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Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Possession: A Movie That Does Not Need To Be Remade!

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Parker Finn Is a Good Director — But This Is the Wrong Movie

First thing’s first: I think Parker Finn is a good director. Smile was a lot of fun, and Smile 2 was even better. He’s shown real flair behind the camera and feels like a filmmaker at the start of a genuinely strong career.

But—he’s wasting his time remaking Possession.

Why Possession Took So Long to Be Recognized as a Classic

An obscure but hugely influential cult film, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession was barely released in North America during its initial run. The distributor butchered it down to a virtually incomprehensible 77 minutes, hacked from its original 124-minute cut. Don’t believe me? You can actually see the cut version on the recent 4K reissue.

It wasn’t until the 1990s—thanks largely to early specialty DVD label Anchor Bay Entertainment—that the full version finally became accessible. Horror fans slowly discovered it, and its cult following grew.

Here at JoBlo, we’ve long championed it (check out the embedded videos at the bottom of this article – and our own Cody Hamman has written at length about it), but it’s really only in recent years that Possession has come to be widely regarded as a genuine classic.

Why Possession Hits Harder Now Than Ever

The reason is simple: arthouse cinemas across North America now program it regularly, and The Criterion Channel (and Shudder) frequently make it available.

I only saw Possession for the first time a few years ago at a packed screening at Montreal’s legendary Cinema du Parc, and the young audience ate it up. Oddly enough, it fits perfectly within the modern arthouse horror movement.

Instead of feeling dated, it feels ahead of its time.

The Scene That Changed Modern Horror Performances

If you’ve seen Possession, you remember its centerpiece:
Isabelle Adjani’s subway miscarriage scene—a feral, physically exhausting performance that ranks among the greatest ever captured on film.

That moment has echoed loudly through modern horror:

  • Rosamund Pike paid tribute in Massive Attack’s Voodoo in My Blood
  • Sydney Sweeney nearly recreated it in Immaculate
  • Nell Tiger Free referenced it in The First Omen

Its influence is already baked into contemporary horror cinema.

Why I Understand the Temptation to Remake It

With that in mind, I understand why Finn might want to remake Possession. It’s a showcase role for an actress, with rumors suggesting Margaret Qualley (opposite Callum Turner, filling the Sam Neill role).

On paper, that’s strong casting.

Why a Possession Remake Will Never Work

There’s just one problem: it will never be as good.

The original Possession is inseparable from its context. It was shot in Cold War-era West Germany, on location near Berlin Wall. That setting isn’t background texture—it’s the film’s soul.

It’s a cinematic time capsule.

And then there’s the ending. Possession is so provocative, so confrontational in its final act, that there’s no realistic way a modern studio-backed remake wouldn’t sand off its sharpest edges. If Finn gets to make it, you can be sure it’ll be forced into something more palatable—and more mainstream.

That alone defeats the point.

Some Horror Classics Should Never Be Remade

Possession doesn’t need fixing. Its resurgence proves it has aged better than most films of its era precisely because it was doing something no one else dared to do.

History backs this up. Horror remakes usually turn out terribly—need I remind anyone of the atrocious The Omen?

Sure, people cite The Thing as a successful remake, but that film has virtually nothing to do with **Howard Hawks’ version beyond sharing loose source material from John W. Campbell’s novella.

A Possession remake won’t have that luxury.

Final Verdict: Why Bother?

A Possession remake will never outdo the original—so why bother trying?

Finn and his potential cast are all rising talents capable of incredible work. Spending that energy on a movie with no realistic chance of surpassing its inspiration feels like a waste.

Some films aren’t meant to be reinterpreted. They’re meant to be rediscovered.

Do you think I’m right about a Possession remake being a bad idea? Let us know in the comments.

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The Institute: season 2 of the Stephen King series is now filming

Stephen King‘s novel The Institute (which can be purchased HERE) reached store shelves on September 10, 2019 – and that same day, it was announced that David Kelley and Jack Bender, the duo behind the King series adaptation Mr. Mercedes, were working on a limited series adaptation of The Institute. Almost six years went by and Kelley has dropped off the project along the way, but The Institute finally made its way out into the world on MGM+ last summer… and now, King has confirmed that season 2 is filming!

