I have heard people mention this movie so I figured I should probably watch is and see if it's worth watching the many other movies in this horror series.
Plot: A TV reporter is following the trail of a serial murder. From this experience she starts having traumatic nightmares and is told to go to relax at a place called The Colony. Here instead of resting she is face to face not only with the serial killer, but a colony of werewolves.
Review: Like zombie movies and TV shows, I am not a big fan of werewolves. I don't know why, maybe they are another clique monster that is becoming too pretty with the latest TV shows and movies. I will never understand the fascination with vampires and werewolves being beautiful, but I'm also not 14. Anyway, I was actually bored with this movie. It took too long for me to see how it was even a horror movie and I just did not by the acting. Dee Williams was better at being scared of her nightmares then when she saw people actually being killed.
I thought the transformation into becoming a werewolf was too long. Most movies they are transformed quick or a dramatic, this felt like it would take an hour to fully turn. I also was puzzled at how they could be transformed during the day, when werewolves only transform when the moon is full. Yeah, I know you can change it a bit, but still why mess with some basic werewolf facts.
I also had to stop myself from laughing when I saw Slim Pickens name pop up in the credits. You might remember him from Blazing Saddles, but why he was in the movie is beyond me, Plus, he was a minor character who just kind of popped in and out of the movie. He was minus the neckerchief that he usually is seen wearing.
So I really don't think this movie is worth watching unless you are bored and want to see what a bad 1980s werewolf movie looks like. Then again I think the original Wolfman, might be the only werewolf movie that is good. So, save this movie for a raining day when boredom gets the better of you.
You all may not know me well enough to know that usually I am against remaking movies, especially if it is a movie I love. Hell, I am even against making sequels for some movies. So when I saw news that they are planing on reinventing the 1994 movie The Crow I was pissed. This is one of my all time favorite movies and I was never fond of the sequels. I'm sorry Brandon Lee will always be the Crow AKA Eric Draven in my book. Shock till you Drop shared the news and boy the information that I am seeing is just.... horrible.
Relativity Media's President of Worldwide Production, Tucker Tooley, and Edward R. Pressman, producer behind the cult-classic "The Crow" franchise, announced today they have attached Alex Tse (Watchmen) to write their reinvention ofThe Crow, the 1994 critically film based on the comic book series and comic strip by James O'Barr. Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later),The Crowadaptation will be a gritty reboot of the gothic iconic character Eric Draven, who returns from the grave as The Crow on a mission to avenge his wife's murder, so that his soul can finally rest. Bradley Cooper (Limitless) is attached to star as Draven. "The original film is known for its breakthrough visual style as well as its unique production design and cinematography. Fresnadillo and Tse are perfectly suited to bring these beloved characters back to life, and to create a world worthy of this modern classic," said Relativity. Relativity and Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation will be teaming with Spain-based Apaches Entertainment on the production.The Crowis being produced by Edward R. Pressman, Jeff Most, Relativity’s CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, and Apaches' Enrique López Lavigne and Belén Atienza. Relativity's Tooley (The Fighter) and Apaches' Jesus de la Vega will serve as executive producers. José Ibáñez and Pressman Film Corporation's Jon Katz will serve as co-producers. Tse is represented by CAA, Margaret Riley at Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and attorney Ira Scheck of Schreck Rose & Dapello.
Yeah you read that right they want Bradley Cooper to play Draven.... um it's a very dark and gothic kind of character and a pretty boy in my eyes cannot do it good. Heck none of the other crows have done it well. As I said Brandon Lee did such a great job that most fans of the movie only see him as the crow. So it is safe to say that I will be keeping my eye out of news of what is to come of this remake that will make me want to cry...
Okay I have a confession to make... I'm not really into zombies. Yes, I know how dare I not love the walking dead, the living dead. I'm not sure why, but zombie movies, shows, costume never were my thing. Not sure if it's because I know so many zombie/fallout fans who have the Zombie Survival Guide memorized. Or maybe I just don't want to think about living with zombies. Or maybe because zombies are such a hot commodity and don't want to join the bandwagon just like I will NEVER like sparkly vampires. Whatever my dislike for them I do at times have zombie related media that does make me shut up about how much I hate zombies.
