Without further delay, allow us to present you with our first-ever HIH podcast!
Contributor/critic Garytt Poirier and executive editor/pop culture junkie Hiko Mitsuzuka critique, discuss, and speculate on Star Trek Into Darkness, the upcoming summer movie season, casualties from the past TV season, and every piece of pop cultural goodness in between.
Forgive us if we sound a little newbie-ish; we're still adjusting, and we have a lot to say.
Sit back and enjoy...or download it for your listening pleasure during your next commute. And thanks for listening.
And that's about it. After all, if you're not a Buffyverse follower -- or have no idea who those actors are listed above -- then you're not as rightfully pumped and geeked out over this black-and-white modern adaptation of Shakespeare's twisted comedy as we are.
Gee, I thought I was lucky to write for The Seven Sees, and now Hotter in Hollywood? I'm even luckier! I found my gold! I just hope that pesky Leprechaun isn't going to hunt me down for it (hey, that's a great idea for a movie: a leprechaun hellbent on finding his gold and killing anyone who gets in his way). Clearly, Hollywood had the same vision.
Back in 1993 Leprechaun was splattered across 620 screens and made a unexpected $2,493,020 that opening weekend, covering it's $900,000 budget very quickly. The movie could have come and gone very quickly, but it had something other low-grade films didn't: a big star (in-the-making)! You may have heard of Jennifer Aniston. I heard rumors that she isn't exactly proud of her horror movie roots. I, on the other hand, would wear it as a badge of honor. The movie has some serious staying power. Every year, when March 17 rolls around, horror fans will find themselves saying, "We should totes rent a Leprechaun movie."
Grab that first title and skip those other five (yes, 5) sequels, although I am partial to Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood. Snubbed by the cinemas, you had to see that masterpiece in your home (sad face). I guess most people just wanted to see the beautiful Jen Aniston in a low-budget horror flick and do battle with a demonic little person. Sadly, I would've seen it either way.
Let's drive the Delorean back to the winter of 1993: I recall opening the morning paper as a young lad and seeing the ad for the original film. I was like, how the hell am I going to see this without the proper adult supervision? I wasn't the kind to sneak into a movie (I'm an unbashed goody-goody), and this was before I became an employee at my local cinema! But I was determined. I dared myself to buy a ticket for Aladdin and run into the R-rated horror movie at the last minute. Unfortunately, I freaked out and actually suffered through the Disney film. My plan backfired. No luck whatsoever. Had to wait for it to come out on (gulp) VHS instead.
The main reason why I wanted to see Leprechaun? For Summer School's Ken Olandt of course, who also pops up in the horror classic April Fool's Day. He loses his clothes in both! Sure, Jennifer Aniston is great and all (she costarred with MTV'sJulie Brown on Fox's short-lived The Edge at the time, and I was a faithful viewer). But anyway...
I would go ahead break down Leprechaun for you, but let's be serious, it's really about a fussy little Irishman who wants his gold back. There. I have dated myself enough. Who wants to get lucky and dive into a pot of gold with me?
In a city filled with charlatans and rehabilitated former child stars, it’s rare to find anyone extraordinary—or quite frankly normal—to speak to. That’s why when I first describe this young actor’s accomplishments, you might imagine that, although undeniably talented, he would be destined to have the social skills and personality traits of Patrick Bateman. At 26, he’s already secured a spot on one of the highest-rated procedural dramas in America, has the cool-kid’s cred of being one of the beloved Geeksfrom a cult TV show, and is currently riding high as one half of Hollywood’s hottest comedic writing duos.
By rights he should have been a wild-child-turned-shameless-Lothario, whose exploits are documented by the paparazzi for daily tabloid fodder. Yet nothing could be farther from the truth. Instead John Francis Daley is cherubically handsome and refreshingly polite, confident yet friendly and far smarter than I ever was at his age. You do get the feeling that this just might be his second time around on earth. He could easily be harboring a very wise, old soul in there, one that can only be found through true reincarnation. That, or maybe his parents raised him well.