Refresher

The first season of The Institute ran for eight episodes and told the following story: When young genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted former police officer Tim Jamieson has come looking to start a new life, but the peace and quiet won’t last, as his story and Luke’s are destined to collide. King is an executive producer on the series. Bender remains a director and executive producer on the show.

The series stars Mary-Louise Parker of Weeds (and Mr. Mercedes), Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone), Simone Miller (Detention Adventure), Jason Diaz (The 100), Julian Richings (Supernatural), Fionn Laird (Under the Banner of Heaven), Hannah Galway (Sex/Life), Robert Joy (Land of the Dead), Viggo Hanvelt (Our Christmas Mural), Arlen So (Something Rotten), Birva Pandya (The Umbrella Academy), Dan Beirne (Ginny & Georgia), Martin Roach (Suits), Jane Luk (Streams Flow from a River), and – in the lead role of Luke Ellis – Joe Freeman. This was the first screen acting role for Freeman, who was 18 years old, six years older than Luke was in the book.

Season 2

Speaking with Variety before the premiere of the first season, Cavell said that the possibility of a second season had “always been on our minds from the beginning. The book is clearly designed to have more. It ends with this sense that there’s a much larger conspiracy and larger world outside of what we’ve seen, so we wanted to preserve that ending for our season. Obviously, we don’t end exactly the same way, but we wanted to preserve that scene, that there is much more to be explored. We’ve certainly talked a lot and thought a lot about where it would go, and I have talked a bunch to Stephen about what he thinks about it and where he sees it going. So if there is a demand for more, we would love to make more.

King confirmed the start of production on season 2 by sharing an image on social media:

Are you glad to hear that The Institute season 2 is underway? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Resident Evil Requiem gets a live-action trailer starring Maika Monroe

The Resident Evil video game franchise will continue with the release of Resident Evil Requiem on February 27th, when the game will be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. Building up the hype before the game arrives, a live-action trailer / short film has dropped online – and it stars genre regular Maika Monroe, whose credits include It Follows, The Guest, Watcher, Longlegs, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. You can watch it in the embed above.

New Game

Entertainment Weekly lets us know that Resident Evil Requiem follows FBI intelligence analyst Grace Ashcroft and veteran agent (and fan-favorite character) Leon S. Kennedy. Grace travels to an abandoned Midwestern hotel, where her mother was murdered eight years prior, to investigate the latest in a series of deaths. When a cop goes missing, Leon is dispatched to assist.

Live-Action Trailer

The live-action trailer was filmed in Mexico City and directed by Rich Lee, who has been at the helm of music videos for the likes of Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Eminem, and more. Monroe isn’t generally a gamer and hasn’t played the Resident Evil games, but she said that the look-book Lee sent to her before they shot the trailer was “very nostalgic. The big point was going back to the ’90s, the original location of Raccoon City. And then of course, you get to the end and they’re showing visuals of the zombies, that I would then get to be a zombie. It was really quite exciting.” The article notes that Monroe has watched the Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies.

Monroe told Entertainment Weekly that she was drawn to working on the live-action trailer because “it had a lot of heart. It’s really heartbreaking, the story that you’re watching unfold. I just thought it was a really interesting and a new way to portray this video game coming out.” As for the filming experience, “We had a lot of extras in zombie makeup just cruising around, which was quite funny. Cops and dogs and smoke machines — it was just chaos. I mean, it really felt like chaos.

Will you playing Resident Evil Requiem? Take a look at the live-action trailer, then let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Want to watch the first five minutes of The Strangers: Chapter 3?

