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Tightwad Terror Tuesday – Free Movies for 6-14-2022
Hey there, Tightwads! It’s Tuesday, and that means free movies from Tightwad Terror Tuesday and iHorror. Let’s do this!
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep is the long-awaited 2019 sequel to The Shining. It finds a cult of people with psychic powers trying to gain control of a girl who “shines.” The grown-up Danny Torrance connects with the girl and vows to protect her.
Doctor Sleep was directed by Mike Flanagan, who manages to masterfully walk the line between respecting Stephen King’s book and honoring Stanley Kubrick’s filmed adaptation of The Shining (which King famously hates). Ewan McGregor plays the adult Danny, Kyliegh Curran portrays the similarly psychic girl, and Rebecca Ferguson is the leader of the cult. Catch Doctor Sleep right here at TubiTV.
Don’t Look Now
Don’t Look Now is about a married couple who, while still grieving over the death of their young daughter, travel to Venice where they meet a psychic who claims that she has made contact with their child. At first, the father is skeptical, but when he starts to see his daughter around the city, he turns into a believer.
Directed by Nicolas Roeg, this 1973 supernatural mystery is a must-see for horror fans, and it includes one of the most talked-about surprise endings in cinematic history. The cast is loaded, too, with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie playing the parents. As if that weren’t enough, Don’t Look Now has an awesome Pino Donaggio score. Don’t wonder about it anymore, just go watch Don’t Look Back here at PlutoTV.
Saw
Saw really needs no introduction, but here’s one anyway; Saw is the 2004 thriller that launched the careers of James Wan and Leigh Whannell. It’s about two men who wake up in a dilapidated restroom, chained to the walls with a dead body between them, and with no memories of how they got there. Much of the story is told through flashbacks, and it’s a morbid tale of an enigmatic figure nicknamed Jigsaw who places flawed people in traps and gives them a choice: pay a horrible physical price, or die trying to escape.
For what was in its time a tiny horror film, Saw boasts an impressive cast that includes Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Shawnee Smith, and Monica Potter. It’s pretty much essential viewing, so see it here at TubiTV.
Bomb City
Bomb City is about a group of punk rockers in Amarillo, Texas, that is constantly at odd with the jocks in town. When things boil over, one of the punks is dead and one of the jocks is accused of murder.
This 2017 crime drama is based on a real case from 1997. And it’s infuriating. While it takes some liberties for dramatic license, it’s a fairly decent snapshot of the punk subculture of the mid-nineties. Catch Bomb City here at Crackle.
Unearthed and Untold – The Path to Pet Sematary
You’ve seen Pet Sematary, its sequel, and its remake. Now, we’ve got Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary, the 2017 documentary about the making of the iconic 1989 movie. Through interviews and never-before-seen footage from the set, Unearthed & Untold tells the story of Pet Sematary, from author Stephen King’s inspiration for writing the book to director Mary Lambert’s realization of her vision.
As far as making-of documentaries go, Unearthed & Untold is pretty standard. It’s an in-depth look, but it’s mostly for hardcore fans of the movie. If that’s you, see Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary here at Vudu.
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Thrills and Chills: Ranking ‘Radio Silence’ Films from Bloody Brilliant to Just Bloody
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella are all filmmakers under the collective label called Radio Silence. Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are the primary directors under that moniker while Villella produces.
They have gained popularity over the past 13 years and their films have become known as having a certain Radio Silence “signature.” They are bloody, usually contain monsters, and have breakneck action sequences. Their recent film Abigail exemplifies that signature and is perhaps their best film yet. They are currently working on a reboot of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York.
We thought we would go through the list of projects they have directed and rank them from high to low. None of the movies and shorts on this list are bad, they all have their merits. These rankings from top to bottom are just ones we felt showcased their talents the best.
We didn’t include movies they produced but didn’t direct.
#1. Abigail
An update to the second film on this list, Abagail is the natural progression of Radio Silence’s love of lockdown horror. It follows in pretty much the same footsteps of Ready or Not, but manages to go one better — make it about vampires.
#2. Ready or Not
This film put Radio Silence on the map. While not as successful at the box office as some of their other films, Ready or Not proved that the team could step outside their limited anthology space and create a fun, thrilling, and bloody adventure-length film.
#3. Scream (2022)
While Scream will always be a polarizing franchise, this prequel, sequel, reboot — however you want to label it showed just how much Radio Silence knew the source material. It wasn’t lazy or cash-grabby, just a good time with legendary characters we love and new ones who grew on us.
#4 Southbound (The Way Out)
Radio Silence tosses their found footage modus operandi for this anthology film. Responsible for the bookend stories, they create a terrifying world in their segment titled The Way Out, which involves strange floating beings and some sort of time loop. It’s kind of the first time we see their work without a shaky cam. If we were to rank this entire film, it would remain at this position on the list.
