With a depression inches away and hurricanes and terrorists and pirates in Somalia and madmen running Iran and all the assorted whatnots and goings-on of the world around us, it’s hard to imagine how things could get any worse. Certainly, how things could get any weirder.

And then a new horror movie was announced.  This by itself would mean almost less than nothing–such things are announced every couple of hours without the world exploding.  So what’s got me so bent out of shape on this one?  SImple.  It’s the star of this particular horror movie, called Against The Dark, that’s set my head all a-spinning.

Steven Seagal.

I’ll let that sink in for a moment.  Steven Seagal.  Yeah, the action hero, mocked incessantly by Will Sasso on old episodes of Mad TV.  He’s going to be playing–no real surprise here–a katana master leading a team of former military vigilantes to go take on vampires.  Vampires have apparently reduced the world to a nice and post-apocalyptic sort of state, and when Seagal and his team get wind of a group of humans holed up in a hospital, it’s up to them to go in, pull out the survivors and fend off the vampires to provide humanity just a little extra hope of survival.

Knowing Seagal, it’ll likely be overwrought and poorly done with a nice big environmental message to club us over the head with–maybe the vampires were former corporate executives or got that way by breathing in smog or something, I don’t know.  All I can say is, this is likely to be a disaster in the making.

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