It’s been two decades since the world was introduced to the rum-loving Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 [our review]) in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Directed by Gore Verbinski, and written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio …
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NOTE: This interview was conducted before the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts. Earlier this summer, another film adaptation of a Stephen King …
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I remember watching Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest at home with my parents, and that was the first time I had experienced a cliffhanger. There I was just seven-years-old, watching my first celebrity crush, Johnny Depp, get eaten by a kraken. My exact words were, “What!?! That’s it …
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I can’t lie – when I was going in to see A Cure For Wellness, I was very, very excited. The trailer looked like the psychological horror film that I’d been waiting for, and it had all the right ingredients: Gore Verbinski at the helm with cinematographer Bojan Bazelli (they worked …
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