In the words of Monty Python, “Right!”
This excites me more than I can say: The Horror Channel reports that Michele Soavi’s absolutely brilliant absurdist horror film Cemetery Man is primed for DVD release this June, courtesy of horror-fan godsend Anchor Bay. Also known as Della’morte Dell’amore, this erotic, surreal, disturbing, hilarious, and deeply moving movie is one of the most singular horror-watching experiences I’ve ever had. I wrote about it extensively here. For me, this is a DVD release that’ll be tough for any other film to top this year.
While they’re strangely silent on whether its vision was motion-activated (you win, Crichton and Spielberg…for now), it appears that scientists have confirmed that the Tyrannosaurus Rex had keen senses of hearing and smell. There seems to be some dispute about whether these findings (gleaned via CT scan) indicate that the T.Rex had excellent balance as well–if it did, that would lend credence to the notion that it was a predator (as we all learned when we were in swaddling clothes) rather than a scavenger (as boring, stuffy old scientist killjoys would currently have us believe).
Bloody Disgusting brings us a pair of reasons to be wary of horror remakes (and once again, damn you, Dawn of the Dead, for being good and making it impossible for me to have a hard and fast rule against going to see the effing things at all): Wicker Man remake actress Christa Campbell reveals that the island to which Nic Cage’s character will travel is populated entirely by women, while a poster for the remake of Day of the Dead is emblazoned with the legend “FROM THE DIRECTOR OF HALLOWEEN H20.” Sigh.
Finally, god bless Bryan Alexander of Infocult for bringing my attention to an article in which scientists theorize that parallel universes aren’t parallel at all, but rather may interact–AND DESTROY ONE ANOTHER!!!! I take back everything I said about scientists a few paragraphs up. Scientists are AWESOME.