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The First Trailer For FEAR ITSELF Is Online Now!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
When I spoke on a panel at the recent Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in LA, I was surprised by the turnout both for the panel and for the autograph session afterwards. It made me feel great to see all the PRO-LIFE and CIGARETTE BURNS DVD covers people brought, and to field some questions on BAT OUT OF HELL (expect our director announcement soon).
At the panel, we saw our first footage from FEAR ITSELF, the NBC series that is the new incarnation of MASTERS OF HORROR. Our episode doesn’t actually shoot until later this month, but several of them are in the can now, and they’re looking surprisingly bloody and wild. Don’t believe me? Check it out for yourself:
Hey man,
FYI...G4 was just given the first exclusive clips from NBC's FEAR ITSELF! The summer shock series is almost here, and G4 has the extended trailer for the series, which boasts 1 hour mini movies from some of Horror's biggest names.
Hope you dig it thanks!
Staying Scary,
Joe the douche
Click here to see it, or watch the embedded video below!
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Bummer.
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IamIronMan.
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And the G4 site isnt working to show the trailer either. Why can t people stick to WMV/P?
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Can't WAIT! HOPEFully Eli Roth Makes one an no I'm not being sarcastic.
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Pretty interesting....
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That looks more entertaining than half the moh eps I watched.
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Sorry, but these look pretty bad, and the stories sound like things we've seen a thousand times (a skeptic in a haunted house, a crazy suburban community, a cannibal, COMEONE!).
The last one, the sacrifice is the only one that looks interesting -
Am I slow, or has no one mentioned that it's available in high quality quicktime yet? http://tinyurl.com/59ljpy
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...Cos my sides are still splitting.
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warning...be ready with a barf bag...http://tinyurl.com/6xk4pp
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Ever since catching an airing of 'Back to the Future' the other night, i keep thinking of the episode called 'Go to the Head of the Class" which starred christopher lloyd and was directed by zemeckis.. scared the shite out of me as a kid.. Hopefully this series will live up to something like that... otherwise, it'll probably end up as this generation's 'Manimal'..
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network tv = no gore, not nudity, no curse words, no fun...no ratings...cancelled after the first epi
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seems he is using the long halloween storyline....
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Gold star! I'm not slow today! And wow, I wouldn't touch Speed Racer with a 10 foot stick. That looks unbearable to me.
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with the driver being rex...not very clear...both of my nephews are forcing me to go...but im gonna keep my eyes closed the entire movie...the cartoon was never that hard to watch
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The woman is an angel. However... "Community". Gee, the Stepford Neighbors.. hey, ain't seen that idea before!
Ya know Mori, I love you as a contributor to this site. And I just FINALLY saw Cigarette Burns for the first time this week. It was the best of MOH... but that ain't sayin' much. I could only bear to watch about 6 of the season 1 installments, because each were unsurpassingly awful. I'm seriously dumbfounded that so many "legends" of horror could produce such mediocrity. And, I'm sorry to say it, but "Pro-Life" was just as wretched as everything else I saw from this anthology. Please tell me that you and your partner adapted that from something, that you didn't come up with the entire story all on your own, because at least then I could lay some of the blame somewhere else, because believe me, I so don't enjoy passing along that something you were creatively involved in SUCKED to high heaven. -
...looks like complete shit. That's really disappointing because I consider his two MOH episodes to be damn great and among the best of each season. Maybe it's because he and Dennis Paoli didn't script this one himself. Instead it was written by the people behind THE WASHINGTONIANS...
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Lincoln won't be satiated unless he has brains. Lots of them.
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Like, really stupid. Isn't "horror" supposed to horrify us? Not just make us grin momentarily and think: "hey, thats slightly different from regular stuff. wonder whats on HBO?"
