tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42360889338977122532024-02-19T03:20:02.279-05:00Son of CelluloidAll the horror you can handle!SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.comBlogger437125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-9989724071908709912018-11-06T19:14:00.002-05:002018-11-06T19:15:31.852-05:00Review - Die 985's Debut Album (Self Titled)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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small town in rural Georgia. No
different from many others that dot the map on the outskirts of Atlanta. Sometimes referred to as “The Poultry Capital
of the World.” AKA, the middle of goddamn nowhere. Gainesville’s chief cultural
exports are WWE Champion AJ Styles and…Horrorpunk? What?
That’s right, folks. Whatever
hellmouth opened up in Hall County is proving to be the nightmare factory
feeding Atlanta’s booming horror rock community. The same pitch black nights and blood red
clay that spawned The Casket Creatures has unleashed a new infernal terror upon
the earth… Die 985!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Die 985 is a hybrid beast comprised of familiar demons in a
new host. None of the parts stitched
together to form this monster will be strangers to those who haunt Atlanta’s
music scene. Frontman/guitarist/demented
mastermind Jamie Robertson was one of the founding members of The Casket
Creatures. Both he and thunderous skin
basher Ronnie Massey also lend their talents to punk juggernauts DDC. Derek Obscura, currently in about 193 bands,
puts down the guitar he wields as a current Creature to take up the bass,
proving himself the master of anything with strings. Insert Pinocchio songs and tampon jokes here. Kasper Chaos once handled guitar duties for
the pop punk princes of the paranormal, 52 Ways. In Die 985, however, he wields
a rustier, dirtier axe. The cuts are nastier
and more savage as a result.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The band’s debut self-titled album appropriately debuted on
Halloween night; self-released DIY style as the punk rock gods intended. Comprised of 9 hard hitting songs totaling a
little under half an hour, it’s a precision assault on your senses. I think, if you dear readers will indulge me,
I’m going to do this review a little differently. I say we go track by track, blow by blow,
piece by piece, you get the picture. That
way we can take our time digging into the viscera and enjoy the dissection…</span></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. Sometimes They Come Back - The first time I saw the band live, I was listening to this song and getting a little ahead of them in my mind because I knew where it was going. Where any standard horrorpunk song would go. Then the chorus zagged hard and hit me with a vocal line I wasn’t expecting at all. Vocal lines are an often overlooked ingredient, but it’s just as important for them to be catchy as it is for a bass line or guitar riff. The vocal lines on this album are indeed catchy as the plague and often surprising. When you can surprise a horrorpunk corpse that’s been rotting as long as I have, you’re doing it right.<br />2. Mr. Shrek - How many songs have you heard about Nosferatu? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Plenty. Now how many have you heard about the guy who played him? Exactly. That’s what I dig. Something new in a genre where cliché is all too often king. Give me that fresh, undug soil, baby!<br />3. Cold Dark Grave - Every horrorpunk band worth their salt has a dead girlfriend song, and damn, is this one catchy or what? This is the definition of a brainworm. Wrath of Kahn style.<br />4. LycanRite - Horrorpunk is often a misnomer. Bands in the genre often have their rotten roots planted more in metal soil or some other variety of rock. On this song, both the riffing and the song structure remind you that half of Die 985 plays in an Oi band. That punk fury and flavor creep in throughout the album. Basically, your friends who are into Calabrese and The Other will dig it, but so will your friends into Rancid and The Anti-Heroes.<br />5. Haunting of Lisa Beth - This boo-wop number brings up my one criticism of this album. Crooning is definitely not Jamie’s strong suit. The more aggressive his vocals get, the better he sounds. He is at his best on those songs where his delivery is harsher. He just doesn’t sound in his element doing a softer style of vocals. When he sings live, he sounds rawer. A bit of that snarl and growl remains in his voice even on a song like this. I wish he had performed the album more in that style. Nevertheless, this is one you’ll want to spin your ghoul around the dance floor to.<br />6. Trick or Treat - This Halloween anthem, featuring Ryan Cadaver of the Casket Creatures on guest vocals and Wynn Pettitt of DDC on lead guitar, immediately went on my Halloween playlist and will remain there for years to come. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Check it out for yourself…<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6t7gu87Y1Ag" width="560"></iframe><br />7. Centuries of Pain - This one is neck and neck with the first track as my favorite on the album. You know those songs where everything just comes together? The riffs, the melody, the structure, everything. This is one of those. It’s just damn well written. The lyrics and music sync perfectly to set a strong atmosphere. There’s a moment where the guitars back off and let just the bass and vocals carry a verse. That part grabbed me. I had to rewind it and listen to it again. A couple of times.<br />8. Tremble - This one, while an overall good tune, has one element that drove me nuts. It’s something about the way the lead and backing vocals stumble over each other in the chorus that loses me. It just sounds muddled. Then again, there is the killer line “I am the demon. Bitch, I’m the ghost. Whatever boogeyman that you fear the most.” It gets a pass for that.<br />9. Ichabod's Last Ride - The perfect way to wrap up the album. It’s a full-speed-ahead thrashy rager that wouldn’t sound out of place on the Misfits’ Earth AD album. This is less a closing track as it is one last twist of the knife. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don’t know what kind of toxic waste or voodoo curse is
infesting the water out in Gainesville, but if it keeps bringing us backwoods
banshees like this, I say keep that well poisoned. Die 985 proves on their debut album that
Southern Psycho is undead and well. Competent
songwriting and musicianship that is tombstone solid and straight jacket tight
combine for an impressive first strike from a band I look forward to seeing attain
ever increasing heights, or depths depending on your perspective, of depravity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can buy the album digitally <a href="https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/die985?fbclid=IwAR3L2lwvZcGco33QqAxB876iYvuTzH3nZu0hqUBjI37YgYQa2ZoQ0ATR4k0">HERE</a>, or you can do it the right
way and buy a physical copy from the band <a href="https://die985.bigcartel.com/?fbclid=IwAR3skBsAKvgBQYWxaq-hyjYN5Rs6Q2GdDVDpXtwJ2qeSROHOuhnJpbS4rgw">HERE</a> or at any of their shows.</span></span></span></div>
SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-87684878329034481152018-07-21T18:42:00.000-04:002018-07-21T18:42:02.410-04:00The People vs Friday the 13th<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>This piece originally appeared in three parts on Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as part of Italia Horror Week 2015. R.I.P. James "Doc Terror" Harris.</i></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhulpPQ53pFz7P9VlLB7NUJL9A1bZPzYIj9ZWgOvwDzQzk1gwSAwJBq6aOXguyl3j0kuRCKLiSpLyl45qE-iPObjLo3WMUMRFgfaO1sYn6XG54ZlW0taBlhj946DAt6skuv-jMCLb0tIDDP/s1600/51N5LTOIoKL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="319" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhulpPQ53pFz7P9VlLB7NUJL9A1bZPzYIj9ZWgOvwDzQzk1gwSAwJBq6aOXguyl3j0kuRCKLiSpLyl45qE-iPObjLo3WMUMRFgfaO1sYn6XG54ZlW0taBlhj946DAt6skuv-jMCLb0tIDDP/s320/51N5LTOIoKL.jpg" width="204" /></a><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Good morning Dr. Terror, your honor, this blog will plainly
show the classic slasher franchise that now stands before you was caught
blood-red handed stealing ideas, theft of an almost plagiaristic nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will not do…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Call the Son of Celluloid!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it is an inarguable fact
that the Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> films are some of the most influential in
modern horror history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, you could
argue that fact, but you’d be an idiot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their success helped to usher in the 80’s slasher boom, which many
consider to be the second “Golden Age of Horror.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without them we may never have seen the rise
of what notorious hater-of-fun Roger Ebert likes to call “dead teenager
movies”… or would we?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A little background is in order first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While most horror fans point to Black
Christmas (1974) and Halloween (1978) as the moments when the slasher flick
recipe really came together, the ingredients were already prepared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elements of what would become the conventions
and clichés of the genre can be found in earlier flicks like 13 Women (1932),
And Then There Were None (1945), Psycho (1960), Peeping Tom (1960), Violent
Midnight (1963), The House that Screamed (1969), and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Italian giallo flick is also a forbearer,
if not the out and out progenitor, of the slasher flick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was one man, however, that took the giallo
and added the body count, stalk and slash, teenagers in heat, mysterious
killer, gore, and other factors to create the slasher formula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That man was the Maestro of the Macabre
himself, Mario Bava, and the films that changed the course of horror history
forever were Blood and Black Lace (1964) and Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whereas Blood and Black Lace can be seen as
the missing link between giallo and slasher, Twitch of the Death Nerve is, for
all intents and purposes, the moment when the slasher formula gelled for the
first time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The flick has been released as Bay of Blood, Bloodbath, <i>Reazione
a catena</i> (Chain Reaction), <i>Antefatto</i> (Before the Fact), Carnage, <i>Ecologia
del delitto</i> (The Ecology of Murder), and, incredibly, Last House on the
Left 2, but Twitch of the Death Nerve is a ridiculously badass title, so I will
be referring to the film by that name from here on out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, TOTDN is basically two stories in
one, and the first part is the one we are mainly concerned with in this
case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a particularly inspired
murder scene involving a woman in a wheelchair, we meet a group of
good-looking, horny young people headed out to the bay for a couple of days of
fornication by the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As one
skinny-dips, one breaks into the booze, and two head off to get it on, a
mysterious killer watches silently before slaughtering them with various sharp
objects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m going to assume we’ve all seen Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>
1 and 2, so I’m not going to do a detailed plot synopsis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides, we’ll get into specifics later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically, they involve a group of
good-looking, horny young people headed out to the lake for a couple of days of
fornication by the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As some skinny
dip, some break into the booze, and some head off to get it on, a mysterious
killer watches silently before slaughtering them with various sharp
objects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sound familiar?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yes, Twitch of the Death Nerve is the first time we see
twenty-somethings being killed off in the woods by a body of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While this would later become the basis for
countless imitators, the first 40 minutes of Bava’s film set the template.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have the shots of the kids goofing around
in the car on the way to their destination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have the amorous couple, slut, and awkward guy character
archetypes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell, the bay itself is a
dead ringer for Crystal Lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sean S
Cunningham, director and primary creative force behind Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>
1, has said that the “summer camp in the woods by the lake” setting was born
simply out of a desire to find an isolated setting inaccessible by the
authorities, but it echoes the setting of TOTDN so closely that it certainly
calls F13’s originality into question.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">To be fair, Cunningham has said that he was heavily
influenced by John Carpenter’s Halloween, and John Carpenter has repeatedly
said that Bava was an influence on that movie, so some of the similarities
could be a product of second-hand borrowing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example…</span></span></div>
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</span></span>Oversexed young people being killed
systematically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While this technically
wasn’t a new trope even at the time of TOTDN, Twitch was the first to use it so
purely and blatantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Halloween used the
same motif and spawned a slew of imitators, including F13, therefore the source
of the influence is inconclusive.</span></span></div>
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</span></span>Bodies being arranged with the intent that they would
be found by other victims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While this
probably wasn’t new either, TOTDN is the earliest example I know of, and
certainly the first example in conjunction with the afore mentioned “dead
teenager” conceit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs. Voorhees did
this by pinning Bill’s body to the cabin door with arrows, and it would become
one of Jason’s trademarks throughout the series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since Michael Myers did it with Annie’s body
and his sister’s tombstone, however, once again, it’s unclear whether this was
a Bava or Carpenter influence.</span></span></div>
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</span></span>Subjective camera shots of the victims from the
killer’s point of view. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the
earliest example of this I know of is The Spiral Staircase (1946), the fusing
of the camera’s gaze and that of the killer was taken to the point of following
the POV of the killer through selecting a weapon, stalking their prey, sneaking
up and startling them, and finally killing them for the first time in
1971.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly, it was in a film
called Blood and Lace (not to be confused with Blood and Black Lace” and not
TOTDN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it’s so similar to the
opening scene of Halloween that, though it’s never been explicitly stated by
Carpenter, it’s almost unfathomable that he hadn’t seen it prior to
Halloween.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TOTDN did receive American
distribution before Blood and Lace did despite coming out 5 months later in
Europe, however, and the shots of the killer watching the victims through the
trees in TOTDN are so similar to those in F13 that it’s likely that the
inspiration came from it rather than Blood and Lace or Halloween.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again, however, a direct correlation is
hard to draw.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are lots of other, smaller similarities that, while
not really proving anything, are very interesting to note…</span></span></div>
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</span></span>The avenging killer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are multiple killers in TOTDN, but the one who dispatches the kids
is a son killing to avenge the wrongful death of his mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In F13, the killer who dispatches the kids is
a mother killing to avenge the death of her son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically, for the rest of the Friday series
the killer was Jason, a son killing to avenge the death of his mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk about coming full circle.</span></span></div>
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</span></span>The doomsayer character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anna the fortune teller’s assertion that
“There will be tears shed over the bay…The sickle of death is about to strike”
isn’t far off from Crazy Ralph’s warning that Crystal Lake “has got a death curse.”</span></span></div>
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</span></span>The boy gets the last laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both films end with a shock ending where the
surviving character(s) are taken out at the last minute by a young boy.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span>The killer’s snazzy sweaters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are two of the killers in TOTDN<b>…</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Check out those sweaters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They certainly look like they could have come
from the same line as Betsey Palmer’s, don’t they?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Maybe they were
just so itchy that they drove the wearers to homicide.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> As I said, aside from the simple fact the one movie that can
be identified that predates Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> yet has almost the exact
same setting was TOTDN, all of the other similarities between the two flicks
are either circumstantial or hearsay evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They’re like that Abraham Lincoln/JFK email everyone’s seen with all of
the eerie yet unconvincing similarities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The prosecution would like to call its first witness, Sean
S. Cunningham. On page 26 of the book Crystal Lake Memories, Mr. Cunningham
states “I had, in fact, no notion of the tradition of the European body count
movies or the gross out Grand Guignol type of thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t a fan and I only found out about a
lot of these things after the fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
never saw movies like Twitch of the Death Nerve or any of those other movies –
the first time I ever heard the name Mario Bava was when I went to a film
festival in 1986 or ’87.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, if we are to believe Cunningham, the similarities
between the two films are purely coincidental.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The only thing he could be convicted of is complete ignorance of the
masters of the art form he was working in, which is inexcusable in and of
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Cunningham is telling
the truth however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prosecution will
show that the ripping off of Bava was the work of someone else, but I’m getting
ahead of myself. In short, reasonable doubt exists that Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>
directly apes Twitch of the Death nerve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The same cannot be said, however, for Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> Part 2…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> PART 2</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We’ve seen that, while it seems fairly obvious that the
setting of the first Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> movie was inspired by Mario
Bava’s Twitch of the Death Nerve, most of the other similarities could
conceivably be coincidental.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cunningham
himself has denied knowledge of Bava’s work prior to making F13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> Part 2, most of
the possibly coincidental similarities are there, however there are also some
new, far more damning ones that make Part 2 as undeniably guilty as OJ, Casey
Anthony, or Michael Jackson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hmmm…nope,
I’m still going with that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a side
note, I LOVE when sequels actually use the word “Part” as part of the title.
