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[Random Cool] Original ‘Thing’ Cast Watches Prequel, ‘Walking Dead’ Spoofs, Original ‘Scream’ Screenplay and More!
I seriously love October. Every single website is jamming their sites with awesome horror content to join in the festivities, which means yet another overflowing edition of [Random Cool] for you dig through. Let’s kick off today’s story with the above pumpkin carving that’s been floating around the web. I’m not exactly sure on the source, unfortunately, but it does deserve some serious love.
This [Random Cool] is loaded with badass and awesome, so we’re going to direct you inside for a look at a wide variety of “treats” that randge from a look at the original draft for “Scary Movie” (which eventually turned into Scream) to “The Call of Cthulu” done as a Dr. Suess book, a Halloween mask based on the season finale of “Breaking Bad,” “The Walking Dead” spoofs, and much, much more!!!
The crème de la crème comes in the form of a fan video that features the cast of John Carpenter’s The Thing remake watching Universal’s 2011 prequel. Get ready to explode with laughter!!!
Fan site Scream-Trilogy (who hilariously snuck a giant number 5 in their logo – why not just change your website name to “Scream Franchise”?) has posted an inside look at Kevin Williamson’s first draft screenplay for “Scary Movie”, which would eventually transform into Wes Craven’s 1996 Scream! The photocopy used in said article is dated April 5, 1995. It features Kevin’s handwritten revisions as he changed dialogue, expanded on ideas and even renamed major characters! AWESOME.
DrFaustusAU of Australia remade the Lovecraft classic “The Call of Cthulu” as a Dr. Seuss book. He managed to nail the style perfectly, complete with that aged look that can only come from seeing a kid’s book change dozens of hands through an elementary school library. Check out the full book here.
While the show isn’t horror (although it’s scary that AMC still isn’t in HD on DirecTV), AMC’s “Breaking Bad” takes on the darker fare of cable television with the season finale ending in quite a bang. Since some of you may have yet to watch, we’ll keep the brief very vague: inside you’ll find a new Halloween mask based on the character “Gustavo Fring”…. be the one who knocks! Download and print the mask at Vulture.
Not to be confused with NECA’s other “Gremlins Series 1″ which featured the adorable Mogwais, THIS “Gremlins Series 1″ is all bad, all the time. That’s right, it’s the Gremlins themselves, brought to life in this new assortment of 7” scale action figures, reports Figures. Slated for release this month, Gremlins Series 1 stars three brand-new renditions of classic Gremlins – the “George Gremlin” (with trademark scowl and cigar), the “Flasher Gremlin” (with flexible trenchcoat, cigarette and removable sunglasses) and the “Daffy Gremlin” (with noisemaker and gag glasses). Pictures of all three follow.
From director Ryan Hunter comes the hilarious The Walken Dead: for every zombie who’s ever wanted their brains served with a side of cowbell! In more hilarious “Walking Dead” spoof news, “Mad” magazine has an entire issue dedicated to AMC’s series. Get issues #512 at newsstands now. Check out the video and cover below.
But the best of the best is the following video, courtesy of JoBlo that features “footage of the original cast from John Carpenter’s THE THING watching footage from the new prequel/remake of the film.” Created by Nick Bosworth, this is easily one of the funniest videos of the year. A+!
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‘Desperation’ – Sam Raimi and ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Directors Teaming for Stephen King Movie
Stephen King’s 1996 novel Desperation is headed back to the screen, with Jeff Sneider breaking the news on The InSneider that Sam Raimi, Stephen King, and Final Destination Bloodlines directors Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky are coming together for the film.
Sam Raimi will produce the upcoming Desperation movie, while Stein and Lipovsky are on board to direct. Searchlight Pictures is the studio attached to the feature film project.
Published in 1996, Stephen King’s novel Desperation was previously turned into a made-for-TV movie starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber back in 2006.
Wikipedia reminds, “Desperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to ‘rescuing’ a family from a nonexistent gunman. It becomes clear to the captives that Entragian has been possessed by an evil being named Tak, who has control over the surrounding desert wildlife and must change hosts to keep itself alive.
“They begin to fight for their freedom, sanity and lives before realizing that if they are ever to escape Desperation, they must trap Tak in the place from which he came.”
Desperation was published at the same time as Stephen King’s own “mirror novel” titled The Regulators, which shares characters but takes place in an alternate universe.
The union of Sam Raimi and Stephen King is an exciting one for fans of both Raimi and King, and there’s a nice bit of full circle history there too. As you may recall, it was Stephen King’s review of The Evil Dead that Raimi credits for saving and legitimizing his indie debut feature.
And the rest is history! Stay tuned for more on this developing story.
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