Rych McCain Hollyhood Notes : October 2016

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Hellevator Twisted Twins Jen and Sylvia Soska - TV

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Hellevator Twisted Twins Jen and Sylvia Soska - TV

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Hellevator‘s “Twisted Twins” Jen And Sylvia Soska Blast Into Season 2 With Emphasis on The Seven Deadly Sins!

Fans of the top rated GSN horror game show Hellevator are in for a “scarified” treat for season two. Executive producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge) has built a reputation as one of the best in the horror genre on the big screen and has now brought the same magic to the little screen.

Twisted Twins Jen & Sylvia Soska

Of course the show wouldn’t have its horrific up and down goose bump moments without it’s hostesses the Hellevator twins Jen and Sylvia Soska (American Mary), who have added a new floor of terror. The “Twisted Twins” will again spin their spidery web of deceit, confusion and uncertainty from their secret lair to mentally bamboozle the teams of four friends who struggle to stay calm, pretend to be cool while holding on to the last bit a sanity they have left navigating their way through dark, bug filled, wet, creepy hallways and mysterious rooms where anything can come out. They will endure all of the psychological torture to see who will last and complete their tasks including completing the pulse stopping final stage known as “The Inferno” for a $50,000 grand prize.

In talking with the “Twisted Twins,” one gets an eerie sense of scary, humor and sensual sexy all at the same time

which is a very intriguing combination. When asked if they stayed in character between takes or after the set is shut down for lunch or whatever are they still ready to hack a head off? Jen laughs out, “Oh yes, I’m very mean spirited. I’m the mean spirited one.” Sylvia sweetly chimes in, “I think I’m always gleefully homicidal. its part of the job description,” Jen comes back and says, “I’m a little bit compassionate but only about the leaches, the tarantulas and the snakes. I always check on them but the contestants not so much.” And yes they do have real live animals on the set. When this interviewer commented about not liking snakes Jen says, “You know we aren’t the type of people you need to tell your phobias to.”

Do the fans of the show recognize the twins when they are grocery shopping, at the mall or wherever even out of makeup? And how do they react? Sylvia responds, “We’re very recognizable so in or out of the makeup all of the time we’ll either get running over and ‘oh my God you’re those crazy bitches from Hellevator’ or ‘do you guys watch Hellevator you kind of look like the twins?’ They respond, “We are the twins, going down?” Jens explains, “The most exciting one was after the first episode for the season premiere. We were in an ubor and the girl said ‘are you the scary Hellevator twins?’ Then she started telling us everything like ‘this is what he did wrong, this is what she did wrong, you need to get my uncle and the four of us will go on.’ It was like yeah, it was exciting.”

So how did these lovely ladies land such a dream job? Sylvia agrees, “Oh it is a dream job. I’m still waiting for the real host to show up. Elvira, I keep expecting Elvira to show up.” Jen jokes, “Well obviously it was voodoo and witchcraft, sacrifices of small animals but no; we had an interview. They were looking for one person. They had the two of us and for some reason us talking back and forth being our interesting twinny selves; they were like our thoughts are she is pretty perfect considering that we dress whore and abusive style.”

It might be interesting to note that the late artist Prince was quoted as saying “The elevator is the devil” and he unfortunately was found dead in his Paisley Park studio elevator.

Fans can step into season 2 of the Hellevator for its four-part special event beginning Friday, Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on GSN.

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Project Almanac - Film

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Project Almanac

When a tech nerd wizard student named David discovers a set of blueprints in his home’s basement for a mysterious device that can alter time and induce time travel he builds it and starts to experiment. When he discovers all of the wonderful things it can do, he turns several of his closest friends on to it. After seeing that they can travel ahead or back in time, the teens get testy and see if they can alter bad events by going back in time to prevent those events from happening. They go back and alter a couple of events but they soon learn that when they alter an event in time, everything else surrounding it gets altered as well, It doesn’t take long before they are in well over their heads. They soon create more problems than they solved by messing with historic time lines.

L-R Allen Evangelista (Adam) Jonny Weston (David) Sam Lerner (Quinn) and Virginia Gardner (Chistina)

The movie stars Jonny Weston as (David the tech wiz) and his friends Sofia Black-D’Ella; (Jesse who is one of the prettiest girls at David’s high school); Sam Lerner (Quinn); Allen Evangelista (Adam) and Virginia Gardner (Christina).The film is directed by Dean Israelite; written by Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan and produced by Michael Bay.

David (Jonny Weston) smooches up Jessie (Sofia Black-D'Ella)

In this era of re-makes for many of the present day films, is it more of a challenge to promote a completely original brand like this film? The director Dean Israelite responds saying “We’ve (the film business) have had a couple of original things happen in the last couple of years. So it is always a challenge to take something that doesn’t have a lot of people knowing about it going into it. But Paramount did a fantastic job marketing it so we knew that this concept was one that was really fun so you just kind of hope that there’s a different way in and that this is something people already know about.”One of the film’s writers Jason Harry Pagan chimes in; “The awareness always starts low when you have an original movie. You have to get out there and hit the ground everywhere and educate people about the movie.”

