American Horror Story Season 3-1 Review

I am still watching season 2, but since this show has a new story, characters and plots I was able to watch season 3's premier without missing things. Here's my thoughts about the episode.

To start off when I heard they were doing a season on witches I was very excited. As a young teen I was really into learning about the Salem and Salem Village Witch Trials. Maybe a little too into them. As a confused teen being forced to go to Mass and attend Catholic School I looked into witchcraft and wicca. I never did much with it, but it is still something I have an interest in. I visited Salem when I was in Boston a few years ago and just loved it there. So needless to say this kind of thing really speaks to me. 

I try not to get too much information about shows before I see them. I like to be surprised. I didn't watch all the teaser trailers nor the behind the scenes history videos they has put out. I don't now if I'll go bad and see it, but maybe. 

I also have trouble paying attention to the opening credits. The music creeps me out and there is so much there I know I'll never get every piece they show you, but as always it is done very well. 

To start off I LOVE that they are using Madame LaLarie in the show. I was listening to this podcast on history and one of the episodes was about her. I was seeing the name by Kathy Bates and was excited even more. You can learn all about her HERE. A very interesting woman. The whole opening scene was amazing. I think they did an amazing job getting into the mind of this woman and how she was looking for eternal life. 

I love that they use the same cast and give them a brand new role each season. These actors are great at making us forget they played on character one season and a different charter the next. That is some times hard to pull off, but they all do it well. We have several who have been in all 3 seasons and a few from the first season coming back. So if you had seen the other seasons don't feel like you can't watch because Evan Peters will always be Tate to you. You can easily forget that. 

I cannot say that I loved this first episode. There's a lot to take in and you know most of it will play out throughout the season. So it's hard to be overly excited for the season by just this episode alone, but it's done very well and I'm going to try to keep on top of the show this season. 

As you will discover about this show they take all kinds of topics in American history and really push the limit with it to show how bad it is. The best example in this episode is the frat party. It's all things we heard about and see in media, but the way that Emma Roberts character get revenge is what I feel like a lot of women wish they could do when faced in a similar situation. Hell there are times I wish I could do what she did when I see someone driving too fast or erratic and are going to kill someone with how they drive. So it's excited to think about the themes and topics they will cover, here's my projected list of what I foresee them covering. 

1. Eternal Beauty

2. Religious Persecution 

3. Sex

4. Rape

5. Resurrection

6. Mother Daughter issues

These could be wrong and others they will go into, but I think the first 2 are the main ones they are going to focus. 

What did you think about the first episode of the new season?

Season 3 of American Horror Story

Granted I've only seen the first season and about the first 1/4 of the second season, but I'm looking forward to the 3rd season of American Horror Story. Maybe because they are using this hauntingly beautiful cover of "House of the Rising Sun" by Lauren O'Connell.

If you haven't seen the teaser trailers for the 3rd season you need to watch them. They are brilliant. I won't be uploading them all, but go to FX's website and watch them all. They are amazing and like a lot of others have said whoever does the promotion for this show are excellent at their job.

I just recently found a trailer that  actually shows a little bit of what the season is going to be about. Sounds a even more interesting. Here it is below.

So what do you think? Anyone else excited that it will be starting soon?!

The Madness is About to Start

In just about 3 weeks the Horror Madness will begin. This is my 3rd year doing the madness and I always enjoy it. I love trying to cram in as many horror movies and tvs shows as I can during the month of October and seeing what my other team members and other horror geeks are watching. As usual I will post my weekly list on here and if anything needs to be reviewed I will do that as well.

This year is going to be a bit interesting. We've canceled netflixs and other instant video luxuries while we have been dealing with trying to get jobs and finances in order. This means I don't have my netflix queue or movies like I usually do unless we get it back up during October. I have amazon prime and hulu so that might be what I use, but other than that I am not sure how I am going to get in as many shows and movies like I have in the past. So this year might be my worse yet, but we'll see. I don't know if I'll get as many video nasties which is the theme since those are either hard to find or there's not way I can find the time to watch them with my son always running around. Might be a lot of kid friendly shows and movies for me this year. We'll see though I'm sure we're going to see riff trax do Night of the Living Dead in theaters.

I am on team cruel and you cal follow and join the group over at https://www.facebook.com/groups/HALLOWEENMADNESS/570613022987102. wish me luck!

