JJ and his amazing friend Elizabeth return to wish you the happiest of New Years. Elizabeth recommends The Little Stranger which leads into a discussion of what does and does not work in scary novels and movies. JJ takes umbrage with an article about the 50 Greatest Hip Hop Songs Of All Time. (Elizabeth drops the mic and leaves the “stage”) Finally the pair get into some very mild spoilers regarding the film they have just seen…Django Unchained.

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Hey hey and then another hey hey! Jon Kelly sits down with his sister Deanna to chat about whatnot and gaming and whatnot. They cover a multitude of topics such as things, the world, and games, so if you’re into any of that stuff, why don’t you give it a listen? I think you should.

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JJ and his amazing friend Elizabeth record on a laptop this week as one of JJ’s mic cables goes on to the great cable storage unit in the sky. Undeterred, the pair move forward once more into the podcast breach! At first, the conversation veers not only toward the Occupy movement, but also to protests that JJ and Elizabeth have attended in the past. Even one story of how they missed the pepper spray by mere minutes. Eventually the pair are moved by the season and have a brief discussion of the horror flicks they intend to watch this season, and ones they recommend to others. All this plus news on the current status of the Classic Movie Club! Not bad for an hour, eh?

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Sometimes I look at my toothbrush and think, you’re named wrong. I mean, no one ever says, I’m going to go brush my tooth. Unless, well, you do actually have only one tooth. I’m confident in saying most of us have more than one little calcified stump, therefore it should be called a teethbrush. It’s probably just me, and this has absolutely nothing to do with this month’s poll. I’ve literally just brushed my teeth. I wouldn’t ponder this for long, but rather, bear with me as Aaron is off gallivanting around Dragon*Con *naked, I’ve been handed the reigns to come up with this month’s poll.

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Last month DC and Marvel went toe-to-toe, and your votes were split in deciding who struck the Balboa killer blow. From here on, both companies will live in harmony, as equals. That’s right, the battle is over, but the galaxy spanning adventures of the Transformers will continue and the greatest Autobot of them all; Optimus Prime, will retur—what? Oh, sorry. Geek tangent. Poll. Right. Ok.

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This month, DOOM! has a franchise related question for you: which is the best horror franchise of recent times? Yes, this would be perfect for October, but it’s September – you see we like to be the early bird… because we like worms. Or something. This made sense in my head five minutes back.

Have at it!

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* Did I say naked? He probably isn’t, but then again, I’m not there, so I can’t rule out the possibility that he is.

I love The Thing. In fact, a few friends and I get together monthly and have a bit of a movie night. This month, it’s my turn to pick a film. Coincidentally, it’s this movie that I’m showing. I think it’s a great little flick. My feelings on this new prequel/companion piece are mixed. I can be swayed, but prequels in general aren’t, well, just that… my thing.

I should say here, if you haven’t seen The Thing ’82, spoilers may be hangin’ around.

In 1951 Howard Hawks turned the story, Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. into the movie, The Thing from Another World. In 1982, John Carpenter took a stab at remaking the film and delivered a recognised genre classic. A science-fiction horror oozing with suspense and paranoia, solidly led through-out by his usual leading man, Kurt Russell.

Once or twice it was mentioned Mr. Carpenter had a sequel idea, but the project never took off. It was then announced, albeit minus Carpenter, that a prequel had been green-lit. Pretty irrelevant if you’ve seen Carpenter’s The Thing. We know what happens. Well, we mostly know what happens. Looks like the blanks, whether we want to know or not, are going to be filled in.

Behold, the trailer for a prequel to a remake of an original movie based on a book!

– ’48 hours ago, we found something quite remarkable.’

Really? Wow. I’ve been following Miss Winstead’s career since 2005’s Sky High. The lady is gorgeous. And talented. Look at her filmography to da—oh. You were referring to the alien you just discovered. Not Mary. Right. Gotcha. Sorry.

– We’ve been here before.

Back in 1982 with MacReady and co. I have to admit, it’s exciting to go back to the Norwegian camp and see what went down. Hopefully, they made more snowmen than Kurt’s crew – the only thing lacking from the first film. Seriously, who wouldn’t build a giant Optimus Prime snowman with all that snow?

– ‘I’m going to take a tissue sample.’

Good idea. Why don’t we also throw down some electric blankets. Make a fire. Chip a few chunks off for our ice teas. Y’know, the usual stuff. I’m sure tampering with the frozen alien will do no harm. Nope. No harm at all. More ice, anyone?

Actually, at this point in the trailer, I find the tone is pretty spot on.
– Row, row, row your boat.

Altogether now! Yes, even you. Yes, you at the back. SING, DARNIT!

– ‘Did you hear that?’

Ah, the dogs are back. Nice little clip put in here for fans of the original. Also a nice hint as to how the film will transition from final scene to closing credits.

– Staff announcement: Clean-up to aisle five.

I find there’s a good build up of atmosphere in the trailer. Something John Carpenter was a master of in most of his films. At this point, there’s little to no CGI, and it’s clear the film (or I should just say at this point, the trailer) isn’t going for cheap shocks tactics.

– ‘Somebody was attacked. But it seems, everyone is fine…’

Someone’s paranoid! This clip is also reminiscent of the original. Looks neat, though. Look at that… that… THING!

 – ‘What are you saying? Not all of us are human.’

When in doubt, flame-thrower each other. Not singing any more jolly songs now, are we!

– ‘We can’t let this thing leave. If it makes it out of here, lots of people could die.’

I get the film and trailer needs something to aim for. But again, we know it’s a prequel. We know, for the most part, how this ends. If I were these guys right now, I’d just concentrate on those snowmen.

– CGI

Looks okay. Hope they keep it to a minimum. We don’t need any big set pieces, but lots of dollops of atmosphere. Paranoia should be the aim of this game.

– To sum up.

Prediction: some potential. It’s not the re-imaging I was sure I’d see. I thought maybe some ice gags, maybe a Vanilla Ice track thrown in. An updating aimed for teenagers. Yes, I was fearing the worse. This teaser surprisingly holds early promise. Admittedly, there’s little chance it’ll hit the same notes as the original. I can accept that (and ignore it if it fails.) But it could be fun. I’m eager to see what else the follow-up trailer(s) provides.

I still maintain Thing 2: Thingier would have been a better title.

JJ and his amazing friend Elizabeth have a late night chat on a very hot evening. The pair had no idea what they were going to talk about, but somehow got from John Donne to seventies horror movies. The pair attempt to not only impart a love of classic cinema, but if you listen closely, you might even learn a very important word in Italian.

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Hands Down. Not Hands In. Not Hands Out. No sir, there is no Hokey-Cokey implied here. This is a web-comic sans shaking it all about. We just won’t stand by that sort of action.
This week Aaron has to deal with what he saw the night before at the Valentine’s party. You know, that thing that happened with the tongues… We’d rather not talk about it so just see for yourself here.

What do you think of the arty black and white version this week? You like? You hate? Comment and let us know!