Cinema Suicide

…and I choose, “None of the above.” Amazon is offering fans a very unique opportunity. I can’t think of a case study that exists that actually lets the mob at large determine the final printed product. Unfortunately, none of the three options that they present are very good. What you see there to the left [...]

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I had intended to review Gerard McMorrow’s steampunk/real-life drama, Franklyn, starring Ryan Phillippe, here. But I’ve also been trying to branch out and get my writing on other websites. I had achieved that by putting up a weekly column with Sound On Sight, but now I have a review posted up over at one of [...]

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Why is is that every week I see a trailer for a movie out of Japan that qualifies as the craziest god damn thing I’ve ever seen? They all seem to feature the name Noboru Iguchi, too. Where does he find the time? How does he keep upping the ante? Iguchi is in New York [...]

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I used to think that America held the world title for excessive habits across the board but we have clearly been usurped by Japan. We still have a contender in the form of Michael Bay, aka the world’s worst filmmaker. Worse than Uwe Boll. Seriously. But Japan seems to have the market cornered. Mega Monster [...]

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The Spierig Brothers managed to turn out a wildly entertaining zombie movie in the form of Undead several years back. They spent practically nothing on it and took their sweet time and from what I’ve been reading about Daybreakers, they took a similar approach. This trailer represents a huge step up for these guys. An [...]

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It was recently announced that the Michael Moynihan book, Lords of Chaos, more or less the last word on Burzum/Mayhem madness of Norwegian black metal, was finally getting the film treatment. But this took me by surprise. I had no idea that Until The Light Takes Us was even in production and this is a [...]

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I can’t believe it! I actually turned in a Bodycount article on time. This latest one, contrary to claims in my last column about covering that grimy period of pre-Ringu J-Horror, is actually about science fiction and horror working together toward nefarious ends. I profile a real sci-fi horror classic and then it’s all downhill [...]

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Not only is this news about a remake, it’s news about a remake of a Japanese ghost revenge movie. Like we haven’t seen that shit a million times already. But here’s the qualifier. This is the part that makes me take notice.
The script for the upcoming Tomie remake is being drafted by one of Martin [...]

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I haven’t really paid much attention to Tim Burton’s production of Alice In Wonderland. As a matter of fact, I had forgotten that it was even happening but these photos of the cast are enough to remind me and draw my attention in. That shit is ca-razy!

USA Today has the scoop and along with [...]

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Hollywood always seems to come show up to every indie movie trend fashionably late, don’t they? Every fifteen year old with ten bucks, some stage blood and a prosumer digital camera have been making zombie action movies in their backyards for years and just now as the zombie wave seems to be cresting, they come [...]

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I’m going to take this rare opportunity to post this clip and not rag on Tom Savini based on something that happened between he and I over ten years ago. No. This is a poignant clip, shot at this past Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors in NYC for the upcoming Tromasterpiece release of The Last Horror [...]

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Now that’s a movie poster! I’ve read a lot about this flick while it was showing at Cannes and early reviews were not favorable. Ain’t It Cool News seemed to be the only source on Earth proclaiming it the best Tarantino flick since Pulp Fiction, but it has long been speculated that Harry Knowles would [...]

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This just in from George Reis of the Drive-In Monster-Rama.  For the third year in a row, the Drive-In Monster-Rama will invade the Riverside Drive-In Theater in North Vandergrift, Pennsylvania where the programming will be two days of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Ingrid Pitt and Barbara Steele on the big outdoor screen. September 11th and [...]

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Last night was the special screening of Night of the Creeps at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas and Ain’t It Cool News, as usual, was on hand to report. Director, Fred Dekker and cast members, Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow and Tom Atkins were all in attendance for Q&A and autographs. They did [...]

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These days, Dennis Heaton is known for writing the Canadian zombie as a pet movie, Fido. A surprisingly heartfelt, very funny, very original take on the extremely tired zombie thing that’s going on now. But back in 2006, he wrote and directed this short, Headshot, which has just popped up on Vimeo. It is such [...]

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I can’t believe I missed it! My own god damn anniversary! It’s testament to how busy I have become between my real life, this website, The Sub Rosa Drive-In and writing for Sound On Sight. Last year, reaching the one year mark was regarded as somewhat amazing since sites like this are a dime a [...]

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I will admit that I have been skeptical about this Godkiller business from the beginning. Can you blame me? It’s very strange concept. More or less, you listen to an audio book of a comic read by a bunch of actors and musicians while static images flash across the screen. But as more and more [...]

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Paramount is timing their releases of these Friday the 13th Deluxe Editions with great skill, I tell you. The first wave released, back in February, came out just in time to coincide with the remake and now the next three should hit shelves as the remake is released on DVD. It’s brilliance, I tell you. [...]

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Christ. It’s turning into Youtube day over here but would you look at this? Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is the latest from the director of Tokyo Gore Police, Yoshihiro Nishimura, and it is as predictably manic and gory as you could possibly come to expect. I don’t know much about this flick apart from [...]

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You know me. I typically leave anime reportage up to blogs that are much better equipped to do so, preferably with a better handle on Japanese culture than I have, but this is a special occasion. My first introduction to anime, then called “Japanimation” for lack of a better Western term for a distinctly Eastern [...]

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