“1922” Trailer Starring Thomas Jane Adapted from Stephen King’s Novella
Thomas Jane in an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1922.
Category: Horror
Eliud Rivera’s Alternative “Blade 2” Poster!
I’m not a fan of Blade but think that Blade 2 is excellent. Eliud Rivera has created an alternative Blade 2 poster that would have made a worthy poster for the theatrical release.
Jeepers Creepers 3 Poster and Trailer
Here’s the Jeepers Creepers 3 poster and trailer. I liked the second film better than the original and am willing to give the third a shot.
The Conjuring (2013) / Z-View
The Conjuring (2013)
Director: James Wan
Screenplay: Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes (as Carey W. Hayes)
Stars: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston
The Pitch: “A remote house… spooky going-ons… evil!”
Tagline: None
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When strange things continue to happen in their remote farm home, Carolyn and Roger Perron contact paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Warren’s discover that true evil lurks there
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Navy Seals vs. Zombies (2015) / Z-View
Navy Seals vs. Zombies (2015)
Director: Stanton Barrett
Screenplay: Matthew Carpenter from a story by A.K. Waters
Stars: Ed Quinn, Michael Dudikoff, Rick Fox
The Pitch: “Zombies, and, wait for it… Navy Seals!”
Tagline: None (Perhaps the budget was so low they couldn’t afford one.)
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
The title says it all. Navy Seals are sent in to rescue folks during a zombie outbreak. High concept – low execution.
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Guillermo del Toro & Ron Perlman’s Hellboy vs Neil Marshall & David Harbour’s Hellboy
This shot of David Harbour as Hellboy is making the rounds because of how well it looks to capture Mignola’s Hellboy.
Some folks are upset that Ron Perlman and Guillermo del Toro won’t be coming back to complete their Hellboy trilogy. I was disappointed as well, but that won’t stop me from seeing Neil Marshall’s darker, rated-R version.
I’ve also seen complaints that Harbour’s Hellboy looks like Perlman’s Hellboy. Ok. Let’s think about that for a second. They’re both playing the same character, so shouldn’t they look similar?
I’m a fan of Perlman and Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy and hope to be of Marshall & Harbour’s Hellboy as well.
Hellboy directed by Neil Marshall, starring David Harbour, Mila Jovovich, Ian McShane and Daniel Dae Kim premieres January 11, 2019.
David Gallagher, High Moon and Supernatural Westerns
David Gallaher recently got a chance to talk about High Moon, the supernatural/western graphic novel that he created with artist, Steve Ellis. The interview (and High Moon) are worth a look.
Source: Monster Library.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) / Z-View
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Director: Charles T. Barton
Screenplay: Hugh Wedlock Jr. & Howard Snyder
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
The Pitch: “It’s time for Bud and Lou to meet Boris!”
Tagline: MORE GHOULISH GLEE THAN WHEN THEY MET FRANKENSTEIN
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When the bellboy (Costello) becomes the prime suspect of a murder in a remote hotel full of shady characters, only the hotel dick (Abbott) believes his innocence. The race is on to find the killer before he kills again… and the bellboy is in the killer’s sights!
I was surprised that Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff didn’t hold up as well as I remembered it. I was sure it would get a “B” rating or higher. As a kid, it would have gotten an “A” — yet it is still fun with some good laughs.
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20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) / Z-View
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
Director: Nathan Juran
Screenplay: Robert Creighton Williams (as Bob Williams) & Christopher Knopf from a story by Charlotte Knight (as Charlott Knight)
Stars: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Thomas Browne Henry
The Pitch: “Let’s make a monster movie!”
Tagline: Greatest Monster Since King Kong Ravishes the Earth!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When the first spacecraft returning from Venus crash-lands in the ocean it releases a small creature that quickly grows to gigantic proportions and terrorizes Rome!
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Tarantula (1955) / Z-View
Tarantula (1955)
Director: Jack Arnold
Screenplay: Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley from a story by Jack Arnold and Robert M. Fresco.
Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll and Clint Eastwood
The Pitch: “Let’s make a giant spider movie!”
Tagline: Bullets Can’t Stop It! Dynamite Can’t Kill It!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Scientists working with experimental growth formulas accidently create and release on the world a giant spider!
Look for Clint Eastwood in one of his first roles.
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Cabin Fever (2002) / Z-View
Cabin Fever (2002)
Director: Eli Roth
Screenplay: Eli Roth & Randy Pearlstein from a story by Eli Roth
Stars: Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong and James DeBello
The Pitch: “Let’s make a horror movie about college kids and a flesh-eating virus!”
Tagline: Terror… In the flesh.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Five college kids head to a remote cabin where they encounter a strange flesh-eating virus.
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Frailty (2001) / Z-View
Frailty (2001)
Director: Bill Paxton
Screenplay: Brent Hanley
Stars: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe
The Pitch: “Bill Paxton wants to direct ‘Frailty’ – let’s do it!”
Tagline: There are demons among us
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Adam and Fenton are young brothers, being raised by their single parent dad. Dad is a hard-working loving parent and all is well with the family… until one night when their father wakes them up to reveal that he had been visited by an Angel. The Angel told dad that demons live among them and they have been chosen to slay them.
