Blumhouse, the studio behind horror hits like The Purge, Paranormal Activity, and Happy Death Day, plan to revive the first cinematic universe. After a failed effort to launch its Dark Universe with The Mummy, Universal Pictures has announced that Blumhouse will take over the Universal Monsters and rebrand them under their umbrella. Variety reports that this […]
Blu-ray Review – Upgrade (2018)
Upgrade, 2018. Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Melanie Vallejo, Steve Danielsen, Betty Gabriel, Christopher Kirby, and Harrison Gilbertson. SYNOPSIS: In the future a technophobic mechanic is left for dead after a brutal mugging, only to receive an experimental medical upgrade that enables him to seek revenge. Good sci-fi is designed to make you […]
Movie Review – Upgrade (2018)
Upgrade, 2018. Written and Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Richard Cawthorne, Betty Gabriel, Michael M. Foster, Harrison Gilbertson, and Benedict Hardie. SYNOPSIS: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is […]
Universal and Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man gets a first trailer
Universal Pictures has debuted the first trailer, poster and images for director Leigh Whannell’s reboot of the Universal Monsters’ classic The Invisible Man which stars Elisabeth Moss as woman who believes her recently deceased abusive ex has faked his own death when she is terrorised by an unseen force. Joining Moss in the cast is […]
Filming wraps on Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man
After aborting its plans for a Dark Universe following the box office underperformance of The Mummy, Universal Studios enlisted Blumhouse Productions to bring life to another of its classic Universal Monsters with a reboot of The Invisible Man, and now director Leigh Whannell (Upgrade) has taken to Twitter to announce that he’s wrapped production on […]
Oliver Jackson-Cohen is Leigh Whannell’s Invisible Man
Upgrade director Leigh Whannell and horror powerhouse Blumhouse plan to bring back the classic Universal Monster movie The Invisible Man, and we now have our titular character. Oliver Jackson-Cohen, a highlight from Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, will take on the iconic role. He joins previously cast Elisabeth Moss, Storm Reid, Aldis Hodge, and […]
Upgrade director Leigh Whannell to script Escape from New York remake
Fresh from signing on to write and direct the Universal Monsters film The Invisible Man for Blumhouse Productions, Upgrade helmer Leigh Whannell has now added another high-profile remake to his upcoming slate. According to THR, Whannell is set to script 20th Century Fox’s planned Escape from New York remake, with the door open for him […]
Movie Review – Aquaman (2018)
Aquaman, 2018. Directed by James Wan. Starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Nicole Kidman, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ludi Lin, Temuera Morrison, Michael Beach, Randall Park, Graham McTavish, Djimon Hounsou, John Rhys-Davies, Leigh Whannell, Sophia Forrest, Natalie Safran, and Julie Andrews. SYNOPSIS: The bastard son of a human fisherman and Atlanna, […]
Second Opinion – Aquaman (2018)
Aquaman, 2018. Directed by James Wan. Starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Nicole Kidman, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ludi Lin, Temuera Morrison, Michael Beach, Randall Park, Graham McTavish, Djimon Hounsou, John Rhys-Davies, Leigh Whannell, Sophia Forrest, Natalie Safran, and Julie Andrews. SYNOPSIS: The bastard son of a human fisherman and Atlanna, […]
Movie Review – Upgrade (2018)
Upgrade, 2018. Written and Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Richard Cawthorne, Betty Gabriel, Michael M. Foster, Harrison Gilbertson, and Benedict Hardie. SYNOPSIS: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an […]