Several months ago my boyfriend brought over season one of AMC's Walking Dead. I was a little unsure about watching this. I did hear a lot of people rave about this show, but I never had a chance to see it. Why? Well, I do not have cable.... WHAT?! Yes, you read that right, I do not have cable, yes I know I am missing out on some amazing shows, but either way I am just find without it. That's what hulu and netflix is for. Anyway, by watching the first season I was surprised that I actually like the show. It is definitely a show I would not think of watching. Maybe because this show plays a lot on human emotion of trying to survive and not so much on the zombies that I like it... or maybe there is something different about it that I just cannot put my finger on it.
This fall the second season will start and we will find out where our caravan of survivors will do next, since their only hope for safety went up in flames. AMC has released two photos of the zombies. They look pretty good, some movies do a poor job at the make-up for zombies. My friends have dressed up as zombies enough that I know that green paint and blood is not what a zombie looks like. It seems like an easy costume/make-up idea, but really it's not. So I will look forward to seeing what the new season will have to offer
I am a few day late in posting this, but I was busy with roller derby and concerts this weekend. Anyway, this news caught my eye because, 1) I had no idea there was a sequel in the making and 2) that anyone wanted one. What I am talking about? Well, that awesome movie from the 1980s called Killer Klowns from Outer Space has a sequel in the making for next year. You can read the details here. Yes, I am old enough to remember this movie, I was young, but not that young. It's been ages since I have seen it and I just might try to find it on netflix. I am not sure how I feel about it. It was definitely a cheesy horror movie and was up there with IT for causing children to fear clowns. I am sure that the sequel cannot be taken seriously... did we take Attack of the Killer Tomatoes serious? I sure didn't and there was even a children's cartoon based on the killer tomatoes.
Yes I will keep you all updated on the horrible news about this movie.
So it looks like we have a response from Tom Six, who is the man behind this... whatever you want to call these movies. I don't want to call them art, or monsters... I guess we'll just stick to calling them creative movies.
So in case you've been dying to know what Six looks like and put a face to the crazy plot of his movies... here he is. Aww he looks like that night quite neighbor you have... I guess he likes guns and is know for wearing cowboy hats.
So here is Six's colorful response to BBFC's decision to banned the sequel to his movie:
“Thank you BBFC for putting spoilers of my movie on your website and thank you for banning my film in this exceptional way. Apparently I made an horrific horror-film, but shouldn't a good horror film be horrific? My dear people it is a f****cking MOVIE. It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief. It is art. Give people their own choice to watch it or not. If people can't handle or like my movies they just don't watch them. If people like my movies they have to be able to see it any time, anywhere also in the UK.”y movies they have to be able to see it any time, anywhere also in the UK
So I already told you that I thought the description of the movie sounded like a snuff film or porno. I am all for being able to express yourself, but at the same time I also understand why the board made this decision. I think they are afraid that someone is going to forget reality and think this is real and try to make it their own... just like the character in the sequel. We do have enough sick people in this world, that we really don't need anymore getting new ideas from a movie.
Also, I am not sure how much is or isn't revealed by the plot in yesterday's news, so I cannot really comment on Six's statement on that. I do however agree with him that people should be allow to watch his movie if they want to. However, I think he forgets that we live in the age of the internet. Movies are leaked on the net as soon as they hit theaters and plots are released on the net as well as soon as someone has seen it. So why he thinks that no one will know what's going to happen before they see it is beyond me, but I am sure he feels that these movies are his babies and doesn't want anything bad to happen to them.
So I am sure there will be more drama as this movie comes closer to being released.
It looks like we have a plot for the second human centipede movie. I will post the entire description, because there is no way I could paraphrase it. The news came out about the sequel because the BBFC or the British Board of Film Classification is rejecting the movie to be released in the UK. Now since I live in the United States I had to look up what exactly the BBFC is. From my research it is an independent industry that gives movies and video games their ratings as well as deeming what can and cannot be released in the UK.
