Combs not in The Thing on the Doorstep
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs make a great pair in the movie industry. At least I seem to think so. They do a great job creating entertaining movies together, but it looks like Combs has turned down playing a part in Gordon’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing at the Doorstep”.
Stuart was like, ‘Yeah, I know, being in bed with beautiful women all day, it sounds tough, and I went, ‘You know, Stuart, actually, it is. I’m married, and I don’t wanna do that.’ It’s not part of my world. It was just too much, it was like, ‘And then they’re writhing, and then they’re humping some more, and then they build to a climax, and then they climax, and sweat…” I wish him all the best with that one, but not every project’s right for me.
~Combs
You can read Comb’s thoughts over at Arrow in the Head News.
The movie is about a group of young people who form up a rather incohesive team of thieves to try and take advantage of the wide spread looting and rioting after the elections finish in France. Having stollen an acceptable amount of cash, the group heads out to the “Frontier” to escape the law, only to end up in the clutches of an insane neo-Nazi family running a people eating butcher shop.
The movie was filled with some very gruesome and bloddy scenes, but was shot in an manner that was at times, quite often actually, rather artistic. It was simultaneously intriguing, visually appealing, grotesquely gory, and realistically brutal. We’ve all seen the movies where the fights look good, almost too good, leaving the viewer feeling like he’s just seen a good clean piece of choreography. But leave it to a non-American movie maker to put in scenes of a large man giving a hard right to a small woman’s jaw, followed by a flinchingly realistic kick to the head. Ouch!
The Telegraph has a look at the original Indy. Otto Rahn, and archaeologist who ran afoul of the Nazis and obsessed with finding the Holy Grail, is likely to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
Fatally-Yours has a good review and a trailer up for Jaume Balagueró’s movie “REC” as well as the trailer for the Hollywood remake “Quarantine”. From the trailers, I have to say, that I’m actually pulled more by Balagueró’s lower cost original than Hollywood’s version. REC is the story of a a young reporter attached to a team of Fire Fighters to chronicle their day to day lives. Things go bad when the building they go into is suddenly quarantined by the government to contain whatever is making the people go extremely violent inside. The coolest sounding bit? No musical cues to give away the scary parts!
Tomorrow is day one of the Zompire: The Undead Film Festival 2008, so if you happen to live near Portland, Oregon, go get yourself dressed up as the undead and have your self a gory good time!