Rant: I hate Megan Fox

July 2, 2009

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The interblags have been all atwitter over the forthcoming release of Juno scribe Diablo Cody’s next film, a horror-comedy titled Jennifer’s Body. Aside from simply being another horror comedy, it stars Megan Fox, the Angelina Jolie doppelganger and star of the Transformers films, a fact seemingly more important than anything else related to the film. [...]

Lars von Trier, torture porn, and Eli Roth

August 10, 2008

Mr. Disgusting over at Bloody-Disgusting reported a week and a half ago that Lars von Trier secured financing for his horror film AntiChrist. Filming is set to commence in Cologne, Germany, and is centered on “a couple mourning the loss of their child who retreat to a cabin in the woods, where they soon encounter [...]

Alexandre Aja

July 25, 2008

I have not seen the first three films by Alexandre Aja, though I suspect most have not. His magnum opus might be considered Haute Tension had the script not degraded into a cheap M. Night Shayamalan rip-off, rendering the first half of the movie completely implausible and utterly stupid. Though this made the film absolutely [...]

An open letter to J. S. Cardone

July 21, 2008

Mr. Cardone,
I remember seeing an advertisement for your film, Wicked Little Things, over two years ago. It was one of the eight that make up the 8 Films to Die For in 2006, and despite the presence of a film starring Snoop Dogg, I was really looking forward to it. Your movie stood out the [...]