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The First Trailer For FEAR ITSELF Is Online Now!

Second by O_Goncho	May 4th, 2008 01:57:35 AM
Bummer.
First John Adams, now an FDR series? by Flim Springfield	May 4th, 2008 01:57:54 AM

this reminds me, by the way	May 4th, 2008 02:01:22 AM
IamIronMan.
Embedded video doesnt work. by wowsah156	May 4th, 2008 02:02:42 AM
And the G4 site isnt working to show the trailer either. Why can t people stick to WMV/P?
SuperMan ? ? ? by BrightEyes	May 4th, 2008 02:02:59 AM
Can't WAIT! HOPEFully Eli Roth Makes one an no I'm not being sarcastic.
The link worked at least. by wackybantha	May 4th, 2008 02:25:58 AM
Pretty interesting....
well! by supersize	May 4th, 2008 02:27:40 AM
That looks more entertaining than half the moh eps I watched.
Cheap, Derivative, and Laughable by bullet3	May 4th, 2008 02:30:16 AM
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
The Dark Knight Trailer by flickchick85	May 4th, 2008 02:50:15 AM
Am I slow, or has no one mentioned that it's available in high quality quicktime yet? http://tinyurl.com/59ljpy
This is a comedy spoof of horror films, right? by theycallmemrglass	May 4th, 2008 03:03:36 AM
...Cos my sides are still splitting.
flickchick85 you win a gold star by leobloom	May 4th, 2008 03:07:21 AM

3 minutes of speed racer by bacci40	May 4th, 2008 03:13:49 AM
warning...be ready with a barf bag...http://tinyurl.com/6xk4p p
Amazing Stories "viewer discretion advised" episodes.. by bob oblaw	May 4th, 2008 03:14:22 AM
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'..
why nbc and not showtime? by bacci40	May 4th, 2008 03:32:49 AM
network tv = no gore, not nudity, no curse words, no fun...no ratings...cancelled after the first epi
kudos to nolan by bacci40	May 4th, 2008 03:34:36 AM
seems he is using the long halloween storyline....
bacci40: wow. that sold me on never watching this movie. by leobloom	May 4th, 2008 03:35:52 AM
what's up with the kid in speed racer's lap? only way that could be gayer is if john waters directed it.
Yay by flickchick85	May 4th, 2008 03:43:02 AM
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.
leobloom...its either sprittle, or speed as a kid by bacci40	May 4th, 2008 04:25:19 AM
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
oh ok by leobloom	May 4th, 2008 04:28:31 AM
I never watched the show, and it doesn't look like the movie is the time to start.
Please tell me I saw Elizabeth Rohm in there by TheSeeker7	May 4th, 2008 04:58:04 AM
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.
Stuart Gordon's EATER... by godoffireinhell	May 4th, 2008 05:13:30 AM
...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...
I can't wait for the sequel, Our Forefathers. by rbatty024	May 4th, 2008 08:12:52 AM
Lincoln won't be satiated unless he has brains. Lots of them.
This just looks...really really bad by dr sauch	May 4th, 2008 08:36:54 AM
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?"
So, some thoughts... by WillowFan2001	May 4th, 2008 09:04:25 AM
"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.
One more thought... by WillowFan2001	May 4th, 2008 09:06:32 AM
If I have nothing to fear but "Fear Itself"...then I have nothing to fear.
Wow guess they paid for it so they have to air it. by Stormwatcher	May 4th, 2008 09:51:34 AM
It actually looks worse then Masters of Horror. I mean wow. That was terrible.
That looks fucking appalling by Lemming	May 4th, 2008 10:09:50 AM
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.
Nothing else on t.v. .. why not? by Judge Briggs	May 4th, 2008 11:02:10 AM
Community looks good. I'll be hoping to see Routh transform into Supe's though. Damnit, where is our sequel to Superman? DARKSEID IT!
What's so scary about a guy in a wheelchair? by GregoryHarbin	May 4th, 2008 11:55:54 AM
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.
leobloom...the original is all over the internet by bacci40	May 4th, 2008 12:27:07 PM
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
What time of night is it airing? by HereAgain	May 4th, 2008 12:31:23 PM
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.
Moriarty by alynch3	May 4th, 2008 01:46:35 PM
The NBC press release has already announced the director of your segment, Larry Fessenden.
CLOVERFIELD 2 IMAGES LEAKED! by LittleDudes	May 4th, 2008 01:49:48 PM
http://tinyurl.com/6fw6qr
TUBGIRL II PICS LEAKED! by TomBodet	May 4th, 2008 02:35:05 PM
thanks you little dudes. No really.
Zombie FDR would be awesome by Darth_Gonz	May 4th, 2008 03:00:10 PM
Only Harry Truman could stop him!
Why do voiceover artists sound retarded these days? by Christopher3	May 4th, 2008 03:04:54 PM
I mean, do they just do it to stave off boredom?
Come on! by TVguy4566	May 4th, 2008 03:06:25 PM
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.
Fun. by kirttrik	May 4th, 2008 03:50:08 PM
It's no master's of horror, but who cares
"Fangoria" sucks by thegreatwhatzit	May 4th, 2008 04:02:20 PM
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.
Is this the series about FDR's WWII experience? by Prossor	May 4th, 2008 04:55:32 PM
??
This reminds me of an idea I have for a horror movie by Orionsangels	May 4th, 2008 04:57:34 PM
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
Lame rehashes of lots of other movies by DaveInRhodeIsland	May 4th, 2008 05:02:52 PM
Wow, do those look lame. I saw a rehash of any number of movies from Ghost Story to Fargo to The Wicker Man. Awful.
Orionsangels... by WillowFan2001	May 4th, 2008 05:47:27 PM
I have some good news for you. It looks like you could probably get a job on "Fear Itself."
"hour-long movies" by Billy Goat	May 4th, 2008 06:35:21 PM
...but, I bet that includes commercials, right? So, 42-minute "movies". Be honest, NBC.
WillowFan2001, Hahaha! by Orionsangels	May 4th, 2008 09:16:17 PM
Well I guess I proved how easy it is to write for Hollywood and TV these days.
"It's no Masters of Horror" by Fish Tank	May 4th, 2008 09:33:41 PM
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.
The reason Masters of Horror sucked... by Kasch	May 4th, 2008 10:02:48 PM
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.
Hopefully by Series7	May 4th, 2008 10:08:52 PM
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.
Kasch, are you kidding me? by WillowFan2001	May 4th, 2008 10:50:49 PM
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.
"The reason Masters of Horror sucked"... by Fish Tank	May 4th, 2008 11:15:35 PM
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.
I'll give it a shot but MoH left me a bit cold by MrD	May 4th, 2008 11:38:25 PM
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.
by huggerorange	May 5th, 2008 04:10:13 AM
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.!!
yes, MoH blew by Gidney	May 5th, 2008 10:29:34 AM
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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