Anyway, let’s look at some of the things that make it damn near impossible to
deny that Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> Part 2 stole from Twitch of the Death
Nerve.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Skinny Dipping =
Death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check out those POV voyeur
shots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See the similarities?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure you do. While skinny-dipping had
appeared in movies before, TOTDN was the first time it became an executable
offense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second time someone got
themselves deaded for swimming nekkid was, you guessed it, F13 Part 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coincidence?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think not.</span></span></div>
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</span></span>Wheelchair = Death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After searching high and low I could only find 2 wheelchair bound
characters in horror history that had been murdered onscreen before F13 Part 2;
Franklin in Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Countess in TOTDN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since TCM’s influence on F13 Part 2 is
negligible at best, and TOTDN’s influence is, well, pretty much irrefutable,
it’s safe to assume that this was stolen from Bava.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, just look at how he gets it…</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Machete/Billhook
to the face kill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at those two
pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True, in TOTDN it’s a billhook
and in F13 Part 2 it’s a machete, but now we’re splitting hairs instead of
focusing on splitting faces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is an
identical kill any way you look at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The blades are even at the same angles for the love of Hitchcock!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Marcie’s axe to the forehead in Part 1
was somewhat similar, Mark’s face hack is exactly the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only difference is that in TOTDN we get a
lot more gory shots of the aftermath and the blade being pried out of the
skull.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That crap wouldn’t fly with the
MPAA, so F13 Part 2 got shafted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have I
mentioned lately that I hate the MPAA?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyway, here’s the final straw…</span></span></div>
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</span></span>The double mid-coital shish-ka-bob kill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the most blatant rip off in the film,
and one of the most blatant in horror history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just look at those stills folks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s damn near a shot for shot copy, or at least it was before it was
cut to get an R rating (the impalement pic from F13 Part 2 up there is actually
a shot that was cut), but that’s a shameless carbon copy none the less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is there really any way of denying that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the smoking gun right there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the bloody glove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only difference is that we don’t get the
just-before-impact “Oh shit!” shot in TOTDN because the female is on top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tell you, those Italian ladies are take
charge kinda gals. I think they did that to make up for the fact that we, once
again, don’t get to see as much of the blood and guts in the American
flick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks a lot MPAA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know what MPAA?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You guys can suck it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Let the official court record reflect that, after
the last sentence, the prosecutor performed a “DX style crotch chop” in the
general direction of Hollywood, presumably directed at the MPAA.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, While the fact that the entire inspiration for the first
Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> movie was taken directly from Twitch of the Death
Nerve cannot be proven <span style="color: #333333;">incontrovertibly (merely
strongly inferred) </span>I do believe that I have proven beyond a reasonable
doubt that portions of Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> Part 2 were lifted whole
cloth from Bava’s masterpiece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, the
question is, who is the responsible party?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The most obvious culprit would seem to be the director and/or
screenwriter of Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> Part 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I intend to present both evidence
and testimony that leads me to believe that the guilty party is none other
than…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">PART 3</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, now that we’ve established
the fact that Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> Part 2 does indeed contain ideas,
themes, and entire sequences that were at best appropriated and at worst
straight up stolen from Mario Bava’s classic Twitch of the Death Nerve, who is
the culprit?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could it be Sean
Cunningham, the man who created the riday the 13<sup>th</sup> series?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> contained a lot of strong similarities,
including a location and basic plotline that is awfully suspicious, the out and
out plagiarism didn’t start until Part 2, when Cunningham was out of the
picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the blatant theft began with
Part Two, it would stand to reason that either the director or writer of that
film was responsible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steve Miner, the
associate producer of Part 1 and director of Part 2 was confronted with the
issue in a December 2007 Myspace interview, and the following exchange took
place…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Interviewer: How do you respond to accusations that claim
that Friday the 13th Part 2 plagiarised Mario Bava's Twitch of the Death Nerve?
Some say that the scene where Jeff and Sandra are impaled whilst having sex is
identical to a scene from Bava's movie? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Miner: I never saw the movie."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ok, fair enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the definitive tome on the Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> series, Crystal Lake
Memories, screenwriter Ron Kurz also denied having seen Twitch of the Death
Nerve prior to his hand in pillaging it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These simple denials may not seem convincing, yet I believe them due to
the fact that I have reason to believe that neither man is the culprit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, I believe that I have uncovered the
true possessor of the sticky fingers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The evidence I will now lay before you will show that the guilty party
is none other than…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Let the official court record reflect that at this point,
the prosecutor, in tribute to Andy Griffith, performed the trademark “turn
suddenly from the jury and dramatically point an accusatory finger at the true
villain” Matlock move)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Phil Scuderi!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I can hear everyone in the
courtroom asking the same question; who?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Honestly, I had never heard of this man before I began researching this
case either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phil Scuderi is the man who
bankrolled the first five Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> movies, and many people
have stated that he wielded considerable creative control over the series, but
will you find his name in the credits?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good luck finding an
interview with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good luck even
finding a picture of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phil Scuderi
is a truly elusive figure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t
even have an IMDB page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone has an
IMDB page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell, I have an IMDB
page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did some good old fashioned
detective work, however, and I’ve uncovered three key pieces of evidence that
will prove that Phil Scuderi is the Bava Bandit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Catchy isn’t it?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Just a note before I nail
Phil’s ass to the wall; he is now deceased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While I’m not usually one to speak ill of the dead, this mystery has
remained unexplained for far too long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then again, Hitler, Ghengis Kahn, Al Capone, and Captain Kangaroo are
all dead, and their evil is still talked about.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I submit People’s Exhibit
A: Phil Scuderi is the only person involved in the production of Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>
Part 2 that has a provable connection to Twitch of the Death Nerve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me tell you a little bit about Scuderi’s
background.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember that story Sean
Cunningham tells all the time about almost not taking the money to make the
first movie because the producers, a group called Georgetown Productions (owned
by Stephen Minasian, Philip Scuderi and Robert Barsamian</span>) <span style="font-style: normal;">wanted creative control?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, Scuderi was the man behind that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was not the first time Cunningham had
encountered Scuderi either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scuderi’s
previous company, Hallmark Releasing, had put up the money to make Cunningham’s
first film, Last House on the Left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Remember that, it will be important in a minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, Hallmark Releasing, a distribution
company run by Scuderi, was a subsidiary of Esquire Theaters of America, which
was also partially owned by Scuderi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When Esquire decided to form Hallmark, one of the first movies they
acquired American distribution and exhibition rights to was, you guessed it,
Mario Bava’s Bay of Blood, which they re-titled Twitch of the Death Nerve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few years later they even re-released it
under the title of, get ready for this one…Last House on the Left 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I’m not joking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The films have no relation whatsoever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in addition to proving his connection and
experience with both of the movies in question, that last juicy little tidbit
shows him to be a huckster who was not opposed to using unscrupulous means to
promote a film. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Would he steal from Mario
Bava, however?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, according to
People’s Exhibit B, he already had a history of doing so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 70’s and early 80’s, the director of a
film did not cut the trailer, the distribution company was responsible for
that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scuderi was the head of the
distribution company for Friday the 13th, so the trailer was in his hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, I’d like you all to watch the trailer
from Bava’s 1964 film Blood and Black Lace…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Do you see what I
see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep, a complete emulation of the
trailer for a Bava film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That doesn’t
necessarily mean he was responsible for the TOTDN/F13 Part 2 plagiarism
however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To incontestably link him to
that particular crime, we would need something more substantial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something concrete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something like eyewitness testimony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hey, that’s a great idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meet People’s Exhibit C.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Your honor, the
prosecution would like to call to the stand a long time associate of Scuderi,
and the screenwriter of Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> Part 2, Ron Kurz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Kurz, I remind you that when you took the
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tell the court your impressions of Mr. Scuderi and if you think he would steal
from a movie?</span></span></span></div>
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manager in Baltimore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became aware of
Phil because of some of his distribution tricks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was like William Castle- taking out
insurance policies against dying of fright or having kids handing out logo
imprinted toilet paper on downtown street corners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phil, who has since died, was quite a force
in the schlock movie business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just picture
a cross between Roger Corman and Michael Corleone; a trained lawyer, crude and
suave at the same time, and full of street smarts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when he got into a movie production, he
could rip off the latest box office hit and have something on screen in a matter
of months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should know, I wrote a few
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">SOC – So he had a history
of idea theft huh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am going to ask you
directly sir, whose idea was it to remake scenes from Twitch of the Death Nerve
and use them in Friday the 13<sup>th</sup> Part 2 without giving Mario Bava
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</span>We worked extremely close together on it, meeting at his office or at
lunch or dinner three or four times a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Phil was a creative force in his own right, often coming up with wild
scenes, usually acted out in fancy Boston restaurants to the mortification of
his secretary-cum-mistress, who would usually accompany us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the dialog, the character development,
the pacing and shaping that any screenplay requires is mine, but Phil would
come up with the most outrageous sequences, and from where they came I haven’t
a clue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A film has been mentioned as an
inspiration to Part 2 called Twitch of the Death Nerve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d never seen it nor heard of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps Phil Had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was not above lifting anything from
anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Part 2, the scene of Ginny
urinating under the bed is his, as is the “sheshkebob” scene where Sandra and
Jeff get speared to the bed, as well as the Mark character being disabled and
in a wheelchair and meeting his end tumbling down the stairs.” (Crystal Lake
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">So there we have it
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“Silver Screen Swindler” who had no problem stealing from other movies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have proven that there is a direct
connection between Scuderi and the two flicks in question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the trailers for Blood and Black Lace
and the first Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>, we have seen that he has a history of
aping Bava’s style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We even have first
hand testimony from one of his colleagues establishing him as an idea thief and
stating clearly that the scenes he is accused of stealing were indeed his
idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of this evidence paints a
picture of Phil Scuderi as the mastermind behind one of the biggest cinematic
capers in horror history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find this man
guilty of purloining gore sequences, which may I remind you is a crime
punishable by death…wait a minute…dammit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</span>Do it to clear the names of the others involved in the Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>
franchise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do it for Jason Voorhees, so
he finally knows why he does at least a couple of the things he does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most importantly, do it to bring Mario Bava,
a true master of the art of filmmaking, justice after all of these years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prosecution rests your honor, and the
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">*This article originally appeared in Fangoria Issue 325 (August 2013) </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When news of Jesus Franco’s death emerged, fringe-cinema
fans worldwide planned tributes to the master of erotic horror. Among them was <i>Dear
God No!</i> director and exploitation historian James Bickert. On April 5<sup>th</sup>,
his amazing backyard drive-in played host to the Dusk ‘til Dawn Memorial
Franco-thon. Drinks flowed freely, mysterious smoked meats were savored <i>Countess
Perverse</i> style, and the Atlanta horror scene praised Jesus under the stars
all night long. It’s doubtful that any party could more perfectly capture the
same perverse beauty, sleazy atmosphere, and propensity to veer into “what the
hell just happened?” territory at a moment’s notice that exemplified the style
of the euro-trash auteur.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The marathon kicked off with one of his glossier films, <i>Venus
in Furs </i>(1969). The Franco-philes proclaimed their appreciation for the
bizarre visuals and dream logic while failing miserably at explaining the
barely existent plot to the uninitiated. The heavy doses of sex and jazz were
enough to please both camps, eliciting repeated chants of “horns and boobs!”
Following <i>Venus</i> was the incredibly sexy <i>Eugenie De Sade</i> (1974)
starring the smolderingly gorgeous Soledad Miranda (Franco’s first muse)<i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Perhaps <i>Eugenie</i> set the bar too high as <i>Sinner</i>
(1972), a flick surprisingly few there had seen, couldn’t follow and failed to
impress. Despite also being known as <i>Diary of a Nymphomaniac</i>, it lacked
sufficiently in both gore and nudity that mob rule led to the film being axed.
