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There are horror anthologies, and then there are horror anthologies assembled by a murderers’ row of genre veterans. Nightmare Cinema unequivocally falls in the latter. In it, five strangers converge at a strange theater where The Projectionist (Mickey Rourke) shows them their darkest, deepest fears over five tales of terror. Each of those tales are directed by a master of horror, new class and old alike, including curator Mick Garris.

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I love all of @joe_dante’s work, but INNERSPACE is my favourite. I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting him, but I was very fortunate to watch Joe direct a scene for his segment of NIGHTMARE CINEMA last year with @PostMortemMG & @madmanmendez. I was too nervous to say hi. https://t.co/jYu8YSjmrt
— Paul Davis (@kesslerboy) December 16, 2018

@joe_dante back Catalogue is awesome. Its great you got to see him direct. Despite being nervous, I bet that was a dream come true in itself.
I especially love Explorers and his work on the tv series Eerie Indiana.
That's decided. I'm watching Innerspace tonight.
— James Lisle (@JamesLisle79) December 16, 2018

Good Deed Entertainment announced today the launch of its new genre-focused label, Cranked Up Films. The new label will specialize in high-concept horror, grounded sci-fi, and speculative fiction.

Cranked Up’s slate of projects includes the much-anticipated high concept horror anthology Nightmare Cinema starring Mickey Rourke, which brings together several high-profile genre filmmakers including Mick Garris, Joe Dante, and David Slade.

The horror anthology centers on “a series of afflicted individuals who enter the eerie Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and most horrifying fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist (Mickey Rourke).”

Nightmare Cinema is a co-production with Cinelou and will premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.

FIVE FORCES OF FEAR COME TOGETHER FOR A TERRIFYING DOSE OF NIGHTMARE CINEMA

As part of Fantasia’s Opening Night events, the festival will unveil the World Premiere of Cinelou Films' hotly-anticipated anthology NIGHTMARE CINEMA, featuring segments by Joe Dante (GREMLINS), Mick Garris (THE STAND), Alejandro Brugués (JUAN OF THE DEAD), Ryûhei Kitamura (VERSUS), and David Slade (30 DAYS OF NIGHT) with a cast that includes Mickey Rourke, Richard Chamberlain, Adam Godley, Belinda Balaski, Elizabeth Reaser, and Annabeth Gish. It’s always cause for celebration when the acclaimed “Masters of Horror” brew new creations, and seeing their energies distilled into a single feature film will all but make the universe explode. Join us for what’s sure to be a very special night, with all five filmmakers in attendance. Not to mention…

A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR JOE DANTE!

Fantasia will be presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to adored US genre legend Joe Dante, a man whose inspired filmography has touched generations of cinephiles. From PIRANHA, THE HOWLING, and the universally-beloved GREMLINS films to INNERSPACE, EXPLORERS, and his bold television work, Dante’s works are electric with witty personality and brim with innovative storytelling and a big-hearted affection for all things film. As Fantasia will be World Premiering his latest work with NIGHTMARE CINEMA, there couldn’t be a better time to honour the great man. Previous recipients of Fantasia’s Lifetime Achievement Award include Guillermo del Toro, Takashi Miike, Ken Russell, Tobe Hooper, Jean Rollin, Andrzej Zulawski, Mamoru Oshii, John Landis, José Mojica Marins, Larry Cohen, and Ray Harryhausen.

Just in from Variety, a new genre-focused label, to be called Cranked Up Films, will be launched by Good Deed Entertainment.

CUF is set to focus mainly on high-concept horror, science fiction and speculative fiction that has elements of the supernatural and futuristic settings.

The other upcoming project is Nightmare Cinema, a horror anthology film that will unite fellow horror filmmakers Mick Garris, Joe Dante and David Slade. Stories of the film will center on a series of afflicted individuals who enter the mysterious Rialto theater, where their deepest and most horrifying fears brought to life on the silver screen by the Projectionist, to be played by Oscar-nominee Mickey Rourke. A co-production with Cinelou, NC will be premiering later in 2018.

