A barrage of horror news that’s impressed me on the web over the last couple days. A treasure trove of 1980s Soviet animations to American Sci-Fi stories (including adaptations of Ray Bradbury and Stephen King), super cool poster for Ryan Reynolds’ Buried, announcement of The Ring 3D, a vintage robot gallery, and… the first of the True Blood minisodes.
Watch ‘True Blood’ minisode. Yahoo! has delivered the first of the True Blood minisodes – as discussed earlier – and you can watch it right now. Do it. The plot? Eric and Pam audition dancers for Fangtasia. Thank you, Alan Ball.
Soviet animated shorts. This discovery comes via Rhizome. Apparently a hobby for animation studios in 1980’s Soviet Russia became these neat, short adaptations of famous American Sci-Fi writers. This blend of history, story-telling, and 80’s style music and animation is pretty much the perfect nerd marriage. Posted below are adaptations of Ray Bradbury’s “Here There Be Tigers” and Stephen King’s “Battleground,” but be sure to check out Rhizome if you want the full group.
Buried has had my personal interest for a long time. For starters, the scribe is based out of Rhode Island – like SCARS – and we’re proud of our homegrowns. The script is intensely tight, and for those – again, like SCARS – who didn’t have the means/connections/basic good luck to check out Sundance, we’re left wondering how they could pull off an entire movie based on a man in a coffin. Take a look at the poster. It’s pretty much I guess what we’ll be seeing for the 90 minutes of the movie.
Click on the Buried poster for a larger image.
The Ring 3D. Apparently Paramount can’t resist the temptation of going through its back catalogs to find a franchise just waiting for its third film… its 3D third film. So what’ve they come up with? The Ring.
According to THR, the new movie would be teen-centric, and might have something to do with teens finding a VHS player that still works. Allowing them to watch the tape. Which I guess is better than new age solutions that would involve them watching videos of Samara on YouTube. Because we all know how great those movies are, about internet phenomena leading to untimely deaths.
Vintage robots. I love anachronistic details like this. PopSci has posted an amazing gallery of depictions through ads and animations of the way we’ve envisioned robots would look in the future – starting as early back as 1928. Check out the full gallery. My favorite, from 1935, is posted below.
Tags: Buried, Ray Bradbury, Robots, Soviet Animation, Stephen King, The Ring 3D, True Blood
