10 Insane Decisions That Nearly Ruined Pop Culture Classics
Making an enduring slice of pop culture is harder than it looks. About a billion different things have to come together in exactly the right way. If just one of those elements is slightly wrong, you go from having a classic like
Avengers Assemble to a not-so-classic like
Avengers: Age of Ultron.
But some decisions wouldn’t have given us lesser versions of the movies, shows, and games we love today. They would have ruined them completely.
Warning: A ridiculous number of spoilers for old films are below.
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Examining two of Stephen King s works and their adaptations through the lens of recovery.
By Justin Lockwood · April 30, 2021, 9:10 AM EDT Jack Nicholson and Joe Turkel in Stanley Kubrick s THE SHINING (1980).
I recently read someone call horror “the empathy genre,” and I think that’s why it’s such a relatable tool to explore human experiences, from grief (Ari Aster’s
Hereditary) to broken relationships (
Get Out) to female coming of age (John Fawcett’s
Ginger Snaps). Alcoholism and addiction are another topic horror has explored from multiple angles, and it’s compelling to see these struggles depicted in any genre, but especially horror. So I asked my best friend Ashley Christine, a writer based in Los Angeles, to share their thoughts and insights on horror s depictions of alcoholism. They offered a powerful description of their connection to the topic:
Mank,
The Midnight Sky,
Emma – works of impeccable craftsmanship by the cinematographers, production designers, SFX artists, and costume designers alike.
If you re into genre movies, 2020 brought us many impressive horror and science fiction titles like Andrew Patterson s
Possessor, Leigh Whannell s inventive
Color Out of Space. We also got to laugh at Matthew John Lawrence s endearing and energetic
Uncle Peckerhead, were unsettled by Remi Weekes
His House, and charmed by Michael Matthews post-apocalyptic coming-of-age film
Love and Monsters. Egor Abramenko s Soviet-era creature feature
Sputnik made us squirm, and Justin G. Dyck s wildly entertaining satanic shocker
Anything for Jackson took us for an unforgettable ride.
The Shining has gone on sale for £45,000 ($62,453).
Often regarded as one of the greatest horror films ever made, the 1980 movie is well known for the memorable scene in which Nicholson’s Jack Torrance tries to break down a door with an axe.
While a real wooden axe was used for the actual scene, auctioneers Paul Fraser Collectibles says the one on sale is a prop stunt ace that was substituted for the original wooden axe “as a safety measure and ease of use during filming.”
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