At that point, the evening took a cue from Franco and careened into the
unexplainable and absurd.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The next thing anyone knew, <i>Bloody Bloody Bible Camp</i>
had somehow snuck into the playlist. Sometime during that movie, a pack of
dogs… yes, actual wild dogs, tried to steal a pork shoulder from the grill. The
meat was successfully defended, but it was obviously a sign that we had angered
the cinema gods. <i>How to Seduce a Virgin</i> (1974) brought things back to
the honoree, playing almost like a satisfying “greatest hits” package of tried
and true Franco tropes. Then it was on to hardcore horror with <i>Jack the
Ripper </i>(1976), one of his goriest pictures. It was also the nights’ first
on screen appearance by the luscious Lina Romay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After exploring Franco’s softcore and horror sides, and
having been exposed to more Klaus Kinski than is probably healthy, we knew that
there was only one facet of Franco’s career left to explore. In the wee hours
of the morning, we went headlong into XXX territory with <i>Entre Pitos Anda el
Juego</i> (1986). The things Romay does in that flick cannot be described in a
respectable magazine such as this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>Juliette</i> was to be the last film of the night. In a
fitting call back to the way many of us first discovered Franco’s oeuvre, we
watched a bootleg VHS with no subtitles. As the impending daybreak threatened
to end the party, the grand finale was prepared. It was time to send the
inflatable effigy of Lina Romay (think Bartel’s <i>Private Parts</i>) that had
been our guest of honor all evening to meet Jesus in the heavens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it is true that she died in 2012, this
was not a crowd that would let technicalities stand in the way of a grand
dramatic gesture. The fact that a blow up doll filled with helium will not
float wouldn’t stop the proceedings either. Anything will fly if you attach
enough balloons to it, and fly she did. As a final toast was raised to Franco
and his leading lady disappeared into the clouds, everyone felt exactly how one
should feel after a Franco flick; a little confused, thoroughly debauched,
strangely edified, and undeniably entertained.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: lime;">*This article originally appeared in issue 37 of HorrorHound Magazine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: lime;">In the 2000’s, Wes Craven is considered one of the elder
statesmen of horror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 80’s and
90’s, he was known as a hit-maker and master of his craft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 70’s, however, Craven was a young maverick
with a cinematic mean streak who refused to pull his punches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was this Craven that gave us two of the
genre’s most ferocious and visceral classics, <i>Last House on the Left</i> and
<i>The Hills Have Eyes</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both are
tales of warring families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In <i>Last
House</i>, the violence stems from a desire for sick kicks on one side and
vengeance on the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In <i>Hills</i>,
the opposing clans are locked in a tribal battle simply for survival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Last House</i> may be horror at its most
depraved, but <i>The Hills Have Eyes</i> is horror at its most primal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: lime;">It’s the story of The Carter family, three generations of
which are traveling cross-country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
traversing the Nevada desert, they ignore a local’s advice to “stay on the main
road” (don’t they always?) and find themselves stranded in the middle of a
hostile, barren landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even more
dangerous than the terrain is the primitive, feral group of cannibals (led by
Papa Jupiter) that is hunting them down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Out of their element and backed into a corner, they are forced into a
savage kill-or-be-killed battle; leaving this peaceful family no choice but to
delve into their darkest primordial instincts to protect themselves, and their
loved ones, from their animalistic attackers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Originally titled “<i>Blood Relations: The Sun Wars</i>” and
inspired by the legend of Sawney Bean and his Scottish family of flesh eaters, <i>Hills</i>
was slapped with an X rating by the MPAA when it was released in 1977.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Extensive cuts were made, and that footage is
now believed to be lost, but the brutal power of the film still remains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One needs look no further than the infamous
“camper scene” to see the intensity Craven imbues his film with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one single scene a man is burned alive, a
grandmother and a young mother are shot, another woman is raped, and a baby is
abducted to be eaten later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s as if
Wes wanted to see just how many taboos he could break in one scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s jaded horror audiences may have seen
it all, but watch this film in a packed theater and see if it doesn’t still
pack a wallop for the modern audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In ’77, however, <i>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre</i> was really the only
film that had even come close to this kind of merciless violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly, in addition to thematic
similarities, these two films share an art director (Bob Burns) and some of the
same set dressings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: lime;">While 70’s horror was predominantly concerned with the
demonic and supernatural, <i>Hills</i> offered up realistic human-on-human
cruelty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No stylized violence here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The down and dirty murder and mayhem on
display in <i>Hills</i> wasn’t meant to be observed, it was designed to be
felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one was safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first death in the film is a German
Shepherd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The disemboweling of the family
dog was Craven’s way of throwing down the gauntlet and letting the viewer know
that he wasn’t playing by the rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
audience couldn’t help but wonder, “If he would kill a dog, would he kill a
baby?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, infanticide was actually
considered at one point, with the cast and crew threatening “if he kills the
baby, we’re outta here.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: lime;">In addition to proving that this Craven kid was no one hit
wonder, <i>Hills</i> kick started the careers of two other horror icons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dee Wallace, who previously had a bit part in
<i>The Stepford Wives</i>, got her big break in <i>Hills</i> before going on to
star in such landmark fright flicks as <i>The Howling</i> and <i>Cujo</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After making his screen debut in <i>One Flew
Over The Cuckoo’s Nest</i>, Michael Berryman made his first foray into the
macabre with <i>Hills</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has since
become a mainstay in the horror genre and frequent convention guest, but Pluto
is still arguably the role he is best known for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coincidentally, his is probably the image
most closely associated with the film today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><i>The Hills Have Eyes </i>was a modest success upon its
initial release.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It did well enough to
spawn a sequel in 1985, which was directed and later disowned by Craven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Mind Ripper</i>, released in 1995, was
marketed in some areas as <i>The Hills Have Eyes 3</i> (or <i>The Hills Still
Have Eyes</i>) despite having absolutely nothing to do with the series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original <i>Hills</i> has since become a
revered cult classic, gaining a new following during the home video boom of the
80’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One interesting indication of the
film’s place in horror history is the presence of a torn <i>The Hills Have Eyes</i>
poster on the basement wall in <i>The Evil Dead</i>, although it’s unclear
whether this is an homage to the film in general or a call back to the torn <i>Jaws
</i>poster in the Carter’s camper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then,
in 2006, Craven and original <i>Hills</i> producer Peter Locke (who also played
Mercury) teamed with director Alexandre Aja for a hit remake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The remake proved popular enough to spawn its
own sequel and a comic book spin-off. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: lime;">The impact of <i>The Hills Have Eyes</i> is undeniable even
three and a half decades after its release.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While “rural survival horror” had been around previously, <i>Hills</i>
laid out a lot of the template for the “you folks don’t belong ‘round these
parts” style flicks that would follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The legacy of Craven’s classic slice of wilderness brutality can be felt
in films from <i>Just Before Dawn</i> all the way up through <i>Wrong Turn</i>
and, in a role reversal, <i>The Woman</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As long as city slickers foolishly stray into unfamiliar territory - and
as long as marauding inbred cannibals are there to terrorize them - the specter
of <i>The Hills Have Eyes</i> will be there, warning us to stay on the main
road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the sake of the horror genre,
I hope mankind never learns that lesson.</span></span></div>
SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-88814537079240490612017-07-17T00:13:00.000-04:002017-07-17T03:35:00.443-04:00George A Romero: My Tribute<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can say, without the slightest shred of hyperbole, that I
would not be the man I am today had it not been for George Romero. It would be the farthest thing possible from
an exaggeration to say that, despite the fact that I never met the man, or was
ever even in the same room as him, his impact on my life is equal to, if not
greater than, anyone who has ever walked the planet. The death of an artist can be a very bizarre
and complex phenomenon. Those who mourn
are often looked upon with scorn for placing so much emphasis on the passing of a
public figure that, in the strictest terms, wasn’t a physical part of their
world. But for those whose lives were
deeply touched by that person’s art, it can feel like the loss of a family
member. A beloved friend. A mentor.
A hero. Even a sort of spiritual
figure. That is the power that lies in
the essence of art. Art changes
lives. And I can honestly say that I
have never felt an artist’s passing as intensely as I feel this one because George
Romero’s art, in a very real and literal sense, profoundly altered the course
of my life. There would never have been
a Son of Celluloid without him. More
importantly however, had it not been for one fateful viewing of Night of the
Living Dead, I’m not even sure who Nathan Hamilton would be today.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1992, I was a very mixed up kid. As the son of a Southern Baptist minister and
a member of a traveling evangelistic family unit as a child, I had been fully
indoctrinated. Some would call it
brainwashing. From birth I was being
groomed to carry on the family business.
But there was a side of me that I didn’t understand. I had always found myself attracted to the
darkness. While others were preaching
about Jesus healing lepers, I was enamored with the seven headed apocalyptic
beasts in Revelations. While my father
talked about the resurrection from the pulpit, I was rendering the best
gory-as-hell depictions of crucifixions my five year old art skills would allow
on the back of church bulletins. More
than one concerned Sunday School teacher called my folks in for a conference
when, upon being tasked with drawing a picture from a bible story, I turned in
an image of David holding Goliath’s dripping, severed head aloft.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was just doing what came natural to me, but it was always
treated as some sort of derangement that needed to be fixed. I was sick.
These urges were of the devil.
Why are you like this? Why can’t
you be normal? Do you think this
glorifies the Lord? What’s the matter
with you? When your entire world view is
based on sin and salvation, if you are told enough times by those you believe
to be spiritual leaders that there is something deeply wrong with you, you
start to believe it yourself. If an
impressionable child is prayed over to “take this wickedness from him” enough
times, it will inevitably get inside their head. And this is where I found myself in early
October of 1992; with a deep seeded inner turmoil. I was torn between my honest proclivity
towards the macabre and the fear that these urges very well may be the work of
infernal powers after all. I didn’t know
what to think.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then came a night that, 25 years later, I still remember as
vividly as a snapshot. On my little
black and white TV in my room, I discovered that some now long defunct and
forgotten UHF station was about to show a movie called Night of the Living
Dead. I had heard the name somewhere
before, and I knew I had to see it. That
night, basking in the glorious monochrome glow, I saw my first horror
movie. I wasn’t afraid. I was mesmerized. As the movie progressed, I slowly came to the
realization that if this kind of entertainment existed, then there were more
people out there like me. Lots more. Enough that they made movies just for
them. I was reveling in the things that
fed my soul, the very things I had been taught to hate and fear, and nothing
bad was happening. I felt no satanic
command to kill people. My soul wasn’t
being dragged to the abyss. In fact, I
was the happiest I had ever been.
Watching that movie felt… it felt like home.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When it ended, I laid
down in bed and thought long and hard.
Everything I had ever been taught said that what I had just done was
wrong. But everything within me had
never felt so right. It was in that
moment that I decided that I no longer wanted to be what I was being made
into. I wanted to be who I actually
was. As I drifted off to sleep, that
inner turmoil was gone. In its place, I
felt truly at peace for the first time I could remember. The person that I would eventually grow into
was born in that moment. That’s why I
call myself the Son of Celluloid.
Because I feel like that singular movie experience gave birth to the
real me. And although I now know that it
takes a small army to make a film happen, in my 12 year old mind that realization,
that conversion, was thanks to one man; the director. George A Romero. I guess, in a way, you could call him the
Father of Celluloid.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">About a year later, the first horror movie I ever purchased
was, of course, Night of the Living Dead.
That beat to hell VHS still sits in my collection as the cornerstone of
the horror obsession at the core of my being.
I couldn’t begin to count how many times I’ve watched it. For years, I watched it as I went to sleep
nearly every night. The first thing I’ve
done on my last 20 or so Halloweens is put that movie on. When I went to film school, about 75% of my
projects and essays were about his body of work (the other quarter were about
Argento). I always hoped, one day, that
I would get to meet the man who changed my life and thank him. When I started getting involved with the Days
of the Dead conventions, I always hoped he would be there one year. Sadly, our paths never crossed. He was supposed to be the keynote guest in
Indianapolis a couple of weeks ago. I
had that old VHS tape ready for him to sign.
I was finally going to meet the man who had meant more to me than he
possibly could have ever known. Truth be
told, I probably would have blathered like an idiot or just frozen in the face
of a man who, in my mind, had been built up to damn near Godlike status. It was not to be, however. He cancelled due to health reasons. I was crushed, but held the hope that he
would be healthy again when the next con came around. Sadly, there will never be a next time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This may have all sounded very maudlin and melodramatic to
some of you, but my words are the only tribute I have for a man who, in a way
that cannot be overstated, set me free.
It’s strange knowing that I now live in a world where the godfather of independent
horror no longer walks among us. I’m
sure he knew his stature in the horror world.
I’m sure he’s been told countless times by countless filmmakers that he
was their inspiration. I’m sure he knew
that, by creating the modern zombie, he changed the landscape of the genre
forever. I’m sure untold numbers of fans
have made him uncomfortable professing their admiration for him just like I
probably would have. But I wonder if he
knew just how far his influence transcended horror entertainment and touched
the very hearts, minds, and lives of his fans and, in cases like mine, was a
guiding force in who they would come to be.
My fondest hope is that he somehow did.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So now here I sit, watching Night of the Living Dead for the
only god knows how many hundredth time.
In the past, I have watched this movie and thrilled. I have watched this movie and marveled. I have watched this movie and laughed. I have watched this movie and been
comforted. I have watched this movie and
learned. I have watched this movie and
adored every second of entertainment it has given me. But tonight, for the very first time, I watch
this movie and weep. Thank you, George. Not just for what you did, but for what you
meant.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may find this hard to believe, but the Son of Celluloid
has, once or twice, been accused of being a movie snob. I know, right? Usually it’s when I’m proclaiming my love for
something artsy-fartsy and high-concept.
Now don’t get me wrong. While I
have always loved the grindhouse, somewhere in the process of getting a film
studies degree I developed an appreciation for the arthouse. Sure, I love Jason and Freddy. I love <i>Kwaidan</i> too, though. Maybe a little <i>Santa Sangre</i>. Even pretentious as hell stuff like <i>Hour of
the Wolf</i>. But sometimes, you want to
dispense with all of the fancy bullshit and bask in as much gratuitous nudity
and violence as possible. We all love a
good steak, but dammit, you’re craving a Whopper. In other words, you want the simple
pleasures. And that’s where <i>Death-Scort
Service</i> comes in.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Synopsis: Someone is killing hookers.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yep. That’s all the
synopsis I’m giving you. Why? Because you’ll know from that if this is your
type of flick. <i>Death-Scort Service</i> isn’t
particularly long on plot. It doesn’t need
to be. It delivers exactly what you want
from a flick like this, naked chicks getting dead. And let me tell you, it offers up just that
in abundance and to excess.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let’s start with the nudity, shall we? I would say that there is an at least
semi-naked woman on screen for about 87% of the movie. Yeah, I just pulled that number out of thin
air, but it’s a pretty good estimate. It’s
definitely the “beyond R-rated” variety of nudity. Not XXX, but pretty graphic. Most of the actresses playing the non-clad
ladies of ill repute are of the “Suicide Girl” variety, which is right up my
alley. Hell, this was a collaborative
effort between Gatorblade Films and Sleaze Box.
With the SB boys involved, you know what you’re in for. Naughty bits on display. What’s not to love about that?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As for the gore, it’s exactly the kind of stuff that fans of
low budget splatter (like me) eat up. Low-fi
and practical, just the way we like it. A
copious amount of the red stuff goes flying, dripping, and running. Skin and entrails too. This is the gore you loved in all of your
favorite video store nasties. Besides,
Marcus Koch is involved, so you know it’s gotta be good. I don’t want to get into details so as not to
give any of the kills away, but suffice it to say they’re quite
satisfying. Well, except for one. SLIGHT SPOILER: There is one scene involving barbed wire. Unfortunately, they used the same bad $5.99 fake
barbed wire that you can get at any Party City.
It’s a shame, too. Otherwise it’s
a really cool, depraved scene that could have been legendary. It might not bother some, but as a bit of an
authority on barbed wire from my deathmatch work, that stood out like a sore
thumb to me. There is better prop barbed
wire out there, guys.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having discussed the gory and sexy stuff, the other aspects
of the film are better than your average underground filth fest. The acting is about what you’d expect from a
flick like this. Performances from the
ladies range from “Damn, she’s pretty good” to “Damn, it’s a good thing she’s
pretty.” There are also appearances by
two guys that are always welcome additions to any flick, Sleaze Box stalwart
Bob Glazier and indie legend Joel Wynkoop.
