Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
I like this poster for Spiral. As you’re probably aware Spiral takes place in the Saw universe. I’m not sure if you’d call it a sequel. The poster has gotten my attention. I liked the original Saw movie. Maybe this one will be as good…
Isn’t it about time for even more Two Sentence Horror Stories? Here are three…
During dinner, she told me she knew my deep dark secret.
As she ate her burger I knew she was bluffing.
I decided to kill off a few characters in the book I’m writing.
It would spice up my autobiography a little.
I told the genie for my third and final wish, I wanted my family to be happy.
And I started fading.
Here’s the poster and trailer for the Twilight Zone-esque The Platform.
Inside a vertical prison system, inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, The Platform is a twisted social allegory about mankind at its darkest and hungriest.
Here’s a new Kingdom Season 2 Trailer!
Some will fall. Some will rise. Blood will spill.
A bloody war between the living and the dead that no one can escape!
The fate of Joseon hangs in the balance.
Here’s the poster and trailer for Sea Fever. Yes, this would be a great drive-in movie!
Sea Fever is a tense and original Irish sci-fi thriller reminiscent of cult classics The Thing and The Abyss, starring Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Connie Nielsen (Wonder Woman).
For marine biology student Siobhan (Hermione Corfield), it was supposed to be a research excursion with a trawler crew fishing the West Irish seas. But when they hit an unseen object and become marooned, a mysterious parasite infects their water supply. Soon the oozing force infiltrates the entire vessel and turns Siobhan’s journey into a claustrophobic fight for survival.Can they stop the mysterious water borne parasite from spreading before it’s too late? Sea Fever also stars Dougray Scott (Hitman) and Jack Hickey (Game of Thrones). Written and directed by BAFTA© winning Irish filmmaker Neasa Hardiman (behind BBC triumph Happy Valley and Netflix hit Jessica Jones).
If you’d like to see one of Paul Gulacy’s first (maybe his very first) published art for Marvel Comics, you can.
The Bristol Board has posted the complete story for Bats by Doug Moench, Paul Gulacy, and Duffy Vohland from Vampire Tales #7, published in October 1974.
I cannot wait for this one! I loved Train to Busan and the sequel, Peninsula, looks to be just as good!
PENINSULA takes place four years after the zombie outbreak in TRAIN TO BUSAN.
The Korean peninsula is devastated and Jung-seok, a former soldier who has managed to escape overseas, is given a mission to go back and unexpectedly meets survivors.
Hoping for a trailer soon!
Check out the very cool Dave Dorman painting for the hardcover version of The Expendables Go to Hell written by Sylvester Stallone & Chuck Dixon with art by Graham Nolan, Kelsey Shannon, Butch Guice, Jason Johnson and others!
Click on the art to see a bigger version!
Deadline broke the story that Syfy has given the green light given to a 10-episode series based on George A. Romero’s classic Day of the Dead that should air in 2021. Here’s the synopsis…
Day of the Dead is the intense story of six strangers trying to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion.
I like the sound of this quite a bit. The most exciting parts of zombie movies are at the very start when people don’t know what is happening or how to deal with it. The idea of strangers having to come together to survive is a winning concept. I just hope that the zombies aren’t able to “learn” as in Romero’s Day of the Dead.
The Cursed Films poster and trailer are here.
Cursed Films is a five-part documentary series which explores the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film producIons. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen, to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary amongst film fans and filmmakers alike. But where does the truth lie?
Cursed Films reveals the events that haunted these producIons through interviews with experts, witnesses and the cast, directors and producers who lived through the real-life events. Were these films really cursed, as many believe, or just the vicIms of bad luck and bizarre circumstances?
The Most Dangerous Animal of All is going to be must-see TV! Check out the trailer below!
Based on The New York Times best-selling book of the same name, The Most Dangerous Animal of All is a four-part documentary series on FX that explores one man’s search for the father who abandoned him, only to uncover the worst: he believes his father is the Zodiac killer, one of the most infamous serial killers in American history.
Kingdom was a surprise hit. Here’s the Season 2 Trailer. I’m looking forward to this!
As winter approaches, the battle between the living and the undead in Joseon is just beginning. The royal court is teeming with snakes, the zombies are coming, and the crown prince has a nation to save. The worst is yet to come, and everyone will need to choose a side without knowing who they can really trust.
How cool is this Bride of Frankenstein painting by Alex Ross? As cool as it is, this is still my favorite Alex Ross painting… but The Bride is a close second.
You can see more Universal Monster paintings by Alex Ross here and here thanks to Cool Comic Art.
Tony Stella created another great poster with his take on The Most Dangerous Game. You can see a bigger version at Stella’s Twitter.
First published in 1924, The Most Dangerous Game began life as an award-winning short story by Richard Connell. Over the years The Most Dangerous Game became required reading in schools across the nation. I was in 9th grade when I first read it. The Most Dangerous Game was the most popular of all our assigned reading assignments.
Over the years The Most Dangerous Game has been adapted for movies, television and even radio. Tony Stella’s poster is for the first movie adaption. Made in 1932, the adaptation starred Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks, Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong with the team of Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper behind the camera (Schoedsack and Cooper would go on to make King Kong the following year).
I highly recommend The Most Dangerous Game (both the short story, now in public domain, and the 1932 movie).
Herman Mudgett took the name Henry Howard Holmes when he moved to Chicago to begin work as a pharmacist. He took on the new identity because he was on the run from as a suspect in some unexplained murders. Rather than start a new uneventful life, Holmes instead continued his killing spree, which earned him the title of America’s First Serial Killer.
Holmes famously built a rooming house that has been called a Horror Hotel and Murder Castle. He hired workers and fired them after they completed sections of the building. This was so none but Holmes would know the layout and the horrors hiding within. There were secret passageways, spots to spy on unsuspecting guests and rooms designed for murder.
The year was 1893 and the World’s Fair was in Chicago. Rooms were at a premium and Holmes had new potential victims arriving daily. After he was caught Holmes confessed to 27 murders but some folks put the actual number closer to 200.
Cheish Merryweather at Listverse posted 10 Horrifying Facts About H. H. Holmes’ Hotel. If you’ve read this far, you’ll probably want to click over.
I also recommend The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson. It’s an award-winning novel chock full about facts about you know who and his horror hotel.
