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Witchboard: Chuck Russell on Horror Classic Remake, Creating New Stars
Iseman's latest is the remake of the Kevin Tenney horror classic Witchboard Set in present-day New Orleans, a cursed artifact unleashes a vengeful witch, drawing a young couple into a deadly spiral of possession, temptation, and occult terror Dominguez spoke to Bleeding Cool about working with horror legend writer-director Chuck Russell, giving Emily the depth[...]
Witchboard Star Aaron Dominguez on Remake & Breaking into Horror
When he was cast as master chef Christian in Witchboard, it was the first time he ventured into the horror world as an actor Luckily, he had writer-director Chuck Russell, the mastermind behind A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and The Blob, guiding him along with co-stars Madison Iseman (I Know What You[...]
Witchboard: Russell on Respecting Original Films Space, Growth, VFX
When Chuck Russell returned to write and direct the reimagining of Witchboard for The Avenue, it was a return to his horror form since his directorial debut was in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and his 1988 follow-up remaking the 1958 classic The Blob As Russell made a career working across[...]
Witchboard: Chuck Russell on Horror Classic Remake, Creating New Stars
He spoke to Bleeding Cool about what appealed to him about remaking the Kevin Tenney franchise, Witchboard, and getting his core cast together of Madison Iseman (American Horror Stories), Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders in the Building), and Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things) Set in present-day New Orleans, Witchboard follows a cursed artifact that unleashes a[...]
Witchboard Director on How to Exploit the Satanic Panic
Jason chats with Kevin Tenney, director of the 1986 cult film Witchboard which comes to the ARROW platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom As Tenney discusses, Witchboard was perfectly timed to take advantage of the early-to-mid-80s American cultural fascination with the occult and "Satanism," so that oracular toys like the[...]