Disgusting old women. Brilliantly terrifying soundscapes. Tension that makes you want to crawl out of your seat. Characters that are so real and lovable that they could be your best friend or you neighbour. Crazy set ups and extreme payoffs. Yep. I’m in a Sam Raimi horror movie. With Drag Me to Hell Raimi returns with full force, proving that the Evil Dead trilogy was not a fluke, nor a cult classic that wouldn’t fly in today’s market. No, Raimi returns from comics with a vengance and I loved every single minute of it.
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Oh my frackin GAWD.
Best.thing.ever. Watchmen Saturday morning cartoons styles. I don’t know who did this. I don’t know how it got to be so good. But it is – undoubtedly – the best.thing.EVER.
Video after the jump.
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If the Matrix Ran on Windows XP
This is some really, really funny stuff.
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I met Freddy F*cking Krueger!!!
It was like a Nightmare come true. My husband and I often meet celebrities and people who make/star in movies and I am often underwhelmed or, simply, see them as people just like us who just happen to have a job I think is cool… but as we left The Bloor tonight, I was completely stoked. I met Freddy Kreuger. Freddy. The guy who created a character that terrified thousands and who created one of the best Halloween costumes of all time. Robert England. Man, it was cool.
He was remarkably refreshing. Guys in Hollywood his age who are best known for playing one character are often bitter, not taking questions that relate to that character; specifically taking jobs that distance themselves, essentially rapping all over the thing that made them famous… and possibly rich (although, contracts were negotiated much differently when the first Nightmare came out, so who knows… just look at Romero). Not this guy. Not only is he approachable and hilarious, but he also has some very insightful things to say about Hollywood and, specifically, genre movies. He believes that the Saw and Eli Roth ‘torture porn’ (a term he dislikes) movies were a ‘punk rock’ movement, if you will in response to the ‘Zepplin’ movies that were over produced and CGI’d. He also believes that remakes are a good thing. He doesn’t hate them the way that the rest of us do and he think that, of all the older ‘classic’ horror movies that came out of the 80s, Nightmare is one that will lend itself very well to a remake. I don’t think that he’s wrong, although I object to Michael Bay doing it (I had no idea), but that’s really only because I don’t think that the military has much hold over Freddy.
Regardless, Robert England is an icon and this is not only a highlight of my week, but certainly of my life. My husband got his Freddy glove signed tonight and here are some pics for your viewing pleasure…
The Dark Knight: Thanks 42E
I can honestly say that I have never had two weeks worth of appointments surrounding the release of a movie. I can also honestly say that my husband has never mobilized in such a way to make it to them. After being mildly disappointed by the BatSignal on Monday night, chasing the BatPod and the Tumbler all over Toronto yesterday (with admittedly great success), and then coming home to discover what it means when the Joker says he’s going to ‘Leave a big mark,’ I have to say the I’ve reached a fever pitch that has yet been unparalleled in my moviegoing lifetime. While my initial impressions of the contract staff 42E had in Canada were a little off-putting, I can honestly say that the rest of the viral campaign has been nothing short of extraordinary and will, I believe, become the ‘Gold Standard’, thereby setting the benchmark for virals.
The idea that they would harness the sheer power of the internet nerd to do all the work to promote the movie, but then actually give them their due by offering a free screening FOUR days in advance and ONE day in advance of the actual ‘advance screening’ (making this a completely exclusive experience) is genius to say the least. My husband has done everything to participate since finding out about this just days after the ‘I Believe in Harvey Dent’ pic cutoff and that’s had me — literally — running all over the city to participate. The kind of total immersion in this world that 42E has created is something to genuinely be celebrated. All those people behind their keyboards pushing this viral were going to go see it anyway and if it is as good as they say (of which I have no doubt) then they were going to go more than once. But to tap into the kind of fan base that Batman has, coupled with a creative team for the movie itself, you have to marvel at how much someone has finally ‘got’ it. And it’s a relief. The ‘get’ that the fan base for genre movies doesn’t want to be pandered to. We don’t want to see what we saw in the comics, we want to see something entirely new that tickles us in the way the comics do. It’s not the same thing. No one disputes that movies need to be accessible to a wide audience because they are, after all, for profit, but it is the fans that are at the crux of the experience and I’m just so elated someone finally figured it out.
So here’s to the people at 42E for putting it all together and, especially, here’s to Warner for letting them go at it. For not restraining this or the cast and crew of the movie. There will be no end to the ‘profits’ for this movie because — for once — those directly involved were not only and exclusively in it for the money, they were in it for the story… and for the fans.
Cheers.
P.S. Clearly we were two of the lucky ones who were online at the time and got tickets to the screening. We’re trying to work with people who didn’t get tix to make sure everyone gets a chance, because there were a few ‘die-harders’ who weren’t online. As always, I can’t keep up with the sheer volume of this stuff. Go to Super Hero Hype to catch the fan reaction and here for the Wiki.
