Boob Tube - American Horror Story Opening Credits

FX has released the opening credits for the new season of American Horror Story. And, it is suitably weird and disturbing. We have lots of evil clowns, an evil monkey clown, skeletons have sex, dolls exchanging heads, a woman with a third leg...basically, every nightmarish circus sideshow image they could come up. And, it's all done in glorious stop motion, which lends it a quirky, otherworldly visual tone. Check it out...but make sure you have the lights on!!!!

Happy Trailers - Zombie-A-Thon Edition - Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

I love trailers. I have entire disks I've made of film trailers. Whenever I do a movie night, I subject my guests to as many of them as I think they will stand before they start throwing beer bottles at me. So, I'm going to start a new feature on the site, Happy Trailers. Not only will I post the trailer, I'll give a little review of it. Creating a good trailer is an art form in its own right. You want to entice the audience without giving too much of the story away or showing too much of the money scenes. On the other hand, if you have a bad movie, you have 90 seconds to try to make it look good.

The trailer for Night of the Living Dead does a good job of letting you know what you're going to see. There's some violence, lot's of screaming, some gore (the head, stripped of flesh is prominent in the trailer even though it is on-screen in the film for a about two seconds) and enough voice-over exposition to let you know what the film is about. There are no character scenes, no in-film dialogue, nothing to indicate that the movie will ever slow down. And, for the most part, that's true. Romero keeps his movie moving at a nice pace, something the trailer accurately reflects. And, of course, there is no hint of the ending. Since the ending is still disturbing almost 50 years after the film was released, not hinting at it was a good call. Based on this trailer, I'd want to see the movie.

Godzilla TV Spot Shows More Big-G

So, a new TV spot for Godzilla is out. Most of the footage is what we've seen in the trailers, except for a new shot of Godzilla looking very upset about something. It's like the one time I was lost in a mall. A kindly old lady tried to help. "There there, little fella, we'll find you're mommy...where did you last see her?" she said. At which pointed I breathed radioactive fire in her face and proceeded to destroy Cleveland.

I miss my childhood.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Trailer is out...

...and it looks pretty awesome. I liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which surprised me, since I thought it would be as much of a disaster as Burton's 2001 remake. It turned out to be a fun, inventive and entertaining reboot of the series. We'll see if the sequel is as good as Rise; based on the trailer I'm feeling pretty optimistic. Check it out below.