MORE online editing genius. Take Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ, edit the key moments of the flogging, dub a few "undead" noises, add fresh subtitles and, bingo, you have a trailer for the epic The Passion of Zombie Christ. Let's face it, as
far as blood-spattered movies go, you'd be hard-pressed to beat Gibson's original vision for the Passion Play. This one's worth a look for the "He died for your sins. Now he's back for your brains" line and the best ever use of The Cranberries' dirge Zombie. However, if there is a hell, then the makers will surely burn in it …
GIVE THE DOG A 3D BONEWE now live in world of 3D animated movies – almost every cartoon you'll see at the cinema from now on will be in three dimensions, partly due to piracy issues, partly because it looks great – but this short, Knick Knack, takes us back 20 years to the beginning of it all. It proves that even in the earliest days, Pixar, the company that brought the world Toy Story and Wall-E, was still ten times funnier than most Disney fodder.
SCREEN GEMSSOMETHING a little homegrown and, naturally, top quality. Eye For Film is an Edinburgh-based movie reviews and news website, made by people with an obvious knowledge and passion for films. It also has a way with pithy one-liners, as its on-the-button observation about the woeful Year One that "when the best you can say about a film is that it's not actively offensive, you're in trouble" clearly shows.
SCREAM GEMSNICHE site here for shock and gore fans. The Ronseal "does-what-it-says-on-the-tin" approach to its title, Horror News, suggests a paucity of humour and imagination, but it's packed with news, reviews, trailers and clips. What surprises is the sheer density of the stuff out there. Mind, reviews indicate a very relativist idea of what makes a good horror – ie: "the sort of people who like this sort of thing, will like this sort of thing" – but it's still worth a trawl through.
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