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CARRIE TRAILER & TEASER: A tell-all campaign for a high-profile remake

Though I love the Brian DePalma original (with the extraordinary Sissy Spacek), I’m looking forward to Kimberly Fierce‘s adaptation of Steven King‘s classic tale of shame, sexuality, puberty and power. Julianne Moore is an inspired choice to follow the inimitable … Continue reading

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THE DOUBLE TRAILER: Audiences who like this sort of thing…will like this sort of thing

A genre in film is analogous to a commodity category in non-experiential consumer products. Marks of generic or categorical membership represent bids to fulfill expectations, to anticipate desires and rationalize their satisfaction. Trailers, whose typical and predictive markers are the … Continue reading

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POULTRYGEIST UNCENSORED TRAILER: Code Brown, or Don’t Question Troma’s Commitment to Marketing its Films

A co-worker showed me this preview for “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead,” which features an orgy of violence perpetrated by the eponymous villains against the unwitting but presumably deserving employees of a Chicken Restaurant unhappily located on a desecrated … Continue reading

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