Eric Vespe
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Austin, TX, United States
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TV anthologies are gloomy. That’s why Tales from the Loop's earnestness will throw you for a loop
Rebecca Hall, Paul Schneider, and series creator Nathaniel Halpern discuss why they rejected cynicism in their new sci-fi anthology show Tales from the Loop. → Read More
Elijah Wood and his Come to Daddy director were terrified by the titular daddy off-screen, too
Elijah Wood and Come to Daddy director Ant Timpson talk everything from the difficulties of low budget filmmaking to being legit afraid of Stephen McHattie. → Read More
Can you tell an H.P. Lovecraft story while rejecting his hatred?
Cult favorite director Richard Stanley talks candidly about his complicated feelings toward one of his favorite authors and how that influenced his adaptation. → Read More
Director Leigh Whannell says The Invisible Man is the psycho Aquaman of the Universal monsters
SYFY WIRE visits the set of Leigh Whannell's contemporary adaptation of The Invisible Man and talks with stars Elizabeth Moss and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. → Read More
Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Housewares!
From a BB-8 pizza cutter to a Necronomicon pillow, this section of the Guide covers geeky stuff for your abode! → Read More
Holiday Gift Guide 2019! Apparel!
Tees, Jackets, Watches, Socks and Ugly Xmas Sweaters, Oh My! So Much Wearable Geeky Stuff! → Read More
Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Music!
From limited edition CDs and collector's edition vinyl LPs this section of the Guide features some amazingly geeky music! → Read More
Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Books, Part 1!
This chapter of the Holiday Gift Guide takes a look at the nerdy books of 2019! → Read More
Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Books, Part 2!
Part 2 of the Book section of the Holiday Gift Guide features some of the pricier tomes on the market today! → Read More
Holiday Gift Guide 2019! Blu-Rays, Part 2!
Part 2 of the Blu-Ray section delves into the crazier box sets on sale this season! → Read More
Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Blu-Rays, Part 1!
Let's Take A Look At The Best Physical Media Available This Holiday Season! → Read More
Come to Daddy director Ant Timpson is also mesmerized by Elijah Wood's doe eyes
Director Ant Timpson talks about his sadly personal connection to his horror comedy Come to Daddy, which sees Elijah Wood facing off against Stephen McHattie. → Read More
The long, hard road to making Stephen King and Joe Hill's In the Tall Grass
In the Tall Grass, which just debuted at Fantastic Fest, is not one of horror master Stephen King's most well-known stories, even among huge fans of the prolific author's work. → Read More
Director Takashi Miike looks back on some of his best (and bloodiest) movies
From Audition to First Love, legendary cult filmmaker Takashi Miike speaks out about his bloodiest, silliest and most bizarre films. → Read More
Villains, with Bill Skarsgard and Maika Monroe, was maybe SXSW's most twisted film
The SXSW midnight flick Villains is a unique movie. Imagine putting Don't Breathe, Raising Arizona, The People Under the Stairs and Twin Peaks in a blender, and have it somehow work, and you're pretty close to figuring out the tone of this movie. → Read More
Will Forte, failed rock star, hunts for a child sacrifice in Extra Ordinary
One of the pleasant surprises at this year's SXSW Film Festival was a film called Extra Ordinary, a supernatural comedy from Ireland that manages to bring together a great comedic cast to tell a very R-rated story. It's a delicate brew that combines demonic sacrifice, middle-aged romance, severed appendages, exploding bodies, and "tiny hauntings," and somehow makes it work. → Read More
Pet Sematary directors reveal Stephen King Easter eggs and talk about that big change
Pet Sematary is famously one of the Stephen King's darkest, most brutal books. So dark and brutal that legend has it he almost didn't publish it, but relented when Tabitha, his wife, insisted it was "awful, but too good not to be read." How's that for an endorsement? → Read More
Terminator 6's Tim Miller says Linda Hamilton and James Cameron's rules are key
We love the Terminator movies. That's a given. James Cameron's gritty, low budget original blew people's minds and then he went and took everything to the next level with his mega-budget action-focused sequel that set the gold standard for studio blockbuster releases. → Read More
How Netflix's spectacularly weird Love, Death & Robots came together
Tim Miller and David Fincher aim to scramble and rearrange the face of TV animation with their ambitious Netflix series Love, Death & Robots, which features short, adult tales told in a variety of styles. At SXSW this week, they debuted six of the 18 shorts that went live on Netflix today. These risque shorts ran the gamut of comedy, thriller, crime, sci-fi horror and everything in-between. → Read More
Good Omens' David Tennant and Michael Sheen's biggest challenge: Making audiences care about them
It's not every day an actor gets to step into the shoes of immortal beings, let alone those at the center of a hugely popular fantasy novel. David Tennant and Michael Sheen, genre immortals themselves, will do just that as the stars in the upcoming TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens. → Read More