Battle Royale’s coming out March 20th. This will be mine. Oh yes, this will be mine.
Don’t really care about owning Battle Royale 2, but the set’s got a lot of nice extras-
Battle Royale: The Complete Collection’s four disc set in collectible high-end packaging will include: • Battle Royale Director’s Cut with both Japanese and English language tracks and English subtitles • Battle Royale Theatrical Cut with both Japanese and English language tracks and English subtitles • Battle Royale II with Japanese language and English subtitles • Battle Royale Bonus Content with Japanese language and English subtitles
SPECIAL FEATURES: • The Making Of BATTLE ROYALE • BATTLE ROYALE Press Conference • Instructional Video: Birthday Version • Audition & Rehearsal Footage • Special Effects Comparison Featurette • Tokyo International Film Festival 2000 • Battle Royale Documentary • Basketball Scene Rehearsals • Behind-The-Scenes Featurette • Filming On-Set • Original Theatrical Trailer • Special Edition TV Spot • TV Spot: Tarantino Version
The Battle Royale release will include: • Director’s Cut with Japanese and English language and English subtitles
The Next Great Horror Author
Wife sent me an email a little while ago that actually shocked me. She’s up reading mom blogs (shaddup, she’s pregnant) and came across this innocuous entry, where an overworked mom talks about forgetting her new baby. Queue up this comment by one “Liz”, the comment to end all internet comments and certainly kick off a Bram Stoker-winning career.
I never forget my baby. I can understand forgetting they are not old enough to do some things, but forgetting a baby? Isn’t that how kids get cooked in parked cars? Isn’t forgetting a baby the first step toward child neglect? I work my arse off managing a restaurant, a house, auto repairs, a social life, hobbies, writing a novel and look good doing it all. I cannot think of one instance where my 18mo’s safety and happiness is not number one. Am I over indulgent on my boy? My sex life is great, relationships are all healthy, stuff getting done, nobody left out. Is it posh to be vapid? More babies die every year being forgotten in cars and horribly seared, baked and fried, feeling every blistering degree maliciously oxidize their tender innocent incredibly sensitive and helpless infant flesh, in the sun. Or maybe the forgotten baby is simply forgotten and left in a store then abducted and tortured by their cherubic orifices stretched and torn, bleeding horrific fear and pain worse than any an adult can imagine while being brutally raped before their little forgotten baby body is excruciatingly pierced over and over by a cold steel blade or a bullet mercifully pulverizing the brain tissue. Then again the little darling baby might be forgotten on the roof of a vehicle in a car seat, then when the car move the baby slides off and her soft little baby skull is ripped open by hard gravel or concrete and baby bleeds out, screaming and forgotten, wondering why her mommy let her know what horrible agony is, what absolute fear is, and what its like to be forgotten. Is this supposed to be a satire or something? Its not funny.
Watch out, Ed Lee!
I had no idea that Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) was opening today in theaters before its VOD release on the 12th. I saw the first one with a bunch of journalists who were very much sickened by the whole thing, and would love to see this with a crowd who is equally unprepared for it.
Confirmed theaters for today-
IFC CENTER - New York, NY LANDMARK’S NUART - Los Angeles, CA MUSIC BOX THEATRE - Chicago, IL CEDAR LEE CINEMAS - Cleveland, OH LANDMARK’S MAIN ART - Royal Oak, MI LANDMARK’S ORIENTAL THEATRE - Milwaukee, WI LANDMARK’S TIVOLI THEATRE - University City, MO LANDMARK’S RITZ AT THE BOURSE - Philadelphia, PA LANDMARK’S E STREET CINEMA - Washington, D.C. LANDMARK’S MIDTOWN ART - Atlanta, GA ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE S. LAMAR - Austin, TX LANDMARK’S INWOOD - Dallas, TX LANDMARK’S RIVER OAKS THEATRE - Houston, TX LANDMARK’S ESQUIRE - Denver, CO LANDMARK’S KEN - San Diego, CA LANDMARK’S EGYPTIAN - Seattle, WA LANDMARK’S LUMIERE - San Francisco, CA
Lucio Fulci’s Zombie is playing theaters on the 21st and 22nd with a brand new print that’s supposed to be absolutely beautiful. I am not missing this.
It’s good to have you back, Don Coscarelli. Phantasm is easily my favorite horror series (Name a more consistent one! It’s impossible.) and Bubba Ho-Tep was a pitch-perfect Joe Lansdale adaptation, so you know how much I loved that one.
Lucky attendees at Fantastic Fest got a chance to see this first footage from John Dies at the End, based on the book of the same name from Cracked.com editor Jason Pargin (under the pseudonym of David Wong, and written in the first person). Darkly humorous, utterly violent, and one hell of a dreamy drug trip- it’s pretty much perfect for Coscarelli. Absolutely can’t wait to see the final product.
I’ve been a fan of the book since Permuted Press put it out in 2007 but thousands of people originally read a serialized on Wong’s website before it got taken down when he got it published.
There’s a sequel to the book on the way called THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It, so you might want to jump on the first one now.
Poor Sid Haig
Creature was one for the record books. At 1,507 single-screen locations, the horror movie scared up $327,000, which was the fifth lowest-grossing opening on record for a nationwide release and the second-worst in terms of per-location average. To put it another way, it was the worst ever for a movie playing at 1,500 locations or more. Its per-showing attendance was less than six people, though Bucky Larson wasn’t much better at a little over eight.
I’m absolutely stunned that Creature managed to open in 1,507 theaters. Did they not have a marketing budget after buying all those prints? Christ, no one knew about this one. Not even the horror sites really covered it.
On a positive note, the failure of this film is decent news for my former CHUD.com co-worker Josh Miller, since his (horrible, horrible) flick Transylmania is no longer the worst film that’s opened at over 1,000 theaters.
Sometimes it feels good to have waited on picking up a classic movie or two.
On November 1st it will finally be mine.
Check the stats and weep-
Brand-new HD digital transfer of the 24fps version of 1929 reissue (Academy Aspect Ratio; 16x9 pillar-boxed) from the 35mm negative, with tinted sequences including the Bal Masque sequence in two-strip Technicolor. Featuring a brand new music score by Alloy Orchestra, plus Gaylord Carter’s famous theatre organ score, released for the first time in stereo;
Brand-new HD transfer of 20fps version of 1929 reissue with tinting, Technicolor and hand-coloring. Symphonic score composed by Gabriel Thibaudeau, performed by I Musici de Montreal, conducted by Yuri Turovsky with Claudine Cote, soprano presented in stereo, along with a new full-length audio essay by Dr. Jon Mirsalis;
Standard definition presentation of the original 1925 release from a 16mm tinted source copy. Accompanied by a new piano score by Dr. Frederick Hodges.
Theatrical trailer
Photo Gallery
The complete Phantom Script
Phantom Souvenir Program Reproduction
Meet Human Centipede 2’s new Villain
Martin’s got some big shoes to fill, as Dr. Heiter was pretty much the main reason the first one worked. Let’s see how he does.
Much more happy with this review for Badass Digest. Amazing book, really- one of those ones I just HAD to write something about after immediately finishing. Really love when something inspires me that much.
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Creature was one for the record books. At 1,507 single-screen locations, the horror movie scared up $327,000, which was the fifth lowest-grossing opening on record for a nationwide release and the second-worst in terms of per-location average. To put it another way, it was the worst ever for a movie playing at 1,500 locations or more. Its per-showing attendance was less than six people, though Bucky Larson wasn’t much better at a little over eight.