Director Renny Harlin shot an entire trilogy of Strangers movies at the same time, and while there was a point when it looked like Lionsgate might be releasing all three of the movies within 2024, but that idea was clearly pushed aside. The Strangers: Chapter 1 (read our review HERE) reached theatres back in May of 2024, and The Strangers: Chapter 2 (read that review HERE) didn’t come along until September of 2025. Thankfully, the wait for The Strangers: Chapter 3 won’t be as long, as Lionsgate recently announced that the film will be reaching theatres on February 6, 2026. With that date just a few days away, the Lionsgate marketing department has decided to release the first five minutes of the movie online. You can watch it in the embed above.

What’s the synopsis?

Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale) stars in this trilogy and is joined in the cast by the likes of Richard Brake (31), Froy Gutierrez (Cruel Summer), Rachel Shenton (All Creatures Great and Small), Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy), and Ema Horvath (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power). The Strangers: Chapter 1 centered on Petsch’s character as she drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers. Lionsgate plans from there to expand the story in new and unexpected ways with its sequels. Here’s the synopsis for Chapter 3This final chapter delves into newer and darker territory, the franchise’s darkest descent yet — a ruthless thriller with scares that deliver. The Strangers: Chapter 3 closes the trilogy with a full-circle reckoning that expands the mythology of the iconic masked killers. Madelaine Petsch returns as Maya for the Final Girl’s long-awaited vengeance, delivering a final chapter that fans won’t want to miss. Tethered by a frightening conclusion, Maya and the Strangers are locked on an unavoidable, unforgiving collision course — a showdown that proves they’re far from strangers now.

Enhanced with additional photography

Harlin has said The Strangers: Chapter 1 “is close to the original movie in its set-up of a young couple in an isolated environment in a house and a home invasion happening for random reasons.” Then Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 “explore what happens to the victims of this kind of violence and who the perpetrators are of this kind of violence. Where are they coming from and why?“ Harlin has also said that viewer feedback was taken into account when they were making changes and enhancing the sequels in the additional photography process. The financial success of Chapter 1 allowed for Harlin and his cast and crew, who had completed principal photography on the trilogy in just 52 days, to go back for 8 days of additional photography on Chapter 2 and 15 days of additional photography on Chapter 3

The new film has been rated R for strong bloody violence and language.

Are you looking forward to seeing The Strangers: Chapter 3 this weekend? Take a look at the first five minutes, then let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Michael J. Nelson returns for a new batch of episodes!

When the movie-riffing comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 first launched at the end of the ’80s, creator Joel Hodgson starred as Joel Robinson, a janitor who was “trapped by two mad scientists on the Earth-orbiting Satellite of Love and forced to watch a series of B movies” alongside the robots he created to keep him company. Halfway through the fifth season, Joel moved on and was replaced by Mike Nelson (played by Michael J. Nelson), who was the star of the show through five and a half seasons and a movie.

When the show was revived eighteen years later, Jonah Ray played test subject Jonah Heston, and Joel came back to join him during season 13. Now, Joel has moved on from the show again – and once again, it’s going to live on with Mike!

New Episodes

Variety reports that Shout! Studios is teaming with Rifftrax, the movie-riffing company started by Michael J. Nelson and his Mystery Science Theater 3000 co-stars Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett after the original run of the show came to an end, to produce four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Here’s the information: Rifftrax stars and MST3K alums Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett will be the creative leads on the new episodes, which are officially titled Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Rifftrax Experiments.

Nelson will also reprise his onscreen role as Mike Nelson, while Murphy will once again play Tom Servo and Professor Bobo and Corbett will again play Crow T. Robot and Brain Guy. In addition, original series star Mary Jo Pehl will return as Pearl Forrester.

Statements

Nelson provided the following statement: “Getting a chance to revisit MST after all this time has really energized all of us at Rifftrax. And for my part, hey, I truly did miss standing next to plastic puppets. It’s been too long.

Matt Arsulich, associate vice president of product management at Shout! Studios, added, “We’re excited to join forces with Rifftrax as Mike, Kevin, and Bill return to the Satellite of Love for a new chapter of MST3K. This partnership reinforces our dedication to growing valuable entertainment properties by serving their fandoms with high-quality storytelling.

