Hail London.

I really love IFC. Back in 2005, I remember them showing a different horror movie each night in October, which was just what a new Brooklynite needed to help adjust to the city life. Sadly, they haven’t quite continued that tradition, but they still show lots of kickass horror movies at random hours. And if you’re lucky enough to live in NYC or Los Angeles, you know IFC has a great theater (and bar) which often caters to those of the horror culture.

IFC Films has just announced their summer program, and it includes some pretty killer flicks, including Dead Snow and Pontypool. This excites me because I still haven’t seen Dead Snow and have been fascinated by the concept ever since I first heard about it. Pontypool is about a town plagued by a virus which is spread through speech, specifically the English language. Intrigued I am.

[Via Bloody Disgusting]

It’s never too early to think ahead though. I decided while at work (where else does one do this sort of stuff) that I should try and find some inspiration for costume ideas. Since it’s still pretty close to Easter, Jesus is on my mind, so I tried to see what kind of Jesus-type costumes I could come across.

Obviously my thoughts centered on the offensive and blasphemous, but I found this very old link for some costume suggestions of a religious nature that you might find humorous. You know, if you really want to make an impression. Be warned, these are some EVIL ideas.

#4 is my favorite: Dress up as a yellow and black striped leaf and ask them if they beeleaf in Jesus!

This is seriously making me smile from ear to ear…

Eli’s master plan is to finish up the script for his big science fiction blockbuster, which will look to be the biggest budget movie he’s done so far. Once that script is finished, he’ll shop it around along with Thanksgiving — the movie based on the trailer that he made specifically for Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse — for around $85 Million. His hope is to use about $80 Million for the big movie, and then add three weeks to the end of filming and do Thanksgiving for around $5 Million.

$5 million and 3 weeks for Thanksgiving.

I love it so much.

Read more at Geeks of Doom.

Eli Roth’s Blockbuster/Indie Gameplan Involving ‘Grindhouse’ Spinoff! [via Geeks of Doom]

This site is way too well-researched and cleverly written to not be huge. Do us all a favor and spread the word.

Metal Cakes

I’m pretty stoked about this movie. It’s a combination of things. I just get excited for anything that George Romero attaches his name to. Whether it be vampires, zombies, or disease, I also find it interesting how apocalyptic environmental/biological catastrophe movies can be either pretty good (Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later) and just god awful (28 Weeks Later).

The term remake always scares me, but I try to go into the new version with a clean slate in mind.

I also just really dig Timothy Olyphant. Man love?

Really, I do. More than I need a liver transplant, I need this autographed 1899 first American edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

But it’s not just autographed by Stoker (which alone would be fantastic), it’s autographed by…

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Those Swedes got it figured out.

So on the holiest of holy days (Easter I am going to assume is the holiest day of the year for Christians), I got an offer to accompany some folks to an Easter Sunday service at the Church of England. I figured what the hell, I’ve been in churches before and haven’t exploded, so why not give it a go?

The church was in the middle of nowhere, off on its own through some fields and in the woods. When I asked why this was, I was informed that the church was the center of the village hundreds of years ago, but then there was a little thing called the Black Death which came through and exterminated the entire village. So they tore down and burned everything, except the church of course. So I’m going to church in a previously plagued village. Neat. Points for the church in my book.

Easter service was what you’d expect, lots of hymn singing (which I’d rather listen to any day of the week over fucking Dope), lots of remembrance of Jesus Christ etc., with of course the focus on the resurrection and new life and new beginnings.

There was also plenty of “blood of the Lord” and “body of Christ” talk, especially around communion, which I took without spontaneously combusting. I drank blood today. I went to church with a load of vampires.

I didn’t feel so out of place though, as apparently these people have similar tastes in music. My favorite game of the day was looking through the prayers and sermon and hymns and finding lots of metal bands names, such as:

• Lamb of God (most frequently referenced band)
• Living Sacrifice (R.I.P.)
• Most Precious Blood
• Testament (LOOOOOOOOW)
• Grave
• Creed (metal!)
• Goatwhore (not really)
• Amen
• Strife

It was a funny experience hearing Requiem, Break You, and 11th Hour blasting over and over in your head in between all of the Hallelujahs.