Big Budget Bambi remake and Mary Poppin's Double Bill to feature at next Midnight Madness!

0 Comments POSTED: September 5, 2007 11:51 | By: Darryl Shaw

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...Because it's gonna be so hard to top this year. Really, where can you go from here?

Where would you want to?

I'm hoping I'm going to see a film this year that will inspire my next script. Each year, I get this  injection of psycho-trauma, and thank God it's just from what I see up on the screen. So in the mean-spirit of things, let's get some heads rolling...

This is a shout-out to all the gorehounds. The often unappreciated, deviant psycho-paths in training in the viewing audience. I mean, can we stop pretending already?

These are the guys and gals that will win us the Zombie war one day, when his majesty Romero's Apocalyptic Prophesy finally comes to pass. Let's brain storm a bit, let's compile us a list of as of yet un-used non-conventional weapons or method to do the undead... in!

Okay, so the way this works, is we're going by classic Romero trilogy rules.

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Who can name the BEST as of yet un-used non-conventional weapon/method to F*** up a zombie?

(non-conventional as in something not already considered a weapon by, uh, let's just say Webster's dictionary)

The prize is, well, if anyone actually ignores the FBI red flag automatically created by responding to this message with something ultra cool, and mega sick, I'll buy them a small popcorn.

No really, I'm good for like *one* small popcorn.

EDIT: I have been just informed there is no popcorn at this venue. I must retract all popcorn liability. So now we've been bumped up to a "Midnight Madness Treasure of the Past" DVD!

Not only that, but compiling this kind of list might inspire (hopefully not real-life axe murderers) but other creative filmmakers, writers, comic book people etc for their own horror work. Do it for the children. The over 18 ones.

Hell, maybe these will turn up in some movie and we can all sue (okay well I would just be happy to see em used)

So really now, what's left to do? I mean, if you're not holed up in some isolated mall that happens to sell 400 different types of rifle?

Part of the contest, also lies in the hands of the mass-movie consuming gorehound general public-- so if you see something on the list, that you've already seen done in a zombie movie then call it, and that will nullify said zombie-kill.

Let's also say this un-official, un sponsored and highly illegal and largely casual contest ends the day before the midnight screening of "Diary of the Dead"

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If you are in need of some PG-13 inspiration, watch the first "Gremlins" movie (okay so not zombies but great use of household items).

If you are in need of some unrated inspiration, look no further than Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive".

If all else fails, Haute Tension, Ichi the Killer, Hostel.

If you are still stuck, you might be a zombie.

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