Alien Sequel "A Brand New Box of Tricks" According to Ridley Scott

Hell yes! Ridley Scott, the man who crafted one of the best Sci-Fi pictures of all time, Alien, is returning to the franchise to direct a prequel to his original film. Regarding the flick, Scott said, "It's a brand new box of tricks. 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 if Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior."

It's not much, but he seems excited. You can read the whole article here, but I pretty much covered everything.

If you're in the mood for some intelligent rumination on Aliens, war, and the apocalypse check out an excellent post entitled "Express Elevator to Hell: Aliens as Apocalyptic Literature" over at The Action Effect. It's good stuff.

Note: My exclamation at the beginning of this post was more in reference to Ridley Scott talking about another Alien movie. If he had just walked by, turned and looked into a camera and said "Alien," I would have undoubtedly written a very similar post with the same opening.

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Evil Plush Toy Kills for Laughs in "My Stuffed Animal is a Monster."

Now this just looks awesome! It's like "Child's Play" meets "Toy Story" on no budget. It premieres tomorrow night in New York, and you can find out more about this upcoming cult classic on the film's MySpace page.

My Stuffed Animal is a Monster - Trailer

"House of the Wolf Man" Looks Like an Excellent, Old-School Tribute

Staring Ron Cheney (the great-grandson of Lon Cheney), a dude that looks kinda like Bela Lugosi, and old-school makeup effects, "House of the Wolf Man" looks to be an fitting tribute to the fright flicks of old. Oh, and it's filmed entirely in black and white.

It's like what Tarantino and Rodriguez did with their "Grindhouse" flicks, only with the Universal-era of monster films instead of the low-budget flicks of the 70s. Check out the trailer below, which I nabbed from YouTube.

"Dracula 2" May Really Suck (But in a Good, Vampirey kinda Way)

They are making a sequel to "Dracula." Let me rephrase that. They are writing a sequel to "Dracula." As soon as I read this article from ShockTillYouDrop, I knew I had to post something about the project. I planned on being witty, perhaps penning a smarmy comment mocking the inherent lameness of attempting to draft a sequel to "Dracula," which is unquestionably one of the most important and influential novels ever written. As I mentioned yesterday, I can't stand people dabbling in worlds they didn’t create.

I planned to mock it until I watched the trailer. Although the video looks cheap and cheesy (like most Dracula sequels), it managed to change my mind. Apparently, they got one of Bram Stoker's decedents and a Dracula historian to write it using Stoker's original, handwritten notes as a guide. That's pretty damn cool.

So while it still may end up sucking harder than a toothless vampire, I'm defently going to have to give it a read. It's entitled "Dracula: The Un-Dead" and will be released on October 13^th.

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