Call it schaudenfreude if you must, folks, but I’m all sorts of tickled that that miserable piece of crap of a vampire film, Twilight, is losing a whole LOT of steam at the box office.
How much is “a whole lot”, you ask?
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It really hurts me to have to bear this particular lump of bad news, folks…especially after two solid years of mostly excellent films making it to the After Dark Horrorfest.
But this time just might be the low water mark, and horror movies will never be the same for it.
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In case you haven’t noticed recently, the movie industry is in a bit of a slump.
The celebrities are off stuffing themselves with carbon-neutral soy turkey and suchlike, and the rest of us are still in a shallow coma from eating Grandma’s cooking for like three straight days since Thursday. News is in a bit of a slump, so I’m gonna wax philosophical. Because it may be a holiday, but the blogging got to 
go on, baby.
So I’m looking for some background noise whilst playing flash games and trying to figure out what the hell I’m going to write about since all my news haunts are deader than disco thanks to Thanksgiving. It’s a great holiday–unlike a lot of people I don’t really have any problems with my family and a big free meal that lasts two days AND involves leftovers to which all I have to contribute is a seven-dollar pie from the local grocery is welcome any time of the year. The pie, in case you wondered, was blueberry. And it was AWESOME. But anyway.
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Why, you ask? Why is this not a huge surprise?
Why am I not even vaguely surprised that the Weinsteins are hemorraging jobs, dumping fully eleven percent of its total work force (cutting 24 out of 224 jobs)?
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So it’s clear by now that Twilight is well on its way to being one of the biggest vampire movies in a long time, roundly kicking the ass of 30 Days of Night, which proves you should never underestimate the power of fangirls in large groups.
What should be equally clear, especially after I mention it, is that the leads will be getting a POTLOAD of money to come back for the sequel, said potload representing a five hundred percent raise.
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So I was watching CNN tonight–I’m crazy about CNN, really–and they had that Eric character from Google on. He was talking about how the Internet is becoming more and more a part of people’s lives
But this isn’t a business blog, so you KNOW I’m gonna link movies to this somehow. And how I’m going to do it is via the simple and joyful expedient of horror film.
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I tell you this…I believe I am officially burnt out on Saw surprises.
There is nothing they can do now to surprise me. They’ve done the most bizarre things I’ve seen anyone do to a franchise. They’ve played musical directors. They’ve built a VH1 reality show for the express purpose of finding ONE ACTRESS to play on Saw VI. Don’t even get me started on Saw IV.
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As a badass freelance entertainment journalist, I have to keep an eye out for trends–seriously, it’s part of the job!–and I think I’ve found one that’s downright disturbing.
Namely, the retraction of the horror genre.
Now, for the last roughly six years or so, horror movies were coming out fast and furious. The theatres were getting in a new one every month, and in some cases maybe even two a month. The video stores were having a heyday in terms of horror movies–it wasn’t uncommon to see as many as TEN new titles in a week, and a week with fewer than five was a noteworthy event and often a prelude to one of those bigger weeks.
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Trouble afoot for Saw fans as the company looking to put together the first Saw videogame, Brash Entertainment, folds up due to “financial difficulties.”
The resulting game, originally due for release in October of 2009, as a result is on hold at the least and possibly gone at the worst.
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I hate to say this…really I do…but it seems that the Grand Old Man of horror movies, George Romero, has a new movie in the works and it’s not looking good.
It’s got an oddly familiar title, Deadtime Stories, and the stories involved look a mite, well…PEDESTRIAN.
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