Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Polaroid is an excellent example of a creepy, scary movie short done without a huge budget or special effects.
It’s the things we can’t see that terrify us the most…
CAST:
Alex – Ethan Mikael
Monster – Kevin Michael ShileyCREW:
Writer | Producer | Director | Editor | Score – Joey Greene
Yesterday Steve Niles sent a Tweet with the image above and…
Here’s the synopsis…The complete collection of Criminal Macabre prose stories by Steve Niles featuring two brand new tales and an introduction by horror legend John Carpenter! Now available for pre-order! In stores March 2, 2022. Cover by E.M. Gist. @DarkHorseComics @TheHorrorMaster
The complete collection of Criminal Macabre prose stories by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) featuring two brand new tales and an introduction by horror legend John Carpenter!
The world has two faces. The natural and the supernatural. The face we see every day, people filing past us in an almost zombie-like stupor, numb to the horrors of everyday life or driven to madness by the pain and agony of modern-day existence. And those are the people who aren’t zombies or monsters!
Cal McDonald is a detective with one foot in the real world, and one in the world of magic. For Cal, the horrors we all dream about in the fevered darkness of the night are all-too real, kept at bay through an almost constant influx of drugs to numb the pain, but never erase it. Cut from the same mold as Sam Spade, Jake Gittes, and the famous detectives of Chandler, Hammett and Spillane, Cal McDonald, whether he likes it or not, is all that stands between us and the nightmare world just outside our vision.
Collects the complete Criminal Macabre prose stories Savage Membrane; Guns, Drugs, and Monsters; Dial M for Monster, All My Bloody Things, and two new prose stories: The Dead Son and Out of Water.
Criminal Macabre: The Complete Cal McDonald Prose Stories by Steve Niles is available for pre-order now. Deal me in!
One of my favorite comic book characters is Marv from Frank Miller’s Sin City yarns. Miller didn’t create the art above. That’s Simon Bisley’s riff on our buddy Marv and I like it. Hope you do as well.
Here’s my review of The Many Saints of Newark.
I like the poster and cast for Dangerous but the trailer has left me with mixed feelings.
Ex-con and reformed sociopath Dylan Forrester (Scott Eastwood) is trying to quietly serve out his parole — with the help of a steady supply of antidepressants and his eccentric psychiatrist (Mel Gibson). But when his brother dies under mysterious circumstances, Dylan breaks parole and, with a dogged FBI agent (Famke Janssen) on his trail, goes to uncover the truth. A band of heavily armed mercenaries wants something Dylan’s brother was hiding, and Dylan will need all his guile and tactical skills to survive in this action-packed thriller costarring Kevin Durand and Tyrese Gibson.
The second trailer for Red Notice is here and I like it! I didn’t care for the first trailer. Now I want to see the movie. I’m going to have to re-watch the first again to see what’s changed. Maybe it was just me.
An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world’s most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI’s top profiler (Johnson) and two rival criminals (Gadot, Reynolds), there’s no telling what will happen.
Watch Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot in RED NOTICE, on Netflix November 12:
Michael Bay is back and it looks like he has a winner! After seeing the trailer for Ambulance sign me up for a ride!
Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever.
In this breakneck thriller from director-producer Michael Bay, decorated veteran Will Sharp (Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Candyman, The Matrix Resurrections), desperate for money to cover his wife’s medical bills, asks for help from the one person he knows he shouldn’t—his adoptive brother Danny (Oscar® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, Zodiac, Spider-Man: Far From Home). A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million. With his wife’s survival on the line, Will can’t say no.
But when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop clinging to life and ace EMT Cam Thompson (Eiza González, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Baby Driver) onboard. In a high-speed pursuit that never stops, Will and Danny must evade a massive, city-wide law enforcement response, keep their hostages alive, and somehow try not to kill each other, all while executing the most insane escape L.A. has ever seen.
Ambulance is produced by Michael Bay, p.g.a., Bradley J. Fischer, p.g.a. (Zodiac, Shutter Island) for New Republic Pictures, James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, 2022’s Scream) and William Sherak (Ready or Not, 2022’s Scream) for Project X, and Oscar® nominee Ian Bryce (Transformers franchise, Saving Private Ryan).
The screenplay is by Chris Fedak (Prodigal Son, Chuck), based on the original story and screenplay for the 2005 Danish thriller Ambulancen by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen.
Earl Norem created the painting above and it’s just one of ten in The Bristol Board’s gallery The Men’s Adventure Magazine Paintings Of Earl Norem. If you click over (and you should) you’ll see action-packed scenes filled with tough mugs, beautiful dames and dangerous situations… and all at a bigger size!
Kevin Delsignore at CBR.com came up with his list of The All-Time Most Influential Horror Movies. (Sadly, although it was an interesting list, it is no longer available.) I decided to play along and using Delsignore’s films, came up with my top two. Interestingly enough, my #1 pick didn’t make his list.
#3. Jaws: While some may argue that Jaws isn’t really a horror film, it made Delsignore’s list, so for our purposes here it is. Jaws not only spawned 3 sequels but also inspired countless other shark, octopus, orca, alligator, piranha… well, you get the idea, movies.
#2. Halloween: John Carpenter’s Halloween spawned 11 sequels with a 12th on the way. It also opened the door for low-budget unstoppable serial killer movies where the victims were usually teenage kids (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, etc.)..
#1 Night of the Living Dead: My choice for the top spot is Night of the Living Dead and surprisingly it didn’t even make Delsignore’s list! Not only did George Romero re-invent the “rules” for zombies, but he kickstarted a genre that has expanded from movies to tv to comics to video games and more. What’s just as crazy is that the zombie craze is still going strong over 50 years later!
Cowboy Bebop: The Lost Session – the teaser is here! (And I like it!)
COWBOY BEBOP is an action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past. As different as they are deadly, Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals — for the right price. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them.
The Tragedy of Macbeth written and directed by Joel Coen, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand will premiere in theaters December 25 and then stream on Apple TV+ starting January 14. I think this will be theater viewing for me..
Betty Lynn, the actress best known as Barney Fife’s girlfriend on The Andy Griffith Show, died yesterday at the age of 95.
Many folks are surprised and the number of movies and television shows Ms. Lynn appeared in (probably because her role of Thelma Lou is so ingrained in our memories). When Mark Evanier was a child, Betty Lynn was his next door neighbor. They developed a life-long friendship and Evanier has written on his blog about Betty Lynn many times over the years. If you click over you’ll find his initial post about her passing and all about Ms. Lynn’s amazing life.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Betty Lynn’s family, friends and fans.
One of my favorite authors, S.A. Cosby, is interviewed by Eli Cranor at Crime Reads. The interview titled, SHOP TALK: S.A. COSBY IS LATE TO THIS INTERVIEW AND IT’S BECAUSE OF SOME DEAD BODIES. Oh and before you go, S.A. was really delayed to the interview because he was dealing with dead bodies.
Pete Ware’s Rocky 45th Anniversary Limited Edition Prints are the subject of our first Z-View video.
