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    Drag Me to Hell

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_Me_to_Hell I saw the trailer tonight pitching it as written/directed by Sam Raimi (a lot of potential in that) and so scary you'll crap yourself inside out (I was less convinced about that - it looked like bits of a few other films thrown together). Being...
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    A British lizardman?

    The CFZ have done a couple of blog posts on some reports that a lizardman has been sighted in Northumberland: http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2009 ... ordie.html Jon Downes did a follow-up suggesting there is enough to merit further investigation and has put out a call for other similar...
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    Wind Chill

    Just heard an ad on the radio so I'm assuming it is opening here soon. Anyone seen it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_Chill
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    Bug

    Sounds suitably Fortean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_%282007_film%29 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470705/ Just out on general release in the US and Canada (although with no clear date here) - anyone seen it?
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    Jekyll

    Starts next Saturday 21.00 on BBC1: www.imdb.com/title/tt0497298/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_%28TV_serial%29 Mark Gatiss plays RLS - the boy is doing well ;) Tha Gaurdian have a piece on the original: http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments ... 17,00.html
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    Weird West

    I just started a thread on Gallowwalker but thought we might as wel have a thread on the Weird Western: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_West I'm just finishing off Iron Council and picked up Mad Amos cheap second hand. Desparadoes and Jonah Hex are classics (even if the weirdest Hex...
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    Torture Porn goes mainstream: Yikes! Is it just me?

    We've previously looked at Kill Bill and if it is sexist/mysogynistic: www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14062 Now there is a long piece in the Garudian looking at the issue of expicit violence against women revolving around the release of Grindhouse...
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    UFOs over BStE

    www.burystedmundstoday.co.uk/ViewArticl ... id=2733726 Black spheres? Balloons?
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    The Vesuvius Club

    Coming to the BBC soon: www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009825.html Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vesuvius_Club
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    The A-Team Seance

    www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/0 ... _george_pe
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    Trickbaby and Matthew Bright

    I stumbled across Confessions of a Trickbaby on TV last night. Suitably unpleasnt with odd Fortean angles to it (UFO abductions, Hansel and Gretel and did I see a woman with chicken legs at one point?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_II ... _Trickbaby And the director seems quite the...
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    Maury Island Incident (Puget Sound, Washington; 1947)

    With video: ksby.com/global/story.asp?s=6404199 Link is dead. No archived version found. kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_0419 ... 05f12.html Link is dead. No archived version found.
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    Tragic April

    Wikipedia has this section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April#Trag ... h_of_April The Jones report currently has this at the top of their page: www.jonesreport.com ---------- Main threads (so we don't cover the same ground): Virginia Tech...
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    Portal

    Trailer/taster: www.snowfallfilms.com/portal.mov www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009742.html
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    Unearthed

    Trailer looks slick enough: http://link.brightcove.com/services/lin ... d769424029 A bit like Reeker with the Alien in. Hat tip www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009719.html
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    Carnivorous

    I can imagine the pitch: Cube mets Hell Raiser meets Hostel meets... some other random stuff. Sounds interesting though. Featured a lot at Twitch one of which reposts the general summary (or what looks to be the plot): www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009375.html...
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    Stardust

    Film version of Neil Gaiman's novel. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_%282007_film%29 There has been a bit of hoo ha over a leaked fan trailer. The official one is: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/stardust.html
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    Closet Space

    www.imdb.com/title/tt0860835/ A few trailers knocking around http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009458.html Theya re really missing out on some good taglines: Don't go in the closet? Come out fo the closet
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    The Slit-Mouthed Woman

    Tartan will be releasing this film over here: www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009474.html Interestingly another film based on an urban myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuchisake-onna
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    Den (not like Saw at all, nope, uh uh)

    Not the dirty variety although things might go that way: www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009477.html The first trailer is better than the second which probably shows it up for what it is. Pretty bad. Looks like it also wanders into Nasty Clown film territory too.
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    Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

    Just heard a review of it and it sounds interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus Anyone seen it?
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    "Conie": The Beast of Coniston Water

    OK I made the name up but still... www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/news/viewarti ... ?id=473259
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    Missouri Madness

    Another in the Fortean Traveller series of threads: http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16008 Time window sin the Ozarks: www.ufoarea.com/paranormal_windows.html Claims for a secret ET base in Jefferson City: http://from-the-shadows.blogspot.com/20 ... erson.html...
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    The Mystery Moose

    Moose are often suggested as possible explanations for Bigfoot sightings but now we have a weird moose who, interestingly has some characteristiocs of the weirder Bigfoot reports: www.sunjournal.com/story/199521-3/Lewis ... the_loose/
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    The Illusionist

    Seems to have got a good reception. Anyone seen it? Trailers are running here in the UK as it is out on the 2nd of March: www.theillusionist.com www.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_illusionist Odd coincidence:
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    Göbekli Tepe: Temples From 10,000 B.C.

