Passes no more in the hands of the Comic Shop for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. The last of the last of the free movie passes through Roadshow Films walking out the door on the weekend.

Interesting methods of half direction and slight delusion in the give away period which sees a slight overlap into that of A Scanner Darkly.

One soul, on the Saturday toward the very end, comes face up to the offer with a slight misunderstanding on the concept of free. Bamboozling with questions, the offer comes quick and fast with a jab to the left cleft and it's not unexpected for more than a second to pass for it to sink in.

"How much does it cost for the free passes?"

 

Swig a trick for there's only one day left in the giveaway comp flogging thing between the Comic Shop and Roadshow Films for A Scanner Darkly. Smells like a winner this film does. Sci-fi, drugs, rotoscopic action, Linklater and PKD. Too many angle to appreciate.

One enterprising young chap has taken the Substance D to a quad splice ethos. Instead of entering just the one time, as is mentioned in the terms and conditions of the comp, this entrant has spawned eight different identities for the campaign. Sadly, despite fielding eight different names, each with their own email addresses, the answers all ride in the same.

Not only that, all the entry slots fall inside of 20 seconds after the previous. It's red flag if ever there was one to screw up the whites load in the laundry.

Take it from one who's a massive comper, before throttling back by circumstance in the earlier part of the year, watch where you're spitting from.

From the looks of things (and as someone who manages to average six hours of television on average an average night for a rolling two month survey period) the trailers haven't been too prominent.

At least not on the channels during the 19:00 to 02:00 period most nights the box is on. Guess catching a sight of these elusive trailers will be beyond the warm-up period to the release of the theatrical season.

 

Stage one and day one of the online flog-a-log for A Scanner Darkly is underway. Thanks to Roadshow Films for the opportunity to spread the word on what has got to be one freaky visual feast of SF and drama. Philip K. Dick no less on the platform with Richard Linklater transforming it from the page to the silver screen.

Notice of the the competition and/or give away (oh semantics, smell a foot of talcum powder) hitting out on the mailing list first. After about a day or so, middle into Friday perhaps, the site's going to find some eyeballs peering across all the pages of the site.

Now it's just waiting to see if any one mentions or brings up what the reference is on the sign off line of "Fish?"

Hopefully it's just another run of the mill farewell that people figure to be par for the side dish.