* I know what I just said about cat-killing, and I know that a movie about a lady getting trapped in a house with a man-eating tiger can only end one of two ways, but still, Burning Bright is so crazy it just might work.
Someone’s been reading Stephen King’s “Here There Be Tygers,” huh?
* Lotta list-making and list-mulling going on in the horror blogosphere lately, inspired by B-Sol’s reprint of HMV’s top 50 horror films list. B-Sol’s in the process of compiling a list out of weighted submissions from all of us Tana Tea-swilling elitists. CRwM goes Nate Silver on the very idea of list-making drawn from polls. Curt Purcell hasn’t seen a lot of the “classics” you’d think he would have, including such films of bona fide groovy-age provenance as The Wicker Man, The Texas Chain Saw Masscare, Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, etc etc. Stacie Ponder posts her personal top 10. FWIW I submitted my own Top 10 to B-Sol, and if he posts it I’ll link to it, but paring down the amorphous mass of my favorites to a ranked list of 10 was a pretty arbitrary process once you got past the first handful.
* My ongoing quest to reblog pretty much everything Bruce Baugh writes about World of Warcraft continues: First up, Bruce tells the story of another one of those in-game memorials for a player who died in the real world, in this case an 11 year old boy. But unlike that classic funeral raid, this one’s not blackly comic so much as out and out adorable–897 players decided to create minotaur-type characters who would run from the Tauren capital en masse in an attempt to sack the Alliance capital Stormwind in the kid’s honor. They crashed the server, but the idea, and the images captured before the thing went kablooey, is just as ridiculous and delightful as you’d expect.
* Next up, Bruce gives us a you-are-there view of the invasion of the Alliance and Horde capitals by the Lich King’s zombie dragon things. It’s fun to watch a game build a sense of anticipation for some upcoming super-duper-event via smaller but still holy-cow events like this. Somehow it feels less cynical than when comics do it.
The lead in that tiger movie is the lead from Step Up 2: The Streets, which I somehow have not seen yet.
I think that’s one of the great underrated sequel subtitles of all time. It’s the post-millennial “Electric Boogaloo.” Imagine, if you will, “Iron Man 2: The Streets.” Am I right?
No no, you’re dead-on.