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Writer/Director: 'Malacostraca,' Writer: 'Destroy all Neighbors,' Producer: ‘Everybody goes to the Hospital’ more to come...

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Charles Pieper
2 years
I am thrilled to be able to announce this! ‘Destroy all neighbors’ was written by me, @benner , @JaredLogan , will star @jonahray , @Winter , be directed by @bestjoshforbes and shall come your way via @Shudder ! Stay tuned! It’s gonna be BONKERS.
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Deadline Hollywood
2 years
EXCLUSIVE: Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, and RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, announces their partnership on the newest Shudder Original Film, ‘Destroy All Neighbors’
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5 years
Absolutely incredible camera move/miniature work from ‘Svengali’ in 1931!
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3 years
David Lynch had an awful time making ‘Dune’ but dang did he look radical during it:
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2 years
As of today I can describe myself as a professional screenwriter whose sold a feature script that is now in production. This is something I've been striving towards for a decade and I gotta say... It feels satisfying.
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9 months
In case you were wondering yes there was a live Goosebumps stage-show at Disneyland in the 1990s and yes it rocked
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1 year
David Cronenberg as a child with two cats
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4 years
@MayorOfLA how about protecting our safety by calling off the cops and national guard attacking folks? You know, just a *thought*
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5 years
I'm in a Dune FB group and someone retranslated the japanese subtitles into english and got 'beefswelling' intstead of 'worm-sign' so now the group is all about beef swelling and some old time members are really upset about this
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1 year
No need to ever take another photo ever; the best photo ever taken already exists and here it is:
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3 years
My ‘Mank’ will be about the chaos behind the scenes of ‘Alien 3’ and it’ll be called ‘Finch’
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3 years
I have started writing 'FINCH.'
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1 year
A plane is currently writing ‘good riddance’ over and over again in the skies above Los Angeles:
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4 months
Today’s the day! ‘Destroy all Neighbors’ is now streaming on @Shudder and playing in select @alamodrafthouse theatres across America! Check it out! I hope you’ll enjoy watching it as much as we all enjoyed making it!
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7 years
New holographic twin peaks poster ad spotted in my neighborhood! From one angle Cooper, from the other: Laura!
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2 months
I am very happy to say I now have a literary manager to help me move forward in my film career!
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3 months
I’m watching ‘Freeway’ for the first time. It’s nuts!
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3 months
Perhaps my favorite 6 seconds of BTS footage ever
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baragon's suit actress roaring on set
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10 months
Singing along to the final @sparksofficial song at the bowl last night:
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3 years
Four stills from a movie you believe is a masterpiece, no title
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3 years
I am pleased to announce my feature screenplay ‘Malacostraca’ is a semi finalist in @austinfilmfest . Looking forward to being at the fest later this month indeed.
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8 months
A few years back I went as slaughtered Jack Goodman from ‘An American Werewolf in London’ and not a single person at the multiple parties I went to here in LA got the reference hahah
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8 months
Quote this with the best Halloween costume you’ve worn👻🎃
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6 months
@C05M1C57R4N63R DUDE yes! That long shot of him dancing weirdly at the wedding oh my god... Watching that at the chinese in imax where I had last seen 'SMS' made my brain wrinkle up !!!!
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3 months
I can not describe how truly wild it feels to be suddenly living my 'best life' after a literal decade of feeling like a crumbum who wasn't sure if 'Destroy' (or any work of mine) would ever come out and hit the right way
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5 months
Wow! Thanks for watching (and rewatching) our trailer @BenStiller ! It is a thrill knowing you dig it!
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4 years
Got a new shirt today. Thanks @dasharez0ne
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4 months
Here’s at least one photo proving I was at my own premiere though; you know, for the record!
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1 year
I am pleased to announce my short film ‘Malacostraca’ is now on @Shudder as part of the new ‘Beyond the Dark’ anthology series!
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4 months
I have been reading @FANGORIA since I was a child so to have a film I wrote on get an article in the magazine is wild and truly a life dream come true! Wow! Thank you @GayoftheDead for the lovely writeup of ‘Destroy all Neighbors’ indeed!!!!
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4 months
Whatta night. My god!
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5 months
I am so happy to share the poster for 'Destroy all Neighbors!' This horror-comedy was written by me, Mike Benner, Jared Logan, directed by Josh Forbes, stars Alex Winter and Jonah Ray and will premiere on @Shudder on January 12th!