Joe Dante is a filmmaker that is near and dear to horror fans worldwide, especially those that grew up in the 1980’s. The programmers of the Fantasia International Film Festival also seem to agree (as published in the official press release), as they “…will be presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to adored US genre legend Joe Dante, a man whose inspired filmography has touched generations of cinephiles. From Piranha, The Howling, and the universally-beloved Gremlins films to Innerspace, Explorers, and his bold television work, Dante’s works are electric with witty personality and brim with innovative storytelling and a big-hearted affection for all things film.” Recent recipients of Fantasia’s Lifetime Achievement Award include Guillermo del Toro, Takashi Miike, Ken Russell, Tobe Hooper, Jean Rollin, Andrzej Zulawski, Mamoru Oshii, John Landis, José Mojica Marins, Larry Cohen, and Ray Harryhausen.

In addition to the the Lifetime Achievement Award, the festival will exhibit the World Premiere of Cinelou Films’ anthology Nightmare Cinema featuring segments by Joe Dante, Mick Garris (The Stand), Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead), Ryûhei Kitamura (Versus), and David Slade (30 Days of Night) with a cast that includes Mickey Rourke, Richard Chamberlain, Adam Godley, Belinda Balaski, Elizabeth Reaser, and Annabeth Gish. Dante and many of the other filmmakers that are a part of the film previously directed episodes for Garris’ Masters of Horror anthology series which ran for two seasons from 2005 to 2007 on Showtime.

The screening of Nightmare Cinema and the award presentation will both be a part of Fantasia’s Opening Night Line-up. The Fantasia International Film Festival will also be celebrating its 22nd Anniversary in Montreal this summer, taking place from July 12-August 1.

Horror News Network would like to congratulate Dante on this honor and we also look forward to reviewing Nightmare Cinema in the coming months.

Horror veterans Mick Garris and Joe Dante have given us some of Hollywood’s best nightmares and most iconic genre movies – Dante’s films alone have made almost $500 million at the worldwide box office, unadjusted for inflation.

Now, the two are reteaming, along with three other standout filmmakers, for the highly anticipated, Nightmare Cinema. It’s an anthology of five short horrors which all share a common thread and protagonist played by Golden Globe-winner and Oscar-nominee Mickey Rourke.

I caught up with Garris and Dante to discuss Nightmare Cinema, why Hollywood sees horror as big box office business again and for their takes on the legacies and futures of Gremlins and Hocus Pocus.

Simon Thompson: Nightmare Cinema is an anthology that you have been working on for a decade. With the change in distributions models and growth of platforms, which could work in your favor?

Mick Garris: I hope you're right. The idea for Nightmare Cinema originally came to me right after Masters of Horror ended. I thought it would be great to do something international in scope and do an anthology with a different story in a different country with a different director from each of those countries. I guess my ambition exceeded everyone else, I also thought of it as being an umbrella for a series of feature films, each one is a self-contained 90-minute movie for theatrical release, and eventually, it morphed into this. It took 10 years to get the Nightmare Cinema concept together and we finally found our Angels in Good Deed Entertainment and Cinelou who financed this rather adventurous idea which we ended up shooting entirely in town with two American directors, one Cuban, one Japanese, and one British of whom live in Los Angeles.

Joe Dante: Like you say, everything has changed especially the delivery systems and what gets made and what it gets made for that, it's a different landscape out there. However, one thing that seems to have always been popular it is horror films. The idea of not having to sustain a feature story for 90 minutes is also very liberating, the idea of having to keep a story going for all that time can cancel out some of the more interesting short stories that became so popular on The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits. I've done a couple of these anthology movies, my third movie was The Twilight Zone Movie, a bunch of stories put together and with sort of a framing story around them - it's the framing stories that are actually the kicker. The challenge is, of course, to try to be able to tell stories that are interesting and diverse within a framework that that makes sense to me to the audience. In this case, you know it was Mick's idea to do a haunted movie theater with a possibly malevolent projectionist who was showing people stories of their lives that may or may not have already happened.

