This looks to be all kinds of cool…

All Win, ZERO Fail.

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!

OMFG! Medusa! Kraken! Pegasus! DROOOOOOOLZZZZ… This movie is gonna roxxerz our boxxerz! By Zeus please not let those be the only money shots. Only thing missing from this trailer was Bubo the owl (are they even doing him? If not then I wonder how Perseus gets the Eye from the witches?) Did I say DAMN!?!!!

SPOILER WARNING: If you do not want to see what any of these creatures are gonna look like do NOT watch the trailer.

Seeing Nick Cage as the sorcerer really makes me think Harry Dresden for some reason. And I still say The Dresden Files would totally rock adapting each book as a full length feature film as opposed to a series.

Either way this is looking like a fun flic and now makes two upcoming Cage films I’m waiting to see.

When I heard the title the first thing that came to mind was the 80′s Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.  This… is not the same film nor related…

Nicolas Cage stars as a knight who must deliver the black witch to an abbey in Iraq where she can be destroyed. On the way hell breaks loose. There’s been only a handful of bad Cage films (*cough* Ghost Rider comes to mind). But this looks like a fun little medieval horror flic:

Man I’m really diggin on the new Clash of the Titans. Visually VERY different than the Harryhausen version from the 80′s, a lot more modern and grittier. Think the difference between Willow and Lord of the Rings visual effects wise. In particular I love the new look for the Stygian Witches (around 0:45) and I’m getting all sorts of delicious ideas for new props.

Haven’t seen it yet, check it out below:

For those can’t quite freeze-frame You Tube vids, I’ve captured 3 good snaps of the witches: