Yesterday, I was absolutely horrified to learn that Keanu Reeves has been tapped to star in a totally unnecessary remake of one of the finest Science Fiction films of all time, The Day the Earth Stood Still. I cannot begin to imagine how much this movie will suck with Mr. “I know Kung-fu” feebly trying to fill the giant shoes of Michael Rennie, who originally assayed the role of noble spaceman, Klaatu, . The only way this could possibly get any worse would be finding out that Eddie Murphy had been cast in the role of Gort….on second thought, that might not be so bad.

I’m Gort, dammit! I am supreme!

Seriously, Hollywood is dead. The corpse stinks. Bury it now.

When The Essential Ghoul’s Record Shelf went on an apparently permanent hiatus back in 2005, I wondered where I was going to get my regular fix of Incredibly Strange Music. So now, after 2 years of searching through the blogospheric wilderness, I’m happy to report that I’ve finally found something even better: Music From the Monster Movies, a weblog devoted to unearthing unearthly tunage from the golden age of psychotronic film.

There’s a whole lot of great music here, including a few gems I’ve been trying to find for a long, long time, like the Del-Aires Zombie Stomp, from the drive-in classic, Horror of Party Beach, so if you’re a fan of cool and strange music, you owe it to yourself to click on over for an extended browse.

[Link: Monster Movie Music]

Be-fezzed mad scientist, Uncle Pete, and his Lucha-masked sidekick, El Vato, bring you a World of Twisted and Absurd Audiovisual Oddities and The Forgotten Children of the Silver Screen in every online episode of The Dark Vault of Public Domain [Link]. They get mega-bonus points for playing a clip from my favorite Japanese New Wave band, The Plastics [Link].

Watching these clips reminded me of my own foray into public-access horror-hosting back in the early ’90s, Chester’s Chillers [Link]. I’ll have to check into getting some episodes up on YouScrewed.

The Invisible Hand of Alan Smithee [Link] explores a very particular cinematic ouevre , one in which the director has successfully petitioned the Film Directors Guild of America to have their name removed from the credits, and replaced with a pseudonym.

Other fine sub-sites to be found here includeThe Invisible ’50s Sci-Fi Page [Link], a compendium of mid-20th Century SF film reviews, and the Originals Vs. Remakes Page [Link], which provides a handy side-by-side comparison between classic films and their often inferior remakes.