    Gobekli Tepe undermines the notion that the building of large stone temples requires agriculture as part of the infrastructure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe It is featured in the current FT. More: www.dailygrail.com/node/4051
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    Yoshiro Nakamatsu: The Self-Made Madman

    Japanese inventor and winner of an IgNobel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiro_Nakamatsu and so so much more: www.brainsturbator.com/index.php/brains ... alute_you/ Voted one of the 10 strangest people in the world: www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28487 Inventor of...
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    Mirin Dajo: The Human Pin-Cushion

    www.philipcoppens.com/mirindajo.html You can now see the act on YouTube but be warned it is not for the weak of trouser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqOoWQVk6-k How is it done? My best... stab woud be that it relies on the same principle that help some people survive being accidentally run...
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    The Signal

    Kind of the Ring meets 28 Days Later: www.twitchfilm.net/archives/008824.html Weird that this has popped up at the same time as Exodus 20:13 (Hell the trailers could be interchangeable except The Signals is slicker): www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28883 A post-Katrina...
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    22nd Century

    PBS pilot documentary on cutting edge or near future science with a touch of transhumanism. You can watch it online and give your feedback on whether it shoul go on to be a full series. Possibly if they get rid of the virtual hosts ;) www.pbs.org/22ndcentury/
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    Exodus 20:13

    www.blackkraut.com/exodus_main.html
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    WALL• E: Pixar go sci-fi

    Info: www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL%E2%80%A2_E Report: Source
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    A Song Of Ice And Fire

    Well at least one person picked it as book they'd want to see adapated: www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 464#306464 Now it is: www.variety.com/article/VR1117957532.ht ... id=14&cs=1 Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire
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    The Diamond Age; or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

    The book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age which deals with a postcyberpunk world gone Neo-Victorian, is up for a 6 part mini-series adaptation produced by George Clooney: www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39447...
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    The Return

    Ads running on TV at the moment: www.imdb.com/title/tt0433442/ Watch out it gives away the twist (if it is a twist): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_(2006_film)
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    Highlander

    We have a thread on the lifestyle: www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28607 but not one on the actual films, TV comics, etc. Sooooooooo here it is. My opinion: 1 - great 2 - shitola 3 - can't think I've seen it 4 - so so TV series - watched some and it was...
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    Plastic electronics

    So I was perusing Plastic and Rubber Weekly and stumbled across this: www.prw.com/homePBP_NADetail_UP.aspx?ID ... &curpage=0 OK it was featued on the Beeb and sounded very impressive. At least as long as the oil lasts to make the plastic from I suppose. See previous threads...
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    Intacto

    A film I keep stumbling over and then forgetting about (happens a lot to me but it is great to refind them again ;) ) and as it is cheap as chips at the moment I have summoned it forth. Anyone seen it? Opinions? Plot: www.imdb.com/title/tt0220580/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intacto
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    Primeval

    ITV's attempt to take on Dr Who http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeval_%28TV_series%29 Teaser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX-hyh82Zuw
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    The Conspiracy Files

    New from the Beeb. www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/?id=conspiracy_files The first one (about Diana) was on the 15th - anyone see it? Not sure when the others are on presumably after the festive period. Episodes: Diana: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/6159583.stm 911...
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    Concurrent Pregnancies (Multiple Wombs; Superfetation)

    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2 ... 99-ap.html
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    The Holy Prepuce

    It has been mentioned before in passing: www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=87479 but following up on a tip off we can now don our policeman's helmets and investigate the strange case of the missing rollneck of Christ: Wikipedia entry...
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    Global Orgasm Day - 22nd December 2006

    There have been previous endeavours: www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 141#550141 but that has 'gone down' and this looks like being 'The Big One': www.globalorgasm.org http://globalo.blogspot.com A 'tongue in cheek' piece in the Garudian...
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    Rufaqa Corporation: Islamic Doomsday Cult?

    http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061212/3/2u8ui.html
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    Raimi's big Street and Smith adventure: Doc Savage and more

    http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/749/749557p1.html A film version of Ruse would be cool too.
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    Aronofsky's The Fountain

    As it came up here: www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28386 I thought it might be worth a thread to itself. I did hear of this many moons ago (and wasn't sure if I'd started a thread on it then) but it had a troubled production history It certainly sounds interesting...
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    The Hobbit Film

    I think they are shooting themselves in the foot over this but then again haven't they all made enough money to buy a couple of countries each?
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    The Cosford / Shawbury Triangle

    www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view ... leID=16139
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    Black Sheep - NZ man-eating sheep flick

    IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/ www.twitchfilm.net/archives/008090.html See also: Cows: www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25343 Squirrels and Weasals: www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26031
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