DARK CASTLE PANEL
THE HILLS RUN RED
This decent looking little horror film from director, Dave Parker (writer of 2003’s HOUSE OF THE DEAD) was a nice start to the panel. The plot of this direct to DVD effort involves a group of friends in the woods (where else would they be?) looking for the location their favorite rare slasher film was shot. Things get ugly when fantasy becomes reality and people start bleeding. Things kicked off with the film’s NSFW trailer. There’s more blood than your average pig slaughter throughout the clip. A lot of side-boob too as star, Sophie Monk looks fantastic scared and naked. Overall, a very fun and creepy look at the film.
Gives good side-boob.
Sophie says she wouldn’t let her dad watch the film. I’m not sure if this is because it’s too gory and she’s nude a lot or her dad is a gigantic pussy.
The cast, which includes Tad Hilgenbrink from that new LOST BOYS movie, told stories about being covered in blood constantly during the shoot. They took trips to the local super market in their make-up and people thought they were dying.
Producer, Joel Silver, also mentioned some other new titles on the label including WHITEOUT, THE FACTORY, and THE ORPHAN. The latter was described as one of the craziest horror films he’s ever seen.
Silver then told us about Ferry Man, a new comic book being released under Dark Castle Comics and showed some panels.
NINJA ASSASSIN
Apparently I was the only dude in the world to never hear about this Rain guy until last week. Women were losing their f*cking minds over him throughout the panel. Every jumbled English word was met with screams, every smile made someone faint. Anyhoo, NINJA ASSASSIN is about an orphaned ninja that must face the music once he turns his back on those who raised him. The trailer had enough ninjas to start a football team. Wouldn’t that be sweet? A ninja football team? Um…. Everything else about the clip was pretty generic. There was some kissing, fighting in the rain with Rain, swords, kung-fu, shirtless dudes, and a girl-on-guy fight set in a laundry mat that reminded me so much of the playground fight from DAREDEVIL that I almost threw up in my lap.
Almost every single question was for Rain and asked by teenage Asian girls. I think he gave the same answer twenty times in a row. “Uh, I love America. There are lots of girls. Go see Ninja Assassin.” People clapped every time like it was some new deep thought.
Apparently Rain is a great dancer (woo-hoo) and this made the fighting choreography very original and exciting. For who, I’m not sure.
Rain (are you starting to see a pattern here?) did all his own stunts. Director, James McTeigue, of V FOR VENDETTA fame, says they really tried melding animè into the live action.
When someone finally got around to asking Naomi Harris a question she said she loved playing Selena from 28 DAYS LATER and would love to bring the character back for another movie.