Writer-director Adam MacDonald follows his 2014 wilderness adventure “Backcountry” with “Pyewacket,” a supernatural thriller that like his earlier film derives much of its tension from dysfunctional ...

If you attend off-Loop theater in Chicago on a regular basis, you could be forgiven for believing that the world is populated entirely by people under 30. Perhaps it’s the creativity of youth — or ...

Pyewacket, considered by many professional sailors to be the most technical and powerful racing yacht in the world, is now part of the educational toolbox for the students of the Orange Coast College ...

A teenager summons an evil spirit to kill her mother in Adam MacDonald's horror film 'Pyewacket.' By Frank Scheck Teen angst feels almost redundant in horror films, but the condition provides a strong ...

Part family drama and part supernatural horror, Adam MacDonald’s second feature, Pyewacket, shows what happens when a morbid curiosity with the occult becomes a terrifying pact that can’t be undone.

Close your eyes and imagine a 2,200-mile ocean race where you start out going upwind in light air. Not very exciting—yet. But within a few hours, you transition to a few hundred miles of brisk and ...

This is what it boils down to: Pyewacket is still Pyewacket. The 86-foot sailboat had a new crew this year – about two dozen top-notch sailors picked out of 200 who maintained the boat’s reputation ...

Artistic geniuses from all walks of the arts have mythologized their sources of inspiration. Sculptor Auguste Rodin transformed Camille Claudel into a timeless masterpiece, poet Dante Alighieri ...

Roy P. Disney’s Andrews 68, Pyewacket, finished in first place on corrected handicap time in the West Coast 70 Class on Sunday in the 2013 Campbell Cup, while Jeff Janov’s Farr 40, Dark Star, took ...

Intriguing Canadian horror pic “Pyewacket” is sort of “Lady Bird” in extremis: Its heroine is a teen caught in an antagonistic relationship with her single mum who becomes so unhappy that she casts an ...