In addition to the usual reviews and comments you would find on a horror movie blog, this is also a document of the wonderfully vast horror movie section of the video store I worked at in my youth.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Don't Kill The Messenger 83

Wow, December all ready, eh? Let's see what kind of horror shenanigans took place this week.

Who Is The King Of Horror?

A few days ago, I found this cool little ad campaign for the Australian release of Sean Bryne's horror flick The Loved Ones. Click the image below to check it out.


Although I didn't love the movie as much as some of my horror peeps did, I have to say that interactive commercial is pretty cute. For more info on The Loved Ones, click here.

Another Year, Another Sundance.

With the new year just around the corner, that of course means another Sundance. There are a few horror titles on the sched, including Kim Jee-woon's I Saw The Devil, the Canadian-Japanese co-production Vampire, as well as Kevin Smith's long awaited genre film Red State. Probably the most anticipated of the pack is Jason Eisener's full-length version of Hobo With A Shotgun starring Rutger Hauer. What started as an entry into Rodriguez's Grindhouse trailer competition has blossomed into one of the must-see events of 2011. Below, is Rob Mitchell's interview with Eisener, shot just after the 2008 Toronto After Dark premiere of his short Treevenge.



For more info on the genre titles playing Sundance next month, click here to see Bloody Disgusting's Park City at Midnight announcement.

A Celebration of Dino.

As you no doubt heard, movie mogul Dino De Laurentiis passed away a few weeks ago. Well, Jason Bené over at Late Night Classics made sure to post a fitting eulogy. Not only did he offer a worthy memoriam, he also posted an interview with effects man Al Magliochetti, who worked for Dino on one of his more infamous projects, the 1986 corker King Kong Lives. Here's a snip.

Magliochetti: They needed modelmakers for King Kong Lives and I’d had some experience building miniatures for some New York-based projects, so I flew down to Wilmington, NC for an interview and was offered a job in the model shop for the princely sum of $10 an hour. There I was at the North Carolina Film Corporation AKA the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, AKA Dinoland. It was a fun experience, and definitely educational on many levels. It was my first experience in an actual studio environment and it took a little getting used to. Because it was such a casual place it wasn’t unusual to turn around and suddenly see Kim Basinger curiously wandering in and checking out our work. There was one spooky morning where David Lynch was hovering over me wayyy too closely, like a malignant vulture while sipping a cup of coffee and not saying a word.

For the rest of Bené's post, click here.

Draw!

I haven't talked about a web game in a while, so here's one Darryl sent me a few days ago. GunBlood is a simple quick-draw simulator, but it is delightfully gory, so well worth a look. Click the image below to try it out.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Christ, minimum wage sucks. I cant belive all he made was ten bucks an hour. I hazard that work experience was what mattered most, but still.

Thanks for posting that set of posters of films that DDL produced. There's not many people who made it as far has he did from the 1910's, and I doubt there will be others like him.

BTW, I did my best on Gunblood when I wasn't trying. To read the instructions and try and beat the fucker is a WOT>

Magliochetti: They needed modelmakers for King Kong Lives and I’d had some experience building miniatures for some New York-based projects, so I flew down to Wilmington, NC for an interview and was offered a job in the model shop for the princely sum of $10 an hour. There I was at the North Carolina Film Corporation AKA the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, AKA Dinoland. It was a fun experience, and definitely educational on many levels. It was my first experience in an actual studio environment and it took a little getting used to. Because it was such a casual place it wasn’t unusual to turn around and suddenly see Kim Basinger curiously wandering in and checking out our work. There was one spooky morning where David Lynch was hovering over me wayyy too closely, like a malignant vulture while sipping a cup of coffee and not saying a word.