"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
Reading Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta and Charles Burns’ Black Hole sort of back-to-back recently has reminded me I really want to get back into reading comics.
I need to figure out where I left off with some of my favorite monthly titles — mostly Vertigo stuff — and take a walk to one of the good comic book stores in Manhattan. (There’s, I think, one really decent store on Long Island, but it’s in Smithtown, the better part of an hour away.)
Gerson sends along a link to the following news story: “A Man in a Fishbowl, Marinated in Unreality”.
I swear, it wasn’t me.
Seeing this, my first thought was of the Onion AV Club’s Commentary Tracks of the Damned and their “inevitable dash of pretension” category:
Ryan Schifrin, writer and director of the upcoming SCI FI Channel original movie Abominable, told SCI FI Wire that his movie owes a debt to legendary director Alfred Hitchcock.
My second thought was just to laugh:
“It’s modeled after Rear Window,” Schifrin said in an interview at the Saturn Awards earlier this month. “It’s about a psychotic yeti on a rampage. It’s a total creature feature. It’s a man in a suit; it’s not CGI.”
I forget…was it James Stewart or Grace Kelly who played the rampaging yeti in Hitchcock’s original?