Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) 08, 10/14.

"[A]t least of the films I've shot, I have the feeling it might be the best." That's Park Chan-wook, as quoted by X at Twitch, where s/he's got what we know so far about "his 'priest-turns-vampire' requiem," Thirst.

Tim Lucas wasn't sold on TrueBlood at first, but he's since "enthusiastically warmed to its well-thought-out imagining of a near-future world in which vampires and the living attempt to coexist."

Rocket Video's Jeff Miller lists his "100 Favorite Creepy Movies of All Time."

"The cause of the virulent plague of the walking dead varies," notes Kevin Buist at the SpoutBlog. "Everything from spiritual curses, viruses, chemical weapons, and alien microorganisms have been used to explain the origin of zombies." He then considers "the real-world evidence behind some of these threats, and which ones you should be most worried about."

If you'll be in Chicago for the run-up to Halloween, Dan Mucha got loads of suggestions at Facets Features.

The Dead Channels 2008 Audience Awards go to Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In (Best Feature Film) and Richard Gale's The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (Best Short Film).

Online viewing tips. Ten trailers for The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, via Movie City News.

Posted by dwhudson at October 14, 2008 2:56 PM