All I can say is that the director is saying that the sequel will make the first one look like my little pony... I am not joking this is what he said. I didn't buy it until I read the discretion. Read below and I will tell you after what I think of this movie based on the information provided.
"The first film dealt with a mad doctor who sews together three kidnapped people in order to produce the ‘human centipede’of the title. Although the concept of the film was undoubtedly tasteless and disgusting it was a relatively traditional and conventional horror film and the Board concluded that it was not in breach of our Guidelines at ‘18’. This new work, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), tells the story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of the first film and who imagines putting the ‘centipede’ idea into practice. Unlike the first film, the sequel presents graphic images of sexual violence, forced defecation, and mutilation, and the viewer is invited to witness events from the perspective of the protagonist. Whereas in the first film the ‘centipede’ idea is presented as a revolting medical experiment, with the focus on whether the victims will be able to escape, this sequel presents the ‘centipede’ idea as the object of the protagonist’s depraved sexual fantasy.
The principal focus of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is the sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture, and murder of his naked victims. Examples of this include a scene early in the film in which he masturbates whilst he watches a DVD of the original Human Centipede film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis, and a sequence later in the film in which he becomes aroused at the sight of the members of the ‘centipede’ being forced to defecate into one another’s mouths, culminating in sight of the man wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the rear of the ‘centipede’. There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience. There is a strong focus throughout on the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure. It is the Board’s conclusion that the explicit presentation of the central character’s obsessive sexually violent fantasies is in breach of its Classification Guidelines and poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers.
Links: Empire & Shock till You Drop
So do you remember when I did my review on the Human Centipede and I was complaining how it wasn't gory or gross enough for me? Well it know seems like the director has not only listen to me, but has gone off the deep end. I expect to see more gore and what not, but this level of sex and torture sounds more like a snuff film. I don't what kind of sick person thinks up these kind of things. Yes, it you write horror movie scripts and books maybe you are not the most normal person in the world, but this seems like someone who is holding back some sick tendencies.
I am not sure I even want to watch this movie. The description makes me think I will have someone knocking on my door assuming me of enjoying rape, torture and unfit to enjoy my freedom. I am not sure if this movie will be banded in the US as well, but even if it is not I think I will wait to see what people say about it before I even consider watching this movie. So know that you know what this movie is about, will you watch it?
It’s time for another review! No video reviews for the summer probably. Work just started to pick up and since I work outside in the 110 plus temperatures, I will be too tired and drained to do a video. So sorry to those of you who like the video reviews. They will be back… just not to take over as governor of California.
For the longest time I never had any desire to see Hellraiser. For me, it looked like a science fiction movie, and those usually do not appeal to me. Especially fantasy or space movies. So it wasn’t until someone told me what the movie/series was about that I finally decided to sit down and watch it.
Synopsis: The movie is about a man and his second wife move into his childhood home. His brother was living, there, but had gone missing. The wife is obsessing over the brother/her former lover and after her husband cuts himself on a nail his blood resurrects Frank, the brother. She started bringing men into the house to kill them so her lover can come back to his normal form. The daughter comes into play and finds out what her uncle has become and gets a hold of the box. In an attempt to escape, she blacks out and is taken to a hospital. She plays with the box and it not only opens, but also reveals that alternative dimensions that lives in the box. These cenobites are creatures that use torture to those who use the box.
Review: Since this movie was not one I ever thought of watching I had no expectations for it. The gore was definitely decent, not too extreme, but not too cheesy and fake. The special effects of Frank were definitely good. The storyline with the wife and Frank I thought was a bit odd. I don’t know what it was that I didn’t like about it, I just did not like it. I also wish there was more background to the cenobites. Who are they and what exactly are they? I have been told that in the later movies they do explain this so I will have to watch those to see how are.
Some thoughts of mine were I thought the idea of the Pinhead not being very prevalent in the movie was like the original Friday the 13th where Jason is not even in the movie. I also thought that it took the movie a very long time to get to the point. I was wondering when Pinhead would appear and what exactly was going on. It took about an hour for me to fully understand what was happening.
