Horror, Wes Anderson-ized

This superb SNL horror send-up of Wes Anderson popped up around Halloween but I haven't been able to find a non-geo-blocked clip until a friend alerted me to this site a couple of days ago. It's done amazingly well, aping Anderson's character types, colour schemes and symmetrical compositions to bring us a version of a slasher movie if had been made by Anderson himself. Click here for an in-depth breakdown of how it was all achieved.

Preview of Horror Titles Coming in October!

Halloween's coming up in a month's time so here's a heads-up on the spooky treats you can find in October:

Byzantium (trailer)
The Night Visitor (trailer)
Sharknado (trailer)
Girls Against Boys (trailer)
No One Lives (trailer)
Frankenstein's Army (trailer)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (trailer)
Frankenstein Created Women (trailer)
Friday the 13th - The Series
Aftershock (trailer)
World War Z (trailer)
The Purge (trailer)
Curse of Chucky (trailer)
The Crocodile (trailer)
Rancid (trailer)
A Haunted House (trailer)

Also: Blu-rays for Carrie, Last House on the Left, Slither.

Happy Halloweeen!

Apologies for the lack of blog action lately - have been flat-out working on the new games section! I'll try to drop in whenever I can though. Until then have a great halloween and hope you've all got some good horror movies lined up to watch!!

For the Star Wars Fan with Everything #16

Poor pup, but oh so adorable...

 (via Cute Overload)

Scorsese's Top 11 Scariest Horror Films

This is a bit late, but better late than never... last week Martin Scorsese shared with The Daily Beast his Top 11 favourite horror flicks. Cool to see less-recognised titles like Dead of Night and The Entity in there with the usual suspects. Also dig his line about Psycho - "the shower... the swamp... the relationship between the mother and son" - it's a film that's so often imitated and lampooned people tend to take for granted its under-the-skin creepiness. This here is a man with taste.

Most of them are available to rent from fatso:

1. The Haunting

2. Isle of the Dead

3. The Uninvited (where's the DVD dammit!)

4. The Entity

5. Dead of Night

6. The Changeling

7. The Shining

8. The Exorcist

9. Night of the Demon

10. The Innocents

11. Psycho

Zombieland

It's Halloween tomorrow, so to get you in the mood, here's a post solely focused on nothing but zombies, zombies and zombies...

First item of interest: [REC] 2. If you haven't already heard, there's a marketing challenge out there to create as much buzz as possible for the New Zealand theatrical release of this sequel to the Spanish horror hit. There have been some cool ideas floating around already - visit the website to see them - and one of the niftiest is probably the zombie insurance auction ("Revenant Emergency Coverage 2") that's up on trademe at the moment (Bid now to avoid losing out...).

This Balloon Boy mash-up is cool too:


[REC] 2 opens on November 13, and is having its premiere this weekend at the very sold-out Vendetta Films 24 Hour Movie Marathon (which a few of us here at fatso are crazy enough to attend).

For those going out trick or treatin' (probably no one in that age group will be reading this) or dress-up Halloween parties and need some tips, check out this amazing zombie invasion in Monroeville, Pennsylvania where around 2000 people, fully caked in pasty, skin-peeling make-up, took to the mall where Dawn of the Dead was shot. Read more here.

Meanwhile, in Iowa, a man was called a zombie and punched twice (!?).

24 Hour Movie Marathon Returns for Halloween!

It's that time of the year again... that annual endurance-testin' gathering of movie maniacs known as the 24 Hour Movie Marathon is back and best of all, it's all going down on Halloween! There's a new sponsor on board for the event, Vendetta Films (web; twitter), who're one of our favourite DVD suppliers of cult and foreign/festival flicks. This year also marks the marathon's 10th Anniversary, so we're expecting something special and nothing less than than the marathon that'll go down as THE ONE in history books. Join the facebook event here to see what it's all about and get the latest news and updates.