WTF Happened To....?!
319 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions and actors/actresses that were "hot" one minute and gone the next. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, many films had such behind the scenes issues that we will discuss in our shows. We'll also delve into the lives of some Hollywood folk who seemed to have disappeared after striking it big at first. Either way, we have to ask: WTF Happened To....?!
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WTF Happened to Robert Zemeckis? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?
April 22, 2024 15:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBRobert Zemeckis was one of the most prominent directors of the eighties and nineties. His string of hits is almost unmatched. Think about it - Romancing the Stone, the Back to the Future Trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, etc. This is why it’s so bizarre that a live-action Disney Pinocchio movie directed by Zemeckis and starring his best favorite leading man, Tom Hanks, was essentially dumped to streaming. It came and went without much fanfare, whil...
WTF Happened to Beavis and Butt-Head Do America? WTF Happened to this Movie?!
April 19, 2024 15:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBIf you weren’t alive in the nineties, it’s hard to do justice to just how popular Beavis & Butt-Head were. Their MTV show was cutting-edge stuff, notably, because the two Mike Judges creations often mocked the very same artists the network had only years earlier played to great success (just ask Kip Winger). In the show, Beavis and Butt-Head’s adventures were intermingled with them providing commentary on music videos, something which would eventually be phased out as the brand grew in popul...
What Happened To John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars? What Happened To This Horror Movie?!
April 15, 2024 15:00 - 10 minutes - 7.52 MBToday, we focus on one master of horror in particular and one of his final movies in his incredible filmography. Try to count how many cross-dissolve shots are in this thing as we dig into John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars and find out What Happened To This Horror Movie?
WTF Happened to Billy Bob Thornton? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?!
April 12, 2024 15:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBBilly Bob Thornton is an unlikely but enduring movie star. He blasted onto the scene as a character actor in movies like One False Move and Tombstone before his 1996 passion project, Sling Blade, earned him a best screenplay Academy Award while also netting him a Best Actor nomination. Made for just over $1 million, it was a solid box office hit, grossing 30 times its budget, and from there, Thornton’s career went into high gear. While his directorial career went on the back-burner after Har...
WTF Really Happened to Dog Day Afternoon? WTF Happened to this MOVIE?!
April 08, 2024 15:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBWhen it comes to the all-time craziest and most unbelievable true stories ever committed to celluloid, Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon (starring Al Pacino and the late, great John Cazale) tops the list. Ripped right from the headlines, the stranger-than-fiction true-crime story about three men attempting to rob a bank during broad daylight in the dead of summer in New York - only to become a grueling 14-hour hostage situation and high-profile media circus - will forever live in infamy due t...
What Happened To Land Of The Dead? WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?!
April 05, 2024 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.82 MBZombies have been all the rage for decades at this point. Just when you think they're going to fade, there's another movie that comes along that revitalizes the sub-genre. But back before the days of The Walking Dead, zombies were considerably less popular. With 28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead remake came fast zombies and a renewed interest in zombies. This meant the Godfather of Zombie himself could finally make another film in his Dead series. So we're diving into it all as we figur...
WTF Happened to Ozzy Osbourne? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?!
April 01, 2024 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBThere was a time that Ozzy Osbourne was considered the most wildly unpredictable, dangerous man in heavy metal. This was the guy that bit the head off a live bat during a concert in 1982, drank Vince Neil’s urine and snorted a line of ants like cocaine amid a bender. The former Black Sabbath front-man was a legend, to the point that many of us, as kids, weren’t allowed to listen to his music or - God Forbid - watch his music videos. But here’s the thing - Ozzy mellowed. First, in the late ei...
WTF Happened to The Avengers (1998)? WTF Happened to this movie?!
March 29, 2024 15:00 - 13 minutes - 9.32 MBI know what you’re thinking - WTF Happened to The Avengers? Nothing, it was one of the biggest hits ever. Not so fast - we’re not talking about the Marvel superhero team-up that shot the MCU into the stratosphere. Instead, we’re talking about 1998’s misbegotten remake of the classic British spy series, The Avengers. On paper, this should have been a great movie. The Avengers was a classic British TV series starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg as super spy agents John Steed and Emma Peel....
