TMT Presents: Five Nights Of Halloween - Night Two

Welcome back to TMT's five part series where we explore the worst horror movies that you haven't seen but you should. Last night we ventured to the mid 1980's and attended class at "Slaughter High". Tonight we've been invited for some frights at the #4 entry in our countdown.

Christina's House

Christina is a young teenager that doesn't look all that young.  She is forced move to a small town with her father and brother in order to be closer to her insane mother. The house that the family rents is being worked on by a gruff repair man named Howie. Despite Christina's friend coaxing  her to dump her boyfriend Eddy to get with Howie....

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This movie really has no plot as you can see from the above. I've never watched a horror movie that attempts to take it self so seriously even if the subject matter is ludicrious. For some reason there is a moat that runs around the house where bodies of teenage girls start surfacing. No, there isn't a drawbridge.

One reason to see this horrible horror film is Allison Lange, if you're a male that is. There is a scene of her splashing in a tub if you're so inclined. I can't imagine how John Savage of "Deer Hunter" fame ended up in this film, I mean this is the guy who was in "Night Moves" and now he is playing Christina's father in this "So Bad It's Good" horror flick. How quickly the mighty have fallen.

Rent the film. Enjoy the badness of it all. Trailer below.

Chuck Versus More New Episodes

UPDATE: The Live Feed now has official confirmation. NBC has in fact ordered six more episodes. AKA a big "Ya!" for Chuck fans like me. Props to The Wrap for breaking this news-item!

About two weeks or so back, I reported on rumblings that Chuck might have its premiere date pushed up six months from its originally announced March 2010 start. In said article, I stated:

Aussiello’s soruce(s) also note that pushing the third season premiere up also increases the likelihood of addition episodes being produced beyond the initial 13 order. Do I think this will happen? Yes, I do.

Cut to now and The Wrap reveals that NBC plans on ordering six additional episodes of the cult spy-comedy in addition to the already-planed thirteen shows.

Being the jerk I am, I could say, “Obviously, the network was listening to me! What other explanation is there?” However, the most logical answer is simply, “Great minds think alike!” Or maybe it’s merely one giant coincidence and thus further bruising my massive ego.

I say, “The more Chuck, the better!” But I still can’t imagine this getting a fourth season beyond the now 19-episode third season. That is unless NBC plans of eating their two-year deal with The Jay Leno Show and will, by default, need five extra hours of programming.

Peter Berg Does Not Control The Spice After All

With the likes of Battleship and the Hancock sequel on his immediate “To Do” list, director Peter Berg was going to have to give something up. Granted, it’s perfectly normal for a filmmaker to have multiple properties in development. But most of them never wind up happening. That’s just how it works, ladies and germs.

Now according to the website Pajiba (and quickly confirmed by CHUD), one such causality is the Dune remake he's been attached to direct for about a year and a half now. With Berg off, it’s left the studio (in this case, Paramount) scrambling to find a replacement.

Again as per their sources, the afore-mentioned Pajiba says two such candidates appear to be Neil Blomkamp (coming off District 9’s success this past summer) and The Descent director Neil Marshall. Of course, the former just announced his next project (another foray into the science fiction genre) and the latter is doing…presumably something.

Another issue appears to be that of Dune’s ever-expanding budget. They’re looking for someone who can work with their current $175 million and keep the production at (and/or more preferably below) that number. All of that and it has to look great, but nothing like the ill-fated 1984 David Lynch-helmed incarnation.

I wish you the best of luck, guys. But can’t see anything good (if anything at all) happening with Dune. Nobody wants another Golden Compass and that’s, in all probability, what you’d get. Ironically that was referred to as a “modern day equivalent of Dune” back during my very first edition of Movie Moan with Phil back in December 2007.

New Alice In Wonderland Trailer

Funny my buddy and writing partner Jamie Williams should mention the duo of Burton and Depp because they are indeed at it again as evidenced by this new "Alice In Wonderland" trailer courtesy of Spike TV...again.  The filck has Burton written all over it, I think even Burton has out "Burtoned" himself with this one. Not only has he put his stamp on Alice, he has drooled all over it. You be the judge. Check out the trailer below.

New Shutter Island Trailer

Spike has a new trailer for Shutter Island posted for your enjoyment. Being that the fourth Leonardo DiCaprio/Martin Scorsese effort was pushed back to next February, Paramount can afford to take their time with trailers, one-sheets and so on.

I know this isn't an opinion shared by all. But I still look forward to anything these two collaborate on. They've yet to reach that point where I just roll my eyes thinking, "Oh for Christ's sake, move on!" (read: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton). That said, Island certainly looks to be the most stylized movie Scorsese has made since New York, New York.

Adam Sandler IS Jack...and Jill

Indeed, this is life imitating art.

If you watched Funny People this past summer, you noticed fake clips from “the films within a film” of its lead George Simmons (played by Adam Sandler). Chief among them were Re-Do (body swap comedy where a man de-ages into an infant with his adult head and personality intact) and Mer-Man (essentially gender-reversal version of Splash). In addition, there were authentic looking one-sheets hanging all over Simmons’ mansion throughout the film. I was particularly fond of the Owen Wilson co-starring My Best Friend Is a Robot.

