Bob Jimenez at El Latino Weekly has reviewed Stephen’s upcoming horror movie Beneath The Darkness. Keep reading if you want to know how the movie is.
Ask most people and they’ll tell you that dying in a plane crash is the most frightening death they can imagine. Director Martin Guigui laughs, looks us all in the eye and says, “Want to bet?”
Guigui is a director (My Ex-girlfriend’s Wedding) who usually makes us laugh. But in “Beneath the Darkness,” he explores the psychotic world of a small town mortician who enjoys burying people alive. In Bruce Wilkinson’s screen play, the victim is thrown in a coffin screaming for mercy. There is none. Well, almost none. “Want company,” the mortician asks with a grin? He throws a flashlight into the coffin and slams it shut!
Guigui has apparently been studying terror movies that work. “What ever happened to Baby Jane?” “Kill Bill 2” and certainly, “Psycho!” There’s a touch of all three thrown in with a little “Nancy Drew.” But there’s freshness in the way Guigui pieces together a story that keeps us guessing and sensing that we’re going to see something even worse.
Guigui is also market conscious. The movie is a perfect summer-recession distraction aimed principally at an audience sure to come back to be scared again and again; teenagers. The hero of the movie is one of their own; rebellious, distracted and a loner, yet brave enough to confront and expose the evil in his town.It just happens to be Eli, the mortician, a psychopath monster. Veteran actor Dennis Quaid plays the douchebag, asshole, nut-ball with perfection. According to executive producer Scott Mednick, Quaid has never, until now, played a villain.
Okay, we won’t count his role as Doc Holliday in “Tombstone” In any event, Quaid is so menacing, (watch his eyes and twitching mouth) that he only has to raise his hand and you expect to see an axe in it. In fact, Quaid is so wacky that one isn’t sure whether Guigui is satirizing horror movies or just letting Quaid have fun.
Travis (Tony Oller) is our teenage geek hero. He is tormented by the memory of helplessly standing by and watching his younger sister die. That gives him a sort of “I don’t give a shit attitude,” especially about school and the track team. But he becomes curious about seeing two eerie silhouettes dancing in Eli’s upper floor bedroom. He should have minded his own business.Abby (Aimee Teegarden) is Travis’s perky but nosey girl friend who goads Travis into taking a closer look. The plot would work well enough without her sexy teasing, but Travis has to find his groove somehow and lets Abby talk him into breaking into Eli’s house—at night. Not a very good idea. Soon both find themselves at the mercy of Eli who plans to bury both of them.
Bravo to Geoff Zanelli for his nail biting musical score. It faithfully accompanies every emotion of fear and terror the audience feels or is it the music and not the scene?
I must warn you. The opening scene of “Beneath the Darkness” is so terrifying and so disturbing that you’ll want to get up and walk out. I mean, who need this? But you’ll be glad you stayed, to let director Martin Guigui take you to the edge time and time again. And you never know? You might meet a new friend, the guy or gal you’ve been grabbing next to you.
A couple of months ago Stephen attended the premiere of Scared Sh!tless, directed by Colby Mann and starring Brennan Mejia, where he talks about his projects.
Scared Sh!tless Premiere & After Party
He was also interviewed at the red carpet of the launch event for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood.
TV Guide has made a list with what happened of the season finales of all the prime time tv shows last june
Private Practice
Premieres: Thursday, Sept. 23 at 10/9cWhere We Left Off: After celebrating the successful birth of Maya’s baby, the Oceanside Wellness crew learned that Dell had died. Addison and Pete separated, leading to an Addison-Sam hookup in the final moments of the season.
What’s Next: The new season opens with a surprise rushed wedding, Pete and Charlotte find common ground and Sam and Addison get even closer.
On June 23rd, Stephen attended the In The Heights opening night in Los Angeles (pictures coming soon) and he talked about his Private Practice character with the people of Sky TV.
Ok, confession time.
We’d never before realised quite how hot Hot HOT Private Practice’s Stephen Lunsford was but we promise never to make that mistake again.
Our LA correspondent caught up with Stephen on the red carpet at the premiere of In The Heights, lucky thing. Look into his eyes! Look into his beautiful blue eyes!
TV Guide has made a list with the “31 super season-enders” and, of course, Private Practice is on it.
Private Practice (May 13, ABC)
The season finale will include a birth, a death and a marriage proposal. Violet and Pete come to an unusual agreement in their custody battle, and Naomi and Addison reconcile.
Stephen was named among the best dressed on the KCA by Celebuzz. Other celebrities sharing the honor are Selena Gomez, Taylor Lautner, The Jonas Brothers, Victoria Justice, etc.