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Bloody Disgusting
5 months
Shudder's splatter comedy 'Destroy All Neighbors' will arrive next month! Today, we've got an exclusive look at the rockin' new poster for this Alex Winter starring prog-rock gorefest:
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1 year
Now that’s what I call a title!
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4 months
‘Destroy all Neighbors’ comes out next week! I started writing the initial drafts for Josh over a decade ago so it’s a wild feeling for it to be so close to release now. It is the culmination of incredible work from a ton of incredible people. Stay tuned!!!
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2 years
Here we go!
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3 months
I try to keep my Twitter ‘business only’ but I gotta say: I’m in the beginning of a new relationship and I am very happy and very excited and she’s great and getting to share this wild time of my life with her has been the best part of it all
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2 months
This picture of the full @vidiots audience as Vlad at last weeks ‘Destroy all Neighbors’ screening is perhaps my new favorite photo of all time:
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2 years
Strong @helleborezine representation at my local bookstore @skylightbooks !
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7 months
Please enjoy ‘NO DEAL:’ an experimental short film made from a 35mm trailer of ‘deal or no deal’ which had been cut down to 16mm which I then further manipulated the hell out of:
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7 years
TFW it doesn't strike you as funny
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7 years
Tonight at the original shooting location of Glastonbury Grove from 'Twin Peaks.'
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Charles Pieper
6 days
‘Destroy all Neighbors’ is coming to DVD on May 14th and available for preorder now! Check it out:
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3 years
Well this is an unexpected and pleasant surprise
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Charles Pieper
2 years
I dig how the moths in @JamesGunn ’s ‘Peacemaker’ have similar coloring to Frank Frazetta’s Mothman painting:
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2 years
That’s a wrap! #destroyallneighbors
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4 months
This just in! Parents love ‘Destroy all Neighbors!’
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3 months
Considering how specifically insane and niche and loud and annoying our movie is I gotta say… this is pretty pretty good, tomato wise!!!
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1 year
It’s getting weird out there
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4 months
perhaps my fave photo so far from the premiere last night:
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4 months
The effects for ‘Destroy all Neighbors’ were designed Gabe Bartalos. He did ‘leprechaun,’ ‘basket case 2 & 3,’ ‘brain damage,’ Matthew Barney’s ‘cremaster cycle’ and more… I grew up watching his monsters and now having new monsters of his in my film is a dream indeed!
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Charles Pieper
2 years
Today is the first shooting day of ‘Destroy all Neighbors.’ Took ten years to get here! Stay tuned! @bestjoshforbes @Winter @jonahray
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1 year
There already was a remake of ‘vertigo.’ It was ‘the green fog’ by Guy Maddin and it was amaaaazing
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4 months
World premiere tonight at the Aero. Jeepers!
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5 months
TFW you step on a Lego
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3 years
I have just finished the 1st draft of 'FINCH.'
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2 months
I’m watching ‘the program: cons, cults, and kidnapping’ and holy shit it’s intense. It’s also incredibly well made from a documentarian stand point. Good on Katherine Kubler for getting through this nightmare and using her innate cinematic energy to expose all this!
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4 months
It is both insane and gratifying to see my film being ‘popular with friends’ on @letterboxd
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7 years
Laura Palmer peeking out above atomic tattoo on Hollywood boulevard.
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11 months
Perhaps it’ll return to us one day
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5 years
Just watched 'Next of Kin' on @Shudder . It's an eerie, Australian slow burn horror film that ends up going to some bonkers, wild places indeed! I dug it!
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4 months
Nothing warms my heart like practical effects puppetry so getting to have it in 'Destroy all Neighbors' was such a THRILL
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7 years
!!!
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3 years
Just had a doctor's physical appt. While taking my blood the nurse expressed how she was leery of the vaccine because 'it's been killing people too.' WUT. Just, simply, wut!? How can someone be in the medical field and still not believe in the vaccine?
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2 years
Today’s my birthday. I turned 35!
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4 years
@FANGORIA Hi not only did I order this back in the day from Fangoria but it starred in my earliest home-made horror movies!
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9 months
It was amaaaazing. Damn!
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3 years
I'm pleased to announce my screenplay 'Malacostraca' is now a quarterfinalist in the 2021 @screencrafting screenwriting fellowship!
