Chadzilla ROARS!!! (The Official Blog of Chadwick H. Saxelid, Writer)

Creepshow (1982) poster

Escape from New York (1981) poster

Suspiria (1977) poster

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) poster

Tenebre (1984) poster

Psycho III (1986) poster

The Island (1980) poster

 

Body Double (1984) movie poster

Death Wish 3 (1985) poster

Maniac (1980) poster

New Year's Evil (1980) poster

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) poster

Ghost Ship (2002) poster

This poster looks awfully familiar, doesn't it?

Death Ship (1980) poster

Trancers (1985) poster

Prophecy (1979) teaser poster

Maximum Overdrive (1986) movie poster

Phantasm (1979) movie poster

Deadly Eyes (1982) poster

Halloween (1978) poster

Halloween II (1981) poster

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) poster

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) poster

The Woman poster

Tucker and Dale Versus Evil poster

FINALLY available on VOD this August, thank you Magnet Releasing!

Deathstalker II (1987) poster

Yeah, I don't have anything to poster today (although my review of Super is "almost" done).

So here is the poster for the GREATEST SWORD AND SORCERY MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!! for you to look at and enjoy: 

 
"I'll have my revenge, and Deathstalker, too!"

 

Midnight in Paris (2011) poster

 

The Innkeepers posters

Poster #1:

 
It's nice, but it screams horror-comedy and that is an incredible uneven sub-genre that I am frequently unimpressed with.  Looking at this poster makes me want to see the trailer, just to figure out what kind of movie the poster is for.

Poster #2, however, is pure awesome:

 
I want this poster on my wall, now.  It is a gloriously retro-design that perfectly captures the look and feel of all those memorably creepy movie posters and book covers for the gothic thrillers that were released in my younger days. 

This poster makes me want to go out and see the movie ASAP.

Now, on a completely unrelated note, is Dark Sky ever going to release Hypothermia, their lake bound monster movie with Michael Rooker?  I really want to see that one, too.

Insidious (2011) Poster

 
Advance word on this "haunted house" thriller from director James Wan (Saw, Dead Silence) might be solid to good, but this bland poster makes it look like a movie about some creepy looking Justin Bieber fan that just so happens to be standing in front of the house from Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs.

I'll be seeing it, regardless.

Sector 7 teaser poster

Here is a nifty looking teaser poster for an upcoming Korean-made creature feature:

 

The story for this monster movie sounds identical to last year's DTV creature feature The Rig, "the crew of an oil rig are terrorized by a deep sea creature."  No complaints, though.  That description alone is more than enough to make me want to watch it.  Movies like this are just the kind of thing I love to watch on Saturday, or Sunday, morning, so I will definitely be catching it at some point in the future.

Mendocino movie posters!

The Lady Love and I are off to scenic Mendocino, California (a.k.a. Heaven) for a peaceful weekend of rest, romance, and reading on what has to be the most gorgeous section of coastline our home state has to offer.  (Well, except maybe for Point Reyes, which is where I would love to have my ashes scattered.)

Here are three cinematic reasons why I LOVE going to Mendocino more than just about any other place in California:

 
 

Not only were these movies filmed in and around the town of Mendocino, but the town has had next to no development; so everything looks pretty much that same as it did when these movies were filmed there thirty some odd years ago.

I always get a delightful geeky tingle whenever I stroll down the same streets (and cemeteries) that the residents of Potter's Bluff and Castle Rock inhabited, and when we drive up to Fort Bragg - for omelettes at Eggheads - we drive right past the harbor all those horny humanoids attacked. 

Sweet!

Be back next week.  Bye.

The Disco Exorcist poster

Last week it was Hobo With A Shotgun, this week it's:

 
I am not the slightest bit embarrassed to admit that I am more than willing to pay to see this movie.  I am eager to pay to see it!  This movie could be the greatest thing since Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.  Or maybe not.  Who knows, really?

Canadian Poster for Hobo With A Shotgun

Unwanted proof that no one learned from Machete:

 

Hobo With A Shotgun is yet another movie that is adapted from a popular (and evidently award winning) fake trailer.  While this Canadian poster does an excellent job of recreating the look and feel of those seventies era exploitation movie posters, it does not keep me from wondering if a trailer sized gag should ever be stretched out to fill a feature length movie.  What's the point?  Who wants to sit through a watered down trailer?

