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The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Remake Has Officially Wrapped Filming

Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing a remake of Troma’s The Toxic Avenger for Legendary Entertainment. Today, we’ve learned via a Tweet from Blair (below), who is not only directing but also wrote the script for the remake, that filming has now officially wrapped. In the 1984 original, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” Deadline has described the film as, “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in the vein of Deadpool. When a struggling everyman is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 14, 2021
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Kevin Bacon Starring In The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Reboot

A few days ago we reported that Elijah Wood had supposedly joined the cast of the new Toxic Avenger movie, today we have more casting news. Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Footloose, You Should Have Left) has also joined the cast of the remake and will play the role of the movie’s main villain, THR reports. Bacon will star alongside Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Jacob Tremblay (The Predator), and Taylour Paige (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) in the movie written and directed by Macon Blair, who also wrote and directed I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore. In the 1984 original from Troma, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” The new version is being described as “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2021
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4K Ultra HD Review: Tremors (1990)

Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) are two shit-kickin’ handymen kickin’ shit around the near non-existent desert town of Perfection. But all doesn’t stay broken fences and tumbleweeds for our heroes, as soon they are up to their asses in missing people, of which the town truly doesn’t have any to spare! The boys soon find out the culprit behind it all… the totally reasonable answer of giant mutant earthworms (nicknamed Graboids), as one would have surely guessed. Now it’s up to them, along with graduate geology student Rhonda LeBeck (Finn Carter) and survivalists Burt and Heather Gummer (Family Ties‘ Michael Gross and country-crooner/sit-com star Reba McEntire respectively) to save P-town and end that wicked worm menace once and for fuckin’ all! With it’s desert setting and ‘nature gone amok’ antagonists, you may make the assumption that the creators of Tremors may have been channeling the fright flick drive-in fare of the 1950’s when creating this putrid

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DanXIII
Jan 30, 2021
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Movie Review: ‘You Should Have Left’

Out of all the movies I’ve been excited about, You Should Have Left has been at the top of the list. Now that I’ve seen it I would like to share my thoughts with you. Kevin Bacon stars as Theo whose dark past haunts him, as does his nightmares. Filled with anger and jealousy, he tries to find some peace in the home he and his wife have rented for a getaway, but his life begins to unravel and something begins to manipulate his reality. As always, Bacon is fantastic. While he’s known for his roles in films like Tremors, he’s so great in serious roles and has a way of really making you feel what his character is experiencing. He reunited with director David Koepp for the film, who he worked with on the brilliant 1999 horror Stir of Echoes. They two are a great combo. Amanda Seyfried plays the role of Susanna, Theo’s much younger, beautiful, actress wife

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2020
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Kevin Bacon Stars As A Father Fighting To Save His Family In ‘You Should Have Left’

From Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room) comes the new psychological thriller You Should Have Left. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you. In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave. Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2020
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88 Films Releasing Special Collectors Edition Of Hollow Man And Hollow Man II

From the mind of visionary director Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop and Starship Trooper) come two tales of transparent terror, Hollow Man and Hollow Man II. In Hollow Man, a team of scientists – the ambitious Dr. Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon – Apollo 13, Tremors), his ex-girlfriend Linda (Elisabeth Shue – Back to the Future Part II & III) and colleague Matt (Josh Brolin – Avengers: Infinity War) – have developed a ground-breaking serum for invisibility. Desperate to take their research to the next level, Caine volunteers himself as a test subject with horrifying results… Hollow Man II tells the story of Michael Griffin (Christian Slater – Mr. Robot), an invisible assassin gone haywire. Facing a slow death unless he receives a life-saving antidote, it’s down to biologist Maggie Dalton (Laura Regan – Dead Silence) and homicide detective Frank Turner (Peter Facinelli – The Twilight Saga) to take whatever measures necessary to apprehend this unseeable menace… Featuring Oscar-nominated special effects, adrenaline-pumping suspense,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 12, 2019
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Amanda Seyfried Joins Kevin Bacon For ‘You Should Have Left’

Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body, Ted 2) has boarded You Should Have Left, the supernatural thriller from Blumhouse, and will star opposite Kevin Bacon (Tremors). David Koepp, the screenwriter behind Jurassic Park and Spider-Man, will direct the project set to begin filming later this year, THR reports. You Should Have Left is based on the novel of the same name penned by Daniel Kehlmann. Blumhouse described the film as “the unsettling story of a wealthy man with a younger wife and a 6-year-old child. Mistrust and suspicion characterize their marriage while they are in a remote location that may or may not be obeying all the physical laws of the universe.” Seyfried will play the role of an actress with a secret and the wife of Bacon‘s character. Bacon will serve as producer along with Jason Blum of Blumhouse.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2018
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Trailer Surfaces For Syfy’s “Tremors” Series

