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I'm not saying you can blame the director of 47 Ronin for that Netflix show you liked not getting renewed, but the NY Times have an...

I'm not saying you can blame the director of 47 Ronin for that Netflix show you liked not getting renewed, but the NY Times have an illuminating piece on how hiring director Carl Rinsch to make a high concept sci-fi show went very, very badly wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/business/carl-rinsch-netflix-conquest.html?fbclid=IwAR3ZRLv7QgmxZSiGli4XsAWmIeec5-XHx7DoeMOJh_IDZ4sARbk7wjL3B-c

Members of Canadian horror pastiche collection Astron 6 have made a 7-minute short/beer commercial which pays witty homage to the early...

Members of Canadian horror pastiche collection Astron 6 have made a 7-minute short/beer commercial which pays witty homage to the early Friday the 13th sequels.

https://vimeo.com/adambrooks79/fl

The aesthetic fidelity to the thing they're parodying is remarkable. No notes.

One of those cases where the end card telling us it's a movie that will play in cinemas feels especially necessary. Perhaps the trailer...

One of those cases where the end card telling us it's a movie that will play in cinemas feels especially necessary.

Perhaps the trailer is doing the film a huge disservice, but this really looks like one of those lesser streaming superhero series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_DC6Xsr6Zc&t=175s

Okay, the planet's a burning hellscape, Authoritarian awfulness is rising, and there is much to despair about. But we still have this...

Okay, the planet's a burning hellscape, Authoritarian awfulness is rising, and there is much to despair about.

But we still have this song Stevie Wonder recorded for Sesame Street and should therefore fight on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En8uiRa8jPE

For its first twenty minutes Exorcist: Believer plays rather well, suggesting an Appalachian take on Picnic at Hanging Rock. But its decline...

For its first twenty minutes Exorcist: Believer plays rather well, suggesting an Appalachian take on Picnic at Hanging Rock. But its decline into schlocky awfulness begins thereafter and continues all the way up to its astonishingly stupid ending. Easily the worst film I've seen in a cinema this year.

Just thinking about the third act of John Woo’s Hardboiled where our hero stops the bad guys who‘ve been using that hospital as a base...

Just thinking about the third act of John Woo’s Hardboiled where our hero stops the bad guys who‘ve been using that hospital as a base by calling in an air strike and murdering scores of innocent bystanders. I mean, it has been a while since I rewatched it, but that’s definitely how it ends, right?

This looks terminally dull....

This looks terminally dull.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/3-body-problem-premiere-date-first-look-john-bradley-1235786860/?fbclid=IwAR1npPZ3_jR7B3bZb8o7teF_jaqw3WZzGO4kpVrb1Nr11s9RJWnZFEQ8rp8

*In Borscht Belt comedian voice*

"Yeah, the real three body problem for Netflix will be that only three people finish watching it..."

Tonight's mood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK-YsL58VDs

Tonight's mood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK-YsL58VDs

One of the many downsides of Disney buying 20th Century Fox was the immediate cancellation of a film based on David Peterson's...

One of the many downsides of Disney buying 20th Century Fox was the immediate cancellation of a film based on David Peterson's extraordinary comic series Mouse Guard. Wes Ball was to have directed it, with VFX courtesy of Weta.

Watching the trailer for Ball's upcoming Planet of the Apes sequel I can't help mourning a movie that never was, and I can't shake the feeling that Peterson's work has influenced the visual direction of this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ_HvTBaFoo

Its critical reputation paints Paul Schrader's Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist as dull, but I found it weirdly beguiling. It's a...

Its critical reputation paints Paul Schrader's Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist as dull, but I found it weirdly beguiling. It's a busted flush as a horror movie, having all the requisite elements apart from genuine scares, but as a weird arthouse film it's fairly compelling and sometimes sublime.

Hey, remember that TV show with the heroine some folk named their children after? Yeah, and then in the final episodes we could see that her...

Hey, remember that TV show with the heroine some folk named their children after? Yeah, and then in the final episodes we could see that her righteousness had curdled into fascist genocide because she was murdering innocent civilians via incineration and aerial bombardment.

I didn’t think I’d say this, but maybe we need to look at TV’s least liked series finale again. Just, y’know, for reasons…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/31/boris-johnson-favoured-older-people-accepting-their-fate-covid-inquiry-hears. My...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/31/boris-johnson-favoured-older-people-accepting-their-fate-covid-inquiry-hears.

My mother-in-law, then 78 years old, died of Covid on this date three years ago.

Johnson's response to the pandemic was always knowingly callous. We don't need an inquiry to make that call, but I will never not be angry that his mishandling of the crisis caused so much grief, so much misery, and so much death.

#covidinquiry

Paging @theactualemma...

Paging @theactualemma

https://clickhole.com/phoning-it-in-4-times-h-p-lovecraft-tried-to-describe-an-unspeakable-cosmic-horror-but-basically-just-described-a-goose/?fbclid=IwAR01LYWVbdtGHOpFNudQY5cDOvCLMYK_KumDneVvDh-9A9_aGP7S37lNGEs

Another resource for my horror themed Blender 3D class. "Boy!"#Phantasm #Blender3D #Horror #HorrorMovies

Another resource for my horror themed Blender 3D class.

"Boy!"

#Phantasm #Blender3D #Horror #HorrorMovies

It’s not really Autumn until I have looked out the window on a dark October night and listened to this....

It’s not really Autumn until I have looked out the window on a dark October night and listened to this.

https://youtu.be/LGSSnY-HpMc?si=OwNiL7Lu5juJyxvn

#horror #FilmSoundtracks

I'm prepping materials and resources for a Halloween themed Blender modelling and animation course. I am sure that horror aficionados...

I'm prepping materials and resources for a Halloween themed Blender modelling and animation course. I am sure that horror aficionados and Blender users can agree that Hellraiser's Lament Configuration is the only default cube we've ever really needed.

#Blender3D #Hellraiser #Halloween #Horror

I'm sad to hear that Piper Laurie has died and will now, surely, have to honour her passing by re-watching Carrie for the...

I'm sad to hear that Piper Laurie has died and will now, surely, have to honour her passing by re-watching Carrie for the I-don't-know-what-th time.

"Red, I might have known it would be red."

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/piper-laurie-dead-carrie-1235756354/

I wasn't expecting Exorcist: The Beginning to be good per se but, aside from Vittoria Storara's cinematography, there's nothing...

I wasn't expecting Exorcist: The Beginning to be good per se but, aside from Vittoria Storara's cinematography, there's nothing much to recommend here. The CGI hyenas are a particular low point.

@AnneBillson I can't find the original thread in which I dropped Peter Serafanowicz's splendid Ringo Starr Bond theme skit, but this...

@AnneBillson

I can't find the original thread in which I dropped Peter Serafanowicz's splendid Ringo Starr Bond theme skit, but this video re-incorporates Ringo's lost theme into Goldfinger, and it is somehow even more glorious than I expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs4_zpEc0Tk

I'm usually loath to even mention transphobic bully Graham Linehan, but The Independent's review of his awful sounding new book is...

I'm usually loath to even mention transphobic bully Graham Linehan, but The Independent's review of his awful sounding new book is glorious. Louis Chilton unpicks Linehan's transphobic claims with measured grace and dismisses his hateful shtick with the sort of careful precision I've not seen since that video where IBM scientists spelt out the company name using individual atoms.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/graham-linehan-tough-crowd-book-trans-b2428578.html