What Happened To The Original Cut Of Cursed? WTF Happened To This Unmade Horror Movie?
March 25, 2024 15:00 - 11 minutes - 7.89 MBMost of us know Cursed as the terrible Wes Craven Werewolf movie, right? This film's troubled production dragged out for years and resulted in an entirely different movie in the end. But what about that first cut? The one that featured Skeet Ulrich, Robert Forster, and Mandy Moore. So join us as we take a look at the original cut of 2005's Cursed.
What Happened To Final Destination 3? What Happened To This Horror Movie?
March 22, 2024 15:00 - 10 minutes - 7.46 MBThe sequences of a Final Destination film will play through your head over and over long after the film ends. They're visceral and have a certain quality that really allows you to put yourself in the situation. So by the time the third entry came along, they had to up the ante to really shock audiences. Heck, the second outing had a legendary highway sequence. How could they possibly top that? We'll see if they managed it as we cover the rollercoaster mayhem of Final Destination 3.
Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5: What Happened To This Unmade Movie?
March 19, 2024 12:00 - 9 minutes - 6.7 MBThey say, "In space, no one can hear you scream." But we've seen through eight Alien films that plenty of people can hear you scream if you're in a spaceship. The Xenomorphs have no problem causing their victims a lot of pain. Even though we've seen them in many films, fans will mostly agree that after Aliens, the franchise was never the same. In 2015, filmmaker Neill Blomkamp announced he had been working on a new Alien project. This was even a surprise to Fox, which owned the series. Fan...
WTF Happened to Megan Fox? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?!
March 15, 2024 15:00 - 13 minutes - 9.45 MBMegan Fox was the “It Girl” of the second half of the 2000s. When she showed up as the love interest in Michael Bay’s Transformers, she quickly became one of the most desired women on the planet, but Hollywood didn’t quite seem sure what to do with her for the longest time. While Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was a hit, she was famously written out of the third film. Her roles in movies like Jonah Hex fell flat, while her big star vehicle, Jennifer’s Body, was a flop - albeit one that’...
Pirates of the Caribbean: WTF You Need To Know About This Franchise
March 11, 2024 15:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBYo ho mateys! One of the most unlikely franchises to become a multi-billion dollar grossing juggernaut was indeed Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series. Led by Johnny Depp’s iconic Jack Sparrow, the series has run five instalments (to date) and grossed an estimated 4.5 billion dollars worldwide. This is pretty incredible considering that, in 2003, the first film was seen as a huge gamble. Pirate-based swashbucklers hadn’t been popular since the days of Errol Flynn, and modern attempts to ...
WTF Happened To Friday The 13th? WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
March 08, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBWhen director Sean S. Cunningham set out to make the original FRIDAY THE 13TH, he was trying to craft a cinematic rollercoaster ride. His little independent production was such a crowd-pleasing thrill ride it became one of the biggest hits of 1980. And spawned a franchise that is still going on to this day. So let’s celebrate FRIDAY THE 13TH by looking back and figuring out WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
WTF Happened to Clint Eastwood? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?!
March 04, 2024 16:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBNow, I know what you’re thinkin’ punk; what’s the deal with making an episode about WTF Happened to this Celebrity about Clint Eastwood? Nothing happened to him. He’s still making movies at ninety-two. Indeed, you would be correct - but we here at JoBlo are such massive fans of Eastwood that we couldn’t help but whip together an awesome WTF episode exploring his life and legacy. The fact is, it’s unlikely any other actor has ever had the impact that ol’ Clint did. Sure, others were maybe bet...
WTF Happened to The Terminator? WTF Happened to this Movie?!
March 01, 2024 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBIt’s not a stretch to say that James Cameron’s The Terminator might be one of the most influential movies of all time. Produced on a shoestring budget, The Terminator introduced the world to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 and Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor, mother of the human resistance. In this original classic, Arnie’s T-800 is a terrifying figure, much different from the heroic character we’d come to love in the sequels. Here, he’s sent back to kill Sarah Connor before she can give birth t...
WTF Happened To The Thing? WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?
