Not for the squeamish, this is a very effective and nasty trailer for the sequel to last year’s found footage horror anthology V/H/S. Early buzz is this is a lot better than the last one with less stories which are more consistently good, much better wraparound segments, and a generally superior experience to the first one. Expect a review on an upcoming Super Jawncast! See how may times you swear during this trailer, my count was around 12 or so.

Also, I’m pretty sure that one story is viewed by a camera attached to a dog. Yeah.

The Riddick trailer is finally here after that tiny teaser that didn’t tell us anything. It’s a lot like Pitch Black, only with some Most Dangerous Game type stuff. A lot of people have been waiting a long time for a new Riddick movie after Chronicles of Riddick ended up being some bizarre Dune-like weirdo box office bomb. I liked it but I am in the minority. Plus this has Dave Batista in it who appears to be the only large, muscular man in the entertainment business because he’s showing up all over the place. You’ll also notice Katee Sackhoff probably best known from Battlestar Galactica and Bokeem Woodbine who is one of those actors that just shows up all over the place.

Lets hope it turns out as good as the best take on The Most Dangerous Game concept yet: David A. Prior’s Deadly Prey

Today we take anime and manga for granted. Manga sits on the shelves near the regular trade paperback versions of American comic books, video on demand is chock full of anime TV shows, OAVs (Original Animation Videos, kinda like straight to video mini-series) and anime feature films. The likes of Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh have completely crossed over and you can’t visit a fan convention without seeing cosplayers portraying thousands of anime and manga characters. But back in the early to mid-90’s it was a very different state of affairs. Perhaps you might have heard of Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal masterpiece Akira but you had to either be very active on the tape trading scene, or had a lot of disposable income to purchase the expensive and very limited releases of anime on VHS. It is then not terribly surprising that when the film industry took notice of the interest in this niche market, it was with an eye for producing lower-budget, straight to video fare rather than a major studio dropping $100 million+ on a lavish production. Produced in 1995 and erroneously marketed in some countries as the “first live action manga movie” (Japan had been adapting manga to live action for years and there were two English language Guyver movies made in 1991 and 1994) Fist of the North Star was nevertheless quite a big deal in anime/manga circles on release despite its modest budget of around $7 million. It, along with a live action Crying Freeman that has still never seen a US release (it’s actually really good), attempted to reproduce what made their source material so successful while keeping a close eye on the budget. How successful was this outing in doing so?

That’s what you call the “Your Head is Going to Explode Side-Eye”

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