The Twilight Zone

Well, now I just feel silly -- thanks a lot, Win Butler. Back in May, rumors began to circulate that Arcade Fire members Butler, Regine Chassagne and Owen Pallet were working on the score for Richard Kelly's The Box, but Butler had insisted there was nothing to those rumors. Now it's eight months later, and as it turns out he was just messing with us. In an interview with Pitchfork, Butler finally fessed up that he had been working with Kelly on the orchestral score for the Twilight Zone-inspired drama. He says, "We didn't really think we were going to do the whole thing, and then it just kind of was easier once we got in. It was like, 'Oh well, we'll just keep going.' It has so much to do with the editing, and your job is just to help the director. It's a very different experience.
Jessica Barnes

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Everybody loves evil children! Judging from its trailer, the wide release of The Unborn this weekend promises to unleash a new terrifying tot upon a nation of unsuspecting teens. But the idea of scary juveniles extends far beyond the expected audience for David Goyer's jolt-fest.
One writer suggested that the idea of evil children originated "in the biblical tale of Elisha's mockery," in which 42 small boys disrespected a prophet of God -- and were promptly torn to pieces by two bears. The silver screen featured dozens of bratty kids in the 30s and 40s (e.g. the Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys) but none as murderously terrifying as 10-year-old Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) in Mervyn LeRoy's The Bad Seed (1956), a rebel yell against a conformist generation of "perfect" suburban families.
The 50s also produced Jerome Bixby's short story "It's a Good Life," featuring a three-year-old with more
Peter Martin

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I’ve been saving this one for a while, ever since Now-President Barack Obama was chosen as the Democratic candidate against Senator John McCain. It seemed appropriate to finally release this today. The Man is a 1972 drama directed by Joseph Sargent, based on the 1964 novel by bestselling author Irving Wallace. Both the novel and film examine the social and political consequences of a black man becoming the President of the United States. Although Wallace himself started out as a screenwriter, the movie adaptation of his novel was penned by none other than Rod Sterling. Why Rod Sterling? Maybe because, at the time, the idea of an African-American President sounded like something out of The Twilight Zone.

Arya Ponto

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