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The Scary Bits: Frozen, Amusement & Saw 6
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I hate it when someone comes up with an idea so simple and clever that I want to kick myself for not thinking of it first. Curse you, Adam Green! His next feature is called Frozen, and here's what it's about: Three poor folks who are stuck on a chair lift. High off the ground. In the freezing cold. Like for days. (Think on that premise for a few minutes. I think it's nifty. Like Open Water with hypothermia instead of sharks.) Frozen will be the first production for a company called A Bigger Boat, which is run by Peter Block, who had a real knack for horror films when he worked for Lionsgate. So this is good news all around.
Andy Fickman directs mostly family-type comedies, so what's he doing remaking RKO classics like The Body Snatcher and I Walked With a Zombie? Check out this interview to find out. Almost two years ago I wrote about a new horror flick called Amusement. Looks like it's finally ready for DVD. Cool: Bloody-D has a Top 13 Best Kills list -- complete with clips! Hey wow, Dark Castle to do a non-remake. And then just for fun let's watch the adorable Stacie Ponder go nutso on Amityville and Sleepaway Camp. Plus Saw is infinitely better than Psycho. This poll proves it. Anyone remember that awful horror flick Stay Alive? This poor sap does.
...oh, and you'll never guess who's playing Thor. Seriously, never.
P.S. Guess what's coming out on October 23rd, 2009. Here's a hint: Saw 6.
Tips for Tuesday: New to DVD on 9/19
Filed under: New on DVD », Home Entertainment »
Recent TheatricalsHard Candy (Lionsgate) -- Ice-blooded chiller about a potential pedophile and the turning of tables. (two commentaries, documentary, featurette, deleted scenes)
Loverboy (Universal) -- Smothery mother slowly turns creepy. Kyra Sedgwick does some great work here. (director's commentary)
The Proposition (First Look) -- Reeks of Sam Peckinpah and Walter Hill. And is a damn fine film. (filmmaker commentary, five featurettes, deleted scenes)
Stay Alive (Disney) -- They made a horror movie out of that silly old marble game? (filmmaker commentary, FX reel)
Stick It (Disney) -- No, you stick it. I got good movies to watch. (two commentaries, blooper reel, featurette, deleted scenes)
Catalog Picks
Backdraft (Universal) -- Ron Howard gets fiery and throws a little Lecter in there. (director's intro, deleted scenes, five featurettes)
Boris Karloff Collection (Universal) -- Includes Night Key (1937), Tower of London (1939), The Climax (1944), The Strange Door (1954) and The Black Castle (1952). (trailers)
Chucky Killer Collection (Universal) -- Includes Child's Play 2 (1990), Child's Play 3 (1991), Bride of Chucky (1998) and Seed of Chucky (2004). (Because the original is an MGM title, that's why.) (all the extras from the previous releases, which (on parts 4 and 5) are a lot)
Grease: Rockin' Rydell Edition (Paramount) -- Otherwise known as: The Edition They Should Have Released Five Years Ago. (four featurettes, deleted & extended scenes, DVD launch party footage, trailers)
2006 Horror Movie Report Card: Quarter One
Filed under: Horror », Thrillers », New Releases », Mystery & Suspense », Fandom », Remakes and Sequels »
It seems a fairly obvious observation, but horror flicks are pretty "hot" these days. The current cycle of scary flicks can be attributed to box office hits like Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, James Wan's Saw, and probably a half-dozen others, but moreso than any other genre, the popularity of horror movies seems to arrive in "waves." Apparently we're knee-deep in one of those waves right now. And now with one quarter of 2006 behind us, it's time for the first of four "progress reports," in which you and I wade through all the horror flicks presented in January, February, and March, and then decide if the studios and the indies have been treating the Gorehounds kindly.
1/6/06 -- BloodRayne (Romar) -- Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, and Michael Madsen humiliate themselves through the latest hilariously bad offering from the adorably inept filmmaker known as Uwe Boll. (It's a horror movie in that it features vampires -- and it's an absolute horror to sit through.) Jam-packed with laughable dialogue, dime-store costumes, non-sensical plot-churnings, and hyper-inept editing, BloodRayne is the kind of flick that should be required viewing for any and all film students. It's precisely the sort of movie that's so bad it's good -- although I suspect Boll is beginning to do "amazingly awful" on purpose, which sort of takes some of the fun out of it... Grade: D- (DVD release: 5-23)
Disney gets Myspace for fictional character
Filed under: Horror », Thrillers », Disney », Distribution », Movie Marketing »
In an attempt to utilize some alternate means of
advertising, Disney has employed Myspace to create some buzz for their upcoming horror flick, Stay Alive. Stay Alive tells the story of a group of
friends who discover a brutal video game which turns deadly - the gamers die as their characters in the game die. The
main character of the film is be a guy named Hutch, who now has his very own Myspace, in which he has been chronicling a few events leading up to
the story of the film. Hutch uses the About Me section of his site to explain that he's a horror genre fanatic; he
loves scary movies and games, listing Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill 4 among his favorites. He goes
on to say that he's recently got his hands on a beta version of a new horror game called Stay Alive, which a friend had
been testing for the company that produced it. He says he's never seen anything like this game in terms of brutal
horror; "if there was a line, this game leaped over it and turned around to take a piss on it."It's becoming more and more common for studios to use the internet as a forum for advertising, which makes plenty of sense since today's younger generations practically live online. I've personally never gotten into the Myspace fad, but I know that it is quite the popular site, so it seems like an obvious choice for such a venture. Are such "alternate" means of advertising successful? It's probably far to early to find any concrete stats on that yet, but I'll say this: Hutch has good taste - RE4 was a fantastic game.
Stay Alive wants a VG...no BeeGee involvement expected
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In a twist on the standard "turn your hot movie property into a quick video game junker to capitalize on whatever
popularity you can seize" storyline, the creators of the upcoming faux-horror adventure flick Stay Alive hope to turn the video game at the center of their
movie's plot into a real life video game. In the movie, characters quickly discover that if they lose ("die"-
whatever) while playing a certain video game, gruesome deaths likewise occur in real life. Thus can the creators market
a video game based on the movie with (presumably) a slightly better ploy than "hey, it has the same name as the
movie." They envision a video game more thoroughly connected to the movie, with the film containing hints to
hidden secrets and unlockables within the game itself.
Clever? Sure, I suppose so. Although the idea of "see, it's just like the game in the movie" will probably fade rather quickly when people around you don't start dying as you play. I doubt I'll end up giving this one a try, but hey...at least it has a little more thought than the usual tie-in, right?
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