Tag Archives: Ray Wise

SYNOPSIS: “Doctor Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species – a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed. Arcane, desperate for the formula, attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive …

SYNOPSIS: After a girls’ night out, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in Portland, Maine. She’s thrilled, but she can’t remember much of what got her there. Pretty boy Ryan only knows it was a mistake and ushers her out the door… into a full-scale zombie apocalypse. Now, a walk of shame becomes …

SYNOPSIS: City-boy Raymond returns to his hometown and finds a vengeful ghost is terrorizing his house. Therefore, this man-child recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to solve the mystery of the spirit threat REVIEW: Hey, speaking of films that feel like they’re just extended pilots for TV shows that never happened, here’s Suburban Gothic. Starring Matthew Gray Gubler and Kat …

SYNOPSIS: Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team’s bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy. REVIEW: With a successful first run, the Creeper has returned with an appetite. We begin with a helper title card that announces “every 23 years he gets to eat …

SYNOPSIS: It’s the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was A Teenage Werebear, The …

As I come to the end of 2015, I find myself with the unenviable task of going through every single film I’ve seen this year, and try to suss out the ten that I thought were best. Why do I call this task “Unenviable”? Well that’s because I’ve seen well over 200 films this year, and try as I might, …

SYNOPSIS: Upon the death of his great grandfather, Brandon Davis a wedding photographer inherits an antique camera famous for taking Victorian death photography. After photographing his subjects they start to die from horrible, bizarre deaths. REVIEW: Upon discovering the subject of the movie I was pretty eager to watch this film. It is a subject that a few before this …

Synopsis: A documentary exploring genre based monster art takes an odd turn when the filmmakers are contacted by a man who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real. If you’re a real fan of genre film making (especially of the last 10 years or so), then the name Adam Green should be quite familiar to you. He’s the …

DIGGING UP THE MARROW – RLJE/Image Entertainment IN THEATERS AND AVAILABLE ON VOD AND iTUNES: February 20, 2015 CAST: Adam Green, Ray Wise, Will Barratt, Alex Pardee DIRECTED BY: Adam Green WRITTEN BY: Adam Green [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx_kg4awScA&list=UUT2y7rBCCyX23tnco82vIuw [/youtube]   SYNOPSIS: What if the ghastly images and abominations haunting our collective nightmares actually exist? Writer/director Adam Green (Hatchet) sets out to make a documentary exploring this …

Based on the artwork of Alex Pardee film maker Adam Green has created what sounds to be a truly interesting take for a documentary style film.  Titled ‘Digging Up The Marrow’ this one just got picked up for distribution by Image Entertainment. Starring Green, Ray Wise, Will Barratt and a literal who’s who of genre vets ‘Marrow’ has an interesting …

Love the title of this one – ‘Digging Up The Marrow’. It’s coming at us for Director Adam Green, the dude behind the ‘Hatchet’ films. He’s been pretty quiet on the directors front the last few years but he’s back on the horse and ‘Digging Up The Marrow’ is getting ready to make its festival debut and will do just …

One of the pre-eminent character actors of this generation, Ray Wise is a familiar and friendly face to all genre film fans. With appearances in films ranging from Swamp Thing (1982), Robocop (1987), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), Powder (1995), Dead End & Jeepers Creepers II (2003), One Missed Call (2008), Infestation (2009), X-Men: First Class (2011), Excision …

SYNOPSIS: Deep in Florida’s darkest everglades, a brilliant scientist and a sexy government agent have developed a secret formula that could end world hunger and change civilization forever. Little do they know, however, that their arch nemesis is plotting to steal the serum for his own selfish schemes. Looting the lab and kidnapping the agent, the madman douses the scientist …

SYNOPSIS: While chin wagging and carousing in a remote Americana forest on a hunting trip Franklin Roosevelt is attacked and bitten by a werewolf. Surviving the horrific ordeal FDR is afflicted with paralyzing polio. Confined to a wheelchair he over comes the odds getting elected into the oval office defeating all adversaries and non-believers in his relentless path. REVIEW: FDR …

Director Adam Green enlists Ray Wise to chase monsters in this week’s HNR main review, DIGGING UP THE MARROW. The found footage mockumentary blended monster mash takes a Meridian-like exploration into a horror director’s attempt to document a nutty fan’s claims of monsters living in a hole in a nearby graveyard. What he discovers may cost him his life. Dave …