Charles Band really, really wants people to visit Full Moon's official website. He is always running sales, adding new items to the store and uploading a trailer for whichever pointless sequel he happens to be peddling at the time. I'm man enough to admit that I bookmarked the online command post (or nerve center, if you prefer) of his madness. There is something about Full Moon. I can't place it, but I find myself going back to those flicks time and time again. Without reservation, I can promise that I'll be covering a few of them as we forge through a most hyperborean winter.
Band is smart. He knew that he would need more than just a scopious back catalog of b-movies to solicit repeat visitors to his digital base of operations, so he asked horror savant Stuart Gordon to contribute a column. Dubbed the Lab Report, this monthly (close to bi-weekly) feature relays spellbinding anecdotes involving all of the stuff on Gordon's resume. It's fucking great. The dude knows how to tell a story, and obviously, the content is exceedingly interesting to genre nerds. On-set pranks, oblique factoids, memorable encounters (I loved reading about his dinner with Roald Dahl), even journalism (check out his tactful, reasoned review of Prometheus)...I could devour a Bible-sized tome of these deliberations.
Hmm, perhaps I should implore a celebrity to write a column for Random Reviews. Yes! I can see it now - Clint Howard: Resident Mexican Food/Dwarf Tossing Correspondent.
No comments:
Post a Comment