Movie Trivia–Bousman to Audience: Repo Sucks? Your Fault!

Perhaps the biggest new egomaniac in Hollywood is Darren “Dead-Horse-Beater” Bousman, the man whose career would be virtually nonexistent without the Saw franchise.

As you may know by now, Bousman’s newest project—which defies all logic by involving Paris Hilton in a singing role—is called “Repo: The Genetic Opera”, and is garnering all sorts of strange and baffling testimonials, especially from people involved in it. This of course isn’t what you’d call a real bell-ringer in terms of quality, and perhaps worse yet is Bousman’s own evaluation of the work, including: [Read more →]

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Movie Trivia: Herr Doktor Goes To Court

Join me! Join me in the hilarious fun that is Herr Doktor Uwe Boll’s career!

You’re not going to believe what this guy’s doing now—he’s apparently sued actor Billy Zane, whose career is pretty well minimal too, for a reason so preposterous that it’s beyond all logic and reason. He’s suing Billy because Bloodrayne flopped.

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Movie Trivia: Jason Voorhees–What a Long Strange Trip He’s Been

By now, most of us are probably familiar with Jason Voorhees, legendary badass teenybopper-chopper and terror of the great outdoors. He’s been called everything from a crusty little kid to a walking morality play and everything in between.

But one thing you have to say about Jason Voorhees is that his history is complex, deep, and frequently contradictory, as was a similar observation from Stacie Ponder over at the AMC Monsterfest blog.

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Movie Trivia: More Clive Barker Movies Coming–Good Time To Flee The Country

There are days when I’m just totally convinced that Hollywood has the short-term memory of certain breeds of hamster. Following the summary demotion of Midnight Meat Train, part of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood series, from major theatrical release to direct-to-video sludge-pile comes the announcement that there will be FOUR MORE installments of the Books of Blood series.

Listed titles so far will include nigh-pedophiliac romp “The Madonna”, “The Book of Blood”, which will feature the mutilation of a pseudo-psychic by a series of ghosts who turn said pseudo-psychic into a living book by carving words into his flesh, a strange sort of Saw-knockoff (even though this likely came first) called “Dread”, and lastly, a truly incomprehensible Clive Barker masterwork called “Pig Blood Blues” apparently involving people who transfer their souls into pigs so they can live forever.

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Movie Trivia: Arena–Loved It The First Time I Saw It

It may not be the best of signs that all Hollywood really has to work with at this point is rehashings of crap that’s already been done.

And despite the fact that horror-movies.ca believes that Arena is the second coming of theatrical originality, they’re hampered by one minor fact:

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Movie Trivia: Eli Roth Can’t Hack It At R Any More

Oh, this is just the news we needed to hear—apparently, Eli Roth has had enough of failing at making adult-focused horror films (even Cabin Fever got hijacked from him, that’s how bad it got), so now, he’s got a promise for us.

He’s going to start failing at making PG-13 horror films!

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Movie Trivia: Dolan’s Cadillac Starts Up

If you set Stephen King to writing for The Sopranos, you might well end up with something like Dolan’s Cadillac. Based on a story King did in his Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection, Dolan’s Cadillac is about a mob boss who kills a man’s wife.  The man, naturally, follows up for revenge.  Which, admittedly, does not sound very Stephen King—the car doesn’t run by itself, the wife doesn’t come back from the dead, and absolutely no ghosts or aliens are involved—but Stephen King’s done some more action-themed stuff in the past, so Dolan’s Cadillac doesn’t surprise me one bit.

But can it make a movie?  That’s the question on my mind.  Though Christian Slater, Emmanuel Vaugier and reportedly Dennis Hopper are involved, I’m not sure a lesser-known Stephen King title from his lesser-known genres is the best route to go.  Especially with so much good still out there, like “The Jaunt”—now that was cool. 

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Movie Trivia: Sam Raimi Proves Gypsies Are Really Rather Dangerous

For the longest time, we’ve all been somewhat in the dark as to what Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell, his first original horror film since Army of Darkness, was going to be about.  Oh, sure, we were all looking forward to it regardless of what it was going to be about because we’ve got a whole lot of faith in the man not to botch things beyond all recognition.  That and most of us are STILL quoting from Army of Darkness—aren’t we, Mister Fancy Pants?

But now we’ve got word on the plot! And it’s a doozy, too—think Stephen King’s Thinner, except the gypsy is denied a loan instead of getting run over by a car.  Man, you’d never think those gypsies were so DANGEROUS!

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Movie Trivia: Iron Man – Great If You Knew What You Came For

Some moviegoers dismay me somewhat–it’s as though they don’t know what they want in a movie and thus go to a movie that clearly doesn’t offer what they want just so they can badmouth it later.  Such is the case with Iron Man, a movie that’s been unsettlingly well received by most of the critical community and, not surprisingly, by me too.

I’ll be honest with you, I loved Iron Man.  Of course, I went into Iron Man not expecting rational plotlines or sensible dialogue or character development.  I went to see Tony Stark kick ass in the Iron Man suit, and indeed, Iron Man delivered.  Even better, I got some laughs out of the deal–the overreacting fire extinguisher robot is the best joke in the movie.

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Movie Trivia: Art of the Devil–Killer Ink

Your mother always warned you about getting a tattoo, and that morality play carries on in the Thai horror series Art of the Devil. In fact, in the Thai series, tattoos were downright killer as the kids were getting the new, all-the-rage tattoos that turned out to be magical symbols that killed. Frankly, it’s not all that unlikely—think about all the stupid tattoos people get and tell me it’s not likely! Anyone else remember the stand-up comic who talked about the guy who got the Chinese symbol for “Tranquility”, only what he actually got was a Chinese symbol that advertised his sexual proclivities?

That’s cleaned up significantly for a family audience, kids, but the point remains. And the thought that somewhere out there might be a tattoo that’ll kill you is shockingly plausible. And that is why I remain tattooless to this very day.

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