“This is quite possibly the biggest news we’ve ever reported in the history of Bloody-Disgusting,” started the hopelessly naive and overly enthusiastic blog post that basically told you everything you needed to know about the legitimacy of their story.
Bloody Disgusting.com – a horror film website dedicated to all things, wait for it… bloody and disgusting (how about that?), made headlines outside the small world of chumbucket schlock news when they “learned from a well-trusted insider,” (*snicker*) that Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to “There Will Be Blood,” would be a horror film.
Most of the wise movie blogs avoided giving this claim any credence, the other4/5’s reported it with nary a note of skepticism (shocking, we know). Then the always-professional movie enthusiast site Ain’t It Cool News (cause ain’t it always cool?) drunkenly wrote PTA and asked him to confirm or deny (no seriously, their post starts out, “Hey folks, Harry [Knowles] here… a tad intoxicated, but still able to quasi construct sentences,” we’re glad J. Hoberman’s like this guy have such great access to movie directors). PTA writes back:
News to me.
I thought I just made a horror film….[ed. this is where you throw in a “zing!”]
Wish I had something to report, but I’m dry as a bone…
pta.
There you have it, rumor quashed and two movie fansites re-emphasize their quality work in one fell swoop. All is well in the world. Sadly, the aforementioned well-trusted insider no longer has access to Chucky VI films.