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Thursday, 18 August 2005 |
A FEARSmag.com Exclusive!
BY Joseph B. Mauceri
 Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is taking the night flight from Dallas to Miami, on her way back home to after her grandmotherís funeral. Lisa hates to fly, but the fear she will experience on this trip will have nothing to do with a fear of flying.
Moments after takeoff, Lisaís seatmate, Jackson (Cillian Murphy), menacingly reveals the real reason heís on board: He is an operative in a plot to kill the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her father (Brian Cox) will be assassinated by one of his colleagues keeping watch outside her fatherís home. He is awaiting a call from Jackson. Trapped within the confines of a jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has nowhere to run and no way to summon help without endangering her father, her fellow passengers, or her own life. As the time and miles tick by, Lisa knows she is running out of options and is desperately trying to find a way to thwart her ruthless captor and stop a terrible murder.
Director Wes Craven has been best known for terrifying audiences since his 1972 feature ìThe Last House on the Left.î Born in Cleveland in 1939, he left Cleveland to study for a degree in English Literature, at Wheaton College, Illinois. But after illness, he left the school for one year before returning to study psychology. In 1963 he took a degree in writing and psychology and in 1964 received his Masters from J. Hopkins University.
A series of events lead Wes into working as a sound editor for a post-production company in New York. And after the co-direction of the 1971 feature ìTogetherî with Sean S. Cunningham, Wes made ìThe Last House on the Leftî in 1972. It was a big success, as was his second movie, the 1977 ìThe Hills Have Eyesî, which won the critics prize at the Sitges Film Festival. Wes has gone onto win many more awards, including one for the best movie at the Avoriaz Film Festival for ìA Nightmare On Elm Street.î In 1994 he directed ìMusic of the Heart.î a change of direction from the horror genre for which he is known. In 1996 he scared a new generation of young horror fans with the irreverent horror films ìScream.î Craven followed up on the original with two equally successful sequels, ìScream 2î and ìScream 3.î
Wes has also brought his unique style of filmmaking and terror to the small screening, having directed numerous of the 1985 rebirth of ìThe Twilight Zone,î an episode of ìNight Visions,î and created the series ìNightmare CafÈ ,î to name just a few of his television credits. For more than three decades now Craven has demonstrated his ability as a visionary filmmaker with an unbridled imagination and someone who possesses the ability to touch and terrify audiences.
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Friday, 12 August 2005 |
FEARSmag.com
BY Joseph B. Mauceri
In THE SKELETON KEY, actress Kate Hudson plays Caroline Ellis, a strong-minded young woman who is a hospice worker trying to earn money to attend nursing school. However, disillusioned by the system where she works, she takes a job as a live-in caretaker for an elderly couple who live on an isolated plantation, an hourís drive outside of New Orleans. The mansion and the strange couple are rife with secrets, and Mrs. Violetís belief in folk magic ñ Hoodoo ñ conflicts with Carolineís common sense and way of thinking. As Caroline begins to question her own convictions, she is drawn towards a mysterious room in the attic of the mansion. The moment Caroline uses her skeleton key to open that door she will be entering a world where simple belief becomes deadly reality.
Actress Kate Hudson made her acting debut in director Risa Bramon Garciaís ì200 Cigarettes.î In her next film she starred opposite Christina Ricci and Casey Affleck in Morgan J, Freemanís ìDesert Blue.î In 2000 she received critical acclaim for her performance in Cameron Croweís ìAlmost Famous. Over the next few years this talented young actress has worked with some of Hollywoodís most talented directors and starred opposite numerous talented veterans of the cinema. She has been featured in ìPeople Magazine,î ìVanity Fair,î ìVogue,î ìRolling Stone,î ìHarperís Bazaar,î ìIn Style,î and ìCosmopolitan.î
Returning to the steamy and sultry New Orleans, Kate Hudson was on hand with her fellow cast members to talk about the strange and mysterious world of director Ian Softleyís THE SKELETON KEY.
FEARS: Are you inquisitive like Caroline, and do you want to know whats behind the ìsecret door?î
Kate Hudson: No, I wouldnt even set foot probably in the attic stairwell. I probably would have seen that stair way and gone, "Ha, somebody else can do this because you can go get your own trillions or whatever."
But no, Im kind of a nosey person. If I could look into nooks and crannies of peopleís lives and find out more about them I would, just because I like to observe people and their weird secrets and tendencies. So if it opened some kind of little box, Id probably snoop around in the box. But not something like a door in a dark room.