Last month we were saddened to have to report that Syfy had killed their plans to air the “Tremors” television series starring Kevin Bacon. Now, somehow, the trailer for the pilot has found its way onto the net and it makes us even more bummed that the series isn’t happening. While the plot for the show was kept mostly under wraps we do know that it was meant to be a continuation of the original film with Bacon reprising his role as Val McKee in Perfection, Nevada. Fred Ward would have reprised his role as Earl Bassett. P.J. Byrne (Rampage), Shiloh Fernandez (Evil Dead), and Emily Tremaine (The Blacklist) were set to co-star. The pilot episode was directed by Vincenzo Natali, the director of both Cube and Splice. Andrew Miller (The Secret Circle) wrote the script. Take a look at the trailer and let us know what you think.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2018
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Fred Ward Reunites With Kevin Bacon For ‘Tremors’ Series

It’s a big year for the Tremors‘ franchise. Not only will Tremors: Cold Day in Hell be released soon, we also have” Tremors: The TV Series”, starring Kevin Bacon, headed our way. Director Richard Clark (Doctor Who) revealed that Fred Ward, who played Earl Bass Kevin Bacon’s partner in the original 1990 movie, has come on board for the series. Universal shooting 8-part TV Tremors this summer with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward! I'm begging to direct! Scripts a lot of fun. — Richard R Clark 🇺🇦 (@rclarkie) April 18, 2018 While there has not been official announcement confirming Ward’s return for the series, it sounds very promising. Tremors: The TV Series is headed our way courtesy of Jason Blum’s Blumhouse TV and Universal Cable Productions. Andrew Miller penned the script. In the series, “The killer Graboid worms that nearly destroyed Perfection, NV, 25 years ago are back; and the town’s only hope for survival is Valentine McKee (Bacon), who

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 20, 2018
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Kevin Bacon To Star In ‘You Should Have Left’ Adaptation

David Koepp and Blumhouse, along with Kevin Bacon, are teaming up for the film adaptation of the international best-selling novel You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann, THR is reporting. Termors star Kevin Bacon will be both starring and producing the film which begins production later this year. Koepp, who penned the script, will be in the director’s chair. Bacon found the book and the two teamed up to option the story. This isn’t the first time the two have worked together, Koepp directed Bacon on the set of 1999’s supernatural thriller Stir of Echoes. Koepp’s screenwriting credits also include Jurassic Park, Panic Room, and Spider-Man. The book tells of, “a screenwriter who holes up in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter so he can work on a sequel to his big hit. But in shades of The Shining, the classic Stephen King novel that was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick, the writer

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 26, 2018

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The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Remake Has Officially Wrapped Filming

Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing a remake of Troma’s The Toxic Avenger for Legendary Entertainment. Today, we’ve learned via a Tweet from Blair (below), who is not only directing but also wrote the script for the remake, that filming has now officially wrapped. In the 1984 original, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” Deadline has described the film as, “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in the vein of Deadpool. When a struggling everyman is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 14, 2021
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Kevin Bacon Starring In The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Reboot

A few days ago we reported that Elijah Wood had supposedly joined the cast of the new Toxic Avenger movie, today we have more casting news. Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Footloose, You Should Have Left) has also joined the cast of the remake and will play the role of the movie’s main villain, THR reports. Bacon will star alongside Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Jacob Tremblay (The Predator), and Taylour Paige (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) in the movie written and directed by Macon Blair, who also wrote and directed I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore. In the 1984 original from Troma, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” The new version is being described as “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2021
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4K Ultra HD Review: Tremors (1990)

Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) are two shit-kickin’ handymen kickin’ shit around the near non-existent desert town of Perfection. But all doesn’t stay broken fences and tumbleweeds for our heroes, as soon they are up to their asses in missing people, of which the town truly doesn’t have any to spare! The boys soon find out the culprit behind it all… the totally reasonable answer of giant mutant earthworms (nicknamed Graboids), as one would have surely guessed. Now it’s up to them, along with graduate geology student Rhonda LeBeck (Finn Carter) and survivalists Burt and Heather Gummer (Family Ties‘ Michael Gross and country-crooner/sit-com star Reba McEntire respectively) to save P-town and end that wicked worm menace once and for fuckin’ all! With it’s desert setting and ‘nature gone amok’ antagonists, you may make the assumption that the creators of Tremors may have been channeling the fright flick drive-in fare of the 1950’s when creating this putrid

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 30, 2021
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Movie Review: ‘You Should Have Left’

Out of all the movies I’ve been excited about, You Should Have Left has been at the top of the list. Now that I’ve seen it I would like to share my thoughts with you. Kevin Bacon stars as Theo whose dark past haunts him, as does his nightmares. Filled with anger and jealousy, he tries to find some peace in the home he and his wife have rented for a getaway, but his life begins to unravel and something begins to manipulate his reality. As always, Bacon is fantastic. While he’s known for his roles in films like Tremors, he’s so great in serious roles and has a way of really making you feel what his character is experiencing. He reunited with director David Koepp for the film, who he worked with on the brilliant 1999 horror Stir of Echoes. They two are a great combo. Amanda Seyfried plays the role of Susanna, Theo’s much younger, beautiful, actress wife

