Sean Smithson
Contributor;
Salt Lake City, Utah
Sean "The Butcher" Smithson left the world of music, in which he helped found the thrash genre in the early 80's, to pursue his first love... cinema. Now a writer at both Fangoria magazine and Twitch Film, Sean is able to bask in his slave-like addiction to films from any and every genre. These days instead of banging heads, he bangs the keyboard, dispensing his love of all things film related. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
A Few Words With MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE Director Sean Durkin
In celebration of the dvd/blu-ray release of Sean Durkin's feature directorial debut, the sombre yet stunning cult film Marthe Marcy May Marelene, he graciously popped by to have a brief chat. Let's be clear, Martha Marcy May Marlene is...
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Wright And Depp Team Up For THE NIGHT STALKER
Johnny Depp is obviously living out his childhood dream of playing all the bad-ass characters he must have grown up watching on television. I damn well know he's living out mine.Putting all controversy and preconceived opinions aside, Depp is playing...
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New One Sheet For Tim Burton's FRANKENWEENIE
Tim Burton is going back to the well of his early career, to re-imagine and expand upon his beloved 1984 short film, Frankenweenie. Originally a live action piece starring Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, and Barret Oliver as little Victor Frankenstein,...
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Trailer For Horror Short ABED Comes Shambling In!
Breathing new life into a sub-genre that, it can be argued, has become somewhat stagnant, is new director Ryan Lieske, with his adaptation of horror author Elizabeth Massie's very subversive, very gory, zombie tale Abed. First printed in Skipp and...
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Happy Saturday Morning! JONNY QUEST Stop Motion Goodness
Jonny Quest, while only on the air for one season back in 1964-65, has left an incredibly deep imprint on the art of animation, and spawned a surge of serious minded action-adventure cartoons for kids with shows like The Herculoids,...
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Junji Ito's Nightmarish Manga GYO Now Set To Terrify Anime Fans
Anime studio ufotable are bringing morbid manga master Junji Ito's putrid, and surreal, story of mutant zombie fish that sprout legs and attack Okinawa, Japan, to home video systems everywhere later this month.Ok. Wrapped your head around that concept yet,...
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Japanese JOHN CARTER Trailer With A Word From Director Andrew Stanton
The latest trailers for director Andrew Stanton's live action directorial debut, John Carter Of Mars, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs classics, have this scribe cautiously excited.In this new teaser from Japan, introduced by Mr. Stanton himself, we see a...
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Japanese BATTLESHIP Trailer, Now With Extra Asano!
From Hasbro board game to high concept sci-fi blockbuster fare, the forthcoming Battleship looks to be very big, very loud, and very American in it's grandiose enormity. All that heavily armored and armed floating steel makes military excess just seem...
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Ridley Scott's PROMETHEUS Trailer is Unleashed!
2012 looks to be a dream year for big, splashy, genre event-releases. I mean that in a really good way too. Peter Jackson is toiling down in Middle Earth, Joss Whedon is keeping it between the lines over at the...
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THE HOBBIT Trailer Arrives!
"Highly anticipated" does not begin to describe the building excitement among film fans for the forthcoming The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first installment of two new additions to maestro Peter Jackson's envisioning of the once-thought-unfilmable J.R.R. Tolkien literary classics.It's...
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Is There Hope For JOHN CARTER OF MARS?
By the looks of these two new television ads, there just might be a chance that this film delivers at least some of the goods properly. From the aborted Bob Clampett animated version in the 1930's, to the once-a- generation...
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Twitch Staff X-Mas Gift Suggestions
A little late, I know, but there's still time to make those online orders through the weekend. Then again, some things are also worth waiting for. Here's the start of an up-datable X-mas suggestion list. If you are stumped as...
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FAST FIVE Oscar Watch: Best Actress
In an already cut-throat industry, Hollywood is especially hard on actresses. The importance put on youth and a certain, narrow kind of beauty, is stifling. Even respected actresses of the caliber and ability of, let's say Julia Roberts, have to...
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THE NIGHT CREW Back-Talk w/THE WALKING DEAD Season Two Semi-Finale
It's the first ever The Night Crew Back-Talk, available for download. This trial run has the hosts of The Night Crew podcast (Thom Carnell and myself) doing s running live-as-we-watch commentary on the second season semi-finale of the controversial The...
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BRAWLER Film Review
Taking place during the era when the prototype for MMA was forming from the slag of sweat and blood, brothers Charlie Fontaine and Bobby Fontaine are fighters on the New Orleans underground boxing circuit, ground zero for the burgeoning movement,...
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HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 Banned In Australia
It looks like Tom Six won't be making a Disney film anytime soon, or seeing his latest o-pus The Human Centipede 2 play screens in Australia.Banned in Brittain a few months back, until it was agreed that cuts would be...
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ANOTHER EARTH Hits Blu-ray, Director Mike Cahill
For some, the art of filmmaking is a deeply personal passion that reaches far into that person's soul and extracts their own perspective, to be splashed across the screen for others to ponder, and appreciate. For others, not so much....
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ELITE SQUAD's Jose Padilha and THE WOMAN's Lucky McKee Hang Out On The Night Crew
This episode The Night Crew is joined by director's Jose Padilha (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within) and Lucky McKee (The Woman), who have both helmed films that kick up a bit of dirt, and have been making people think.Mr. Padilha...
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Twitch Talks With ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN Director Jose Padilha
ELITE SQUAD: The Enemy Within is the second in writer/director Jose Padilha's intricate and operatic crime duology, about the turmoil and extreme violence in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, between the police and gangs, who are interminably locked in...
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VIDEO: THE NIGHT CREW Interview Tom Savini Live At ZomBcon 2011
Tom Savini should need no introduction. He IS The Master Of Splatter, the legendary and twisted visionary behind so many iconic moments in horror cinema they are too many to recount.This last October, Twitch contributors and Night Crew hosts Thom...
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