Ghouls on Film

A very smart individual reminded me of the existence of this music video and I felt the need to post it.

Which came first: The Dickies or The Klowns? For me, The Dickies. Without their 1988 “Killer Klowns” album I wouldn’t have seen the movie at a young age and been forewarned about the delicious evils of cotton candy and the myriad ways to use a crazy straw.

The Dickies still drive me ape and I still hope that someday, while I am dancing in my nightgown waiting for a cheezy treat, said treat is delivered by a gang of killers in big red shoes.

However, I feel like “Big Money Rustlas” is not the best way to honor the evil clown legacy. Maybe the Juggalos need to take a trip to Crescent Cove?

As with everything else I hold dear, it looks like there’s a “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” sequel in the works. Find out more news on that from Movie Mike’s interview at Chiller, here.

Fish your wish!

Dimension Films just announced that “Piranha 3D – THE SEQUEL” is in the works.

Straight from the press release:

“‘PIRANHA 3D’ producer Mark Canton stated, ‘We are thrilled that audiences are not just loving ‘PIRANHA 3D’, but cheering for it. And it’s fantastic that so many critics are really getting the movie and recommending it. We can’t wait to get to work on the sequel.’”

No word on who, where or when, but when EW chatted with Aja he had this to say about a possible second installment: “We had many ideas, like the full moon party in Thailand — a huge event with like 200,00 young people from all around the world taking mushrooms and partying on the beach.”

Eh … not so sure about psychedelic piranhas, but very sure about piranha-vision. And bring back Shue!

I sat down with Evan Goldberg, one-half of the Seth and Evan writing team behind “Superbad,” “Pineapple Express,” and “The Green Hornet” and in between talking about his love for Wawa hoagies (“We went to Wawa’s and it blew my fucking mind!”) and Canadian heritage videos, I was able to eek a tiny bit of info out of him about “Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse.”

“It’s a horror movie but we’re not horror guys. We don’t really dig on that. It’s just the idea is so good. So it’s going to be like a suspense-horror-comedy,” Goldberg said.

When I asked what makes it horrific he was vague, at best.

“It’s not like the apocalypse like ‘2012.’ There’s things that hurt you. Running around. Not zombies. I’m not getting into that. We’re not doing zombies. But people, they’re getting hunted by shit.”

I tried to get more out of him: Satanic? Half-man, half-shark? But that was it. I am just thanking big baby Jesus that it’s not like “2012.”

Watch the trailer below and let me know what you think might be doing some man-eating.

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I failed to make it long enough in Hall H to see the “Let Me In” footage screened, but from everything I hear Matt Reeves’ adaptation doesn’t disappoint, bringing a new and unique viewpoint to Lindqvist’s already excellent story. I direct you to Joe McCabe’s review over at FEARnet for details on the clips.

Not only did I miss blood provided by a tiny vampire looking for a new friend, but I also missed the real-life bloodbath that occurred just before the Marvel panel last night. Eyes were bleeding, but it wasn’t because of the “Thor” footage screened.

Anyone who has been to Comic-Con knows that the hours spent in long lines in hope of getting a coveted Hall H seat causes short tempers, but in general the crowd is in high spirits, basking in the glow of their own personal nerd heaven. Failing outright bliss, they are usually pretty polite. They don’t typically stab someone in the eye over a seat. At least that was the story going around last night. A publicist told me he saw the stab happy fanboy being escorted from the hall shirt covered in blood and hands cuffed behind him.

Today a different story is circulating involving an inflatable toy and a scratch. There were some face suckers on long popsicle sticks being passed around. Maybe they were the culprits? I prefer to believe that someone got a tray of hot nacho cheese to the face which temporarily blinded him and he fell into the lightsaber of a Sith Lord who was just minding his own business, waiting for in line for the bathroom.

It’s called “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” and this is what he had to say about the movie:

“I think of it as action-horror. It’s an amazing script, one of the best scripts I’ve ever read. Hansel and Gretel kill the witch, they grow up and now they’re bounty hunters who hunt witches. It is a bad ass movie, man. Tommy Wirkola who did ‘Dead Snow’ is directing it. That and ‘Eastbound and Down,’ coming out in September, are the two things I’m most excited about.”

MTV reported a few months ago that some of the “Twilight” cast is being looked at for the movie.