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Anchor Bay loves Evil Dead and all of the sequels. They have released more versions of these moves than any other movie in their collection… with that said it shouldn’t be a surprise that they are going ahead and releasing Evil Dead: The Ultimate Edition. Our friends over at Dread Central give us a little bit of details on what this edition holds for us… and frankly its already pre-ordered over here!

Disc One:

• One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead (new featurette)
• Audio commentary by writer/director Raimi and producer Robert Tapert

Disc Two:

• The Evil Dead: Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor: new collection of reconstructed and restored deleted scenes
• Audio commentary by star Bruce Campbell

Disc Three:

• Life After Death: The Ladies of The Evil Dead: new featurette with Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly
• The Ladies of The Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell: new chat between Sandweiss, Baker, Tilly and Bruce
• Unconventional: new featurette in which cast and crew discuss horror conventions and more
• At the Drive-In: new no-holds-barred Q&A with a drive-in audience of hardcore fans
• Reunion Panel: new featurette spotlighting the once-in-a-lifetime gathering at Chicago’s Flashback Weekend
• Discovering The Evil Dead: featurette on The Evil Dead’s British home video release and its place in the “Video Nasties” debate
• Makeup test
• Trailer
• TV spots
• Still gallery
• Poster/memorabilia gallery

and head over to Dread Central to see the box art!

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Hellraiser — my favorite horror movie bar none. I agree with the fact some sequels have gone downhill and uphill and good and bad. However Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 are amazing and changed the way I thought about horror movies when I was a young lad.

Now with Hollywood running out of ideas; Remakes have become the new hotness and they are clamoring to find any property to remake and reimagine and destroy anyway they can. Sometimes it can be good sometimes it fails miserably. For every Dawn of the Dead there is a Black X-Mas. For every The Fly there is Halloween. So when they announced a remake/reimagining of Hellraiser I was full of anger and hatred… (What ELSE is new?) then news started leaking out about what was going on…

Clive Barker is writing it. Okay so I got a bit more optimisitc but still reserved. They announced the two directors for the movie… indy superstars who made a movie I never saw yet. Alright it still could be working… im still optimistic however Dread Central posted a little bit of news about the remake today courtesy of Twitch Film…

”We don’t want to remake exactly the Clive Barker movie.” Bustillo told the site, ”We have met Clive and told him what we want to do with “Hellraiser” and he said, “It’s f**king good do it!” We are happy to have his benediction. It will not be a remake. It will still be called “Hellraiser” and it will have a new Pinhead.”

Now if they are talking more towards the way The Hellbound Heart (Clives original Novella that inspired the movie) dealt with “Lead Cenobite” (whom became our beloved Pinhead) then I could see it working — however just changing for the sake of changing seems a little pointless.

Clive Barker is happy with the co-directing team… thinks they will respect the material, so heres hoping he’s right cause right now my Pinhead tattoo is angry and worried about what will come next…

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In one of the most bizarre twists turns and proof internet nerds (like us) have a lot of power in Hollywood sometimes comes this little news bit about the upcoming 4th Rambo movie… but this gets a little confusing… lets think about this.

First — First Blood, then came Rambo: First Blood Part 2… then after that came Rambo 3. Forgive me about this but WTF happened to Rambo 2? Rambo 3 should have been Rambo 2: First Blood Part 3. Which brings us to Rambo 4… and it’s many titles…

Rambo IV: End of Peace, Rambo IV: Holy War, Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra, Rambo IV: In the Serpent’s Eye

Then it became John Rambo a title that I enjoyed quite a bit, and felt it brought us back to the feeling of First Blood (or Rambo 1/2 First Blood Part 1 if you want to get technical). Fans rejoyced… then came the news that the name once again changed and Sly is calling it… Rambo to Hell and Back. Meh… very Meh.

Of course there was a backlash and it all got back to Sly and basically this is what went down…

“Hey! We liked ‘John Rambo’ WTF Gives Sly?!”

‘well hey… alright… it’s called John Rambo again’

So there you go — Sly listened and its Still John Rambo… or John Rambo: Rambo Part 3 – First Blood Part 4

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Well I started a new job. So that’s my lame excuse. But I did seem to find a bit of cool stuff recently. Like everyone else here I love cartoons and Sci-Fi. And what combines those two genres nicely? Futurama! I loved that show. And the powers that be decided to cancel it. But as everything good that gets cancelled at Fox, there’s a chance they’ll be back in some form. and that trend continues to hold true for Futurama. There’s a straight to DVD movie coming out. And supposedly they’re returning to TV in ‘08.There was a trailer for it on Youtube but it’s gone now.

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Manhunt 2… Rockstars already heavily censored “murder simulation” game was once again BANNED in England despite its “M” rating that it finally received after blurring and blacking out the violence for the most part.

Before the re-tooling of the game and subsequent neutering of it, Manhunt 2 was banned in every country and givin an AO rating which caused all major retailers to openly scream that they won’t carry it… so the game went through a process of ‘moral cleansing’ and got an M rating… however England isn’t buying it…

David Cooke, Director of the BBFC said:“We recognise that the distributor has made changes to the game, but we do not consider that these go far enough to address our concerns about the original version. The impact of the revisions on the bleakness and callousness of tone, or the essential nature of the gameplay, is clearly insufficient. There has been a reduction in the visual detail in some of the ‘execution kills’, but in others they retain their original visceral and casually sadistic nature.

We did make suggestions for further changes to the game, but the distributor has chosen not to make them, and as a result we have rejected the game on both platforms. The decision on whether or not an appeal goes ahead lies with the distributor.”

So the moral police of England tell us flat out that despite them ruining the game to begin with, that they want it to be less sadistic and evil.

Nice.

The problem is though the gameplay is horribly affected by the censoring of the kills. It was made so that the more time and effort you put into the executions of the kills the more viceral and violent they were. Sure you’re put in a lot more danger by sneaking slowly up behind someone to cut their head off… but it was part of the strategy of the game…it was shocking, disturbing, violent, and amazingly fun… now the harder, more brutal kills get blurred and fade to black which completely kills the point of the game to begin with.

I’m glad we live in a society that can tell us what is and is not right for us… and frankly whats the difference between M (which is 17+) and AO (which is 18+)

Don’t you love it?

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