Hodgson, who was behind the recent revival seasons, sold his joint interest in MST3K to Shout! Studios’ parent company Radial Entertainment just a couple of weeks ago. Corbett, Murphy, and Pehl all appeared onscreen in the revival seasons, and Pehl was also a writer on multiple episodes.

Kickstarter

A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to help fund the new episodes and to provide production updates to fans. The goal was to raise $20,000 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Rifftrax… but as of this writing, the campaign has already surpassed $1,125,978, with 41 days to go. The fact that the initial goal has already been left in the dust has fans hoping this might lead to the production of more than four new episodes.

I’m very glad to hear that Mike Nelson is coming back for more Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes and will probably be contributing this Kickstarter campaign myself, hoping the new season will end up consisting of more than four episodes.

What do you think of this MST3K news? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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MonsterVerse Movies Ranked: From Worst to Best

Godzilla, TV series, MonsterVerse
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WB/Legendary’s MonsterVerse saga has attempted to somewhat reinvent the traditional Kaiju film for Western audiences, with our mighty monster heroes Godzilla and Kong now being called Titans. While the franchise arguably stumbled out of the gate with director Gareth Edwards’ coolly received Godzilla, the saga has steadily grown in popularity, and the most recent release, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was a big hit. But how do the films stack up against each other? Let’s take a look with our MonsterVerse Movies Ranked List!

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Godzilla (2014)

Audiences were pretty hyped for Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla reboot, with awesome early trailers that used Ligeti’s Requiem II from 2001: A Space Odyssey, promising the most intense Kaiju movie to date. It didn’t really work out that way, with many complaining about how dull the film was, with Godzilla himself off-screen for endless patches of time. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who’s since proved himself a solid leading man, made for a bland hero, and the fact that two of the best actors in the film, Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche, were killed off early on, didn’t endear it to anyone. At least we got a great line from Ken Watanabe.

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

Luckily, the sequel (which was actually the third film in the franchise), which replaced Edwards with director Michael Dougherty (Trick or Treat), was more entertaining, with it packed with more monster action, putting Godzilla up against Mothra, Rodan , and King Ghidorah. However, it proved to be a costly box office disappointment, earning initially poor reviews because Legendary was trying to set up a complicated shared universe no one seemed all that interested in – yet. The box office results were disasterous, and had they not already started shooting the next film in the franchise, the MonsterVerse might have ended right here. Still, the movie is a bit underrated, with Kyle Chandler cast against type as our family man hero.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

The newest addition to the MonsterVerse saga is stripped down as far as its human characters go. Millie Bobby Brown’s Madison Russell was initially supposed to be the franchise’s anchor, but she sits out this entry. Instead, Rebecca Hall’s Dr. Ilene Andrews and her adopted daughter, Kaylee Hottle Jia, seem to be the new anchors, with Brian Tyree Henry also carrying over from 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong for comic relief. One thing this movie does is double down on the monsters, especially Kong, with many extended sequences focusing only on the Titans themselves rather than the humans. Meanwhile, Dan Stevens brings some welcome energy to the film as a cool new character named Trapper, who’s basically a veterinarian for Kaiju.

Director Adam Wingard's Godzilla vs. Kong follow-up Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has earned a PG-13 rating for creature violence

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

One of the smartest things Legendary and WB did for this installment was bring in genre director Adam Wingard to take over the franchise. Reinventing the saga from the perspective of an action director, he made Kong our underdog hero protagonist and doubled down on the carnage as the Titan went on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. Audiences loved it, and this fun flick was a bright spot for all during the early dark days of the pandemic.

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Kong: Skull Island (2017)

As good as Adam Wingard’s additions to the franchise are, I have a soft spot for the Vietnam War-set prequel, Kong: Skull Island. For one thing, it has the best cast, even if the two heroes, played by Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston, are dull. There’s Samuel L. Jackson, Shea Wigham, John Goodman, and best of all, John C. Reilly, who delivers an acclaimed performance as a long-lost soldier from WW2 still fighting the war twenty-nine years later. Of all the movies in the franchise, this is the one with the most heart and style (from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts) and the one I judge all MonsterVerse movies against.

