So for all you on Drunken Zombie Withdrawl here are some interviews we did with the cast from Brutal Massacre: A Comedy. So sit back and listen as we talk to Brian O’Halloran (CLERKS), Ellen Sandweiss (THE EVIL DEAD), and Dave Naughton (AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON). They discuss some of their earlier work and of course why we should all check out Brutal Massacre: A Comedy.
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for those of you who have been following the amazing work of Ben Templesmith (and if you’re not, head down to you local comic shop and pick up 30 days of night, welcome to Hoxford, fell, and Wormwood:Gentleman Corpse) will be thrilled to know Wednesday (august 27th) IDW will be releasing Ben Templesmith’s Art of Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse.
The book will include a huge selection of art plus exclusive Paintings from Wormwood : Gentleman Corpse, sketchbook and unpublished ideas; to top it all off it will include a new Wormwood story.
as well as the regular regular edition IDW is releasing a Hard cover edition that will be signed,numbered and limited to 500 copies, and if you want even more Templesmith awesomeness their will be an even more limited (only 100) edition that will include a sketch by Ben Templesmith himself.
Now this is how you do a viral campaign.
If it’s monday, it’s time for another installment of foreign horror. (Yes, I know I missed a week but I was on vacation. While you were grinding away at work I was swimming on an ocean with 90 degree water. There you happy now?) We’ll start with the Asians first and then jump around a little.
Normally, I’d start out with the poster for the film but this time the news really is the poster. You see Invitation Only is the first straight slasher film to come out of any of the Asian countries (that I know of at least). And to prove they’ve got what it takes to run with the big boys they’ve releases three posters that would give any of the Saw franchises or Eli Roth’s films a run for their money. Click on the posters for a better look.
Next up with have this Thai film that focuses on a topic surprisingly under-appreciated by the horror genre, spontaneous human combustion. By my count the only other is the Tobe Hooper directed Spontaneous Combustion. So that only two films in 18 years. Anyway, there’s no subtitles on the trailer so I have no idea what the plot is, other than people spontaneously combusting, of course. But there’s a couple of nice shots of people spontaneously combusting and an awesome poster so this might be one to keep your eye on. Give the trailer a look and see what you think.
By now I’m sure the glut of zombie films that has flooded the market has worn us all out, even on a site called Drunken Zombie. So it takes something really special to get me to perk up my ears and pay attention (yes, my ears are long enough to perk, thank you for asking). The newest such film comes from Germany and deals with the idea of a virus that turns people into zombies. Nothing new there, except that the viral takes three days to kill someone and spreads to epidemic proportion. The infected are quarantined alone in their homes to wait for what comes next. What that is, well, is very blood.
Take a look at the trailer to see for yourself.
Because Australia seems to be just churning out the horror films these days, we have yet another one from them. The filmmakers behind $quid took a look at the giant sea monster films that Scifi is so fond of and tried to figure out what they were missing. The answer they came up with, based on the short they used to sell the film, was apparently comedy and romance. It’s a little worrying that neither the short nor the trailer actually show a qiant squid so we’ll have to wait and see if this is actually any good.
Then take a look at the short.
My buddy Matt over at DVDHolocaust has been raving to be about the original Cold Prey since the first time he saw it. And it looks like he’s only the one to have loved the first ever slasher film from Norway. The original made so much money that Norway is now producing it’s second slasher film, Cold Prey 2. Hey, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Sadly, the films director, who filled the original’s stock plot with great characters and nail-biting tension, won’t be returning, though he will help produce the film. Either way, the trailer for the new film shows that it picks up right where the last left off both in plot and style. Have a look.
That’s it for this week. As always head over to the forums if you want to discuss any of these films. Thanks also to twitchfilm.net for pointing me in the direction of some of these films.
So it seems that we have been cursed once again. We recorded a whole episode about the movie The Frighteners but it has been lost to the podcasting gods. But to hold you over until next week we have an interview with comic writer/artist Phil Hester about his new comic GOLLY! about a carnie fighting demons. What’s not to love about that? So enjoy and then join us for our episode next week where we record live from the bar at Horrorhound Weekend. So listen and see if any special guests show up.
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One area I know I am completely lacking in my horror knowledge is Giallo films. So in order to rectify that I have been looking into getting some into my DVD player. So since I had about $55 in credit at Best Buy I picked up Tenebre and checked it out for my first time. So quick synopsis.
