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Metropolis Japan
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Metropolis Japan
Megalopolis
By Don Morton He did it his way A lot of self-appointed cinema experts have commented on what a financial flop this movie is, noting that Francis Ford Coppola spent $100 million of his own money on it and is unlikely to ever see a profit. But what they don't know is that Coppola is admired, not for making moneymakers, but for making the films he wants to make. He made movies like The Godfathe r (I&II) and Apocalypse Now so he could fund The Conversation, One From the Heart and Rumble Fish. Francis has never shied away from risk, and maybe today's film industry needs more of that. So, what's it about? Reader, I have no friggin' idea. The production notes call it 'An epic Roman fable set in an imagined modern America.' Here's some of the critical buzz: 'Dazzling and audacious, uncompromising, satirical yet sincere, magical, meandering and maddening, windy, overstuffed, baffling, too talky, an idea-bloated monstrosity, a garish wonder to behold, a nakedly personal statement.' See what I mean? The massive, often baffled but uniformly committed cast includes Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Laurence Fishburne, Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, and dozens more. The whole thing eventually buckles under its own weight, but it's a thrilling demolition to behold. In sum, it's precisely the movie Coppola wanted to make. Whether it's a movie you want to watch depends on who you are, and I can't help you there. It's one of those you have to see to believe. Then we'll talk. (138 min)
Gizmodo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Francis Ford Coppola's ‘Megalopolis' Is Returning to Theaters, in a Truly Mega Way
Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola's long-awaited dream project, came and went from theaters last year. Usually, after that, a film would show up on demand or for streaming but that wasn't the case here. What was happening with Megalopolis? Now we know. Starting July 20, Coppola's film will be taken on the road for a series of events called 'An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and Megalopolis Screening.' It kicks off in Red Bank, NJ, before going to Port Chester, NY; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Dallas, TX; and San Francisco, CA. It includes a screening of the film, obviously, as well as an 'interactive discussion' with Coppola called 'How to Change Our Future.' 'This is the way Megalopolis was meant to be seen,' Coppola said in a statement. 'In a large venue, with a crowd and followed by intense interactive discussions about the future.' You can get tickets on Ticketmaster, which appear to cost around $40. Released last year, Megalopolis was the result of decades of planning and anticipation from the legendary director of The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation. It cost well over $100 million and was paid for almost exclusively by Coppola himself, but it proceeded to bomb at the box office, grossing a little over $14 million. Nevertheless, the film's huge ambition and beyond-weird performances, themes, and visuals gave it the beginnings of cult classic status. Physical versions of the film were released but nothing beyond that. Adam Driver stars in the film as a visionary architect who wants to push his city into the future, only to run into a hard-nosed mayor, played by Giancarlo Esposito. Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, and Shia LaBeouf all get in the fun along with Aubrey Plaza as a character named Wow Platinum. Yes, it's a movie where someone named 'Wow Platinum' makes total sense. We don't think Megalopolis is a particularly good movie, but it's certainly fascinating, worthy of discussion, and surely there won't be too many more cases to see Coppola discuss his work in public in the coming years. If you're a fan, take note.
