Thursday 25th August
'Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark' 6.30pm
Here it is, the big opener: Del Toro's latest role in the producers chair. From the footage thats been released it promises, if nothing else, to contain some stellar jumps and gorgeous cinematography. Looks to be akinto Joe Dante's 'The Hole' (2010), amped and ramped up, and with some rhyme and reason to the spooky goings on to boot. Can Del Toro's productorial hand guide this to be on par with The Orphanage? Lots more footage to come on this one.
'Final Destination 5' 9.15pm
So apparently David Ellis' 4th installment was not 'THE Final Destination'; but we all knew that. Who cares. The 'Final Destination' are great fun and a packed cinema of true horror fans (several on the side of inebriation) will surely be the best place to cheer/jeer along to this deathfest. With rumored uppings of Tony Todd's role, the brilliant Nicholas D'Agosto and Emma Bell (of Frozen and Walking Dead fame), and several pre-lim' reviews saying its the best of the bunch, I gotta say, it looks good. Plus, I defy anyone to not wince at the gymnast backflipping onto the nail scene. Nasty.
And finally in our introduction to 2011's festivities is
'The Theatre Bizarre' 11.30pm
A horror anthology, Udo Kier as a human puppet, graphic vomiting,a cinema called The Theatre Guignol (Hey Gordon-Lewis fans) , severed achiles tendons, a vagina with pincers, an 8/10 from Bloodydisgusting.com's Brad Miska and effects.by.Savini.(Need i say more). This simply looks incredible; freaky, grimy, funny, and best of all genuinely disturbing. Plus check out it's poster.
I love me some protein
'Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark' 6.30pm
Here it is, the big opener: Del Toro's latest role in the producers chair. From the footage thats been released it promises, if nothing else, to contain some stellar jumps and gorgeous cinematography. Looks to be akinto Joe Dante's 'The Hole' (2010), amped and ramped up, and with some rhyme and reason to the spooky goings on to boot. Can Del Toro's productorial hand guide this to be on par with The Orphanage? Lots more footage to come on this one.
'Final Destination 5' 9.15pm
So apparently David Ellis' 4th installment was not 'THE Final Destination'; but we all knew that. Who cares. The 'Final Destination' are great fun and a packed cinema of true horror fans (several on the side of inebriation) will surely be the best place to cheer/jeer along to this deathfest. With rumored uppings of Tony Todd's role, the brilliant Nicholas D'Agosto and Emma Bell (of Frozen and Walking Dead fame), and several pre-lim' reviews saying its the best of the bunch, I gotta say, it looks good. Plus, I defy anyone to not wince at the gymnast backflipping onto the nail scene. Nasty.
And finally in our introduction to 2011's festivities is
'The Theatre Bizarre' 11.30pm
A horror anthology, Udo Kier as a human puppet, graphic vomiting,a cinema called The Theatre Guignol (Hey Gordon-Lewis fans) , severed achiles tendons, a vagina with pincers, an 8/10 from Bloodydisgusting.com's Brad Miska and effects.by.Savini.(Need i say more). This simply looks incredible; freaky, grimy, funny, and best of all genuinely disturbing. Plus check out it's poster.
I love me some protein
Also worth noting, may this be the double showing with the highest body count ever? What with it being a FD movie and an anthology (that looks to be sustainably gory) back to back? Place your bets on deaths folks, I want guesses in the comments. Whoever gets closest will win a meal with Katie Holmes.*
Oh yeah, and all of these are the films UK premieres. Any chance of spotting Guillermo? Tom Savini? Jeremy Kasten?
*This may not be true, but on request I can always procure a wig.
Just seen this on TotalFilm's website about the 3D footage from Final Destination 5 at Comic-Con:
ReplyDelete'But, surprisingly, the 3D highlight [at Comic-Con] turned out to be a fun sneak peek at franchise horror Final Destination 5. After a montage of grisly deaths from previous instalments proved that retro-fitted 3D can work, we were treated to the shot-in-3D bridge disaster from the new film. Limbs, entrails and metal rods were all chucked at the audience, who were whooping and wincing in equal measure.'