Horror Movie Round-Up

[nacho]

So...it's a comedy?

[RottingCorpse]

I don't think it's supposed to be, though I imagine parts of it are quite funny.

[RottingCorpse]

Megan Fox PSA to tie in with Jennifer's Body. My expectations are getting far too high for this movie.

http://io9.com/5336398/megan-fox-has-two-words-for-all-the-high-school-boys

[nacho]

You mean you're going to see the movie for a reason other than the chance to stare at Megan Fox?  Because that sums up my expectations.  In fact, I call the film "Megan Fox's Body."

[Nubbins]

Something's getting far too high... but it isn't expectations WINKWINKNUDGENUDGESAYNOMORE

[nacho]

Thread now about Megan Fox and which of her tattoos are not airbrushed out.

[Nubbins]

She is impossibly hot.  It hurts to even look at her.

[nacho]

Strangely, I am able to look at her.

[RottingCorpse]

Paranormal Activity

I'll probably have to wait for DVD on this one as it's getting a limited release, but it's got that Blair Witch feel.

Trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/paranormalactivity/

[RottingCorpse]

Um . . .

'Night of the Living Dead' being remade as a 3D CGI origin story

 Zombie movie “Night of the Living Dead” is coming back, this time in a 3D CGI format and without the involvement of George Romero.

Titled “Night of the Living Dead: Origins,” the re-imagining is being directed by newcomer Zebediah de Soto and produced by Simon West and Simon West Productions president Jib Polhemus.

On the story front, De Soto, who wrote the script with David R. Schwartz, wants to update the tale partially by bringing out the characters’ backstories and make what he called “an American-style anime.” 

The latter will be done by using new technology the filmmaker is inventing. De Soto, along with partner Gus Malliarodaki founded New Golden Digital, a digital effects company which develops cutting-edge hardware and software.

 The duo created and designed a real-time effects system, known as 'The Beast', which allows filmmakers the ability to direct CG performances the same way they would direct real live actors.  The aim of the process is to make tennis balls on a stick representing real people or monsters a thing of the past by allowing actors interact with CG elements as if they are tangible. 

Matty Miranda and Anthony Le are executive producing.  George Passakos is co-executive producing while Warren Davis and Tiffany Shinn acts as associate producers. 

De Soto, who has no agent or manager, directed a short titled “War Dogs” – sort of Vietnam War set in space - that made the rounds in Hollywood late last year. West (the director of movies such as "Con Air," "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," and the upcoming TV show "Human Target") and Polhemus were impressed at how the short manage to look like the production had a higher budget than it actually did, and began looking for a project to partner on.

De Soto was a fan of the original “Living Dead” and once the trio realized the rights were in the public domain, zeroed in on that project.

[nacho]

OKAY, THANK YOU.  YOU CAN STOP NOW.

[RottingCorpse]

Frozen, dirceted by Adam Green who did the slasher throwback Hatchet a few years back. Basically, it looks like Open Water on a ski lift. The early reviews are stellar though. Don't know when it's available or supposed to be out.

[RottingCorpse]

Jennifer's Body

Written by Diablo Cody (Juno) and featuring Megan Fox and the very funny Amamda Seyfried, this looks to continue the much needed shot in the arm movies like Drag Me To Hell are bringing to the horror scene.

Finally watched this tonight. Overall it's really uneven.

The concept is sound and solid, and it does have it's funny moments. The problem is that Diablo Cody writes the most distracting dialogue in the world. The writing isn't bad persay. It just takes you out of the moment. And for a horror movie she inserts quippy, hipster dialogue at the most unnecessary times. She needs to learn to kill her darlings. Sometimes you just have to cut that really great joke or snappy piece of dialogue because it takes away from the rhythm or tone of the scene. Any tension created gets broken by some weird lingo that you know Cody just thought was brilliant.

There's one flashback scene where they explain how Megan Fox gets all demonic and stuff that's downright laughable for all the wrong reasons.

I will say she captures the awkwardness of having sex when you're sixteen almost perfectly. The high school stuff all feels fairly real, though maybe it's because the rest of the movie is so ridiculous.

That said, there are two scenes of "horror" that are nice and creepy. And the music is good.

It's worth watching, though ultimately flawed.

[RottingCorpse]

Featuring Alan Tudyk of Firefly fame, this just jumped up to the top of my "must see" list.

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

“Tucker and Dale, two hillbillies heading to their “fixer-upper” cabin for some relaxin’, discover they ain’t alone in them woods. They encounter an SUV full of vacationing college kids, and Dale unintentionally creeps them out. But later, as he and Tucker are fishing, Dale rescues one of them—the pretty blond Alison—after she falls into the lake. Assuming she’s been captured, the indomitably preppy college kids rally to find her.

A comically macabre battle between Izods and overalls, Eli Craig’s ingenious send-up of the horror genre recounts a simple misunderstanding gone grotesquely wrong. Our hillbilly psycho killers are actually sweet as pie; it’s the judgmental college kids who have “issues.”

Craig lovingly embraces clichés, dispensing humor and gore in equal parts as we watch the educated class blunder to its demise. Nature, beer, and a rising body count—what better way to spend Memorial Day?”

[nacho]

So take Grendel and set it in the slasher genre.  Easy!