Done.

In reply to this comment by finch451:
Haha, one of my favourite Grindhouse trailers.

I think Nicholas Frost and Simon Pegg deserve some credit for their work in the trailer, though. You'll notice that a good portion of the characters in that cast are the 'rat pack' style team from Shaun of the Dead.

I should mention that the film is "loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade."

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
No, I haven't seen that film, I'll have to check it out if I get a chance. He has a very distinctive style, thanks

In reply to this comment by dotdude:
Have you seen Jan Švankmajer's feature film from 2005 called "Lunacy"? The film is interspersed with animated pieces of meat and tongues. The minute I saw the short, I knew it had to be the same director.

That's a great video and a great song. Her YouTube profile says this about the song:

"Lenore's Song is Yunyu's most requested song at gigs. It is a reply letter to Edgar Allen Poe's -- 'The Raven'. Writing dead people love letters is Yunyu's idea of romance."

This is fake! The interviewer is Edgar Wright, director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz! Pretty funny though.

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) is a Universal Pictures pre-Code horror film loosely based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story. Bela Lugosi, one year after his legendary performance as Dracula, portrays a lunatic scientist who abducts women (one a prostitute played by Arlene Francis) and injects them with fresh blood from his vicious caged ape. The atmospheric cinematography by Karl Freund has been singled out by critics as superb, along with Robert Florey's direction. Thanks to Freund and Florey, the film has the look and feel of German expressionist films of the 1920s. However, some strongly violent scenes apparently prompted Universal executives to cut the film back to 61 minutes from what was originally an 80-minute running time. (Source: IMDB)

My favorite part is homer running over edgar winter and his band thinking their zombies.. "Die chalk faced goons!"

Freaks is in the public domain and the full movie is presented here.



Wikipedia sez:

Freaks is a Pre-Code 1932 horror film about sideshow performers, directed by Tod Browning.

The movie was adapted by Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, and Edgar Allan Woolf from the short story Spurs by Tod Robbins. Browning, famed at the time for his collaborations with Lon Chaney and for directing Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup. Director Browning had been a member of a traveling circus in his early years, and much of the film was drawn from his personal experiences. He intended to portray the classic moral of how outer beauty does not necessarily equate to inner beauty. In the film, the physically deformed "freaks" are inherently trusting and honorable people, while the real monsters are two of the "normal" members of the circus who conspire to murder one of the performers to obtain his large inheritance.

Yes, Edgar's albino. Yes, he's Johnny's brother. Yes, this is the early days of synth. Yes, it rocks!

All the Hot Fuzz links:
1 Start (above)
2 Ed's Intro
3 Trailer
4 Cast On Set
5 Supermarket
6 Make-Up
7 Pubs
8 Peter Jackson
9 Fitness
10 Rain
11 Fete Day
12 Last Blog?
13 Comic-Con 1
14 Comic-Con 2
15 Poster shoot
16 UK Comic Con

Plus Edgar and Nick's - 'Hot Fuzz' Interview: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 - and a trailer of the film here on the Sift.

Classic I loved this episode especially since I was studying Edgar Allen Poe at the same time.

Anyone recognize Darth Vader performing?

from the page:
When Edgar Bronfman Jr gained ownership of Universal Studios he got into some odd marketing campaign practices.

One of which is this ... all » rare, employee orientation video, that enlightened people about how things were going to change under new management.

It was comissioned to be written and directed by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and it was, and Jr. didn't like it, so they scrapped it.

Great satire, video includes appearances by Steven Spielberg, Demi Moore, Tracy Lords, James Cameron, Michael J. Fox, and Sylvester Stallone.