It’s always fun to find one of your favorite actors in a horror movie. It’s especially fun to notice an actor in an upcoming horror movie, move to check their IMDb and notice a litany of other horror movies you’d maybe forgotten they starred in. But to go and watch all of said actors horror movies in sequential order? I know, I know. Somebody better stop me because I’m a wild person with no regard for danger. C’mon, let’s get nuts.
Justin Long is the subject of this completist exercise in honor of his not one but two recently released horror movies: Barbarian (In theaters) and House of Darkness (Currently available for rent on VOD). I’ve always considered him an underrated and charismatic actor with the ability to walk the line between “cool guy” and “total dork” as they are so often the same in real life.
Justin Long is the subject of this completist exercise in honor of his not one but two recently released horror movies: Barbarian (In theaters) and House of Darkness (Currently available for rent on VOD). I’ve always considered him an underrated and charismatic actor with the ability to walk the line between “cool guy” and “total dork” as they are so often the same in real life.
- 9/16/2022
- by Mike Holtz
- bloody-disgusting.com
After waiting for what seems like ages, director Justin Steele’s 2010 horror flick “Death and Cremation” is finally coming to DVD in the States this April. I’ve had my eye on this title for what seems like forever, as I happen to be a fan of both Brad Dourif and “The Sasquatch Gang” alumni Jeremy Sumpter. The fine folks over at Green Apple Entertainment were kind enough to snag the film for distribution, giving you an opportunity to own the film as soon as it hits retail. Nice! Need a plot refresher? This synopsis should help: Stan is a 59-year-old recluse who offers cremation services from the basement of his funeral home … though he doesn’t seem much interested in promoting his business. In fact, he’s a deranged sociopath who eliminates anyone he perceives to be a bully. Jarod is a fatherless, 17-year-old high school outcast who no...
- 3/27/2012
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
What’s not to like about a horror movie that features both Brad Dourif and Jeremy Sumpter? If you’re curious as to whom the latter is specifically, I implore you investigate “The Sasquatch Gang”, a little-known bizarro comedy from one of the producers of “Napoleon Dynamite”. It’s seriously awesome. Justin Steele’s “Death and Cremation” is currently hitting the European Film Market, which means we are now privy to the film’s trailer, which, to my surprise, actually looks pretty decent. Not that I have anything against Mr. Steele and his endeavors, mind you, but the picture’s plot isn’t exactly intriguing. How many dejected teenager horror flicks do we need, anyway? Please don’t answer that, especially if you’re about to make one yourself. Here’s a quick synopsis: Jarod is a bullied and fatherless 17-year-old high school outcast. He is viewed as a freak...
- 2/9/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
Although I’ve never gone as far as to partake in the vast array of sasquatch-oriented media that’s swirling around the Interwebs these days, I’m still a pretty big supporter of the cinematic bigfoot. Be it “The Legend of Boggy Creek”, “Harry and the Hendersons”, or the supremely underrated comedy “The Sasquatch Gang”, it would appear that I’ve spent a large portion of my life watching tall, hairy creatures wreak havoc on the lives of us lesser creatures. Naturally, my geek alarm was blasting off the wall when I stumbled across a bit of news for “Primary Zone”, a Chinese horror flick that chronicles the misadventures of a group of scientists attempting to locate this mysterious and allusive beast. The kicker, of course, is that the film will be shot in 3D, a gimmick that isn’t exactly filling me with excitement. Still, a Chinese sasquatch movie sounds killer,...
- 1/5/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
By The Hollywood Reporter
Comedy Central has closed a deal with comedian Ron White for an animated project titled "Hounds."
Meanwhile, Joey Kern ("The Sasquatch Gang") has landed a lead in the network's pilot "Ghosts/Aliens."
Blue Collar Comedy veteran Ron White will voice the lead and co-executive produce "Hounds," with Chris Thompson ("Ladies Man") set to write.
Read more from the Hollywood Reporter.
Comedy Central has closed a deal with comedian Ron White for an animated project titled "Hounds."
Meanwhile, Joey Kern ("The Sasquatch Gang") has landed a lead in the network's pilot "Ghosts/Aliens."
Blue Collar Comedy veteran Ron White will voice the lead and co-executive produce "Hounds," with Chris Thompson ("Ladies Man") set to write.
Read more from the Hollywood Reporter.
- 10/27/2009
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
Comedy Central has closed a deal with comedian Ron White for an animated project titled "Hounds."
Meanwhile, Joey Kern ("The Sasquatch Gang") has landed a lead in the network's pilot "Ghosts/Aliens."
Blue Collar Comedy veteran While will voice the lead and co-executive produce "Hounds," with Chris Thompson ("Ladies Man") set to write.
"Hounds" is described as a blue-collar Southern neo-gothic comedy. White will voice Chicken, "a countrified Yoda with a bottle of Jack and a bag of weed, an opinionated Southern philosopher who considers himself the center of the universe." In the show, Chicken mentors his relatives and roommates in an eccentric small town.
White is repped by Apa and MacDonald/Murray Management.
Based on Trey Hamburger's 2008 supernatural comedy novel released in November, "Ghost/Aliens" centers on Hamburger (Kern) and his loyal best friend, Mike Stevens (Keir O'Donnell), two potheads who set out on a quest to expose...
Meanwhile, Joey Kern ("The Sasquatch Gang") has landed a lead in the network's pilot "Ghosts/Aliens."
Blue Collar Comedy veteran While will voice the lead and co-executive produce "Hounds," with Chris Thompson ("Ladies Man") set to write.
