The 4th “Glass” Trailer is Here!
The headline says it all: The 4th Glass Trailer is Here!
Category: Horror
20 Walking Dead Easter Eggs Everyone Has Missed
Shawn S. Lealos, at CBR.com, posted 20 Walking Dead Easter Eggs Everyone Has Missed and it’s a great read. Here are my three favorites…
20 THE WHISPERERS
The Whisperers have finally arrived on The Walking Dead but they were hinted at a few years back by a character that isn’t even on the main series anymore. Way back in the Season 3 episode “Clear,” Rick and Morgan met up for the first time since Rick left Atlanta. Morgan was clearly driven mad at the time — losing his wife and son — and he was rambling about a lot of things. However, one thing that he said was clear foreshadowing for this season of The Walking Dead.Morgan said he saw “people wearing dead people’s faces.” Fans of the comic books knew exactly what Morgan was talking about since the books had introduced the Whisperers, who wore the faces of the dead in order to walk among the zombie herds safely.
1 BREAKING BAD CONNECTION
The Walking Dead might be the most popular television series in the history of AMC but it is nowhere close to being the most critically acclaimed series on the network. That would arguably be Breaking Bad and there are a lot of clues that indicate the worlds from the two television series are actually connected.Daryl had a bag of narcotics in the season 2 episode “Bloodletting” that included a blue powdery substance that fans of Breaking Bad will immediately recognize. There was also a red Dodge Charger that Glenn stole in “Guts” that was the exact same color and year as one that Walter returned to a car lot and a general manager named Glenn. Also, Gale’s crazy coffee maker from Breaking Bad showed up in Milton’s lab in season three. These Easter eggs have made some people wonder if Breaking Bad is a Walking Dead prequel.
15 THE SCRIPTURES
On the fifth season episode “Strangers,” the survivors ended up at Father Ezekiel’s church and found an interesting situation. Ezekiel was alone in the church, having refused to allow his followers in, and the group found one man alone surrounded by his belief in God. On the board in the background were five Bible verses. Interestingly, these verses all had an eerily similar theme.A fan on Reddit took the time to look them all up and they involved rising from the dead, returning to life, being unable to pass on, and living among the dead. The books of the Bible ranged from the Old Testament in Ezekial to the final book of Revelations. While not really meaning zombies, they all tie into the themes of the show.
10 Remakes Better Than the Originals
Scott Beggs and Mental Floss took a look at 10 Remakes That Are Better Than the Originals. Here’s what Beggs had to say about three of my favorites that made his list (and my commentary after)…
3. THE THING (1982)
Itself a remake of An Affair to Remember (just kidding), John Carpenter’s paranoid horror film captured a Cold War sensibility of neighborly distrust. Its predecessor, The Thing From Another World, stood out even among the mountain of now-cheesy 1950s sci-fi creature features, but Carpenter injected the zeitgeist even deeper into the film’s tissue to create a movie with complexity and a radical flamethrower.Craig – While I wouldn’t agree that Carpenter’s remake is better – how do you improve on a classic? – I do agree that Carpenter’s update has also achieved a cult classic status. I remember seeing Carpenter’s version on opening weekend in a nearly empty theater and coming out really liking the film but not loving it. The Thing (pun intended) of it is, the movie like the creature in the movie grows on you,
4. SCARFACE (1983)
The movie that spawned a million dorm room posters and impressions of Al Pacino is a remake of Howard Hawks’s 1932 film that was neutered by the Hays Code. That version still shows the violent rise of a gangster based on Al Capone, but it had to explicitly condemn everything shown on screen and tack on the subtitle The Shame of a Nation (just in case audiences thought killing people was something to aspire to). It’s absolutely one of the most important genre pictures in the vault, but Brian De Palma’s Miami-set festival of bullets successfully updated it with a slathering of the greasy greed of the 1980s. Like its forebear, De Palma’s movie had its own struggles with the ratings board, earning a debilitating X rating because of its intense violence.Craig – I agree with DePalma’s Scarface is better than the original, but I would also argue that the original was just as controversial pushing the envelope of violence and sexual innuendo.