CNN
3 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
Democrats' frustration with Fetterman mounts as he keeps criticizing his own party
Democrats in Washington and Pennsylvania are increasingly frustrated with Sen. John Fetterman after a week in which he once again criticized his own party's response to the Los Angeles protests and to Israel's attacks on Iran – wedges Republicans eagerly highlighted. But those Democrats also admit there is little they can do about it. Ex-staffers continue to fume that their former boss is providing political fodder to Republicans. Democratic aides on Capitol Hill grouse about their bosses being forced to respond to his comments. Some voters who supported him in Pennsylvania say they are fed up, and a former 2022 primary rival is barnstorming the state, holding town halls and lambasting Fetterman, who is largely avoiding public events. Fetterman has also drawn some grumbling within the party for frequently missing votes and committee hearings, and his mental health has been a frequent subject of discussion in recent months in the wake of media reports detailing claims about his erratic behavior. Fetterman, who has been open about receiving treatment for clinical depression, has dismissed any suggestion he might be unfit for office. Yet publicly, Democratic senators largely refuse to criticize Fetterman – as they grapple with what to expect in the future from a senator whose term runs through 2028. 'I think we are all individuals here. He's got the right to give his opinion just like the other 99 of us,' Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly told CNN. Fetterman, for his part, said in an interview with HBO's Bill Maher on Friday that, 'Parts of my party just wants to turn me into a Colonel Kurtz,' referring to the antagonist who goes rogue and loses his mind in 'Apocalypse Now.' Democratic anger with Fetterman has been building in the last year – but was renewed last week when he accused his own party of failing to condemn violence at the anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles. Most Democrats didn't disagree with Fetterman that looting, burning self-driving cars and physically attacking law enforcement officers are wrong. But they quickly pointed out they'd already condemned that – even as Fetterman told CNN, 'You can't be quiet on those things.' Fetterman's comments, his former staffers and other Democratic aides on Capitol Hill believed, were again providing fodder for Republicans to use him to drive a wedge within the Democratic Party. 'He gives them cover by saying, 'Oh, actually, Democrats are horrible on this thing'' a former aide told CNN. And then they can say, 'See, even some Democrats agree.'' Then, on 'Real Time with Bill Maher' – after Democrats had already taken umbrage with his comments about Los Angeles – Fetterman again took aim at many within his own party again, criticizing progressives for opposing Israel's war in Gaza. 'Our party, the Democratic Party, has lost that argument,' he said. 'They've taken side with the regime that doesn't have the kind of values and live the kind of ways that we want here in our country.' He also said Israel 'absolutely did the right thing' by bombing Iran's nuclear facilities, calling it a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' to do so. And in an interview with Jewish Insider, Fetterman said it was 'astonishing to see colleagues criticizing' Israel's bombing of Iran. 'It's like, do you think you can negotiate with that regime? Do you think you want to run that scenario and allow them to acquire 1,000 pounds of weapons grade uranium? I can't understand, I can't even begin to understand that,' Fetterman told Jewish Insider. In a Fox News appearance on Tuesday, Fetterman said the Trump administration should use bunker-busting bombs to eliminate Iran's nuclear facility. He also said that 'if you have to take out Iran's supreme leader, do it.' 'I'm unapologetically pro-Israel,' he said, acknowledging that 'perhaps' he is an 'outlier' within the Democratic Party. He also accused Democrats of comparing Trump's military parade marking the Army's 250th anniversary last weekend to authoritarian displays. 'This is a 250th anniversary for the Army. I'm not sure why it's outrageous to have a parade for the Army,' he said. 'I don't understand why that's controversial.' While Fetterman is largely isolated within his own party and facing criticism from some Democrats, including former staffers, he has built relationships with some Republicans. In recent days, Politico reported that Fetterman dined at Butterworth's, a Capitol Hill restaurant frequented by Republicans, with former top Trump strategist Steve Bannon and Matt Boyle, the Washington bureau chief for the right-wing Breitbart. 'The boldness and independence of Sen. Fetterman and his courage and willingness to speak out on several major issues of the day continues to amaze people from across the political spectrum,' Boyle, who did not disclose what they discussed at the dinner, told CNN. He said Fetterman had picked Butterworth's as their meeting spot. 