Eminem To Star In Multiple Roles In 3D Anthology Horror Movie Shady Talez
Nationwide, Juggalos are already boycotting in parking lots, in addition to breeding.Eminem, the 37-year-old adolescent rapper, will follow up his $116 million grossing fictionalized biopic,8 Mile, from 2002 with a3D anthology horror moviehorrifically entitledShady Talez. The project has kicked around fora while, and is now part of a synergy package that includes a same-named four-issue comic book series due 2010 fromMarvel Icons. The above image comes from that. Slim Shady will produce and star in multiple roles in the film, which will give an “urban wink” to genre classics such “asChristine,Aliens, andThe Lost Boys"in the style of George Romero’sCreepshow.What, no characteristic ode toIrreversibleorTwisted Nerve?
If the production values are there, I’m curious to at least see Eminem kooking it up with different roles, accents, and costumes. The dude arguably does a better Pee-wee Herman impression than Paul Reubens circa now, and he’s not a rapper known for acting in cash-grabs. (8 Mileat the very least was not an all-out embarrassment and spawned one of his best and most popular tracks.)
There is precedent for the ghetto-fab anthology movie, withSnoop Doggplaying the Crypt Keeper-like host as the “Hound of Hell” in 2006’sHood of Horror,which featured Ernie Hudson and Danny Trejo feeding their fams. Some will also recall that Snoop Dogg played the lead as a pimp-slapping ghost alongside Pam Grier in 2001’sBones,a film more dead on arrival than Wes Craven and Eddie Murphy’sA Vampire in Brooklyn. Of course, the gold-toothed granddaddy of this modern horror niche, and one of the most successful in terms of camp, is 1995’sTales from the Hood,if only for the inspired casting of the great, greyClarence Williams III. And going back to the original source, 1972’sBlaculastill holds it own.
One movie thatShady Talezshould stay away from “winking” at isChild’s Play, as the newly releasedBlack Devil Dollgets all kinds of crazy on that ass.
