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After taking a look back at House II: The Second Story (a favorite of mine since childhood), House of 1000 Corpses (which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year), the awesomeness of Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, the leg smashing in the Stephen King adaptation Misery, three separate moments from John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China, the “Jason vs. Tina” battle in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the “all hell breaks loose” sequence from the start of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, the opening sequence of Pitch Black, the “Burn” scene from The Crow (which not only turns 30 this year, but is also getting a new adaptation), the farmhouse raid and ending chase sequences in High Tension, and the climactic moments in the 1989 creature feature comedy Little Monsters, JoBlo’s own Lance Vlcek is continuing his The Best Scene video series...

2023 marks the 45th anniversary of the release of Jaws 2 (watch it Here), the most well-regarded of the Jaws sequels – and Universal is celebrating the occasion by giving the film a 4K Uhd release! The Jaws 2 4K Uhd will be available on July 4th, which seems like a fitting date since the first Jaws is a Fourth of July classic. Copies can be pre-ordered at This Link.

Directed by Jeannot Szwarc from a screenplay written by Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler, Jaws 2 has the following synopsis: It’s been four years since that marauding great white shark terrorized the small summer resort of Amity; but the shark that Police Chief Brody destroyed wasn’t the only one in the ocean! The same heart-stopping suspense and gripping adventure that enthralled movie audiences throughout the world in Jaws returns in this worthy sequel to that film classic.

The film stars Roy Scheider,...

2023 marks the 45th anniversary of the release of Jaws 2 (watch it Here), the most well-regarded of the Jaws sequels. So it seems quite appropriate that a cool Jaws 2 discovery had been made this year: The Daily Jaws has found a long-lost scene from the film, and the only known footage of this scene comes from a Brazilian VHS! This leads me to believe that the scene was probably always included in the Brazilian home video release of Jaws 2, but that’s not completely clear from the report on The Daily Jaws.

What we do know is that Jaws 2 begins with a pair of divers being attacked by a shark while checking out the sunken wreckage of the Orca boat from the first movie. Later in the film, Deputy Hendricks (Jeffrey Kramer) is shown to have retrieved the underwater camera that was dropped by the divers. In this lost footage,...

With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with us? The Twilight Zone (Episode #137): “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” (airdate 1/24/64) The Plot: When conformity is the new normal the refusal to conform is seen as plain crazy. The Goods: Marilyn lives in a future world where everyone undergoes a “transformation” at the age of nineteen that alters their physical appearance into one of a handful of young, sleek and sexy models. The goal, as mandated by the government, is to eliminate inequality and ugliness. No longer will people be made fun of or ostracized for being too fat, short or unattractive. Instead, everyone will look like one of fifteen or so models… and simply where name tags to distinguish those in similar fleshy chassis. But...

Actress Collin Wilcox was best known for her role as the young white woman whose false claim that she was raped by a black man served as the focal point in the 1963 Oscar-winning film To Kill a Mockingbird. She also starred in the classic Twilight Zone episode “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You” in 1964

Wilcox was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 4, 1935, and moved to Highlands, North Carolina, with her family as an infant. She studied acting from an early age and made her debut on the Broadway stage in the late 1950s.

She made her film debut as Mayella Violet Ewell in the 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Richard Mulligan and starring Gregory Peck as heroic lawyer Atticus Finch. Wilcox also became a familiar face on television, appearing in episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, the 1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries production of...

Collin Wilcox Paxton, best known for her star turn as a "rape victim" in 1962's 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' died Oct. 14 of brain cancer at her home in Highlands, N.C. She was 74. Wilcox Paxton began her acting career on the stage in Chicago as part ... Read more

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Collin Wilcox Paxton, best known for playing Mayella Violet Ewell, the woman who accused a black man of raping her in the classic 1962 film “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died on October 14th of brain cancer. In addition to her famous role in the film adaptation of the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”, Paxton appeared in such popular TV shows as “The Waltons,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Playhouse 90,” and “Columbo.” Paxton was 74, and died at her home in Highlands, North Carolina. We here at Shockya.com extend our condolences to her loved ones. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more celebrity and movie news. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)...

Veteran actress Collin Wilcox has died of brain cancer, aged 74.

The star, most famous for her role as rape victim Mayella Ewell in the movie version of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird, passed away earlier this month at her home in Highlands, North Carolina.

Wilcox began her career in theatre, starring alongside Burt Reynolds in 1961 Broadway play Look, We've Come Through. She was awarded the prestigious Clarence Derwent Award in 1958 for her performance in The Day Money Stopped.

Wilcox stepped out of the spotlight in the 1980s to care for her mother in Highlands.

She is survived by her husband Scott Paxton and their children, Kimberley and Michael.

Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 49 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. The above photo titled "Stormtrooper Telecomminication" was found on Flickr. [via:UniqueDaily] Collin Wilcox Paxton, who played the white-trash girl who accused a black man of raping her in To Kill a Mockingbird, died on October 14th of brain cancer at age 74. [thr] Co-showrunner/executive producer Marc Guggenheim is leaving FlashForward, with co-creator/exec producer David Goyer stepping in as sole showrunner. [thelivefeed] Above is Dave Perillo's contribution to Gallery1988's group art show inspired by Kevin Smith's podcast Smodcast. Below you can get a glimpse at Scott Campbell's submission. Asifa-Hollywood’s Iron Giant 10-Year Reunion sold out within 24 hours but...

Collin Wilcox Paxton, who played the white-trash girl who accused a black man of raping her in the classic 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Oct. 14 of brain cancer at her home in Highlands, N.C. She was 74.

Wilcox Paxton studied at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio in New York and became an accomplished stage actress who appeared on Broadway starting in 1958 with "The Day the Money Stopped" opposite Richard Basehart.

She went on to work with Tallulah Bankhead in "Crazy October," Geraldine Page in "Strange Interlude" and Ruth Gordon in "La Bonne Soup" and in Tennessee Williams' off-Broadway productions of "Camino Real" and "Suddenly, Last Summer."

In "Mockingbird," her film debut, Wilcox Paxton portrayed Mayella Violet Ewell, the pressured daughter of a racist (played by James Anderson) who accused Brock Peters' character of rape. The scene in which she is cross-examined by Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch is among the film's best.