[Opinion] Fungus Among Us: Even Though It’s a Box-Office Flop, ‘Cold Storage’ Is a Fine Piece of Horror-Comedy

Fungus among us: Even though it’s a box-office flop, ‘Cold Storage’ is a fine piece of horror-comedy

Skylab, the United States’ ill-fated first space station, was launched in 1973 and came crashing back to Earth in 1979. It has been a prominent plot device in some movies and TV shows since then. Most notably, it featured in the 2001 comedy (and early ’80s period piece) Wet Hot American Summer, when David Hyde Pierce’s Prof. Henry Newman and a group of wily campers used a device partially built out of donuts to divert a remnant part of Skylab fr…

‘Cold Storage’ Director Jonny Campbell Talks Challenges of the Horror-Comedy Genre

During his career, Jonny Campbell has jumped across many genres, covering things like zombies, Dr. Who, and even Dracula. This experience made him a great choice to take on a horror-comedy like Cold Storage. Based on the script and story by David Koepp (screenplay writer for Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park), Cold Storage stars Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List, Taken) as agent Robert Quinn, Joe Keery (Stranger Things) as Travis “Teac…