This Is the End for Michael Cera…Violently
Remember when the big selling point for the House of Wax remake was “Paris Dies”?
I think the money shot may have been given away in this trailer, vis-a-vis the annoying screen presence we’d like to see gorily impaled…
A less R-rated version of this trailer for the comedy in which various celebrities play themselves as obnoxious d-bags was shown at WonderCon, along with a second clip that wasn’t so hot, and I hope is less representative of the film – a spoof of The Exorcist with Jonah Hill in the Regan role, and Jay Baruchel with two kitchen implements tied into a cross as the would-be exorcist. It played like a Scary Movie bit, without even going for the most obvious source of humor…that Catholic rituals could be meaningless when the possessed person is Jewish.
It makes me fear that the premise could collapse if the apocalypse turns out to be of the religious variety – I think more, darker humor could be mined from a realistic threat, but for that there’s always this upcoming film, which I have seen and found to be good…
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist