Human Centipede - All kinds of wrong but long live the new flesh

You know what, you really cannot make this stuff up can you. I thought it was a joke at first but the pictures show it is being made.

Outside the more outré work of Takashi Miike and David Cronenberg, you won't have seen anything quite like Dutch avant-garde artist Tom Six' totally bizarre off-the-wall oddity. Internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter has a demented vision for mankind's future existence. He wants to remove human beings' kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain. When two stranded female Americans arrive at his luxury home-cum-hospital looking for help, his long-gestating plan swiftly moves into chilling action with a shocking force. Kidnapping a third Japanese male tourist he begins the tissue matches, teeth removal and buttock moulding to create his triplet creature… The First Sequence in Six's intended trilogy features truly unforgettable imagery, clinically dazzling direction and a so-far-round-the-bend mad doctor performance from German superstar Dieter Laser you'll scream. Behold the grotesque New Flesh. If you dare!

What do you think of that concept? It's okay if you feel a little bit sick and apologies for sharing. It is one of those things that once you've read about it you have to tell someone else - lucky for you I have this web site :)
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John Carpenter's ALF, David Cronenberg's Cabbage Patch Kids and other toy based films

With Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra on the way here are some other toy lines that could be moviefied.

Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips

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Nightbreed - Do you want a director's cut?

Do you remember Clive Barker's Nightbreed? It was a great film. It had quite a few faults but it had a cool story and some creepy character designs. Plus David Cronenberg was in it as a serial killing psychiatrist.

The movie centers around Aaron Boone (Craig Sheffer), a young man plagued by dreams of a city called Midian, populated by bizarre creatures and deviants of all types who refer to themselves as the "Nightbreed". Aaron is framed for several murders by his psychopathic therapist, subsequently killed by police and resurrected by the magic of Midian. Boone joins forces with the other monsters to defend themselves from the true monsters of the story: humankind.

For many years there has been talk of a director's cut, rumors that the version of Nightbreed that hit theaters wasn't Barker's preferred vision. Rumors of 25 minutes of deleted scenes. However, rumours also went round saying that all extra footage had been deleted.

Now, according to CHUD a fan named Mark Miller made some phone calls to some people and got some interesting new info. This is what he found out.

"One fan set out in search of the truth, armed only with a few phone
numbers and the power of a name...

"On one call I was transferred to a production executive. You already
know what I told him, so let me tell you what he told me: He Can Access The Lost
Nightbreed Footage At Any Time.

"My jaw dropped. Struggling to remember my already limited vocabulary,
I asked what had to happen in order for the footage to see the light of day. He
explained to me that someone, namely one of the higher ups, had to have a good
reason to pull it out of storage. I, having that good reason, nodded and thanked
him. He couldn't have been a nicer guy.

"Excited, I pictured myself walking through large dusty warehouses
filled from floor to ceiling with ancient reels of arcane footage. I’m sorry to
report, that's not what happened.

"Shortly after, one of said higher ups was gracious enough to give me a
moment of his time. I was shocked when he told me there wasn't a big enough
audience for the film and that the answer to my request must be no.'Not even
worth the cost to upgrade to Blu-ray,' he said.

"Ouch."

It does seem a bit odd that the studio are acting like this (although it is Fox so it's not that odd).

Truly awful films are being released on Blu-Ray, yet here is a true cult classic sitting there with previously unseen footage. They could really push the fact it has material that had long thought to have been deleted.

However, you can make a difference. If you want to see a director's cut of Nightbreed on wonderful Blu-Ray then e-mail cliverbarker.info here or speak to the them on Twitter - @philandsarah).

Tell them Live for Films sent you.

Spread the word people. The monsters are getting restless.

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The new flesh weeps - Videodrome to be remade.

The very first quote I used for the Live for Films tagline was "Long live the new flesh." This was of course a great quote from David Cronenberg's 1983 classic, Videodrome.

Now Universal have announced that they are going to remake it...

They've already hired writer Ehren Kruger (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen most recently) to put together a script, with Daniel Bobker (The Skeleton Key, The Brothers Grimm) producing.

There is no director yet but it is going to be updated turning it into a "large-scale sci-fi action thriller." A remake of Cronenberg's Scanners is also in development, but has hit some problems recent recently regarding the rights.

The original Videodrome starred James Woods as the head of Civic TV Channel 83, who makes his station relevant by programming "Videodrome," a series that depicts torture and murder that transfixes viewers.

He then becomes insane, possessed and/or totally messed up.

As they are currently remaking anything and everything I can't be surprised at this, but I really think they should leave the 'drome alone. James Woods was amazing in the lead. Still nothing can do to stop it. However, a remake of Scanners could possibly work.

What are your thoughts?

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Eastern Promises 2? David Cronenberg thinks so

David Cronenberg is a great director. He has made some amazing films, many of which are dark and twisted (Rabid, The Fly, Videodrome, The Brood, Existenz, etc). More recently his films have had a different kind of feel to them - History of Violence and Eastern Promises. In all that time I don't think he has made a sequel to any of his films. All that now appears to be about to change.

David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen, the writer Steven Knight, producer Paul Webster and the studio are the ones who want to see more, and that's unusual as it's the whole team, co-stars aside of course.

Speaking to MTV, Cronenberg revealed his plans.

“We are going to have a meeting very soon between me, Steve Knight and Paul Webster to discuss what the script would be...I have some very strong ideas about what I would like to see, but I would like to hear what they have to say as well. And then after that, if all goes well, Steve goes away and writes a great script. If we all like it, we make it.”

He raised the point that he had never wanted to make a sequel before now either, but explains why.

“...in this case, I thought we had unfinished business with those characters. I didn’t feel that we had finished with Nikolai and we had done a lot of research that was more than we could stuff into that one movie.”

This is great news as I thought Eastern Promises was a great film - such as nasty knife fight - and the ending certainly took Viggo's character off in a different direction.

What do you reckon? Is there enough in this to make a sequel? Would you want to see one?

Source: Filmstalker

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Timecrimes - 2nd Trailer

United Artists is at work developing a English-language remake with Children of Men scribe Timothy J. Sexton. David Cronenberg was interested in helming the remake.
Click on the Timecrimes tag below to learn more about the film and to see the orginal trailer.
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Last Night, 1998 - Movie Review

As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is due to be turned on in a few hours with many scientific worriers thinking it will mean the end of the World when in fact we get more powerful cosmic rays hitting the Earth every second of every day. Everything will be fine.

However, here is a review of the movie Last Night. I saw it late one night years ago. You know how it is when you are so tired you should go asleep but you keep changing channels until something jumps out. This film did and I enjoyed every minute of it. May even have been an Alex Cox introduced Moviedrome feature. Written, directed and starring Don McKellar, it also features Sandra Oh, David Cronenberg, and Callum Keith Rennie amongst others. This review is by Adrian Sweeney who gave it 10 /10.

The world is going to end at midnight; it's six pm now. The impending catastrophe has been known about for months but nothing can be done about it.

Government has been wound down. There's a certain amount of mayhem, looting, and bloodshed in the streets, but most of that ended weeks ago; now people are just quietly resigned. The nature of the disaster is never specified or even mentioned, but cleverly hinted at. Sooner or later you'll suddenly realise what it must be to do with, and when you do it's a breath-catching moment. Once you notice this, the closest thing the film has to a big special effect, it becomes increasingly appalling as time goes on.

There are to be no last-minute attempts to save the earth. They were known to be futile before the film begins. Instead, people calmly make preparations for their last night alive. It's a bit like wanting to do something special for your birthday. Craig (Callum Keith Rennie) is living out the four-letter answer most people would give if asked 'What would you do if the world was about to end' - as he has been, methodically and systematically, for the past few weeks. Sandra (Sandra Oh) is trying to get across the chaotic city to her beloved husband. Patrick (Don McKellar, who also wrote and directed, brilliantly) attends a last family meal and plans a quiet evening alone with a Pete Seeger record. Almost everyone else is heading downtown for the big end of the world party.

Flashes of black humour help make things bearable, but I can't convey how genuinely chilling and terribly moving the film becomes before the end. Pre-millennium there were a handful of end-of-the-world films, most based around big-budget special effects. For a grumpy misanthropist such as myself, who officially couldn't care if the world was to end, even a blockbuster disaster movie like Deep Impact was a salutary experience, making me realise that I really, really don't mean that, and that for all its travails and miseries life is precious. But by excluding special effects and scientific explanations, and precluding the possibility of averting the end, and focusing entirely on the human, Last Night is far, far better and left me drained and devastated.

I almost prefaced these remarks with a 'Don't watch this alone' but decided, nah, other people can be a pain when you're trying to watch a film. But if you watch it alone and late at night as I did, be warned that after the end you may feel a strong urge to make contact with one of those annoying other people, at 2 in the morning, a friend, a relative, your milkman, anyone.

But watch this you must, for it's a great cinematic work of art.

That's all for me tonight. I'll speak to you Thursday to discuss how the World ended tomorrow!

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