Joe Dante
@thejoedante.bsky.social
Director of motion pictures like Gremlins 1 & 2, The 'Burbs, The Howling, Small Soldiers, Innerspace and more.
Check out my side gig ➡ http://trailersfromhell.com (@trailersfromhell.bsky.social)
Official Site www.renfieldproductions.com
Check out my side gig ➡ http://trailersfromhell.com (@trailersfromhell.bsky.social)
Official Site www.renfieldproductions.com
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DUST BUNNY writer/director Bryan Fuller - The Movies That Made Me | iHeart
DUST BUNNY writer/director Bryan Fuller discusses his favorite gateway horror films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Our @trailersfromhell.bsky.social podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social is back with another brand-new guest! Today, Dust Bunny writer/director @bryanfuller.bsky.social discusses his favorite gateway horror films with @josholson.bsky.social & moi.
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Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that Phil Karlson's nervous noir Kansas City Confidential throws tough guy John Payne into the middle of Pulp Fiction tangle, crashing the meet-up of four thieves who have used him as a patsy in a million dollar bank heist.
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Kansas City Confidential - Trailers From Hell
Phil Karlson’s nervous noir throws tough guy John Payne into the middle of a Pulp Fiction tangle, crashing the meet-up of four thieves who have used him as a patsy in a million dollar bank heist. The ...
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December 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that Phil Karlson's nervous noir Kansas City Confidential throws tough guy John Payne into the middle of Pulp Fiction tangle, crashing the meet-up of four thieves who have used him as a patsy in a million dollar bank heist.
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This week, we are proud to have a trio of films exploring prejudice: Gentleman’s Agreement, In the Heat of the Night, and White Dog. Blood of the Vines’ @randyfuller1.bsky.social has a wine pairing for each of these movies, too.
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December 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This week, we are proud to have a trio of films exploring prejudice: Gentleman’s Agreement, In the Heat of the Night, and White Dog. Blood of the Vines’ @randyfuller1.bsky.social has a wine pairing for each of these movies, too.
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It's time for the classic Christmas slasher comedy It's A Wonderful Knife, written by Trailers From Hell Guru Michael Kennedy, to become an all-time holiday classic. Who here agrees?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdA...
It's A Wonderful Knife Official Trailer | HD | RLJE Films | Ft. Justin Long, Joel McHale
YouTube video by RLJE Films
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December 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It's time for the classic Christmas slasher comedy It's A Wonderful Knife, written by Trailers From Hell Guru Michael Kennedy, to become an all-time holiday classic. Who here agrees?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdA...
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With the new Blu-ray collection Columbia Noir #7: Made In Britain, the genre goes English as U.S. studios look for bargains. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that we’ve got adventure, treachery, murderous women and nasty gangsters.
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Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain - Trailers From Hell
Noir goes English, with U.S. studios looking for bargains and American talent looking for acting opportunities and tax breaks. These Columbia releases show English actors on the rise as well. Ken Hug...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
With the new Blu-ray collection Columbia Noir #7: Made In Britain, the genre goes English as U.S. studios look for bargains. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that we’ve got adventure, treachery, murderous women and nasty gangsters.
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Milestone Film and Video re-premieres a double bill of landmark silent-era documentaries filmed in far-off lands by the dauntless adventurers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack: 1925’s Grass and 1927’s Chang. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews:
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Silent Adventure: Grass + Chang - Trailers From Hell
Milestone Film and Video re-premieres a double bill of landmark silent-era documentaries filmed in far-off lands by the dauntless adventurers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Grass takes us ...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Milestone Film and Video re-premieres a double bill of landmark silent-era documentaries filmed in far-off lands by the dauntless adventurers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack: 1925’s Grass and 1927’s Chang. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews:
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Pride and Prejudice Week on TFH wraps up with Jon Davison's trailer commentary for the would-be final Hollywood film of the great Samuel Fuller, White Dog.
