Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, , Chad Villella are all filmmakers under the collective label called Radio Silence. Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are the primary directors under that moniker while Villella produces.

They have gained popularity over the past 13 years and their films have become known as having a certain Radio Silence “signature.” They are bloody, usually contain monsters, and have breakneck action sequences. Their recent film Abigail exemplifies that signature and is perhaps their best film yet. They are currently working on a reboot of John Carpenter’s Undslippe fra New York.

We thought we would go through the list of projects they have directed and rank them from high to low. None of the movies and shorts on this list are bad, they all have their merits. These rankings from top to bottom are just ones we felt showcased their talents the best.

We didn’t include movies they produced but didn’t direct.

Abigail

An update to the second film on this list, Abagail is the natural progression of Radio Silence’s love of lockdown horror. It follows in pretty much the same footsteps of Klar eller Ikke, but manages to go one better — make it about vampires.

Klar eller Ikke

This film put Radio Silence on the map. While not as successful at the box office as some of their other films, Klar eller Ikke proved that the team could step outside their limited anthology space and create a fun, thrilling, and bloody adventure-length film.

Skrig (2022)

Mens Scream will always be a polarizing franchise, this prequel, sequel, reboot — however you want to label it showed just how much Radio Silence knew the source material. It wasn’t lazy or cash-grabby, just a good time with legendary characters we love and new ones who grew on us.

Southbound (The Way Out)

Radio Silence tosses their found footage modus operandi for this anthology film. Responsible for the bookend stories, they create a terrifying world in their segment titled Måden Out, which involves strange floating beings and some sort of time loop. It’s kind of the first time we see their work without a shaky cam. If we were to rank this entire film, it would remain at this position on the list.

V/H/S (10/31/98)

The film that started it all for Radio Silence. Or should we say the segment that started it all. Even though this isn’t feature-length what they managed to do with the time they had was very good. Their chapter was titled 10/31/98, a found-footage short involving a group of friends who crash what they think is a staged exorcism only to learn not to assume things on Halloween night.

Skrig VI

Cranking up the action, moving to the big city and letting Ghostface use a shotgun, Skrig VI turned the franchise on its head. Like their first one, this film played with canon and managed to win over a lot of fans in its direction, but alienated others for coloring too far outside the lines of Wes Craven’s beloved series. If any sequel was showing how the trope was going stale it was Skrig VI, but it managed to squeeze some fresh blood out of this nearly three-decade mainstay.

Djævelens skyld

Fairly underrated, this, Radio Silence’s first feature-length film, is a sampler of things they took from V/H/S. It was filmed in an omnipresent found footage style, showcasing a form of possession, and features clueless men. Since this was their first bonafide major studio job it’s a wonderful touchstone to see how far they have come with their storytelling.

Du har måske aldrig hørt om Richard Gadd, but that will probably change after this month. His mini-series Baby rensdyr bare ramt Netflix and it’s a terrifying deep dive into abuse, addiction, and mental illness. What is even scarier is that it’s based on Gadd’s real-life hardships.

The crux of the story is about a man named Donny Dunn played by Gadd who wants to be a stand-up comedian, but it’s not working out so well thanks to stage fright stemming from his insecurity.

One day at his day job he meets a woman named Martha, played to unhinged perfection by Jessica Gunning, who is instantly charmed by Donny’s kindness and good looks. It doesn’t take long before she nicknames him “Baby Reindeer” and begins to relentlessly stalk him. But that is just the apex of Donny’s problems, he has his own incredibly disturbing issues.

This mini-series should come with a lot of triggers, so just be warned it is not for the faint of heart. The horrors here don’t come from blood and gore, but from physical and mental abuse that go beyond any physiological thriller you may have ever seen.

“It’s very emotionally true, obviously: I was severely stalked and severely abused,” Gadd said to Mennesker, explaining why he changed some aspects of the story. “But we wanted it to exist in the sphere of art, as well as protect the people it’s based on.”

The series has gained momentum thanks to positive word-of-mouth, and Gadd is getting used to the notoriety.

“It’s clearly struck a chord,” he told The Guardian. “I really did believe in it, but it’s taken off so quickly that I do feel a bit windswept.”

