In an effort to condense and combine the thoughts I want to get down today, I'm going to try and squeeze all this unrelated info into one post, so bear with me. Big news today was that Columbia has suddenly put on the breaks on that Brad Pitt-Steven Soderberg baseball pic 'Moneyball' that I posted about a few days ago. This morning's announcement was made just days before shooting was scheduled to begin. It's a pretty mysterious situation and it is unclear whether the movie will end up being made at all. Weird.
Speaking of sports movies, I read a script today for a horror movie written by a guy who has directed a pretty good sports movie. I'm not at liberty to say what it was about or who wrote it, but I am the first to say that I am not a huge fan of either genre. However, this script started out like a serious social drama and was able to slyly sneak in its horror elements.
This got me thinking about a resurgence of the horror film in recent years. Rather than being relegated to the dregs of late summer release dates, some filmmakers are lifting the genre out of its rather mediocre status in the eyes of elite film observers. It's not just about hooded serial killers or hacking off limbs in the bloodiest way possible, but navigating a subtle line between smart thriller and the conventions of the horror film.
To reference a few examples, we've got "The Host" and Cannes hit "Thirst" out of South Korea, "Let the Right One In" from Sweden, and Sam Raimi's spring season hit "Drag Me to Hell". I wish I could write more about it, but since I don't really watch horror movies, I can't really say too much more.
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