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When I first began this blog I began a furtive search for every reputable horror website on the internet. Faced with a seemingly insurmountable task, and, eventually, the less-than-startling realization that all the major ones essentially feed on each other, I stopped and used a select few for horror news. One of those few is Quiet Earth, a site that devotes its space to covering films of the post-apocalyptic sub-genre. The beauty of subjectivity and interpretation allows them the opportunity to report on films that skirt in-your-face PA stories in favor of “what-if” story lines and the like. It is not a strictly horror website, but it does the online horror community a service by discussing and bringing to our attention a large number of films that are often overlooked by the “major” horror news sites. While B-D is busy peddling Alexandre Aja’s latest abortion, PA is bringing to us little-known or barely discussed independent films covering everything from horror to science fiction to romantic comedy.

So now you know. On to everything else.

Who here has heard of Neil Blomkamp? He was attached to what I can only presume is the now dead-in-the-water adaptation of Halo written by Alex Garland. Not many people know of him, so here is your opportunity to learn how he and Peter Jackson are going to blow our minds with District 9.

Some time ago he directed a short film called Alive in Joburg, a brilliant little piece filmed in part-documentary/part-cinema verite style that centers on a South African town and the alien refugees within. Much like Shawn Aker’s 9, which was picked up by Tim Burton and made into a feature film, Blomkamp and one Peter Jackson have teamed up to adapt Joburg for the big screen in a film titled District 9. It looks incredible, and will surely have people inventing a whole host of allegorical connections between the film and contentious issues such as immigration and the war and some other bullshit no one really cares about anymore. Short film and trailer below.