Du kan streame Baby rensdyr på Netflix lige nu.

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Tilbage i slutningen af ​​80'erne og begyndelsen af ​​90'erne var efterfølgere til succesfilm ikke så lineære, som de er i dag. Det var mere som "lad os genskabe situationen, men på et andet sted." Husk Hastighed 2 eller National Lampoons europæiske ferie? Også selvom Aliens, så godt som det er, følger mange af originalens plotpunkter; mennesker, der sidder fast på et skib, en android, en lille pige i fare i stedet for en kat. Så det giver mening, at en af ​​de mest populære overnaturlige komedier nogensinde, Beetlejuice ville følge samme mønster.

I 1991 var Tim Burton interesseret i at lave en efterfølger til sin original fra 1988, den blev kaldt Beetlejuice går Hawaiian:

“Deetz-familien flytter til Hawaii for at udvikle et feriested. Byggeriet begynder, og det opdages hurtigt, at hotellet kommer til at ligge på toppen af ​​en gammel gravplads. Beetlejuice kommer ind for at redde dagen."

Burton kunne lide manuskriptet, men ville gerne have nogle omskrivninger, så han spurgte den daværende hotte manuskriptforfatter Daniel Waters som lige var blevet færdig med at bidrage til Heathers. Han gav muligheden videre, så producer David Geffen tilbød det Troop Beverly Hills skriftlærde Pamela Norris til ingen nytte.

Til sidst spurgte Warner Bros Kevin Smith at slå op Beetlejuice går Hawaiian, hånede han over ideen, siger, "Sagde vi ikke alt, hvad vi havde brug for at sige i den første Beetlejuice? Skal vi gå tropisk?"

Ni år senere blev efterfølgeren dræbt. Studiet sagde, at Winona Ryder nu var for gammel til rollen, og at der skulle ske en hel re-cast. Men Burton gav aldrig op, der var mange retninger, han ønskede at tage sine karakterer, inklusive en Disney-crossover.

"Vi talte om mange forskellige ting," instruktøren sagde i Entertainment Weekly. "Det var tidligt, da vi skulle, Beetlejuice og Haunted Mansion, Beetlejuice går vestpå, uanset hvad. Der dukkede mange ting op."

Spol frem til 2011 da et andet manuskript blev pitchet til en efterfølger. Denne gang forfatteren af ​​Burton's Mørke Shadows, Seth Grahame-Smith blev ansat, og han ville sikre sig, at historien ikke var et pengeskabende genindspilning eller genstart. Fire år senere, i 2015, blev et manuskript godkendt, hvor både Ryder og Keaton sagde, at de ville vende tilbage til deres respektive roller. I 2017 det manuskript blev fornyet og så til sidst skrinlagt 2019.

I den tid, efterfølgermanuskriptet blev kastet rundt i Hollywood, i 2016 en kunstner ved navn Alex Murillo postede, hvad der lignede one-sheets en Beetlejuice efterfølger. Selvom de var opdigtede og ikke havde nogen tilknytning til Warner Bros., troede folk, at de var ægte.

Måske vakte viraliteten i kunstværket interesse for en Beetlejuice efterfølger igen, og endelig blev den bekræftet i 2022 Billejuice 2 havde grønt lys fra et manuskript skrevet af Onsdag forfatterne Alfred Gough og Miles Millar. Stjernen i den serie Jenna Ortega tilmeldte sig den nye film, hvor optagelserne starter om 2023. Det blev også bekræftet Danny Elfman ville vende tilbage for at lave scoringen.

Burton og Keaton blev enige om, at den nye film havde titlen Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice ville ikke stole på CGI eller andre andre former for teknologi. De ønskede, at filmen skulle føles "håndlavet". Filmen blev indpakket i november 2023.

Det har været over tre årtier at komme med en efterfølger til Beetlejuice. Forhåbentlig, siden de sagde aloha til Beetlejuice går Hawaiian der har været tid og kreativitet nok til at sikre Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice vil ikke kun ære karaktererne, men også fans af originalen.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice åbner biografen den 6. september.