Do you agree with my rankings? Let us know how your list of MonsterVerse movies ranked would look in the comments!

It should be noted that the MonsterVerse has also branched out to the small screen, with the TV series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters on Apple TV+. Season 2 of that show is scheduled to premiere on February 27.

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Monday, February 2, 2026

The Glimmer Man: A Se7en-Inspired Thriller Derailed by Steven Seagal

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Today’s story is about a Se7en-inspired serial killer horror thriller infused with a hard-boiled police procedural buddy cop flick, centered around the planet-eating ego of Steven Seagal. It’s one of the last interesting films in the filmography and fading light of an action superstar who somehow managed to surround himself with talent, a decent budget, and a foot in the door of the horror genre. But nobody surrounds Steven Seagal.

So this tale also includes stories of on-set antics fueled by massive delusions of grandeur that led to actors openly mocking his behavior, Seagal deciding mid-murder scene that he would no longer commit fictional violence, and a whole other group of people who simply never mentioned the movie again. As if there was a glimmer. And then it was dead. This is What Happened to The Glimmer Man.

A Se7en-Inspired Seagal Thriller

There’s very little on record about writer Kevin Brodbin’s inspirations for writing his first-ever spec script, The Glimmer Man. One can only assume that either he, or at the very least Warner Bros., had been inspired by David Fincher’s Se7en, which had been released just a year earlier. The opening visuals, the dynamic between two forced-together cops, and the entire story point heavily in that direction.

Whatever the case, Warner Bros. saw the script as the perfect next vehicle to squeeze a little more gold out of their action cash cow, even as the writing was already on the wall that the genre, at least in its current form, was on its way out. The studio first looked toward Super Mario Bros. The Movie producer Roland Joffé to direct. Why he didn’t end up taking the job is unknown, but the mind runs wild when you imagine Steven Seagal in a room with another human being.

Eventually, the by-all-accounts affable Helter Skelter director John Gray took over behind the camera. And throughout everyone’s insane on-set Seagal stories, one thing remained consistent: everyone loved working with John Gray. Despite the guy in the neck beads.

What Happened to The Glimmer Man

An Action Star in Decline

Steven Seagal wasn’t in a great place career-wise when The Glimmer Man darkened his doorstep in 1996. His uber-ego project On Deadly Ground had already proven that the world’s most dangerous man with a ponytail could bleed, at least financially. The follow-up that was supposed to be a safety net, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, was fun as hell but failed to match the success of the original.

And who could believe their eyes when Seagal allowed himself to play second fiddle to Kurt Russell in Executive Decision? Though he allegedly only did that as a favor to the studio after losing them so much money with On Deadly Ground. Which is where he found his career.

But he’s Hard to Kill. Even if he’s Marked for Death. He’ll be Out for Justice. And no one is Above the Law.
Alright. I’m done.

Warner Bros. was undoubtedly hoping their counterpuncher could snap enough arms in half to win his way back into audiences’ good graces. This time, though, they paired him with someone who could help shoulder the box office burden. Seagal had worked with buddy-cop types before, but this marked one of the first times he truly had to share the poster and the spotlight.

The Glimmer Man became a reluctant buddy cop film in the vein of The Last Boy Scout, bringing in Keenan Ivory Wayans as Seagal’s new partner. You can easily imagine Seagal having a “life imitates art” moment at the Warner Bros. offices, grimly declaring, “You know I work alone,” while no one listens. And the movie is better for it.

Wayans, fresh off starring in A Low Down Dirty Shame, clearly wanted to flex both his comedic and action muscles. He succeeds. His character carves out real space in the film with genuinely funny moments and even a well-choreographed fist fight, despite Seagal’s Detective Cole constantly talking down to him like a wide-eyed pupil rescued from the gutter.

“A Buddhist With an Ulcer”: Brian Cox vs. Steven Seagal

Brodbin’s original script skewed further from Seagal’s typical fare, which may explain how it attracted someone like Brian Cox in the role of Mr. Smith, just one year removed from Braveheart. Cox would later say that Seagal was just as ludicrous in real life as he appeared on screen, suffering from the delusion that he was far more capable and talented than he actually was, completely oblivious to the army of people propping that delusion up.