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"Eater" looks like it's going to be the dumbest thing to hit broadcast TV since the Forest Whitaker version of Twilight Zone left the air. Seriously, a preview for a cannibal on the loose in a police station should make me want to watch, not to hurt everyone involved. "Spooked"...oooh, somebody's past comes back to 'torment' him. And it's a twisted somebody. How fresh. How original. You just know they wanted to say 'haunt' instead of 'torment,' but since they'd already used 'haunted house' earlier in the copy, they had to switch the word. "Community" looks like it's going to be what Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery would have been, if Jackson had ever seen a gated community. And if she had been hopped up on meth and stupid pills at the time she wrote it. And if she hadn't been very talented. Seriously, with all of these, they're just so cliched...and what's worse, the cliches are actually highlighted in the trailer so everybody knows what's coming. Is it any wonder that the one of these which intrigued me, "The Sacrifice," was the one where I honestly couldn't quite identify the story? I mean, four fugitives, guy with a gun, someone hanging like meat from a hook...is this going to be Deliverance? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? And those hints about hell--are we talking a metaphorical hell of pain and misery, or the real fire and brimstone place? Maybe they've managed to combine some of these ideas into something that will actually be worth an hour. But one winner out of four ain't good enough. Maybe the kicker should have been at the beginning of the trailer, when I recalled being scared by exactly zero of the 'frightening' films they listed, and only even got mildly disturbed by a couple of them. Oh, don't get me wrong. In the words of a certain high school trio, I'll watch. And mock. And laugh. But this series is going to be Suck of Suck Boulevard. Nice, talented bunch you've gotten involved with here, Mori. Really. Snicker.
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If I have nothing to fear but "Fear Itself"...then I have nothing to fear.
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It actually looks worse then Masters of Horror. I mean wow. That was terrible.
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Usually trailers are supposed to dupe people into seeing shit stuff by showing the few good things they have right? Well that was just hilariously bad. I shudder to think what the full product is like. Fear itself, indeed.
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Community looks good. I'll be hoping to see Routh transform into Supe's though. Damnit, where is our sequel to Superman? DARKSEID IT!
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Have we moved so far down the crapper that suddenly a biography of one of the most influential Presidents in our nation's history is 'horror'? Jeez, what's wrong with you people.
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i suggest you check it out...old school anime at its finest...not sure where the wachowskis got the idea that everything had to be bright psychedelic colors from, the colors in the original cartoon are rather muted...this movie looks like hot wheels on an acid trip...millions of kids are gonna walk out of that movie wanting to get high
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NBC? What are they thinking? They've been pushing the envelope with "L&O:SVU" recently, but this seems a bit extreme. Laughable, or not, it just seems like a really bad idea for network TV.
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The NBC press release has already announced the director of your segment, Larry Fessenden.
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http://tinyurl.com/6fw6qr
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Only Harry Truman could stop him!
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I mean, do they just do it to stave off boredom?
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For network, big three television outright horror, it looks downright groundbreaking. Granted that isn't saying much. Still looks more promising that Masters of Horrors turned out to be. Again, not saying much.
I will give it a chance. Go into it with low expectations. My guess is if it doesn't hit fast, it will be taken off the air. I assume some parents or religious group will be all over this show pretty quickly. NBC won't fight for it unless it has at least decent ratings. -
It's no master's of horror, but who cares
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Once upon a time, it was impassioned by horror films, it was driven with a geek-like panache. But that was a long time ago. Now it's nothing more than a slick press release. It absolutely pales compared to "Rue Morgue" (Canadian horror film mag that's accessible at Borders and lotsa other cains); hell, "Horror Hound" is quite superior to "Fangoria". I was one of 5 people who listened to the lame "Fango" radio show and it was bloody awful (amateur cackling and plugs). Sorry "Fango", bow to "Rue Morgue" (have you ever noticed that movies, plastered on Fango's covers, inevitably turn into lame boxoffice?). FEAR ITSELF may click if the producers carefully scrutinize the classic series, THRILLER (aka BORIS KARLOFF'S THRILLER). God, the "The Hungry Glass" episode (written by Robert Bloch, starring [!] William Shatner) still scares the bejesus out of audiences. The Sci-Fi Channel was televising THRILLER during graveyard shifts but--not unlike MSTK3000, another classic--the network dropped it. Douchebags. THRILLER, hosted by Boris Karloff, was buttressed with literate stories, creepy sets and photography and first-rate casts (including the late Hazel Court). Take a lesson, NBC.