9. THE CRAZIES (2010)
Fans chewed their fingernails off when Overture Films announced a remake of George Romero’s 1973 zombies-by-another-name horror flick, but it turned out to be ripe for remake pickings. The government assault on a town suffering from the military’s own biological weapon was effectively moody but had problems that Breck Eisner’s version cleaned up considerably. Justified star Timothy Olyphant is perfect as the beleaguered small-town sheriff, and the film works as a tense survival thriller with a boatload of spine-jolting scares.Craig – I really liked the remake much more than the original. And like both John Carpenter’s The Thing and Brian DePalma’s Scarface liked The Crazies remake better with each additional viewing.
“The Collection” – Short Creepy Horror Film that Works!
The Collection is a really creepy film that will stick with you. Three minutes and 17 seconds that is well worth your time!
The Collection from SIDE FILMS on Vimeo.
Check Out THIS Poster for “Salem’s Lot”
I really like this poster for Salem’s Lot. I’m sorry, but I don’t know the artist who created it, but hats off to the artist who did. If you’d like to see a larger version, you can thanks to Dr. Giallo on Twitter.
Midnight Mystery #1 / Z-View
Midnight Mystery #1 is part of a four-issue mini-series published by Alterna Comics.
- Writer: Bernie Gonzalez
- Artist: Bernie Gonzalez
- Colorist: Bernie Gonzalez
- Letterer: Wes Lochner
- Cover Artist: Bernie Gonzalez
*** Beware – spoilers may be found below ***
Follow the strange adventures of detective Zeke King as he goes from case to horrifying case. In this issue: King’s latest case goes from freaky to fatal when he’s hired to find the lost son of a deceased horror host! The mystery begins in this new supernatural horror series!
Bernie Gonzalez’s Midnight Mystery is the Alterna series I was most looking forward to and it lived up to all of my expectations. Gonzalez created a fun issue that quickly introduces us to Zeke King’s world and things to come. I grew up watching Sammy Terry introduce late night monster movies and love that Count Karloff (a perfect name for a horror host) is used in the first Zeke King arc. The issue ends with a cliffhanger and left me wanting more. What better praise for a comic?
Gonzalez’s writing, like his art, is clear and supports the story in a lean, efficient way. Many folks compare Gonzalez’s art to Darwyne Cooke and I don’t disagree but I also see the influence of Alex Toth and Paul Grist.
Bring on issue 2!
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Mike Zeck’s Rarely Seen Charlton Comics Covers!
Today we have a rarely seen Charlton cover created by Mike Zeck for Monster Hunters #9. Ol’ Groove is right when he says when folks think about the…
…art of Magnificent Mike Zeck, we most often think of Master of Kung Fu (and post-Groovy Age Captain America, Punisher, and Secret Wars). Like many other super-stars of the late 20th Century (John Byrne, Joe Staton, Jim Aparo, and Don Newton, to name a few), some of Mighty Mike’s earliest professional color comics work rolled off the printing presses at Charlton Comics in Derby, Connecticut.
If you click over to Diversions of the Groovy Kind you can see the covers Mike produced for Charlton Comics from 1975 to 1977.
J. Byron Huggins Talks, Sly, Hunter and a Whole Lot More! (Updated Link)
James Byron Huggins is back!
Long-time readers know Huggins best as the author of Hunter. Huggins wrote Hunter specifically for Sly Stallone (who bought the movie rights) in mind as the book’s hero. Stallone fans continue to hope that Sly will helm a movie version of Hunter under his Balboa Productions banner.
Huggins wasn’t a one-hit wonder. He also wrote The Reckoning, Cain, Leviathon, Rora, and other novels. (And I recommend each of them!) Huggins’ novels are a combination of thriller, action-adventure and horror. His skill at seamlessly combining the genres made Huggins an international best-selling novelist.
Huggins recently sat for a long interview where he discussed meeting Sly, writing Hunter and a whole lot more.