Cox recalled that Seagal refused to do off-screen lines with other actors, which he found relieving, since Seagal would have only been a distraction anyway. The one exception came when Seagal offered to help while showing off for a woman he brought to set, despite not knowing his lines and making things up on the spot.

Cox famously summed him up as “a Buddhist… but a Buddhist with an ulcer.” He did at least mention that his sister knew Seagal from taekwondo classes before he was famous and said he was very nice. It’s good to hear something positive every once in a while.

What Happened to The Glimmer Man

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Bob Gunton, excellent at playing pretentious a-holes, was cast as the punchable Frank Deverell after previously being the boggle up Stallone’s ass in Demolition Man. Stephen Tobolowsky also joined the cast as serial killer Christopher Maynard and recalls one of the most unhinged audition stories imaginable.

Tobolowsky was told he had to audition for Seagal. At Seagal’s house. He arrived at 10 a.m. and waited two and a half hours in a living room inexplicably covered floor to ceiling in horse saddles before Seagal finally came downstairs.

He got the part.

On set, Tobolowsky was told to arrive early to work with the hairdresser. The hairdresser never showed up because Tobolowsky is bald. That’s when the director frantically explained that Seagal had suddenly decided it was bad for his karma to kill people on screen, even fictional ones. This, of course, posed a problem in a movie where Seagal is supposed to kill a serial killer.

Facing Seagal directly, Tobolowsky became what can only be described as the Seagal whisperer. He calmly explained that his character was already living in his own personal hell, and that killing him wouldn’t be murder, it would be liberation. Reincarnation. A spiritual release.

Seagal agreed. The scene was shot.

However (there’s always a however), months later Seagal forgot all about this agreement and began ad-libbing dialogue claiming he never actually killed the serial killer. Tobolowsky was called back to reshoot the scene, now begging Seagal’s character to “finish him off.” Even Keenan Ivory Wayans reportedly rolled his eyes and walked out.

The lines were not used in the final cut.

Also not used was Steven Seagal’s reggae song “Strut,” which exists, is real, and includes lyrics that should never have been recorded by any human being. Seagal did, however, write the songs “Bulletproof” and “Snake” for the film, performed by the Jeff Healey Band and Taj Mahal. The score came from former Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin.

What Happened to The Glimmer Man

Studio Interference and the Cutting Room Floor

Despite all this madness, The Glimmer Man contains some genuinely strong genre moments, stitched together by cinematographer Rick Bota of Tales from the Crypt. There are well-shot action scenes, grisly crime visuals, and horror elements that occasionally collide beautifully with classic Seagal-isms.

At this point in his career, many of Seagal’s aikido moves had to be filmed from the waist up, but there are still standout moments, like Detective Cole humiliating and then impaling a suspect onto a metal fence in a scene that feels ripped straight from a slasher film.

After all the chaos on set, Warner Bros. ordered additional editing to make the movie feel more like a traditional Seagal action flick. Comedic and dramatic moments were trimmed, and several scenes involving Michelle Johnson as Cole’s wife were cut entirely to speed things along. It didn’t matter.

The Glimmer Man became one of the final nails in Steven Seagal’s box-office coffin. Released on October 4, 1996, the film opened in second place and ultimately grossed just over $20 million against a budget north of $45 million.

Critics hated it… but let’s be honest. It’s a Steven Seagal buddy cop movie. That was always going to be a tough sell.

Still, it stands out as one of the last better Seagal films, especially for fans of the genres it blends. Its horror-thriller leanings, surrounding talent, and Keenan Ivory Wayans’ knowingly amused performance make it a fascinating watch. He’s essentially riding shotgun with the audience, laughing at how completely batshit and self-important this guy is.

Oh, and there’s a scene where Seagal tricks Wayans into eating deer penis. Later, he kills a group of bad guys with a credit card.

And that’s really all you need to know about what happened to The Glimmer Man. Let’s all run away like Steven Seagal.

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