'While some Republicans are hoping he joins the Republican Party, I think he's better served at helping fix the Democratic Party and return it to the common sense that it used to stand for,' Boyle added. Fetterman ended an interview with CNN when asked about his dinner at Butterworth's, saying, 'That's not news. And I think we are done.' Among his closest allies on Capitol Hill is Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, a Republican who last month defended Fetterman in the wake of a New York Magazine report on his erratic behavior, saying he faced scrutiny from media and Democratic colleagues 'all because he dares to be an independent thinker and voice.' He was the first Democratic lawmaker to travel to Mar-a-Lago after President Donald Trump's victory last November. Given Democrats are in the minority, he represents a swing state and he is not the deciding vote on any pressing legislation, aides and former staffers say the party is more willing to chalk up their frustrations with him to an eye roll or a shrug. 'I think the view is well at least he's a Democrat. Better than having a Republican in that seat,' the former aide said. The Pennsylvania senator insisted to Maher, just as he had in January after meeting Trump at Mar-a-Lago, that he will not leave the Democratic Party – a prospect that would have momentous consequences in Washington, where Republicans hold the Senate majority with 53 seats. Fetterman said he's watched perceptions of him shift from many believing he 'was a socialist or a Marxist' early in his career, to now thinking 'that I'm going to turn into MAGA,' referring to the acronym for Trump's 'Make America Great Again' campaign slogan. 'My values haven't changed,' Fetterman said. 'But I think in some cases, I think our party's values have changed.' In Washington, Democratic senators have publicly sought to give Fetterman room to break with the party at times – even as they sought to make clear they didn't fit the criticism he'd levied against the party's response to Los Angeles. 'Obviously people committing crimes, we should always speak out against that,' Kelly said. Democratic Sen. Peter Welch said, 'I condemn the violence, so I think all of us do.' But when asked if Fetterman's perspective is driving a wedge among Democrats, Welch said: 'John has a unique voice. We love John.' But a number of Democratic aides, granted anonymity to speak freely, shared how Fetterman's positioning of himself compared to the rest of the party rubbed some the wrong way, from 'eye rolls' to sharper critiques. 'His response is kind of baffling and makes it seem like he's not really listening to what's being said,' a senior Democratic staffer told CNN. 'Democrats have been united on this, it's been the party line and folks have gone out of their way to not give any room to be accused of being ok with the violent fringes. It's a little embarrassing for him to be saying Democrats are silent.' Another Democratic aide said Fetterman's 'reactionary politics are not a shock anymore.' A third Democratic source, who pointed out the numerous statements from Democrats condemning the violence, said of Fetterman: 'I'm not sure what he's asking for.' In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, frustration among the Democrats who chose Fetterman in a competitive three-way primary in 2022 has bubbled in recent months, with attendees at anti-Trump protests and town hall events also training their ire at the Democratic senator, according to local news reports. One of those 2022 contenders, former Rep. Conor Lamb, has been hosting town halls across Pennsylvania – the result, he said, of Fetterman and the state's Republican lawmakers refusing to hold their own public forums. 'People are just outraged that he's not doing his job,' Lamb told CNN. 'My experience has been that a lot of people have given up on him, really because he just keeps demonstrating contempt for the job.' He said Democrats in Pennsylvania have found Fetterman difficult to reach for meetings, and characterized him as 'contemptuous' of criticism of his history of missing votes in the Senate. However, Lamb wouldn't answer when asked if he plans to run against Fetterman again in 2028, and said he sees no realistic mechanism to oust the senator in the meantime. 'This has nothing to do with me,' Lamb said. 'He's the one who's not working, and we're three years away from the next election. None of his political opponents are forcing him to miss votes, pass no legislation, do nothing functional with the role. That's his choice.'
Metro
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
13 'cursed' horror films - from tragic deaths to mysterious 'haunted' sets
Horror films are designed to terrify, but sometimes what happens behind the scenes can be so much scarier. For decades, some of the most frightening flicks to hit the big screen have been labelled 'cursed' by fans due to terrible things that happened during filming – and sometimes before it had even begun. The Wizard of Oz, Apocalypse Now, and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote are all films rumoured to have been cursed due to several dreadful occurrences, from onset mishaps, injuries, and even worse. Due to its chilling nature, horror cinema is automatically associated with gory and haunting happenings, so rumours surround several productions that the terrifying scenes onscreen seeped into real life. To mark Friday the 13th, we look at 13 spine-tingling horror films that gave the cast and crew nightmares even when the cameras stopped rolling. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Last year, Glenn Close's The Deliverance was hit by several strange instances one after the other that had fans scratching their heads and wondering if the set was haunted. The cast and crew of the Netflix hit reportedly held 'prayer circles' after director Lee Daniels' dog died, and actor Mo'Nique was rushed to hospital. 