The final twist/reveal of the killer’s identity works well. I actually didn’t see it coming, which is
saying something. 79 minutes is an
optimum length, and the pace is pretty much perfect.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This movie manages to do exactly what a lot of the films of
its ilk attempt but fail at; go to extremes with the graphic nudity and
violence while capturing the feeling of a late 80’s/early 90’s shot on video
gem. As we saw with <i>Die Die Delta Pi</i>,
director Sean Donohue has a firm grasp on what it takes to make an enjoyable
slasher flick. We’ve all been burned by films
with great names that don’t live up to the promise of their titular glory. I know exactly what you’re looking for from a
flick called <i>Death-Scort Service</i>, and you need not worry. It delivers the goods. <i>Death-Scort Service</i> is sleazy, dirty, bloody,
mean<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,</span> nasty fun. Nathan says check it
out. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Ever since the first scary stories were told around
campfires, the genre has always been fueled by the intrinsic connection between
fear and titillation. This libido-baiting is perhaps at its most effective and
fascinating when dealing with the idea that <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">true</span> sexual ecstasy can only be
found in the otherworldly, monstrous, and grotesque. The ultimate kink. It’s the reason many early boogie-persons (how’s
that for PC?) took the form of Incubi and Succubi creeping into your bedroom at
night for illicit, nightmar<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ish encounters</span>. It’s the
orgasm metaphor of Mina’s enthrallment to Dracula after that first bite. It’s the heart of the Hellraiser
franchise. One of my favorite treatments
is an old comic story called Jennifer, which was the inspiration for Dario
Argento’s only moment of greatness since the 90’s. Hell, it’s why there’s tentacle porn. It’s also the central thrust (uh huh huh huh) of
Harvest Lake.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Synopsis: <i>Five friends
fall under the seductive influence of a libidinous, otherworldly presence that
threatens to change their lives forever.</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Harvest Lake comes to us from the formidable combination of Forbidden
Films and Mostly Harmless Pictures. Considering
the track record of this creative collective (<i>Found, Headless, Time To Kill</i>, etc.), expectations are
understandably high. Harvest Lake does
not disappoint. It also isn’t at all
what I was expecting.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">When Scott Schirmer (director) and Brian Williams (Director
of Photography) came on the Picking Brains podcast and told Brad and I that
they were making a “psychosexual erotic horror movie,” my mind went in sleazier
directions. If I hear “erotic horror,” I
think Jess Franco. I think Misty
Mundae. I think about that white-eyed,
leather-clad demon chick that did the old Redemption Cinema DVD intros. Don’t act like you don’t remember. Those were awesome. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Anyway, unless you’re new around here, you know that I have
no problem whatsoever with sleaze. I’m a fan, in fact. However, this isn’t that kind of movie. Yes, the plot of the film is VERY sexual and
there is a LOT of sexual activity in the film.
It does not, however, use its sex as a gimmick or simply for the sake of
gratuitous T&A. No, Harvest Lake wields
its sex like a weapon. It is the stream
that the story itself rides along on.
Harvest Lake reminded me of Cronenberg’s Shivers in the way it uses
sexuality to intensify the threat, making it more intimate and disturbing. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Also like that film, Harvest Lake is, deep down, a creature
feature. But the way it manifests said
creature is varied and inspired. Very
rarely do we get a good look at the actual creature(s?). Instead, most of the time we see the threat either
through the lake itself, which functions as a proxy for whatever the hell it is,
or the people under the monster’s influence.
It’s all very Lovecraftian, with the tentacled creature of unknown
origin driving people to madness and mania through its hijacking of their
primal urges. That’s right, our
unfortunate campers are getting it on with tentacle monsters. Answering the Booty Call of Cthulhu, if you
will. It all culminates in the most
bizarrely beautiful scene that you’re likely to behold for a good, long while.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">On the technical end, Brian Williams deserves a tremendous
amount of credit. Harvest Lake is an absolutely
gorgeous film. Not only did they choose
a beautiful location to shoot in, but it’s perfectly photographed. One of the things I’ve chided movies for in
the last 15 years or so is the franticness of the visuals. With average shot lengths of 3 seconds and cameras
that never stop moving just for the sake of moving, it’s nice to see a director
and cinematographer set up outstanding shots and then just let them speak for
themselves. Brian and Scott had the good
sense to trust in their images enough to not resort to the cheap “shaky cam and
overkill editing” tricks that plague the current movie landscape. Between the cinematography and the editing, it’s
a refreshing throwback to a style that many of today’s filmmakers sadly
couldn’t pull off.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">The acting also deserves special discussion. There are a total of 7 people in Harvest
Lake, with only 5 having dialogue and significant screen time. With such a small cast, a weak link would
have been immediately apparent and a huge detriment to the flick. Luckily, there isn’t one. I knew what to expect from Ellie Church and
Tristan Risk; the cream of the current horror actress crop. I’ve never seen a bad performance from
either, and they both just keep getting better.
I was less familiar with the guys, who pleasantly surprised me. I had only seen Kevin Roach in a couple of
shorts before (The Confession of Fred Krueger, Bloody Hooker Bang Bang), and he
turned in a hell of a performance. Dan
Nye and Jason Crowe were new to me, but both were <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">excellent</span>. Not only was everyone effective in their
individual roles, but they had the kind of on-screen chemistry that makes an
ensemble cast like this more than the sum of its parts.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Issues with the flick?
Yeah, I’ve got one or two. A
couple scenes could have used a little tightening up. There was a momentary sound<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-</span>sync issue that
will only bother eagle-eyed, over-analytical <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pricks</span> like me. But those are
small quibbles and pretty insignificant when talking about a flick this damn
good.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"></span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgwyJa3-9rZX18r3J7_8J3vIhSSC_iFrHtE9tOp1RxTZ1ZHe-8BDgRDBMlruGFttbOtu2argvvJB6JqknSjd5ZPZvyeo_eU_5gWaVZQh1jdq_W_TC6m8jWAbL2YlCEAdsB2TKiCpXodIAX/s1600/images+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgwyJa3-9rZX18r3J7_8J3vIhSSC_iFrHtE9tOp1RxTZ1ZHe-8BDgRDBMlruGFttbOtu2argvvJB6JqknSjd5ZPZvyeo_eU_5gWaVZQh1jdq_W_TC6m8jWAbL2YlCEAdsB2TKiCpXodIAX/s320/images+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Sex and horror have always been two great tastes that taste
great together. I mean, is there any more
potent combination than tits and blood?
The “carnally debauched by the beast” trope has always been one of the
most intriguing, but I’ve never seen it handled quite this way before. In a genre where it seems there is
truly nothing new under the sun, Harvest Lake took a classic idea, spun it in
an original direction, and showed me things I have never seen before. That is the highest praise I can possibly
give a film. It is exceptionally well executed;
from the effects to the acting to the impressive visuals. I think you’ll dig it as much as I did. I’m not saying you’re gonna be running to
bang the lake monster necessarily, but for the discerning independent horror
fan, I highly recommend letting Harvest Lake seduce you too. Nathan says check it out.</span></span></span>SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-90761923395055760692015-07-03T13:29:00.000-04:002015-07-03T13:29:25.310-04:00The Son Of Celluloid Show Returns With Season 2<br />
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with jokes from your favorite horror stars, reviews of Bobby Easley's
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The setting was Days of the Dead: Atlanta. I was drunk to say the least. That evening, I procured six edibles. Yes, that kind of edibles. Three pot brownies and three pot
caramels. My intent was to space them
out and eat them over the course of the weekend. I ate one immediately, then proceeded to
continue drinking. About 15 minutes
before the screening, I decided to eat another as I found a seat. As I sat down, I noticed a popular
independent horror director sitting in front of me and handed him the other
half of my brownie. I’m not naming
names. I don’t wanna get anyone in
trouble. We’ll just say that his name
rhymes with Madam Ballrant. Anyway, I
reached into my pocket to get another, and all I felt was empty wrappers. It was then that the realization set in. Throughout the course of a couple of hours of
not paying attention and the drunken horror con social butterflying that my
position as the horror scribe of Atlanta affords me, I had eaten all of them. Jason Hoover later referred to it as “hero
dosing.” In other words, I was about to
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As the movie began to run and it all kicked in at once, the
thought “I really hope this is a long flick, ‘cause I’m not gonna be able to
stand up for a while” crossed my mind.
Then, as I saw two women being abducted, I found myself incapable of
doing anything but staring, slack jawed, at the screen. For the next seventy-something minutes, I
couldn’t look away. I don’t think I even
blinked. It was like some Cenobite in
the employ of Unearthed Films had affixed hooked chains to my eyelids,
Clockwork Orange style, and was refusing to allow me even a momentary respite
from the most intense gore I had ever seen being mainlined into my brain. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For those unfamiliar with the Guinea Pig films, it was a
series of seven (well, six and a “worst of”) Japanese ultra-gore films produced
in the 80’s. They became infamous after
being found in a serial killer’s collection.
The apocryphal story of Charlie Sheen seeing Flower of Flesh and Blood
(the second in the series and BOG&G’s spiritual father) and reporting to
the FBI that he’d just seen a real snuff film is one of extreme cinema’s most
beloved tales. Now Stephen Biro, owner
of Unearthed Films and the American
distributor of the Guinea Pig flicks, has undertaken the creation of another
cycle, this one made in the good ol’ US of A.</span></span></span></div>
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ever released. What Marcus Koch has
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This is a bold statement considering all of the flicks I’ve seen, but I
have never seen gore effects this good before.
The way the skin moves when it’s cut.
The way the instruments catch on the bones. The meticulous cross sections of severed limb
stumps. This is truly the masterwork of a
man at the top of his game. This is
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that it has no story. Well, yes and
no. There is no story in a traditional
sense. It’s the same as Flower of Flesh
and blood in that the mutilation is the sum of the experience. There is a higher concept and some intriguing
symbolism (I’m still not sure what to make of some of it) if you’re inclined to
look deep between the lines for it, but it’s definitely not out in the
open. The film is primarily concerned
with being a real time chronicle of two women being dissected. That’s it. It’s an exercise in grueling atmosphere and
visuals. It’s an endurance test. Speaking of which, people will say it moves
slowly. Those people missed the damn
point. There’s something either deliciously
transgressive or sadistically nerve-wracking (depending on your perspective) about watching the clothes being
slowly cut off of the ladies for a few minutes before the blood starts to flow. It’s
torturous foreplay. It’s those agonizing
minutes after being sent to your room but before a parent arrives for that
whoopin’. It’s those terrifying three
seconds between stubbing your toe and the pain impulse reaching your brain. The fact that it lingers on every minute
detail forces you to feel rather than watch.</span></span></span></div>
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sound design. To be honest, there’s not
a hell of a lot of indie flicks whose sound you can say much nice about. The sound design in this one, however, is
superb. As good as both the gore itself
and the grim ambiance are, those aspects on their own wouldn’t shine nearly as
much had the audio been entrusted to lesser hands. Jimmy Screamerclaus takes an already potent
brew and sends it over the top.</span></span></span></div>
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absolute stroke of perverse genius.
Before their ordeal, the women are shot up with a nerve agent and given
several drops from a medicine dropper.
When it is revealed that these drops were LSD, you immediately knew
where the psychonauts in the crowd were by either a gasp or an “OH HELL NO!” In addition to just being a unique and sick
little addition to the proceedings, the real genius of that bit of business is
that it adds a whole new level of identification for anyone in the audience who
has done acid. The camera may, literally
and figuratively, be making the viewer share the gaze of the killers, but
anyone who has ever dosed can’t help but imagine what it would be like to be
tripping on the table. You become trapped
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">Something happens at the end of this flick that
caused a tremor in even some of the most hardcore members of the audience that
night. Hell, Madam Ballrant got up and
walked the fuck out. As the audio
residue of that final image continued over the credits, we were left with the
question, “Um, is it ok to applaud? Can
we do that while this is going on?” It
was a sublimely awkward moment. As I
filed out of the room with about two thirds of the people who were there at its
start, I was pretty much silent until after a few shots and a couple of
smokes. AGP:BOG&G is the kind of
flick you have to recover from. Whether
you’re looking for a breath of fresh air in the tired “faux-snuff” sub-genre,
want to test your mettle (or that of your unsuspecting friends) with some
depravity, or just want to marvel at an impressive practical effects
achievement in the age of CGI, American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore is
for you. Those weak of stomach or constitution
need not apply. Nathan says check it
out.</span></span></span></span>SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-65695928589934567692015-03-19T10:00:00.000-04:002015-03-19T10:00:00.958-04:00Horror Business Archive: Episodes 6-10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Episode 6: Ask SOC</span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What do you do when a guest bails on you? You make the mistake of
asking your facebook friends for questions, that's what. We end up
talking about my horror history, which horror starlets I want to do
dirty things to, vampire fights, my former life of crime, ectoplasm as
lube, my theories on the genre, and a ridiculous amount of other stuff.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Episode 7: James Bickert</span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's a special 90 minute episode of Horror Business featuring my interview with director/drive-in historian James Bickert. We talk Dear God No!, Drive-Invasion, porn, beer, BBQ, video stores, piracy, bondage, the Oath of Green Blood, and a whole lot more. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> With Halloween coming up and haunted attraction season in full swing, I
went to the actors who stalk the halls of Netherworld Haunted House in
Atlanta (my haunt home since 1999) for their best stories about scaring
someone shitless. Time for the monsters to speak</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The Son of Celluloid and Brad Slaton co-directed a music video for The
Casket Creatures song "Zombie Werewolves From Outer Space." Go check it
out on youtube. Then listen to this roundtable discussion between
Nathan, Brad, and the band about the craziness that went into creating
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Eric and Nikki Cotto run a haunt out of their home to raise money for
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fear. Also, Brad Slaton drops by to chat Starry Eyes and See No Evil 2.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here at SOC, we're all about independent everything; independent horror, independent music, independent wrestling, independent variables, independent women, independent clauses, whatever. So, of course, I'm all about Record Store Day. If you don't know what I'm talking about...well, first of all, shame on you. Second, it's a day (specifically the third Saturday of April each year) when bands release special edition vinyls and indie record stores everywhere host events to celebrate the role of the record store. Part of me thinks that maybe, if we had done something like this, maybe we could have saved the video store. Anyway, there are always some cool horror related items every year. In the past these have included things like a 7" with the Misfits version of skulls on the A side and Evan Dando's cover on side B, a glow in the dark Ghostbusters single, a limited to 666 Dracula 1972 / Satanic Rites of Dracula soundtrack, and a truly bad ass <i>Last House on the Left Soundtrack</i> picture disk that I tried like hell to get my hands on. There are hundreds of unique releases of all genres specifically for the event, but I'm gonna focus on the horror tinged ones. Now not every store will get them all, some have very limited print runs, and some will ONLY be available on Record Store Day. So unless you wanna pay a fortune for them on ebay later, I'd suggest that you get there early, grease the right palms, plan strategically, or whatever you have to do to get the ones you want. You can visit <a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/">www.recordstoreday.com</a> to find participating stores near you and see a full listing of all of the 2015 RSD releases.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Probably the most directly horror related is this 12" <i>Walking Dead Soundtrack Volume 2</i> picture disc. It includes the tracks...</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Side A: Portugal the Man "Heavy Games"; Sharon Van Etten "Serpents"</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Side B: Lee Dewyze "Blackbird Song"; A.C. "Be Not So Fearful"; Ben
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GWAR, featuring everyone's favorite Scumdog from Adam Greene's closet Oderus Urungus (RIP) will be releasing a remastered vinyl pressing of their best album (in my humble but always accurate opinion) <i>America Must Be Destroyed</i>. It comes with an RSD Exclusivity Certificate and Gor-Gor Pop Up Album Art.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We all know that metal and horror go hand in hand, and the biggest metal release this year is <i>When The Stillness Stops</i>, the first track off of Slayer's upcoming new album. This cool ass picture disc single will also feature a live version of Black Magic recorded at Wacken in 2014.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the more bizarre<i> </i>releases this year that I honestly don't know much about is <i>Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom</i> by Nightsatan. They're a band from Finland who apparently made a short film and are releasing the soundtrack on green vinyl with a region free DVD of the film included. This is one of the more limited releases this year, so be on the lookout. Here's the trailer... </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is it possible to tell a psychological horror tale through
the medium of extreme bodily violence?
