Here’s this week’s list. Still to come: a review of “Smallville” (next) followed by one of the several overdue “Secret Invasion” reviews.
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Fox picks up Fringe
Halloween Review: The Old Dark House
Yes, boys and ghouls, it’s time once again for the Bureau’s Halloween Reviews. This year’s hellish harvest takes picks from the early days of talking film to last summer, with the emphasis on scary houses and homes under attack.
Between Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein, many of the same people adapted J.B. Priestly’s bizarre (and, at present, out of print) 1927 novel Benighted into the archetypal horror/dark comedy. Rocky Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Addams Family, Scooby-Doo and countless other productions have since echoed this oddball film.1
Knight Rider: ‘Journey to the End of the Knight’
A little late. Sorry gang. I’m sure you we’re all dying to see this review.
Hellsing Manga ends (in Japan)
Just in time for Halloween (sort of) Anime News Network reports that Japanese
Seinen manga magazine “Young King Ours” (known for
running, among other genre manga titles,
Trigun) is running the final volume of Kouta
Hirano’s action/horror manga Hellsing.
Currently, the English translation of the series is
being published by Dark Horse Comics, and the
Hellsing Ultimate OVA series (which sticks a
little more closely to the original comics then the
previous series) is currently being distributed by
Viz.
The Sounds of Halloween
It’s raining and gloomy where I am, and leaves already crunch underfoot. October has arrived, the time of year when normal people dress like monsters, kids take candy from strangers, gourds lie in wait on every doorstep, and the Bureau runs its annual Halloween Movie Reviews. Those will begin on the weekend1. Today, we’re ringing in the spooky season with the Top Thirteen Creepiest Halloween Songs. Get started on your Halloween Party CD today.
Boomwahahaha!
Fringe Review: The Arrival
“This is the last one. Then I am gone.”
–Peter Bishop.
“Smallville” replaced by “The Graysons” next year?
It seems that The Graysons, about Dick Grayson’s life before becoming Robin, will be produced as a pilot for the CW by the current team behind “Smallville.” Keep in mind that “Aquaman” got further than this and didn’t get a full series treatment; this is only at the pilot stage.
Weekly Comics Discussion – October 1, 2008
The complete list is available here.
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Kenneth Branagh in talks to direct Thor
Sci-Fi Wire reports that Kenneth Branagh
is currently in talks to direct the film adaptation of
Marvel Comics’ Thor. Branagh has directed a
couple genre films, the most notable being the box-
office flop Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.
Branagh is best known for his adapations of the
works of William Shakespeare, most notably
Hamlet, and Henry V, and he has acted in
a few genre films (the most well known ones being
Wild Wild West and Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets)
Correction: Kenneth Branagh did not direct
Othello, he did star in it as Iago. My mistake.