'Mr. Daniels had me doing a scene, okay? And we're outside. It was just, the demon was supposed to be on top of the building, so they kept blowing this… I mean, at one point I'm like, 'Lee, do we have this shit because I can't breathe,'' she told SiriusXM. 'So when I got finished, right, my thyroid was a big… I mean, it was just sick. 'Oh, baby. I was like, 'What kind of s**t is this?' It was a lot of things happening with The Deliverance.' Daniels also revealed his sister had been diagnosed with lung cancer two days after filming the chemotherapy scene with Close. It's just the latest in a long line of horror films that have had stranger than fiction events surrounding the production… The Exorcist is often cited as one of the scariest and greatest horror films ever made, but it was famously dogged with problems and freakish occurrences even before filming began. Shortly before filming began on the 1973 possession horror, the set of Regan and Chris MacNeil's home burned down unexpectedly. Further delays occurred when Linda Blair and Max von Sydow, who played Regan and Father Merrin respectively, lost close family members. Things didn't get much better when filming began, with Linda and Ellen Burstyn, who starred as Chris, both sustaining injuries on set – Linda even fractured her spine during the iconic bed possession scene, an injury that had lifelong implications. It has also been reported that one crew member lost a toe during filming, and another a thumb. Across the production of The Exorcist, nine deaths occurred including that of Jack MacGowran, who played Burke Dennings. Where to watch: BBC iPlayer, NOW TV, and Sky Go Lucifer himself appeared to be trying to stop The Omen in its tracks back in 1976. Two months before filming began, Robert Thorn actor Gregory Peck was struck by tragedy when his son took his own life. Later, in October 1975, Peck was travelling to London to film The Omen when his aeroplane was struck by lightning – and bizarrely, this isn't the only disruption lightning would cause. A few weeks later, producer Mace Neufeld was travelling to set when his aeroplane was also struck by lightning, and screenwriter David Seltzer also experienced the same occurrence. When filming began in Rome, producer Harvey Bernard narrowly avoided being hit by lightning – proving once, and for all, that lightning can strike twice… and more. A stroke of luck saw the crew avoid death when the charter plane they were set to use for an aerial shot was used by a group of businessmen, with the plane crashing and killing everyone on board. The hotel the director, Richard Donner, had been staying in was bombed by the IRA the day after filming, and a zookeeper at the safari park where they filmed the baboon scene was killed by a lion, also the day after those scenes were shot. A serious accident could have occurred on set when dogs used in a scene turned on a stuntman and could not be called off by their handlers. But the most infamous tragedy that happened that is attributed to The Omen is that of Liz Moore's death. She was the assistant and girlfriend of John Richardson, the film's special effects expert. The duo were involved in a car accident in the Netherlands in 1976. While Richardson escaped the wreck largely unscathed, Moore was decapitated. What makes it even more terrifying? The accident happened on Friday the 13th, and when John came to, he noticed a road sign that read 'Ommen, 66.6km'. Where to watch: Disney Plus Film fans have long suspected that 1982 horror film Poltergeist was cursed after supposedly using real, human skeletons in the first film, though this has never been confirmed. Before the third Poltergeist film was released in 1988, four cast members had died, including Heather O'Rourke who played Carol Anne in the original production. O'Rourke was just 12 years old when she died of congenital stenosis of the intestine complicated by septic shock on February 1, 1988, before filming of the third film wrapped. In the same year that the first film was released, Dominique Dunne, who starred as Dana, was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, in the driveway of her home. She fell into a coma and died five days later on November 4, 1982. Taylor actor Will Sampson died aged 53 from postoperative kidney failure in 1987, and Lou Perryman, who played Pugsley, was murdered by Seth Christopher Tatum in 2009 during a robbery. Oliver Robins, who played Robbie Freeling, was also almost killed while filming a scene where a clown was attacking him, after the mechanical clown malfunctioned and the actor was being choked for real. Where to watch: Available to rent on Prime Video, Apple TV, and the Sky Store Actor Brandon Lee – who was the son of Bruce Lee – was fatally shot on the set of The Crow when a prop gun was accidentally loaded with a real bullet, which hit him in the abdomen and caused his death. While that could easily be attributed to a freak accident, what makes it so much more creepy is the fact that he had apparently predicted his own death after having a premonition that he would die suddenly. Brandon is said to have believed his family was cursed after his grandfather had angered a businessman who had put a curse on them. His dad, Bruce Lee, also died at 32 after apparently having a premonition that he would only live half the time of his father, who died at age 64, due to the curse. Where to watch: Available to rent on Prime Video, Apple TV, and the Sky Store Twilight Zone: The Movie, released in 1983, suffered a terrible, tragic accident on set when three cast members were killed when filming the Time Out segment. Actor