timespace coordinates: 1950s rural Appalachia
The second reboot of the Hellboy film series and is the fourth live-action entry in the franchise. It is directed by Brian Taylor from a script he wrote with Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, adapting The Crooked Man limited series written by Mignola. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 1988 – 2024 Winter River, Connecticut
Beetlejuice is a 1988 American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren based on a story by McDowell and Larry Wilson. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton as the title character.
The first installment of the Beetlejuice franchise, the plot revolves around a recently deceased couple. As ghosts, they are not allowed to leave their house. They contact Betelgeuse, a sleazy “bio-exorcist”, to scare the house’s new inhabitants away. The film prominently features music from Harry Belafonte‘s albums Calypso and Jump Up Calypso. (wiki)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a 2024 American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton.
A sequel to Beetlejuice (1988) and the second film of the Beetlejuice franchise, the film stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara reprising their roles alongside new cast members Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, and Willem Dafoe.
Set more than three decades after the first Beetlejuice, it follows Lydia Deetz, now a mother, struggling to keep her family together in the wake of a loss as the specter Betelgeuse returns to haunt her. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 2020 rural Oregon
Strange Darling is a 2023 American thriller film written and directed by JT Mollner and starring Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner.
The film focuses on a man and woman who engage in a one-night stand that devolves into a cat-and-mouse game of murder. It is divided into six narrative chapters arranged in nonlinear order, and presented as a dramatization of the pinnacle of a serial killer’s years-long murder spree in the Western United States. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: Estonia “many years after the Rapture”
Azrael (aka Azrael: Angel of Death) is a 2024 American/Estonian action horror film directed by E.L. Katz and written by Simon Barrett. The film stars Samara Weaving, Vic Carmen Sonne and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: fall 1975 Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine
‘Salem’s Lot is a 2024 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Gary Dauberman, based on the 1975 novel by Stephen King. The film stars Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Alfre Woodard, John Benjamin Hickey, Bill Camp, Jordan Preston Carter, Nicholas Crovetti, Spencer Treat Clark, William Sadler, and Pilou Asbæk. It is the first feature film adaptation of the book after the previous miniseries versions from 1979 and 2004. (wiki)
“An old-fashioned spookfest, this ‘Salem’s Lot won’t be the definitive adaptation of Stephen King’s famed vampire tale but it makes for a solid reintroduction to a new generation of audiences.” rt
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