New Cloverfield trailer

Monday, November 19th, 2007 • Horrorthon Posts

The much-anticipated second trailer of Cloverfield (or whatever it’s actually called) is now available here at Apple.

I suspect a bunch of you already saw this in front of Naked Fake Angelina this weekend, but here it is in more accessible form so we can all pore over it.

ADDENDUM: How about that: the movie actually is called Cloverfield. Everyone was anticipating the actual title (and worrying that it would be something dumb like The Big Monster or Gigantic!) while referring to the “Blue Harvest”-style code-name “Cloverfield” as an “open secret.” And it turns out they just called it Cloverfield.

One thing that’s been obvious for a while about this flick: There sure ain’t no happy ending. It looks like Blair Witch meets War of the Worlds by way of the Godzilla trailer (minus the odious actual Godzilla movie).

Happy Halloween!

Thursday, November 1st, 2007 • Horrorthon Posts

Year-By-Year With Friday The 13th

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 • Horrorthon Posts

The always excellent Onion AV Club has a great Noel Murray essay today, called Year-By-Year With Friday The 13th:

Whole books have been written about the conservative-leaning “sex = death” politics of early-’80s slasher films and the Friday The 13th series in particular. But since, the Friday The 13th saga stretches from 1980 to 2003 (so far), has it had anything else to say about the world in which we’ve lived? Has it changed along with that world? Can you flip past Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and instantly recognize that it came out in 1989? Short answer: Yes. For the long answer, read the survey below…”

Highly recommended.

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