“The Others” Trivia
Erika Berlin and Mental Floss present 10 Spirited Facts About The Others. Here are three of my favorites (beware of spoilers!)…
6. KIDMAN QUIT THE FILM DURING REHEARSALS.
During rehearsals and pre-production, the subject matter—and particularly [SPOILER] Grace’s killing of her children—was giving Kidman such intense nightmares that she quit the project. “At one point I didn’t want to make the film because I couldn’t even go there emotionally,” she has said. “It was still very difficult to exist in that state … when you’re doing an intense film the boundaries blur.” Fortunately, Amenábar and his team were able to convince her to return to the film, but “I was so glad to step out of her in the end,” Kidman said.
10. AMENÁBAR APPEARS IN ONE OF THE OLD MOURNING “BOOK OF THE DEAD” PHOTOS.
Like Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan before him, Amenábar found a way to make a brief cameo in his horror flick. “Half of the photographs [in the film] are real and half are fakes,” Amenábar said of the postmortem photographs Grace finds in the attic storage room. “We asked for originals and we lost them.” Because of that, replicas were made, and the director appears in one of them.
4. IT MADE HISTORY AT THE GOYA AWARDS.
The Others earned a total of eight Goya Awards, including Best Film. It’s the first film to earn Spain’s highest film honor in which not one word of Spanish is spoken.
Dell Comics Covers for the Classic Universal Monsters!
Yesterday we got a look at Francesco Francavilla’s classic Universal Monsters posters. It seemed only natural to follow them up with Dell Comics adaptations of the same.
Above is Creature from the Black Lagoon, but if you click over to The Bristol Board you can see larger versions of it as well as Dell Comics covers for Dracula, The Mummy and Frankenstein!
Francesco Francavilla Creates Classic Universal Monsters Posters!
In addition to being a fantastic artist, Francesco Francavilla is a fan of vintage horror films. The Dracula poster is just one of five classic Universal Monsters posters that he created. In addition to Dracula, there are also posters for The Wolfman, Frankenstein, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Invisible Man. You can see them all by clicking over to Browse the Stacks.
“Salt” – A Short Horror Film by Rob Savage!
SALT is a short horror film by Rob Savage. This guy should be making features!
SALT – Short Horror Film from Rob Savage on Vimeo.
“Overlord” (2018) / Z-View
Overlord (2018)
Director: Julius Avery
Screenplay: Billy Ray, Mark L. Smith from a story by Billy Ray
Stars: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk and Bokeem Woodbine.
The Pitch: “Think Saving Private Ryan meets Dawn of the Dead.”
Tagline: None.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
A team of soldiers is flown deep into enemy territory the night before D-Day. Their mission to destroy a Nazi radio tower is essential to the success of the Allied invasion. When their plane is blown from the sky, a few of the soldiers survive. In order to complete their mission they will find themselves against a company of Nazis and something much, much worse.
Overlord starts out as a straight war movie, becomes a tense drama and then goes full tilt horror. The action in each genre smoothly integrates and the end result is a scary, roller coaster of a movie that satisfies and leaves you hoping for another ride. While Overlord‘s trailers give you the broad strokes, there are enough twists and turns to satisfy even the most jaded horror movie/zombie fan.
When the movie was over I turned to my wife and said, “The guy who played Ford would make a great Snake Plissken.” She responded, “You know that he’s Kurt Russell’s son, right?” Truth be told, I didn’t, but stand by my opinion that he would make a great Snake Plissken and Overlord will make a nice addition to my movie collection.
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43 Hidden Ghosts You (May) Have Missed in “The Haunting of Hill House”
Thanks to IMDb, here are 43 Hidden Ghosts You (May) Have Missed in The Haunting of Hill House.
All the James Cameron Movies Ranked
Kevin Lawlor and ComingSoon.net present All the James Cameron Movies Ranked. Using just Lawlor’s list, here are three of my favorites with my comments…
The Terminator (1984): came out of nowhere to put James Cameron on the radar as a writer/director to watch. Originally Arnold was to play Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn’s role) and O.J. Simpson would be the Terminator! Thankfully that didn’t come to pass and we ended up with a classic!
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991): You have to give it to Cameron for flipping the script and not only making the Terminator the hero, but also coming up with an adversary that could make Arnold the underdog.
Aliens (1986): Cameron took the Alien concept to the next level with Aliens. A great script, a great cast teamed with Cameron to make his masterpiece..