Can horror told on a primarily physical level still be cerebral? Can it engage your brain while kicking you
square in the junk? Felipe Eluti’s film
Visceral: Between the Ropes of Madness (out 3/24 from Unearthed Films) answers
with an emphatic “YES!” It’s an ultraviolent
mood piece gruesome enough to satisfy gorehounds but smart enough to deliver an
intriguing character study in a torture flick’s clothing.</span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Synopsis: A boxer loses the biggest fight of his life. He
slowly finds himself, giving up his dream and finds that life is not worth
living. At least, those lives around him are not worthy of life. He steps
through and unleashes an entity that torments him and guile's him to do
unspeakable acts of torture and murder. As body counts rise and lives are
diminished, will he have any hope? Any way to fight back to what he once was?</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Visceral is not told as a straight forward narrative. In fact, the story is rather thin by
conventional standards. It has very
little dialogue and the vast majority of all character interaction takes place
in torture/murder/rape settings. This is
the story of one man’s descent into a mental hell. If told in a linear form, this probably
wouldn’t have been enough to carry us through the film’s fairly short runtime
(116 minutes including 12 minutes of credits).
What Eluti brilliantly does is tell that story in three different
timelines, switching between them jarringly and without warning yet anything
but randomly. Telling the story in this
way enables him to reveal things in an order that enables them to have maximum
impact. It’s a technique that many
movies have tried, almost all of them less effectively than Visceral.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I fear that one of the film’s biggest strengths may also be
what some will see as its greatest flaw.
I love it when a film doesn’t hold the viewer’s hand and instead gives
them credit for being smart enough to figure out a difficult narrative style. There is only one visual cue to alert the
viewer that we have switched to a different point in the story. It’s not apparent at first. It may even be a little bit confusing until
you figure it out. Once you do, however,
things start to fall into place and the progression makes sense. A less astute viewer might be tempted to say
that the film is jumbled and nonsensical.
I hate to say “if you didn’t like it, you didn’t get it.” That just smacks of pretentious film school
snobbery. I think this flick may,
however, be a case where that statement rings true.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If everything I’ve said so far makes Visceral sound a little
too arthouse for your sadistic tastes, put that thought out of your sick little
head right now. Those looking to satisfy
their cinematic bloodlust will find everything they need. This is not a flick for the weak of heart or
stomach. I’ve seen a lot of violent
flicks in the last few years, but very few where said violence is this
raw. The camera remains very fluid and
sometimes shakes a little too much for my liking, but it never flinches or cuts
away from the brutality. The gore looks
fantastic, and the lack of dialogue from the main character adds a palpable
creep factor. While pervasive, the violence never goes over
the top in the sense of being unrealistic.
Oh, no. It feels all too real.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That reality is aided by an aspect of filmmaking that is
often overlooked – sound design. The
movie’s score (more of a dark industrial soundscape than a score actually) sets
the mood perfectly, but the sound effects are where it really shines. Each fist lands with a sickening thud that
makes the impact of flesh on flesh resonate through your core. The beautiful squishing and gurgling sounds
of blood and entrails are perfect. I
would also be remiss if I didn’t mention some really good shibari-style rope
work. Those perverts out there of the
BDSM persuasion (like a certain horror blogger) will particularly enjoy this
added touch. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Visceral is an apt name for this film. You feel it in your guts every bit as much as
your brain. It’s a movie that plays from
multiple angles. Some will find a top notch
gore flick. Some will find a harrowing
peek into the abyss of insanity. Hell,
some may come away having seen a fucked up PSA about a hot topic in the world
of sports; head trauma. Whatever
perspective you choose to view it from, this is a film that lays bare its
tortured soul for you to touch if you dare.
If you go into it just as open, you’ll be rewarded
with a remarkable viewing experience that is at the same time mindraping and, well…
Visceral. I haven’t seen a lot of
Chilean horror, but after this and Hidden in the Woods, we may be looking at a
new hotbed of genre goodness. Nathan
says check it out.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A couple of notes before we get started here. First of all, this year I opened up the
countdown to non-horror movies. A lot of
the best flicks this year danced around the edges of the genre; not really
horror but somehow horrific. Those
classification defying films deserved a spot, so no more genre
limitations. Second of all, a couple of
these movies were out before this year but were not widely available until
2014. If I saw it this year, it’s fair
game. Let’s see, anything else…oh
yeah. If I had seen Found this year, it
would have been an easy #1. Ok
Cellmates, I present to you my top thirteen films of 2014…</span></span></span></div>
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Proxy, Godzilla, American Muscle, Tusk, Collar, Deadly
Virtues, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, The Hornet’s Sting and The Hell It’s
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>13. Cross Bearer</b> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I’m keeping <i>Cross
Bearer</i> at the bottom only because of questions over which year it should count
as. While the majority of horror flicks
this year was concerned with exploring the edges of the genre and being so
called “high concept,” <i>Cross Bearer</i>
wallowed in sleazy slasher excess and was a blast to watch because of it. Bloody, booby, and brutal goodness. Adam Ahlbrandt has a definite handle on the
basics.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> 12. Tie - Captain
America: Winter Soldier / Guardians of the Galaxy</b> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even the Son of Celluloid needs a non-horror palate cleanser
now and then. Superhero movies are just
what the doctor ordered, and this year Marvel released their two best films to
date. <i>CA:WS</i> introduced something new to the Marvel flicks; a real, honest
to goodness plot. It was a political
thriller with the usual comic book movie “bang pow boom” as an accoutrement. <i>Guardians
of the Galaxy</i> was just a fun as hell sci-fi romp. While I can’t in good conscience give Marvel
two spots on the countdown, these were my favorite theatrical releases of the
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>11. Time To Kill</b> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Don’t get me wrong, some movies are supposed to hurt, but
the majority of the time the number one thing a movie should be is fun to
watch. I give <i>Time To Kill</i> the title of “Funnest Flick Of 2014.” Plentiful tits and blood, a killer
soundtrack, and a breakout turn from rising star Ellie Church make Brian
Williams’ debut feature a neo-exploitation gem not to be missed. Just don’t make an “all shots no beer”
drinking game out of it. Bad things
happen. I learned that the hard way.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Forget for a minute that this flick was ridiculously
overhyped. Is it the best horror flick
in years? No. Is it a really good one? Yep.
If I were giving out a Best Actress award, Essie Davis would have it
hands down. Child actor Noah Wiseman killed
it too. Add in great production design
(am I the only one who thinks the monster looks like a caricature of Coffin
Joe?) and a well-built pace and you have an effective little thriller. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Matt Garrett’s <i>Morris
County</i> is either the most depressing flick of the year or a pitch black
comedy (or both) depending on how twisted you are. It’s well acted, well written, contains some
really good practical makeups, and has a deliciously grim atmosphere that I’ve
heard compared to Happiness. The third
segment can completely bum me out or have me in stitches depending on the mood
it catches me in. That kind of tonal
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You had me at Lansdale.
<i>Cold in July</i> is a little bit
of everything. It’s a revenge
story. It’s a hard boiled noir. It’s Don Johnson being a cowboy badass. It’s a character study. It’s a
gripping look at how violence affects our lives. And in the last half hour, it’s a balls to
the wall violent slaughterfest. In other
words, this one’s got something for everyone.
Between this, <i>We Are What We Are,
Stakeland</i>, and the flick at #6, I will now officially watch anything with
Nick Damici in it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With his first feature, Jason Hoover has recreated the
serial killer movie. Mix the style of <i>Man Bites Dog</i> with the spirit of <i>Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer</i>, and
you have <i>I Am No One</i>. Foregoing Grand Guignol excess in favor of
chilling, quiet moments with violent punctuation, Hoover uses the
faux-documentary style to its full potential.
Mike Nall is brilliant as the killer, always seeming a little too calm
not to be coiled to strike. Through
interviews and observation, the human face that hides the mind of a maniac
(doomed to be a killer since he came out the nutsack?) slowly cracks and falls
away until a climax that is one of the best single scenes the underground has
produced in a long time. The true horror
comes after the movie when you realize just how many people like Charles Lake
you might have known. This is grown up
horror, and it’s a direction I hope the serial killer sub-genre continues
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first great werewolf movie since <i>Dog Soldiers</i>. Late phases
takes the flavor of an old school creature feature and, as many of the best
horror flicks from the past few years have, added a double shot of genuine
pathos. Nick Damici is wholly believable
as a gruff, blind Vietnam vet dealing with his new life in a retirement
community, a deteriorating relationship with his son, and the werewolves that
make monthly attacks on his neighborhood.
A supporting turn by Tom Noonan as a priest and practical creature
effects by none other than Robert Kurtzman are both worth noting. The CGI blood is worth ignoring.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I figured that a movie based on Wrath James White's book <u>The
Resurrectionist</u> had zero chance of not disappointing. The source material
is extremely graphic, and with the current lack of balls in the horror movie
game, I knew the flick wouldn't match the book's intensity. I was pleasantly surprised
by this one, though. <i>Come Back To Me</i>
did omit the over the top violence, but still found a way to capture enough of
the story's original tone to make it palatable to both fans of the book and
mainstream horror without it feeling neutered.
It’s genuinely eerie, builds the tension well, and the finale is a
straight up kick in the balls. If you haven’t
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is what would happen if some everyday schlub like you or
me tried to pull off some one man army, <i>Death
Wish</i> vigilante type of shit. In a
year with multiple well done revenge flicks, this is the best. It’s got some satisfyingly bloody set pieces,
but writer/director Jeremy Saulnier makes sure they are felt and actually have
an impact. Moments of comedy weave in
and out of the tragedy of a man obligated to do a job he’s nowhere near ready
to carry out. That man’s journey is made
all the more gripping by a tour de force performance by Macon Blair. It’s the second best (behind only the
masterpiece that is <i>Found</i>) movie
everyone could have gotten at Wal-mart for ten bucks this year that no one
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The best way I can describe <i>Nightcrawler</i> is “exactly what 4amin a big city feels like captured on
screen.” It shows a deftness and
confidence behind the camera that is surprising from a first time director like
Dan Gilroy. The entire cast is on
point. Jake Gyllenhaal (who looks
terminally ill in this flick) is immensely creepy and practically oozes sleaze
all over the audience. If he and Rene
Russo don’t get Oscar nominations, the terrorists win. Bill Paxton is awesome
as a total dick. The flick looks
absolutely gorgeous, exhibiting the best cinematography of the year. While the story works literally, everyone I’ve
talked to sees something different in it metaphorically. That kind of multi-level filmmaking is refreshing. Since it’s 2014 exposure was limited, I
expect the February DVD drop date to ensure this one makes it on a multitude of
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Worst casting couch ever!
Part biting show business satire and part body horror, <i>Starry Eyes</i> is the story of an aspiring
actress who just may have gone too far in the pursuit of a role in the film The
Silver Scream. I’ve heard it compared to
the work of both David Lynch and Roman Polanski, and I can see the best of both
influences in it. I see a lot of
Cronenberg too, especially the superb use of (well done) makeup as character
development ala <i>The Fly</i>. Alex Essoe puts in a great performance,
showing the chops necessary to be a possible future genre mainstay. The gore is practical and suitably gooey. Starry Eyes seems to exist between eras; with
a 70’s Euro-horror feel, an 80’s score, and a bleak as hell millennial nihilism. I would give anything for the people behind
this to go the <i>Found/Headless</i> route
and actually make <i>The Silver Scream</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I just noticed that my top two movies both involve
struggling actresses and the world of filmmaking. Interesting.
Anyway, If you pay attention to the underground horror scene at all,
there’s no way <i>Pieces of Talent</i> flew
under your radar. Joe Stauffer’s flick
got a lot of buzz, and every bit of it was deserved. Charlotte toils away at a seedy strip club
where she meets David, a filmmaker who adopts Charlotte as his leading lady and
muse. But just how far will David go to
realize his artistic vision? The first
thing I loved about this flick was David Long as, um… David Long. It’s so hard to get a read on his character. He definitely plays him weird as hell, but it’s
not quite an endearing weird and not quite a menacing weird. It’s that kind of “there’s something wrong
with that dude, but I’m not sure what” weird.