February 26, 2024 16:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBJohn Carpenter’s The Thing didn’t go over well when it was released in 1982. Ignored by movie-goers, it was a box office failure. Reviled by critics, it even saw Carpenter labeled a pornographer of violence by some reviewers. It was such a disappointment for the studio they took another project away from Carpenter as punishment. But it gradually found its audience, building up a cult following. And soon, a legion of fans and critics alike began calling it one of the greatest horror movies ev...
WTF Happened to Jackie Chan? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?!
February 23, 2024 16:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBEvery kid of a certain age grew up wanting to be Jackie Chan. A legend in Hong Kong and most of the world from the late-seventies on, Jackie Chan also, at long last, became a superstar in North America after the release of his 1996 classic Rumble in the Bronx. Supercop, First Strike and more dubbed versions of his Hong Kong movies would follow, but it was 1998’s Rush Hour, which paired him with Chris Tucker, that made him a phenomenon in the United States. It was as if, at long last, the Uni...
WTF Happened to Jupiter Ascending? WTF Happened to this Movie?!
February 19, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBJupiter Ascending was a movie sci-fi fans were really looking forward to. It would mark the long-awaited return of the Wachowskis to the sci-fi action genre, something they left behind when Speed Racer flopped theatrically. This promised to be a large-scale fantasy epic that fans hoped would be the new Matrix. Alas, things didn’t work out that way, with critics savaging the film when it came out and audiences staying away in droves. Complaints included a muddled sci-fi universe, a bizarre ch...
WTF Happened to David Lee Roth? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?!
February 16, 2024 16:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBIf one were to list the greatest rock n’ roll frontmen of all time, Van Halen’s David Lee Roth would be near the top. With a swagger and look that seemed tailor-made for the MTV era, Roth was riding high in the eighties and, for a while, was among the biggest rock stars on the planet. From 1974 to 1985, he was Van Halen’s lead singer, but after the release of 1984, their biggest album, Roth departed from the band. He would reunite with them for brief stints in 1996 and 2001, before a mostly ...
WTF Happened to Tropic Thunder? WTF Happened to this Movie!
February 12, 2024 16:00 - 14 minutes - 9.88 MBBen Stiller's Tropic Thunder memorably satirized both the Hollywood war film and the often ridiculous lengths actors will go to in order to "capture" the characters they're playing. While the notion that Robert Downey Jr's Kirk Lazarus would dye his skin to play an African-American might be hard to swallow, it wasn't entirely out there fourteen years ago. Hollywood's self-seriousness was arguably at its zenith at this moment in time, and Stiller's film brilliantly satirizes some of the more ...
WTF Happened To Cape Fear? WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?!
February 09, 2024 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.14 MBWhile there have been plenty of horror remakes over the years, there's only one directed by Martin Scorsese. And while that should be enough to garner limitless interest, add in Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange and you've got a recipe for something spectacular. So join us as we dive into the maniacal world of Max Cady in Cape Fear.
WTF Happened to Colin Trevorrow's Unmade Star Wars Movie? WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie?!
February 05, 2024 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.1 MBA long time ago in a movie theater not too far away . . . a series of films came out that captured the imagination of movie fans everywhere. The Star Wars franchise has been a giant among the most loved movies ever made. The original trilogy has been held up as sacred. When it came time for the Prequels, original fans were let down, but young fans embraced them. They have finally aged into their place in Star Wars canon. When Lucasfilm was sold to Disney for a staggering $4.5 billion fans k...
WTF Happened to Armie Hammer? WTF Happened to this celebrity?!
February 02, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBThe last two years have not been good for Armie Hammer, and things will likely only worsen. With Discovery’s docuseries - House of Hammer - on the way, we look back at how exactly one of Hollywood’s most promising young stars ended up an industry pariah. Before he went off the deep end, Hammer was considered a top-notch leading man. After making heads turn in David Fincher’s The Social Network, where he famously played Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in a dual role, Hollywood was keen to make...
WTF Happened to Aeon Flux? WTF Happened to this Movie?!
January 29, 2024 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBAeon Flux is often forgotten when discussing Charlize Theron's action roles. Before Mad Max: Fury Road turned her into a legitimate genre icon, a status re-affirmed by Atomic Blonde and The Old Guard, her first attempt at headlining an action flick, 2005's Aeon Flux, had been largely forgotten. At the time, Theron was mostly known for prestige drama. She had won an Oscar in 2004 for his role as Aileen Wuornos in Patty Jenkins' Monster. She chose to follow this up by trying her luck at leadin...
