HA!!! Oh man, Warner Brothers, next you should kick some puppies and put kittens in a sack and beat it against a wall. Hi-fucking-larious! So check out this news story from ABC News (grabbed from Shock Till You Drop):
In a recent ABC News report, foster care groups are in an uproar over the Jaume Collet-Serra film and how it is being marketed, notably with the inclusion of the line, “It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own.” Execs at Warner Bros. are stepping forward and claiming they “messed up” and will re-cut the trailer to remove the “offensive” line.
Nooooooo, Warner Brothers should keep the tagline. That’s fucking great. Props to them for KNOWING it’d piss people off and doing it anyway for marketing purposes…because you KNOW that’s what they did. Sweet.
UPDATE: So it would seem that Shock Till You Drop’s Rep at WB has told them that there was some sort of internal mistake and that Trick ‘r Treat shouldn’t have been on the publicity list sent out to everyone (except Backwoods Horror, we’re not cool enough I guess, fuckers). So…FUCK-A-DUCK. Depressing.
The cool ghouls over at Shock Till You Drop keep giving me good news in regard to Trick ‘r Treat. Last Friday it was reported that the film was still with Warner Brothers, and as of today, the flick has a web domain (even if it does lead to Warner Brothers’ main page and you have to do some searching, still better than nothing), and a brand, spankin’ new poster. Feast your eyes and clicky on the poster to head on over to the WB site.
Ever since I first saw the trailer for Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat(see it in all its horror anthology glory below), I’ve been waiting and waiting for it to come out in theaters. Unfortunately, earlier this year, Warner Brothers dropped the film from its 2008 release schedule (after it had already been dropped from its October 2007 release date). Well, our friends down in Aussie town at Moviehole.net had a little chat with Mr. Dougherty and came back with the following quote: “The struggle continues. There’s interest from another distributor so negotiations have begun. Keep your severed fingers crossed!” Hot Damn! Here’s hoping we’ll finally get to see something. I mean, I’d prefer seeing it in a theater, but even if I have to watch it on dvd only, that’s still better than nothing.
For those of you not in the know, Trick ‘r Treat, according to Wikipedia, follows the following plotline:
“It is said that Halloween is the night when the dead rise to walk among us, and other unspeakable things roam free. The rituals of All Hallows Eve were devised to protect us from their evil mischief, and one small town is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten.
Nothing is what it seems when a suburban couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight, a terrifying principal with a serial killer attitude teaches one neighbor the true meaning of Halloween, Laurie (played by the always luscious Anna Paquin), a young woman dressed as little red riding hood, is stalked by a mysterious hooded figure at a local Halloween Festival; a group of pranksters goes too far and discovers the horrifying truth buried in a local urban legend of a school bus massacre; and a cantankerous old hermit is visited by a strange trick-or-treater with a few bones to pick.
Costumes and candy, ghouls and goblins, monsters and mayhem…the tricks and treats of Halloween turn deadly as strange creatures of every variety—human and otherwise—try to survive the scariest night of the year.”
