Day: October 8, 2022

Celebrate Sigourney Weaver’s birthday with these five memorable performances

Jeff Mitchell

Sigourney Weaver turns 73 years young on Oct. 8, so Happy Birthday, Ms. Weaver!  Most folks – including yours truly – link Sigourney to Ellen Ripley as her most recognizable character, but this legendary, Oscar-nominated actress has dozens of impressive credits listed on her resume.  To celebrate Sigourney’s birthday, let’s look back at five memorable performances, ones outside the “Alien” and “Ghostbusters” franchises. Dian Fossey, “Gorillas in the Mist” (1988) – In the 1960s, American primatologist Dian Fossey moved to Africa and lived among, studied, and protected mountain gorillas, an…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘The Mist’

Jeff Mitchell

“The Mist” (2007) – Director/writer Frank Darabont knows a thing or two about adapting Stephen King’s work, as he helmed the film versions of “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) and “The Green Mile” (1999).  This King entry is infinitely more sinister than the aforementioned prison dramas, but “The Mist” is primarily incarcerated in one location, a grocery store, specifically. David Drayton (Thomas Jane) is a dad and husband, and the Draytons live out in the country a bit in Maine.  (Of course, Maine, this movie is based on a King novella.)…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘Martyrs’

Jeff Mitchell

“Martyrs” (2008) – One of the most depraved, if not the most depraved, films that AHFW has ever seen! A young girl, Lucie, escapes a decrepit industrial location where she was tortured for a year.  Over a decade later, she (Mylene Jampanoi) suddenly bursts into a comfortable suburban home and massacres an entire family.    Her friend, Anna (Morjana Alaoui), is shocked but helps Lucie clean up the carnage.  Why did Lucie attack this ordinary family?  Is there a connection to the torture she received as a kid?  Well, Anna…