My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire. You wait ‘till mom finds out, buddy!
—Sam from The Lost Boys
Trailer: THE THING.
I featured the poster a couple of days ago, and now the trailer is available for your enjoyment (or not, depending on your opinion of it).
Universal keeps insisting that this is a prequel, not a remake, to John Carpenter’s film. I was hoping that, once I saw a trailer, I’d be able to see what kind of direction they were taking with this as a prequel.
Turns out, it’s looking more and more like a remake, no matter how they wanna spin it. It’s got the same premise and is set in the same environment and — most tellingly — has the same title as the 1982 film.
It doesn’t look bad. In fact, it looks pretty darn promising. But let’s not sell it as something that it’s not, okay?
Walks like a remake. Talks like a remake. It’s a remake.
Regardless, I agree that at least it appears to look like a good remake. John Carpenter’s The Thing is one of my all-time favorite movies. Add that together with starring roles from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton and you’ve guaranteed my ass in the seat.
(Source: slashfilm.com)
Video: The A.V. Club tours the ROYAL TENENBAUMS house.
Before seeing this video, I was completely unaware of the A.V. Club’s Pop Pilgrims series, a travel show solely dedicated to pop culture locations. The show is already up to about 36 episodes (visiting locations such as Die Hard’s Nakatomi Plaza, the stairs from The Exorcist, the Office Space building), so I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.
So this house is less than 12 blocks from where I live, which means I’ll be going there almost immediately. Thanks!
Finally. A trailer for Lucky McKee and Jack Ketchum’s “The Woman”.
Via Ain’t It Cool
Yes. A trailer, finally. Although, whoever encoded this one should be fired. It looks horrible. Hopefully we can see a nice HD/HQ version soon—maybe on iTunes?
What If the HARRY POTTER Films Were Released As Part of the Criterion Collection?
They might look something like this. Unfortunately, the Harry Potter movies are not being released by the Criterion Collection anytime in the near future, but that didn’t stop designer Patrick Sullivan from dreaming up some Criterion-style artwork for them.
Criterion is known for their excellent cover art, and I think that Sullivan really did them justice here, don’t you?
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Oh we could wish!
This is an EXCELLENT photo set and design. WOW.
Do any of us actually look forward to remakes? Do we really like them? How often have we all bemoaned the news and leading up to a remake? And yet they persist.
Fright Night was one of my childhood—yes, childhood—favorite films. I loved it. It was scary. It was raunchy. It was gritty. And it was thrilling. I haven’t watched the original in over a decade, so I can’t be sure that any of that is true today, but no less, this is one of those films that I harbor great nostalgia for. And here it is, on the remake block.
I don’t know what to expect. The trailer reminds me little of the original film, only remotely in form, and it boasts, as many rushed-to-release trailers do, poor CGI graphics. But one thing that Fright Night (2011) boasts is a damn spectacular cast. And it is that alone that will ensure I find a seat in the theater to confront this affront to my childhood.
Your thoughts?
