Good Morning, World

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How that's for a waker-upper? For some reason the photo on the cover of this morning's New York Times - it has to do with a protest in Spain - made me immediately think of the above scene from Evil Dead II. Here's that NYT pic:

Although the hooded face completely ensconced in emptiness is scary enough, it's the pose that made me think of Sam Riami's movie - the way he's sort of half hovering in mid-air, necromancer like, as if the photographer caught him in the middle of a demon-possessed marionette dance. Obviously. Anyway, good morning! These are the ways my mind processes things.

Good Morning, World

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How that's for a waker-upper? For some reason the photo on the cover of this morning's New York Times - it has to do with a protest in Spain - made me immediately think of the above scene from Evil Dead II. Here's that NYT pic:

Although the hooded face completely ensconced in emptiness is scary enough, it's the pose that made me think of Sam Riami's movie - the way he's sort of half hovering in mid-air, necromancer like, as if the photographer caught him in the middle of a demon-possessed marionette dance. Obviously. Anyway, good morning! These are the ways my mind processes things.

I Am Link

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--- Pyle Up - We were just crowing about this the other day - we take every chance we can get - so we were very happy to see one of our longtime favorite scene-stealers Missi Pyle got some much deserved love over at The Film Experience yesterday for her hysterical performance in Spring Breakdown, a truly underrated little comedy. "It's never gonna warm you up." Classic.

--- Get So Schizo - I've been saving my first viewing of Steven Soderbergh's supposedly psychotically strange Schizopolis for a rainy day, so I am setting aside this post by Glenn as Stale Popcorn on the film and ten of its greatest moments for the day after that rainy day when I'll inevitably want to read about the movie.

--- 25 of 11 - If I started listing the parts of this list of Joe Reid's 25 Movie Moments of 2011 that I loved I would list... twenty, I had to go and count and yup, I would be listing twenty of his list. So just go read his list and save me the nonsensical business of just repeating nearly the whole thing. It's so smile inducing.

--- More Like Lex Loser - Hmm, I wonder what JA thinks about the news that Robert Downey Jr. was going to play Lex Luthor in McG's Superman movie? Could he consider it the biggest bullet dodged in the history of bullets? Could he consider the fact that we're getting Michael effing Shannon as general Zod to be approximately one billion times a better thing? Hmm, I wonder.

--- Deadites Walking - Just because it isn't a true week in time without some new random nothing from somebody associated with the Evil Dead remake, here's a couple of quotes from the lead actress on how gory and scary their version will be - she manages to display a devastating incomprehension of the Sam Raimi films at the same time - plus a little bit from Bruce Campbell too, because he's always yapping on Twitter, bless him.

--- Say Yes To The Mess - Have you guys seen the international poster for the third [REC] movie? (via) I think it's been around for a bit but I hadn't seen it until yesterday and I love it. That's it there to the left. A wedding dress dragged through gore is just a delight, innit? I hope this one lives up to the first two. I love them so. BD's got a gallery with some new pictures from the movie too.

--- A To Zombie - I saw The Ford Brothers' 2010 zombie movie The Dead about a week ago and I really want to write something up when I can, but this week's got its distractions. The movie's well worth seeing though, so seek it out. It just got released onto DVD last week, and Netflix has it. All that said go read Pax's review at Billy Loves Stu, he'll sell you better than I just did.

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I Am Link

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--- Pyle Up - We were just crowing about this the other day - we take every chance we can get - so we were very happy to see one of our longtime favorite scene-stealers Missi Pyle got some much deserved love over at The Film Experience yesterday for her hysterical performance in Spring Breakdown, a truly underrated little comedy. "It's never gonna warm you up." Classic.

--- Get So Schizo - I've been saving my first viewing of Steven Soderbergh's supposedly psychotically strange Schizopolis for a rainy day, so I am setting aside this post by Glenn as Stale Popcorn on the film and ten of its greatest moments for the day after that rainy day when I'll inevitably want to read about the movie.

--- 25 of 11 - If I started listing the parts of this list of Joe Reid's 25 Movie Moments of 2011 that I loved I would list... twenty, I had to go and count and yup, I would be listing twenty of his list. So just go read his list and save me the nonsensical business of just repeating nearly the whole thing. It's so smile inducing.

--- More Like Lex Loser - Hmm, I wonder what JA thinks about the news that Robert Downey Jr. was going to play Lex Luthor in McG's Superman movie? Could he consider it the biggest bullet dodged in the history of bullets? Could he consider the fact that we're getting Michael effing Shannon as general Zod to be approximately one billion times a better thing? Hmm, I wonder.

