A Los Angeles man claims he suffers from terrifying nightmares and even faint noises drive him insane ... all because of a Hollywood movie shoot in his hood.John Drinkwater claims in a new lawsuit ... 20th Century Fox invaded his Sherman Oaks neighborhood for a few days last March to shoot a TV pilot … but the production became an assault with sounds of gunshots and screeching car chases.Drinkwater says the film crews may be gone,...
- 3/7/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
A remake of a classic horror movie is well acted and atmospheric yet fails to truly engage, writes Philip French
In 1930 Carl Laemmle, the Hungarian-born founder of Universal Studios, sought to win the Nobel Peace Prize by backing up his production of All Quiet on the Western Front with an aggrandising biography commissioned from the eminent British playwright John Drinkwater. The project failed. What succeeded and became his monument are the Universal horror films Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, which helped the studio prosper, gave it an identity, were copied by Britain's Hammer in the 1950s and are commemorated in a 1996 series of Us Post Office stamps of "Classic Movie Monsters". All these franchises have been revived in recent years, very seriously in the case of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, less so in that of The Mummy. Now The Wolf Man's turn has come again,...
In 1930 Carl Laemmle, the Hungarian-born founder of Universal Studios, sought to win the Nobel Peace Prize by backing up his production of All Quiet on the Western Front with an aggrandising biography commissioned from the eminent British playwright John Drinkwater. The project failed. What succeeded and became his monument are the Universal horror films Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, which helped the studio prosper, gave it an identity, were copied by Britain's Hammer in the 1950s and are commemorated in a 1996 series of Us Post Office stamps of "Classic Movie Monsters". All these franchises have been revived in recent years, very seriously in the case of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, less so in that of The Mummy. Now The Wolf Man's turn has come again,...
- 2/14/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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