I’ve never seen a performance like it before. Kristi Ray brings a likable vulnerability to Charlotte
as well. Another thing that blew me away
is how the film played with tone and form, veering between different styles of
horror to weave an intricate stylistic patchwork and keep the audience on their
toes. It’s alternately subtle, creepy,
funny, bizarre and dreamlike, and brutal and bloody (with practical effects I
might add) when it needs to be. First
person “found footage” style footage is used in conjunction with standard third
person style in a way that is far more effective than any full on FFF. The final, lingering thing that stuck with
me was the feeling that, if I were just a little crazier, David could be
me. Any creative type, from a filmmaker
to a painter to a writer, can understand David’s motivation to some extent. It’s a look at the state of independent
horror filmmaking through a prism of madness, and it leaves that sickly feeling
that you might not be as different from the villain as you would like to
believe. The fact that it’s miles ahead
of the majority of similarly budgeted films on every technical level (sound,
editing, cinematography, etc.) is just icing on the cake. <i>Pieces of Talent</i> is an impressive and truly unique film. Stauffer and Long are currently raising funds
for a sequel. I hope to god that it
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">This is where I usually say “Oh, come on guys. This year in horror wasn’t THAT bad.” I won’t be saying that this year. Why? Because it was. In 2014, the good was great. Unfortunately, despite my Best Of list being
the longest it’s ever been, a higher percentage of the year’s releases were
pure crap. So…much…crap. To be honest, there was a long period of 2014
where I didn’t watch any new stuff, only my old favorites. My need to see everything wasn’t as strong
this year, therefore I avoided a lot of stuff that I knew was gonna be rotten. Had I been more of a cinematic masochist, the
ratio of badassery to sucktitude might be even worse. However, in an attempt to be positive about
the year, I’m doing a Top 13 instead of a Top 10 while keeping my Worst list at
the same number. So let’s rid ourselves
of these five cinematic turds before we celebrate the killer flicks that came
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As Above So Below. I’d be willing to bet
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Dread, Deliver Us From Evil, Stage Fright, Housebound, all of those flicks in
the found footage resurgence.</span></span></span></div>
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something that catches on with the audience so the writers then zero in on it,
overuse it, and make it annoying. Such
is the case here. I liked the first <i>Sharknado</i>, and I LOVE me some <i>Sharktopus</i>. Hell, I love most of Syfy’s intentionally bad
movies. The problem with the follow ups
to their two most successful shark flicks is that they were too self-aware. These types of movies are usually so much fun
because, despite the ludicrous situations, they’re played straight. The movie doesn’t acknowledge that it’s bad. These two traded that deadly-earnest delivery
for a whole lot of “wink-wink-nudge-nudge.”
They veered off into spoof territory and lost all of their bite in the
process. It’s a damn shame too. I was pretty damn excited for a second helping
of <i>‘Pus</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"> Me - The trailer for <i>Devil's Due</i> looks terrible. I have a
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Everyone else - Shut up Nathan. It looks great. You're just
a horror elitist. You don't want to like it because it's a Hollywood flick.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"> Everyone else - <i>Devil's Due</i> sucked! I can't believe I
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The Devil Inside – 2012), the first major horror release of the year has made
my worst list. <i>Woman in Black 2</i>, this does not bode well for you.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">More like Dracula Unwatchable. Am I right?
Let’s see, where to start? The
laughable acting? The hilariously
melodramatic atmosphere? The hordes of CGI bats? Dracula suddenly being able to control the
weather like a Halle Berry? Drac’s lore
being shat upon by adding a silver vulnerability? Oh, I know.
How about the horribly lazy script?
For example: in one climactic
scene, when he is called “Impaler” Vlad screams “That is no longer my
name! I am Dracula, son of the devil!” Minutes later, he impales someone and says “You
forget who I am.” But didn’t you just
say… oh, forget it. This just
sucked. Not in the way the King of the Vampires is
supposed to suck either. The Twilighting of Dracula. Ugh.</span></span></span></div>
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action flick with horror elements” thing.
Good on ‘ya. Just leave classic,
beloved, complex characters out of your mindless fun. I’ve long held the belief that there is no
such thing as a movie with no redeeming value.
I may have been wrong. I cannot,
for the life of me, find anything to like about this shitfest. It’s too bad to even be unintentionally
entertaining. Even Aaron freakin’
Eckhart was bad in this. With the
announcement that Universal wants to take their classic monster franchises in a
more action oriented direction,<i> I, Frankenstein</i>
is exactly what I’m afraid of. This tale
told by an idiot proves that a flick doesn’t even need to be all that loud or
furious to signify nothing. If you have
no idea what I just referenced, you probably dug <i>I, Frankenstein</i>. Hell, <i>Dracula Untold</i> too for that matter.</span></span></span></div>
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That was all of the horror hipsters mustering up just enough anger to be
pissed at me but still look cool and unaffected. Sounded a lot like a tape getting eaten by a
VCR, didn’t it? Anyway, just about every
Top 10 Of 2014 list I’ve seen has contained the worst flick of the year. I’ll try to be brief about why this movie is
2014’s epitome of suck here since I’ve already gone on lengthy rants on the
Picking Brains Podcast (check out those episodes </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"><a href="http://picking-brains.com/2014/05/01/episode-80-nathan-i-discuss-ti-west-and-swanbo/">HERE</a> and <a href="http://picking-brains.com/2014/12/31/episode-91-nathan-hamilton-and-ryan-cadaver-best-worst-of-2014-most-anticipated-of-2015/">HERE</a>). Basically, the film begins as a found footage
film, then proceeds to do a multitude of things to betray that setup; including
but not limited to dolly shots, lighting tricks, multiple camera angles
occurring simultaneously when there is only one camera present, a shot/reverse
shot conversation, and half of the movie consisting of footage from a camera
that was destroyed on screen. It
completely fails as a movie through a complete lack of any continuity or
logic. Ti West was either too lazy and
sloppy to fix the obvious issues with his film or insulted the audience’s intelligence
by assuming that they wouldn’t notice.
To me, neither of those things are forgivable, especially from an indie
horror darling who is supposed to be the future of the genre. What perturbs me more than the actual ineptitude
of The Sacrament, however, is the fact that no one seems to have noticed. The two good performances and glacially slow
pace (aka what passes for suspense these days) seem to have been enough to
throw the majority of the horror audience off the trail of West’s inability to
hold the film’s basic premise together. Ask any of the Westophiles about the glaring lack
of attention to detail and they either respond with an <i>Idiocracy</i>-level “Uh, I didn’t notice” or a passive-aggressively
accusatory “I didn’t nitpick and let it ruin the movie for me.” Yet these were the same people lambasting
TCM3D for its screwed up timeline. The
Sacrament is the worst film of the year not only because it displayed a
complete disregard for the art of filmmaking, but because it brought me to the
realization that quality truly does not matter to the majority of moviegoers anymore
and that horror fans, as a whole, are deserving of the insult that Ti West
hurled at them. We have been force fed
crap for so long that most moviegoers consider it the standard. THAT, Cellmates, is the true horror of The
Sacrament.</span></span></span></div>
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decapitation, dismemberment, monsters, and fake blood EVERYWHERE!<span> </span>I could be talking about Halloween, but I
could be talking about a GWAR show.<span> </span>I’ve
always wondered how Halloween was celebrated on Scumdoggia, haven’t you?<span> </span>Luckily, GWAR’s new frontwoman, the mighty
Vulvatron, saw fit to grace us lowly humans with her presence.<span> </span>So, Vulvatron, what does Halloween mean to
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“On Scumdoggia we have a very scary Halloween tradition-
everyone dons large pink fleshy suits resembling Earth humans... then we
attempt to frighten each other with how utterly pathetic we look!<span> </span>Then, we traverse the neighboring star
systems and distribute tiny bags of crack to the recent offspring.<span> </span>The local Starbucks starts serving Pumpkin
Spice Lattes, which draw many attractive young females into our lairs for
ceremonial Fall orgies. It is a joyous tradition.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There have been certain moments in my time as the Son of Celluloid where I can't believe actually happened. Moments my teenage horror freak self would lose his mind over. One of those was exploitation queen Dyanne Thorne, Ilsa herself, dictating this entry over the phone to me because her computer was broken. You all know Dyanne as the She Wolf of the SS, Tigress of Siberia, and Harem Keeper for the Oil Sheiks in the Ilsa films as well as other classics like Hellhole and Blood Sabbath. As you will read, she also appears in two new flicks this year; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/House-of-the-Witchdoctor/501509103222289?fref=ts">House of the Witch Doctor</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/houseofforbiddensecrets?fref=ts">House of Forbidden Secrets</a>. Click on those titles to learn more about them. So, Dyanne, what does Halloween mean to you?</span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJiEpDCi-hsBsmtqX3A3oVNFziOj4ytKuI5yLKhmbPMbGyhLImgHMZRXBcUgFxpvVj_wVaZYEXpU8q66AxrPu8u8A-rfm8VWou0lPfFeqSFCbWxWxp6CBvUZ1Koj6Ul-aQBf5BfMUimBb/s1600/968full-ilsa+-she-wolf-of-the-ss-screenshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJiEpDCi-hsBsmtqX3A3oVNFziOj4ytKuI5yLKhmbPMbGyhLImgHMZRXBcUgFxpvVj_wVaZYEXpU8q66AxrPu8u8A-rfm8VWou0lPfFeqSFCbWxWxp6CBvUZ1Koj6Ul-aQBf5BfMUimBb/s1600/968full-ilsa+-she-wolf-of-the-ss-screenshot.jpg" height="191" width="320" /></a><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"About Halloween: I hate
to sound too square, but the current dangers associated with the holiday really
spook me. Having made my share of horror
movies, I understand how much we all seem to enjoy a good “boo.” When I was a kid – last century – the fun of
Halloween was awesome. We wore homemade
outfits, crazy makeup, and were safe to knock on every door we could
manage. We begged and pranked and ate
every goodie that was doled out to us.
It was laughable. It was
fun. Now it’s a new age. This time I get to dress like a zombie and my
husband, Howard Maurer, as Dracula as we party with our vampire friends. Halloween can be fun. I hope we can all enjoy it safely. Howard and I make guest appearances in two
new films being released for Halloween 2014.
House of the Witch Doctor (directed by Devon Mikolas) and House of
Forbidden Secrets (directed by Todd Sheets) are both meant to scare the living
beejeesus out of you in the safety of your living room in front of your TV
screen.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No more days 'til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. No more days 'til Halloween. Silver Shamrock! </span></span></span></span>SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-80505543023911703442014-10-31T10:00:00.000-04:002014-10-31T10:00:01.010-04:00What Halloween Means To Me '14: JP of the Crazy Dave Tape Crew<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At Days of the Dead Indianapolis this year, my life changed
forever.<span> </span>Fred Vogel stormed the
screening room at 4am on Sunday, None of the drunken crowd who witnessed what came
next were ever the same again, for we had been exposed to The Crazy Dave
Tape.<span> </span>It is the most insane mashup of
movie clips, bizarre porn, weird pop culture stuff, and sheer insane
awesomeness that you will ever see.<span> </span>You
are absolutely not prepared for what these mixtapes contain, but you need it in
your live.<span> </span>Check out their website <a href="http://www.crazydavetape.com/">HERE</a>.<span> </span>It carries the Son of Celluloid’s highest
possible recommendation.<span> </span>Anyway, I knew
that I had to have one of the sickos behind this brilliant filth involved in
this countdown.<span> </span>Luckily, JP (the guy in
the gorilla mask) was down for the cause.<span>
</span>So, JP, what does Halloween mean to you?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Back when we were little turds, life primarily consisted of
cartoons and pro-wrestling. Indoors, we had G.I. Joe guys getting their asses
kicked by Cobra Ninja and the Baroness (who would always somehow end up
molesting Lady Jayne in front of Destro), and outdoors we had a combination of
Rambo meets the Road Warriors. Hawk and Animal teamed up with Rambo (under our
leadership, of course) as we fought to regain control of central headquarters.
Central headquarters was a shed with a few lawnmowers in it, by the way. Action
figures, elbow drops, and imaginary gun battles pretty much dominated this
little turd era.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oddly enough, we never paid much attention to Halloween at the
time. I mean, we definitely went out and scored candy, but the thrill of the
night wasn’t really there yet. If your pal is Spider-Man and you're a fuckin'
Ewok, basically Halloween kind of sucks. Really now, Cobra Ninja would mutilate
Spider-Man (and then have the Baroness rip his dick off in front of Destro) and
The Road Warriors looked like they lived on a steady diet of Ewoks! We always
thought there must be something more to Halloween than oversized chipmunk suits
and candy...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And then we discovered Fangoria magazine. Tom Savini. <i>Creepshow,
A Nightmare on Elm Street</i>, Jason; this amazingly scary yet fascinating new
world that we were probably too young for, but completely loved anyhow. That
prick from <i>Lifeforce</i>—you know, the skeleton man with Ronald Reagan's
hairstyle—between him, the father's day zombie, Ted Danson zombie, Freddy,
Jason, Michael Meyers, Leatherface, and that contortionist fucker covered in
tar from <i>Return of the Living Dead</i>, we were a bunch of scared little
turds! Scared, but loving it; now Rambo and The Road Warriors were allies
against Freddy and Jason, who apparently had a hangout spot down our street, in
the woods. Yeah, basically it was our job to secure the street by keeping both
Jason and Freddy at bay with a plastic bat (supposed to be a machete) and
invisible grenades. This still happens on occasion.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anyhow, this dark discovery helped us transition from little
turds into little pricks; making fake blood with food coloring and Karo syrup
(which never looked right), scaring our parents, each other, and generally
acting like idiots. Then the realization struck like a machete through teenage
flesh—we now had real reasons to celebrate Halloween! You could pretend that
Jason cut your arm off, get fake blood everywhere, ruin clothes and possibly
furniture, and not get in trouble! Sure, the candy was still pretty damn
important, but being able to use and abuse our ever-growing collection of
masks, appliances, and whatever other ridiculous things offered in the back
pages of Fangoria became priority one!!<u><span> </span></u><i>Side
note: I vaguely remember there being a life sized latex zombie-corpse for
sale—via mail order—from one of the companies we ordered from...only back then,
man...now it would be delivered by an F.B.I. agent ready to escort you somewhere
“safe”.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So basically, every Halloween our plan was the same: get
candy, act like idiots, scare anyone wearing Spider-Man and Ewok costumes, run
from older kids who we pissed off, and then get some more candy. Come home,
listen to my older brother's metal records, eat candy, and draw pictures of
Jason, Freddy, and Cobra Ninja doing various things. After the folks went to
bed, the tradition of watching <i>Scream Greats Volume 1: Tom Savini</i> was
generally observed. Either that, or a crappy SLP version of <i>Creepshow</i> I
recorded from Cinemax—mainly because it also had a late night titty-movie on it
called <i>Fiona</i> (which would be one of many recorded during this era).