--- Deadites Walking - Just because it isn't a true week in time without some new random nothing from somebody associated with the Evil Dead remake, here's a couple of quotes from the lead actress on how gory and scary their version will be - she manages to display a devastating incomprehension of the Sam Raimi films at the same time - plus a little bit from Bruce Campbell too, because he's always yapping on Twitter, bless him.

--- Say Yes To The Mess - Have you guys seen the international poster for the third [REC] movie? (via) I think it's been around for a bit but I hadn't seen it until yesterday and I love it. That's it there to the left. A wedding dress dragged through gore is just a delight, innit? I hope this one lives up to the first two. I love them so. BD's got a gallery with some new pictures from the movie too.

--- A To Zombie - I saw The Ford Brothers' 2010 zombie movie The Dead about a week ago and I really want to write something up when I can, but this week's got its distractions. The movie's well worth seeing though, so seek it out. It just got released onto DVD last week, and Netflix has it. All that said go read Pax's review at Billy Loves Stu, he'll sell you better than I just did.

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I Am Link

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--- I'm going to keep these brief since good god I feel like I have been typing myself blind today. First up, there is going to be an Insidious sequel, says Variety. And it will be from the same team that gave us the first one, director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell. Hopefully they'll keep up the vibe of the terrific first film and not wander off back into Saw territory. I wonder if they'll use any of the same cast? It's tragic that Patrick Wilson never got his bum out in the first movie. The very definition of tragedy.

--- We were just talking about this! They have found a replacement for Lily Collins as the lead girl in The Evil Dead reboot - her name is Jane Levy and I guess she's on that "Alan Tudyk and Jeremy Sisto get gay a lot" show Suburgatory. She is pretty. And speaking of this movie the director shared a picture of the woods where they're filming over at BD. It's a picture of some woods. Very exciting.

--- Two of my favorite people, Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall, are going to make a movie with the director of Boy A, which introduced the world to the awesomeness of Andrew Garfield but besides that was a really terrific piece of filmmaking itself. I'm all over this.

--- And finally, The Help actress Octavia Spencer, who seems cool as all get out but really doesn't deserve the Oscar she's probably about to win for that movie, has just joined the cast of Snow Piercer, that movie joining the forces of Bong Joon-ho (as director) and Park Chan-wook (as producer) with the actors Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton amongst others. I'm very excited about this thing. It's a whole theme, me being excited. Whee, being me is ka-razy!

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I Am Link

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--- I'm going to keep these brief since good god I feel like I have been typing myself blind today. First up, there is going to be an Insidious sequel, says Variety. And it will be from the same team that gave us the first one, director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell. Hopefully they'll keep up the vibe of the terrific first film and not wander off back into Saw territory. I wonder if they'll use any of the same cast? It's tragic that Patrick Wilson never got his bum out in the first movie. The very definition of tragedy.

--- We were just talking about this! They have found a replacement for Lily Collins as the lead girl in The Evil Dead reboot - her name is Jane Levy and I guess she's on that "Alan Tudyk and Jeremy Sisto get gay a lot" show Suburgatory. She is pretty. And speaking of this movie the director shared a picture of the woods where they're filming over at BD. It's a picture of some woods. Very exciting.

--- Two of my favorite people, Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall, are going to make a movie with the director of Boy A, which introduced the world to the awesomeness of Andrew Garfield but besides that was a really terrific piece of filmmaking itself. I'm all over this.

--- And finally, The Help actress Octavia Spencer, who seems cool as all get out but really doesn't deserve the Oscar she's probably about to win for that movie, has just joined the cast of Snow Piercer, that movie joining the forces of Bong Joon-ho (as director) and Park Chan-wook (as producer) with the actors Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton amongst others. I'm very excited about this thing. It's a whole theme, me being excited. Whee, being me is ka-razy!

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Klaatu Barada Shiloh

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I have not read and I have no plans to read any of the scripts that have been floating around for the remake reboot whatever of The Evil Dead, so I haven't really gotten a handle on what the deal is with it, story-wise. I know the basic idea - that it's about a group of friends who go to The Cabin in order to detox one of their female friends, who's been hooked on the bad stuff (or the good stuff, depending on your point of view).

What I'm not sure about is what they're doing regarding as Ash type of character - I hope you know Ash is the Bruce Campbell character, but if you don't: Educate yourself, fool! - I've heard competing things. That it'll be the girl getting detoxed who ends up being the lead (when Lily Collins was set to play her that's what I'd heard, but now Lily Collins is not attached to the movie anymore), that there is no Ash-type character at all. 

