By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror filmmaker Will Wernick recalls visiting his first escape room The Basement in northern Los Angeles in advance of making his 2017 film “Escape Room.” He has since visited 20 of these experiential game locations in which teams move through a buil [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Lucy Hale wasn’t alive yet when the popular adventure series “Fantasy Island” wrapped after seven seasons on ABC in 1984. However, her parents were fans of the weekly show that starred acclaimed Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban as the mysterious host o [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror storyteller-with-a-soul Guillermo del Toro recalls roaming through a San Antonio bookstore as a young teenager and coming across Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” illustrated by Stephen Gammell. “The cover illustration was s [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Rising filmmaker David Yarovesky was one of those kids who was considered an oddball, an outsider when he was growing up. He had dyed jet black hair. He wore Freddy Krueger t-shirts. He wrote creepy horror stories in English class. Sometimes, his mom  [...]