Here's what you get if you click through the image and are not in the U.S.:
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This is so strange, but I cant help but like where you are going with this :P
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John: My guess is, it's not a political thing that is preventing you from seeing the page, just an international rights issue. This series is going to be distributed on DVD internationally, and the company that is doing the distribution in your country probably doesn't want their marketing campaign diluted by Showtime's campaign for the US audience.
I want to mention the background on Homecoming, as I heard it, just because I think it's really interesting.
The producers of Masters of Horror offered all of these old-time horror filmmakers the opportunity to make one-hour films. The producers had very little money to offer, so there would be very little pay involved, and the shooting budgets would be minuscule. But in exchange the producers offered complete creative freedom. Joe Dante could make anything he wanted to make, and it would be aired on Showtime and distributed on DVD exactly as he made it, no questions asked. So Joe and Sam Hamm (screenwriter of the first two Tim Burton Batman movies) decided to take advantage of the situation by making a film that no producer would ever fund, and no network would ever air, under any other circumstance. The result is clever, scary, funny, and a huge raspberry directly in the face of the powerful. It's everything a horror movie should be, and everything horror movies haven't been since at least the seventies.
Have a big bowl of popcorn ready when it airs on Dec. 2nd, and prepare to be astonished.
- H
Let the right-wingers go wild. It's funny to me. Anyone who takes them seriously is retarded.
Keep on shooting, Ann... ah, ha ha ha... Do you have 2,107 rounds in that shotgun? ... ha ha he... Oops, they're not slowing down, Ann... Funniest damn thing I've seen all week.
What, exactly, is going to make the right-wingers angry about this movie?
This exactly:
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That's right. As we mentioned the other day, in "Homecoming" - director Joe Dante's upcoming contribution to Showtime's 13-part "Masters of Horror" anthology series - it's the living dead who sway the presidential election. "They start coming back and announce that they want to vote because they don't like what's going on," explains Dante of the zombies in his one-hour political satire. "They don't believe in the war, and they're worried that they will have died for nothing."
The director of such films as the two "Gremlins," "Innerspace" and "The 'Burbs," says he and fellow horror meisters, including John Carpenter, John Landis and Tobe Hooper, were drawn to the "Masters of Horror" project for the same reason: "We were offered creative freedom. Nobody was looking over our shoulders and telling us what to do, and we all had final cut. That doesn't happen very often, so I thought I ought to do something a little closer to my heart than a standard horror story." He adds, "The tone is satirical and dark, but is also, I think, somewhat passionate. I didn't see anybody dealing with contemporary issues in a dramatic way the way they used to in the '70s and '80s, so this was an opportunity to wear my heart on my sleeve and make a statement."
Funnily enough Abel Gance did sort of the same thing in his 1938 J'ACCUSE in which the dead of WWI returned to life to go after the death merchants pushing the world into what we know as WWII.
Plus ca change, eh?
I saw this last week (advance screener) and it is wonderfully sharp in it's indictment of this administration. Robert Picardo is excellent as "notKarl Rove". This is one of the best examples of a 1950s-style EC Comic come to life.
"My guess is, it's not a political thing that is preventing you from seeing the page, just an international rights issue."
Nope. You cannot access a single page on the Sho.com site, which is enough for me to let them know I will never sign up for European Showtime (recently introduced) and I will discourage my many American friends and relativesfrom doing business with them.
Insanely stupid, is what it is.
Hey! I'm an American! I have a right to see this website! Ignore my IP address! I'm just abroad for school!
John--
For the most part, Showtime is little more than a downmarket version of HBO. You're making the right decision.
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