Sharon Farrell, who was best known for her roles in horror film “It’s Alive” and soap opera “The Young and the Restless,” has died at the age of 82.
News of Farrell’s passing was shared this week by Farrell’s sister, Dale Candice Forsmoe, who wrote on Facebook that her sister’s passing happened several months ago. According to Forsmoe, her sister died on May 15.
As shared by the horror film site Horror Society, after beginning her career as a ballet dancer, Farrell worked in the entertainment industry for 40 years. She earned a number of roles in horror films, including “It’s Alive,” “The Premonition” and “Night of the Comet.” She also starred in the soap opera “The Young and the Restless” for six years during the 1990s and had a guest role during the final season of the original “Hawaii Five-o.”
Farrell later admitted that working with “Hawaii 5-o’s...
News of Farrell’s passing was shared this week by Farrell’s sister, Dale Candice Forsmoe, who wrote on Facebook that her sister’s passing happened several months ago. According to Forsmoe, her sister died on May 15.
As shared by the horror film site Horror Society, after beginning her career as a ballet dancer, Farrell worked in the entertainment industry for 40 years. She earned a number of roles in horror films, including “It’s Alive,” “The Premonition” and “Night of the Comet.” She also starred in the soap opera “The Young and the Restless” for six years during the 1990s and had a guest role during the final season of the original “Hawaii Five-o.”
Farrell later admitted that working with “Hawaii 5-o’s...
- 8/6/2023
- by Stephanie Kaloi
- The Wrap
The Covid pandemic is not over, and may not be over for a long while yet. But with vaccination rates up, this might be a good moment to pause and think about what a microscopic virus has done to our world. Already there’s a literary pandemic of excellent books emerging, including Michael Lewis’ The Premonition and Nina Burleigh’s Virus.
Jim Shepard’s Phase Six, released last week, is nothing like those books. Phase Six is a novel that Shepard wrote before this pandemic about the next pandemic. Its...
Jim Shepard’s Phase Six, released last week, is nothing like those books. Phase Six is a novel that Shepard wrote before this pandemic about the next pandemic. Its...
- 5/26/2021
- by Jeff Goodell
- Rollingstone.com
Does anyone actually want a non-documentary movie about the Covid-19 pandemic? I honestly don’t know, but Hollywood seems to think the answer is “yes.” The latest entry in a growing line-up of pandemic-based movies is The Premonition, which is based on the book by Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short. Phil Lord and Chris Miller have come […]
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- 5/11/2021
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Phil Lord, Chris Miller to Direct ‘The Premonition’ Based on Michael Lewis Book About Covid Pandemic
“Lego Movie” duo will also produce the adaptation
Universal has optioned the screen rights to the Michael Lewis book “The Premonition,” which will be directed and produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller through their Lord Miller banner.
Lewis, who has written several books that have been turned into hit films like “The Big Short” and “Moneyball,” has just published “The Premonition,” which tells the story of three people — a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee — who tried to warn about the impending Covid-19 pandemic in 2019, only to have their concerns fall on deaf ears in the Trump Administration.
Amy Pascal will also produce the film alongside Lord and Miller through her Pascal Pictures banner with Rachel O’Connor and Lord Miller’s Aditya Sood. A screenwriter has not yet been chosen to adapt the book.
Lord and Miller, who first rose to prominence through work on...
Universal has optioned the screen rights to the Michael Lewis book “The Premonition,” which will be directed and produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller through their Lord Miller banner.
Lewis, who has written several books that have been turned into hit films like “The Big Short” and “Moneyball,” has just published “The Premonition,” which tells the story of three people — a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee — who tried to warn about the impending Covid-19 pandemic in 2019, only to have their concerns fall on deaf ears in the Trump Administration.
Amy Pascal will also produce the film alongside Lord and Miller through her Pascal Pictures banner with Rachel O’Connor and Lord Miller’s Aditya Sood. A screenwriter has not yet been chosen to adapt the book.
Lord and Miller, who first rose to prominence through work on...
- 5/10/2021
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Universal Pictures has purchased screen rights to The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, the new book by Michael Lewis about several U.S. heroes who, in the early days of Covid-19, tried to sound the alarm about the dangers of underestimating the deadly seriousness of the killer virus. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller will direct and produce along with Aditya Sood through their Lord Miller banner. They’re producing it with Amy Pascal, through her Pascal Pictures banner, along with Rachel O’Connor.
They need to secure a screenwriter and the hope is that the directors will take on the project after they complete Project Hail Mary, with Ryan Gosling starring for MGM. That one is from the Andy Weir novel, and both that and The Premonition were published as books last week.
Much as his book The Big Short focused on a group of financial experts who foresaw the global economic...
They need to secure a screenwriter and the hope is that the directors will take on the project after they complete Project Hail Mary, with Ryan Gosling starring for MGM. That one is from the Andy Weir novel, and both that and The Premonition were published as books last week.
Much as his book The Big Short focused on a group of financial experts who foresaw the global economic...
- 5/10/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
In their continuing attempt to resurrect forgotten genre obscurities from the crumbling facades of horror’s heyday, Arrow Video took three years to curate the second volume of their American Horror Project, which began in 2016 with their first installment. If anything, this next edition is a marked improvement on the first offering, of which the crown jewel was an entertaining camp performance from Millie Perkins. In fact, Volume 2 features two Oscar winners and some exploitation cinema alums in three films which are informed by, in various precarious ways, childhood trauma.…...
- 6/25/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
We should go ahead and rename December 12th “Arrow Video Day,” because the fine fiends over there have a ton of titles coming out this Tuesday, including Special Edition sets for The Premonition and Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood, and they’ve also put together standalone special edition Blu-rays for both House and House II: The Second Story. Severin Films is resurrecting Asylum this Tuesday, and fans can finally get their hands on the latest season of Game of Thrones, as well as a box set featuring every episode from all seven seasons.
