Horror at the 2010 Emmy Awards
It was a quiet night for the guts and gore contingent at tonight's Emmy ceremony, but the biggest winner may have been a movie that wasn't even nominated. Details after the jump.
While both Dexter and True Blood were in contention for Best Drama, the gold lady with the pointy wings went home with with Mad Men for a third consecutive year. Dexter wasn't completley shut out, as Steve Shill nabbed the award for Best Direction in a Drama for his work on 'The Getaway,' the terrific and utterly heartstopping season finale. In a nice coincidence, the award was presented by John Lithgow who won a Best Guest Actor Emmy earlier in the week for his chiling performance as Dexter's mentor-turned-nemsis, Arthur 'Trinity' Mitchell.
The night wasn't a total loss for True Blood fans, at least in the eye candy department. Stars Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and the exceptionally tall Alexander Skarsgard got to hand out a couple of trophies - and wince their way through one Academy-mandated vampire pun. "Bloody thrill" indeed.
But the real horror winner on TV's biggest night has to be The Human Centipede. In a pretaped nominee video, Stephen Colbert lauded his Colbert Report team as "the greatest staff in the world. These people think together, they move together, they act as if they're one living creature. Or they soon will, once I make them a human centipede." As a topper, the text "100% Medically Accurate" appeared on screen as Colbert's staffers ran in terror.
You've gotta wonder how many folks in middle America googled "Human Centipede" tonight? So congratulations Tom Six and remember, it's an honor just to be nominated name-dropped.
