“The Sacrifice” is the story of four guys who are driving in a pickup truck. Two are brothers (including FNL’s Jesse Plemmons), one’s just a douche and the other has some huge unexplained gapping hole in his chest. When they drive over something in the road that so obviously sabotages their ride, they trek across a frozen lake to a walled in turn of the century-esque village for help. Riiiiight!

There they meet a trio of blone siren-like girls who are more than willing to help. I smell all kinds of trouble for these yahoos. How stupid are men? I mean come on, you’re in the middle of M. Night’s The Village with a friend dying in the other room and you’re willing to let these random Children of the Corn help you? And here’s a thought, don’t be a douchebag and go as far as to try and tell some Little House on the Demented Prairie girl that she’s about to have the ride of her life? Dude, you’re so destined to get skinned alive for trying to mack on Laura Ingles. What an asshat! Oh and kids, when they offer you hot stew – it’s destined to be something other than beef, I’m just sayin’.

Rachel Miner (Macaulay Culkin’s ex) is incredibly beautiful in that Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas kinda way. She seems sweet and helpful and warns the boys that the they’ve never set foot outside the village walls. She’s like a war nurse, that is until she started sowing up Navarro’s lips and driving a stake through his chest… hello! Also, girl can swing an axe like no one’s business.

Overall I really dug the vibe that they created in “The Sacrifice” because it not only took some common horror film conventions and made them believable on the small screen but they used some elements of the supernatural and folklore which helped make this more than a straight out slasher/vampirey/twisted village tale. It has a twist ending as all things “horror” must nowadays but I actually found this one to be kinda sad and apropos.

Next week should be incredible as Brad Anderson takes the reigns for his installment “Spooked.”

This is just a reminder to all of your dance fans out there that Season 2 of AMERICA’S BEST DANCE CREW kicks off tomorrow (Saturday, June 7th) at 2pm on MTV. The casting special will showcase the new crews that will be battling it out all summer in hopes of becoming as cool ass as The Jabbawockeez!

I hope that it can keep up the momentum and the crazy greatness of this past winter’s first season.

To get you in the mood, here are some audition videos/interviews from Warner Bros. and MTV. For more info. check out the ABDC site.

Exec. Producer Randy Jackson chats up ABDC2

The Jabbawockeez Interview

More videos after the jump… (more…)

Finally we can take a good long look at the 10 guys and 10 girls that will entertain us for the rest of the summer. That’s right, it’s time to meet the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 4 Top 20!

If you’re wondering what I thought about the Top 20, Kath from GMMR and I did a special podcast about it. Listen and let us know what you think!

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The Guys:

Joshua Allen (19) is a Hip Hop/Popping dancer from Fort Worth, TX. Allen hopes to be a professional dancer and recording artist.

Jamie Bayard (22) is a West Coast Swing dancer from Palm Springs, CA, currently living in Norwalk, CA. Bayard graduated from the Orange County High School of the Arts. He was the U.S. Swing Dance champion in 2000 and 2002 and is a professor of Swing and Salsa at Loyola Marymount University.

Twitch Boss (25) is a Freestyle dancer from Montgomery, AL. A career highlight for Boss was performing “Thriller” with Wade Robson on “The Wade Robson Project” in 2003.

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Marquis Cunningham (18) is a Lyrical/Contemporary dancer born in Cumberland, NC, and raised in Cape Coral, FL. Cunningham began dancing at 14 and trained at the Robin Dawn Academy. He is a graduate of Florida’s North Fort Myers High School and currently resides in New York City

Matt Dorame (22) is a Contemporary dancer from Glendale, AZ. He studied for two years at Odyssey Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City.

Chris Jarosz (21) is a Lyrical/Contemporary dancer from Gaithersburg, MD, currently living in Dallas, TX. Jarosz grew up training at the Dawn Crafton Dance Center in Gaithersburg and then moved to Dallas in his sophomore year to train at Top Hat Dance Center. Jarosz is now a dance major at Southern Methodist University.

Thayne Jasperson (27) is a Contemporary dancer who grew up in Springville, UT. Jasperson was a featured dancer in “High School Musical,” and “High School Musical 2.” He danced five years with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City, but has only been dancing six years.

Mark Kanemura (24) is a Contemporary dancer born and raised in Honolulu, HI. Kanemura trained with 24-7 Dance Force in Honolulu and danced at Tokyo Disney. He also directed and choreographed performances on Norwegian Cruise Lines.

Gev Manoukian (21) is a Hip Hop/Break dancer originally from Kazakhstan and now living in Centerville, UT. Manoukian was a featured dancer in “High School Musical 2.”

Will Wingfield (21) is a Contemporary dancer from Nashville, TN. Wingfield started dancing at age 9 at DC Dance Factory in Nashville, and later moved to Los Angeles to train under Debbie Allen at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy.

The girls photos are after the jump… (more…)

Everyone that enjoys our TV TALK Podcasts just got really excited until they saw the rest of the title didn’t they? Tough, we love SYTYCD and so will you! This is a special SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE edition of the TV Talk Podcast but don’t worry worry y’all because later this weekend our regularly schedule chat-fest will be posted as well. That’s right, 2 podcasts in one week!

Season 4 of SYTYCD just announced their Top 20 so GMMR and I are ready to hash it all out. From auditions to who was robbed all the way to who we can’t stand and all the way back to listing each of the Top 10 guys and gals. We’re talking SYTYCD for the next 27 minutes, so sit back dance, sing, get up and do your thing!

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