I’m off to the drive-in for the first time in years. 1408 and Mr. Brooks double feature. Have a nice weekend and make sure you pop by later today for the first anniversary of The Horror Roundtable.
Movies
My New Plaid Pants gets a Roth-sized boner over some stills from the Funny Games remake.
Miike talks Macaroni Westerns.
The Day of the Dead remake has been held back due to reshoots. I hope they add more zombies jumping out of third-storey windows. I can’t get enough of that shit.
It won’t appear for months and already 30 Days of Night has been given the green light for a sequel.
Just when it appears he’s settling down, along comes Cronenberg with a short film for Cannes featuring the director in a theatre bathroom with a gun to his head. For three minutes. Le sigh.
Susan Sarandon’s son showed up at a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. According to him, up until now he hadn’t been allowed to watch “the naughty parts.” I wonder if he knew that most of the “naughty parts” involved his mom in various states of undress, squirming in an orgasmic frenzy. Awkward.
I had no idea Larry Cohen wrote Captivity. Consider me interested.
DVD
It appears that Grindhouse Releasing is back in business. I remember being saddened when it went on hiatus, due mainly to it being one of the few games in town at the time. Now that there are any number of cult DVD companies, many of whom are closing shop, I wonder if they’re even necessary.
Interviews
Wes Craven has been making the rounds in support of his appearance On The Lot, and they’re actually pretty good. Planet Gossip includes Craven’s take on the recent trend in hard horror.
“They do it in ways that some people find nauseating and disgusting, but that’s what the genre has always been doing…I forced myself to go see Hostel. I hate torture. I hate the idea of it. I must say it took me right to the edge of being so disgusted I would leave, but I couldn’t stop watching.”
And Jo Blo tackles Freddy, Las Vegas and Craven’s potential involvement with Masters of Horror.
“I’m always considering doing it, and then just when I think I have a month clear, it turns out that I don’t. That’s the only problem I’ve had that’s kept me out.”
Ifilm speaks to former horror wunderkind Kevin Williamson about the possibility of another Scream installment and what happened with Cursed.
Television
Bruce Campbell is appearing in a supporting role as a alcoholic, womanizing former spy in a new television show called Burn Notice. On the one had I find it slightly unbelievable that Campbell isn’t able to get top billing in show of his own. On the other, side characters often get to steal the show, and i have little doubt that will be happening here.
Literature
The Guardian reviews A Thing of Unspeakable Horror: The History of Hammer Films, providing a touch of cultural context themselves.
Skull Ring has the scoop on NPR’s take on vampire literature.
Comics
The Daily Cross Hatch favourably reviews the latest Tales From the Crypt collection. Can’t say I agree.
And Brian Hibbs takes a swing at the new Tales From The Crypt comic, calling it “the worst comic I’ve read so far this year”. No kidding.
Both links courtesy of Journalista, of course.
Gaming
The potential of the Wii finally realized. Resident Evil 4 to be released for the system.
Events
I hear Zombies are all the rage for this year’s prom themes.
Misc.
News Leader has a pretty damn good primer on the zombie phenomenon.
Wes Craven sues Pauly Shore. I’ve got nothing.
Real World
The News Tribune reports on a family terrorized by what seems to be technologically impossible phone threats that may be at least partially inspired by horror movies.
It may be stretching the mandate of this blog a bit, but Robert E. Howard’s sword and sorcery tales were filled with so many eldritch horrors I think I can get away with it.
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