Sometimes they make it all the way through to the end.
Naomie Harris as Selena in “28 Days Later” (2002)
Halle Berry as Dr. Miranda Gray in “Gothika” (2003)
Directed by: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Significant for its unapologetically bilingual script, Intruders was based on a story by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Nicolás Casariego and Jaime Marquest wrote the Spanish/English adaptation and Oscar-nominated Juan Carlos Fresnadillo of 28 Weeks Later directed. It stars Clive Owen, Kerry Fox, Carice van Houten, Pilar López de Ayala and Izan Corchero.
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Directors: Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez
The most influential horror flick of the last 15 years, The Blair Witch Project single-handedly set off the whole found footage sub-genre avalanche. For better or worse, its style is still the most imitated in horror film for both big studios and indie contenders. Because its motif has been so frequent borrowed, the backlash over time has been to dismiss TBWP‘s success as a fluke. But it is one of the only important horror movies in recent memory that can claim anything much in the way of originality. In a genre crowded with rewrites and remakes and well-worn tropes this is an accomplishment that endures- long after the film’s ferocity has lapsed.
Currently portraying General Glenn Talbot on ‘Agents of SHIELD’, Persian American actor Adrian Pasdar is probably better known as Nathan Petrelli, superhuman politician from Tim Kring’s NBC series Heroes.
The actor has done any number of horror roles on both TV and in the cinema and these are two of my favorites.
Near Dark (1987)
Near Dark was a cult hit blending vampires into a modern Western motif. Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker, Zereo Dark Thirty) co-wrote and helmed this dramatic road trip horror. Her direction gives things a feel that is somehow both epic and trashy. A 21 year old Pasdar stars in one of his first sizable roles. He is the heart-throb reluctant hero while Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton up the creepy factor with over-the-top bad guy action. A classic.
Home Movie (2008)
A dark and effective horror indie in the found footage motif that takes a seemingly idyllic family into sociopathy with a tinge of the supernatural. Here, 20 years after Near Dark, Pasdar plays an earnest pastor and adoring dad trying to create normalcy where there is increasingly less and less of it.
Director: Juno Mak, Producer: Takashi Shimizu
Hong Kong’s multi-talented wunderkind Juno Mak has struck gold in his every creative endeavor in music, fashion, and film. As the director of this 2013 vampire flick, Mak pairs up with J Horror innovator Takashi Shimizu who birthed the Ju-on/Grudge franchises.
The resulting movie pays tribute to Ricky Lau’s 1985 horror/comedy Mr Vampire and bends the fourth wall by including cast members from that iconic film. Eschewing the Western take on bloodsucker mythology, both films instead hinge Chinese folklore’s jiangshi, a Taoist creature roughly described as a “hopping vampire”.
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