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2020
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Kevin Bacon Stars As A Father Fighting To Save His Family In ‘You Should Have Left’

From Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room) comes the new psychological thriller You Should Have Left. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you. In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave. Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2020
Horror Fuel

88 Films Releasing Special Collectors Edition Of Hollow Man And Hollow Man II

From the mind of visionary director Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop and Starship Trooper) come two tales of transparent terror, Hollow Man and Hollow Man II. In Hollow Man, a team of scientists – the ambitious Dr. Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon – Apollo 13, Tremors), his ex-girlfriend Linda (Elisabeth Shue – Back to the Future Part II & III) and colleague Matt (Josh Brolin – Avengers: Infinity War) – have developed a ground-breaking serum for invisibility. Desperate to take their research to the next level, Caine volunteers himself as a test subject with horrifying results… Hollow Man II tells the story of Michael Griffin (Christian Slater – Mr. Robot), an invisible assassin gone haywire. Facing a slow death unless he receives a life-saving antidote, it’s down to biologist Maggie Dalton (Laura Regan – Dead Silence) and homicide detective Frank Turner (Peter Facinelli – The Twilight Saga) to take whatever measures necessary to apprehend this unseeable menace… Featuring Oscar-nominated special effects, adrenaline-pumping suspense,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 12, 2019
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Amanda Seyfried Joins Kevin Bacon For ‘You Should Have Left’

Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body, Ted 2) has boarded You Should Have Left, the supernatural thriller from Blumhouse, and will star opposite Kevin Bacon (Tremors). David Koepp, the screenwriter behind Jurassic Park and Spider-Man, will direct the project set to begin filming later this year, THR reports. You Should Have Left is based on the novel of the same name penned by Daniel Kehlmann. Blumhouse described the film as “the unsettling story of a wealthy man with a younger wife and a 6-year-old child. Mistrust and suspicion characterize their marriage while they are in a remote location that may or may not be obeying all the physical laws of the universe.” Seyfried will play the role of an actress with a secret and the wife of Bacon‘s character. Bacon will serve as producer along with Jason Blum of Blumhouse.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2018
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Trailer Surfaces For Syfy’s “Tremors” Series

Last month we were saddened to have to report that Syfy had killed their plans to air the “Tremors” television series starring Kevin Bacon. Now, somehow, the trailer for the pilot has found its way onto the net and it makes us even more bummed that the series isn’t happening. While the plot for the show was kept mostly under wraps we do know that it was meant to be a continuation of the original film with Bacon reprising his role as Val McKee in Perfection, Nevada. Fred Ward would have reprised his role as Earl Bassett. P.J. Byrne (Rampage), Shiloh Fernandez (Evil Dead), and Emily Tremaine (The Blacklist) were set to co-star. The pilot episode was directed by Vincenzo Natali, the director of both Cube and Splice. Andrew Miller (The Secret Circle) wrote the script. Take a look at the trailer and let us know what you think.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2018
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Fred Ward Reunites With Kevin Bacon For ‘Tremors’ Series

It’s a big year for the Tremors‘ franchise. Not only will Tremors: Cold Day in Hell be released soon, we also have” Tremors: The TV Series”, starring Kevin Bacon, headed our way. Director Richard Clark (Doctor Who) revealed that Fred Ward, who played Earl Bass Kevin Bacon’s partner in the original 1990 movie, has come on board for the series. Universal shooting 8-part TV Tremors this summer with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward! I'm begging to direct! Scripts a lot of fun. — Richard R Clark 🇺🇦 (@rclarkie) April 18, 2018 While there has not been official announcement confirming Ward’s return for the series, it sounds very promising. Tremors: The TV Series is headed our way courtesy of Jason Blum’s Blumhouse TV and Universal Cable Productions. Andrew Miller penned the script. In the series, “The killer Graboid worms that nearly destroyed Perfection, NV, 25 years ago are back; and the town’s only hope for survival is Valentine McKee (Bacon), who

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 20, 2018
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Kevin Bacon To Star In ‘You Should Have Left’ Adaptation

David Koepp and Blumhouse, along with Kevin Bacon, are teaming up for the film adaptation of the international best-selling novel You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann, THR is reporting. Termors star Kevin Bacon will be both starring and producing the film which begins production later this year. Koepp, who penned the script, will be in the director’s chair. Bacon found the book and the two teamed up to option the story. This isn’t the first time the two have worked together, Koepp directed Bacon on the set of 1999’s supernatural thriller Stir of Echoes. Koepp’s screenwriting credits also include Jurassic Park, Panic Room, and Spider-Man. The book tells of, “a screenwriter who holes up in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter so he can work on a sequel to his big hit. But in shades of The Shining, the classic Stephen King novel that was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick, the writer

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 26, 2018
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