Other notable releases for December 12th include K-Shop, Once Upon A Time at Christmas, Brackenmore, The Snake Woman, Beware the Lake, and Hollow Creek.
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Other notable releases for December 12th include K-Shop, Once Upon A Time at Christmas, Brackenmore, The Snake Woman, Beware the Lake, and Hollow Creek.
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- 12/12/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
As the golden age of high-def horror continues, we aren’t just getting bells-and-whistles Blu-rays of films we never expected to receive such treatment—titles like The Mutilator and Squirm—but also of films some of us barely new existed. American Horror Project Vol. 1, the new Blu-ray box set from Arrow Video, collects three such films: low-budget independent horror movies from the 1970s that have either been forgotten or are in danger of being lost forever.
In attempting to find obscure titles that are still in good enough condition to be restored in high-def, the curators of American Horror Project Vol. 1 (among them Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA, as well as books on both Lucio Fulci and Jess Franco) could easily have found esoteric films that fit the criteria but were, for lack of a more diplomatic way of saying it, better off staying lost. But that couldn’t be further from the case.
In attempting to find obscure titles that are still in good enough condition to be restored in high-def, the curators of American Horror Project Vol. 1 (among them Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA, as well as books on both Lucio Fulci and Jess Franco) could easily have found esoteric films that fit the criteria but were, for lack of a more diplomatic way of saying it, better off staying lost. But that couldn’t be further from the case.
- 4/6/2016
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
In a commendable effort to save forgotten genre items either cloaked in obscurity or in danger of disappearing completely due to degrading source materials, distributor Arrow Video releases its first volume of a new series called American Horror Project. Fans of vintage indie horror from a game changing golden era should be enthused for this trio of inventive efforts even if not all live up to the excitement promised by the vibrant packaging. Lurid, carnivalesque, and even tawdry, it’s a new formidable platform for films unfairly dismissed upon release and deserving of another opportunity to provoke.
The earliest film here is the ungainly titled Malatesta’s Bucket of Blood, the 1973 debut and solo feature of Christopher Speeth. The plot synopsis promises palpable weirdness, concerning a middle aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Norris (Paul Hostetler, Betsy Henn) who show up seeking employment at a seedy, run down carnival. Their zeal is a ruse,...
The earliest film here is the ungainly titled Malatesta’s Bucket of Blood, the 1973 debut and solo feature of Christopher Speeth. The plot synopsis promises palpable weirdness, concerning a middle aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Norris (Paul Hostetler, Betsy Henn) who show up seeking employment at a seedy, run down carnival. Their zeal is a ruse,...
- 3/15/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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So, it seems to be time once again to ask that age-old question: what’s your favourite cinematic depiction of conjoined twins? Ranging from the mutoid majesty of That Guy In Total Recall With The Talking Stomach Baby through to the Farrelly brothers’ gross-out gubbins Stuck On You, Hollywood has carved a progressive path in its depiction of wretched freaks of nature, magical otherworldly beings and monstrous killers. Following in this glorious tradition of stigmatising the disabled (insert Iain Duncan Smith reference here), this month sees the Bluray release of Frank Henenlotter’s classic splatter comedy Basket Case trilogy.
The director of the equally subtle Frankenhooker cut his teeth with his 1982 cult favourite Basket Case, which told the tale of the Bradley brothers, bemulleted Duane (Kevin van Hentenryck), the ostensibly ’normal...
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Our monthly round up of horror DVDs and Blu-rays, led by the wonderful and terrifying Audition...
So, it seems to be time once again to ask that age-old question: what’s your favourite cinematic depiction of conjoined twins? Ranging from the mutoid majesty of That Guy In Total Recall With The Talking Stomach Baby through to the Farrelly brothers’ gross-out gubbins Stuck On You, Hollywood has carved a progressive path in its depiction of wretched freaks of nature, magical otherworldly beings and monstrous killers. Following in this glorious tradition of stigmatising the disabled (insert Iain Duncan Smith reference here), this month sees the Bluray release of Frank Henenlotter’s classic splatter comedy Basket Case trilogy.
The director of the equally subtle Frankenhooker cut his teeth with his 1982 cult favourite Basket Case, which told the tale of the Bradley brothers, bemulleted Duane (Kevin van Hentenryck), the ostensibly ’normal...
- 3/15/2016
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Arrow Video’s American Horror Project Blu-ray Box Sets to Feature Restorations of Cult Classic Films
Though many horror films from the past have made the leap from VHS to DVD and then to Blu-ray, there are still those that get forgotten in time. On February 23rd, Arrow Video will begin bringing these left behind titles to the Us and UK home media forefront with the first volume release of their American Horror Project Blu-ray box set.
American Horror Project Volume 1 will include the Blu-ray debuts of Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood (1973), The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976), and The Premonition (1976). In addition to the fresh 2k restorations, each film comes with new bonus features that are detailed in the official press release:
Press Release: Arrow Video is pleased to announce the American Horror Project, a new series of box-sets which sees a variety of rarely seen and long-forgotten cult horror films being restored and returned from obscurity and risk of being lost forever due...
American Horror Project Volume 1 will include the Blu-ray debuts of Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood (1973), The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976), and The Premonition (1976). In addition to the fresh 2k restorations, each film comes with new bonus features that are detailed in the official press release:
Press Release: Arrow Video is pleased to announce the American Horror Project, a new series of box-sets which sees a variety of rarely seen and long-forgotten cult horror films being restored and returned from obscurity and risk of being lost forever due...
- 11/6/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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