The Day of the Shattered Sun is nigh! The time has come to reclaim what was rightfully ours! Our kind will suffer no more at the hands of the Children of Cane. Soon The Day of the Shattered Sun will arrive. The veil between their world and ours shall fall. The ground will tremble and quake beneath their feet. The very lands which they’ve ravaged over millenia shall come alive beyond their most terrifying nightmares. And the very earth shall consume them. And when they are tattered and beaten, the legions of both the Samhain and Sumar courts shall burst forth into their world. The children of Cane shall fall before our wrath and their shadow never more to fall upon Faegoria. Once they crumble beneath our vengeance we shall erect monuments to our victory upon their ashes with their fleshy meat and battered bones. And that time quickly approaches. Make no mistake, their existence will end. They shall be exterminated!
Love this commercial. It takes cues from The Matrix but does it a tiny bit creepier. Something about the red matrix pattern is unsettling but in a good way. I’m wishing I could trade up my Eris for the Incredible right about now.
Man there was lots of great stuff at Transworld this year. A shame everything’s all topsy turvy on the home front (having to move and everything – priorities ya know) because we would have LOVED to have made it out that way. Check out all the great footage Terra at Halloween Forum brought back for us.
Typically I LOATH remakes with a huge purple Barney passion. But from the beginning something just felt “RIGHT” about this production overall. I avoided pretty much all spoilers (which is unusual for me) and all of the juicy soap that was apparently going on during the production – I did not want to taint the experience I knew was to come with any negativity.
I went in expecting to be entertained. I was disappointed we didn’t get in to the Director’s Hall (has nice comfy high back seats and armrests that lift so you can scoot closer to that special someone) and apparently Showcase stopped carrying Sour Skittles – I was a bit annoyed. The trailers that ran were all a bit lackluster except the Iron Man 2 preview which I had already seen a billion times – it’s on my radar. Then the lights went down completely, the Universal logo rolled, and I became absorbed and damn nearly forgot about the rest of the world. Sour Skittles? Didn’t need em, didn’t even touch my drink the entire time.
What rolled on screen was simply and utterly the best damn horror movie I’ve seen in the last 20+ years. The atmosphere was perfect. The transformation sequences were breathtakingly astounding even for CGI effects (bite me Avatar). The acting was spot on and I was never once taken out of the moment. The way the carnage unfolded was awesome – blood, guts, heads, and limbs go flying without seeing much more than a hairy arm or tiny glimpse of the wolven fangs – the beast was FAST! DAMN FAST! And never once did I feel slighted by not seeing it until midway through the movie. And much like the original Alien, keeping the beast in the shadows just to the edge of your vision, getting maybe a tiny glimpse of it only after it was too late for the victim worked extraordinarily well. It definitely increased the tension and fear. Something I haven’t seen done right in ages.
I did notice maybe on two occasions that the music somewhat reminded me of Dracula. But I really didn’t pay much mind to it and hardly noticed the film even HAD a soundtrack because I was that absorbed into what was happening visually. And I for one think that’s a good thing. Music typically mentally cues me to when they’re gonna try and hit me with a cheap scare (and there are a couple of those) and that never once happened, I pretty much jumped in all the right spots they wanted me to jump. Being a bit jaded to horror tactics, that my friends hasn’t happened to me in a couple decades.
I left the theater and honestly felt like I underpaid for this movie. Maybe I’m a sucker for werewolves but it was that good. It was nice to see Hollywood and Universal go back their roots, away from the posh vampires and werewolves (I’m looking at you Twilight and New Moon). They dug deep pulling out a lot of classic film techniques yet giving it a gritty and violent 21st century touch. A perfect one-two punch.
Please Hollywood, give us more horror like this one!
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