I Am Link

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--- Wild Thing - Has anyone read any of George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards series? It's a superhero comics anthology - lots of different writers have taken a crack at the property over the years but GRRM set up the world - which is about a virus that turns a bunch of people into superheroes. Supposedly Heroes ripped it off pretty shamelessly. SyFy has picked up the rights and plan on making a movie, or some movies. I haven't read any of it and wonder if I should?

--- Cool Muscly Guys - I'm with Rich at FourFour, this ad for Immortals is amazing.

--- Hot Mess - There's gonna be a whole bunch of direct-to-DVD Cabin Fever sequels and/or prequels coming our way, I guess. And yet Eli Roth still doesn't make any more movies. What a world, what a world.

--- Splatter Master - Lots of Halloween leftovers today - AICN chatted with special-effects wizard Richard Taylor of WETA and Lord of the Rings Oscar-winnery about his way-back work with Peter Jackson on Dead Alive, where he made an art of the most disgusting splatter you ever done seen. (Speaking of, happy belated 50th birthday, Peter!)

--- Scream Scene - Over the Hallow'd weekend Glenn had a bit of a Kevin Williamson-a-thon and wrote up posts for Halloween H20 here and on The Faculty here. No Teaching Mrs. Tingle??? Kidding, god that movie was terrible. Anyway Shawn Hatosy was indeed a cute little feller, wasn't he? And seeing him makes me think about him making out with Danny Dyer every time, which is a thought I like to have put into my head. (see here)

--- Snips + Snails + Puppy Dog Tails - The "Oscar Horrors" series at The Film Experience ended on a perfect note with Robert talking up Ruth Gordon's statue-winning performance as Minnie Castavet in Rosemary's Baby. Perfection.

--- Masks of Death - Love this list of the five scariest non-horror movie masks over at Dark Eye Socket. The scene in Sophia Coppola's Somewhere that Craig talks about nearly gave me a panic attack.

--- Canadian Nepotism - David Cronenberg's son Brandon is following in his father's creepy footsteps and directing his first horror movie - it's called Antiviral and it's about "a clinic that replicates celebrity diseases for public consumption." I don't really understand that description - diseases from celebrities? Or the diseases have become celebrities themselves? Anyway it will star Caleb Landry Jones, who played Banshee in X-Men: Muppet Babies and was immensely likable therein.

--- The Abyss Can Wait - Twitch gives us their thoughts on Herzog's new documentary Into the Abyss, about the death penalty. The film's showing at the documentary film festival here in NYC this month with Herzog in attendance but I think I'm gonna wait for its actual release in theaters which is only a couple weeks later. I'm a little bit afraid how sad and angry this movie will make me.

--- Jossified - It's a good time to be a Joss Whedon fan - besides The Avengers and besides his little Shakespeare movie and besides the supposed eventual release of Cabin in the Woods, he's written the script for a little supernatural romance called In Your Eyes. Deadline has the details. He won't be directing it, though.

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