And now I see that the actor Shiloh Fernandez has been cast as "the male lead," so who knows. I mean the press release goes out of its way to say there is no "Ash character" but really whoever lives to kick demon ass another day is "the Ash character" aren't they? Are they telling us nobody lives? Or that nobody kicks any demon ass? Because an Evil Dead without demon ass-kicking is not an Evil Dead at all.

I digress. I don't even want to know the answers to all this beforehand, because I'd like to have some surprises in store when I eventually see the movie. I mean that's doubtful, but it would be nice.

Okay, so Shiloh. I have ogled Shiloh several times (here and here and here) - and now that's he's the lead in a horror movie I will totally be blogging the hell out of between now and its eventual release I guess I should finally give him his own tag here at the blog, lucky him - but the only thing I've ever seen him in was Red Riding Hood, and he was just fucking terrible in that. I mean everybody was bad in it - Julie Christie was bad in it, for god's sake - but he was really, really bad. But hot! He looked very hot, swishing about in his half cape, being godawful. So... so? I don't know. I have no idea. I can't really judge him off of one terrible movie. And he's lucky enough to be spouting Diablo Cody dialogue, so half the battle's already been fought in his favor. Plus... hot. I mean, all I really need to know is, will he be swallowing an eyeball? Because that's the most important thing.

Klaatu Barada Shiloh

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I have not read and I have no plans to read any of the scripts that have been floating around for the remake reboot whatever of The Evil Dead, so I haven't really gotten a handle on what the deal is with it, story-wise. I know the basic idea - that it's about a group of friends who go to The Cabin in order to detox one of their female friends, who's been hooked on the bad stuff (or the good stuff, depending on your point of view).

What I'm not sure about is what they're doing regarding as Ash type of character - I hope you know Ash is the Bruce Campbell character, but if you don't: Educate yourself, fool! - I've heard competing things. That it'll be the girl getting detoxed who ends up being the lead (when Lily Collins was set to play her that's what I'd heard, but now Lily Collins is not attached to the movie anymore), that there is no Ash-type character at all. 

And now I see that the actor Shiloh Fernandez has been cast as "the male lead," so who knows. I mean the press release goes out of its way to say there is no "Ash character" but really whoever lives to kick demon ass another day is "the Ash character" aren't they? Are they telling us nobody lives? Or that nobody kicks any demon ass? Because an Evil Dead without demon ass-kicking is not an Evil Dead at all.

I digress. I don't even want to know the answers to all this beforehand, because I'd like to have some surprises in store when I eventually see the movie. I mean that's doubtful, but it would be nice.

Okay, so Shiloh. I have ogled Shiloh several times (here and here and here) - and now that's he's the lead in a horror movie I will totally be blogging the hell out of between now and its eventual release I guess I should finally give him his own tag here at the blog, lucky him - but the only thing I've ever seen him in was Red Riding Hood, and he was just fucking terrible in that. I mean everybody was bad in it - Julie Christie was bad in it, for god's sake - but he was really, really bad. But hot! He looked very hot, swishing about in his half cape, being godawful. So... so? I don't know. I have no idea. I can't really judge him off of one terrible movie. And he's lucky enough to be spouting Diablo Cody dialogue, so half the battle's already been fought in his favor. Plus... hot. I mean, all I really need to know is, will he be swallowing an eyeball? Because that's the most important thing.

I Am Link

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--- Conjuring Couple - Just yesterday we told you about Patrick Wilson reteaming with Insidious director James Wan along with Vera Farmiga for The Conjuring, a tale of a couple of real-world paranormal investigators and frauds - today we hear that Office Space's Ron Livingston and The Haunting remake's Lili Taylor (Never Forget) are also in talks to join it. They'll play the people getting haunted who call in Patty & Vera for aid. If Lili starts talking to cherubs in the curtains, I'm out.

--- Hell Day - So happy to have Final Girl restarting the Film Club after a bit of a hiatus - February 13th is the date and Hell Night is the movie. I cannot remember if I've seen Hell Night before or not, so a rewatch is surely in order.

--- Kim Bits - I think I mention this every time I link to something at Sunset Gun, but I only go over there every couple of months since Kim doesn't update that often, and then I've got like five or six wonderful pieces to chew on, and it is a delight. So goes this time - here's Kim talking about Melancholia (plus a list of the rest of her 2011 faves), here she is talking about Hitchcock's blondes, and here she is talking about Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece Eyes Wide Shut, which I still can't believe is as underrated as it is.

