Ok, took a look at the new ...OF THE DEAD trailer over at Fangoria (see below). What can I say… this movie looks like it’s going to blow as much as DIARRHEA OF THE DEAD . Come on Romero. I love ya, I really do…but…you know…this is starting to get embarrasing. Check the trailer to see what I mean. Looks like a Sci-Fi Original. Damn, I really was hoping for a return to form, some last hurrah, but this thing looks like ass. DAMN!
How could I have missed this? Check out the poster for the upcoming remake to THE CRAZIES:
I don’t really believe THE CRAZIES needs a remake necessarily, but the film DOES lend itself to that idea more than any other flick that’s been remade. Of course, saying that, this remake trend HAS TO FUCKING STOP! That is a pretty damn neat poster though. If it had the original font style from the original flick, I’d buy it and just pretend it was intended for the original. I wish it was Uncle George who was going behind the pen and the lens on this one. It’s probably going to blow.
Ok, so, this is my first ever video review, so be kind. I’m tired as hell and I’m not entirely iMovie literate, but I think I caught the basics. Just watched a VHS of THE CRAZIES, so here’s the review. Oh, that reminds me. The place where I get 5 old VHS horror flicks for $5 for 5 days, VSI, is shutting its doors. MOTHER…FUCK! So I’ll probably take a camera in there, get some vid, and sort of memorialize the closing of the last mom ‘n pop video store I know of around here. Goddamnit! On with the review!
Here’s a video where I meet George A. Romero for the first time. I’m a bit star-struck, I must say. Another video will be coming soon about what I got signed and how the experience kind of sucked really (NOT GEORGE’S FAULT).
More from the boils ‘n ghouls over at Shock Till You Drop. This time they got the goods on the first season of the horror anthology show TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE. Check it out:
“Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But, there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit…a dark side.”
Paramount Home Entertainment will finally give Tales from the Darkside a home on DVD. The complete first season is arriving on February 10th!
This 30-minute horror anthology series followed in the vein of Creepshow with George Romero on board to executive produce for Laurel Entertainment. The show ran from ’84 to ’88 delving into original stories and adapting works from writers like Stephen King and Clive Barker. A feature anthology film, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, opened in theaters in 1990.
I’m gonna need a better job with all of this cool shit coming out, the next story will be about MY NAME IS BRUCE DVD Specs. SWEET!
If you listened to Episode FIVE of THE BACKWOODS HORRORSHOW, you might’ve heard me mention something about a poster for the new Romero zombie flick. Well, apparently the boils ‘n ghouls over at SHOCK TILL YOU DROP got a look at it and snapped a few pics. The working title is still “OF THE DEAD” as they don’t have an official title yet. I thought it was a fake photoshop workup by some fanboy at first but it seems somewhat legit. Check out the art below and let’s hope that this one’s better than DIARY. Here’s the teaser art:
Could this be the new poster from Romero’s new Zombie epic?
Looks like a photoshop job to me, but still, cool none the less…Brother D over at Mail Order Zombie would probably dig it.
More than likely. As much of a Romero mark as I am, I can’t get behind his latest effort Diary Of The Dead. It, well, it was just awful and it didn’t really FEEL like a Romero Zombie flick. The characters weren’t well defined and the social commentary that generally permeates the original trilogy, one of the aspects that made them so damn good, was just slapping you in the face on this one. Sorry Uncle George, that one was a real stinker.
Dimension Extreme, the company that brought us Diary of the Dead on DVD is also bringing us another film in the same vein, the UK’s ZOMBIE DIARIES, and I’ve got to say, this one looks like a winner. It’s being hailed as the best zombie flick to come out of the UK…ever (let’s remember that 28 Days Later was NOT a zombie movie, it was a plague movie). This is what Dread Central got out of Co-Director Michael Bartlett:
“Instead of making it a ‘documentary,’ we felt the Blair Witch format worked better — i.e., people trying to hurriedly document what they could for posterity. We saw a lot of areas that could be improved with this format, too.
For example, our film has music (which seems initially counter-intuitive but works a treat) and does not have annoying sequences with characters constantly arguing with each other. We also broke the story up and shot in Pulp Fiction style. It jumps across time lines and stories and does a pretty neat job of keeping the viewer’s attention, which we felt one single story wouldn’t achieve.
I made sure we did lots of [rehearsing] for this film and combined [that] with complete back-stories for the characters, as well as improv based around a script.
We also then cut the film to pieces in the editing suite. Kevin is a fantastic editor, and we put our egos aside and made sure we were blunt with one another from the scripting right through to the editing. Any dodgy exposition had to be axed. This had to be so real that you felt you were in this genuine ‘zombie world.’ Obviously we had to strike a balance, as at the end of the day this film is entertainment. I think we did that well, but time will tell if we did a good job. We had Mike Peel (The Descent) working on our special effects with two other great artists, and [everything] certainly comes across as very believable, even under the unforgiving eyes of a DV camera.”
This is the summary from Shock Till You Drop: Set in England during a world-wide viral infection, this documentary-style frightfest records the rise of the undead from the videocams of several survivor groups. As each struggles against the flesh-eating hordes, an even more horrifying fate lurks among them.
Granted, I’ve only seen the trailer and some stills, but it looks pretty damn kickass. Take a look at the trailer and poster below.
Release Date is set for November 18th, 2008, so mark your Zombie calendars! And While you’re here, be sure to click the link to your right for The Backwoods Horrorshow podcast!
Keep it creepy!
Ok…so apparently the new one IS going to be kind of a sequel to Diary. Fucksticks! Here’s the word from Shock Till You Drop:
In speaking with SchlockAroundtheClock.com, Romero explains the story, “starts with the blonde who drove away [in Diary of the Dead] and the national guardsmen who robbed the people. So those are the only characters that return. What it’s about is tribalism. How the Internet creates a Hatfields and McCoys situation. It’s on an island, where people have been lured by someone on the net as a safe haven, but really what these guys are trying to do is hold them up at the boat docks.
Ah hell, I was hoping for a non-sequel, but at least I think he’s going against the POV/Blair Witch style of direction this time. Still…it’s a Romero Flick…of COURSE I’m going to watch it. The dude could film zombies takin’ a shit and I’d watch it. In fact…(excuse us, Aaron has just gone into the bathroom with a makeup kit, MiniDV camera…oh GOD the smell…)
![](http://backwoodshorror.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sjff_02_img0827.jpg "\\"Now zoom in real close, I want a tight shot of that Zombie poo!\\"")