While the gore was good, the light effects at the end of the movie reminded me of Tron. It looked like the light suites they wore and just made the ending really cheesy and half assed.
I feel very indifferent about this movie. I don’t feel one way or another about it. I’m not even sure I want to watch the other movies. I think if it something you have been putting off, then whenever you have the time to see it, then definitely do. There is no reason not to see it, so go ahead. Let me know what you think of the movie.
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It looks like once again this summer the theater will be taken over by another cheesy animal attack movie. What am I talking about, well I am talking about Shark Night 3-D. That's right after last summer's Piranha 3-D that some of us suffer through, I have yet to see the movie, there will be another movie like it this summer. What's summer without water, bikinis, sex and murder?
From what I can tell from the trailer, since an actual website for the movie has nothing, but the trailer and IMDB has a two sentence synopsis, this movie is about 7 college kids (surprise, surprise) who are planning a trip to an island miles away from the mainland. I thought it was the Florida Keys, but I guess it's Louisiana Gulf Coast. Does it matter where it is? Not really, but I guess it does and you'll understand once I finish explaining the plot of the movie.
So these good looking and sexy college kids are enjoying their time having sex and drinking because that's all us college kids do, right? So we all know one of the main rules in horror movies, if you have sex you will die. While I cannot say for sure if this is true, more than likely it will be true. I haven't seen a horror movie yet, where someone has sex and survived, but correct me if I am wrong. So after some time on this island, one of the college kids gets killed. From the look of the trailer it covers another rule in horror movies, the black person is always the first to die if present. I don't know why this is true, but if you look on the comments on the trailer I posted you will see it come up a lot. Anyway back to the trailer, it turns out that sharks are attacking these kids. Oh no!! Not the sexy drunk kids. Whatever shall we do?!
Yes, sharks, just like in Jaws, all the sequels that came after plus Deep Blue Sea. We know sharks are scary and people think they will attack everyone in the water. This is so not true and the man who wrote the book Jaws has been trying to fix the damage he has done letting everyone know that sharks are not something to fear and kill, but respect. Okay, I'll get off my hippie, animal loving soapbox. To make it even more scary this movie will be in 3-D. Which means 3-D BOOBIES!!! Yes, now those of you men who don't have a real pair to squeeze and grab and can try to grab fake movie optical illusion boobs. This also means you will be paying an extra couple of bucks for them fancy 3-D glasses that don't come in the awesome blue and red lenses anymore. So this means that if you sit in the direct center of the theater you might have boobs and sharks coming to attack you. If you are not so lucky then it will just pass you by.
Another, annoying thing about the movie is the Louisiana Gulf Coast is freshwater. For all of you who are not so into science, like me, even though I work at a zoo, sharks live in saltwater or sea water. They can not survive in freshwater because their bodies are made a certain way to handle the salt, just like we are meant to breath in oxygen and not carbon dioxide. From the looks of the trailer there is some sick bastard/s who are setting these sharks loose. So, there could be a serial killer angle to this movie as well.
In case you are wondering who directed it, it is done by the same guy who did the second and fourth final destination movies. Yeah those were such great movies. Also, the only name on the cast list I recognize is Katherine McPhee and I don't know many pop stars. She's not one of the main college kids so I have no clue who any of these actors are, but that's not big surprise here. Most horror movies today either have washed up actors or no names.... okay well maybe not all of them, Saw had Donnie Wahlberg who is doing pretty good these days.
So it seems this movie is just another way to scare the crap out of people from going swimming and make lots of money because it's in 3-D, "it's like I can touch you."(see video below to get the joke. It's a funny video that explains 3-D). So will I see this movie.... if I am really bored this summer, maybe I will so I can make fun of it. I doubt I will be that bore between working 40 plus hours and the fact I'm taking the GRE, but maybe I will want to drive myself further into insanity by watching this. If I don't see it in the theater I will watch in when it comes out on DVD, which will probably be by Valentine's Day. Aww what a sweet gift that would be for your sweetie.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by and enjoy the videos below. They both should have you laughing.
