Attending Kits High in 1993 to study the wicked ways of The Substitute
By Steve Newton If somebody asked you what Mark Wahlberg’s first film was, I bet you wouldn’t know it’s The Substitute. I doubt many folks have seen The Substitute. Heck, I […]
Tag Archives: Horror in Vancouver
Hangin’ with Alien writer Dan O’Bannon on the Vancouver set of his 1992 Lovecraft flick
By Steve Newton Most of the Vancouver-shot movies I covered during my time as a freelancer for Fangoria magazine actually made it into theatres. One that didn’t was The Resurrected, which was based […]
Bordello of Blood sets up shop on Vancouver’s old Expo 86 site
By Steve Newton So I was looking through my collection of old Fangoria magazines last night, searching for a story I wrote to post for Halloween, and came across a […]
Interviewing Jeff Goldblum and Alicia Silverstone on the set of Dean Koontz’s Hideaway
By Steve Newton Vancouver has not been kind to Dean Koontz. First you had his awesome 1987 suspense novel, Watchers, being turned into a godawful Corey Haim vehicle up […]
Braving Vancouver’s seedy Granville strip for Midnight Matinee in 1988
By Steve Newton One of the first set-visit stories I did for Fangoria was back in 1988, when I went down to Vancouver’s Granville Mall to cover a low-budget flick […]
On the Vancouver set of the unfathomable sea-beast flick Deep Rising
By Steve Newton Back in 1997 I went on the set of the Vancouver-shot action-horror flick Deep Rising on assignment for Fangoria. I chatted with director Stephen Sommers and actors […]
Checking out Katie Holmes’ Disturbing Behavior in Burnaby
By Steve Newton Here’s a story I did on the Vancouver-area filming of the 1998 Katie Holmes vehicle Disturbing Behaviour. It wasn’t the worst horror flick I ever did a set-visit […]
Vancouver’s indie filmmakers make horror on the cheap
Here’s my piece that ran as the cover story in the Georgia Straight‘s Halloween 2003 issue. By Steve Newton Ten years ago, Robert Rodriguez caused a sizable stir in the […]
The gorehounds of Vancouver make horror special (FX)
Here’s my piece that ran as the cover story in the Georgia Straight‘s Halloween 1999 issue. By Steve Newton The first time I meet TOBY LINDALA, he’s indulging in one […]
X-Files alumni plot Rube Goldberg-esque deaths for Final Destination debut
By Steve Newton Back in 2000 a Vancouver-shot horror flick called Final Destination was released which depicted young people, having escaped death in an exploding plane, being hunted down by […]
Vancouver bug wrangler Brad McDonald loves cockroaches, fears babies
photo by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward Here’s my piece that ran as the cover story in the Georgia Straight‘s Halloween 2000 issue. By Steve Newton The first time I sat down for a […]
Michael Myers unmasked on the Vancouver set of Halloween: Resurrection
By Steve Newton Not everyone has managed to see both Jason Vorhees and Michael Myers in bloodthirsty action–and lived to tell the tale. But as the Vancouver correspondent for the […]
Feeling out The Crush with 16-year-old Alicia Silverstone in Vancouver
By Steve Newton Just before she started getting recognized for her appearances in a string of videos for Aerosmith power-ballads, Alicia Silverstone made her feature film debut in the low-budget […]
Helen Shaver gives demonic birth on the Vancouver set of Poltergeist: The Legacy
By Steve Newton When I was covering the Vancouver horror scene as a correspondent for Fangoria back in the ’80s and ’90s, I would normally make an effort to see the projects […]
Hangin’ with Kane Hodder on the Vancouver set of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason takes Manhattan
By Steve Newton As dedicated Vancouver horror fans know, the city has had its fair share of terrible flight flicks filmed here. Some were worse than others, of course. For […]
Watching Dean Koontz’s beloved Watchers get trashed in Vancouver
By Steve Newton I still remember the major buzz I got when I saw my first full-colour, three-page spread in famed horror mag Fangoria back in ’88. It was for a Vancouver-shot […]
Interviewing Tim Curry, aka Pennywise, on the set of Stephen King’s IT
By Steve Newton I just finished reading Stephen King’s latest novel, Doctor Sleep, and to be honest–even though it was dedicated to Warren Zevon–I wasn’t that crazy about it. Then again, as […]