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Friday, October 7, 2016

Shannyn Sossamon Sinister 2 - Film

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Shannyn Sossamon

Delivers The Chills In Sinister 2

Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning horror film producer Jason Blum has released a string of scary films that have been so successful, most became franchised. He started with the super low budget Paranormal Activity followed by Insidious, Sinister, The Purge and Ouija which combined have gross over $1.4 billion worldwide. Paranormal Activity is in the record books as the most profitable film in Hollywood history because it was made for a mere $15,000 and grossed $200 million worldwide. Blum’s latest offering is Sinister 2 which of course picks up where the original left off.

Shannyn Sossamon as Courtney Collins

This version’s star is Shannyn Sossamon who plays Courtney Collins, the mother of twins who become involved with the dreaded evil demon Bughuul (Nick King) and his small posse the ghost kids. As expected, there are several twist and turns that the viewing audience will try to figure out only to be surprised by a different outcome.

Courtney painting chair

In this film, Sossamon's
character Courtney goes
through a barrage of
emotions. She has moved
to an isolated farm house to escape the clutches of her jealous, abusive, mean tempered, knuckle head husband while at the same time having to deal with a private detective hell bent on destroying the evil demon Bughuul and Bughuul with his band of ghost kids getting inside her twin children's head causing them to start acting weird.

Courtney encounters an unpleasant surprise

After shooting with all of that confusion going on, what kind of mindset did Sossamon have when she went home at night? She cracks up saying, “There was a lot of laughing on set so that helped. It relieves tension a little bit though out the day so that helps.” Does Sossamon like the horror genre as an actress? She explains, “ It’s funny, I’m not a horror fan. I don’t like them really at all. So I feel like they just come to me probably because of the way I look. Just because I have dark hair and dark eyes, they assume only people with dark eyes and dark hair and dark features are like well suited for these intense pictures. And that’s true, I do have access to a lot of those feelings but it’s also like gees, there are other colors. But I did like the two very worried mother parts (Wayward Pines) (Her last movie) and Sinister 2 two back to back. So it will be nice in Sleepy Hollow (her next film) to get to play a lit bit of a different area.”

Bughuul's ghost kids gather outside and are up to no good

Because she is the mother of two boys in real life, Sossamon’s intensity in some scenes was a little intimidating to the children playing her twin sons especially Dylan because he played the part of the twin that was the one the dad had abused.


The spooked out twin

Sossamon said, “I wasn’t pretending to grab him hard, I was holding him like he was my own. And I would always tell him before we shot I’m going to hold you really tightly right now because the scene calls for it so I just really need you to work with me here.”

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Shaun The Sheep - Film

Shaun The Sheep - Movie

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Shaun The Sheep

An Animated Movie With A New Twist- No Dialogue!

If you think that you could not be entertained by an animated film with no words spoken, you will be pleasantly surprised by “Shaun The Sheep.” This movie is proof positive that we communicate just as much with facial expressions, vocal tones, hand gestures, body language and general vibes as we do with spoken words. The story revolves around a sheep named Shaun who becomes board with the same monotonous everyday routine of the farmyard he and a flock of sheep and other farm animals share. So he hatches up a plan to escape from the farm for a day of fun and frolic. What starts as fun soon becomes more than he can handle outside the confines of the farm.

Shaun the Sheep

“Shaun The Sheep” made his debut in 1995 as a supporting player in Nick Park’s Oscar® winning short film “A Close Shave.” Following a lengthy hiatus, the cute faced, four legged charmer became an international sensation starring in his own, completely dialogue free TV show. The U.K. based animation house Aardman, who produced the TV series, decided it was time the let Shaun and his flock of merry sheep run wild on the big screen and thus the movie.

Shaun leads the flock to escape through the broken fence

The project was written and directed in the U.K. by Mark Button and Richard (“Golly”) Starzak. What sparked the concept of no dialogue for the movie as well as the TV show and shorts? Starzak explains, “Initially when we made the TV series, the idea of no dialogue was an economic one. Doing lip sync when the character’s speak is a lot more labor intensive; you need a lot more animation, so initially it was just purely a financial consideration. But, that kind of meant that the TV excerpts became more cinematic. They became more like mini films because you had to tell a story through pictures. That is something we wanted to retain the integrity of in the film is to keep that going. That was the exciting bit I think for me and Mark, was to make a modern day silent film.” Mark chimed in saying “Obviously they invented them here (U.S.). We watched a lot of the old silent movies from the old days like Charlie Chaplin, you know.”

Bitzer the farmyard guard dog

How did Button and Starzak come up with the approach for a film with no dialogue? Starzak breaks it down, “A lot of it is in the story telling. If you know what is going on in the heads of your characters you don’t need words. We were worried early on, is it going to sustain? Are people going to watch it for a while then the kids will be running around the cinema? But in fact, I think what happens is, you forget there’s no words because you know what the characters are thinking. And a lot of that came from Richard and me

working very hard on telling a quite simple story.” The film has grossed over 100 million worldwide and is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

The Farmer, Bitzer, and the sheep

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