Jeepers Creepers is one of a whole bunch of movies which are now available on the iTunes platform. When the Jeepers Creepers movies came out, I really did not find them scary, but the monster was really incredibly fantastic. It looked like the goth version of Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Other favorite MGM movies which are now available on iTunes include Ronin, Unsual Suspects, Spinal Tap, Casino Royale, Mad Max, Poltergeist, and the classic Hang ‘Em High and Last Tango in Paris.

As I rode back from the airport yesterday, my car passed a bevy of Blue Blood hotties including Roxy Contin and others, all decked out and waving Doomsday signs. This reminded me that I wanted to tell you all about the upcoming flick. (These two things are related; they were promoting the movie, not predicting the end of the world in their underwear.)

Doomsday is a movie of a dystopian future. In a present day United Kingdom, a fatal viral epidemic has broken out, so a portion is walled off to quarantine the infected. Fast forward 25 years in the future and the disease appears again outside the quarantined zone. The authorities realize that there are still people living within those walls, so they dispatch a hot chick to go see if she can find a cure. The hot cure-hunting chick is played by Rhona Mitra whose accomplishments off the silver screen include being expelled from boarding school and booth babe appearances as Lara Croft at trade shows. I actually thought she was Kate Beckinsdale when I first viewed the trailers for Doomsday and apparently I’d make a good casting director because she is starring in the upcoming Underworld: Rise of the Lycans vampire movie.

At any rate, once inside the walls of the quarantined city, Rhona Mitra’s Eden Sinclair has to go up against an army of citizens who appear to be rather justifiably pissed off about being walled off and then asked for help. The inhabitants of the walled city include a forceful Malcolm McDowell playing a character named Kane and the Golden Rule seems to indicate to me that the outside world doesn’t really deserve a lot of help. The preview images and videos show some very appealing Mad Max or perhaps dark gothic Burning Man style. The action looks like it is going to be compelling. I really like the overall aesthetic achieved by talented writer/director Neil Marshall, best known for the psychological horror of his spelunking movie Descent and also critically-acclaimed for his wereworld film Dog Soldiers. I am looking forward to Doomsday and hope it does not end up having the message that the overculture can legitimately exploit the counterculture for anything it likes, including being lab rats for viral vaccine research. Does mankind have an expiration date?

I know some science fiction fans get peeved when SF movies have overly traditionally attractive people in them. Then again, some science fiction fans found the captain in that Serenity thing attractive, so there is no accounting for some people’s taste. Ew. Anyway, The Fifth Element is one of my favorite movies, mostly because I’m a big Luc Besson fan and nobody does exhausted-but-toughing-it-out like Bruce Willis, but, while perhaps not my own personal perfect woman, Milla Jovovich was just fine there too. And she looks mighty badass fine in the trailers for Resident Evil 3 aka Resident Evil: Extinction. And she is playing opposite Oded Fehr, who was the terrifying genius mastermind on Sleeper Cell. I’m not really down with the Vegas being all destroyed though. I love Vegas. Aesthetically, the movie looks like a more Western-styled Mad Max via Maxim or FHM. Check out the trailer to see what I mean.

The tagline slogans for this flick are all pretty entertaining across the board:

1. A zombie needs only one thing . . . the living.
2. All bets are off.
3. Experimentation. Evolution. Extinction.
4. This fall all bets are off.
5. We have witnessed the beginning. We have seen the apocalypse. Now we face extinction.
6. What happens in Vegas . . . stays in Vegas.

As all of my friends know, what happens in Vegas only stays in Vegas if we don’t take photos and then post the pictures online.