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I guess most of you know Ghosthunters the series on Sci-Fi Channel. The TAPS team who investigate ghosts. What there was a movie about a similar ghosthunting team who has a reality show and one place they get called to investigate. Gives them more than what they bargained for. It really is haunted and they start seeing freaky shit, but the cool part is, alot of it is scene from perspective of the reality TV camera. So Hollywood, you interested? Email me at Orionsaint@yahoo.com
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Wow, do those look lame. I saw a rehash of any number of movies from Ghost Story to Fargo to The Wicker Man. Awful.
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I have some good news for you. It looks like you could probably get a job on "Fear Itself."
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...but, I bet that includes commercials, right? So, 42-minute "movies". Be honest, NBC.
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Well I guess I proved how easy it is to write for Hollywood and TV these days.
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God, I hope not - 'cause that series sucked ass. Having seen this preview, I have even lower hopes for Fear Itself. Anyone remember the anticipation of sitting down to watch The X-Files religiously, and how 90% of the time the series would be undeniably good? Oh - how I long for a series (besides Lost) that can do that.
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Well, to be fair, there were three or four wonderful episodes...but the reason MOH didn't work was the length. Hour long anthology shows don't work. Look at Twilight Zone: 30-minute episodes were classics while the hour long one stunk up the joint.
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This is better then the Master of Sci-Fi thing last year. Too bad The Machinist was terrible and Christians only bad movie, even though he put a lot of effort into it, hopefully Brad Anderson can do better more like Sessions 9.
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Some of the best shows in the original TZ were among the hour-longs. Printer's Devil. Valley of the Shadow. Miniature. Of Late I Think of Cliffordville. And my personal favorite, and my nominee for the best dramatic presentation the Twilight Zone ever did over its five-year run, On Thursday We Leave for Home. Sure, that season wasn't made up of all classics, but it had some pretty good shows. And should I mention some of the 30-minute "classics"? The Lonely. People Are Alike All Over. Nightmare as a Child. Mr. Dingle, the Strong. A Hundred Yards over the Rim. Two. The Passersby. The Grave. Showdown with Rance McGrew. Four O'Clock. Hocus-Pocus and Frisby. The Last Night of a Jockey. You Drive. Black Leather Jackets. I am the Night, Color Me Black. The Brain Center at Whipple's. And those were just the ones that I remembered sucked from a quick pass-through of an episode list. Check your generalities at that door.
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Kasch - I _partly_ agree. Edited, and honed down they could have been much better episodes. By the time they hit mid-episode, I was checking my watch. Though flawed, Mori's was one of the few I enjoyed. Hated the Perlman abortion one - that one was telgraphed, drawn out and cheesy. The George Wendt one was one of the better ones as well. That being said, screenplays are supposed to be written to avoid that. They were (for the most part) sloppy, drawn out and extremely cheezy. These are horror legends? I felt like I was watching On The Lot. Bad lighting, no mood, piss-poor acting (again save for the Wendt episode - actually scratch that the husband should have been nominated for a Razzie - Wendt and the chick were good - and Mori's was good acting, though all of this is relative). It's like all the directors were stuck in the 80s, and had forgotten what good directing/Horror was all about. It's like if Carpenter directed another flick - I could guarantee that NOTHING could ever come close to The Thing again, and it hasn't yet.
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Especially in Season 2. Don't get me wrong - they didn't all suck (though some - the Ice Cream episode with Beacher, Dante's high-school level satire with the Zombie voters, the telepathic-chocolate ep, and the lame ass George Washington cannibal story- truly did suck beyond belief). Some episodes were gory fun, some were interesting, some (like my favorite Deer Woman) were hysterical (in a good way), but I couldn't finger a one that scared me. As a horror vet, I know that's going to be tough to do each time out, but we're not talking one good scare in 26 episodes. It's also a little sad that in a "Masters of Horror" series, the one master who seemed to benefit the most was John Landis.
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just bring back tales from the crypt now, quit wasting your time on all these weak franchises!!how good could this possibly be, it will be edited for T.V.!!
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the dead donkey. Maybe a less forgiving and indulgent format on broadcast TV will actually help--but I kinda doubt it.
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