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Mickey Keating (director)
Mickey Keating (born 1990) is an American film director and writer. His work includes ''Ritual (2013 film), Ritual'', ''Pod (film), Pod'', ''Darling (2015 American film), Darling'', ''Carnage Park'', and ''Psychopaths (film), Psychopaths''. Career Keating interned at Blumhouse when he was a teenager. His feature directing debut, the horror film ''Ritual (2013 film), Ritual'', was produced by Eric Fleischmann, a friend who was also a former intern there. His next two films, ''Pod (film), Pod'', a science fiction-horror film, and ''Darling (2015 American film), Darling'', a psychological horror film, were shot nine months apart; both premiered in 2015. ''Darling'' was produced by Glass Eye Pix, where Keating had also interned. For ''Carnage Park'', a neo-Western horror film released in 2016, Fleischmann returned to produce. Describing ''Darling'' and ''Carnage Park'', ''Charleston City Paper'' critic Kevin Young wrote that they show obvious influences from other horror films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charleston City Paper
This is a list of newspapers in South Carolina, United States. Current news publications The following is a list of current (print and web-based) news publications published in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Defunct 18th century Charleston Newspapers published in Charleston, South Carolina: * The Charleston Evening Gazette. D., T.W., July 11, 1785- Oct. 18, 1786. * The Charleston Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser. D., Jan. 18, 1786-Nov. 5, 1787. * Charlestown Gazette. W., Aug. (?), 1778-Jan. 18, 1780. * The Chronicle of Liberty, or, the Republican Intelligencer. W., Mar. 25, 1783. * The City Gazette & Daily Advertiser. D., Jan. 2, 1792- Dec. 31, 1800+ * The City Gazette, and the Daily Advertiser. D., Nov. 6- Dec. 17, 1787. * The City Gazette or, the Daily Advertiser. D., Dec. 18, 1787-Jan. 1, 1792. * The Columbian Herald & Daily Advertiser. T.W., Sept. 1792- 1793(?). * Columbian Herald, and the General Advertiser. T.W., 1792(?)-July 25 (?), 1793. * The Columbian Hera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritual (2013 Film)
''Ritual'' is a 2013 American horror film written and directed by Mickey Keating. It stars Lisa Summerscales and Dean Cates as a married couple who must deal with a murderous cult. It was released in the United States on December 31, 2013. Plot Tom Moses' estranged wife, Lovely, kills a man who tried to kidnap her and calls him for help. Finding a video of a cult sacrifice in the dead man's car, Tom realizes he and his wife are in danger. Cast * Lisa Summerscales as Lovely * Dean Cates as Tom * Brian Lally as Roman * Derek Phillips as The Man * Larry Fessenden as Motel Clerk Release Lionsgate Home Entertainment released it in the United States on December 31, 2013. Reception Samuel Zimmerman of ''Fangoria'' rated it 3/4 stars and wrote, "Being a brisk film, ''Ritual'' is one half intimate, indie motel dilemma/one half violent pursuit, punctuated by stark oddities in aesthetic and sound design throughout." Patrick Cooper of Bloody Disgusting rated it 2/5 stars and, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pod (film)
''Pod'' is a 2015 American horror film written and directed by Mickey Keating. It stars Lauren Ashley Carter, Dean Cates, Brian Morvant, Larry Fessenden, and John Weselcouch. Carter and Cates play siblings who stage an intervention for their unstable brother, played by Morvant. As the situation spirals out of control, they begin to wonder if what they had dismissed as their brother's paranoid delusions may be true. Writing was influenced by ''The Twilight Zone'' and classic horror films of the 1970s, including the 1978 version of ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', which inspired the title. Shooting took place in Maine in winter 2014. It premiered at South by Southwest on March 16, 2015, and was released theatrically on August 28, 2015. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 67% approval rating based on six reviews. Plot After receiving a warning not to come to their family lake house in Maine, siblings Lyla and Ed stage an intervention for their brother, Martin, a dishonorably d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darling (2015 American Film)
''Darling'' is a 2015 American psychological horror film written and directed by Mickey Keating (director), Mickey Keating. It stars Lauren Ashley Carter as a young woman who slowly goes insane after becoming a caretaker in a large New York City apartment. It also features Sean Young, Brian Morvant, Larry Fessenden, Helen Rogers, and John Speredakos. It premiered at the 2015 Fantastic Fest and released to limited theatres in the United States and VOD in April 2016. Plot The film takes place over six chapters. Chapter 1: Her Madame leaves Darling alone as the new caretaker of an old home in New York City. Before leaving, Madame warns that the previous caretaker threw herself off the balcony. Darling becomes fascinated with an Inverted Cross, inverted cross necklace she finds in a dresser drawer. She also finds a locked door at the end of a hallway, but Madame forbids her by phone from opening it. Darling unknowingly drops the necklace while grocery shopping and a man returns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnage Park