WTF Happened To Alien Vs Predator? WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?!
January 26, 2024 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.61 MBPitting two titans of cinema against each other has been in the public consciousness since Frankenstein, and The Wolfman met up in 1943. And in the years since, we've seen many different iconic figures do battle: Batman vs Superman, Godzilla vs Kong, and even Freddy vs Jason. Yet there was one film that brought together two of the greatest sci-fi monsters ever, and so today, we're looking into the making of 2004's AVP: Alien vs. Predator!
WTF Happened to The Sandlot Kids? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?!
January 22, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBIf you grew up in the nineties, you undoubtedly grew up a massive fan of The Sandlot. A coming-of-age story centering around a group of baseball-loving kids who hang out every day in a Sandlot, the movie didn’t make much of a peep in theatres back in 1993. However, the box office didn’t tell the whole story, with the movie becoming a cult film on VHS, cable and later DVD, with writer-director David Mickey Evans eventually returning to make a DTV spin-off, The Sandlot 2, while a prequel is st...
WTF Happened to JOHN CARPENTER? WTF Happened to this Movie?
January 19, 2024 16:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBWhen it comes to leaving a mark on cinematic history and scaring the bejesus out of people while doing it, John Carpenter would be on the Mount Rushmore of Horror. Known for directing some of the most iconic and influential films in horror history, Carpenter is responsible for helming Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Thing, Christine, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, and Prince of Darkness, to name a few. Each of the films mentioned above has left an indelible mark on film ...
WTF Happened To Stephen King's Misery? WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?!
January 15, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBThere are few horror films that are able to surpass the genre and make it to Awards season. But the winning combination of Rob Reiner, Kathy Bates, and James Caan proved to be too much, and Academy voters were no longer able to ignore the often-forgotten genre. Yet why, of all the films, was this able to surpass those unfair expectations? Join us as we tell you all about it as we dive into Stephen King's Misery.
WTF Happened to Jennifer Lawrence? WTF Happened to this Celebrity!
January 12, 2024 16:00 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBLet us preface this by saying that we know Jennifer Lawrence is still a massive star. After all, she’s got several movies coming out this year and, by all accounts, delivers an excellent performance in the TIFF-bound drama Causeway. But, it has to be said that Hollywood tends to anoint young actors as the next big superstar and then ditch them after one or two flops. In the wake of The Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence was everywhere, winning an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook and solidifyin...
WTF Happened to Gods of Egypt? WTF Happened to this Movie!
January 08, 2024 16:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MB2016’s Gods of Egypt was meant to be a significant franchise starter for Lionsgate, mixing Egyptian mythology and fantasy in a way that should have been explosive but landed with a thud. Director Alex Proyas, who directed a few seminal classics, including The Crow and Dark City, did his best to deliver an exciting fantasy film. Still, critics were savage, and audiences stayed away. In the end, it lost an estimated $90 million, despite the presence of Gerard Butler and Game of Thrones’ favori...
WTF Happened To Silent Hill? WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?!
January 05, 2024 05:00 - 11 minutes - 8.15 MBAs with many film adaptations based on a title in any medium loved by many, it’s hard to get the right tone to satisfy a die-hard fan. Well, I’m here to tell you that one has seemingly been overlooked in the praise department. One that captures the tone and spirit of the game completely. Fasten your seatbelts and keep your eyes on the road as we take a trip to find out WTF Happened To Silent Hill?
What Happened to Ezra Miller? WTF Happened to this celebrity?!
January 01, 2024 16:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBWith WB/DC's The Flash finally hitting theaters this Friday, fans have no doubt noticed that the movie's star, Ezra Miller, is nowhere to be seen. Usually, the star of a tentpole movie would be out promoting the heck out of it, but Miller is such an issue for the studio that the actor has been sidelined. What's ironic is that Miller's performance has earned raves, and many people are saying The Flash is one of the best superhero movies ever made. Surely now should be a time for celebration? ...
