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SHAZAM!
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s case, by shouting out one word – SHAZAM! – this streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero Shazam.
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- Director: David F. Sandberg
- Writers: Henry Gayden (screenplay by), Henry Gayden (story by)
- Cast:
- Zachary Levi … Shazam
- Djimon Hounsou … The Wizard Shazam
- Mark Strong … Dr. Thaddeus Sivana
- Jack Dylan Grazer … Freddy Freeman
- Asher Angel … Billy Batson
- Marta Milans … Rosa Vasquez
- Grace Fulton … Mary Bromfield
- Stephannie Hawkins … Bus Passenger #6
- Cooper Andrews … Victor Vasquez
- Lovina Yavari … Store Clerk
- Natalia Safran … Mrs. Sivana
- John Glover … Sivana’s Father
- Caroline Palmer … Billy’s Mom
- Faithe Herman … Darla Dudley
- Ian Chen … Eugene Choi
Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