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White Dog | Trailers From Hell
A milestone---the first TFH trailer for a movie that never had a trailer! Sam Fuller's final Hollywood picture, whose non-release at the hands of gutless studio execs drove him to Europe for the rest ...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Pride and Prejudice Week on TFH wraps up with Jon Davison's trailer commentary for the would-be final Hollywood film of the great Samuel Fuller, White Dog.
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Obviously, Gremlins is the greatest Christmas movie of all time. But what is the SECOND greatest Christmas movie of all time?
Out-of-pocket answers permitted.
Out-of-pocket answers permitted.
December 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Obviously, Gremlins is the greatest Christmas movie of all time. But what is the SECOND greatest Christmas movie of all time?
Out-of-pocket answers permitted.
Out-of-pocket answers permitted.
Note the very un-seasonally lush greenery behind the movie theater in this rare behind-the-scenes still from my movie Gremlins! Custom autographs from yours truly and Gizmo are available upon request. Get 'em before Christmas!
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Behind the Scenes in Kingston Falls | Renfield Collection
A rare Gremlins behind-the-scenes still of the Kingston Falls set on the Universal backlot! Note the very un-seasonally green trees behind the movie theater.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Note the very un-seasonally lush greenery behind the movie theater in this rare behind-the-scenes still from my movie Gremlins! Custom autographs from yours truly and Gizmo are available upon request. Get 'em before Christmas!
www.renfieldcollection.com/product-page...
www.renfieldcollection.com/product-page...
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The central theme of the 1976 Italo horror The House with Laughing Windows is sadism & torture, but the approach is a slow-going mystery without the expected exploitative diversions. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews:
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The House with Laughing Windows - 4K - Trailers From Hell
It’s an Italo horror with a surprising agenda … the central theme is sadism and torture, but the approach is a slow-going mystery without the expected exploitative diversions. A backwater Italian town...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The central theme of the 1976 Italo horror The House with Laughing Windows is sadism & torture, but the approach is a slow-going mystery without the expected exploitative diversions. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews:
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trailersfromhell.com/the-house-wi...
Christmas treats for Raine the Renfield office pooch!
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Christmas treats for Raine the Renfield office pooch!
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In the Heat of the Night, Norman Jewison's incendiary crime drama set in still-segregated 1967 Mississippi, is the subject of today’s Pride And Prejudice Week trailer commentary, courtesy of late great TFH legend Michael Schlesinger.
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In The Heat of the Night | Trailers From Hell
Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger star in this incendiary drama about a Black detective tasked with solving a murder in the still-segregated Mississippi of 1967 - times being what they are, Norman Jewiso...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In the Heat of the Night, Norman Jewison's incendiary crime drama set in still-segregated 1967 Mississippi, is the subject of today’s Pride And Prejudice Week trailer commentary, courtesy of late great TFH legend Michael Schlesinger.
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trailersfromhell.com/in-the-heat-...
It's beginning to look a lot like Gremlins season on my Renfield Collection site! Celebrate with this fresh still. Autographs from Gizmo and yours truly:
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Stripe's Blue Period | Renfield Collection
Stripe poses for some publicity stills on a break from director Joe Dante's original 1984 classic Gremlins.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It's beginning to look a lot like Gremlins season on my Renfield Collection site! Celebrate with this fresh still. Autographs from Gizmo and yours truly:
www.renfieldcollection.com/product-page...
www.renfieldcollection.com/product-page...
Our @trailersfromhell.bsky.social podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social is back with another brand-new guest! Today, Dust Bunny writer/director @bryanfuller.bsky.social discusses his favorite gateway horror films with @josholson.bsky.social & moi.
www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...
DUST BUNNY writer/director Bryan Fuller - The Movies That Made Me | iHeart
DUST BUNNY writer/director Bryan Fuller discusses his favorite gateway horror films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
www.iheart.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Our @trailersfromhell.bsky.social podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social is back with another brand-new guest! Today, Dust Bunny writer/director @bryanfuller.bsky.social discusses his favorite gateway horror films with @josholson.bsky.social & moi.
www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...
A new list of "Near-Perfect HBO Max Shows" includes, you guessed it, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai!
