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Fantastic Fest: The Human Centipede 2 Premiere Claims A Victim

Somewhere toward the end of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) , Tom Six’s follow-up to the notorious 2010 dare of a horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) — after the sequel’s new villain had performed makeshift “surgery” on his twelve victims but before the film’s gruesome, stomach-churning denouement — the woman sitting next to me fell ill and fainted. She came to minutes later, she told me as we waited for medics, only to be greeted by a wall of disorienting, horrifying sounds, a cacophony of screams and even worse noises, accompanied by some of the vilest images ever captured on film. Needless to say, it was agony to live through. But, she said with a brave smile, it reminded her that she was human after all.

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Killer Elite Pretty Much Gives Up With New Red-Band Trailer

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I enjoyed the Statham/De Niro/Owen assassin intrigue Killer Elite — more than most, it appears . But hoo boy , this new red-band opening-day trailer is misguided. At least two scenes here aren’t even in the movie, and the gratuitous female nudity is like… what ? Anyway, I’m only posting it as a public service advisory letting you know this movie is better than this puerile, hard-rawkin’, NSFW garbage. Desperate marketing gone wrong — and your complete Friday Buzz Break — after the jump.

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Killer Elite Pretty Much Gives Up With New Red-Band Trailer

Did Water Balloon-Tossing Justin Bieber Take His CSI Role One Step Too Far?

Viral marketing gone haywire or simply a case of an actor losing himself inside the skin of a character? Yesterday, CBS offered the first living proof of Justin Bieber’s acting prowess as a bombing suspect in their all-too-brief promo for the season premiere of CSI . Today, though, comes word that maybe the music superstar took his role as a police-attacking rogue (“I was just gonna scare the cops… not blow them up!”) a bit too far.

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Did Water Balloon-Tossing Justin Bieber Take His CSI Role One Step Too Far?