Cult Movies

I realize this still makes it look like they’re something interesting in Ghosthouse…DON’T FALL FOR IT! The beastie here looks a lot more impressive in the still than it does in the film, maybe because it’s awkward movements reveal it’s phony nature. Sadly, I could not find a picture of the killer fan, so this concludes our tribute to Ghosthouse, starring Patrick Swayze. Related PostsMonster of the Day #682 (May 3, 2013) Monster of the Day #681 (May 2, 2013) Monster of the Day #680 (Apr 23, 2013) Monster of the Day #679 (Apr 22, 2013) Monster of the Day #677 (Apr 18, 2013)

In a nutshell: It's been a while, but Sofie's making a comeback with a new series of short videos simply recommending movies that she happens to like. First up is Kick-Ass, the superhero action comedy based on the comic book of the same name, starring Aaron Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Nicolas Cage.

What if you could record all your brain activity on tape for anyone in the world to experience? The same smells, tastes, even emotions just as you felt them. Sure you could experience things like skydiving without ever having to leave your couch. Or scale the Himalayans while riding the bus. But then there’s that stench filled cab ride you had last week where your friend threw up on your docker pants. Now a total stranger can enjoy that too. You could even eat a glazed donut burger and still technically be Vegan thus keeping your hipster street creed… because much like your hipster street cred, it’s all in your mind. In 1983’s Brainstorm, Christopher Walken plays Dr. Michael Brace an eccentric scientist who hangs out with his Chain smoking lab partner Lillian (Louise Fletcher.) Most of their day is spent poking monkeys and wearing wired up space helmets while playing rock em’ sock em’ robots. Normally this is where government grants go to die but one day they discover they can actually record a persons memories on laser tape. It’s the Facebook of the future.They decide to take the invention on the road and record everything they can find with a lab tech wearing a recording helmet. There’s racing cars, going down a waterside, having sex, trying out some equestrian (not necessarily in that order.) Things you could have never experienced yourself without the aide of “TECHONOLOGY!” Their boss loves the demo tape but then boots from the project so it can be packaged up and sold as a home console and to military contractors. Michael with some free time on his hands uses the new invention for some couples therapy. His wife Karen is played by Natalie Woods and she’s just about to sign the divorce papers until he makes a memory tape for her showing all the good times from their marriage. Scrapbookers eat your heart out. Meanwhile Lillian has a heart attack back at the lab but records her death for scientific study and likely some smut sections at Thailandese video stores. The tape is put under lock and key while the government also takes over the technology to use it for “peaceful military purpose.” Peaceful in that they’ll peacefully torture and brainwash any suspecting commies they can hook it up to. Michael’s son accidentally tries one of these brainwash tapes making him wacko so Michael goes on a crusade to destroy the project. His robot war knowledge comes in handy as he hacks into the lab computer causing the robots to go on a rampage destroying the brainstorm assembly line. He then gets access to his lab partners death tape so that he can experience some extreme chest pains and the ending to 2001: A space odyssey. While plugged into the death tape at a pay phone, his wife shows up, they hug and he mumbles something about the stars, the Wright Brothers and needing more cowbell. Wow, the hippies were out in full force on this one folks. Barry Goodall says get plugged in with Brainstorm so that you too can experience a couple hours of brainwashing torture.  Let’s just hope that Apple or Google doesn’t make one of these things anytime soon. DOS Intrigue interactive all you can eat buffets giant brain helmets virtual ardvarking interactive chimpanzee multiple heart attacks Lost IMAX footage chainsmoking lab technician 2 BLOOD just a nose bleed 5 BREASTS Virtual nookie stuck on loop 2 BEASTS Just a chimpanzee 2.7 OVERALL Check out this trailer for “Brainstorm”

It actually took a moment of consideration to decide whether to post the new trailer for the Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg/Nick Frost sci-fi comedy The World's End. It's not that I don't want to see the movie, on the contrary, I'm all up for the boys and a romp through a pub crawl that somehow is interrupted by an alien invasion, but this trailer isn't quite as good as the first. [Continued ...]

It's been a few weeks since we checked in with Franck Khalfoun's Maniac remake. At the time a new trailer had just been released to coincide with the movie's UK release in March and it's only appropriate that this new check-in involves another trailer and poster, this time for the movie's forthcoming US release. [Continued ...]

A brilliant PhD candidate at Yale, Paul is making some big changes in his personal and professional life. He's just taken the big leap and moved in with his girlfriend while on the professional front he's being prodded to submit some work on his dissertation, the project that will guide his professional future. He's doing badly at both. He's freaking out and rather than taking a step back and re-evaluating the situation, he obsesses and when it appears that he left his copy of "Little Dorrit" at his old apartment, the subject of his dissertation, he becomes obsessed with getting it back. [Continued ...]

So far they are solely working with Warners and have only licensed three teen-oriented properties; Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girls and Vampire Diaries. However, if this works, I expect to see an explosion in this sort of thing. I can only assume they started kicking the can on this idea after noting the ASTOUNDING success of the 50 Shades of Gray sex books, which apparently started out as Twilight fan fic. Those things have made like a billion dollars (maybe literally), and I’m sure others would like a piece of that action. The books would presumably be non-canon, and also I’d have to guess would be vetted by the owners of whatever franchise you’re talking about. Still, it in a way it would be like comic book work for hire; you wouldn’t own the rights to anything–I wouldn’t surprised if any characters you added to the books ended up being owned by Warners, etc., but you would earn a 35% commission on sales of your work. Legally. The ramifications are too big to figure out immediately. But presumably you will eventually be able to do crossovers (Pretty Little Liars meets Vampire Diaries!). And if this spreads, comics could start coming out like this–do your own Spider-Man comics!!–or films or whatever. Neat. I have to admit, I’m always interested in corporations who are smart enough to think outside the box like this. If this takes off, imagine what things might be like 20 years from now.

In a nutshell: Warning: This video is in Spanish with English subtitles! Renegado plays the notoriously awful Atari 2600 game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (unsold cartridges of which are allegedly filling up a New Mexico landfill), which gets him really angry, until he realizes how stupid it is to get worked up over a video game.

Producers Ant Timpson and Tim League are releasing The ABCs of Death... as a children's book. [Continued ...]

Solomon Kane, the fabled swashbuckling Puritan from the mind of Robert E. Howard, is finally hitting Blu-ray on July 16, 2013. The film is now available for pre-order. [Continued ...]