And am I the only one that remembers that - far more often than not - the trailers and posters turned out to be far better than the movies they were advertising?

Then again, the early Sundance reviews for the film, from Devin Faraci at Badass Digest and over at Dread Central, have been good, so maybe the creative team behind the movie managed to get "it" right this time.  I'll find out when I see the movie for myself.  (You didn't think that I would pass on seeing a movie titled Hobo With A Shotgun, did you?)

Rubber Poster

Rubber is a French horror movie about a killer tire.  Really.  I am NOT making that up, but I do wish that my own imagination were that daringly absurdist.

Anyway, the movie has a brand new poster for its limited theatrical release, which begins - appropriately enough - on April 1, 2011.

 

The official synposis (courtesy of the Internet): Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move. At first content to wreak havoc on small desert creatures and various lost items, his attention soon turns to humans, resulting in the most gory vehicular-related mayhem inflicted on screen by an “inanimate” object since Christine.

Now if you clicked the link in the above paragraph, then you know that this post is a pretty fine example of me just being lazy, as I am just regurgitating an easy to find news story from Dread Central.  One that most, if not ALL, genre fans probably already know about, and have probably known about for quite some time.  But, just in case some of my readers do NOT know about Rubber (hi Mom, hi Dad), then allow me to say the movie makes its Video On Demand debut on February 25th and begins a limited theatrical run on, as stated before, April 1st.

I really wish I had some fresh content to kick off the three day weekend with, but I don't.  The new year got off to a rocky and busy start for me, but I am planning on seeing (and reviewing) The Green Hornet, Season of the Witch, and Vanishing on 7th Street this weekend.  I will also be polishing off Joe R. Lansdale's excellent novel (so far, that is) Sunset and Sawdust, which I will also be reviewing. 

Until then you will just have to make do with another poster for Rubber:

 

And a clip of Robert blowing up a bird:

Rubber - Clip 1
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Wake Wood Quad Poster

Here is another offering from the revived Hammer Studios:

 

I have absolutely no idea what this movie is about.  It looks like it could be a zombie movie just as easily as it could be a ghost movie.  I would prefer it to be the latter rather than the former, just to shake things up a bit.  The advertising image leaves me a tad cold, but - judging from those blurbs - some critics seemed to have liked it.  Then again, some of those quotes could be taken out of context.  Yet I do not think that you can take four stars out of context, unless it is four stars out of five, or out of ten. 

So it goes. 

In addition to having no idea what the movie is about, I also have no idea as to when (or how) this movie will be released here in the United States.  I always hope for a theatrical release, but Hammer's return to motion picture production has been a rocky one.  Their premiere effort, the critically praised vampire thriller Let Me In tanked at the United States box office and their sophomore effort, the psychological thriller The Resident, is going direct to DVD.  The most I can hope for right now is one of those Video on Demand with a limited theatrical release deals that Magnet/Magnolia is so fond of.  Although I still prefer watching a movie in a theater,  I have also come to embrace the Video On Demand option, as it saves me both time and money.  Most of these limited release movies only play for a week at an art house theater in Berkeley, and gas and parking are not all that inexpensive these days.  Neither is BART, come to think of it.

Nonetheless, no matter how Wake Wood is eventually released here in the United States, I will be seeing it.  For I am (and shall no doubt always remain) a devout Hammerhead.

UK Poster for John Carpenter's The Ward

 

Sanctum poster

The very first thing to come to mind when I saw this poster?  GOATSE.

Needless proof that the Internet has scarred my mind. 

The Resident poster

 

 
Man, that is some serious bland they having going on there.  This poster could just as well be for any number of direct-to-video movies from the late 1980s or early 1990s.  You remember those, right?  They were marketed as "erotic thrillers" and starred downward spiraling stars like Tanya Roberts (or never stars like Shannon Tweed) and Wings Hauser and/or Andrew Stevens (who also would have written, produced and/or directed it). 

The more things change...

So it goes.

The Adjustment Bureau teaser poster

Jason Bourne does Philip K. Dick.  Sold.

Jaws 2 (1978) teaser poster

 
A really nifty poster that teases you with all you that you really need to know about the movie (a shark's fin cutting through the water and everything in the poster is saturated in red) that also introduced the world to one of the most famous - and parodied - taglines in movie advertising history.

