Looks like the duo behind THE BURNING (That’s right, our friends The Weinsteins) have given a greenlight to a direct to dvd full length MACHETE starring none other than Danny Trejo.
While drinking some tequila and just chilling I stumbled on some pretty cool news via Filmz.ru. ToutLeCine is reporting that Machete is moving ahead quote;
Interprète du héros buriné dans le trailer bidon, Danny Trejo (la photo) vient d’annoncer que les frères Weinstein ont pour intention rapide, avec la complicité de Robert Rodriguez (réalisateur de la si pittoresque bande-annonce et de Planète Terreur), de faire de Machete un vrai film
If you are like me and cant read a lick of french you probably are asking yourself, who? what? when? Did the martians steal my baby? Translated to English courtesy of my cat it says that Danny Trejo has confirmed a Machete film is coming and in fact it will be a direct to DVD trilogy. Or something along those lines.
Frankly my french sucks ass. All I can say is Robert Rodriquez is involved, The weinsteins are putting it direct to dvd and its either going to be a trilogy or a one off film. Those of you who CAN speak french feel free to email me a proper translating.
Just came across the trailer for the upcoming flick MIDNIGHT MOVIE. Sounds like it could be one hell of a show. Here’s the synopsis from IMDB:
At a run down theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends get together for a midnight screening of an early 1970s horror film. What they do not know is that the director/star of the film has something more in store for them than just a movie. Rumor says that he was killed in a psych ward massacre five years earlier, but the detective and doctor who witnessed the aftermath of the bloodbath suspect that he was at the heart of the slaughter and might not be dead. What none of them understand is that he has enshrined his soul into the film itself.
As the movie starts, the kids heckle the black-and-white movie, but are jolted when the movies gruesome killer butchers one of their friends on screen! They realize that it is not the prank that they had hoped it was as the killer from the film emerges into the theater to take them out one-by-one. Caught between the world of reality and the screens flickering shadows, these unsuspecting viewers confront their gruesome fate in the locked theater. Will they be able to overcome the supernatural killer and find their way out before they are pulled into the killers celluloid world?
Check out the Trailer followed by 3 different “one-sheets”:
“Grindhouse Releasing recently announced the details for the DVD of PIECES, plus a new disc of Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND, both coming October 28. PIECES, the outlandish chainsaw gorefest by director Juan Piquer Simon, will be presented in a two-disc set highlighted by a new hi-def anamorphic widescreen transfer of the uncensored theatrical cut, in the original English with an optional Spanish soundtrack that contains a Librado Pastor score. Extras include:
• Alternate audio track: The Vine Theater Hollywood Experience
• In-depth interviews with Simon and actor Paul L. Smith
• Still and poster-art gallery
• Filmographies
• Liner notes by Chas. Balun
Plus more surprises. Retail price is $24.95, and PIECES will receive select big-screen bookings in advance of the disc debut; check out the Grindhouse site for details. The BEYOND DVD features a new hi-def anamorphic widescreen transfer of the uncut movie with a fresh Dolby Digital 5.1 sound remix, plus these supplements (some of which appeared on the previous Anchor Bay disc):
• Audio commentary by stars Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck
• On-set interview with Fulci
• Cast and crew interviews
• Optional Italian-language soundtrack and original mono audio
• Lost German pre-credit sequence in color
• Necrophagia music video by Jim VanBebber
• Still and poster-art gallery
• Original theatrical trailers
• Filmographies
• Liner notes by Balun
Retail price on this one is also $24.95″
HOT DAMN! I’ve only been able to find PIECES on el cheapola discs forever in the dollar bin. Good to see this classic getting the respect it deserves. I’ll probably get THE BEYOND as well, even though I’ve already shelled out a few bucks for it previously, the new edition has a few little extras I’d like. Check out the cover art below!