--- Hello Goodbye - io9's list of movies we'll probably never ever get to see because of their irretrievable histories is fascinating.

--- DaKayed - A couple great things from Glenn at Stale Popcorn to link to: here's his take on the wonderful little gay romance Weekend, notable for its inclusion of gifs of White Collar's Tim DeKay stripping his clothes off in the gay movie Big Eden. I had never seen Tim with his clothes off, and now I need to see much much more. And here's Glenn talking about the possibility of a fifth Scream movie, a dream he had about what it would be (and it's a great idea), and his worthwhile affection for Hayden Panettiere's movie buff Kirby in the fourth movie.

--- Video Dream - This review I am linking to over at AICN has spoilers so I haven't even read it myself, but I'm using it as an opportunity to say I have read the headlines about the new anthology horror movie V/H/S that just played at Sundance and Oh my god I want it right now!!! I actually already mentioned it the other week - the director of the one of the segments is Ti West, so obviously I was going to want to watch this thing anyway. But the reviews have been, judging solely from the headlines to avoid spoilers, stellar, and now I will spend however many endless months waiting for this to get released whining about it. So I am preparing you for my whining basically. Be prepared!

--- Over and Evil Out - Phil Collins' daughter Lily has had to drop out of the Evil Dead remake due to some kind of a scheduling conflict. I think it's really because of that disturbing gif I made when I first heard the news of her casting, to be honest. Who will they get to replace her? Someone I actually like? Stay tuned!

--- And finally, I was inspired by Nathaniel's talk at Towleroad of the 1927 silent classic and first Best Picture winner Wings' release onto BluRay this week to make this gif, the end.

I Am Link

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--- Conjuring Couple - Just yesterday we told you about Patrick Wilson reteaming with Insidious director James Wan along with Vera Farmiga for The Conjuring, a tale of a couple of real-world paranormal investigators and frauds - today we hear that Office Space's Ron Livingston and The Haunting remake's Lili Taylor (Never Forget) are also in talks to join it. They'll play the people getting haunted who call in Patty & Vera for aid. If Lili starts talking to cherubs in the curtains, I'm out.

--- Hell Day - So happy to have Final Girl restarting the Film Club after a bit of a hiatus - February 13th is the date and Hell Night is the movie. I cannot remember if I've seen Hell Night before or not, so a rewatch is surely in order.

--- Kim Bits - I think I mention this every time I link to something at Sunset Gun, but I only go over there every couple of months since Kim doesn't update that often, and then I've got like five or six wonderful pieces to chew on, and it is a delight. So goes this time - here's Kim talking about Melancholia (plus a list of the rest of her 2011 faves), here she is talking about Hitchcock's blondes, and here she is talking about Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece Eyes Wide Shut, which I still can't believe is as underrated as it is.

--- Hello Goodbye - io9's list of movies we'll probably never ever get to see because of their irretrievable histories is fascinating.

--- DaKayed - A couple great things from Glenn at Stale Popcorn to link to: here's his take on the wonderful little gay romance Weekend, notable for its inclusion of gifs of White Collar's Tim DeKay stripping his clothes off in the gay movie Big Eden. I had never seen Tim with his clothes off, and now I need to see much much more. And here's Glenn talking about the possibility of a fifth Scream movie, a dream he had about what it would be (and it's a great idea), and his worthwhile affection for Hayden Panettiere's movie buff Kirby in the fourth movie.

--- Video Dream - This review I am linking to over at AICN has spoilers so I haven't even read it myself, but I'm using it as an opportunity to say I have read the headlines about the new anthology horror movie V/H/S that just played at Sundance and Oh my god I want it right now!!! I actually already mentioned it the other week - the director of the one of the segments is Ti West, so obviously I was going to want to watch this thing anyway. But the reviews have been, judging solely from the headlines to avoid spoilers, stellar, and now I will spend however many endless months waiting for this to get released whining about it. So I am preparing you for my whining basically. Be prepared!

--- Over and Evil Out - Phil Collins' daughter Lily has had to drop out of the Evil Dead remake due to some kind of a scheduling conflict. I think it's really because of that disturbing gif I made when I first heard the news of her casting, to be honest. Who will they get to replace her? Someone I actually like? Stay tuned!

--- And finally, I was inspired by Nathaniel's talk at Towleroad of the 1927 silent classic and first Best Picture winner Wings' release onto BluRay this week to make this gif, the end.

I Have To Go To The Dentist Now

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And that's how it makes me feel. (via)

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I Have To Go To The Dentist Now

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And that's how it makes me feel. (via)

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