A popular American mystery writer Peter Neal heads to Rome to do some promotional work for his latest book Tenebre. Before he even gets off the plane a woman is killed and pages from Tenebre are stuffed in her throat. The police of course question Peter but he has a solid alibi as he was on the plane still but he starts to become concerned and works with the police to uncover the killers identity as the body count starts to rise.
For the first time viewing this I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie. I am not a fan of Suspiria at all so I was a little worried that I might just not be a fan of Argento at all. But I loved this film. One of the cool things Argento does is almost use the absence of color where as in Suspiria it was full of reds and blues. This one uses whites and grays. And they almost overlight the film. In DVD documentary they said they did this to get rid of any shadows and thus take away any places for the victims and the killer to hide in. Thus not giving the audience a safe place of where to expect or hide from the antagonist.
A person I of course was super happy to see in this film was John Saxon. Let’s face it he’s a dying breed in Hollywood. He was the last wave of actors that dealt with the studio system in Hollywood. He’s fought along Bruce Lee and faced off against Freddy Kreuger. The man has done it all. He plays Bullmer (Neal’s agent). He does a fantastic job.
Argento does a great job of crafting this story which has many twists and turns that will leave you guessing until the very end. My only exposure to Argento is his Masters Of Horror episodes and Suspiria so to me this almost seems like he pulled back his style a little to make it a little more realistic but saying that just about every shot you can tell has the Argento stamp on it. One of my favorite shots in this was a long crane shot that starts at one window in a house and almost goes completely around the house showing you different rooms until it stops on a window with blinds. Then the killers hands begin cutting away the blinds to make their way inside. It was a very beautiful shot.
So in conclusion this movie has definately turned me onto Argento as I hadn’t found a project of his that had excited me yet. There were some parts that seemed to drag a little but it was 1982 so the pacing fit the time period. A lot of threads in this movie are set up in scenes that almost seem to have no consequence but by the end when you see how everything comes together you’re completely hooked into the story. And plus the nudity helps.
Welcome to a new feature here on Drunken Zombie where I pick one new horror DVD release that we think is a must buy each week. This week my pick is the 50 Movie Pack of Legends Of Horror. Most of the time these DVDs aren’t anything write home about except for the fact that you get 50 movies for one purchase but this box set brings some punch with it. First off you get 50 movies from horror’s early days that are exactly what the box says “Legends”. Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Alfred Hitchcock, and Christopher Lee. How could you go wrong with that line up? And it’s not chump movies either. Some of the line up includes The Lady Vanishes, Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride, Fury Of The Wolf-Man, The Phantom Creeps, The Man Who Knew To Much, and The Werewolf vs. Vampire Women. The only real bad thing about these DVD sets is the complete lack of any special features. Some of these films could use a great documentary, commentary (not from Drunken Zombie), and trailer collection. But for the price and fact that you get 50 movies that’s not to shabby of a trade off. Even if you’re just a Hitchcock fan alone this set would be a great buy as a lot of his underrated material is here on the DVD. The set comes with 12 DVDs and has a retail price of $29.98. If you’re a fan this is a must buy DVD.
this is what I have been hypnotized by today… yes, you should recognize two of the zombies!
Bryan from Cinema Suicide is in the running to have a panel at SXSW. So it’s up to us to make sure he gets there. His panel is described as such below:
My idea for a panel is actuallly about comics. Open source comics, to be exact. Myself and Nick Plante of Zerosum have been talking this out over the last week or so. A social network aimed at artists and writers to create a line of their own comics in a single mythology, similar to the Marvel Universe or the DC Universe. It is to be completely non-commercial with a very rigid and limited set of editorial constraints. Everyone is free to be a part of it. The foundation of the panel is to suggest one alternative direction for social networks so that the web doesn’t become a series of tribes of Myspace of Facebook folks but to actually give social networks some purpose. So please vote for me.
So head over and vote for him at the link below:
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2037
There saying this is just a Temp Flyer. But i hope this is the full line up and its a great line up in my mind. i just wonder why these great film festivals can’t be happening around where i live. anyway, if you live in the Chicago area. i say you should check this one out. To find out more about this film festival: http://www.myspace.com/moviesidefilmfestival
I stumbled on this over at Dead Lantern. These people have taken some old Batman serials and reedited a bunch of old horror silient movies to create some fun silent Batman stories. So check them out below along with a list of the movies they have taken pieces from. All thanks to Dead Lantern.
