{"id":1945,"date":"2006-05-10T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2006-05-10T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T22:30:00","slug":"1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=2&#038;id=35942\" title=\"Hitchcock Influenced Abominable\">this<\/a>, my first thought was of the Onion AV Club&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/ctotd\">Commentary Tracks of the Damned<\/a> and their &#8220;inevitable dash of pretension&#8221; category:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ryan Schifrin, writer and director of the upcoming SCI FI Channel original movie <i>Abominable<\/i>, told SCI FI Wire that his movie owes a debt to legendary director Alfred Hitchcock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My second thought was just to laugh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s modeled after Rear Window,&#8221; Schifrin said in an interview at the Saturn Awards earlier this month. &#8220;It&#8217;s about a psychotic yeti on a rampage. It&#8217;s a total creature feature. It&#8217;s a man in a suit; it&#8217;s not CGI.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I forget&#8230;was it James Stewart or Grace Kelly who played the rampaging yeti in Hitchcock&#8217;s original?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing this, my first thought was of the Onion AV Club&#8217;s Commentary Tracks of the Damned and their &#8220;inevitable dash of pretension&#8221; 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 &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1945\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}