Never judge a book by its movie.
Happy Halloween! What better way is there to celebrate the holiday than to watch a classic horror movie? A fun fact about the original Night of the Living Dead, it was released into the public domain as soon as it premiered in 1968. The original distributor neglected to put any copyright notice on the prints thus forfeiting…
I knew nothing about this book, The Ruins, until I saw the trailer for the horror film adaptation in 2008. The trailer did a pretty good job of not revealing what the threat was to the attractive American tourists. So, I had no clue what I was in for when I sat down and watched this movie. I’m…
MGM Television announced that it is developing a show based on Hunter S. Thompson’s life. The show is tentatively titled Fear and Loathing. Davey Holmes will act as showrunner. Holmes is also currently adapting Get Shorty for the small screen. He is co-showrunning with Bob Nelson, the screenwriter for the 2013 film Nebraska. Thompson was a…
The marketing for The Disaster Artist is on point. They’ve rented the original billboard that was used to promote The Room in 2003 to put up an amusing advertisement inspired by it. There is even a phone number that goes directly to Tommy Wiseau’s faux voicemail. The answering message goes as follows “You’ve reached voicemail of Tommy Wiseau, I’m very…
Published since 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been adapted to over 120 stage and film versions alone. One thing that I like about these covers is the different interpretations of Mr. Hyde. Some of the covers show him as a literal monster while others show no physical difference between…
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Alison Thoet, over at PBS, wrote an interview that she had with Eliza Denlinger, curator of a new Frankenstein exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum. In it, they discuss five of the best adaptations of the classic tale. My tastes may be a little different, but the list definitely has some interesting choices. via pbs.org…
In 1938, John W. Campell’s imaginative story, Who Goes There?, about an alien thing wreaking havoc in an Antarctic scientific research base was published. It’s been adapted into films three times at this point. What’s interesting about this is that each version is wildly different from each other. Yet, they each stays relatively close to the…
Craig Lines wrote a fantastic write-up of the novelization of the movie, Enter the Dragon. What started out as a fun piece about a Bruce Lee classic turned into a pretty in-depth look at the author and their body of work. via denofgeek.com Enter The Dragon needs no introduction. 40+ years on and its imagery is still…
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H. G. Wells is probably my favorite classic author. War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man are all great stories, and they all had a profound impact on me when I was young. The following covers for The Invisible Man mostly feature the same motif of the classic image of the bandages…
Just in time for the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel to hit the theaters, Murder on the Orient Express gets a new recording for an audiobook. This time it is narrated by Kenneth Branagh. He also happens to have starred and directed the upcoming feature film. The book is set to release on October 31st,…
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