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Thursday, 11 August 2005 |
FEARSmag.com
BY Joseph B. Mauceri
Born and raised in West London, director/producer Ian Softley has attempted to carry audiences into unfamiliar terrain, and he does so once again with the supernatural thriller THE SKELETON KEY. A painter, photographer, and a graduate of Cambridge University, where he studied English Literature, he worked for six years for Granada Television and the BBC directing a wide range of documentaries. He made his directorial debut in 1993 with the feature film ìBackbeat,î which he followed up with the 1995 techno-thriller ìHackers.î His most recent film, the 2001 science fiction thriller ìK-Pax,î featured Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey.
His latest cinematic venture, THE SKELETON KEY, took Softely deep into the marshes and bayous of southern Louisiana, and deals with the strange rites and rituals of hoodoo. The story focuses on the issues of believe and faith of the lead character Caroline Ellis, played by Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson. The film also stars Peter Sarsgaard, and veteran screen actors John Hurt and Gena Rowlands.
The cast, press, and director, Ian Softely, returned the The Big Easy to tour the home of voodoo and hoodoo to talk about THE SKELETON KEY.
FEARS: How familiar were you with hoodoo before taking this movie on?
Ian Softley: Not at all, but in retrospect I went back and listened to all those songs and realized there were all these references. I kind of thought, at first, that hoodoo and voodoo were sort of similar and that one was another word for the other, or sort of an alternative. Then I was aware in common parlance of hoodooing -- it just means youre kind of working spells. I was reading To Kill A Mockingbird with my daughter the other week, and the character Boo Radley refers to them finding these effigies and coins in the trunk of a tree. Thats all authentic hoodoo ritual. And one of the kids turns to him and says, ìI dont believe in any of that hoodooing.î So its the kind of stuff Id heard, but never actually specifically worked out what it was. |
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Friday, 22 July 2005 |
FEARSmag.com
BY Joseph B. Mauceri
Rob Zombie made his feature film directing and writing debut last year with "House of 1000 Corpses" for Lions Gate Films. Zombie hails from Haverhill, MA where he lived until he moved to New York City to attend the Parsons School of Design as a student of Fine Arts. After being tossed out, Zombie found work as a design artist for several popular porno magazines before landing a job as a production assistant on ìPee Weeís Playhouse.î Zombie founded the hardcore rock/punk hybrid band White Zombie in 1985, and after five independent record releases, the band signed with Geffen Records in 1990. All of White Zombieís Geffen releases were certified multi-platinum including ìLa Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol.1,î and ìAstro-Creep: 2000.î Zombie directed dozens of high profile music videos for himself and his band White Zombie. In 1995 Zombie won an MTV Music Video Award for "More Human Than Human," becoming the first self-directed artist to win such an award. Zombie has also directed numerous music videos over the years for other artists, including most recently Ozzy Osbourne. In 1998 Zombie struck out on his own to greater success with the triple platinum ìHellbilly Deluxe,î followed by the platinum ìThe Sinister Urge,î and certified gold compilation ìGreatest Hits: Past, Present & Future.î In addition, Zombie formed a horror based production company called Creep Entertainment with popular horror writer Steve (30 Days of Night) Niles. Creep released its first comic book series entitled ìThe Nailî in 2004. Another book entitled ìBigfoot,î based on the legend of the famous creature, is due in early 2005. Both books are in development to be turned into feature films. A renaissance man of the genre, his visionary ventures into filmmaking, music, and publishing places him in a unique position to surpass the accomplishments of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and KISS, combined! |
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Thursday, 07 July 2005 |
BY Joseph B. Mauceri
 Nothing is more terrifying than to realize your home, your family, your neighborhood, the very walls and ceilings that surround you have turned against you. When there is no safety to be found in what is supposed to be the safest of places, the deepest form of psychological fear abounds. It all begins inside Apartment 9F. This is where a single mother, Dahlia Williams, played by Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly, is trying to make a brand-new start in life. Attempting to escape from a bitter custody battle with her estranged husband, Dahlia moves with her daughter Ceci to a dilapidated, sprawling housing block on Roosevelt Island at the very edges of New York City.
DARK WATER marks the Hollywood debut of acclaimed Brazilian director Walter Salles, who was an Academy Award nominee for ìCentral Station.î Rafael Yglesias wrote the screenplay.
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