This is the trailer for Waz. Well, WΔZ actually because it’s about algebra, but some people aren’t into the whole “special character thing.”
Bodies are turning up in the dark city streets – some horribly mutilated, others with an equation wAz carved into their flesh [Ed Note: wAzuuuuup!]. As Detective Argo (Stellan Skarsgard) and his new partner (Melissa George) unearth the meaning of the equation, they realise that each victim is being offered a gruesome choice – kill your loved ones or be killed.
The choice doesn’t seem that gruesome, really. I mean, I’m as selfless as the next guy, but if it’s between me and someone else I think you know what the answer is. I figure they wouldn’t want to live without me around anyway, right? I know I wouldn’t.
Anyway, I’m curious as to how horror movies get financed. “Okay, pitch me your script. …Hmm, okay that sounds exactly like every crappy horror movie I’ve ever seen. Perfect. Let’s greenlight it. But remember, conformity is the main thing. You’re sure about this serial killer thing? Sure we don’t wanna go zombies or vampires or ghosts or something? …Okay good, let’s make this happen.”



Algebra horror? I do recall some pretty scary pop tests back in school…
Lance, you know it’s just me and you here? I kind of like it…
Not any more!
I read somewhere that horror movies are the safest bets in terms of finance. As long as the budget is low they almost always make money, and you don’t really need a big budget to make a horror movie. All you really need is a knife, some friends and some fake blood and you’re good to go. Make the antagonist strangle his victims and you don’t even need the knife or the fake blood.
CB: Ever see the Boston Strangler? It stars Tony Curtis the psycho. Great performance and totally against type for him…
‘as’ the psycho… I don’t want to impune Tony’s good name.
Yeah. I was looking for a picture of Albert Desalvo(?) at the weekend and found a piece that claimed he wasn’t the killer. Favourite Tony Curtis character is The Great Leslie from The Great Race.
I failed pre-algebra so i’m lost already.
Finally – a use for my glow-in-the-dark slide rule! I’ll bring it to the theater!
Glen, don’t forget to also bring your glow-in-the-dark CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 20th Edition.
Too bad it isn’t a trigonometry thriller, then the cops could have said, "While we were off on a tangent, the killer left us a sine."
I think I’ll go have my morning coffee now….
Glen, don’t forget to also bring your glow-in-the-dark CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 20th Edition.
A-Ha! You’re assuming I ever leave home without it! I’ve got a special fanny pack for it.
Is there a special quick-release holster on the belt of that fanny pack for The Ketchup?
Well, plenty of mathletes at Filmdrunk, apparently.
A²+B²=Fun³
Is there a special quick-release holster on the belt of that fanny pack for The Ketchup?
Funny you mention that! I used to use that type of setup, but I built a special concealed ketchup holster and delivery system that I wear under my sweater vest now.
Wow, Glen. You’re my kind of people. You really know how to put the phun in peripheral parenteral nutrition. Wanna trade sweater vests?
I wonder how long it will take for someone to do a mash-up of this trailer with Good Will Hunting footage? I’d do it; but maaaaan am I lazy.
OK, so the mental midgets in Hollywood greenlit a film adaptation of iWoz and this is what we get?
Complete Saw rip off. Waz + Zaw backwards. Hmmmm….