Land of the Dead

A rotund Alfred Molina stars in The Lodger (opening in limited release this Friday ahead of its DVDebut February 10 from Sony Pictures) as Detective Chandler Manning, who’s got a wife in a mental ward, a daughter on the outs and residual guilt from his investigation of a series of murders years before, for which he suspects the wrong man was executed. Manning’s fears are realized when a new spate of killings begin in Hollywood, and like the earlier set, they follow the pattern of the original Jack the Ripper murders.
Meanwhile, housewife Ellen Bunting (Hope Davis) rents her dark guest house to a mysterious stranger (Land Of The Dead’s Simon Baker), who gives off every warning sign possible that he is up to no good. He demands that neither Ellen nor her husband (Donal Logue) disturb his privacy, even as he comes and goes in the dead of night.

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If the zombie apocalypse should ever occur, my friend Drew is the first person I would call.  Not only does he possess the mental acuity and physical prowess to outsmart/run/bash-zombie-heads-with-crowbars, but he knows more about zombies than perhaps anyone needs to (aside from maybe Max Brooks[1])…that is…until the hard times come and zombies start eating your family.  So naturally, while scanning through the video store together on a cold winter’s night, his laughing selection of Zombie Strippers (2008), left me amused, but it also left me intrigued.  That’s right.  Zombie Strippers.  It’s a film about strippers who turn into zombies…and keep stripping.
With a surprisingly existentialist plot[2], multiple historical references[3] and a plot loosely hinged on the French playwright Ionesco’s “Rhinocerus” play,[4] this reference-happy movie still manages to show a lot of breasts and pelvic thrusts.  Toss in a healthy dose of

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Director Toby Wilkins (pictured), whose first film Splinter wowed fans last year, has joined the lineup of the next Chicago edition of Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, to be held March 6-8 at the Wyndham Chicago O’Hare Hotel (6810 North Mannheim Road, Rosemont, Il). Wilkins will preview his latest directorial effort, Ghost House Pictures’ The Grudge 3, at the convention, and the Sony Pictures DVD sequel will also be screened at the show.
The Grudge 3 picks up after the previous sequel ended, with the spirit of Kayako and her son still haunting a Chicago apartment building; Saw’s Shawnee Smith and Star Trek’s Marina Sirtis co-star, and rising genre scribe Brad Keene (The Gravedancers, From Within) penned the script. The Grudge 3 debuts March 24 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Other guests comin’ to our Midwest extravaganza include:
• George A. Romero: the director of Night Of The Living Dead,

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