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Marvel planning two more WEREWOLF BY NIGHT Halloween specials.

Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I like the idea. I enjoyed Marvel’s WEREWOLF BY NIGHT as a mashup of two old-school horror comic traditions, and if they want to do something equally creepy and/or gruesome… sure! That would be swell. They should start by taking a good, long look at EC Comics (while not actually admitting that they’re taking that look, mind you). There’s an aesthetic there that could be profitably developed.

Just… cut down on the CGI, all right? Let’s get some practical effects going, for a change.

The More Promising GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME 3 trailer.

Although as it is, there’s a strong possibility that everybody in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME 3 is gonna die. Then again: how long do these actors and actresses want to commit to eating nothing but steamed chicken, anyway? The MCU Diet must do a number on people.

The GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLIDAY SPECIAL trailer.

I’m aware that the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLIDAY SPECIAL is pandering to me in multiple ways. Which is as it should be. I deserve to be pandered to. What, you don’t think the same of yourself? I’m sorry to hear that, if that’s the case.

(H/T: GeeksAreSexy)

The first ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA trailer.

I keep wanting to write ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA with two Ms. Not that either is actually a word in English. Just a quirk of my brain, I guess.

Not gonna lie: I hope this movie is sillier than it looks. I liked how non-apocalyptic the stakes of the first two movies were. I’m in favor of continuing the trend.

The BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER trailer.

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER has fighting, Namor, my personal favorite character from the first movie (M’Baku) – and an almost tangible sense of sorrow for the loss of Chadwick Boseman, who was a genuinely good-hearted man and actor who was taken from us too, too soon. Everybody in that film misses him, and I don’t think they’re going to pretend otherwise. I think it was very smart that they didn’t recast the role.

The MARVEL: SECRET INVASION Disney+ trailer.

I’m down. I suspect that there are going to be good Skrulls, and bad Skrulls, and the aforementioned Secret Invasion will feature the latter. …Works for me. And I do love me some cinematic paranoia. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER‘s only real flaw was that it wasn’t an entire movie of Cap and Nat on the run… but I guess enough people wouldn’t have watched that, alas.

#commissionearned

Okay, Marvel’s WEREWOLF BY NIGHT looks pretty sweet.

WEREWOLF BY NIGHT looks like it’s combining the classic black-and-white horror movie aesthetic with the now-classic* 1980s gory horror movie aesthetic, and I am there for it. I have no idea how Marvel’s getting away with putting it on Disney+, but that’s what parental controls are for. …Although that’s a theoretical concept in this household. Both of my kids are devotees of creepypasta, and so far it seems not to have done either any harm. October 7th!

*I truly regret having to remind you that AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON is forty-one years old. So is WOLFEN. THE THING is forty, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is thirty-eight, THE LOST BOYS thirty-five**… that time period is as far away from us now as the 1940s and 1950s classic horror flicks were to me as a teenager. On the bright side: God damn, but the toys are awesome now. Not to mention the baseline medical care.

#commissionearned

**”CRYYYYYYY LITTLE SISTER… Sorry about that.

Begun, the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3 Leaked Trailer War has.

Mostly fought on YouTube, and savagely enough that at the moment the only clips available of the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3 trailer have been deliberately chopped and filtered. Presumably this is because Disney’s AI isn’t so much being developed as it is being desperately constrained: regular techniques for avoiding takedown notices would ablate under its impersonal, yet brutal gaze. I’m just glad that Disney can’t hack my wetware.

Yet.

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