Posts Tagged ‘horror’

Sharktopus

Monday, July 26th, 2010

As the blog headline suggests - this is about Sharktopus, the latest release from Roger Corman. The trailer is fucking awesome. It’s like: Beach Blanket Bingo meets Jaws meets It Came From Beneath the Sea meets Eric Roberts and then skull fucks the entire audience.

For a sequel maybe Shaktopus can devour all the spilled oil in the gulf - and the entire BP corporation - and then swim off into the sunset until he/she is needed again. Just like a reformed Godzilla helping to repair post-war Japan’s fractured sense of identity. That would mean Corman’s gonna need a couple of really tiny twins to narrate this shit. How’s he gonna afford that?

God - show business can be SO complex.

Cheers.

P.S. I just remembered - Corman simply doesn’t afford this shit. I can hear the production meeting now:

“CG? Midgets? Screw that! Hire Mary-Kate and Ashley for an hour, we’ll put the camera on a ladder so they look short, just have ‘em wobble their mouths around for a while and we’ll dub in whatever chipmunk-voiced crap we want to. What are sitting there for? GO!”

B-Movies!!

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Shouting B-Movies isn’t as cool as shouting WOLVERINES!! but for today it’ll have to do.

My sister, Toni, sent me a link for the AMCTV B-Movies site and it is just chock full of delicious cheese.

Old Roger Corman flicks, Hercules sand and sandal epics, John Carpenter’s cult fave Dark Star, biker movies and all sorts of really awfully wonderfully crappy drive-in movie fare.

It’s like I’m back in my youth and staying up to the wee hours on a school night just to watch old films on CKVR because my little hole of a town didn’t have a movie theatre.

That’s a long winded way of saying I’ve been busy trying to get the next episode of In Teh Toobs finished - almost done - while also trying to get the Ruffus site launched - not nearly as done as I like to be - while also trying to write a script for another project - I am so fucked on that one - and at the same time trying to write a couple of decent blog posts here that aren’t just lame ass pathetic embeds of somebody else’s cool videos cuz I’m too damned lazy to finish my own shit - guilty as charged - and on top of all that I had to throw together a quick collection of shows I’ve worked on for a possible show runner gig that - knowing my luck - will never see the light of day but I’m keeping my fingers crossed cuz I could use a paying gig right about now.

Okay?

Happy now?

No?

Okay - relax - sit back - get yerself some popcorn - and watch a very young Robert Vaughn in Roger Corman’s 1958 classic Teenage Caveman.

Thanks, Toni!

I just blew off the rest of my afternoon.

Cheers.


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