Releasing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film's debut at Sundance earlier this year is now being described as a "work-in-progress" screening, as...
Sundance 2012 Interview: Don Coscarelli talks JOHN DIES AT THE END
If you read my review of John Dies at the End, you know that I had a great time watching the movie, at midnight, in the Egyptian Theater during The Sundance FIlm Festival. Introduced by a bushy bearded Paul Giamatti who...
Don Coscarelli's JOHN DIES AT THE END Added To Sundance Lineup
Don Coscarelli - director of the Phantasm series and Bubba Ho-Tep - will be making the trip to Park City, his genre bending scifi-horror-comedy John Dies At The End having just been added to the Park City At Midnight lineup...
Fabulous First Trailer For Coscarelli's JOHN DIES AT THE END
It's a combination that has piqued out interest from day one, one that offers the potential of something truly remarkable. Bubba Ho Tep and Phantasm director Don Coscarelli has spent the past year hard at work on a film adaptation...
First JOHN DIES AT THE END Footage To Screen At Fantastic Fest!
Fantastic Fest attendees: Should you be present at the 9:15pm screening of Penumbra on September 25th there will be a wee treat in store for you. Bubba Ho-Tep and Phantasm director Don Coscarelli will be on hand to premiere the...
Doug Jones And Angus Scrimm Among Additions To Coscarelli's JOHN DIES AT THE END
Need more reasons to be excited for Bubba Ho-Tep director Don Coscarelli's upcoming adaptation of cult scifi comedy John Dies At The End? Here are a few. With another round of shooting under way Coscarelli hass just announced a quartet...
Don Coscarelli's Latest Revealed As JOHN DIES AT THE END
Paul Giamatti is starring in a new film by Don Coscarelli and it's not Bubba Nosferatu. No, after a couple days of being teased by Coscarelli via his teaser account word is now out that the director's new film -...
