In space, no one can tell it's a rip off!

The full trailer for PANDORUM appeared online this week. Pandorum? It's a (new) sci-fi horror starring Dennis Quaid from the producers of Resident Evil (Eeeek!). We were thrown a teaser trailer a few months back and a couple of weird posters that made it seem like Pandorum was yet another take on 'people go crazy in space' that we've seen in 2001, Event Horizon, Sunshine, even the recent Moon with Sam Rockwell. However this full trailer has changed everything, for the worst. While Pandorum still looks very much like Event Horizon (I still can't believe a film that bad keeps getting copied) many comments on the net have sited Aliens as the obvious influence. I would disagree. While the grunge of Ridley Scott's original Alien is apparent (Event Horizon ripped that off too) Pandorum looks so much like Alien: Resurrection its ridiculous. What we see of the sets look very similar, there's goo and slime, there's space pirate like characters, an underwater scene, but most strikingly similar is the character played by new comer Antje Traue to Sigourney Weaver's half-alien-half-human Ripley. They even wear the same wardrobe and greasy hair! (See above). I know its unfair to prejudge a movie based on its trailer, however more often these days a bad trailer usually means a really bad movie because even a really great trailer can be for a sinker flick. One saving grace for Pandorum, the quick flash of some kind of alien, mutant, zombie child at the trailers end. Could it be the only original thing left floating around in the depths of cinematic space? Oh wait, Alien: Resurrection had the New Born!


Alien: Resurrection's trailer itself lives up to the addage of good trailer, not so great film.

TRAILER: Jennifer's Body

There’s only one good thing about Michael Bay’s big dumb Transformers sequel. It’s that 20th Century Fox has finally unleashed their trailer for JENNIFER’S BODY to capitalise on all the Megan Fox hype. The foxy (and a little plastic) Megan is the titular Jennifer and the trailer gives us a good look at the titular body… hers. I wasn’t a fan of screenwriter Diablo Cody’s gen-Y platitudes in Juno, but here, in a high concept high camp horror comedy romp her words might just have found a palatable home. Horror comedy is definitely one of the hardest genre combos to get right and only a few have succeeded (Ghostbusters, Shaun Of the Dead) however it looks as though Jen might have a fighting chance. For a start the premise elicits a cheeky smile. Struggling goth band sacrifices a virgin to Satan to ensure their musical success, but, oh no, the virgin is actually the sluttiest cheerleader in town, hence the sacrifice goes wrong and slutty virgin becomes a man eating demon! As I’m not at all swayed by Megan’s T&A, this camera candy starlet has been nothing more than window dressing in all her other roles, but here it appears Megan has a chance to showcase some comic timing and indulge in some self parody. After all Megan is playing a man eating gorgeous cheerleader, not too much of a stretch I would think. The only misgiving I would have about JENNIFER’S BODY at this stage is that its soundtrack could be wall to wall gen-y garbage, which they promo on the title cards at the end of the trailer.

Bastardised DVD Jacket - Near Dark

Is nothing sacred? Well, no... I already knew that.

Katherine Bigelow's 1987 vampire genre bender NEAR DARK has just been re-issued on DVD in the US. Sounds like good news right? Except that the shameful DVD distributor has re-designed the cover art to mirror TWILIGHT. As many of you would know the two films could not be more disparate. Its kind of like when the recent Swedish vampire film LET THE RIGHT ONE IN was marketed as being 'for those who enjoyed Twilight'. If any 14 yr old girls took that advise, the cleaners in those cinemas would have had their work cut out for them.

Its apparent who the real blood suckers are.

Random Horror Hotties

Check out another of my blogs www.randomhorrorhotties.blogspot.com and suggest some horror hotties of your own...

Demons Of Technology

We all know deep down inside that the technological conveniences of our modern world contain vicious demons just waiting to be released from their circuitry prisons. The video below shows spectacularly how to exorcise the demons from you mobile (cell) phone by using an everyday household microwave... just remember to stand back.

Editorial: The Films Of 1984 - Part 1

Head over to my 'non-horror' blog (http://www.thingsiveseenheard.blogspot.com/) and have a read of the first installment of my editorial on The Films Of 1984. You really won't believe how many pivotal films were released in that particular year (including some of our favourite horrors). Its even harder to believe the year 1984 was a whole generation ago (25 years) which makes the films of that year all the more interesting as many of them are still revered, loved, remade and revisited today.