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Director Chuck Russell Helped Make Jim Carrey and Dwayne Johnson Movie Stars — His Horror Remake ‘Witchboard’ Inspired Him More Than Ever: ‘I Wanted to Outdo Myself’


'Witchboard,' horror director Chuck Russell's new film, is a remake of the 1986 cult classic.

Over his 40-year career, director Chuck Russell has had a knack for turning hungry young talent into movie stars, regularly conjuring memorable performances. No matter the genre, scope or budget, Russell loves seeing what raw talent can achieve — a fascination he picked up while cutting his teeth in the world of theater. The mayhem is doled out slowly but surely, largely thanks to a mustache-twirling turn from Jamie Campbell Bower as a sexy-evil college professor who wants the Witchboard all for himself — seemingly to fuel the nonstop bacchanalia happening in his creepy old mansion.

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