WTF Happened to Watchmen? WTF Happened to this movie?!
December 29, 2023 16:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBIn this episode of WTF Happened to this Movie, we look at Zack Snyder’s divisive big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Hollywood tried for years to turn this into a film, with directors such as Paul Greengrass, Terry Gilliam and more attached. In the end, Snyder, who was coming off of another ambitious graphic novel adaptation, Frank Miller’s 300, was the one who made it work. Boasting a unique cast of character actors and a period 1980’s setting, Snyder made a mostly faithful adap...
WTF Happened To Blair Witch 2016? WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?!
December 25, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutes - 8.02 MBBlair Witch, for those unaware, is a sequel to the 1999 surprise hit The Blair Witch Project and is a definite return to the series roots in terms of story and filming style. It came as a surprise that a film was shot under the title The Woods and revealed to be a Blair Witch sequel at San Diego Comic-Con 2016. For many, the return to the roots of the franchise was a welcome sight after Books of Shadow: Blair Witch 2. So let's dig in and find out WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?
WTF Happened to JOHN CARPENTER? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?!
December 22, 2023 16:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBWhen it comes to leaving a mark on cinematic history and scaring the bejesus out of people while doing it, John Carpenter would be on the Mount Rushmore of Horror. Known for directing some of the most iconic and influential films in horror history, Carpenter is responsible for helming Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Thing, Christine, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, and Prince of Darkness, to name a few. Each of the films mentioned above has left an indelible mark on film ...
WTF Happened to Pulp Fiction? WTF Happened to this Movie?!
December 18, 2023 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBIt wouldn’t be a stretch to say that in 1994, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction revolutionized popular cinema. While 1992’s Sundance breakout, Reservoir Dogs, made Tarantino an indie icon, Pulp Fiction made him a household name, spawning a “cool crime” genre that dominated the second half of the decade, even as the director himself moved away from the genre. The movie revitalized the career of star John Travolta, whose career had bottomed out in the nineties but soon became a $20 million a fi...
WTF Happened To Stephen King's Carrie? WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
December 15, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutes - 7.98 MBStephen King adaptations are a dime a dozen these days. It seems like every month, there's a King story being adapted to the world of cinema. But it all had to start somewhere. So join us as we cover the debut of one of the greatest authors of all time with 1976's Carrie.
WTF Happened to Axl Rose? WTF Happened to this celebrity?!
December 11, 2023 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBAs far as rock stars go, they don’t get much bigger than Axl Rose. As the front-man of Guns N’ Roses, he became an instant legend when their debut album, “Appetite for Destruction” was released in 1987. Spawning hits that are still iconic twenty-five years later (with the soundtrack for Thor: Love and Thunder featuring them prominently), including “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Paradise City,” and “Sweet Child of Mine,” the album broke out from the hard rock/heavy metal genre to become one of the...
WTF Happened to BATTLESHIP (2012)? WTF Happened to this Movie!
December 08, 2023 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.5 MBYou sunk my Battleship! That’s probably what the executives at Universal Pictures were thinking the weekend Battleship, Peter Berg’s megabudget adaptation of the board game, opened in theaters. Costing a massive $200 million, Battleship was meant to kick off a franchise, but it landed with a thud both critically and commercially. While star Taylor Kitsch unfairly took a lot of blame, with it one of two back-to-back flops for the unproven lead (alongside the excellent John Carter), there was ...
WTF Happened To Creepshow? WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?!
December 05, 2023 01:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBAnthology films are the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to being a horror fan. It allows so many different tropes and sub-genres to be explored while still providing bite-sized fun. So what happens when two of the greatest creators in all of horror combine forces for their very own anthology film? One of the best out there, of course! So join us as we cover George A Romero and Stephen King's Creepshow.
WTF Happened to Sam Raimi's Unmade Spider-Man 4? WTF Happened to this unmade movie?
December 01, 2023 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.3 MBWhen it comes to the most disappointing comic book movies that were planned but never produced, which one tops the list? Is it Tim Burton’s Batman Continues? Guillermo del Toro’s Doctor Strange? Perhaps JJ Abrams’ Superman: Flyby? Nah, there’s only one correct answer: Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4, a movie that continues to breathe potential flickers of life nearly 15 years after it was declared dead by Sony Pictures. Indeed, with the exciting new announcement that Tobey Maguire’s version of Pete...
