Last summer I made my first trek to the San Diego Comic Con and oh, honey … the sights I done saw!
Liv Tyler speaking Elvish to appease a ballroom full of nerds … a dude dressed like a 300 Spartan yet decidedly lacking a 300 Spartan’s body … miles and miles of crap that no one needs yet everyone desperately wants … an amputee model all done up like Rose McGowan in Planet Terror … and $5 pretzels. Yes, I said five-dollar pretzels. What’s up with that, Comic Con? Do I not hunger yet deserve affordable snacks? Am I made out of money? What am I, Goldfinger? Do I smell like Elizabeth Taylor‘s White Diamonds? No, I assure you that I most certainly do not.
Although now that I think about it, that might be lovely.
While everyone else at the convention was drooling over the Iron Man trailer, I was drooling (with anticipation, I swear) over the panel writer-director Neil Marshall gave to talk about his upcoming “dark action thriller” Doomsday. Marshall, you see, is the man responsible for two of my favorite horror films: the 2002 “army vs. werewolves” flick Dog Soldiers, and the 2006 “hot women go caving with disastrous results” flick The Descent. Basically, I’d be willing to give any film the guy does a shot; lucky for me, however, Doomsday
looks killer.
Marshall’s ode to postapocalyptic movies like Escape From New York and The Road Warrior has everything you could want in pure escapist entertainment: car chases, weirdo eye makeup on crazy people, infections and quarantines, explosions, mohawks, and a gun-totin’, sword-wieldin’, tank-top-wearin’ Rhona Mitra. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and, uh … she looks pretty damn fine.
Six months after I went goo-goo over the film and early clips in San Diego, the official trailer has shown up online and I’m goo-goo all over again. Check it out — everything you need to know about the movie is crammed into two and a half minutes. If you’re as geeky — no wait — I mean, if you’re as savvy as I am, you’ll even spot MyAnna Buring, one of The Descent‘s six chicks with a pick.
All you really need to know about Doomsday, though, are two little words: Rhona and Mitra.
Doomsday will be hitting theaters on March 14. But as anxious as I am to see it, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to. Comic Con is coming up soon, after all, and I’d better start saving now if I plan on eating.