"Hounds" is described as a blue-collar Southern neo-gothic comedy. White will voice Chicken, "a countrified Yoda with a bottle of Jack and a bag of weed, an opinionated Southern philosopher who considers himself the center of the universe." In the show, Chicken mentors his relatives and roommates in an eccentric small town.
White is repped by Apa and MacDonald/Murray Management.
Based on Trey Hamburger's 2008 supernatural comedy novel released in November, "Ghost/Aliens" centers on Hamburger (Kern) and his loyal best friend, Mike Stevens (Keir O'Donnell), two potheads who set out on a quest to expose...
- 10/26/2009
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screen Media Films
NEW YORK -- The ads for The Sasquatch Gang promise that it comes "from the guys who brought you 'Napoleon Dynamite, ' " but similar mainstream success is likely to elude this teen-oriented comedy. A slapstick enterprise centering on the discovery of a presumed Sasquatch turd, this movie is all too redolent of its subject matter.
Written and directed by Tim Skousen, who served as assistant director on Napoleon, the film deals with the discovery by the supremely nerdy Gavin (Jeremy Sumpter) and his friends of some mysterious tracks and droppings in the woods, the size of which indicates that they might stem from the mythical Bigfoot.
Unbeknown to the group -- which also includes the plus-sized Hobie (Hubbel Palmer), the minus-sized Maynard (Rob Pinkston) and the sweet-natured Sophie Addie Land) -- their discovery actually is the creation of slacker Zack (a very amusing Justin Long) and his constantly shirtless friend, Shirts (Joey Kern), as part of a moneymaking scheme to erase Zack's credit card debts.
Predictable wackiness ensues, including the appearance of the high-toned Dr. Artimus Snodgrass (Carl Weathers, no doubt nostalgic for the glories of the Rocky films), a self-proclaimed Sasquatch expert who has arrived to determine the turd's authenticity.
The filmmaker attempts to bring stylization to the sophomoric proceedings via such methods as comic book-style interstitials and a time-fractured narrative that seems far too elaborate for the simple story line.
Very much reminiscent of Napoleon in numerous ways only minus the wit, the film is made somewhat palatable by its inherent sweetness and its treatment of typical adolescent angst. With such touches as Sophie's decision to wire her teeth shut in order to lose weight and Zack's sheepishness upon producing a pair of reading glasses, The Sasquatch Gang demonstrates an admirable sensitivity to its target audience's insecurities.
NEW YORK -- The ads for The Sasquatch Gang promise that it comes "from the guys who brought you 'Napoleon Dynamite, ' " but similar mainstream success is likely to elude this teen-oriented comedy. A slapstick enterprise centering on the discovery of a presumed Sasquatch turd, this movie is all too redolent of its subject matter.
Written and directed by Tim Skousen, who served as assistant director on Napoleon, the film deals with the discovery by the supremely nerdy Gavin (Jeremy Sumpter) and his friends of some mysterious tracks and droppings in the woods, the size of which indicates that they might stem from the mythical Bigfoot.
Unbeknown to the group -- which also includes the plus-sized Hobie (Hubbel Palmer), the minus-sized Maynard (Rob Pinkston) and the sweet-natured Sophie Addie Land) -- their discovery actually is the creation of slacker Zack (a very amusing Justin Long) and his constantly shirtless friend, Shirts (Joey Kern), as part of a moneymaking scheme to erase Zack's credit card debts.
Predictable wackiness ensues, including the appearance of the high-toned Dr. Artimus Snodgrass (Carl Weathers, no doubt nostalgic for the glories of the Rocky films), a self-proclaimed Sasquatch expert who has arrived to determine the turd's authenticity.
The filmmaker attempts to bring stylization to the sophomoric proceedings via such methods as comic book-style interstitials and a time-fractured narrative that seems far too elaborate for the simple story line.
Very much reminiscent of Napoleon in numerous ways only minus the wit, the film is made somewhat palatable by its inherent sweetness and its treatment of typical adolescent angst. With such touches as Sophie's decision to wire her teeth shut in order to lose weight and Zack's sheepishness upon producing a pair of reading glasses, The Sasquatch Gang demonstrates an admirable sensitivity to its target audience's insecurities.
- 12/7/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Serving as first assistant director on Napoleon Dynamite (2004) certainly gave first time filmmaker Tim Skousen a template for some of the character creations and mullet-head protagonists for The Sasquatch Gang - formerly known as the Slamdance entry winner of The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang. The comedy features the Mac vs. PC tv comm dude Justin Long and it got picked up fairly quickly after the fest but has sat on the shelve for a while - until now. Screen Media will be putting out the laugher in select cities December 7th. Below we have the synopsis, poster one sheet and youtube trailer. When Gavin Gore and his three friends, Hobie, Maynard, and Sophie go for a hike up to Deer Cliff Falls, they discover some suspicious footprints and scat that they assume can only be from one source—Bigfoot. They quickly decide to alert police and the media of the
- 11/8/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has picked up U.S. rights to Tim Skousen's 2006 Slamdance Film Festival audience award winner The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang. The comedy centers on a young sci-fi fan and his friends who discover some large footprints in the woods and think they have found Bigfoot. Two of the teen's neighbors scheme to make a quick buck from the supposed discovery. The film reteams several of the filmmakers behind Napoleon Dynamite, including its first assistant director Skousen and the producer of both projects, Jeremy Coon. Dynamite writer-director Jared Hess executive produced the comedy.
- 3/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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