But now that People tanked at the box-office Sandler is headed back to the well, Variety reports. The actor/comedian will headline Jack and Jill for Sony. Just as you probably guessed, he’ll play both roles. Oh sweet irony! How you have such a wrathful sting sometimes!

The film is scheduled for release in early 2011. Most likely, this is to avoid the full-on battle royale that will be the summer film slate. Now comes the question you’re all pondering, “What stereotype role will Rob Schneider play?”

TMT Presents: Five Nights Of Halloween

This five part series will introduce you to five different horror movies that you have never heard of but are must sees for any horror buff. These films fit into the "So Bad, They're Good" category. Without further ado I introduce you to #5 on our countdown.

Slaughter High

"Slaughter High" was shot in England on a miniscule budget and released in 1986. The film's original title was going to be "April Fools Day" but as we know a better and more well known film won that battle. The film deals with your typical nerd who is being bombarded with pranks by your group of typical cool kids, think the characters in "Saved By The Bell" played by really bad British actors with really really bad fake American accents. Well of course said pranks go wrong and not only is Marty thoroughly embarrassed, his face is burned with some well placed acid apparently turning him into a grotesque freak.

Cut too years later, the cool kids have all moved on never to even think of the glasses wearing geek named Marty until they receive special invitations to return to the scene of the "accident" for a reunion. They all decide to attend the reunion and are confronted with a closed down school awaiting the wrecking ball. Instead of turning back or heading to a local Motel 6, they all decide to break into the school for some sex, drugs, and drunken acts of idiocy. What would a horror film be with out it?

Once inside the former students reminisce about the "good ole days" and wonder what ever happened to Marty. The group discovers that their lockers are stuffed with their belongings and inevitably are killed off one by one. One of the male characters downs a beer which obviously wasn't really beer at all. Whatever the contents, it is strong enough to cause his stomach to explode. Later, a female character randomly decides to take a bath and instead melts in a tub of acid. To top it off a psycho in a jester mask is stalking the halls finishing off whomever is left with a javelin. We all assume that Marty is the man behind the mask until he awakes from his home in a mental institution and we realize it was all a dream.

My above description of this film does not do it justice. See below for the trailer and judge for yourself. You can't make this stuff up.

Is The Lizard Going To Be In Spider-Man 4 After All?

That's what Market Saw has to say on the matter.

The website (which usually spends its time following James Cameron's Avatar) claims we'll finally get to see Dr. Curt Connors transform into the Lizard and wreck havoc on Manhattan and, more importantly, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Of course, we got confirmation that Connors would rear his head for an appearance in the forthcoming next installment straight from the good doctor himself (aka actor Dylan Baker) last week.

They go further to state that he will in fact be the only villain to appear in Spider-Man 4. Sounds like everyone learned their lesson from the "Let's jam in fifteen or so plot lines!" mess from the last one. Then again, Baker himself claimed he would be only appearing in the background or as Mike Dougherty better put it, "Cocktease for another year."

So he was telling the truth last week or he just further proved what a solid actor he is. Time will tell.

Steve Carell Goes Golfing

Nice guys finish last?

Steve Carell is the exception to the rule. I’ve yet to meet someone (among us regular folk and those working within the industry) who doesn’t love the guy. So it’s nice to see him have success with his show The Office (one of the few things doing well for NBC) and films like The 40 Year Old Virgin and Get Smart. He even walked away unscathed from the 2007 bomb Evan Almighty. That’s how well-liked he is.

Now the actor/comedian is lining up his next project with Warner Brothers, according to THR. He’ll produce and star in Missing Links, a golf-set comedy from a 1997 novel concerning goofballs who scheme their way into an elite club. Jay Lavender (screenwriter behind The Break-Up) will perform penning duties.

One can only assume there will be a Tiger Woods cameo placed somewhere in the final film, right?

Non-News: The Abrams Edition

“Hello, Mr. Abrams.”

“Hi!”

“I have a question. Would you like to direct a ‘Superman’ movie? I mean you did write a script for one a couple of years ago. Plus everyone loves you right now because of you making 'Star Trek' really cool and all.”

“Why sure I would!”

That's a paraphrased version of an exchange between the Star Trek director and MTV Movies Blog. So of course, that bit of flat-out non-news was flashed across the screen as an “Exclusive.” Give me a break, people. I suppose the thought of researching escaped their minds too. Two months before Trek was released, Abrams re-upped his contract with Paramount keeping him there until 2013. 

But to fair to Music Television, they actually did ask Abrams about a franchise he is involved with. In news that will send shock waves to tens of people, he reveals he in all probability won't be directing Mission: Impossible IV. So does this mean, he'll return to the director's chair for the Trek sequel? Who knows. They certainly didn't ask.

Unless they have another "Exclusive" in their pocket that we don't know about...