Classic Halloween memories, man...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Although this golden era didn't last that long, it was
definitely birthplace for everything our mixtapes ended up being—a beautifully
disgusting mess of laughter and horror, stitched together with a massive VHS
collection that started way back then. And for us, Halloween over the years has
become less about candy and more about acting like complete idiots in public
without getting arrested. Well, more accurately stated; the modern Halloween
candy is alcohol, and the results are generally more than we could get away
with any other time of the year. So Happy Halloween to all you party-freaks out
there!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">No more days ‘til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween.<span> </span>No more days ‘til Halloween.<span> </span>Silver Shamrock.</span></span></span></div>
SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-89297898219633587422014-10-30T15:56:00.000-04:002014-10-30T15:56:39.986-04:00What Halloween Means To Me '14: Jack Sholder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Next up we have Jack Sholder. He's best known as the director of Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, but his list of credits also includes such gems as Wishmaster 2, The Hidden, Alone In The Dark, and the excellent Tales From The Crypt episode Fitting Punishment. These days he's at Western Carolina University passing his knowledge on to the next generation. Instead of telling us what Halloween means to him exactly, he sent along some random thoughts on the holiday.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"<span> </span>*<span> </span>I wonder what became of those boys who
dressed up as their mother on
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Halloween.<span> </span>I tried
Mom's high heels once. Not for me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>*<span> </span>I remember my son, now in college, putting
so much candy in his pockets </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">that his pants fell down.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>*<span> </span>Rotting pumpkins.<span> </span>Is there anything more yucky than the inside
of a </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">pumpkin or better than pumpkin pie. Carving a pumpkin is
like making a sand </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">castle.<span> </span>Eventually
nature takes its course.<span> </span>Celluloid is
still around but I </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">wonder about digital media. Sent some old floppy disks to
have the data saved </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and there was nothing left on them that could be read.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>*<span> </span>I hate holidays with an agenda.<span> </span>I prefer ones like Labor Day where you </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">don't have to do anything.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>*<span> </span>Halloween makes me sad because I see kids
walking around in Freddy Kruger </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">gloves and my lawyer never got me a cut of the
merchandising."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <span><span>1 more day 'til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. 1 more day 'til Halloween. Silver Shamrock! </span></span></span></span></span></div>
SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-62100244716563030492014-10-30T15:31:00.004-04:002014-10-30T15:31:39.393-04:00What Halloween Means To Me '14: Nick Principe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I first noticed Nick Principe in his killer turn as Chromeskull in the best slasher flick of the last decade, Laid To Rest. He also damn near stole the show in the criminally underrated The FP, and I can't wait to see his work in Ryan Nicholson's new movie Collar. He was also one of my fist on camera interviews. So, Nick, what does Halloween mean to you?</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggIVFSsgBqmAvzHB9uiWO9oYXSzuJNY5opzOQQVnVoC_TtG8dNOianUI79kJhgK5nH_7-4RODx08aIcW01tFywo1NJbqGMu_tdRifBmoF7X4CZSWx_LbVKlwMKmUjTmMlAS_opptWh4HWe/s1600/10458036_10152661414596210_1951033458635078058_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggIVFSsgBqmAvzHB9uiWO9oYXSzuJNY5opzOQQVnVoC_TtG8dNOianUI79kJhgK5nH_7-4RODx08aIcW01tFywo1NJbqGMu_tdRifBmoF7X4CZSWx_LbVKlwMKmUjTmMlAS_opptWh4HWe/s1600/10458036_10152661414596210_1951033458635078058_n.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Ahhhhh Halloween .... The horror fans holiday.<span> </span>It just doesn't get any better than the month
of Oct; haunted houses and pumpkin.... well pumpkin EVERYTHING! Going to CVS,
or any store and seeing monsters and creatures cute and scary next to cheap
crap make up and Scream masks. The billboards off the highway of all the haunts
and hayrides makes you wish it was all year round. <span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In my youth I'd start building my costume at the end of
August cuz, like most New Englanders, we were broke !! But that's fine.<span> </span>Having financial limitations can bring out a
creative side you might not have known you even had. As a young boy I'd try to
put together at least two costumes so I could hit my neighborhood twice and get
double the candy.<span> </span>If our parents were up
for it, and usually they were, they'd take us to the nicer neighborhoods where
they'd dish out the FULL sized candy bars and not the "fun sized"
ones most houses had (and what's with the term fun sized? Why does that mean
tiny??) As I got older the costumes got more advanced, the girls outfits got
skimpier (international allowed to dress like a slut day as some call it), and
house parties and cemetery parties replaced trick or treating. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In my late teens I was lucky enough to play music professionally,
which took me around the world more than a few times and allowed me to
experience Hallows Eve MANY diff places. Almost booking our tours around the 31<sup>st</sup>
and making sure we were some place spooky for that amazing day.... like seeing
the Cramps in Austin. Or how about the Michael Graves era Misfits in New
Orleans? Or even better Paris France one year for Samhain.<span> </span><span> </span>But no
matter where it was around the globe, the best place in the WORLD for Halloween
is only 30 mins away in Salem, Mass. For the entire month of Oct, Salem embraces
the evil "witchery " that took place in the fall of 1692 where over
30 young women (and a few men) met their fate by hanging, being burned alive, or
being pressed (held under rocks until it crushed all your organs and you bled
to death internally). <span> </span>But now on Halloween
it is just a GIANT party.<span> </span>The
cobblestone streets are blocked off from traffic and thousands from all over
come in costume to drink and be merry and have fun. <span> </span>And then the weekend before Halloween is Rock
n Shock.<span> </span>It’s my favorite horror
convention in North America because they combine my two fave things, horror
films/culture and punk/hardcore/metal music ! At the Palladium, bands are
playing from <span> </span>late afternoon into the wee
hours of night and at the DCU center horror vendors and celebs mingle with fans
of the macabre ! If you've never been, it's a sight to behold. <span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I get asked a lot if, since I play monsters year round and
spend countless hours in the make-up chair, why would I want to do that to
myself on my days off? Why??? F@$king why??? Because I LIVE for this stuff !!!
The entire reason I do what I do is because I'm STILL the lil kid planning his
costume in August.<span> </span><span> </span>I STILL want be someone else for a night I
LOVE a great costume that you can stand in front of someone you've known your
whole life and they can't recognize you ! You aren't who you were on Oct 29<sup>th</sup>.<span> </span>You're whoever you want to be. It's a silly
reference, but I remember an old episode of Beauty and the Beast (with Ron
pearlman and linda Hamilton ) where the only night out of the year that the
beast could walk freely in the streets was Halloween.<span> </span>All he would hear back instead of screams was
"cool costume." And maybe deep down that's how I feel, cuz any other
night I'm considered a freak. <span> </span>But on Oct
31, I just have a cool costume and it's the freaks night to be themselves. So
here's to all the freaks..... Have a great Halloween.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>1 more day 'til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. 1 more day 'til Halloween. Silver Shamrock! </span></span></span></span></div>
SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-48382696749771617682014-10-30T14:58:00.000-04:002014-10-30T14:58:16.627-04:00What Halloween Means To Me '14: Ellie Church<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ellie Church is a bad ass. Plain and simple. This former Tromette is well on her way to cementing herself as one of the queens of the independent horror scene. This year saw the release of the fantastic Time To Kill, with Ellie in the starring role, and with upcoming turns in Adam Ahlbrandt's Hunters and the Found spin-off Headless, the future looks just as good. She's also a really sweet chick and one of the people I always look forward to seeing at cons. So, Ellie, what does Halloween mean to you?</span></span></span><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Halloween to me means shenanigans. Being <span> </span>mischievous. As a kid, whether your parents
were with you or not, you always felt like you were up to no good...and that
was ok. I still get that same feeling as an adult, a kind of giddy childish feeling.
I mean, I could toilet paper someone's house any other day , and while I would
probably enjoy it, still not have the same feeling as I would doing it on
Halloween night. You've got to have that smell in the air for it to work.
Harmless mischievous fun, that's what Halloween means to me."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 more day 'til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. 1 more day 'til Halloween. Silver Shamrock! </span></span></span>SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-70600112591582648702014-10-28T13:34:00.000-04:002014-10-28T13:34:01.806-04:00What Halloween Means To Me '14: Bill Zebub<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are certain filmmakers who, within a minute or so of turning on one of their films, you can tell whose work it is. Bill Zebub is one of those singular filmmakers. His flicks are zero budget, sleazy as hell, brilliantly titled (Antfarm Dickhole, Jesus: The Total Douchebag, Forgive Me For Raping You), and just plain fun. So, Bill, what does Halloween mean to you?</span></span></span><br />
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"I have always loved Halloween. I don't need to explain to
people what makes this day, and even season, special. But I am angry about the
misinformation that is spread about the origins. Whenever Halloween draws near,
mainstream NEWS and other programs erroneously report that the holiday has
Celtic origins. False. The ancient Greeks celebrated the FESTIVAL OF DIONYSES
which started on October 31. Perhaps the Catholic Church was embarrassed about
their holiday being revealed for its pagan origins (All Saints Day). During the
FESTIVAL OF DIONYSES jars were broken to symbolize the gates to death being
breached. People wore masks to hide their identities from the spirits who
walked the earth. Why? Because there was a good chance that some of the dead
were wronged, and their vengeance was feared. An episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE
stole this idea. Many things, in fact, were stolen from the Greeks. The Christian
story of Pontius Pilate was pure fiction, and it can be argued to have been
lifted from "The Baccae" a play by Euripides, in which Dionysus allowed
himself to be chained by a king and answered cryptically while being
interrogated, and then pretty much did things that the Jesus myth is known for.
Read it. Consider me to be your launchpad to learn new things. In real life,
not the Bible, there was never a Roman custom to release a prisoner during
Passover. Pilate would have never catered to a mob. IN fact, he crushed mobs.
He was so insensitive and brutal that he was almost removed from office. But
yeah, if you read more of Euripedes, you will find that many Christian sayings
are just modified expressions of Greek expressions. "The gods work in
mysterious ways" is one of them. Sound familiar?
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I love Halloween so much that I made a movie called
"Night of the Pumpkin." It's my anti-horror horror movie. The hero is
a woman. But unlike American movies that feature a female lead, NIGHT OF THE
PUMPKIN features a woman who wins by being a woman. What I mean by that is that
she doesn't swear, she doesn't walk with a swagger, and she isn't arrogant.
Women are almost Eastern in their strategies. They have no problem appearing
weak to the opponent, and they can bide their time. Women have a reputation s
for being emotional and having clouded thinking as a result, but the truth is
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">3 more days 'til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. 3 more days 'til Halloween. Silver Shamrock.</span></span></span></div>
SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-36712881373263096342014-10-28T03:48:00.000-04:002014-10-28T12:24:50.453-04:00What Halloween Means To Me '14: Adam Ahlbrandt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"<span class="null">My name is Adam Ahlbrandt and I make gore, sleaze, hate and death." Well, damn. I doubt I could give the dude a more fitting intro, so we'll just go with that. So, Adam, what does Halloween mean to you?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="null">"</span>Halloween is where most of us horror addicts first
became introduced to the genre'... It's supposed to be about dressing
up, eating candy, watching scary movies, getting wasted, laid, s'mores,
avoiding arrest, satanic rituals, crisp October air and the celebration
of death. I know it's been polluted with all the commercialism and
political correctness... But it still fucking rules and it's up to you
to make sure it stays that way...</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So here's what you do:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you have kids:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">BUY THE BIG, GOOD CANDY. A lot of it, don't be a cheap fuck. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Get dressed up in a good costume, make sure your children are warm enough under theirs if it's going to be cold out.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT TRICK OR TREATING. Don't be a lazy fuck.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">LET YOUR KIDS HAVE SOME OF THE CANDY THEY GET AFTER YOU INSPECT IT. Don't be a dick.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">DON'T LET YOUR KIDS GO OUT UNATTENDED AND EXPECT THEM TO NOT GET INTO
TROUBLE. DON'T LET THEM WATCH MOVIES THAT ARE TOO VIOLENT OR GRAPHIC FOR
THEM. Remember, innocence is meant to be preserved and A FUCKING HOLIDAY DOESN'T EXCUSE YOU FROM BEING A RESPONSIBLE PARENT.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you DON'T have kids:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">BUY THE BIG, GOOD CANDY. A lot of it, don't be a cheap fuck. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">GIVE ROAD HEAD, SET A NEW ROAD SEX SPEED RECORD.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">HAVE A HORROR MOVIE MARATHON.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">TAKE BONG HITS.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">PIG OUT ON CANDY.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">GET WASTED AND BREAK INTO A CEMETERY OR ABANDONED BUILDING.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">TELL GHOST STORIES.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">NEVER BE SAFE OR A DICK. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">BE KIND TO EVERYONE YOU MEET AND OFFER THEM SOME OF YOUR BIG CANDY!!!!"</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Adam also basically sent a press release with his sublission, so what the hell? Here we go...</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"I have several recent releases including the ToeTag edition of my film Cross Bearer, available here: <a href="http://www.toetag.biz/product/cross-bearer/">LINK</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I also have The Cemetery out on Massacre Video: <a href="http://massacrevideo.com/site/shop/the-cemetery-limited-edition-blu-ray4-disc/">LINK</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As well as German releases of both from Illusions Unlimited: <a class="_553k" href="http://www.illusions.at/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LINK</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
also have two films upcoming in Hunters and a The Sadist starring
Linnea Quigley, Haley Madison, J.D. Brown, Kacie Marie, Jason Vail,
Draven Star, Mel Heflin, Tina Krause, Victor Bonacore, Shaun Paul
Costello, Genoveva Rossi, Tiffany Carroll, Scarlett Storm, Jadie
Goodpasture, Ellie Church and many more. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hunters is a violation
of the audience's morality. It's the story of a family of killers who
lure a group of film students into a remote town to become the stars of a
snuff film. The Sadist is a more psychological endurance test but it is
equally vile. It tells the story of a sex addict who becomes trapped by
a dominatrix into a world of extreme S&M prostitution. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
also am finishing up a new book called Raping The Angels On The Streets
Of Gomorrah. It's a collection of short stories that were mostly written
while I was living out of my car. The book also features pictures of
Haley Madison in various stages of defilement.</span></span></span>SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-60253478863738830702014-10-23T15:51:00.000-04:002014-10-23T15:52:34.660-04:00What Halloween Means To Me '14: Keith Voigt Jr.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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and get candy. But when I snuck "Friday the 13th" on VHS around 5 or
6 years old and watched it for the first time it changed things forever. That's
when I got introduced to horror films, good ole Jason Voorhees. The next year I
watched "Halloween" on Halloween and loved it too. So then like so
many people it sort of became a tradition for me to watch "Halloween"
on Halloween. In my High School years Halloween was a time to party! I threw
these parties all the time and we called them WINKERLANd (hence the production
company name) and any time we threw one for Halloween we called it
HalloWINKERLANd. People dressed up and got wasted and we had a blast. Some of
the best memories of my life. Now Halloween to me is a time when I feel normal
around the rest of the world haha. Things that us Horror fans do regularly
everyone else does for a little bit. It really is a magical time of the year.
The crisp leaves are beneath our feet, the skies are beautiful and the weather
is just right. Halloween has a great atmosphere and that's why I love it.
