Claymation animator Lee Hardcastle has put together an excellent homage to John Carpenter’s sci-fi classic The Thing using characters from the BBC Children’s series Pingu. This is actually better than last year’s remake. You can see more claymation videos like this over at Lee’s official website leehardcastle.com
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Avast! Trailer For Lock-Out aka MS One: Maximum Security.
December 16th, 2011
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First off let’s us just say how refreshing it is to finally watch a trailer for an action film that doesn’t have a muscled out, juiced up, meat head as the main protagonist. Ever since Memento and LA Confidential we’ve been big fans of Guy Pierce and it’s great to see him finally tackle the [...]
Audience Reaction to Halloween Back In 1978.
September 15th, 2011
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Here’s an interesting video which documents the reaction of an audience in a cinema watching John Carpenter’s seminal horror movie Halloween, for the very first time back in good ole 1978. As you will hear their screams and response to the film is hilarious, when you consider the scenes they’re watching are quite tame in [...]
Avast! Trailer For The Thing. Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
July 14th, 2011
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Video: 'The Thing' Movie Trailer No,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no, no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no! This trailer above is for the prequel to John Carpenter’s cult classic The Thing, but for some insane reason most of the scenes in this trailer, too many to directly refer to, look like they’ve been lifted straight from the original. Really? We thought that by making a [...]
Doubloons! Links From The Briny Deep.
January 18th, 2011
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We scour the salty depths of the internet on a daily basis to find hidden treasures. Then we hoist the sails and chart a course for home laden down with all the best pop culture links we could find. Here’s today’s: Canoeing through a flooded MacDonalds (via Break). Footage of a 1950s housewife tripping out [...]
Avast! Trailer For The Ward.
January 7th, 2011
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Carpenter is back bitches! It’s been way too long since cult film director John Carpenter, he of Halloween, The Thing and Escape From New York fame, graced us with his cinematic presence. The 62 year-old has done next to nothing since 2001 when his glorious sci-fi failure Ghosts Of Mars, starring Jason ‘wot you fackin’ [...]