ST: Episodic films have always been popular but do you think that one reason they are so popular again now is that people's attention spans are so short these days?

JD: I think there's some truth to that. I think the audience's attention span has been fragmented by, frankly, the invention of remote controls even before cell phones. It used to be that in order to change the channel, people would have to get out of their chairs to do it by hand, there were a lot of shows that were popular simply because they were following another show and people were too lazy to change the channel. People now are watching while multitasking so typing or doing something else or clicking around to see what else is on and it's difficult to hold them. That's one of the great things about movies in the theater for me is that you know you've put your money down, you've put yourself in your seat and you get to sit there and look at the screen and it's all dark with nothing else to look at so you do get the audience's attention. I think the idea of telling a story that resolves itself fairly quickly is probably more attractive than it was before.

ST: A lot of studios are reticent to put out horror films, is it fair to say that many don't know what to do with them?

MG: It's true that the studios don't like or understand horror and can't tell a good horror movie from a bad one. There are some exceptions with some of the executives who do care about it but that's a relatively new phenomenon. I think the best you can do is make a really good movie and people who are passionate and knowledgeable about how to make a horror film. There are a huge number of horror film festivals around the world today and that's a great proving ground where you can get the buzz to go. In the case of Nightmare Cinema and what I did with Masters of Horror was to do my best to recruit the best possible people in the genre who know this stuff and encourage them to do whatever they want without interfering. There wasn't a bunch of studio notes to make it more like some other big hit, more like IT or more like The Purge or more like Insidious. It's a crapshoot but this project is something that did not have a giant budget and had a lot of passion. Here five filmmakers who had stories they wanted to tell and delve into it because nobody was telling them they couldn't. That was the whole basis for Masters of Horror and the basis for Nightmare Cinema which I hope comes to create more demand for more Nightmare Cinemas either as feature films or as a TV series which we're trying to get going as well.

ST: I was going to ask if that is something that you've looked at?

MG: Yes, very much so. My original concept of this was as a television series but we've found that its best voice right now is as a feature film. The idea of an anthology series where you do offer the best filmmakers in the genre from around the world the opportunity to tell their stories their way, I'm hoping we will have the same sort of luck that we did with Masters of Horror. We pitched it to three people, all three of them said they wanted it and the first one who said, in the room, 'That sounds great. When can we start?' we went with. Maybe we'll have the same fortune once we're finished with the movie.

ST: We are going through something of a renaissance with horror. Is that because attitudes, from audiences and studio executives, are changing and they are taking it more seriously?

JD: I think horror films are often a reaction to the world around them. If you go back into the history of various countries and look at the politics and look at what was going on socially you see it reflected in the horror films because people are afraid they're afraid for their lives, they're afraid for their future, they're afraid for their children. I have to say that the times we're living in right now are certainly as fraught with fear since the scariest time that I remember as a kid which was the 50s. I regret to say that we are in a position where I think there are a lot of people who are now experiencing that kind of fear.

Deadline is reporting that Cinelou Films and Good Deed Entertainment have enlisted genre filmmakers Mick Garris, Joe Dante, David Slade, Ryuhei Kitamura and Alejandro Brugues for the horror anthology Nightmare Cinema.

The feature will follow a “series of down-on-their-luck individuals who enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist (played by Mickey Rourke) – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings. By the time our patrons realize the truth, escape is no longer an option.”

“I love being able to bring together visionaries of horror cinema from all around the world with their personal perspectives about what scares you,” said Garris, who is producing with Courtney Solomon, Mark Canton and Joe Russo. “This is a project I’ve been working on for some time and I couldn’t be more thrilled to partner with Cinelou and Good Deed to share with everyone.”

“We’re excited about Nightmare Cinema,” added Canton. “When Mick Garris brought us the opportunity to collaborate with a group like this, it was easy to get behind. Horror has become an industry strength again. When you look around at recent successes of films like It or Get Out, it’s obvious there’s a hungry audience out there that can’t be ignored.”

In addition to the feature, it’s also said that a TV series is in development, which would be in the vein of classic anthology shows such as The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt.

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