“The Walking Dead”: Hunt or be Hunted
Earlier this week AMC released the teaser poster for season five of The Walking Dead which starts next month. If you’d like to see a larger version of the poster you can thanks to Coming Soon.
Category: Movies
“The Wizard of Oz”: 75 Weird, Wonderful Facts
In honor of the 75th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, Parade presents 75 Weird, Wonderful Facts About The Wizard of Oz.
“Monsters Dark Continent” – Now I’m Interested!
I saw the original Monsters [2010] and was disappointed. Perhaps that’s why Monsters Dark Continent wasn’t on my radar… until I saw the two trailers below.
From Wired: Frank Miller is Back (and Not Sorry)
I’ve been a Frank Miller fan since his days on Daredevil over 30 years ago. I followed Miller as he created Ronin, Dark Night Returns, Electra, Sin City and more. In recent years Miller’s output has been sporadic at best.
I was hopeful that with Sin City: A Dame to Kill For hitting cineplexes around the world that we might see more of Frank Miller’s Sin City yarns.
Since reading Sean Howe’s profile of Miller for Wired: After His Public Downfall, Frank Miller is Back (and Not Sorry), and seeing the accompanying photos [not the one above, it is probably five or six years old] of Frank Miller, I am still hopeful for more comic work from him, but even more importantly I hope that Frank Miller is physically okay.
The Princess Bride Recut as a Horror Movie!
It has been a while since we’ve had a mash-up here. So let’s go with a good one.
Here’s The Princess Bride recut as a horror movie!
“The Blob” was Based on a True Story!
The Blob starring Steven [Steven!] McQueen is another one of those 1950’s scifi/horror movies that doesn’t get enough props.
Maybe it would get more respect if folks knew The Blob was based on a true story!
Source: io9.com.
The Night Elvis Presley Died
If you have any interest in Elvis Presley, you will probably want to check out Do You Remember’s Behind the Scenes on the Night Elvis Presley Died. (Sadly, the link no longer works, but below we have a news report the night Elvis died. – Craig, 2021)
I was 18 years old and on vacation in Tennessee. It was like a king had died.
“I Married a Monster From Outer Space”
I was recently thinking about the cult classic I Married a Monster From Outer Space and wondering why it seldom comes up when folks are talking about monster movies from the 50’s.
As a kid, I Married a Monster From Outer Space was one of my many favorites. It still holds up pretty well.
Maybe I Married a Monster From Outer Space just needs more people talking about it. So to that end… here’s the original trailer!
Every Alfred Hitchcock Movie Cameo
Morgan T. Rhys edited every Alfred Hitchcok cameo into a single five minute video that’s a lot of fun.
Source: Sploid.
20 Greatest “Pulp Fiction” Trivia Facts
My guess is regular visitors to this site will know most, if not all of the 20 Greatest Pulp Fiction Trivia Facts.
For the record, my favorite is #15.
Behind the Scenes: 25 Classic Hollywood Movies
If you get a kick out of behind-the-scenes photos, you’ll love Do You Remember’s post Behind the Scenes: 25 Classic Hollywood Movies.
You’ll see Eastwood, Hitchcock, Star Wars, Schwarzenegger, and more. Check it out!
Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez on Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
I thought that Sin City: A Dame to Kill For was better than the original Sin City movie, and I liked the original a lot. The fact that A Dame to Kill For isn’t tearing it up at the box office doesn’t surprise, but it sure disappoints me.
My hope is that overseas dollars and dvd purchases make it possible for more Sin City yarns from Miller and Rodriguez. Scott Huver at CBR. interviewed Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez and it’s obvious they feel the same,
Z-View: “Westworld”
Ed Neumeier recently introduced Westworld at the Trailers from Hell site and it reminded me how much I love that movie.
Spoilers lurk below…
Man, I was the right age to love Westworld when I saw it in a theater when it premiered in 1973. I loved the concept of a Disney-like park where adults could vacation and live out their fantasies. Heck, who wouldn’t? Maybe any age is the right age for that.
Yul Brynner was on-point as the Cowboy killing machine. James Brolin was the perfect movie-star-leading-man who would save his nerdy buddy [played by Richard Benajmin] and the day. So when Brolin was gunned down by the gunslinging Brynner and Benjamin was left to make it out on his own, I was shocked. And hooked.
Westworld Rating: 4 out of 5
15 Things You Might Not Know About “Conan the Destroyer”
I enjoyed Chris Hutchinson’s 15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Conan the Destroyer more than the movie Conan the Destroyer. Here are my three favorite things…
1. THE DIRECTOR INSPIRED HIS WAY.
Director John Milius drew major inspiration for the first Conan movie, Conan the Barbarian, from 1958’s The Vikings. When Milius was unavailable to direct the Conan sequel, Conan the Destroyer, producer Dino De Laurentiis went to the original source by hiring The Vikingsdirector Richard Fleischer. [They should have waited for Milius. – Craig]
11. ANDRE THE GIANT MAKES A VERY SUBTLE CAMEO.
Who was the actor underneath the rubber suit created for the monstrous deity Dagoth? None other than André René Roussimoff, better known as the wrestler André the Giant.
15. AND THEN POLITICS SCRAPPED ANOTHER SEQUEL.
Original director John Milius came close to making a third Conan movie with Schwarzenegger in 2002. His script, entitled “King Conan: Crown of Iron,” was to be directed by The Matrix’s Andy and Lana Wachowski, but was scrapped after Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California. [Can you imagine what that Conan film would have looked like. Crom! – Craig]
Source: Mental Floss.
32 Movies With Unbelievably Bleak Endings
Louis Peitzman at Buzzfeed recently took a look at…32 Movies With Unbelievably Bleak Endings.
These endings aren’t just unhappy — they’ll leave you feeling completely hopeless.
Of the 32 movies with bleak endings, I’ve seen 22.
Of the 22, while more upbeat endings could be imagined, the bleak finales seem right. I am still surprised that The Mist ended the way it did. Talk about bleak endings. That is the bleakest ending of all the movies listed. I commend the folks behind it to have the stones to go with it.