Victor Morrow, who played Bill Connor in the film, and two child actors, who had allegedly been illegally hired, were decapitated, crushed and killed on set when a low-flying helicopter spun out of control. The three were killed while filming a scene featuring heavy explosions when debris from the explosions flew 100 feet in the air and damaged the helicopter's rotor. During the subsequent trial, director John Landis denied culpability for the accident, but admitted that the hiring of the child actors Myca Dinh Le, 7, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, 6, was 'wrong.' Landis, associate producer George Folsey Jr, production manager Dan Allingham, pilot Dorcey Wingo, and explosives specialist Paul Stewart were later acquitted on charges of manslaughter Where to watch: Available to rent on Prime Video, Apple TV, and the Sky Store The Ring Two, directed by Hideo Nakata, was released in 2005 and had some very strange phenomena take place that suspiciously mimicked the events of the film. Nakata once revealed in an interview that water is used in the film to symbolize someone's evil spirit, and during production, the production office began flooding. The film's set costumer Jeannine Bourdaghs witnessed a strange occurrence on the Universal lot in which a deer, reported to be six feet tall, ran at her. She continued that if she had been 'six feet ahead', the deer would have ploughed into her at almost 100 miles-an-hour. This is particularly spooky as in the film, there is a scene in which Samara (Daveigh Chase) attempts to kill Rachel (Naomi Watts) and Aidan (David Dorfman) with a deer. Where to watch: NOW TV, Sky Go, and Paramount Plus For a film about a cursed doll, you would probably expect some eerie happenings on set – but maybe not this horrific. Both the first Annabelle film and its sequel, Annabelle Comes Home, had some very freaky stuff happen during filming, including light fixtures reportedly falling and the film's Annabelle doll moving on its own. Producer Peter Sarfan told The Hollywood Reporter: 'We shot in this amazing, old apartment building near Koreatown, and we had some funky stuff go down. 'In particular, the first day that the demon was shooting in full makeup, we brought him up in the elevator. He walks out and walks around to the green room to where we're holding the talent, and just as he walks under, the entire glass light fixture falls down on his head. And in the script, the demon kills the janitor in that hallway. It was totally freaky.' The doll itself is based on a 'real' haunted doll investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are fictionalised in these films as well as The Conjuring franchise. In the sequel, Madison Iseman said that when she would enter the Warrens' bedroom set, she would find the Annabelle doll in different positions each time despite no one entering or exiting the room. Star Mckenna Grace also reported experiencing a sudden nosebleed during rehearsals, and that one trailer had a strange power outage that the crew could not find the source of. Where to watch: NOW TV and Sky Go Rosemary's Baby centres on a pregnant woman who believes an evil cult wants to take her baby to use in their dark rituals. But the stories that surround the making of the 1968 movie are enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. The most famous being the death of Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, who was brutally murdered by Charles Manson's followers a year after the film was released. Producer William Castle also suffered sudden kidney failure after receiving hate mail about the film and apparently screamed 'Rosemary, for God's sake, drop the knife!' as he was being admitted to the hospital. He later died of a heart attack. The composer, Krzysztof Komeda, also died of a brain clot a year after the film was released in a weirdly similar way to how Rosemary's friend, Hutch dies in the movie. In another bizarre coincidence, Beatles star John Lennon was shot and killed outside the building in which Rosemary's apartment scenes were shot. Where to watch: NOW TV and Sky Go The ninth installment of the Amityville series, 2005's The Amityville Horror, focuses on the reported experiences of the Lutz family after they moved into a house in Long Island where Ronald DeFeo Jr murdered six members of his family in 1974, before they moved out just 28 days later after apparently being terrorised by the paranormal. All six of the victims were found face down in their beds with no signs of a struggle, despite police finding that the rifle used to kill them had not been fitted with a sound suppressor and they hadn't been drugged with sedatives before their deaths. None of the family's neighbours reported hearing any gunshots, and those who were awake at the time of the murders say they only heard the family's sheepdog, Shaggy, barking. Ryan Reynolds, who plays George Lutz in the film, reported that he and members of the crew kept waking up at 3.15am every day, which was the time Ronald DeFeo Jr was said to have murdered his parents and four siblings. Before filming began, a dead body of a fisherman also washed up on shore by the film set and the real Kathy Lutz also died during filming. Where to watch: Prime Video and Freevee There is a theme here of possession horror films seemingly being haunted, and that continues with the 2005 film The Exorcism of Emily Rose. The film is loosely based on the true story of Anneliese Michel, a German woman whose family believed her to be demonically possessed. When filming The Exorcism of Emily Rose, director Scott Derrickson revealed that stars Jennifer Carpenter and Laura Linney experienced some chilling supernatural activity. Jennifer once claimed that a radio would inexplicably turn on in the middle of the night, which Scott confirmed to be true in an X post. She said it would play one section of the Pearl Jam song Alice over and over again, repeating the lyric 'I'm still alive.' 