Either way, chatting over the phone is like talking to a friend from the old neighborhood. He’s charming and naturally giggly, but you don’t feel that the conversation is based on any type of performance designed to deliberately make you laugh. He automatically partakes in silly banter, whilst nonchalantly telling you about upcoming projects. Though strangely, only when prompted. He might be the only humble, successful, under-30 American male left in Los Angeles.
I really wish I was exaggerating about that. When the topics ofBones,The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Horrible Bosses 2 and that Vacationrevamp come up, he could easily be mistaken for a very well-informed Cinefile. Almost utterly detached from his own integral role in each production. At times I completely forget that the person on the end of the line is currently starring on a particular show and wrote the screenplay we're discussing. It’s as if “John from #22” is just letting me know what’s coming soon, to the local multiplex.
Check out the rest of Falene's interview with the incredible John Francis Daley over at Me In My Place and discover how pleasantly surprised we were when we learned that this actor-writer can carry a darn good tune:
Bello Mag is heating up March thanks to their cover model, Grimm star David Giuntoli, and interview with Theo James, the lead in CBS's new drama Golden Boy.
HIH's very own Hiko Mitsuzuka chatted with both actors for the magazine and found out some interesting tidbits from Giuntoli: SNL veteran Fred Armisen has been known to crash the Portland set of NBC's supernatural hit.
Now THAT'S a Portlandia sketch we'd love to see.
Catch the rest (and more) in Bello's Spring Fashion issue HERE.
Wanna feel what it's like to be a terrorized character in a Friday the 13th flick? Then listen up...
Horror fans are about to get one big, bloody, and interactive treat this summer when the producers of the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride put on an overnight experience that is guaranteed to scare the living crap out of guests: Great Horror Campout.
Located in the Los Angeles Historic State Park near Dodger Stadium, ticketholders will be given one-night accomodations (8pm - 8am) inside 4-person tents, watch horror movies by the campfire, enjoy a buffet-style dinner, and -- oh yeah -- be stalked by axe-wielding maniacs and other unspeakable horrors in the dark. "This isn't your 9-year-old son or daughters' camp," they promise. In fact, this intense event is for those 18 and over.
Also included in the package is a "Hell Hunt," during which campers will race against time to find certain objects to "survive" the night (the winner receives a golden ticket to the 2013 Haunted Hayride).
Tickets have yet to go on sale, but the website is showing a price of $149 with an option to attend either the night of June 7 or June 8.
The Nerdgasm of the Month goes to the news of Star Trek director/Lost co-creator/Alias mastermind J.J. Abrams taking the reigns of the first installment of Disney's planned reboot of the Star Wars franchise.
When Abrams originally denied the story in November, he said, "I frankly feel that – I almost feel that, in a weird way, the opportunity for whomever it is to direct that movie, it comes with the burden of being that kind of iconic movie and series. I was never a big Star Trek fan growing up, so for me, working on Star Trek didn’t have any of that, you know, almost fatal sacrilege, and so, I am looking forward more than anyone to the next iterations of Star Wars, but I believe I will be going as a paying moviegoer!”
Uh huh. And we say we can't fathom how many zeroes were written on the offer that was slipped across a conference table to Abrams somewhere in Burbank.
And we ain't mad about it. Check out the brand-spankin' new trailer for Zach Snyder's anticipated attempt at erasing our minds of Bryan Singer's 2006 (admirable) effort:
Dark Sky Films revealed to us the first
photos from Adam Green's Hatchet III, directed by BJ McDonnell. Hatchet III will continue the saga of Crowley, the "Bayou Butcher," who first made his gruesome mark in 2007's groundbreaking Hatchet. Adam Green's Hatchet II became the first unrated independent horror film to be exhibited by a major chain (AMC Theatres) in more than 25 years when it opened.
The third installment in the gruesome franchise is written and executive produced by series
creator Adam Green, who also directed the first two films in the series. Veteran camera operator BJ McDonnell (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire
Hunter, Project X, Easy A) makes his directing debut on Hatchet III.
Franchise stars Danielle Harris and Kane Hodder return in Hatchet III, along with
Derek Mears (Friday the 13th 2009), Caroline Williams (Texas Chainsaw
Massacre 2), Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs) and others.
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