Two Boo Bits

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--- Re Xenomorph - In a chat with Empire, Ridley Scott speaks up a lil' bit on the Alien prequel he is now working on. Choice bit:

“It’s a brand new box of tricks,” said Sir Ridley. “We know what the road map is, and the screenplay is now being put on paper. The prequel will be a while ago. It’s very difficult to put a year on Alien, but [for example] if Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior.”

As I've stated every time the subject's come up I have mixed feelings about Scott returning to the franchise he mastered way back in '79 - I think he's becoming a crappy film-maker - but I'm such a sucker for this monster I'll never not go see one of the movies. Well that's not entirely true I suppose, I did skip the last AVP movie. Even I have my limits, people! They're malnourished as hell and hanging on by the thinnest of threads, but they're there.

--- And then there's this fun news via Slash:

"Grindhouse Releasing is bringing Sam Raimi’s original horror classic THE EVIL DEAD back to the big screen as a midnight movie.

Raimi and producers Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell gave the go-ahead for a series of EVIL DEAD revival screenings to Grindhouse Releasing partner Bob Murawski, the film editor of Raimi’s SPIDER MAN 1, 2 & 3, DRAG ME TO HELL and the EVIL DEAD sequel ARMY OF DARKNESS.

Stephen King hailed THE EVIL DEAD as “the most ferociously original film of the year”? when the film premiered in 1981. Shot in Michigan and Tennessee, Raimi’s low-budget debut was released independently with a self-imposed ‘No One Under 17′ rating for its graphic violence and gore.

... “Nothing can prepare an audience for what they are about to see, because nothing punishes an audience like EVIL DEAD - especially on the big screen,” says Bruce Campbell. “I’m really glad it’s back. People are gonna be hurt.”

Formed by actor/director Sage Stallone and Murawski, Grindhouse Releasing restores and distributes classic horror and exploitation films. The company teamed with Quentin Tarantino in the ’90s to revive Lucio Fulci’s Italian horror classic THE BEYOND.

A similar theatrical break is planned for THE EVIL DEAD, with midnight screenings in select theaters across the U.S. and Canada."

This news doesn't really mean much to me because I'm fairly certain the film's played about one thousand times at screenings in the years I've lived here in NYC , but for those of you who don't live in an obscene-cinematic-wonderland this probably means y'all will get a shot at seeing that bad-ass Ash super-big real soon, which rocks. Here's the trailer for The Evil Dead just cuz tis the season and what-not:

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