Doctors Rounds 02

Here’s the second of Doctor Smirnoff’s weekly round-up of the best current horror movie & game news. We want to hear your opinions, so get posting your thoughts on the forums soon!


SAW VI Plot Revealed…??

SAW VI is due to open in cinemas across the world this October and, after the dull offering that was SAW V, it had better have one hell of a twist before the game is finally over (assuming this is the final episode, as planned). In the meantime, Xbox Live is showing SAW V over its movie streaming service.

But it would seem that someone at either Microsoft of Lionsgate has made a school-boy error and featured the wrong synopsis in their advert for the movie… a synopsis now rumoured to be the outline for SAW VI:

“One man. One plan. One foot. Yes, the Doctor is in! With a strange twist of fate and a revengeful plot, get ready for the most anticipated event of Saw. Face your fears at his operating table. Know that no one is safe from his sickness. Chills and screams are his true pleasure. Blood? You'll be drenched in it.”

If you ask me (and even if you don’t) this sounds like more of a spin-off than the conclusion of the existing storyline. Could it be that this refers to the SAW video game we know to be in the works? If so, it looks like an interesting angle, although I always liked that the fate of Doctor Gordon was the one remaining mystery. We have a few gamers on the Forums and even fewer SAW fans… what do you think?


No HOUSE for Re-Animator…

RE-ANIMATOR is a film that gets much love here at Cadaver Lab and rightly so. I recently had chance to catch up to with the misadventures of Dr. Herbert West and now count BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR in my list of favourite horror movies.

Well, Dan & Ben over at MONDO MOVIE recently interviewed none other than director Stuart Gordon, and took the opportunity to ask him about the long-gestating ‘HOUSE OF RE-ANIMATOR’, to which Gordon responded:

“That had to be abandoned. It was going to be about the Bush administration, the idea of re-animating Dick Cheney. It’s pretty much old news now and I don’t think it’s going to happen. In a way I’m glad that it doesn’t need to happen… If McCain would have, God forbid, been voted in, we could have ended up making it about Sarah Palin taking over – that would have been a real horror movie!”

This is sad news to me. I would love to see Jeffrey Coombs reprise this role and IMDB even has William H. Macy listed as the President, which would have been cool. Still, at least there’s the ongoing talk of bringing back RE-ANIMATOR as a BUFFY style television series… right?


Craven Wants Cash to SCREAM Again…

Whilst there’s still no script, director or cast, Wes Craven is still speaking about SCREAM 4 as if the start of production is imminent. And he’s seemingly playing hard-ball. Craven definitely wants in on any sequel or reboot. But, only if he gets financial recognition for his contribution to the past movies on top of is fee for any work on a new addition to the franchise!

With Craven attached to any and all remakes of his past material, no matter how great (HILLS HAVE EYES), crappy (HILLS HAVE EYES 2) or completely unnecessary (LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT), it seems that he’s playing the same game as John Carpenter has over the past few years... i.e. cashing in the chips whilst the going’s good.

Personally, I think it’s unfortunate to see the individuals who best used the genre to speak out against capitalism and conformity actually seek to embrace it by feeding the Hollywood remake-machine. What are your thoughts? Are they right to do so? Was it inevitable? Let us know on the Forums…


Raimi’s Return a “perfect” DRAG…

Everybody wants Sam Raimi to return to horror. I mean c’mon, the guy gave us Ash, the deadites, Dutch angles and introduced the world to Bruce ‘The Chin’ Campbell. But after such a long period of time away from directing the genre, could he still have that magic that made us all avoid lonely cabins or books inked in blood and bound in skin?

Well, those lucky bar-stewards over at Bloody Disgusting recently attended an early screening of Sam Raimi’s return to horror, DRAG ME TO HELL. Their opinion?

“DRAG ME TO HELL was quite simply the most PERFECT horror film I’ve seen in a long, long while.”

If this is an accurate review of the film in it’s current form – and Bloody Disgusting are usually overly harsh, if anything, in their reviews – then ladies and gentleman, it would seem that the King has indeed entered the building to show all the pretenders how it’s really done.

Yes, you may consider me excited.