'I thought about that when it happened, and two or three times when I was going to sleep my radio came on by itself,' Jennifer told Dread Central. 'The only time it scared me was once because it was really loud and it was Pearl Jam's Alive.' She also said that 'Laura's TV came on a couple of times,' with Scott taking to social media to confirm the chilling story. 'This is true. Also, Laura Linney's radio turned on at night 3 times during production,' he said. Life imitates art in The Innkeepers, Ti West's terrifying supernatural film about a haunted hotel on the brink of closure. While filming The House of the Devil the cast and crew stayed at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, experiencing some strange phenomena during their time there. The staff at the inn believed it to be haunted, which inspired Ti to create The Innkeepers. During the production of the second film, people on set claimed that lights would switch on and off for no reason, doors would swing open and shut, and cast members would receive phone calls with no one on the other end of the line. 'Well I'm a skeptic so I don't really buy it. But I've definitely seen doors close by themselves; I've seen a TV turn off and on by itself; lights would always burn out in my room. Everyone on crew has very vivid dreams every night, which is really strange,' the director told IndieWire. 'The one story that is the most intriguing to me — In the film the most haunted room is the Honeymoon Suite. That's where the ghost stuff started in the hotel. The only reason I picked the room that I picked to shoot in, was because it was big enough to do a dolly shot. No more thought went into it other than pure technical reasons. 'So when we're finishing the movie, I find out that the most haunted room in real life, is the room I picked to be the haunted room in the movie. It could be a coincidence. It's weird that it happened that way.' James Wan was rumoured to have shot hit 2010 film Insidious on cursed grounds when a number of terrifying things happened on set – and this continued into the sequel. Insidious: Chapter Two featured a scene set in an abandoned hospital in which the ghost of a patient haunts a nurse after taking their own life. It was filmed at Los Angeles' Linda Vista Community Hospital, a notorious haunted hotspot among the paranormal community. Cast and crew members reported feeling nauseous while in the building and hearing a ringing sound without ever finding the source of the noise. Saw creator James told Bloody Disgusting: 'I've never shot in Linda Vista. It's kind of funny because Leigh [Whannell] and I have always heard so much about it. For research on the first one, [Leigh] came here to do a bit of ghost-hunting. And I think a lot of that inspired us when we needed a hospital set.' Whannell added: 'I've been here twice, after midnight with ghost hunters. We found these guys on the internet. We went to dinner with them and then they brought us here to Linda Vista, which I didn't know existed. The one security guard lets us in. More Trending 'We walk into this ostensibly abandoned hospital where all the equipment and files have been left as they were on the day it closed down. [Later on] I came here with my wife and we sat in the surgical room, which is supposedly the most haunted room according to these guys.' The filmmaker said they sat in darkness for an hour trying to contact spirits, but experienced nothing. He continues, 'A few months later her friend buys her a voucher to go see this psychic. And he basically asked her, 'have you been to this place recently?' And she said, 'we kind of went on this ghost hunt.' And the guy was like, 'you can never go there again. You came this close to taking something home with you.' 'He asked her if she had seen any blue lights, and she said that she had remembered looking up and seeing these little blue pin lights – she thought it was when you can't see anything and see all these shapes and colors [instead]. And he said, 'that was your aunt and your stepbrother holding them back [the spirits].'' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: It's Friday the 13th so why not binge these 5 truly terrifying TV shows MORE: 'Chilling' horror with 91% on Rotten Tomatoes soars up Amazon Prime chart MORE: Keira Knightley says Pirates of the Caribbean gave her 'terrible actress' label
Irish Examiner
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Michael Moynihan: Drone deliveries could land in Cork — but at what cost to jobs, privacy, and peace of mind?
Is it time for The Ride of the Valkyries? Crank the speaker way past 10, open the windows, and listen to the soundtrack of our doom as it approaches? Fans of Apocalypse Now will recall the famous helicopter sequence from that movie, when Robert Duvall leads an attack on a seaside village to the strains of Wagner because it 'scares the hell' out of the enemy. This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? Sign in Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner. Annual €120€60 Best value Monthly €10€4 / month Unlimited access. Subscriber content. Daily ePaper. Additional benefits.
