Hey everyone, Ryan here with some news coming over from msnbc.com. They talked with Robert Rodriguez and Quentitn Tarantino recently about horror films and actors.This article talks about upcoming horror/slasher films and how more big-named actors and actresses are moving towards horror films because of the money they bring in.
Over the next few months, Hilary Swank, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger—all of them Oscar winners—will topline scary movies. “Grindhouse” features Bruce Willis (”Planet Terror”) as well as Rosario Dawson (”Death Proof”). Luke Wilson, known for boyish comedies such as “Old School,” will appear on April 20 in “Vacancy,” a shocker about a couple marooned with a psycho at a backwater motel. Next month Ashley Judd will star in a movie about flesh-eating bugs.
The article also mentions how by having a big-named actor attached to a horror film can actually hurt the movie’s chances with horror fans.
“Let’s face it, when you see Sandra Bullock or Hilary Swank up there on screen, it lets you know that this is gonna be one of those PG horror movies,” Tarantino says, laughing. “Those tend to be horror movies for people who don’t like horror.”
You can read the rest of the article here.
1 comment:
You know, that's a good point he makes...I usually hold out hope that any horror movie's gonna be good, and don't consider that celebs rarely equal anything good (The Others being a rare exception).
In addition to the "soft R" argument, celeb presence should indicate crap just by the fact that these guys don't know how to discriminate good vs. bad scripts when they go slumming.
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