Stale Popcorn - DVD Review of 'Rogue'

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My excitement to see Greg McClean’s ’sophmore’ effort Rogue, proved infectious and soon Wyv’ and I almost turned StalePopcorn into “Rogue-Central” when the inexplicable ‘release debacle’ started happening. We broke news of poster and trailer releases, we updated you on release date set-backs, I tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully behind the scenes to try and get an interview with McClean himself in order to understand why The Weinstein Brothers were messing around with a film that was garnering sensational word-of-mouth from test screenings and horror festivals AND we ran, despite it not really being our “style” here at StalePopcorn, an ‘early word’ review from someone involved in the film, who had seen it and raved about it. To say we were ’supportive’ of this movie would be an understatement (just type the word “Rogue” into our Search Box on the left hand side of the screen and see what I’m talking about when I use the term “extensive coverage”).

Nobody really knows exactly why The Weinsteins have treat McClean’s homage to the B-movie so shabbily. They are the people that stuck by The Wayans Brothers and all their *beep* so, when money is as tight as what it is for their company at the moment, why would they all but abandon a film that would play wonderfully to the Friday/Saturday night horror crowds and quite possibly pull in the cash as a ’sleeper horror’ a la Saw, Hostel etc. If Lionsgate had distribution on this movie they’d be bathing in friggin’ money, I’m telling you. The Weinsteins behaviour would be somewhat understandable, but still dispicable, if they had a “bad product”. But they don’t. Far from it in fact.