Movie Trivia: The Antichrist…Is German??

Lars von Trier has been playing things very close to the vest of late—in fact, until just recently, all most anybody knew about his latest project was that it was going to be about the Antichrist. But now, we know a few more things than we did, and what we’ve found out is pretty interesting.

First, von Trier, in something of an appropriate move, is going back to Germany to film his Antichrist film. He’s got a pair of distributors already lined up, one to handle German distribution and another to handle international sales. The plot, meanwhile, is absolutely guaranteed to piss off right-wingers and anybody even vaguely Christian. A couple heads for a cabin in the woods following the death of their child. Along the line they’re likely to discover that the world was in fact made by Satan.

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Movie Trivia: Botched 2–Just A Bit Presumptuous, I’d Say.

So color me hubris, kids, but considering that Botched hasn’t even been out all that long isn’t a good sign that they’re talking sequel already.

Okay, granted…the first Botched sounds like it’s a real winner, even if it isn’t the easiest thing to find. I haven’t spotted it in any video stores around here, but that could be just because I live in the middle of nowhere. Yet even my middle of nowhere town commands a couple Movie Gallery stores, and for it to not show up there is not a good sign.

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Movie Trivia: John Landis’ Famed Music Video Thriller to Be Celebrated At Tribeca.

Thrilllllaaahhh….thrillah night!This next bit of news scares me slightly green, folks. Because there’s nothing like celebrating the career of a plastic surgery obsessed lunatic frequently accused pedophile all around nutcase, and indeed, we’re going to do just that at the Tribeca Film Festival. See, it’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Thriller video, which, in all honesty, was a pretty decent music video. In a decade cluttered with them, it really stood out, which means something.

It’s especially interesting to note that it’s the Thriller video (directed by now Master of Horror John Landis) being celebrated as opposed to the career of the madman that spawned it. Fitting, somehow, I’d say. But anyway—the party will be pretty pronounced, with face painting, a look-alike contest, a zombie disco, Thriller dance lessons, and a Solid Gold Dance Party, no less.

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Movie Trivia: Why Does Michael Bay Hate Me So?

He hates you too, Michael!I don’t know why Michael Bay hates me so much. Maybe it’s because I call him a talentless hack fit only to put special effects on a screen as opposed to actual movies, but he hates me. I can tell. I only have to read news about his upcoming cinematic misery that is the Friday the 13th remake—coming out February 13th, 2009 for all of you who don’t yet know—to make that much perfectly clear.

Not only is Jason currently slated to be played by some kind of inbred cannibal wackjob from the Hills Have Eyes remake—a crime against filmgoers everywhere—but the further cast lists have also been updated.

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Movie Trivia: Free Comic Books!

Scarier than pulp fiction!No, seriously! Free comic books! And they’re all available thanks to The Scream Factory, a group comprised of experts in film, music, books, and comic books alike. These are the same folks that brought us Bump, Dee Snider’s Strangeland, and a whole host of other projects under the Fangoria Comics aegis—before, of course, Fangoria Comics folded like a busted flush.

Currently on Wowio, the online comic distribution node, you can get your hands on the aforementioned Bump, as well as Beneath the Valley of the Rage and G.R.A.V.E. Grrrrls. More will be coming later, as The Scream Factory looks to conquer the horror comics market, which is pretty flat with a few notable exceptions.

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Movie Trivia: John Carpenter Out of Fear Itself

Even got a street named after him!If you’re familiar with John Carpenter at all, the next bit of news will not come as too much of a surprise to you—he’s leaving Fear Itself, the upcoming castrated horror-based television series for NBC.

He was originally slated to direct Skin & Bones, scripted by Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan, an episode which would feature a cattle herder lost in the woods for several days. When he returns home, he just doesn’t seem the same, and his family has no idea what happened. As it turns out, he’s just plain old full of evil, and thus will spend the rest of the short film fighting it.

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Movie Trivia: Nothing New? Not So!

Nothing new?  No…there’s new.  Here’s a good example.Horror-movies.ca, in its recent move to be more editorial in its horror coverage, recently put forth the idea that there is no new thing in the theaters or on the video store shelves, and every single one of the movies we see today is just a retread of something else.

Bullhonkery! Says I, and I’d say something stronger if I were allowed it. The plain and the simple, folks, is there IS new out there, you just have to know where to look for it.

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Movie Trivia: Repo! Gets a Web Site, Just Like Every Other Fourteen Year Old in North America

Bousman’s last stand?Repo! The Genetic Opera is one of the biggest pieces of movie vaporware I’ve seen in some time. It’s here! It’s gone! There’s news! There’s nothing! And now, there’s a web site! It’s up! It’s live!

The only problem, of course, is that Repo! The Genetic Opera isn’t the only thing with a web site. Every fourteen year old in North America has a web site.

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Movie Trivia: Jennifer’s Body Isn’t That Hot.

When these start “feeding” on men, truly, we are all doomed.Well, it’s pretty clear that Diablo Cody—screenwriter of Juno—is getting pretty desperate with her new film Jennifer’s Body. Actress Megan Fox, playing the lead, will be playing one shot topless, as well as another scene with her just in a skirt.

After a couple decades of horror movies, folks, I can make it pretty clear that, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, bringing out the boobs is a desperation maneuver designed to distract an audience from the train wreck it’s about to be watching. Given that the script analysis on Cody’s newest project reads like a grand jury indictment for bad writing, the presence of boobs in the script certainly doesn’t help things.

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Movie trivia: Midnight Meat Train Chugging Directly to Video Station

Incomprehensibility train now boarding on track direct-to-video!And now, pardon me whilst I laugh. Apparently, Lions Gate and Maple Pictures managed to finally catch on to the great truth that is the fact that Clive Barker movies are only slightly less incomprehensible than physics lectures given in Sanskrit. Thus, Midnight Meat Train, the sad and horrible return of Clive Barker, will be piped directly to the video store instead of sent for theatrical release.

Though the direction looked pretty good—Ryuhei Kitamura has an incredible Japanese pedigree, having brought to us the joy of Versus, Godzilla: Final Wars, and Azumi—we have to bear in mind that this is still a Clive Barker movie, and I don’t think even the guy who did Versus could polish that turd sufficiently.

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