* I read this story about community activists forcing a Union City, Indiana McDonald’s to remove all R-rated movies from its Redbox dollar-a-night DVD-rental kiosk with great interest. Besides the fact that I always find such efforts distasteful, I’ve noticed that the Redbox at the supermarket where I shop is stocked almost wall-to-wall with horror movies–many of which are of the straight-to-video variety, which depend almost entirely on rentals for revenue–and these genre efforts would obviously be a prime target of bluenosed initiatives like this.
* Speaking of video rentals, Robbie Freeling gives a shout-out to old-school neighborhood video store horror section posters and box art.
* CRwM of And Now the Screaming Starts reviews Josh Simmons’s excellent horror graphic novel House.
* Johnny Bacardi points out the weaknesses of the neither-here-nor-there cartoony realism of the Vertigo house style.
* Marvel editor Tom Brevoort hosted a Marvel-only best-of award vote at his blog, and the results are refreshing because the best writer at Marvel right now, Ed Brubaker, and the two best books at Marvel right now, Brubaker’s Captain America and The Immortal Iron Fist, really clean up. (Via Graeme McMillan.)
* In the middle of a crazy interview centering on the identity of Britt Ekland’s ass double in The Wicker Man, director Robin Hardy and star Christopher Lee deliver a pair of absolutely killer quotes about their upcoming semi-sequel to the film, now evocatively titled Cowboys for Christ:
[Hardy] described his follow-up movie as “another film with beautiful songs, sassy sex, a few good laughs and horror upon horrors ahead”.
And:
“The reason I want to work again with Robin is because he has written a book that is erotic, romantic, comic and horrific enough to loosen the bowels of a bronze statue,” [Lee] said.
Yee-haw! (Via Bloody Good Horror.)
* Finally, my old friend from ToyFare magazine, Zach Oat of Topless Robot, presents the Top 10 Star Wars Toys That Unintentionally Look Like Other Celebrities.
