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‘Juan Of The Dead’ Trailer: An Insane Looking Cuban Horror Film
I would rip off someone’s jaw to see Juan of the Dead right now. That’s how cool this first trailer is for what Latino Review calls “Cuba’s 1st Horror Film” is. Written and directed by Alejandro Bruges, Juan of the Dead takes place 50 years after the Cuban Revolution, where the island is overrun by zombies the government swears were sent by the United States. Social commentary aside, it’s then up to one man to attempt to solve the problem. Part Shaun of the Dead (obviously) but with a grittier look more akin to something culty and cool like Six-String Samurai, you’ve gotta see this bad-ass trailer for Juan of the Dead.
The DeLorean, the Batmobile, and 5 Other Famous Movie Vehicles as Pixar Characters
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Much has been made of the upcoming robot revolution — in which the machines will take over and humans will be forced to serve as slaves or worse for our robot overlords, naturally — but filmmaker Kibwe Tavares imagines quite a different future for the machines in “Robots of Brixton.” In his short, robots have become second-class citizens, performing the menial labor that humans disdain and residing in a nasty, run-down part of London. When the police come knocking, tensions between the robots and the authorities come to an explosive climax.
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‘Transformers 3′ Action Sequence Recycled From ‘The Island’
Filmmakers often use stock footage to save money from traveling to capture an exterior of a city, house or location. Its a very common occurance which you likely never notice. Bay has used stock footage in most of films, sometimes borrowing shots from his earlier movies (here is an example from Transformers, a shot of an aircraft carrier that was borrowed from Pearl Harbor). My friend Alex from FirstShowing just pointed me to a clip on YouTube which shows that Bay recycled shots from an action sequence from The Island in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. I’m not sure how often this kind of thing happens, but my guess is that it happens probably more than you would think.
Lord of the Rings’ Middle Earth Recreated in LEGO
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A Short History Of CG Characters In Movies
Class is in session. Put away your cell phones, sit up straight, and watch this video that’ll teach you the history of computer generated characters in movies. Beginning with the stop motion animation in the original King Kong and the films of Ray Harryhausen, to how those films influenced massive jumps like Young Sherlock Holmes, The Abyss, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, let Professor Inrdshelby (a Vimeo username) take you on a tour. Check out the video after the jump.
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Infographic: Jason Voorhees’ Body Count In All The ‘Friday the 13th’ Movies
Watch Every Death From the First Four ‘Final Destination’ Films
Final Destination 5 opens this week, and you really don’t want to go into this latest sequel in which death is not the end without knowing your Final Destination death history. So here, for the purposes of research only, is a supercut of every death in the franchise. And because character and story are hardly the point when it comes to these films, this is really the best way to catch up.
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