Thai Giant Snakes – The Scout

The Scout is a sequel to 2006’s Vengeance, a Thai movie I have but haven’t watched, where some people go into the jungle and nature goes crazy and there is a giant snake who is on the poster art.
As for The Scout? The plot:

Scouts visit an ancient temple to witness a lunar eclipse. Hearing campfire stories of the legendary god who protects the temple, they decide to go on a treasure hunt. Finding themselves lost in a parallel universe, they must find the way back before the end of the eclipse traps them

The teaser:

The poster:
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The person most likely to NOT appear in The Scout: Atticus Finch

News from Wise Kwai via 24 Frames per Second

For another Thai film with snakes, check out the info on Deep in the Jungle, aka Naak

Deep in the Jungle stars Jesdaporn Pholdee as a special-forces sniper who goes rogue to protect a young woman (Ploy Jindachote) who is sought by a rival black-ops soldier (Pasin Ruengwut). Sakda Kaewbuadee stars as the woman’s protective brother. The siblings are from an ancient tribe of snake gods who can live in human form. Coherent storytelling and decent special effects made Deep in the Jungle an okay effort from Phranakorn and director Teerawat Rujeenatham.

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And thanks to Avery for the heads up on The Scout

Article about the monster in Star Trek XI: Reboot Frontier

Wired has an article up about the many-eyed monster in the new Star Trek movie, in part of the “Please come see our reboot!” press coverage. I am still not going to head out to see it in theaters, but I don’t mind reading about effects work.

Star Trek’s Beast Master Reveals How to Create a Monster
By Steve Daly
The blink of an ominous eye. The flash of a feral fang. The flapping of a grotesque limb. Creature guru Neville Page knows we’re scared. Every peek at monster flesh is part of the deliberate ploy to pull audiences into a film and set them up for a terrific payoff—the satisfaction of finally seeing the beast in its full-screen glory. How does Page keep us captivated from peekaboo shots to the big reveal?

Neville Page also did work on Cloverfield and the upcoming Avatar and Piranha 3D
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Cine Excel gets its werewolf on!

Cine Excel is finally, finally coming out with some of the films that have been sitting on their homepage for years.

Werewolf Erotica is a retooling of WildCat (made by the Polonia brothers) that starred Rebecca Ferratti as a woman who becomes a catwoman creature.

Army of Wolves was listed on the website for years under titles such as The Davinci Curse, Dead Knight, and at one point Black Mass (I missed it when it was trying to be sold under that title!) and now has had werewolf scenes filmed and added in.

Both of these were mentioned in the Cine Excel Megapost part one that I wrote in 2007 (and the Army of Wolves title had been on that website for years before that)

This made me check out the Cine Excel website for the first time in a long time, and they’ve changed the artwork around quite a bit. They also have a few new movies listed (at least ones I didn’t recognize under different names the last time I was there) and Internetrix is now called Nanotron! Maybe they should add werewolves to that! Call it Werewolf Web and have the main character fight werewolves on the internet in Matrix bullet-time!


Army of Wolves vs Doc Brown?