Here is the trailer for the straight to DVD animated feature film Dead Space: Downfall, which is a prequel to the highly anticipated horror video game Dead Space. The story picks up where the original comic book series ended and takes place aboard the mining spaceship USG Ishimura.
If you’re unfamiliar with Dead Space, and you’re a video gamer, you should probably be slapped with a wet marmoset. Otherwise I highly suggest you check out the Dead Space website for more gruesome love’n.
Both the game and the animated feature are to be released at the same time this October.
This video has been making the rounds, and I can see what. It’s a music video for the song Driving this road until death sets you free, by Zombie Zombie, which uses stop motion animation to recreate John Carpenter’s The Thing… with G.I. Joe action figures.
While we’re on the subject of upcoming video games, here’s a trailer for the highly anticipated Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Well, highly anticipated by a lot of nerds… of which I am one of. So shove it.
Technically a sequel to the films, the game stars Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray reprising their roles as Spengler, Stantz, Zeddmore and Venkman. The game plot is pretty straightforward:
With Manhattain newly overrun by ghosts and other supernatural creatures, it’s up to you to take on the role of a new recruit joining the original, famous Ghostbusters team. Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets, you will hunt, fight and capture a wide range of uncanny phantasms and demons in an all-new, funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague.
Activision is releasing the game this October for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PC, Wii and Nintendo DS.
Bloody Disgusting reports that Rob Cohen (xXx, Stealth, The Skulls, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and The Wiz) will be producing a remake of classic 1987 movie Monster Squad for Paramount. Nothing more has been said about the pending rape of your childhood.
As if this day can’t get any better, what with the big announcement about Metropolis and all, we now hear that our favorite comic book ever, The Goon by Eric Powell, has been optioned to be made into a move by none other that director David Fincher (Zodiac and Fight Club)! And it gets better. Academy-Award nominated Blur Studio will be developing the film!
If you are unfamiliar with The Goon, a masterpiece of zombies and slapstick Lovecraftian humor set in some old-timey world, I highly suggest you walk into your local comicbook store and demand it. You’ll thank us for it.
MTV’s Movieblog released a clip of one of the most anticipated characters from Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Johann Krauss, the powerful psychic whose soul is forced to reside within a protective suit. Why is this character getting fans all a flitter? Because he is voiced by Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy and the voice behind many of its characters.
Granted this clip only gives you a tinny taste of what MacFarlane’s talents will be adding to the film, but being that Hellboy is filled with humor along with all the monsters and goo, I’m pretty sure it’ll be a really good fit into the mythos.
David Cronenberg has become a genius or is incredibly stupid. He and Grammy and Oscar-winner composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings) have teamed up with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) to bring you The Fly The Opera, an operatic adaptation of Cronenberg’s 1986 film The Fly.
I don’t know much about operas but I do know who Plácido Domingo is, and they got him to conduct the U.S. premiere for the LA Opera, who commissioned the opera. In the world of stuffy music Domingo is a heavy-hitter, so having him involved adds some street-cred I would guess.
Time magazine described The Fly as “a profound parable on love and loss.” Uhm… what, no Brundle-Fly vomit?
I’m a special effects junkie. I love trying to figure out how something is done. But what I really dig is when someone improves upon a current, or even more so, a seemingly outdated technology. In the case of Guillermo Del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army they take the animitronic suit and vastly take it steps beyond. And you can really see this in one of the main characters named Wink, a 7-foot-plus-tall troll who is the muscle for the main villain Prince Nuada. Below is a behind the scenes video showing some of Wink’s moves, which are pretty swank and realistic.
Below is the trailer for the straight-to DVD film Monster Movie, a very campy Cloverfiled spoof from the no-budget brothers Mark and John Polonia.
The film looks pretty straight forward - Friends go to a lake to go on a fishing trip when they notice something lurking in said lake. Next thing you know they along with all the redneck townies are being attacked by what looks like a giant Pleo. Guns can’t stop it! Jets can’t stop it! The mighty power of the Mullet can’t even stop it!
You get the picture. If anything this will make for a hell of a drinking game.
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