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1 year
Sometimes antique stores have 7 foot tall slabs of heads.
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4 years
Hollywood boulevard 3 years ago
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2 months
The new @terror_vision restoration of ‘Dante’s Inferno’ is wild. Every visual is pretty much the most haunting and eerie thing I’ve ever seen!
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9 months
I am obsessed with these bat costumes from one of my parents 1980s Halloween parties
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6 years
A few @FANGORIA weekend of horrors/ @THETomSavini pics from back in the day. I do think my the enthusiasm my mom and I had for his FX may have been a bit startling...
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2 months
I think it would be cool to have an Oscar’s where the host seems to want to be there and genuinely enjoys films and filmmaking
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2 months
In about 30 minutes this big AMC screen is gonna show David Lynch’s ‘Dune’ and I am AMPED hahah!
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2 years
I am pleased to announce that 'Everybody Goes to the Hospital' has gotten into @fantasticfest !
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2 months
A picture of me working on the forest set of my first stop motion animated short back in the 1990s.
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9 months
Hanging with @nuekerk last night! Getting to see the world premiere of ‘the unbinding’ at @TheFridaCinema was amazing! What Greg, @Weird_Dana , @KarlPfeiffer , @T_Stranded achieved in this doc is tremendous. Everyone check it out when it’s released in September indeed!
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‘he does confirm he'll be using stop-motion animation to bring a lot of the classic Beetlejuice effects to the screen. "It needed a back-to-basics, handmade quality," he says. "It reenergized why I love making movies." YES
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Entertainment Weekly
1 month
It's showtime! Michael Keaton returns as Tim Burton's ghostly agent of chaos in first look at 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' with Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega, and more.
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3 years
These ‘Freddy’s dead’ posters from @FANGORIA were displayed on the walls of my childhood bedroom
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1 year
Yup
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3 years
I'm pleased to announce that my short film 'Malacostraca' will be playing @therealjoebob 's Mutant Fest at the @MahoningDIT next weekend!
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Charles Pieper
3 months
Weird Al supports 'Destroy all Neighbors!' Perhaps you'd like to as well?!
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4 years
If these ‘from home SNL’ episodes have taught us anything it’s that a majority of their cast live in houses with next to no art, posters, or framed anything on their eerie cold bleak empty walls
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2 months
The special ‘Destroy all Neighbors’ beer made for last night’s @vidiots screening rocked it too indeed! #destroyallneighbors
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3 months
Holy SHIT!!!!
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4 months
My friends bought me a ghoulie for my birthday. This is the best night of my life
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4 months
Ah I was finally sent the premiere pic info so please enjoy these lo-res screencaps of them as I don't want to pay to download pictures of myself aha!
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5 years
Just came across a few still shots of Paul Sorvino from when I lived in his house during the failed animal rights documentary. Yeesh what a time this was
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2 years
The uniforms from ‘Planet of the Vampires’ would make for greeeeat group Halloween costumes
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Charles Pieper
4 years
My friends in Tucson came across this Boy Scout canteen at an estate sale so sent me pics as a joke. I sent the pics to my dad and... it turns out this was his canteen as a Boy Scout and yup that is his handwriting on it! What are the odds!?
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5 months
The poster being on IMDB makes it feel all so real haha wow!
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1 year
This is exactly what a serial killer *would* write though… @nuekerk
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Charles Pieper
2 years
Oh nice! Thank you @Coverfly
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Charles Pieper
4 months
Hey all fellow 'Destroy all Neighbors' heads please go and give it a solid rating on everyone's favorite edible red orb oriented movie review site! The higher our numbers the more chance we may get to make more crazy stuff like this in the future!
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2 months
Seeing this tonight. I am amped!
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3 months
‘Destroy all Neighbors’ is now rentable on VOD! If you’ve been meaning to check it out but haven’t had Shudder now you can!!!
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Charles Pieper
3 years
Behold the amazing finished poster by @Chrisssalsop for my screenplay 'ALIEN vs. FINCHER!' (in both black and white and 'alien 3 brown!')
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2 years
Went on a walk with a friend yesterday, told them about 'Hellier.' They were intrigued but skeptical about the synchronicities of it all... Tonight I went to a dinner party his wife was throwing & the 1st other guest to walk in after me opened with 'Do you guys know Hellier?'
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3 years
This is 34
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