SOURCES:
The Penalty (1920)
The Blackbird (1926)
Nosferatu (1920)
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)
The Golem (1920)
Batman and Robin (1949 serial)
Haxan (1922)
Destiny (1922)
Fantômas – À l’ombre de la guillotine (1913)
Juve contre Fantômas (1913)
Waxworks (1924)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Alice in Wonderland (1903)
L’Inferno (1911)
Hans Richter 20s films
Assorted 20′s Newsreels
The premise of Mirrors definately has it’s promise. Creepy mirrors that can control people and show them doing awful things. Unfortnately the premise doesn’t hold up over a feature length movie. The film directed by Alexander Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, and soon Pirahna 3D) and starring Keifer Sutherland had my attention since the first trailer premeired. So excited I had my seat on opening night with my popcorn and soda all ready to go. Over the next hour and a half I was into it, confused, and then just sort of annoyed.
Sutherland plays Ben Carson, an ex-cop that takes a night job as a security guard for a burned out department store. We find out during the initial tour of the store that it used to be a hospital that was closed down and then converted into an upscale department store in the 50′s. A horrible fire broke out and the place has been in legal limbo ever since. The only clean part of the store are the huge mirrors that a former security guard used to clean. On the first night of the job Carson begins to have weird experiences with the mirrors in the store that would have sent a sane person running. We find out that the mirrors can control people causing them to kill themselves in gruesome ways and can even travel outside of the store to inflict damage on Carson’s family.
All in all the premise is great but some of the plot points start making it a little absurd. Some of the cool parts are Carson seeing people that died in the fire in the mirrors. The scene with a burned woman in an old dressing room creeped me out completely. The fact that they can only be seen in the mirrors is a good plot device and could have made for a cool story but is only used sparingly. As we get into the movie it starts to have the same problem a lot of modern horror movies do and that is to explain why things are the way they are. For me a movie about a creepy, haunted, burned out store would have sufficed. But we’re given the whys and hows by the time the credits roll which just sort of let me wanting. Some of the silly parts of the movie include the fact that the evil from the mirrors can travel in mirrors outside of the store to get at people close to Carson. When he starts to unravel the mystery of the mirrors it seems like he hardly even shows up for his job as the security guard anymore which left me wandering how he kept just showing up at the store when he felt like it and no one questioning him. It has it’s plot holes but in the very least a lot of the visuals are creepy and I jumped multiple times at the abundant jump scares.
If you’re a fan of creepy ghost stories then I would say at least give it a watch. For my two cents I think the story could have been better served as taking place in the security guards first night on the job and him dealing with the haunted mirrors rather than it taking place over a longer period of time. If the mirrors are haunted then stop showing up to work. Problem solved. Oh but wait they can get you anywhere. Right. And while it is refreshing to see Sutherland in something other than 24 he almost plays Carson as Jack Bauer forced to get a night watchman job. He really needs to get a good role under his belt if he plans on having a career post 24. Not the worst movie I have seen but suffers what most big budget horror films do now a days: a great premise, great first half, fizzles in the second half.
So first the news came that a full cut of Metropolis was found. Now word is coming out that a German TV station aired something that no one knew was even still in existance: a pre US Censor cut of PSYCHO. It apparently includes a few extra scenes that were not in the final cut of the film. Follow the link at the bottom to see some comparions of some extra scenes and some different version of scenes that were in the final cut as to what is in this director’s cut. There are a few that would have been pretty scandelous at the time of Marion undressing.
Source: Schnittberichte
revealed to WENN that the Rumor of Billy Bob Thornton playing Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare On Elm Street remake is apparently True.
Englund went on to tell WENN that he thought Thorton was an “excellent choice” and went on to say:
“A big budget should mean the film will look a lot better than some of the old movies.”
Though Wes Craven Will not be Involved, England has stated he would not be opposed to a cameo in the film.
Source: Bloody Disgusting and WENN via IMDB.com
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Drunken Zombie Commentaries: Death Bed
As promised here is our take on Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. Listen along as we try to come up with as many spin offs as we can during the movie like Death Car: The Car That Kills, or Death Ring: The Ring That Rings. It’s a fun game. So crack open a beer, sit back, and prepare for a drunken take on Death Bed!
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