These are good days to be a fan of movies that most decent, hard-working people would ritualistically set afire in a lame attempt to toady up to their distant, uncaring god.
Dark Horizons is reporting that principal photography starts this week on Land of the Living Dead, the latest installment in George A. Romero's opus of the undead, up in Toronto. I realize those of you who aren't fans of watching zombies chomp on the sweet, sweet brains of the living are probably wondering what the deal is. I mean, the last few years have been a feast of flesheaters: 28 Days Later, the Dawn of the Dead remake, House of the Dead, Dead and Breakfast, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Shaun of the Dead...and those are just the English-language films. To all the complainers, please shut up and go back to your own dimension of cinematic myopia, where Ashley Judd is always solving crimes with Morgan Freeman, John Travolta continues to fool you into thinking he deserved a comeback in the first place, and someone actually felt the need to make a sequel to Baby Geniuses.
And it apears that Elvis will ride again:
The "Phantasm" legend himself that is directing legend Don Coscarelli talked about that rumoured potential sequel to his cult hit "Bubba Ho-Tep", which has been doing rather well on the DVD sales front, to MyMovies.Net.
"My sources say yes. Things are looking quite good. MGM was very happy with the results in the States, the UK's looking very solid, there's a lot of fan interest in it - and Bruce would love to play some more of the old hound dog! So there's a good chance we actually will make that film. There is no story (yet) so we're gonna try and cook up something good hard to say (when), but as soon as we can" .
No news on release dates yet, although Coscarelli has literally only come up with the title - "Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She Vampires".
I've been talking Bubba Ho-Tep up ever since The Thing that Walks Like a Man and I checked it out way back at an advance screening several years ago, so the fact that a sequel may be in the offing is good news. Hopefully Joe R. Lansdale will write this one as well.
And that's a funny title, but it'll never approach the heights of The Avenging Disco Godfather, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Hell Comes to Frogtown, or (my personal favorite) Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole.
Kids, you can learn more about the fine series of Guinea Pig films, including Android of Notre Dame and He Never Dies! here.
God bless Coscarelli. He finally made something worthy of following PHANTASM, after the crapola Phantasm sequels and the horrific Beastmaster, I thought maybe he was a one trick pony. He proved me wrong with BUBBA HO-TEP! Easily the best film of 2003! A sequel would be neat, but just remember how crappy the Phantasm sequels got! be careful what you wish for!
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Mr. Mundi:
Consider yourself slapped with the foppish glove of this well-to-do dandy.
To avoid further incident, I suggest you recant post-haste your disparagement of the cinema classic known as "Beastmaster." Otherwise, we will have to meet in the town square to settle this disagreement, and I warn you that I am a crack shot. (I also aim for, as they say in the vernacular, "the nads.")
Sorry, I can't deal with THE BEAST MASTER... I guess we'll have to duel.
On guard!
You and me both. I have been dreaming of a time when vampires and zombies ruled the box office. I am just hoping he stays with vampire idea for Bubba 2. At the end of the first one it said "Coming soon Bubba Nosferatu:. I have also heard that Bubba Sasquatch and Bubba Wolfman are possibilities. I am so jonesing for the new Dead movie I have moved all of Romero's movies and various other of the dead movies up my netflix queue.