Rare Exports posters

Looks like The Netherlands isn't the only country with a Christmas based horror movie coming out this year.  Here are some posters for Rare Exports, Finland's black comedy entry in the ever popular (and ever controversial) killer Santa Claus sub-genre:

 

 

 

And a quad poster from Britain:

 

I like the first two a lot more than the third one, which just looks ugly.  The Quad is okay, but the image is missing something.

The movie is set to start a limited roll out in early December, of coure.

The Netherlands poster for Sint.

Just what I needed for my Have Yourself A Scary Little Christmas section, another Christmas based horror movie to review! 

 
This one, the poster for which has a really nice Tomb of the Blind Dead look to it, is from Dick Maas, the writer and director of such cult horror hits as The Lift (remade in English as The Shaft) and Amsterdamned.  No word yet on whether or not it is even going to get any kind of release in the United States.

Bitter Feast poster

A notorious "Food Blogger" comes to regret the scathing review he wrote about one particular Chef.

 Bitter Feast will be available on video and on video on demand on January 4, 2011.

Night Song AFM teasesr poster

 

I'm going to make a wild guess and say, "Vampire movie."

Season of the Witch poster

A new poster for the still unreleased demonic thriller Season of the Witch, starring Nicolas Cage, has appeared:

 
I saw a trailer for this movie, the theatrical release for which had already been delayed for well over a year at the time, in early 2010.  The trailer I saw made Season of the Witch look more like a demonic horror movie than this poster, which seems to want to make me think that the film is some kind of Lord of the Rings style fantasy epic.  Perhaps it is a little of both?  Or, maybe, it is neither.  Either way, why isn't Tom Atkins in this movie?

All I know is that when a studio shuffles around a movie's release date as much as Rogue has this one*, then it means the studio either does not know how to sell it (but demons and monsters and Nicolas Cage are pretty easy to sell) or that it has little to no faith in the film finding an audience.  That the movie is getting dumped in January (a fairly popular dead zone for lackluster movies) is another bad sign.

[*CORRECTION.  Lionsgate, at one point, had been going to distribute the film, and it was that studio's trailer that I had seen.  Rogue now has the distribution rights and an all new trailer should be forthcoming.]

Nonetheless, the trailer and all the fantasy glory in the above poster makes me want to see it.  If only to find out whether or not the film is truly a cinematic trainwreck, or if it might surprise me and turn out to be fun movie.

The Divide poster

 

From what I have read, The Divide is one of those "adversity reveals our true animalistic nature" style of films. That could go either way, really.  

I also get the strangest feeling that I have seen the poster before...

 

OH!!!  That is where I've seen it!

Teaser poster for Kevin Smith's Red State

 

Kevin Smith finally stepped out of his raunchy slacker comedy comfort zone and has actually made (or is the process of making) the Fred Phelps inspired "hardcore" slasher movie RED STATE.  A horror movie that Smith has been talking about making for the last few years, at least. 

But you wouldn't know that from this teaser poster, which makes the film look more like a paranormal thriller in the vein of The Last Exorcism or the Paranormal Activity series than a slasher movie about a whacked out fundamentalist preacher (Michael Parks, in a truly inspired piece of casting) hacking apart filthy sinners.  Kevin Smith's name is also conspicuously absent.

Nonetheless, I am curious enough about this movie to want to go see it.

Paranormal Activity 2: Toyko Night poster

 
From what I have heard, this sounds like a legit region specific sequel, wherein the original Paranormal Activity goes all Ringu/Ju-on (The Grudge) on several unfortunate viewers.  Could be worth a look.  Or maybe not.  Who knows, I don't.

Promotional poster for John Carpenter's Darkchylde

As of October 31, 2010, this potentially creature laden dark fantasy adventure looks to be John Carpenter's next movie:

 

Nice poster.  Real nice.  If you are at all curious about this (and I know I am) then you can pre-order a trade paperback collection of the comic book series that the film is based on right here.

Trick 'r Treat poster

I so want to live in an alternate and just universe where this wonderful ode to Halloween actually got a theatrical release and became a Paranormal Activity sized box office hit.  That so deserved to happen.