The lovable sickos at Vagrancy Films, who provide the mad movie trailers of our CineMacabre nights, are screening a 35mm print of Fulci’s Zombie, this Saturday, 11pm at the Rainbow Galleria, in London Ontario. If you haven’t seen Zombie on 35mm with a theatre full of horror fans, you haven’t really lived… or un-lived.
And, if you’re in Toronto, you can catch their other Zombie screening on May 8th, 9:30pm at the Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Ave).
Keep on spreading the gospel, Vagrancy. Your place in zombie heaven is assured.
Don’t forget, it’s movie night tonight, and it’s a big one. For this month only we’re presenting CineMacabre on Wednesday so we can bring back (in 35mm) the slasher sensation from last year’s Midnight Madness program at TIFF, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s Inside. This may be the last time you’ll get to see it on the big screen, as it’s a direct-to-DVD title due to its excessive violent, gory content.
I knew this film was special went I sat at the back of the theatre during a press screening at last year’s TIFF. Most of the audience walked out as various tolerance levels for nastiness were exceeded. This really is one to see with a crowd of horror fans, and we’ve got a special surprise for you preceding the film, so hope to see you there.
And we mean it when we say those with weak stomachs or in the midst of a pregnancy may want to sit this one out. You’ve been warned.
According to this Associated Press article, a low budget horror film shot in Oklahoma, called A Beautiful Day, caused the latest unwarranted terrorist freak-out when the filmmakers posted a teaser trailer on YouTube that promised on April 25 “the end is coming.” The date was a reference to the film’s premiere at Muskogee’s Bare Bones International Independent Film and Music Festival (catchy title!).
Since there was no mention of the film itself (much like Cloverfield did with its marketing), the usual panicking ensued and before long the FBI was investigating. As a result, the film was yanked and Festival director Oscar Rey was quoted as saying, “We’re going to pull that movie from the festival basically to let the other filmmakers know that to use that type of marketing is not smart and there has to be some kind of consequences to it.”
How about some consequences for stupidly giving into paranoia? Oscar Rey, I think it’s time you grew a pair, buddy.
Obviously I quite enjoy being immersed in horror culture, but thank Jebus I don’t have to live in a culture fear.
OMGhorror.com is quickly becoming one of my favourite websites for horror goodness. Today I happened across a list they compiled of the top 27 (?) Horror Comedies, which are some of the most re-watchable and fun movies out there. Major extra points for including The Burbs, an office favourite.
Creator of The Creep Machine, (also known as Lythron - a bad ass artist in his own right) is about to launch Attack of the B-Movie Art Show at the Space Gallery in San Francisco. Artists were asked to contribute works dedicated to low-budget, grindhouse and b-movie fright flicks. What’s not to love about that?
Check out some of these horrifyingly unique pieces on our message boards for a preview. And if your lucky enough to be in the San Fran area between April 14 - 21, see it in person.
Over at thedeadbolt.com, there’s a column called Movie Matchmaker dedicated to pairing up a filmmaker with the perfect yet-to-be-made movie project. Currently, they’d like David Fincher to direct the adaptation of Max Brooks’ World War Z, which seems like a fantastic idea.
I love World War Z, in fact I’d go so far as to say that it’s the best zombie story ever written. The well-researched concept of a U.N. worker conducting a global survey on the aftermath of a zombie pandemic has a massive scope fleshed out in short, intimate chapters that are chock full of horror and compelling, if only briefly-glimpsed, characters. This oral history of “the great zombie war” is about as gripping as it gets, especially if you love tales of the undead. Even so, it was surprising when a bidding war erupted for the movie rights before it was even published, with Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, beating out Leonardo DeCaprio’s production company.
With a nearly invisible main character and an episodic style, it seems like a difficult work to bring to the screen. According to Moriarty at Ain’t it Cool, though, the script a masterpiece. Granted, Ain’t It Cool is notorious for regular spasms of unwarranted nerd hyperbole, but prospects for the project look better all the time. Written by J. Michael Stracynski, who created Babylon 5 and worked on the ’80s Twilight Zone TV series, it also sounds like an ideal project for Fincher.
As writer Brian Tallerico points out, “World War Z is going to need a director with a wide scope - someone who can handle the procedural elements of not just the interviews but the bureaucracy and sociopolitical machinations that make up a lot of the book. At the same time, it needs to be a director who knows how to induce fear in his audience and who can handle the technical requirements of a massive shoot.”
To that I’d like to add that the story requires a character-driven maturity that Fincher mastered with Zodiac, easily one of the best films of last year. Of course, even if the filmmaker doesn’t helm this project, we’ve got his adaptation of Charles Burns’ Black Hole to look forward to.
And after this remake, I can’t wait to see Dark Castle Entertainment do a remake of, say, House of Wax…maybe with someone like Paris Hilton in the cast!
Most know Rod Serling through The Twilight Zone, of course, but this CNN article reminds us that he was also somewhat of a social crusader. Tomorrow at Ithaca College, where Serling taught until his death in ‘75, there will be a reading of his heavily censored script for the teleplay “Noon on Doomsday,” in which he tried to tell the story of murdered black teen in the South and the resulting miscarriage of justice in the case.
The reading will take place during a conference about Serling’s “life and legacy,” which is pretty friggin’ cool in and of itself. It will cover everything from his early radio shows, to his Planet of the Apes script, to his life as a teacher and, of course, lots of Twilight Zone.
If you wanna get in on the action, here’s the official site for the conference, complete with downloadable schedule and registration form.
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