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6 Near-Perfect HBO Max Shows Nobody Seems To Remember
The forgotten classics from HBO Max.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A new list of "Near-Perfect HBO Max Shows" includes, you guessed it, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai!
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Luis Buñuel’s most personal drama El billboards a ‘strange obsession’ yet ends up expressing the full injustice of polite society’s sexual status quo. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that the surreal is present but always at the service of truth.
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"Él" - 4K - Trailers From Hell
Luis Buñuel’s most personal drama billboards a ‘strange obsession’ yet ends up expressing the full injustice of polite society’s sexual status quo. A pillar of the community marries but finds his skew...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Luis Buñuel’s most personal drama El billboards a ‘strange obsession’ yet ends up expressing the full injustice of polite society’s sexual status quo. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that the surreal is present but always at the service of truth.
trailersfromhell.com/l-4k/
trailersfromhell.com/l-4k/
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Look at she, she’s Sandra Dee! 1959’s most sexed-up soap drama came with beautiful actors, Technicolor scenery and a music tune that the radio wouldn’t stop playing. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews:
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A Summer Place - Trailers From Hell
Look at She, she’s Sandra Dee! 1959’s most sexed-up soap drama came with beautiful actors, Technicolor scenery and a music tune that the radio wouldn’t stop playing. In a ‘Place’ not too far from Pey...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Look at she, she’s Sandra Dee! 1959’s most sexed-up soap drama came with beautiful actors, Technicolor scenery and a music tune that the radio wouldn’t stop playing. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews:
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trailersfromhell.com/a-summer-pla...
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Wilder Than Ever Week delves into Agatha Christie murder mystery terrain with TFH Guru Larry Cohen’s classic trailer commentary on Witness for the Prosecution!
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Witness For The Prosecution | Trailers From Hell
Billy Wilder's trademark sardonicism lends welcome bite and wit to this twisting, turning murder mystery from Agatha Christie. As the man accused of killing a rich widow Tyrone Power is a ball of leth...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Wilder Than Ever Week delves into Agatha Christie murder mystery terrain with TFH Guru Larry Cohen’s classic trailer commentary on Witness for the Prosecution!
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trailersfromhell.com/witness-for-...
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Celebrate TFH Guru @mickgarris.bsky.social’s birthday with these classic trailer commentaries!
The Legend Of Hell House
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God Told Me To
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0d4...
1941
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksc...
The Legend Of Hell House
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYt5...
God Told Me To
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0d4...
1941
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksc...
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Celebrate TFH Guru @mickgarris.bsky.social’s birthday with these classic trailer commentaries!
The Legend Of Hell House
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYt5...
God Told Me To
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0d4...
1941
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksc...
The Legend Of Hell House
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYt5...
God Told Me To
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0d4...
1941
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksc...
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Here’s the third installment of Terry Morgan’s list of the 25 best horror films from the past quarter century, including It Follows, The Cabin in the Woods, Weapons, The Strangers, and more!
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The 25 Greatest Horror Films of the Past Quarter Century, Part Three - Trailers From Hell
Here’s the third installment of my list of the twenty-five greatest horror films from the past quarter century, starting from the bottom and gradually heading to the top by the end of this year. It’s ...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Here’s the third installment of Terry Morgan’s list of the 25 best horror films from the past quarter century, including It Follows, The Cabin in the Woods, Weapons, The Strangers, and more!
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Happy Holidays from our office to yours! 🎁🎄🎅
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Happy Holidays from our office to yours! 🎁🎄🎅
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Jack Lemmon is (Billy) Wilder Than Ever with today’s Allan Arkush trailer commentary for Avanti!, one of the seven fruitful cinematic collaborations between Lemmon and Wilder.
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Avanti! | Trailers From Hell
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s ingenious but somewhat plot-heavy black comedy is mainly remembered today for the demure Juliet Mills’ cheery skinny-dipping scene with the eternally flustered Jack L...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Jack Lemmon is (Billy) Wilder Than Ever with today’s Allan Arkush trailer commentary for Avanti!, one of the seven fruitful cinematic collaborations between Lemmon and Wilder.
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