The Final Destination was #1 at the box office Friday with $10.9 million according to figures from Box Office Mojo, a total that should have the 3D flick raking in upwards of $25-30 million for the weekend. Halloween II made $7.6 million for second place. That total is less than opening numbers for director Rob Zombie’s original 2007 reboot of the Michael Myers slasher franchise (I strongly prefer the original to Zombie’s series reboot). Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds made $5.9 million for third, a 59% drop from its debut.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release “Night of the Creeps” on DVD and Blu-ray on October 27.The original release date was October 20th but that date got pushed back a week. Either way the DVD and Blu-ray is finally coming out.
I kind of dig the DVD box art (over the Blu-ray box art). Guess I will be picking up both…
Sixty minutes of behind-the-scenes featurettes:
Birth of the Creeps featurette featuring Dekker talking about the origins of the project
Cast of the Creeps featurette featuring Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall, and Jill Whitlow
Creating the Creeps featurette featuring interviews with SFX creators David B. Miller and Robert Kurtzman
A special Tom Atkins-centric piece called Tom Atkins: Man of Action
Escape of the Creeps featurette providing a detailed look at the post-production
Deleted scenes
Trivia track
Fred Dekker solo commentary
Cast commentary featuring Atkins, Whitlow, Marshall, and Lively
The original theatrical ending
And footage from the aforementioned Cast and Crew reunion screening at the Alamo Drafthouse.
Check out a new clip for the upcoming George A. Romero zombie flick “Survival of the Dead”. I am personally looking forward to this movie. This clip gives me a “Day of the Dead” feel…
Images for the upcoming remake of the Universal Classic The Wolfman are finally hitting the internet. The Wolfman hits movie theaters on February 12th, 2010.
Here is video of Ottaviano Dell’Acqua at Chiller Theatre Zombie Convention in New Jersey in April 2009. For those of you who do not know who Ottaviano Dell’Acqua is, his US name is Richard Raymond and he was the star of Rats: Nights of Terror, Zombie 3, and many other Italian classic flicks from the 80’s and 90’s.
Ottaviano is most notable for being the main zombie in Fulci’s Zombi 2 (Zombie). You will also see fellow actor Al Cliver (who was also featured in many Lucio Fulci flicks) as well as a few other notable Italian actors and actresses. A pretty interesting video shot by Ottaviano himself.
I am a huge fan of the original Universal monsters and I am hoping this will actually be good. Not an easy task to fill Lon Chaney Jr’s shoes. At least the legendary Rick Baker is doing the FX. If anybody has respect for the old Universal monster it would be Rick Baker..