Monthly Archives: May 2009
Dead Rising 2: E3 09 Trailer
New trailer for Dead Rising 2 out of the E3 event. I never played the first Dead Rising game, though I remember Brady saying he liked it a lot. Ronin also wrote a mostly positive review a while back. Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace Tumblr it Tweet about it
Sukiyaki Western Django
The wife chose Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django to watch tonight. It’s a pretty weird movie, and it often slips its toe over the line into tedium, but I always stick through a Miike film. It’s basically a Japanese spaghetti western, with an all-Japanese cast speaking English through thick accents. I guess it’s sort of [...]
Women of Horror #88: Alison Lohman
In honor of her role in Drag Me To Hell, here’s Alison Lohman… Some films: Drag Me To Hell (2009), Beowulf (2007), Delirious (2006 – not horror, but that’s where the pink bikini shot comes from ), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Kraa! The Sea Monster (1998) Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace Tumblr it Tweet [...]
Men of Horror: Brad Pitt
Tenuous? Maybe. It doesn’t matter with this level of hot sauce. Some films: Se7en (1995); Interview with a Vampire (1994); Kalifornia (1993); Tales from the Crypt – ‘King of the Road’ (1992); Cutting Class (1989); Freddy’s Nightmares – ‘Black Ticket’ (1989). Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace Tumblr it Tweet about it
LA Times blogger on the DMTH poster
Here’s an interesting piece about the poster for Drag Me To Hell. To hear Adam Fogelson, Universal’s head of marketing and distribution, tell it, the main idea behind the poster was to distance “Drag Me to Hell” from the grisly torture porn films that have largely dominated the horror genre in recent years. “We wanted to communicate [...]