''Carnage Park'' is a 2016 American crime horror thriller film directed and written by Mickey Keating. The film stars Ashley Bell, Darby Stanchfield, Pat Healy, and Alan Ruck. Keating described ''Carnage Park'' as being a nod to films by Sam Peckinpah and Peter Watkins that were made in the 1970s, and he built the film around that concept.Kenigsberg, Ben.Film Review: ‘Carnage Park’" ''Variety''. February 7, 2016. Retrieved on March 22, 2016. Plot In 1978, two thieves, "Scorpion Joe" and Lenny, escape into the desert with a hostage, Vivian, after a failed heist. Lenny dies of a gunshot wound suffered during their escape, and Joe forces Vivian to help him dispose of Lenny's body. After a failed escape attempt, Vivian explains that she was at the bank to seek a loan to save her family's farm. As she covertly reaches for a switchblade on the floor of Joe's car, an unseen assailant shoots out one of the car's tires. Joe handcuffs Vivian to the steering wheel and exits the ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychopaths (film)
''Psychopaths'' is a 2017 American horror film written and directed by Mickey Keating. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Ashley Bell, James Landry Hébert, Mark Kassen, Angela Trimbur, Ivana Shein, Jeremy Gardner and Samuel D. Zimmerman. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20, 2017. It was released on December 1, 2017, by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Premise A recently executed murderer's soul possesses and inspires an ensemble of psychopathic killers to attack the city of Los Angeles over the course of one night, crossing each others' paths along the way. Cast * Ashley Bell as an escaped mental patient * Angela Trimbur as a torturer who targets men * Mark Kassen * Ivana Shein * James Landry Hébert as a strangler * Jeremy Gardner as a psychopathic cop * Helen Rogers as a housewife * Larry Fessenden * Sam Zimmerman as a contract killer Production Shooting began on February 15, 2016 and concluded by March 2016. In April, Keating reported that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blumhouse
Blumhouse Productions (; also known as BH Productions or simply BH) is an American film and television production company founded in 2000 by Jason Blum. It is known mainly for producing horror films, such as ''Paranormal Activity'', ''Insidious'', ''The Purge'', ''Split'', ''Get Out'', ''Happy Death Day'', ''Halloween'', '' Us'', ''The Invisible Man'', '' Freaky'' and ''The Black Phone''. It has also produced drama films, such as ''Whiplash'' and ''BlacKkKlansman'', which both earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ''Get Out'' and ''BlacKkKlansman'' won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, respectively. It has worked with directors such as Leigh Whannell, Jordan Peele, Scott Derrickson, Christopher Landon, James Wan, Mike Flanagan, James DeMonaco, Damien Chazelle, and M. Night Shyamalan. Most of Blumhouse's theatrically-released films since 2014 are owned and distributed by Universal Pictures as part of a 10-year fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glass Eye Pix
Glass Eye Pix is an American independent film studio based in New York City, New York known primarily for producing horror films. History Film director Larry Fessenden founded Glass Eye Pix on November 2, 1986 in order to copyright his own films, including ''Habit, Wendigo'' and ''The Last Winter''. The name came from a glass eye one of his friends gave to him as a gift, combined with the old lingo from the trade magazine Variety which called movies "pix". The company eventually grew to encompass others' works as Fessenden began to mentor younger filmmakers. Glass Eye Pix's low-budget horror banner, Scareflix, was designed to create lean budgeted, auteur-driven films from new directors. Scareflix productions include Glenn McQuaid’s '' I Sell the Dead'', Ti West's '' The Roost'' and '' Trigger Man'', James Felix McKenney's '' Automatons'' and '' The Off Season'', and '' I Can See You'' and ''The Viewer'' by Graham Reznick. Other Scareflix include Joe Maggio's '' Bitter Feast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Daily
''Screen International'' is a British film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global film business. The magazine in its current form was founded in 1975, and its website, ''Screendaily.com'', was added in 2001. ''Screen International'' also produces daily publications at film festivals and markets in Berlin, Germany; Cannes, France; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California; and Hong Kong. History ''Screen International'' traces its history back to 1889 with the publication of ''Optical Magic Lantern and Photographic Enlarger''. At the turn of the 20th century, the name changed to ''Cinematographic Journal'' and in 1907 it was renamed '' Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly''. Kinematograph Weekly ''Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly'' contained trade news, advertisements, reviews, exhibition advice, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Disgusting
Bloody Disgusting is an American multi-media company, which began as a horror genre-focused news site/website specializing in information services that covered various horror medias, including: film, television, video games, comics, and music. The company expanded into other media including advertising, podcast networking, film, television, streaming media, and management. The film production studio developed and produced the ''V/H/S'' franchise, a collection of six found footage films, two spin-off films, and one miniseries. History Bloody Disgusting was founded in 2001 by Brad Miska (under the pseudonym "Mr. Disgusting") and Tom Owen, who run the site along with current managing editor John Squires. By 2007, the site had 1.5 million unique visitors and 20 million page views each month. In September 2007 a minority stake was purchased by The Collective, a Beverly Hills–based management company. In 2011 Bloody Disgusting began distributing and producing films that ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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