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Post by slayrrr666 on Jun 22, 2006 10:49:19 GMT -5
Well, word just came out today about the first pics from Season 2 for Masters of Horror, and it looks like typical Landis fare: www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=6342Plus, this can now serve as the official thread for Season 2 from now on. |
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jun 23, 2006 10:57:57 GMT -5
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Post by Bartwald on Jun 27, 2006 4:10:05 GMT -5
Great! Pelts will almost surely be one of the highlights of the second season - can't wait!
And for now I will have to finally see Haeckel's Tale.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jun 27, 2006 9:45:33 GMT -5
It never aired over there? I'm surprised. You ain't missing much. Some nudity and an occaisional cool gore shot, but otherwise, I was bored watching it and fast-forwarded through most of it.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jul 31, 2006 11:54:07 GMT -5
Got some news on Season 2, from Fango: With the wrapping of Joe Dante’s THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION late last week, the MASTERS OF HORROR crew is now on a two-week hiatus. Over half of the season-two shows are now in the can, with four more episodes to be shot in Vancouver through October, plus one to possibly lens in Japan. Both series creator Mick Garris and Stuart Gordon will direct after the hiatus, and the announcement on the final three filmmakers for this round is expected any day.
Fango did get the latest casting news: Tom (FRIGHT NIGHT) Holland directs OZ and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING’s Lee Tergesen in the David J. Schow-scripted WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM; he plays Layne, a family man who, as a boy, was involved in a stunt that killed the local ice cream man, Buster. William (THE DEVIL’S REJECTS) Forsythe scoops out the scares as the clown-costumed frozen-treat vendor. Dante’s SOLUTION features Kerry Norton, Linda Darlow, Jason Priestley and the one and only Elliott Gould (who was also offered a lead part in John Landis’ FAMILY episode). This episode was adapted by HOMECOMING’s Sam Hamm and shot entirely with high-definition video cameras to achieve a very intimate, documentary-style feel for this end-of-civilization tale—which involves a mysterious epidemic that causes all the world’s men to turn violently on the women.
“Mostly, the name actors came in based on relationships with the filmmakers,” Garris tells Fango. “All of them have brought people on whom they’ve worked with before. But there’s definitely a greater level of interest, because actors are seeing how much freedom there is in the filmmaking, and how cool the shows have turned out.”
Garris himself will direct VALERIE ON THE STAIRS immediately after the hiatus, from a script he wrote based on a story by Clive Barker. “It’s not a short story, but an original treatment he wrote for us,” Garris notes. “It’s about an unpublished writer who gets an opportunity to move into an apartment building that is peopled only with unpublished writers, and his experiences when he finds a beautiful young woman named Valerie crying on the stairs. It’s sort of a ghost story that takes a very, very different twist. We haven’t done a ghost story in the series yet, and this—as you might imagine, being concocted by Clive—is a very twisted, sexual one.” Garris has cast Vancouver actor Tyron (HOUSE OF THE DEAD) Leitso in the lead, along with Christopher Lloyd, and Tony (CANDYMAN) Todd as “the demon.”www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=2428 |
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Post by slayrrr666 on Sept 30, 2006 11:52:06 GMT -5
The premiere episode, The Damned Thing, will premiere at 7:00 PM Eastern US Time on Showtime, same as last time, on Friday, October 27 and will repeat at this time on Saturday the 28, Sunday the 29th and Tuesday the 31st at the same time.
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Post by Quorthon on Oct 7, 2006 18:58:48 GMT -5
Dammit! Now I can afford Showtime, but I'm in AIT so I can't see 'em anyway!
Curses!!
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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 8, 2006 10:05:29 GMT -5
You can probably catch some of them over your Christmas break, I'm pretty sure of it.
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Post by Bartwald on Nov 1, 2006 14:02:54 GMT -5
Just saw the first episode of Season 2. NOT the grand opening like the first time around (the Coscarelli episode), but a much better Tobe Hooper episode than the last time around. Some brutality of it actually shocked me quite a bit (the hammer!), but the script was a mess and the characters not very likeable. 5/10
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Post by slayrrr666 on Nov 3, 2006 11:53:12 GMT -5
That's about what I felt of it too, Bart. I actually liked it a tad more (6.5/10) and was far more impressed with Hooper this time around. There was some nice suspense thrown in, the story was original and very rarely was I bored. There was some stretches towards the middle where he and his wife are arguing that was a bore, but overall, it wasn't that bad. Much more in control of the camera this time around.
My biggest beef, though, is actually with the gore. It looks fucking atrocious!! Way too light to be realistic, especially on the hammer sequence you mentioned Bart. The openning disemboweling is another example. Guts and intestines are not suspended in mid-air without falling to the ground like they do here. It takes you out of the moment as it's so obviously fake and cheesy that you can't be creeped out by it. It loses a point and a half for that, as the gore looks like crap.
It's not the disaster I expected, but to kickstart Season 2, there's more than likely worse ones out there. Besides, Season 1 got the best ones at around their third or fourth ones, so maybe the same here.
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Post by Bartwald on Nov 3, 2006 16:52:37 GMT -5
My biggest beef, though, is actually with the gore. It looks fucking atrocious!! Way too light to be realistic, especially on the hammer sequence you mentioned Bart. I agree it doesn't look convincing. I was just shocked they allowed so much of it here. But it's cheesy-looking violence, yeah. |
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Post by slayrrr666 on Nov 4, 2006 10:31:09 GMT -5
Yeah, totally agree. Really fake-looking. Hopefully "Family" will fix that.
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Post by Bartwald on Nov 4, 2006 15:57:18 GMT -5
I gotta say Family looks great - from what I could see in the trailers, of course.
Waiting anxiously.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Nov 5, 2006 11:31:33 GMT -5
Saw Family, and it was only marginally decent. The set-up holds great potential and is pretty clever. The fact that there is some genuine Landis touches in the first half (whenever Wendt hallucinates dialog that the woman is saying, and some of it's rather funny and quite out of the blue) and the opening meltdown is very eye-opening and far more realistic than the gore in the first one. I have to admit to being shocked by the twist at the end, a real change from the one I had predicted.
The thing that really got to me is the same thing that plagues many of the first year's episodes: it doesn't feel like a horror film. There's some brutal meltings spread throughout, but it's just not a horrific enough feel to call it a horror film. There's more of a black comedy feel to it, and while that's perfect for Landis and he does it well, there's just not a horror feel to it. It's devent, but not a horror film.
I liked it better than The Damned Thing, but it's not the uber-impressive way the first one started with Coscarelli and Gordon opening the show.
So far:
1. Landis
2. Hooper
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Post by Bartwald on Nov 9, 2006 15:47:25 GMT -5
I really liked Family. True - it does not feel like a through-and-through horror film but is captivating, suspenseful, well-acted, sexy, funny and with some fine photography (that actually surprised me; Landis, after all, is NOT best known for long dolly shots like the one that opens the film). Good stuff. Even a bit better than the previous Landis entry.
So far:
1. Landis - 7/10
2. Hooper - 5/10
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