The Walking Dead !

cam au dreptate !!!
odata e Frank Darabont, apoi e comic-ul cult f. bun (80 de episoade pina acum), ongoing and neverending still, creat de Robert Kirkman in 2003 (image comics)
"a continuing story of survival horror"

pe lista empire de 30 comic books esentiale e nr. 8
e survival horror crincen si sunt zombi vs. oamenii supravietuitori in ce mai buna traditie Romero

au fost 4 episoade pe amc pina acum si mai sunt 2 din primul sezon (pt ca s-a anuntat si doiul !)

mai sunt si efectele lui Greg Nicotero

"We hope to do for zombies what Mad Men did for advertising!"
(Frank Darabont)

RIP Julien Guiomar, Ingrid Pitt & proiectionistul de la Studio

aflu de la the house next door:
Julien Guiomar and Ingrid Pitt have passed. You may know him as the Spanish pirest from Luis Buñuel's The Milky Way and her for traipsing through a number of Hammer films.
Pe Guiomar, character actor mai ales de comedie il stiu din
La moutarde me monte au nez (imi sare tandara) cu Pierre Richard, din Zizania si Aripioara sau picior, cu Luis De Funes, din Mirii anului II filmat in Romania in 1970, cu Belmondo si tot cu el Incorigibilul si Animalul, si cu el si Alain Delon in Borsalino si doar Delon in Alibi pentru un prieten (La mort d'un pourri). A murit pe 22 noiembrie, avea 82 de ani.

Ingrid Pitt , actrita-cult, The Queen of Scream, “the most beautiful ghoul in the world”, avea 73 de ani. A jucat in Unde se avinta vulturii (Where Eagles Dare, 1968) cu Richard Burton si Clint, si in Who Dares Wins (1982), cu SAS comando. Dar rolul emblematic este din The Vampire Lovers (1970, Roy Ward BAker, dupa Carmilla de Sheridan Le Fanu, horror leasbian erotic Hammer, si Contesa Dracula (1971). A jucat si in Wicker man, originalul din 1973 (v. post anterior Cage!). A debutat in Dr. Jivago (1965), intr-un rolisor. A scris carti, romanul de spionaj The Cuckoo Run, aparut in 1980, un altul despre familia Peron in 1984 si autobiografia, Life's A Scream (1999). A murit la Londra pe 23 noiembrie, la 2 zile dupa ziua ei.
articol memorial excelent in New York Times
un colaj cu ea de pe youtube:

biografie fascinanta:

Pitt was born Ingoushka Petrov in Poland to a German father and a Polish Jewish mother. During World War II she and her family were imprisoned in a concentration camp. She survived and in Berlin in the 1950s met and married an American soldier and ended up living in California. After her marriage failed, she returned to Europe but after a small role in a film, she headed to Hollywood where she worked as a waitress while trying to make a career in the movies. Her natural hair colour was brown, though she frequently lightened it to blonde.

sit oficial, pittofhorror
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si asta seara (vineri, 26 nov) proiectionistul veteran de la Studio, in timp ce proiecta EUROPOLIS, la premiera, la inceputul proiectiei, de atac de cord. Numele lui e Constantin Munteanu si avea 68 de ani. Cred ca a proiectat multe din filmele despre care am scris mai sus (cele frantuzesti f4 sure). A fost macabru mai ales in contextul filmului, despre moarte si care se incheie cu o inmormintare, cu tot cu sicriul-magarus in hol. Si cum am iesit a inceput ploaia. Si am aflat ca au murit 2 persoane si-n timpul filmarilor. O fi filmul cursed ? Ca e cursed 2 be bad anyway, si afisul e horror.

Nicolas Cage going nuts !

dedicat faptului ca Nic filmeaza-n tzara noastra, isi face poze cu toata lumea, cumpara pamint si apa si tablouri si l-a cunoscut si pe Herbie Hancock...

un clip priceless pe muzica lui Clint Mansell de la Requiem 4 a Dream (scos de pe youtube si bagat din nou -n.2023, sper sa si ramina!!!), cu cele mai demente momente Cage, uncaged. 

Albinele din Wicker Man sunt high ! 

-clip de Harry Hanrahan, The best video editor in the business zic ei.

0’09 - 0’30 Vampire’s Kiss

0’30 - 0’32 Ghost Rider

0’32 - 0’50 Vampire’s Kiss

0’50 - 1’11 Deadfall

1’11 - 1’19 Vampire’s Kiss

1’19 - 1’35 Deadfall (x2), Face/Off, Red Rock West (x2), Deadfall

1’35 - 1’43  Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call

1’43 - 1’47 Matchstick Men

1’47 - 1’52 Leaving Las Vegas

1’52 - 1’55 Vampire’s Kiss

1’55 - 2’03 Bringing Out the Dead, Face/Off (x2), 8mm, Adaptation, Wild at Heart

2’03 - 2’17 Windtalkers, Raising Arizona, Bringing Out the Dead, The Wicker Man

2’17 - 2’21 Vampire’s Kiss

2’21 - 2’34 Deadfall

2’35 - 3’10 The Wicker Man

 
3’10 - 3’19 Deadfall

3’19 - 3’37 The Wicker Man

3’37 - 3’43 Ghost Rider

3’43 - 4’10 Zandalee

n. 2023-meanwhile in this decade Cage became 2000% percent more Uncaged (see another clip of freakouts here)-Ghost Rider 2, Pig, Mandy, Dog Eat Dog, Hero of the Wasteland (total UFO if ever was one), Dracula in Renfield (he deserved a better movie though), also himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (which should've been great but wasn't) -best scene of the film deleted Caligari dream trip! Recently in my yearly tops I'm giving The Nicolas Cage Award to a Nic Cage film-last year's TUWOMT (only that scene!!!), 2021's Pig, 2018's Mandy. Color Out of Space was kinda dissapointing to me tho...sorry, Richard...

Topul lui Stephen King pe 2010

in fiecare an Stephen King scrie pentru Entertainment Weekly top tenul de filme. Anul asta King a vazut LET ME IN, remakeul Hammer la suedezul Let the Right One In/ Låt den rätte komma in si l-a pus pe locul intii. Zice King de remakeul lui Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), “the best horror film of the decade.” Om vedea.

Pe locul doi, The Town (premiera la noi pe 31 dec.)
pe locul trei Inception
4. The Social Network (cronica mea aici)
5. Takers (n-am vazut inca dar indoi-mash)
6. Kiss-Ass (cronica mea aici)
7. Splice (Natali plays Cronenberg, hypercool pina la jumate cind la final devine chiar thriller slash'em up banal))
8. Monsters (care vad ca nu vine la noi la cinema, iaca cronica lui Kenny aici)
9. Jackass 3D (no comment)
10. Green Zone (no comment part 2)
aici lista completa cu trailele pe horrorbid.
aici cel pe 2009,
si aici cel pe 2008