I'm Not Dead

I promise that I am not... though you would think so with how I haven't posted for a while. I was busy with school, and then work and now applying for jobs. Plus, I have my queue of horror movies, but I don't want to use them up yet since I have The Madness next month. Well, it's not official, but I haven't had an issue getting into it the last two years. I already mention the theme which is one I again am not familiar with but, still going to be fun.

 Soon Walking Dead season 4 will start as well season 3 of American Horror Story. I have yet to finish season two, but that's because it's not on Amazon or Netflix and trying to find it has been hard. This season's trailers have been really creepy. My favorite is the one that uses House of the Rising Sun. That song always gives me the chills.

I have no idea what's going for Halloween this year. Not sure if anyone is having parties or if I'll be doing the Halloween camps at work again. I wanted to take a sewing class to learn how to sew properly, but I couldn't afford it. I want to work on a Rogue from the X-men's animated series for Phoenix Comic Con this upcoming year. So ideas are still flowing for what I'm going to do. All depends on what our plans are. Though I should get things started just so I can start saving and working on how to make it.

Until next time I play dead

The Walking Dead Season 4 Trailer

So we finally get to see the trailer for season 4 of the Walking Dead. It looks pretty good. Though what I see could easily be either a few episodes or the entire season. It's hard to tell since it seems like they are going back and forth between the story lines. Plus we know that the trailers are very tricky and easily fool you.

Watch the trailer below!!

The Shuddering

I wrote a review for this book over at my book review blog, but I wanted to share it here as well. I haven't had much time for anything horror related since I started my final semester of college. Happy to say I finally graduated with my history degree... what am I to do now... no clue, but there are things like paranormal researcher and what not that comes to mind.

Anyway I happen to find this book while looking for a new book to read that was part of Kindle's loaning library through Prime. If you can afford to get Prime it's worth it. So this book showed up and it sounded interesting. It only too me a few days to read it. I was hooked onto it and couldn't put the book down.

The synopsis of the story without giving too much away is a group of friends meet up at a cabin they went to as kids to see each other before one of them moves to Europe and to say goodbye to the cabin because it belongs to someone else. While up there a huge snow storm traps them in. No big deal expect there is something out in the woods that is threatening their lives.

This book is an excellent example of a horror story. Think of some of the best ones and usually the monster isn't your typical vampire, werewolf mutant and ect and 99% of the characters die. This book doesn't tell you want the monsters are, but just describes them. It's done well and you're okay not knowing what exactly the monsters are. There's no need for it and I am so glad the author didn't have one of the characters give us a natural history lesson on the creatures. So the monsters are told well and even the kill scenes are done well and described well as well.

The rest of the book is done well. None of the characters are too much for you nor do you see who's going to die first by the characters. It's a surprise at the end of who makes it and the book ends like most good horror movies do. You have no feeling of safety or happy ending. You're left wondering if it was all over or not. Though I don't know if there will be a follow up book it was left where there is no need for one, but one could be done.

If you are looking for a good horror book to read, grab this one. It won't disappoint.

Curse of Chucky

I know I've been quite, but I'm a busy woman over here. Work has taken over my life as it does every summer and there is just no time to watch a horror movie. That will change hopefully especially with Horror Madness creeping up on us.

So to try to break this horrible silence here's a bit of news and my review of an upcoming movie.

So yes, they made another Chucky movie. Aren't we done with this series? After watching the trailer below you'll see how a waste of money this one is. When it gets release don't see it.


Synopsis: After the events of Child's Play 3, Nica, a young woman forced to a wheelchair since birth, has to regroup her sister, Barb and her brother-in-law, Ian for a funeral after the death of her mother. While dealing with Barb, Ian, along with their 5-year-old daughter, Alice; Nica receives an odd package - a creepy doll. After people start showing up dead, the fearless Nica soon suspects that the creepy doll is much more than just a doll.(taken from IMDB). 



My Opinions: So I didn't hear about this until yesterday when it was on several horror friends of mine's facebooks. After enough people kept asking me about it decided to go ahead and check it out. Well let's just say this, this is one of those franchises that should just stop. No one cares about Chucky or what happen to him. Not sure why they even bothered with this movie. I know it's not going out into theater so it's going straight to DVD so it can end up in the $5 bin at Walmart.

There's nothing about this movie that looks good. And I mean nothing. We all know that a creepy ginger doll showing up mysteriously is asking for all alarm bells to go off.

So you're all just going to have to wait for me to tell you when a good movie is coming out.