October 2024

Van Helsing

  • Title: Van Helsing
  • IMDb: link

Van Helsing

Spooky Saturday takes a look back at a film that was decidedly not. Tom Cruise‘s The Mummy wasn’t the only film to kill a revival of Universal Pictures’ monsters before it ever got started. 13 years earlier that honor went to Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, and Van Helsing. While a financial success, the negative response to the film killed any similar future projects for more than a decade.

Van Helsing Read More »

Sing: Thriller

  • Title: Sing: Thriller
  • IMDb: link

Sing: Thriller

Given the multiple allegations of the singer sexually abusing children, one could argue on whether or not creating a children’s short around one of Michael Jackson‘s most famous songs is in good taste. That said, judging the short on its own, Sing: Thriller offers a simple setup to allow the cast of the Sing films to perform “Thriller” twice, first on-stage as part of their latest show and later in Buster’s (Matthew McConaughey) hallucination with each casting the regulars as zombies dancing to the music. Both offer a fun Halloween kid-level creepiness which has the benefit of bringing in both fans from the animated films and those seeking a bit of 80s nostalgia as well.

Sing: Thriller Read More »