- Culture
- 02 May 07
The best thing about Quentin Tarantino's new slashfest is the website.
Its American box-office performance may have been even grislier than the content, but the official Grindhouse website is a must for all impressionable young people contemplating a career as a homicidal maniac.
How Caught In The Net squealed with maniacal delight when presented with the choice of using a chainsaw, M-16, butterfly knife, flame thrower, Uzi, ball knife, throwing knife, scalpel, chain, scissor knife, jumper cable, bonesaw, baseball bat, switch blade, hammer, syringe or bolt cutter to splatter rotten zombie flesh all over our iMac screen.
Elsewhere you can create your own trailer, ogle the Uzi-for-a-leg amputee babe and do some extremely unpleasant things to Kurt Russell.
Gorge on gore at www.grindhouse.com.
There are more horrible goings-on at www.sadkermit.com where the titular “in no way affiliated with Disney or The Jim Henson Company” frog can be seen loading up on Class As while singing Nine Inch Nails' ‘Hurt’.
“Soon after the death of Jim Henson,” reads the homepage, “Sad Kermit the Frog turned to a life full of drugs, alcohol and sex. His fall to rock bottom was quick and unrelenting. This website documents Sad Kermit’s pain during these years... and years to come.”
We just hope they’ve got good lawyers.
While Caught In The Net in no way wishes to propagate the myth that Dundalk people are dimwitted and in-bred, we did rather enjoy the cameraphone action at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcShjuOG_l8 and suggest that RTÉ give the young prankster in question his own series pronto.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to www.tnt-tv.ru/programs/NashaRussia (Russian remake of Little Britain); www.flickr.com/groups/dalekcakes/pool (Dalek cakes); www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=2265 (Dutch arm-breaking anti-theft device); and www.baraskit.se/random/archive/8/pancake_2.html (creative drug-taking).