Open Graves Trailer

Eliza Dushku Attempts the Impossible: She Tries to Act. With Her Clothes On!

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (25)

As most of you know, the Sci-Fi channel has recently undergone a makeover of sorts, changing its name to SyFy in an effort to re-brand itself to appeal to phonetic geeks (or to simply help you move on in a post-“Battlestar Galactica” world). Anyway, in addition to mulling over a “Quantum Leap” reboot, it’s kicking off its new schedule this fall on October with “Stargate Universe.” (Our own Steven Lloyd Wilson will be attending their shindig at Comic-Con this week). In addition to that, “Scare Tactics,” “Sanctuary,” “Destination Truth,” and “Ghost Hunters” will return this fall, and SyFy has lined up a few movies, including a Children of the Corn remake and Open Graves.

Open Graves, which stars Eliza Dushku, has been sitting on a shelf since 2006 awaiting distribution. Apparently, it found it on the SyFy channel, and after you see the trailer, I think you’ll understand why. Not only does the trailer give the entire movie away (it’s about a board game, where the players die in real life the same way they die in the game), but it fails to take advantage of Dushku’s few assets (and I’m not talking about her Southern accent).

Check out the trailer and then call your cable provider to see about getting SyFy removed from your channel lineup.

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I really think she should have disappeared after "Buffy".

Or gotten into porn...

Porn would have been nice.

Posted by: Deistbrawler at July 21, 2009 7:13 PM

I just realized, Dushku and McGowan went to the same actressin' school.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 21, 2009 7:24 PM

Fuck you, I love the SciFi channel. Dushku can suck a big one and die, but don't hold her terribleness against poor little 'syfy'.

Posted by: the_wakeful at July 21, 2009 7:26 PM

Come on now, be fair. Dushku doesn't actually have clothes on. Bikinis don't count!

Posted by: Jerce at July 21, 2009 7:29 PM

ED is perfectly serviceable when she's playing the one character she knows how to play (as she did in Buffy, Jay&Silent Bob, Bring It On, etc.). However, I second the porn suggestion.

Posted by: Landon at July 21, 2009 7:29 PM

i didn't mind seeing the whole thing in that trailer. now i don't ever have to watch it.

ever.

not even if i'm reeeeealy bored.

nope.

that took all of 2 minutes
and
i'm done with it.

good for me.
yeah.

(good for me)

Posted by: gp at July 21, 2009 7:44 PM

Dustin, do me a solid here. Never write Sy F....Sy F....Sy.....I can't do it.

Let's just refer to science as syense, fiction as fycshun and Isaac Asimov as Stephanie Meyer.

Mutherfuckers!

Posted by: admin at July 21, 2009 7:52 PM

"and I’m not talking about her Southern accent"

Ah, yes. Wait... no. She's from Watertown, MA.

Regardless of where she's from, girl can't act. I kind of wish she could, because then I could justify liking her... but I can't.

Posted by: TK at July 21, 2009 8:13 PM

Sure, the Stargate series get no love here but they've always been a guilty pleasure for me and I kinda look forward to Stargate: Universe on the Sci-FUCKING-Fi Channel.

Posted by: Spender at July 21, 2009 8:28 PM

38 seconds in it started to hurt my grey thinky whale. Owweeee!

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits (aka Dangle McGee) at July 21, 2009 8:33 PM

Isn't this just a semi-R rated Jumanji? When does the horribly overacting Robin Williams show up?

Posted by: Neodiogenes at July 21, 2009 8:56 PM

For a second, I thought this movie had already been on TV before. Turns out I was thinking of another movie where all the kids died in the order and way they died after playing a (video) game.

It was a lot funnier in its crap.

Can we stop inflicting ED onto the world now?

Posted by: j.ann at July 21, 2009 9:10 PM

Sooo... Jumanji meets Final Destination?

Well, raise my rent.

Posted by: Skewicide Blonde at July 21, 2009 10:33 PM

glad i'm not the only one who thought "Jumanji for adults".......uber-lame

Posted by: Randy at July 22, 2009 1:35 AM

You guys forgot the terribly "Stay Alive"

Posted by: John Darc at July 22, 2009 3:51 AM

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Posted by: Obama27 at July 22, 2009 6:36 AM

Wow, who knew our president was an "open-mineded single girl who loves sports". Maybe I should contact spambot and mingle.
Anyhoo, I am on the Dushku hating bandwagon. The girl has the delivery of a brick.

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at July 22, 2009 9:16 AM

Dushku is crazy hot. Terrible actress. But stupidly sexy.

That trailer made blood gush out of my eyes.

Posted by: TSF at July 22, 2009 9:25 AM

I played this creepy Monopoly game once, where I was buying and selling all this property and making a bundle and then I drew this CHANCE card, and the stock market crashed and my property dived in value and, oh wait.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 22, 2009 9:46 AM

I think SyFy sounds like an awesome and hip network to be watching. They are aware of the hip times and they are awesome.

Just like when the G4 Netwerk took over Tech-TV. Man, Tech-TV didn't make sense, I'm glad the video-game-gods swooped up and took all that useless tech info away. Now I can watch Japanese game shows. With English! On G4. They're geniuses, like Mac Geniuses.

Wow, those guys are great too. No wonder they call them Geniuses. They're so smart! "Fix my iThing!" I declare. "Do you want Fries with that?" They inquire. No thanks, make it snappy! I have to get home so I can watch the newest episode of the new Quantum Leap on SyFy.

Posted by: annoyingmouse at July 22, 2009 9:59 AM

I can't even type the sound that came out of my mouth when I watched that trailer. So, Jumanji and Final Destination had a lovechild, and it's called... Oh hell. I've already forgotten the name of it. See how boring it is? I also would like to stab whichever executive thought it was important to repeat the inane "But it's only a game!" throughout the trailer. Yes. Thanks for that reminder. I think they were going for weighty and sonorous, when what they got was insipid and obvious. Snore.

Posted by: Tira at July 22, 2009 12:32 PM

I saw "Stay Alive": it sucked because you always knew exactly how they were gonna die. I'm guessing this won't be any different. Some of the effects looked interesting. The beginning of the trailer had nothing to do with the rest of it, which kinda threw me. What does surfing and feminist views have to do with it?

The oft-repeated "It's only a game!" made me stabby too, Tira.

Posted by: DeadBessie at July 22, 2009 2:45 PM

Part of the reason why I've held off on watching Dollhouse is that, if Dushku proves to be terrible in it, I think my girlcrush on her (and thus the last fragile strands of my heterosexuality) may die completely. I think she rocked as Faith, and was fun in Bring It On, but the latter didn't require much beyond eye-rolling and snark and the former...well, one character does not an actress make. Then I watched Wrong Turn and Tru Calling, and although I was able to put her limited performances down to the awfulness of the scripts and production in general, I reckon one more strike might finish her off. So yeah, there's literally not a chance in hell of me watching this film.

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Posted by: nikkibabes at July 23, 2009 5:39 AM

I love the series Buffy, but ED was not one of the reasons to love. I did think she was pretty good in season 4 of Angel, but have not seen any Emmy material out of her in Dollhouse..that was a joke. In fact I almost did not watch DH, but I am a big Joss fan, so had to give it a shot. It got good on ep 6 and just kept getting better..no thanks to the "star".

Posted by: rehabber at September 10, 2009 12:12 AM

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