Black Sabbath, the West Midlands, and Hammer: Rupert Russell on witchcraft’s ties to the birth of heavy metal
‘The Last Sacrifice’ filmmaker Rupert Russell muses on the “witchy part of the country” he hails from.
Author: Michael Gordon Archives: 03/2025
What is elevated horror and why do filmmakers hate the term?
Is “elevated horror” a case of elitism run amok?
Rupert Russell on how Wicca inadvertently gave birth to the Satanic Panic: “Transformed in the American context”
How does Wicca connect to the devastating moral panic in America?
The R-rated superhero movie Michael Jackson was desperate to star in: “No, I’m serious”
The star of this movie thought the King of Pop was joking around.
Jeff Bridges names the most underrated movie of his career: “A film that I’m very proud of”
Bridges is actually shocked if he meets anyone who has seen this movie.
The roles Robert Redford only played for the money: “We can’t forget the man’s a movie star”
Redford has always known how to play the Hollywood game.
The actor who made John Carpenter want to quit Hollywood: “That was my worst”
Carpenter wanted to pack it all in after encountering this notorious jerk.
The injury that permanently altered the course of Cameron Diaz’s career: “No one knew her”
An action-packed sliding doors moment.
The director Anthony Hopkins hated so much he felt sorry for him: “A very sick man”
Hopkins told this director to his face that he was a bastard.
The movie that needed to be saved from Steve McQueen’s ego: “It was a classic standoff”
McQueen challenged his director on this picture, but he stood his ground.
The one lesson Kevin Costner will never learn: “I couldn’t get anybody to see what I saw in it”
The man is nothing if not a risk-taker.
The controversy that completely baffled Geena Davis: “You’d get destroyed for it”
This controversy hurt Davis a lot.