MONSTER MASH-UP: THE SEQUEL (iPod shuffle challenge!)

This worked out awesomely last year, so let's do it again! You remember the deal: you're scoring the trailers for several upcoming horror movies, so put your iPod or MP3 player of choice on shuffle and post the first song you hit for each trailer. That song is the centerpiece of the trailer, and you should write a few lines about how it'd fit the trailer or where it kicks in. Does it make it a comedy? Does it make it a teen movie? A freaky foreign flick? Follow the link to last year's challenge for bitchin' examples.

Here're the new trailer concepts:

1) Haunted House
2) Mad Scientist
3) The Devil!
4) Creepy Aliens
5) SEQUEL! (Choose one of your movies from last year and score its sequel trailer. Pick the movie first, then hit shuffle - no cheats! If you didn't participate last year, your trailer topic is...MUMMY!)

Reminder: You might want to skip the orchestral stuff to avoid being too on the nose and go with mainly pop music.

Folks I'd Make The Sex With

David Duchovny

Jeremy Piven

Joaquin Phoenix

Justin Timberlake

Dave Martindale



***A) These are in no particular order. B) I don't feel like typing out explainations or resizing the pics. As Dan pointed out, my participation was the only thing specified as mandatory. So there. :P C) Natalie Dormer almost beat out Jason Schwartzman, but then I saw her running around the interwebs with blonde hair and now she is ruined forevermore. D) After looking at the thirteen people I chose these six from, if you are trying to get into my pants, it appears your best bet is to have a prominent nose and/or be kind of an arrogant asshole and/or have a rather peculiar sense of humor and/or have a first initial of J or D. Lol.

The Hot List - Dan

I participate because I have no choice. No explanation is given- they are hot, and you need nothing more.

1. Julia Stiles



2. Jewel Staite



3. Zooey Deschanel



4. Rachel Weisz



5. Thora Birch

The Hot List - Randy

I applaud Nick's decision to bring back the Hot List, and present my entries. Remember, folks... it's mandatory. The tag says so. I noticed while doing this that my taste tends to run toward "cute" rather than "hot," but that may be splitting hairs.

1. Mary Louise Parker
This is based largely on her performance in Weeds, where she's a terrible, terrible mother but also likeable, funny, sardonic and amazingly sexy.


2. Alison Brie
Again, this is based as much on the personality in Community, which is probably entirely the character and not really the actress, but I also just find her very cute.


3. Alyson Hanigan
I've always loved Alyson Hannigan, and you can find hottied-up pictures of her around the web, but I've liked her even more lately. Having a baby really agreed with her, and she's gotten a lot curvier, and no less cute, and I like what little I've seen of her "real" personality on Twitter as well as the character she plays on How I Met Your Mother. So my crush is really on Lily Aldrin more than Alyson.


4. Felicia Day
Cute, geeky, redhead... what's not to love?


5. Yvonne Strahovski
The one exception to my "cute, not hot" guideline, as Yvonne (from Chuck) is just straight-up hot.

The Hot List - Dave

In no particular order...

Emma Stone
She played hottie bad girl, Wichita, in Zombieland, and I believe her center of hottie power is her bangs. And slutty eye shadow.



Kristen Ritter
Whoa, bangs again - I'm sensing a trend. She was the lean, gothy, recovering addict girlfriend of Jesse Pinkman on the latest season of Breaking Bad.



Katie Featherston
To film audiences, she's the girl who was terrorized in Paranormal Activity. To guy film audiences, she's the BUSTY GIRL who spent a lot of time being terrorized IN HER UNDERWEAR in Paranormal Activity. There aren't any hottie pictures of her online because she appears to be just a normal girl (that's the appeal), but I screencapped a scene with cleavage, so...yay!



Kristen Schaal
That's right, Mel from Flight of the Conchords. By no means traditional, but there's something about her mousy obsessiveness that can't help but be cute. Kristen Schaal - makin' nasal sexy.



Renee Zellweger
I watched Chicago a few months ago and I've been pining for her ever since. She reached for the gun...and my heart! Now I don't think I've ever seen her in any other movies, so this might be more of a vote for a character than the actress. She really pulls off the slinky, ditsy, kind-of-sleazy 30s look in Chicago.

The Hot List

Yup, I'm resurrecting the meme! It's been about a year or so, so I thought it was about time. Please join in on the fun. Oh and yeah, it's MANDATORY!

1. Olivia Williams - Probably recognize her as the woman who played Bruce Willis' wife in Sixth Sense (or possibly as Moira McTaggart in the abomination that is X3), but she's been one of the standouts on the Joss Whedon show Dollhouse as a seemingly cold-hearted bitch. Plus she's British, which doesn't hurt in my book.




2. Jaime Ray Newman - A veteran of the television world, appearing on things like Heroes, Veronica Mars, and the recent incarnation of The Witches of Eastwick...Newman really caught my attention with her portrayal of the geeky / super-smart scientist Tess Fontana on Eureka. She simply seems like a happy person that just happens to be hot too.




3. Emily Deschanel - The hotter of the Deschanel sisters. Of that, there is no doubt in my mind. There's also the fact that she could probably kick the crap out of me. Why that is a turn on...I have no idea.



4. Alison Lohman - During my less than stellar watching of Horror movies during the month of October, I caught the Raimi helmed picture Drag Me To Hell. Lohman made an impact as the cute, girl next door who just so happened to be fighting goat demons in her spare time. I like that in a girl.



5. Diane Kruger - For her participation in the "fantastic" National Treasure movies alone, she makes this list. But she's also gorgeous to boot and I believe capped a few Nazis in Inglorious Basterds too, which can't be overlooked.

Horror Movie Questionnaire!

You don't have to answer all the following questions, but you do have to answer some. Not only is it MANDATORY, but I'll cry if you don't.

1) Name a horror movie that scared you so bad it stayed with you for a while (or at least made you look behind the shower curtain when you went to the bathroom).

2) What's a vampire movie you like? Doesn't have to be a favorite, just one you dig.

3) What movie do other people think is scary but it doesn't get to you?

4) What horror movie has some music in it you like?

5) Name a character you really like from a horror movie. Note: you don't have to look up details. It's okay to say, "The gun nuts from Tremors."

6) Remakes suck! But assuming you could magically make one that was good, pick a horror movie candidate.

Halloween Music Meme (participation is MANDATORY!)

MONSTER MASH-UP - Alright, here’s the deal: you're scoring the trailers for several upcoming horror movies, so put your iPod or MP3 player of choice on shuffle and post the first song you hit for each trailer. That song is the centerpiece of the trailer, and these are the featured monsters:


1) Vampire
2) Werewolf
3) Zombie
4) Slasher
5) Creature from the Black Lagoon (I say it's time for a comeback)

You might want to skip the orchestral stuff to avoid being too on the nose, but the important thing is to then offer up a few lines for each movie explaining how the music fits the trailer. Is it a creepy fit? Does it turn the movie comedic? My test-run will be in the comments.