Tag Archives: Gore Verbinksi

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 …

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 …

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 …

This October is the 15th anniversary of the horror classic The Ring, which itself is a remake of the Japanese horror classic Ringu, a film that turns 19 this year. Today, we will look at the American horror film and compare it to the Japanese film that inspired it. The …

Its that time again! Summer is here and so are a bunch of new scary movies. So what does the summer of 2017 have in store for horror lovers? Read on to find out! Dark Signal – June 2 (Limited Theatrical), June 6 (VOD) The spirit of a murdered girl …

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 …

Not that long ago, the idea of going to an asylum was a good thing. People under stress or dealing with depression could go to their local asylum for a period of rest and relaxation. There was no stigma of severe mental illness attached the way it is today. As …