The long-gestating series adaptation of Clive Barker’s horror fantasy film Nightbreed has landed Trick r Treat’s Michael Dougherty as director. Barker revealed that the filmmaker had joined the project in an interview with ComingSoon.net, and Dougherty confirmed his involvement in an email. [caption id="attachment_932926" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via 20th Century Fox[/caption] Dougherty, who also directed the Christmas horror comedy Krampus and the big-budget sequel Godzilla: King of the Monsters, is currently working on the HBO series adaptation of Barker’s classic Hellraiser franchise as a writer and producer. Hiring him to …

Who the heck are we supposed to listen to during this coronavirus pandemic? Our president sounds like the mayor from Jaws, our aunts on Facebook sound like brainwashed weirdos from They Live, our neighbors hell-bent on storming their Costcos sound like zombies from Night of the Living Dead... hey, wait a minute. Did a lifetime spent mainlining horror and sci-fi flicks prepare us for exactly what to do during a coronavirus pandemic? Michael Dougherty and editor Evan Gorski seem to think so, and have put together quite the supercut proving their point. [caption id="attachment_291015" align="alignright" width="…

If you haven't seen Godzilla: King of the Monsters yet, stop what you're doing and run to the nearest theater like you're being chased by titanic kaiju. Whatever the critical consensus of the movie, it's one that begs to be seen on the biggest possible screen because anything smaller simply can't contain the bigger-than-building-sized forces smashing into each other and laying waste to the urban landscape. It's a spectacle, for sure, and it's a nice throwback to good, old-fashioned, cinematic summer smash-em-ups. Part of the reason that …

Spoilers for Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

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Welcome to The Witching Hour! Collider’s horror podcast, co-created and co-hosted by Editor and Horror Lead Haleigh Foutch and Senior Editorial Producer Perri Nemiroff. On this week's episode, we welcome Godzilla: King of the Monsters director Michael Dougherty to the show to talk about taking on the classic monster franchise and bringing his vision to life. The writer/director also talks about what it was like making the massive blockbuster and how he worked with the actors to make the monsters feel real, his thoughts on the 2014 Godzilla, writing Godzilla vs. Kong and working with …

In August 2017, a group of fellow journalists and I went to the Atlanta set of Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Set five years after the events of 2014’s Godzilla, the movie sees a more powerful Monarch organization once again calling on the help of Godzilla after a villain seeks to use the monsters as living atomic weapons. During a break in filming, we got to talk with director Michael Dougherty. During our conversation, we talked about how he got involved with the film, why his film is like Aliens when compared to Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla, …