* Big, sad news for film and TV blogospherians: Matt Zoller Seitz, proprietor of the best film and TV blog on the web by a country mile, The House Next Door, is retiring from journalism and criticism to become a full-time filmmaker. Frequent co-blogger Keith Uhlich will take his place as editor of the site.
* At his official website, there’s another huge interview with Clive Barker. He announces a new, wholly original upcoming comic book project with his frequent publisher IDW, touches on his upcoming film projects, his paintings, the delayed release of Midnight Meat Train, and Abarat Book 3, but the bit I was most interested in, and happiest to read, was about his voice. If you’ve listened to any interviews with the man lately, quite frankly he sounded terrible, even more gravelly than usual. Turns out he had benign polyps on his vocal cords that have since been removed, making it easier for him to talk, sleep, and breathe. I sure do wish him well. (Via Dread Central.)
* Actresses Shauna MacDonald and Natalie Mendoza will both be returning for The Descent 2, which is…interesting.
* There’s a new Incredible Hulk trailer out there, and I know I’m supposed to say I’m soooooo over this movie (and Edward Norton), but I’m not. I want to watch CGI Ed Norton smack around CGI Tim Roth and I don’t care who’s feuding with whom. (Via Arrow in the Head.)
* B-Sol at the Vault of Horror serves up Part 2 of his look at the history of the modern zombie movie, starting with Dawn of the Dead and working its way through the Italian zombie flicks and the splatstick horror-comedies of the ’80s.
* Finally, Bryan Finoki muses at length about the physical and aural architecture of America’s torture chambers. (Via Andrew Sullivan.)
Re: De2cent casting
Whahuh?
I might be confused, but I only saw the unrated version which makes me wonder how it could be sequelized at all. There’s unreliable narration to consider, but this goes above and beyond that, I’d think.