#5. V/H/S (10/31/98)
The film that started it all for Radio Silence. Or should we say the segment that started it all. Even though this isn’t feature-length what they managed to do with the time they had was very good. Their chapter was titled 10/31/98, a found-footage short involving a group of friends who crash what they think is a staged exorcism only to learn not to assume things on Halloween night.
#6. Scream VI
Cranking up the action, moving to the big city and letting Ghostface use a shotgun, Scream VI turned the franchise on its head. Like their first one, this film played with canon and managed to win over a lot of fans in its direction, but alienated others for coloring too far outside the lines of Wes Craven’s beloved series. If any sequel was showing how the trope was going stale it was Scream VI, but it managed to squeeze some fresh blood out of this nearly three-decade mainstay.
#7. Devil’s Due
Fairly underrated, this, Radio Silence’s first feature-length film, is a sampler of things they took from V/H/S. It was filmed in an omnipresent found footage style, showcasing a form of possession, and features clueless men. Since this was their first bonafide major studio job it’s a wonderful touchstone to see how far they have come with their storytelling.
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The Original ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel Had an Interesting Location
Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s sequels to hit movies weren’t as linear as they are today. It was more like “let’s re-do the situation but in a different location.” Remember Speed 2, or National Lampoon’s European Vacation? Even Aliens, as good as it is, follows a lot of the plot points of the original; people stuck on a ship, an android, a little girl in peril instead of a cat. So it makes sense that one of the most popular supernatural comedies of all time, Beetlejuice would follow the same pattern.
In 1991 Tim Burton was interested in doing a sequel to his 1988 original, it was called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian:
“The Deetz family moves to Hawaii to develop a resort. Construction begins, and it’s quickly discovered that the hotel will be sitting on top of an ancient burial ground. Beetlejuice comes in to save the day.”
Burton liked the script but wanted some re-writes so he asked then-hot screenwriter Daniel Waters who had just got done contributing to Heathers. He passed on the opportunity so producer David Geffen offered it to Troop Beverly Hills scribe Pamela Norris to no avail.
Eventually, Warner Bros. asked Kevin Smith to punch up Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, he scoffed at the idea, saying, “Didn’t we say all we needed to say in the first Beetlejuice? Must we go tropical?”
Nine years later the sequel was killed. The studio said Winona Ryder was now too old for the part and an entire re-cast needed to happen. But Burton never gave up, there were a lot of directions he wanted to take his characters, including a Disney crossover.
“We talked about lots of different things,” the director said in Entertainment Weekly. “That was early on when we were going, Beetlejuice and the Haunted Mansion, Beetlejuice Goes West, whatever. Lots of things came up.”
Fast-forward to 2011 when another script was pitched for a sequel. This time the writer of Burton’s Dark Shadows, Seth Grahame-Smith was hired and he wanted to make sure the story wasn’t a cash-grabbing remake or reboot. Four years later, in 2015, a script was approved with both Ryder and Keaton saying they would return to their respective roles. In 2017 that script was revamped and then eventually shelved in 2019.
During the time the sequel script was being tossed around in Hollywood, in 2016 an artist named Alex Murillo posted what looked like one-sheets for a Beetlejuice sequel. Although they were fabricated and had no affiliation with Warner Bros. people thought they were real.
Perhaps the virality of the artwork sparked interest in a Beetlejuice sequel once again, and finally, it was confirmed in 2022 Beetlejuice 2 had a green light from a script written by Wednesday writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. The star of that series Jenna Ortega signed on to the new movie with filming starting in 2023. It was also confirmed that Danny Elfman would return to do the score.
Burton and Keaton agreed that the new film titled Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice wouldn’t rely on CGI or other other forms of technology. They wanted the film to feel “handmade.” The film wrapped in November 2023.
It’s been over three decades to come up with a sequel to Beetlejuice. Hopefully, since they said aloha to Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian there has been enough time and creativity to ensure Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice will not only honor the characters, but fans of the original.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice will open theatrically on September 6.
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New ‘The Watchers’ Trailer Adds More to the Mystery
Although the trailer is almost double its original, there is still nothing we can glean from The Watchers other than a harbinger parrot who loves to say, “Try not to die.” But what do you expect this is a Shyamalan project, Ishana Night Shyamalan to be exact.
She is the daughter of twist-ending prince director M. Night Shyamalan who also has a movie coming out this year. And just like her father, Ishana is keeping everything mysterious in her movie trailer.
“You can’t see them, but they see everything,” is the tagline for this movie.
They tell us in the synopsis: “The film follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist, who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When Mina finds shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night.”
The Watchers opens theatrically on June 7.
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