Fenton realizes his father had gone crazy, while Adam is convinced their dad was visited by an Angel. Fenton hopes this will pass, but when dad brings home a normal looking man who dad claims to be a demon and kills him, Fenton knows this is just the start…
Frailty is a classic that gets better with repeated viewings. Paxton’s acting and direction (the only film he directed!) is point on. Powers Boothe is, as always, excellent. This may be Matthew McConaughey’s best performance. Love the twists and turns.
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23 Things We Learned from Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien Covenant’ Commentary
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 23 Things We Learned from Ridley Scott’s Alien Covenant Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
9. At 24:26 he acknowledges this is the “same plot as the original Alien, there’s a transmission, they go and find out.”
11. Astronauts and NASA scientists have told him that they sometimes get ideas from science fiction films because filmmakers have thought their way around problems in ways that they themselves don’t.
14. More than once Scott says he’s going to hold back from saying something so as not to spoil it for listeners — as if people are listening to the commentary for their first watch of the film.
Gargoyles (1972) / Z-View
Gargoyles (1972)
Director: Bill Norton (as B.W.L. Norton)
Screenplay: Steven Karpf (as Stephen Karpf) and Elinor Karpf
Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, Bernie Casey and Scott Glenn.
The Pitch: “Let’s make a monster movie!”
Tagline: Watch Out! The Gargoyles Are Here.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When a best-selling anthropologist/paleontologist (Wilde) gets word of a mysterious skeleton found in the desert, he decides to drive out for a look. He takes his photographer daughter with him even though he believes the skeleton will turn out to be a hoax. Shortly after arriving he and the small town find themselves under attack by Gargoyles!
Scott Glenn and Bernie Casey in early roles plus a young Stan Winston provides the Gargoyles!
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16 Unbelievable “The Walking Dead” Fan Theories
Gem Seddon and GamesRadar present 16 Unbelievable The Walking Dead Fan Theories. Below are three of my favorites with my comments to follow…
14. The show is being told by Old Man Carl
What it means: Rick’s a troubled hero. He’s more beards than a hipster convention, and dodged a gajillion bullets, wire-wrapped baseball bats and the hungry, gnashing teeth of thousands of walkers. Why is he the centre of attention? What makes Mr. Grimes so darn special? Simple: because Carl idolises his father and it’s Carl who’s telling the entire story of the show.The series will end with a major time skip where we see a much older Carl, with an eyepatch, recanting the story of how he grew up in the zombie apocalypse to someone offscreen. As he wraps up his tale, a walker shuffles nearby. “It’s time go Judith,” he says, as the camera pulls to back to reveal the young woman he’s been talking to – his teenage sister wearing Rick’s old Sheriff hat. She slays the zombie and the pair trot off into the distance.
12. Eugene is responsible for the outbreak
What it means: Eugene is actually who he says he is. Sort of.Way back when we first met Eugene, we learned that he worked on the Human Genome Project and knew of a virus cure. The mulletted oaf told a massive lie to keep himself safe. Then the truth emerges in season 5. He confesses, revealing that he’s not a scientists. BUT he does say that he “knows things.”
This makes sense when you consider the fact that he also admits to being a “very good liar.” If that’s true then it’s impossible to tell when he’s telling the truth and when he’s making stuff up. The reason this theory has gained momentum is down to what Eugene told Negan this past season: the same damn thing. He worked at the Human Genome Project weaponizing diseases as a way to fight other military forces.
Eugene acts like he’s not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. But when you think about it, what he’s accomplished reeks of a science background – he made bullets and a poison pill. The way he talks about his “fake backstory” has a ring of authenticity to it. It’s detailed and in-depth. So what if he really was involved with the creation of the virus and it’s his fault that it was unleashed? While he was telling the truth that he doesn’t know of a cure, he’s not coughed up the biggest truth yet: that everything that’s happening is completely his fault.
11. The US is quarantined – because the virus is a botched military weapon
What it means: The USA is the only country to have fallen under the zombie regime, according to this theory. The reason? A military experiment that went horribly, horribly wrong. Fans suggest that a biological weapon was either intentionally or accidentally released, it infected the public, and the US had no way of controlling the subsequent outbreak of flesh-eating groaners. North America is quarantined to prevent the spread to other continents.
That would make for a killer ending of the show: to discover that the entire time the remainder of the world has been happily ticking along, letting North America fall. Sonequa Martin-Green, aka Sasha, even has a concept for how that would play out in the series finale: “How about last shot, last everything, whoever’s there, we get to the coast, you pan out, and you see all this ships blockading, in which you find out that it’s just America.”
Military shenanigans a la the X-Files? This shimmers with a hint of truth. Especially as sister show Fear the Walking Dead kicks off with a bold military presence, as if to imply that the government knew what was happening all along…
My favorite fan theory is that we discover that Carl is the one telling the story of the zombie apocalypse. It makes a lot of sense, would give a fitting ending to the series and we get to see a hero develop from a small child to full-blown apocalyptic leader.
It would be a surprise to find out Eugene was behind the accidental release of the cause of the zombie apocalypse and that could even be tied in with the idea that the zombie outbreak is confined to the US. (Although I find the second part hard to believe.)
