Whether or not the new American produced Godzilla movie will even get made (and released) remains to be seen. From moment one I have been of the "I will believe it only when I am sitting in a theater and actually watching it" frame of mind.
Anyway, a family emergency has prevented me from writing a review for you today (there might be one of Friday, or there might not be one, the emergency situation is ongoing and ever changing at the moment) so I decided to share this rejected design art for the film, courtesy of an article that was posted on Dread Central:
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:
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.
I have yet to see the first [REC], which has been called one of the most frightening films ever made (the number of films called as such is mind boggling). But I have seen the American version of it, which was called Quarantine, and that was quite possibly the most boring horror movie I saw in whichever year the shot-for-shot recreation (which replaced demonic possession with some kind of super rabies) was released.
But that won't stop me from seeing [REC] 2, which picks up about fifteen minutes after [REC] ended and looks to be going all kinds of ALIENS. It also looks like more of the same: lots of POV shaky-cam, confused and panicked yelling and screaming (while the viewer tries not to get motion sick while trying to see what the frak is going on) and lots of monster mayhem. Magnet releases the film in select (and limited release) theaters on July 9th. If the Shattuck Cinema in Berkeley screens it, I will be there.
Yahoo debuted the new trailer for Piranha 3D today and it give a much better idea as to the nasty fun in store for those (like me) who cannot wait for some monster movie goodness. (I also love the Alien 3 gag.)
Forget about Horrorfest and all of its bogus promises of chills and thrills. The Mist is where it's at. This is a movie that I have been waiting 20+ years to see on the Big Screen, ever since I first read Stephen King's monster laden short novel in Kirby McCauley's seminal Dark Fantasy anthology, Dark Forces; and if you have not read that collection yet, please, do so immediately. It's legendary status as the "ultimate" horror/dark fantasy anthology is completely justified.
Now, on November 21st, fear (and more than a few monsters) will change everything, when The Mist finally rolls into theaters.
These exclusive clips only make me all the more excited about this movie. Frank Darabont looks to have made one very faithful adaptation of what is arguably Stephen King's best monster story and, far less arguably, his best short novel. If you have read the story, then you'll know exactly what I mean. If you haven't, then do so, because the story really is that good.
The number one movie in America remains Borat, a comedy mockumentary about an ignoramus that brings out the worst in those around him. Let's all laugh at what racist, intolerant pigs we are.
Well one group isn't laughing. It seems that the cast and crew of Borat neglected to tell the impoverished Romanian village that is used for Borat's home that they were in a comedy. These impoverished people do not take kindly to being the brunt of jokes and that they have been misrepresented to the entire world as "uncivilized savages":
Claudia Luca, who lives with her extended family in the house next to the one that served as Borat's home, said: 'We now realise they only came here because we are poorer than anyone else in this village. They never told us what they were doing but took advantage of our misfortune and poverty. They made us look like savages, why would anyone do that?'
Her brother-in law Gheorghe Luca owns the house that stood in for Borat's - which the film-makers adorned by bringing a live cow into his living room.
Luca, who now refers to Baron Cohen as to the 'ugly, tall, moustachioed American man', even though the 35-year-old comedian is British, said: 'They paid my family £30 for four full days. They were nice and friendly, but we could not understand a single word they were saying.
'It was very uncomfortable at the end and there was animal manure all over our home. We endured it because we are poor and badly needed the money, but now we realise we were cheated and taken advantage of in the worst way.
'All those things they said about us in the film are terribly humiliating. They said we drink horse urine and sleep with our own kin. You say it's comedy, but how can someone laugh at that?'
Although I haven't posted anything about my friend Dave Hohl's San Francisco lensed horror movie In Search of Lovecraft (aka the movie I almost had a cameo in) that doesn't mean he hasn't been working is ass off trying to finish the film. Principal photography was completed earlier this year and now Dave is busy editing the footage into its final form. He hopes to have the film booked for some festival screenings next year.
Until then, we'll just have to make do with the film's teaser trailer, which appeared on-line at the stroke of midnight. It looks like The Great Pumpkin came through after all.
Peter David, via Bill Mumy's webpage, shared the sad news that character actor Andreas Katsulas has died. Katsulas appeared in such genre shows as Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine, but got his biggest mainstream exposure as the one-armed man in the hit movie The Fugitive.
My good friend David Hohl was kind enough to share with me the news that actress Rachel Robbins has joined the cast of his currently filming thriller, In Search of Lovecraft. Robbins will play Keja, a seductive witch. "An occult supervisor from L.A. will come and supervise her rituals done in the movie," Dave explained to me.
David Hohl, a friend of mine for almost twenty years, is finally getting to fulfill his life long dream of making a movie. (I even wrote a script for him at one point, but the less said about that project the better.) What's ironic is that he is the second friend of mine to live the dream.
He's currently filming the movie in various locales in and around San Francisco and I may or may not have a cameo in it. It all depends on scheduling. (I have a schedule?) The title is In Search of Lovecraft and, judging from Dave's comment to a local paper, it seems to be an In the Mouth of Madness style story, where the characters are driven insane by the not so fictional creatures of the Lovecraft Mythos.
I am so looking forward to shamelessly plugging this project in the coming months.
The Swarm B-Movie Review My second (and last) review for Bad Movies [dot] Org. I get tired just thinking about how much work I put into writing this review. Who would have thought that watching a badly made movie and then making a list of "some" of its more obvious mistakes would turn out to be so much work?
Scifilm Review: JAWS 3 (1983) I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this particular review for Scifilm.org was used as a reference on Wikipedia! I impress easy, I guess. :)
B-Movies Quarterly Magazine Issue 5 (which was the final one, sad to say) contains my article "Kingdom Builders: The Making of Kingdom of the Spiders." Of everything that I have written to date, I am the most proud of this particular article.
My Digitally Downloaded Movies Skipped Blu-Ray and went right to do Digital Downloads. This is the stuff I keep on my laptop, iPad and iPhone. So 21st century!
this weekend. I will also be polishing off Joe R. Lansdale's excellent novel (so far, that is) 
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; and if you have not read that collection yet, please, do so immediately. It's legendary status as the "ultimate" horror/dark fantasy anthology is completely justified.
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