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.
Move over Ash, I have a new chainsaw wielding, zombie killing hero - CHAINSAW MAID!
Chainsaw Maid is the bloody claymation short about a maid, a chainsaw and zombies. What more do you really need to know? The film was created by Japanese amateur animator takena, who has a whole line of, as he calls it, “brutal clay animation!” you should check out.
Somehow I think Ray Harryhausen is giggling in the shadows.
I’ll be honest and tell you all that I am not a big fan of remakes, but damn, this looks like it could be a potential winner. Mirrors is the upcoming film is based on the 2003 South Korea horror movie Geoul sokeuro, which is about a mall security guard investigating a series of murders that somehow involve mirrors.
Director Alexandre Aja of High Tension fame makes some changes in his version but seems to keep the overall story intact. Kiefer Sutherland plays an ex-cop hired to guard an old building that is filled with mirrors. Soon he and his family become the target of an evil force that is using just about any reflective surface as a means to torment them. Blood, gore and creepy small children abound.
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.
The teaser for Joss Whedon’s upcoming on-line series Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog looks like it’ll be nerdtastic, which is not really a big surprise.
Whedon says -
“It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to.”
Sounds a little autobiographical if you ask me.
Staring Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer, Felicia Day as Penny, the show will consist of three ten-minute episodes.
VLOG (short for video blog) is a new online horror series from Twisted Pictures (the guys who dish out the SAW franchise of films) and Break.com. The premise is simple - Some lady named Brooke Marks and a deranged internet killer exchange a loving embrace… no wait… Marks is being hunted by the killer and you, the viewer, get to watch as her buddies get slaughtered one-by-one in each episode. That is until Marks is dispatched herself, at which point I’m sure she’ll return from the dead for the VLOG sequels.
You can watch all of the current episodes of over on the VLOG site. Below is the trailer that gives you a pretty good idea of what you’ll be watching.
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