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Behind the scenes sneak peek at the upcoming movie in the Predator franchise: Predators. It includes behind the scenes stuff, clips from the movie, and some info from Robert Rodriguez. We haven’t had a good Predator movie since 1987, but maybe Rodriguez will have some positive influence on this one.
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I just signed in to Xbox Live – I’m fighting through the alien spaceship on Fallout 3 – and when I saw an advert for this pop up on my dashboard, I had to run back to my PC and make a smartalecky post about it.
You’ve participated in our Game with Fames, now try our first-ever Film with Fame with Rob Zombie, director of the classic horror thriller The Devil’s Rejects. He’ll be online watching the movie with Xbox LIVE® Gold Members providing a live director’s commentary on the film! If you’re a Gold Member (if you’re not a Member, upgrade now!) join us Friday, February 19 starting at 8:00 P.M. ET for the event.
I’ve always gone to bat for Mr. Z’s first two films. They’re just fun to me, what can I say? But I can’t help but chuckle at this idea. Do people really want to sign on to Xbox and watch a movie with Rob Zombie? Or any other celebrity for that matter?
It just sounds stupid and weird to me.
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I love The Wolfman. Only the Mummy rates higher on my Universal monster list (followed by the Invisible Man and Gill-man). I’ve been really interested in the remake since it was announced and I’m actually super psyched and looking forward to seeing the film tomorrow afternoon.
Yeah, yeah. I know all about the last minute change in directors, the crazy reshoots, and even the 30% rating it currently has at RT (though the community is giving it borderline fresh at 59%). Every sign points to this being one giant suckfest. Possibly on the level of a Van Helsing type thermo-nuclear disaster.
But I’m going into this like Jeff went into G.I. Joe: knowing it’ll probably suck but not letting anything affect me until I’ve actually seen it. It’s rare that I’m so excited and interested in a film that I completely and totally disregard every bit of logic and gut feeling that I have towards it, but that’s my state of mind as I roll into tomorrow. I just can’t wait!
I know a few of you have seen it already and given it average to terrible reviews. Any listener or reader out there that thought it was really good?
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I love movies. Of all the Splattercast hosts, I probably watch the most in terms of sheer volume. I try to get to 50-60 flicks per month. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but to better prepare for next year’s Splatcademy Awards, I decided to start making a note of every film I watch, and this new segment sort of grew out of that. So below you’ll find every feature length film that I watched in January, in sequential order of viewing, along with some brief comments on each one.
The first half of the month was dominated mostly with flicks I was trying to catch up on in prep work for the Splatcademy Awards. The second half was getting back to the stuff I generally watch. I generally try to avoid crap so you’ll find a lot of good stuff as you go further into the list.
Titles in orange are flicks that are definitely worth looking at, titles in red are sort of “can’t-miss” flicks that should be at the top of your Netflix queue. Enjoy.
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One of my favorite film sites is Senses of Cinema. It’s one of the only places on the internet where you can find real, interesting critical theory of films from really intelligent and knowledgeable people (there’s an article on Antichrist up right now). The writers and contributors to the site recently released their “World Poll” of the top films of 2009. Two of my film professors submitted their list and it’s always fun to find out the preferences of the people instructing you on film (unfortunately, the professor I’m most interested in just didn’t submit this year). So here you go:
Husband and wife unite in their dismissive attitudes towards Inglourious Basterds 
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I hope these are more than just torture porn. You can see trailers for each individual movie at http://www.horrorfestonline.com/
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I’m about to start in on the Ghoulies movies for the next episode of the Splattercast. Wish me luck.
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Everyone else is doing it, so I figured I’d work out my top ten movies of last year. I’ve done a horror and a non-horror list. Some movies you might have seen overseas in 2008, but I saw them all in 2009, either in the cinema or on DVD.
My top ten horror films of 2009:
10. Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
No doubt, the most pretentious film I’ve ever seen, but that doesn’t make it any less provocative, the cinematography any less stunning, or the scenes of genital mutilation any less squirm-inducing. This film was blown way out of proportion in terms of how “shocking” it was, but it proved an interesting cinema experience (which we saw on my birthday of all days!) which sparked endless debate in the pub afterwards.
9. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
CGI is still far form perfect, but considering the budget, these aliens looked spectacular. It was great to see a film like this set outside of The States. Comparable to Cronenberg’s The Fly in many ways.
8. Monsters vs Aliens 3D (Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon)
Ok, not strictly a horror film, but for me it falls under the huge umbrella because it’s got monsters and aliens in it! This is a wonderful, fun movie, full of references to 1950s horror and sci-fi.
7. Friday 13th (Marcus Nispel)
As an entry in the Jason Voorhees saga, this is heavily flawed, but no more so than half of its predecessors in the series. There were many horror clichés and actions Jason took that were out of character, which marred the film somewhat, but it had enough brutal kills and gore to keep me entertained, which was more than I could ask for.
6. My Bloody Valentine 3D (Patrick Lussier)
This is one of the most entertaining cinema going experiences in recent memory. In 2D I can’t imagine this film has much going for it at all, but with all those eyeballs, boobs, and guts f lying out at ya, this was a lot of fun.
5. Coraline 3D (Henry Selick)
Another animated movie, but I feel this is certainly justified in belonging under the horror corner because it is genuinely creepy. A little slow in places, but this is rather gripping and has a truly menacing antagonist with a really nasty goal.
4. Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer)
Not to be un-patriotic, but I enjoyed this much more than Shaun of the Dead. This was everything I wanted in a zombie comedy and more. I laughed so hard during this, and I can’t wait until it comes out on DVD.
3. Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli)
I was so glad this got a UK cinema release (almost as glad as I was when Grindhouse made it over here). Having heard so much about it, I was determined to not go in with any expectations. It scared me quite a bit, but not to the extent that I couldn’t sleep that night. It bothers me that half the people who hear stories about folks crying in the cinema due to being so scared, will watch this and say it’s “fucking shit”.
2. Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
I was so worried about watching this because of how great I’d heard it was. But it absolutely lived up to all my expectations. It was wonderful.
1. Drag Me To Hell (Sam Raimi)
It’s very rare that I see a film more than once in the cinema. But I just had to watch this again, and if possible I loved it even more on a second viewing. The first time I saw this, I missed the first five minutes or so (the whole scene with the little boy) so I had no idea the movie was going to end the way it did. It was a horrific, hilarious surprise! You can see the ‘twist’ coming a mile off, but it just adds to the anticipation of the climax. “Choke on it, bitch!”
My overall top ten films of 2009:
10. The Time Traveler’s Wife
9. The Hurt Locker
8. Star Trek
7. The White Ribbon
6. Up
5. Let The Right One In
4. Gran Torino
3. Avatar
2. Drag Me To Hell
1. The Wrestler
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