Horror's Not Dead

Horror's Not Dead

"The smudged words on the paper were like matches set to the tinder of his panic."
-- Pig Blood Blues

April 20, 2008

Last Week in Horror: 4/13 - 4/20

Last Week in Horror: 4/13 - 4/20


Posted by: Peter Hall

Last Week was a standard seven days for genre news. No breaking headlines, no juicy bits of intrigue. So instead of the normal pre-jump sum, I would like to express how many smiles I got out of an exchange in the latest Apatovian flick FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL in which 3 others dissect the stupid, stupid, stupid plot of a terrible movie that the fictitious actress Sarah Marshall made the jump from TV to Film for. A movie about a cell phone that kills people, which Sarah Marshall (played by the beloved ’round these parts Kristen Bell) begrudgingly justifies signing on to by saying, “Well, it seemed right for my career at the time.”

Oh PULSE, how shitty you are.

...READ MORE 18 comments     |     [ Posted in Last Week in Horror, News ]


Recent Blog Entries

Recent Comments
»  Peter Hall in December ‘08: Horror’s in Hibernation.
Sean: Never, with our luck. All we’ve got is RJ’s incoherent frothing.. Scott, great, now...
»  Peter Hall in Review: “DEAD SET”
Admit it, PT, you say aces.
»  Sean in December ‘08: Horror’s in Hibernation.
When’s Trick ‘R Treat supposed to come out?
»  William Goss in December ‘08: Horror’s in Hibernation.
Hey, these tappin’ toes couldn’t lie.
»  Scott Weinberg in December ‘08: Horror’s in Hibernation.
P.S Will Goss likes this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =tPUpxIBkcjM

Recent Reviews

Categories

Search


Please Buy Things

The League
Linking
Add to Technorati Favorites


Recommended Film Reading:  
Twitch Film  |  Ain't It Cool News  |  Fangoria  |  Dread Central  |  Movie Forums  |  Cinematical

Non-Film:  
BoingBoing  |  Freakonomics  |  Hack a Day  |  The Superficial  |  Geekologie  |  The Consumerist  |  Cryptomundo

Interesting Strangers:  
Clive Thompson  |  Schneier On Security  |  John Hodgman  |  Jane Espenson  |  Brandon Bird  |  M13b.net

Other Horror Blogs of the LOTTD: 
And Now the Screaming Starts  |  Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat  |  Billy Loves Stu  |  Blogue Macabre  |  Cinema Fromage  |  Dinner With Max Jenke
Drunken Severed Head  |  Final Girl  |  Frankensteinia  |  Gloomy Sunday  |  Goblin Books  |  Good, the Bad, and Godzilla  | 
Gospel of the Living Dead  |  Groovy Age of Horror  |  Horrors of It All  |  Killer Kittens From Beyond the Grave  |  Kindertrauma  | 
Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire  |  Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Movies  |  Moon is a Dead World  |  Mystery of the Haunted vampire  | 
Reflections on Film and TV  |  Slasher Speak  |  Sweet Skulls  |  Theofantastique  |  Unspeakable Horror  | 
The Vault of Horror  |  Zombos Closet of Horror  | 
Copyright © Peter Hall. So don't even think about it.