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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER THE CHOSEN COLLECTION Creator Joss Whedon took a marginal 1992 movie about a cheerleader who whups the undead and turned it into a story of self-discovery with strong emotional, ahem, stakes. Over 40 discs and 144 episodes, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) grows from snarky adolescent into wounded young woman, leaving a trail of latex-faced villains behind her. The finest episodes come in the more mature later seasons--especially the Sondheimesque musical "Once More, with Feeling" in Season...
...trend. The effects budget is high for TV, and Production I.G.?the team behind the original film and groundbreaking anim? such as Ghost in the Shell?signed on for the series, while Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer will contribute to the soundtrack. Sony, which has some experience with undead projects, has said it will support Blood+ across its corporate platforms, and will even make shows available online for less than $2 a month at www.aii.co.jp. All that's missing is a garlic...
...increasingly convinced that hordes of murderous undead little girls roam Hollywood, feasting upon unwary directors. How else to explain their prevalence, and the shorthand for creepiness they represent, in films from “The Ring” to “The Others” to the remake of “The Amityville Horror?...
...Huizenga's recurring themes and techniques. It begins with a naturalistic scene of Glenn and his girlfriend idling in a cemetery at night. "The air was thick with the smell of baking bread," reads one panel. When a shuffling sound comes from behind them they turn to see "the undead" rising from their graves. Rather than linger on this classic horror set-up Huizenga instead abruptly shifts the scene to bison on the plains. Though at first taken as a visual non sequitur, this peculiar juxtaposition signals one of Huizenga's curious shifts in time...
...plot plays with this notion by mixing folklore with the fantastic. When someone dies in a rage, sorrow lingers in the place they died, spawning undead creatures that will murder anyone that attempts to inhabit that space. Thus, one woman’s obsession with a university professor begets a grudge that will leave her and her murdered son undead, forever lurking in their old home killing anyone who tries to move in. Jumping back in time we see the murders of several innocent bystanders throughout the film as they all in some way become connected with the home...