Ask FlickChick Aliens in Love The Sarah Connor Chronicles an Italian Cinderella and more movie answersQuestion I know this isnt strictly speaking a movie question but I thought you might know the answer anyway In the third episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles theres a terminator thats putting together a whole terminator factory and theres a company truck with a Japanese name is it a reference to something in the movies And is the story Sarah keeps talking about from a movie it sounds kind of familiar to me Thanks GregFlichChick The name on the truck is Tetsuo and its not an allusion to the Terminator movies Its sort of an in-joke a sly reference to a bizarre Japanese movie called Tetsuo The Iron Man 1989 about a man who begins finding scraps of metal growing out of his body and is gradually transformed into a perverse human-machine hybridThe story Sarah talks about is a Jewish folktale in which a rabbi builds an artificial man a
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkI cant believe Re-Animator one of my great horror-movie viewing experiences of the 1980s is more than 20 years old But the release of a new two-disc special-edition DVD from Anchor Bay is an excellent excuse to revisit it in DVD Tuesday The 1980 success of Friday the 13th launched a string of stalk-and-slash movies and while the cream of the slasher crop includes some top-notch fright flicks overall its not my favorite kind of horror film Which only makes Re-Animator that much more delightfully surprising A throwback to the golden age of manmade-monster movies based on HP Lovecrafts then little-known Herbert West Re-Animator master of horror Stuart Gordons debut film manages the tricky feat of being genuinely shocking and genuinely funnyLet me be clear I hate horror comedies in general and horror spoofs in particular But Re-Animator doesnt make f
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Read the Re-Animator Reanimated DVD Tuesday blogSend your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkOn the occasion of a new DVD of Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon shared some thoughts with Maitland McDonagh about horror humor and severed headsMaitland McDonagh Re-Animator continues to attract new viewers while many of its contemporaries are gathering dust on the shelves WhyStuart Gordon Re-Animator is into its third generation now which I think is partly because it can still take people by surprise Dr Hill [David Gale] is an outrageous character -- I mean hes lusting after that poor girl even when hes a severed head being carried around in a bag But I think its also Dr West [Jeffrey Combs] Hes so myopic so possessed by the vision of what he wants to do to the exclusion of everything else that his mania is funny and horrifying at the same time And when you look past the corpses I think a
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Now Fear This!
Ah... my favorite time of year... the leaves are turning, Halloween plans churning, and Masters of Horror Season 2 is off to a screaming premiere tomorrow night [10PM ET/PT on Showtime]. As I weave my dark tvguide.com web here for the new season, I wanted to give Season 1 a short "re-capitation," and take us all through Season 2 "ghoul school."The Premise and The ExtremeMasters of Horror began as a dinner conversation among acclaimed horror directors, which soon became TV history-in-the-making. Director Mick Garris became the series Creator and Executive Producer, and his vision was to allow the "chosen 13" directors as much creative freedom possible. Showtime was up for this premise, and without MPAA intervention, 13 seriously extreme 1-hour horror films found a home on cable TV.And Then There Were 12The horror and cult community eagerly anticipated the 13th and final episode, directed by Japan's legendary Takashi Miike [Audition; Ichi the Killer]. However, finding it way too extre...
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