I Am Link

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--- I See Legs: The final installment of AICN's visit to the set of The Mist is up, and it's a doozy. Only read it if you're familiar with the story, there are a lot of important character deaths that are shot on this day, and it all sounds smashing. The above pic is a glimpse of one of the creatures we'll be seeing onscreen later this year.

--- Turkey's Revenge! You can watch the Eli Roth's Grindhouse faux-trailer for "Thanksgiving" right on over at The Horror Blog today. As badly as I wanna see it, I'm holding out for the whole, immersive Grindhouse experience this weekend. I caught a snippet of footage from this trailer on the telly this weekend and found myself irritated I was seeing what I was seeing. I'm keeping myself daisy-fresh here!

--- Word. Once again my buddy Sean pinpoints the problem with a movie much better than I found myself able to. Reviewing The Host this weekend, he says (SPOILERS!!!):

"Killing a child, especially one with whom we've spent time and for whom grown to share an affinity, is extremely dangerous ground for any movie; this goes double for horror, a genre that essentially presupposes that the audience, on some level at least, enjoys watching people get killed, and therefore has its work cut out for it if it's going to depict the killing of a child, the least enjoyable killing possible. At first I was impressed by just how raw and unfiltered that scene in the crisis center was getting with its sobbing, screaming, inconsolable, mind-shattering grief--so imagine my dismay and disgust as it devolved into slapstick. Call me crazy, but I don't think the death of a little girl is funny. And unkilling her later in the film doesn't get you off the hook--especially if you're going to re-kill her during the climax and want that to be the emotional lynchpin of the film."

When I said in my review that the shifts in tone were what really got under my craw, this was the scene that did it. And really it'd lost me from there on out.

--- They all driiiive....... Killer Cars! A remake of Christine? Even when I was a kid I thought Christine was a piece of junk - though I haven't seen it in probably fifteen years - so dunno really how I feel about this. On the one hand, maybe we should just let that particular story rot in the junkyard; on the other, remaking bad movies instead of great ones does leave room for improvement. And call me a terrible horror geek, but I'd apparently completely blocked out the fact that John Carpenter directed the original film. Huh.

--- This Aussie Rules! Stale Popcorn's got the goods on everything related to Baz starting work on his next highly-anticipated pic Australia. Which also, wonderfully, includes Hugh Jackman on a horse.

--- Joe's back, and he's finally offering up his opinion on Zodiac. Which reminds me - why haven't I gone back and seen the film again? I have not been fulfilling my Jake-supporting duties.

--- The one thing that could make me go to France: ModFob gives us a peek at what the rumor-mills are saying will probably be premiering at Cannes in a couple months. Cronenberg, Woody Allen, Won Kar-Wai, Todd Haynes... yeah, I'd brave the French for them.
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