The other day at the weapons check table, where costumed attendees must have their (mostly) fake light sabers and guns and knives inspected and tagged, a Comic-Con security officer summed up cosplay culture during the Con to me: Folks don their costumes at home thinking they'll stand out in the crowd, only to arrive at the Convention Center and see that uniqueness is almost pedestrian here in San Diego — if only for this one wondrous weekend in July. So what's the secret to crafting a truly Tweet-worthy, next-level costume?
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You loved the Blair Witch Project, the Paranormal Activities, and all of the knockoff faux-doc horror pics that followed, so now ladies and gentlemen, here comes a Christian horror pic entitled Harmless. Shot, according to the film's website, "in the popular found footage style," the film tells the freaky tale of one wholesome family torn asunder and terrified... by a box of porn. Behold the horrors that await (in terribly staged, lo-fi scenes of temptation and terror) in the trailer for Harmless.
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Between taking to the web to pull a Tyler Perry, announcing a public auction for distribution rights, and issuing his own press release publicizing a protest of the protest of his film, Kevin Smith's done all he could to wring every ounce of publicity out of his Sundance entry, Red State. (What is this, Slamdance?) But how much does anyone care, really?
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