WTF Happened to PAULY SHORE? WTF Happened to this Celebrity?!
November 27, 2023 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBThere was a time in the mid-nineties when Pauly Shore was a very big deal. Rising to fame as a VJ on MTV, he parlayed his alter-ego “The Weasel” into unlikely big-screen stardom. His first movie, Encino Man, introduced the world to Brendan Fraser as a caveman, and Shore was such a hit in it that he got his own solo comedy Son in Law (opposite a young Carla Gugino), which was a money-maker. His follow-up, IN the Army Now, also made money, but that would be the end of Shore’s short-lived reign...
ARGO (2012) - WTF Really Happened to this Movie?
November 24, 2023 16:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBBen Affleck’s Argo was a runaway hit in 2012. His highly anticipated follow-up to The Town, it finally won Affleck the respect from his peers that he always deserved, with it earning a Best Picture Oscar, despite the man being shut out as director in a controversial move. Audiences and critics alike raved about the movie, but it wasn’t without controversy. Some involved with the original “Canadian Caper” that the film was based on slammed it for various inaccuracies. However, these were larg...
WTF Happened To Jamie Lee Curtis? WTF Happened To This Horror Celebrity?!
November 20, 2023 16:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBThe final girl, the opposite of horror villains, is a character defined by her innocence, intelligence, and girl-next-door charm. She's a survivor who outwits supernatural evil to protect her friends and neighbors. This archetype was pioneered by Jamie Lee Curtis, a legendary horror actress who transitioned into a top-tier film career. In this episode of "WTF Happened To This Horror Celebrity," we explore the journey of Jamie Lee Curtis, one of the horror genre's reigning queens.
WTF Happened to An American Werewolf In London? WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?!
November 17, 2023 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.56 MBThese days, horror and comedy are no stranger to each other with recent films such as Bodies Bodies Bodies, Freaky, and the Happy Death Day series. But in the early eighties, blending the two genres was practically unheard of. Enter John Landis, who had already established himself as a successful comedic director with The Blues Brothers and Animal House, to change the formula with 1981’s An American Werewolf in London. Grab your best flannel and keep clear of the Moors as we find out WTF Hap...
WTF Happened to AMBER HEARD? WTF Happened to this celebrity?!
November 13, 2023 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBUnless you’ve been living under a rock the last few months, you’ve probably had your fill of the name Amber Heard. The court case between her and ex-husband Johnny Depp played out in all of its Livestream infamy recently and ended with a decisive victory by team Depp. In many ways, the disgraced star was redeemed in the public eye when a jury found Heard defamed him in an op-ed about being a survivor of “sexual violence” and “domestic abuse.” As revealed in the trial, the facts behind their ...
WTF Happened to THE SPIRIT (2008)? WTF Happened to this movie??
November 10, 2023 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBThe Spirit is a Neo-noir superhero film based on the classic character created by Will Eisner. A live-action film version of the character had been planned for years, with William Friedkin coming close to making a movie back in the eighties. It almost got made as an animated film. In the wake of Robert Rodriguez’s successful version of Sin City, that film’s co-director/writer, the legendary Frank Miller, was able to get the rights. It would be done in a similar style to that film, with it sh...
WTF Happened to Jason Takes Manhattan? WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?
November 06, 2023 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBThe debate over which is the best Friday the 13th is always a tough one. Is it the original? The Final Chapter? Jason Lives? An argument can be made for any of them. Yet usually, when it comes to the worst in the franchise, specifically for the Paramount years, there's only one contender. So join us as we dive into Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan
WTF Happened to WILL SMITH? WTF Happened to this celebrity?!
November 03, 2023 15:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBIt was the slap heard around the world. March 27th, 2022 should have been the greatest moment of Will Smith’s career. He had worked his entire career towards finally winning the award that would prove, beyond any doubt, that he genuinely had the respect and admiration of his peers - the Academy Award. Indeed, Will Smith won that night for King Richard, but he also lost something precious. He lost the respect of his peers after an ill-advised (but innocuous) joke by Chris Rock led to the #Osc...