Horror flicks are for sale in Walmart and being shown on TV. So like I said it
means a lot of things to me. But what's really important is what does it mean
to YOU?"</span></span></span></div>
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SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-2014924924153893722014-10-22T16:31:00.000-04:002014-10-22T16:31:06.356-04:00What Halloween Means To Me '14: Marcus Koch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Independent filmmaker's week rolls on with Marcus Koch. I first became aware of his work when Chemical Burn sent me a screener of Fell (which I highly recommend), and in doing a little research for my review discovered "Hey, this was directed by the same guy that did 100 Tears!" His contributions to indie horror don't stop at his directorial efforts, though. Not by a long shot. His great special effects work can be seen in a shit ton (yes, exactly one metric shit ton) of the best underground releases from the past decade and a half. Most recently his skills helped bring the guts and gore to the first installment of the American Guinea Pig series, which will be premiering at the Housecore Festival in New Orleans. So, Marcus, what does Halloween mean to you?</span></span></span><br />
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halloween, and taking my sister and I trick or treating; so Halloween
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In Florida, we don't really have a change of seasons. Its hot and
muggy until it's cold for about a month in January, so we don't get to
see the leaves change. No Autumn colors there. But come closer to the
end of October, you could feel a change in in the air. It was less
humid, and not sure what flower bloomed that time of year, but the air
smelled sweet. I remember seeing yard decorations going up; lots of
ghosts made from pieces of sheets with eyes painted on them hanging in
trees and pumpkins and homemade tombstones filling people's yards.
Every year there was a haunted house at the mall, and I loved checking
it out. One year they had an entire Freddy Krueger House. NOES 3 had
just come out, and it was a lot of fun. I wanted to do my own
haunted houses. When I was in 5th grade, I started making my front
yard into a cemetery and making an enclosed little walk through to the
front door with ratty torn sheets. As I got into middle
school, I kept making it bigger and bigger, so much that I built a 12
foot wall extension to the side of the house. I built my first multiple
walled maze to the front door, made all the gory props to go inside,
and did bloody make up on my friends helping me run it. I did a huge
skull painting on the front wall. It was so much that the city code
enforcement tried to make us take it down. (jerks) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When I was 14, I happened to be in the right place at the right
time, I was at the mall, and the store front that usually housed the haunts was boarded up. It was Oct 3rd, and there was no sign of anything happening
at all, but as I was walking by the next giant empty storefront I saw
two people inside taking measurements. I stood there listening to
them, and heard them say "haunted house".... so i went up and started
talking to them. Turn out the local Girls Club was going to be taking
over the Mall Haunt. I told them what I do, what kinds of props I make,
told them I've done my own mazes at my house, and somehow convinced
them to let me make the floor plan and do the decorations and props.
The first year went over really well, and I wound up staying with them
for the next 7 years. Each year it grew bigger and bigger. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Then about 10 years ago, when I was 27, I managed to get hooked up
with a company that builds haunted attractions for Busch Gardens Tampa and some serious other haunts with budgets. I started working out of
town at other theme parks across the country like Kings Dominion and
Busch Gardens in Virginia and Sea World San San Antonio. We even build 3 haunts in Canada and over see all the area themeing, This is what I do
when I'm not making movies.
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SonOfCelluloidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765342506491257830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236088933897712253.post-61103325283053570592014-10-21T15:58:00.000-04:002014-10-21T15:58:08.000-04:00What Halloween Means To Me '14: Tim Ritter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's independent filmmaker's week here on the What Halloween Means To Me countdown, and I can't think of a more fitting person to kick it off than Tim Ritter. Not only is he the living, breathing embodiment of underground filmmaking, but his work was really my introduction to indie horror cinema. Truth or Dare was the first movie I saw that, in my mind, took movies out of the mythical domain of Hollywood and into the realm of something a normal person like me could achieve. Since then, he has proudly flown the indie horror flag and served as an inspiration to a current crop of filmmakers. Go check him out <a href="http://www.timritter.com/">HERE</a>. So, Tim, what does Halloween mean to you?</span></span></span><br />
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light and there's a slight coolness in the air and the nights become so bright
with mischievous possibilities under the glowing crimson moon. My mind becomes
razor sharp and a chill runs up my spine...after all, it's nearing Samhain or
All Hallow's Eve, best known to those who love it as....Halloween! Definitely
my favorite holiday...[Happy, happy Halloween, Silver Shamrock!] Although, I
must admit, I do enjoy the gluttony business of Thanksgiving as well....but
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through the afternoon air, shafts of dim sunlight struggling to penetrate
through them, the sky a cool milky gray, resembling light chocolate in the
atmosphere. There's a continuous gentle, comfortable breeze blowing through
those trees, causing the leaves to almost speak as they rustle.[Or is that a
madman...hiding in the bush? Crunching the leaves with his freshly polished
black boots...] The humidity is lower and it's generally much more tolerable
outdoors for those of us who appreciate the season...Sometimes I think of
female babysitters, ambling down the sidewalks, planning rendezvous with
boyfriends that somehow won't happen...</span></span></span></div>
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costumes, masks, and candy that make their appointed cameos. It's always a trip
to peruse the aisles of crazy gore gadgets [machetes with liquid blood sloshing
around in tubes around the edges!] and props that make their way onto shelves
each year. The life-size animatronic zombies and witches are always cool to
ogle, but at $300.00 plus per character....who can afford those?!?! I always
wait for the big markdowns, generally the day after Halloween, to pick up
goodies or props for my future no-budget movies, since retailers are anxious to
get rid of everything and generally mark it all down 50-75%. It's always a
thrill to see the Scream and Michael Myers masks staring down at me impassively
from the high shelves at mainstream big box stores. What a pleasure to see the
endless variations of Jason's hockey mask! ["Mom, I wanna be JASON VORHEES
for Halloween!!!!"]<span> </span>This year I've
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vividly. I was out trick or treating with my mom supervising and it was such a
cool evening. There was a full moon and these puffy gray clouds from nowhere
blew over it, darkening the night. It truly felt SPOOKY with all the branches
reaching out for you and waving like monstrous shadows in the
streetlight....Then this howling wind came screaming around as buckets of rain
let loose! I could barely see through my store-bought Halloween mask and
costume [I think I was Casper or Batman, can't remember which!] but amazingly,
my mom encouraged us to keep on trick or treating! I recall racing up to house
after house that had front porch lights on and how brave everyone thought I was
for continuing to beg for candy amidst all the bad weather. It was
awesome---since most residents thought that not many more trick or treaters
would show up in the inclement weather, I got LOADS of extra candy! Chocolate
bars, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, popcorn balls, Sugar Daddy's, Bazooka Joe
bubblegum [best chewed a dozen pieces at a time!]...it was the mother lode of
goodies! My plastic pumpkin was so full of treats that I could barely carry it!
How about those tasty orange pieces of candy corn? ["We all go a little
mad sometimes!"]<span> </span>And oh, those
delicious caramel coated apples with peanuts sprinkled all over them...
dazzling treats that are STILL readily available at a supermarket near you!
It's ever so difficult to keep away from those or eating them "only in
moderation...." Anyway, that was probably one of the most gratifying
Halloweens I experienced as a young kid, begging for candy during a Florida
tropical storm....</span></span></span></div>
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year, you know what the selections have GOT to be. There's just no choice.
Terrorific music is great all year long, but most especially in the fall...it's
simply... the best. There's nothing like some classic John Carpenter and Alan
Howarth cues to liven up ANY drive around town, day or night. [And keep in
mind, many folks decorate their front lawns with Halloween themed props and
sets, just like at Christmas! Good to prowl around in the car and check those
out...] Special musical nods are given to the HALLOWEEN 1-5 scores, ESCAPE FROM
NEW YORK, and PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Gotta give a special mention to the HELLRAISER,
PSYCHO, FRIDAY THE 13TH, and SCREAM scores as well...Of course, I also like to
mix some heavier tunes into the groove as well, so consider U.D.O. [The Bogey
Man, Wrong Side Of Midnight], Marilyn Manson [about anything!], Rob Zombie [I'm
Your Bogeyman, Living Dead Girl], Judas Priest [Night Crawler, Love Bites,
Creatures], Rammstein, and any other assortment of deranged metal maniacs out
there...We all have our favorites!</span></span></span></div>
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"limited stock" $4.00 DVDs in them. I've found some great buys on
classic movies in those things over the past few years, including THE EXORCIST,
THE THING, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, and various HALLOWEEN movies. How many
times will THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT be released with a new cover? Why do I
keep buying it OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN?!?! [Uh, because it's one of my
all-time favorite backyard slasher movies, that's why!!!] Keep an eye out for
cool horror multi-packs, always a steal this time of year, and don't forget
other stores like Target and Amazon that have sweet deals on all kinds of
horror flicks. Even the deluxe Blu Rays make an appearance for under $5 bucks
if you look hard enough. It's no trick, you never know what treat you'll
discover when digging through those overflowing bargain bins...It's a great
time to roll the dice and make new discoveries as well! Nothing like making new
memories while relieving the old...</span></span></span></div>
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original HALLOWEEN at least a couple of times. It's a timeless classic, and
reminds me of the nostalgic era when I first discovered the movie in its
October 1981 broadcast premiere. The heavy breathing of Michael Myers just TOTALLY
freaked everyone out when the movie first penetrated the cable and TV
mainstream, and I'll never forget riding the bus to school and hearing all the
frantic stories from other kids about how scared they and their parents were
after viewing HALLOWEEN for the first time in their dark living rooms. No
telling how much sleep was lost that night due to the "fear of the
boogeyman" penetrating their minds...[Lock your doors, close your windows,
and turn out the lights!] I was apprehensive myself but loving every minute of
it. What a rush horror movies can be, like the most exciting of carnival rides!
Carpenter's HALLOWEEN captures the holiday so perfectly- just the tone, colors,
and prank atmosphere that flawlessly morph into unbridled terror. And its
simple yet hauntingly perfect "eerie piano" music score that everyone
now knows so well...HALLOWEEN is THE great film to re-watch every season,
especially when giving out candy to the trick or treaters. ["Was that the
bogey man?" "As a matter of fact...it was..."] Some years I'll
give out candy wearing the Michael Myers mask and jumpsuit, loving all the
reactions I get from the kids. One year I thought I was going to scare this
little guy to no end when he reached up and pointed at me saying, "Captain
Kirk!"<span> </span>Hilarious!. Even as a
diehard HALLOWEEN fan growing up, it took me a few moons to come to the
realization that the original Halloween mask was just a white painted
alteration of William Shatner's STAR TREK likeness! News like this traveled
slow back in them early 80's, as there was no Internet, only magazines, rumors,
and innuendos...</span></span></span></div>
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holiday---seeing so many people, big and small, young and old, dressing up in
cool costumes to beg for candy or party down. It's always exciting seeing how
"all out" some individuals go in the costume and makeup department.
On the big day itself, I always enjoy getting a big pumpkin and carving out a
cool face on it, then setting it outside with candles burning inside. Again,
just sends a chill up your spine, like you're becoming one with the
holiday....Let's not forget the candy, we all know we secretly buy the stuff we
love most because if the trick or treaters are light, guess who will be gorging
down the leftovers? Before every Halloween ends at midnight, I'm usually pretty
queasy with a sugar rush of epic proportions from overindulging in leftover
goodies while binge watching horror films...</span></span></span></div>
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there's nothing cooler than finding a secluded area outside in the crisp, fall
air with just the right amount of moonlight seeping in and reading FANGORIA
magazine or a classic Richard Laymon novel [such as NIGHT IN THE LONESOME
OCTOBER or BEAST]. You just can't beat that spine-tingling feeling, and I
always look forward to a new Stephen King book around this time of year as
well. He's always got something rolling out in early autumn...FIRST BLOOD, the
novel by David Morrell, is another book I love to re-read in October, since the
story is set in October, and if you don't think of a young 1970's Rambo as a
"slashing maniac", well, then....you've never read the original novel
and source material for the classic films! Check it out and you might be
stunned senseless! </span></span></span></div>
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Halloween season if you get the chance: there's haunted houses and trails you
can visit, all of which provide ample fun and scares [especially if you're
longing for that crazy maniac wielding a chainsaw to actually REALLY chase you
down narrow corridors...]<span> </span>Horror
conventions and theme parks are splendidly abundant and enjoyable this time of
year and let's not forget the movie houses---nothing like seeing a new horror
release on this big screen around this time [HALLOWEEN, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY,
and SAW franchise memories anyone?] or even a classic re-release like, er...say
Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, which seems to be making theatrical rounds every October
now. If you're financially strapped or more of a homebody, then re-watch some
of the classic films of the season. Try one a day for the month of October!
Here's a small list of some of the titles I find exceptionally entertaining
this time of year: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 [great suspense!], EYES OF A STRANGER
[creepy!], ROSEMARY'S BABY [spooky!], THE FOG [Carpenter's classic- makes
little sense but what atmosphere!], LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT [Craven's classic
backwoods madness filmed in October and November], HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL
KILLER [sick and powerful], THE STEPFATHER [1987 movie-brilliant!], THE
EXORCIST [chilling!], BLOOD FEAST [silly but fun gore], VIDEODROME [surreal],
SCANNERS [mind blowing!!!], NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD [I know, it's so dated,
but I still love it!], HANNIBAL [wickedly fiendish!] and PSYCHO [the granddaddy
of sleazy slasher movies]...Newer titles I've enjoyed include DEAR MR. GACY,
SINISTER, and THE CONJURING. TV favorites include BATES MOTEL and the super
dark HANNIBAL...</span></span></span></div>
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enjoy the season! One other thing I failed to mention was MAKING A HORROR VIDEO
or MOVIE of some sort this time of year. It's always a splendid time of year to
be out there filming something under the autumn skies and contributing
something, no matter how small, to the horror genre we love so much. I have
many fond memories of fall shoots that were the grandest of times in my mind.
There's nothing like stomping through the woods in the cool weather, making a
camcorder classick! If you're a moviemaker, of course this is the best time of
year to premiere your epic in an indie theater, on DVD, or streaming on the
Net---or all three, if you can! The excitement from these kind of releases is
always contagious, and I have been lucky enough to do this with a few of my
movies over the years, including KILLING SPREE and more recently, DEADLY
DARES-Truth Or Dare 4.</span></span></span></div>
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Halloween Parties, which are always in abundance! In an era where large screen
TVs and digital projection screens are so prevalent, heading out to such events
where everyone comes in costume and watches horror movies on a huge screen in
someone's back yard has become all the rage. If you're not careful, though,
these parties can get pretty wild and crazy! Was that really me wearing that
Michael Myers mask and....ahhhhhhh, never mind!!!!</span></span></span></div>
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and make some great memories this Halloween season! But as always, use extreme
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