He was labeled as “disheveled but appropiate”. Congratulations!
If things work out right, Stephen will be getting more fans on Asia as Kamen Rider’s rights have been sold to Cartoon Network.
Dragon Knight spreads its wings
Tokyo-headquartered studio Adness Entertainment has licensed live-action series Kamen Rider Dragon Knight to Cartoon Network in Asia and Australia.
The 40×30′ kids show is due to launch to international audiences this year. It has already been picked up by Cartoon Network Latin America and by broadcasters in a string of other territories including the US, Germany and Italy.
The latest deal will mean that the series also airs on Cartoon Network in Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight follows the adventures of a teenage boy who finds a mysterious card that turns him into a powerful warrior in another dimension.
The series is based on hit children’s series Kamen Rider Ryuki, produced by Toei Company in 2002 for Japanese TV channel MBS. The franchise, however, dates back to 1971 and remains one of Japan’s most popular, spawning some 20 TV series and movies. The Adness version is a US update, produced out of the firm’s Tokyo studio but driven by its Los Angeles office.
On December 17, Stephen attended the the birthday party for friend and fellow actress Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (known for Camp Rock and Fame).
Don’t they look great?
Camp Rock 2 pals Anna Maria Perez de Tagle and Chloe Bridges snap a pic as they party at Pinz bowling alley in Studio City, Calif., last week.
Anna Maria, who will celebrate her 19th birthday tomorrow, celebrated a bit early with her best friends and family around her. Anna and her pals enjoyed a Coffee House Crunch Cold Stone Creamery ice cream cake plus Cold Stone ice cream cupcakes. Yummy!
Guests included Camp Rock 2 stars Meaghan Martin, Roshon Fegan, Chloe, and Matthew “Mdot” Finley plus dancer B-Girl Shorty, Cody Linley, Brittany Curran, and Private Practice star Stephen Lunsford.
I won’t upload the picture into the gallery because a)it’s tagged and I don’t like uploading things that aren’t mine and b)it’s not a public event per se. The Perez de Tagle family decided to share their private pictures with Just Jared Jr.
Here is an old interview (June 2009) Stephen did with Teen Scene Magazine.
At the age of 20, Stephen Lunsford has clocked up his fair share of movie and television credits. Though his name and face may not be instantly recognizable, and fansites are in shorter supply than those of, say, Zac Efron, he is equally as talented as many other well-known actors.
Most recently, Lunsford became an orphan is Desperate Housewives, where his mother Edie Brit met a nasty end. Though studying Creative Writing and Journalism, Lunsford admits he won’t be writing for Teen Scene any time soon. “I fully intend on pursuing my acting career,” he told us. “In my eyes, there is no other career that I can even fathom doing.” Space exploration still hasn’t been completely ruled out though. Good news for star lovers of both varieties.
In his latest flick, Maneater, Lunsford’s growing up. “My character in the film is like the red herring of the storyline,” he reveals. “You’re not sure if he’s a good guy or not. So to transition from Bratz to Maneater was not exactly easy.” Whether or not this fits with his ‘tweenage’ following is something Lunsford is worried about. “I would constantly be like, ‘The CW is going to kill me.’ They haven’t yet, but I won’t hold my breath.” Our bet is that, if Daniel Radcliffe can still be Harry Potter while baring all on stage, Lunsford will be fine.
For something a little less adult, Lunsford says his preparation for Kamen Rider was to hit the gym and bulk up. “Before shooting I found out from the series creator Steve Wang, that the character shouldn’t be built like Mr. Olympia but like Bruce Lee,” he says. “I lost about 20 lbs over the shoot from the training and stunts.”
Given the chance to live it all again, Lunsford remains firm in the view he’d do it all the same. Feeling lucky having his mom to make sure he was pursuing something he really wanted to do, his advice to aspiring actors is to make sure they know what they’re letting themselves in for. “It’s a full time job” he warns. “It’s not just sitting and waiting, it’s this whole mess of maintenance that you have to keep up.” Hollywood hair, teeth and bodies, apparently, must come at a price. Lunsford knows it’s the career path for him though. “I love everything I’ve worked on” he beams. Filming for Desperate Housewives he says he has worked with a great cast and crew. Still, Lunsford has big ambitions. The list [of who I'd like to work with] is quite long. Ranging from James Cameron to Steve Spielberg.” He goes on to say, “though right now I’m really enjoy the works of Alfonso Cuaron and Sam Mendes. Their direction is brilliant and something I would love to experience some day.”