The Horror Movie Industry is DEAD!!!

Just a year over this blog and now at the 50th postiversity...anniversablog...

...well it's the 50th post... so pop a bottle of champagne for this uneventful event and listen to me rant about today's Best Buy trip.

The horror movie industry is dead. Why do I say this? En route to Best Buy today, I had such a craving for horror movies that I decided that I was going to pick up some cheap horror flicks and fulfill my craving with some awesomeness. Good or bad, I just needed some horror. Now Best Buy recently has been going through some movie changes. With blu ray movies becoming cheaper and more affordable, Best Buy felt they needed to cater to the blu ray craze. With more aisles of blu ray movies that are not categorized by genre, only alphabetically, the dvd aisles are lessening each year. Don't get me wrong, I have about 75 blu ray myself, but there are not many horror movies released on blu ray. As I entered the horror section (which used to have it's own aisle and a half) I came to a section that was 1/4 of the whole aisle. It was labeled horror. I thought to myself, "Has Best Buy given up on today's horror movie collection?". I was kind of annoyed that the horror DVD section had been smaller than the anime and the WWE wrestling section. I was just in shock. Again I found the JAWS movies in Action. That's just a long time battle that I'm never going to win.

So what happened? Is America losing hope in horror? If you ask me, I think people are so gung ho on all of these shit hole comedy movies like The Hangover and any 20 million other Seth Rogen and Zack Galifigienoogoo guy in. Not to mentioned the Katherine Heigl movie infestation seen here.


It's just funny how all these comedies and romantic movies are all becoming the staple of the film industry. They're just repeating movie plots and adding mini twists and actors and actresses. It seems like the only thing horror movies are doing today are re-makes of old movies or re-makes of asian horror movies. There's nothing to show for the industry. Much respect to these b class horror producers that are trying to make a name for themselves. I have a lot of respect for the Monsters of Horror, and Horrorfest people and all of those horror film makers. No ones getting recognition and it's a fucking shame.

side note: if anyone has ever gone to Tom Savini's make up school, message me somehow!

As I looked through the collection of horror movies they were all over priced, and the selection was just terrible. There was an overstock of the movie DEVIL by M Night Shia Labeof haha. They had too many The Strangers DVD's as well. Oh and too many Piranha films. I found a $13 4 movie collection of Critters 1, 2, 3, and 4 that I bought, other than that, the movies were bad. I remember going there just last year and seeing all kinds of Evil Dead the book of the dead cases. I remember seeing all kinds of cool box sets for Hellraiser, the Return of the Living Dead series. I remember the Freddy and Jason boxed sets. All of this DVD goodness is just lost in some Best Buy factory now. Amazon.com is probably the best place to find cheap and rare horror DVD's and blu ray's. I made a wish list of all of the horror movies that I still need to add to my collection. I'm afraid if I add any DVD's that they'll be on blu ray sooner than later.

MOVIES I THINK THAT NEED TO BE ON BLU RAY NOW!!!

Jaws
Jurrassic Park
From Dusk Til Dawn (May 3rd, 2011)
Legend(non-horror May 31st, 2011)
Ghostbusters 2

and every other 80's classic horror movie.


Well that's it for now. I'm becoming part of the Youtube community and starting up a movie, music, blu ray, dvd, video game, media, awesomeness channel. I doubt anyone will watch, but I get bored just writing sometimes.

Almost a month later...

I'm starting to suck at posting shit. Right now I should be doing my homework but I've found other useful things to talk about.



Fact or Faked

So I've been watching this show on the Scifi channel... oops I mean SyFy channel. I remember seeing this show a while back possibly. I remember something about them trying to find Bigfoot and then trying to recreate footage that was taken a decade back. Most of the episodes I have seen include the group of people debunking these things with little experiments. Retarded experiments might I had.

The Bigfoot footage was debunked by simply dressing one of the crew members in a gorilla suit and letting him run the same route as bigfoot did in the footage. Same place, same path. The runner ran as fast as bigfoot did. This debunked the Bigfoot case. That's it? Really? I don't believe in Bigfoot myself but c'mon, how does that prove anything? Cause you run as fast as Bigfoot means that it was fake?

Then there's this video of a black looking witch type figure flying over hills in Mexico. They tried zip lines, jet packs, string on a bag of balloons and finally they took the motor from a flying toy helicopter and attached the string to the balloons and that is how they debunked the figure. Some random resident lady knew how to take apart a toy helicopter and create the same thing they did? Stupid! I don't believe the tape was real, but again these idiots think they're debunking something when they're not.

I love how the one episode the guy swears he seen an alien rip his dogs face apart in the woods where he was hunting. He then staged a tape of where he beat the fake alien in the back of the head and made it bleed. He made another video tape of bringing the alien back to his home and I guess gave it an autopsy while it was still alive. They debunked this by recreating the alien and it's ship out of hollywood items (cause you and I both know that kind of stuff is available all over the world for every day people to buy). Again, I don't believe in aliens but the way they debunked this is by using some type of voice radar machine that tells if people are lying or not. Obviously it was something created from the show to prove these things wrong.

Anyone ever hear of CGI? or video editing equipment? Regardless I still watch the show to see some of the ridiculous things they come up with.


ZOMBIES!!!

So one of these days I'm gonna get to kill some zombies with the dudes from "You've Got Dead on You". If you're reading this then I'm sure you know who those guys are and you love love love love love love them! I do, but they'd probably hate me if I told them I'm about 10-11 episodes behind them. I can't find my iPod which means I haven't been able to listen to them during my daily routines. No excuses! It's just hard to carry around a laptop and do something else at the same time! Recently they've been posting Youtube videos of Left 4 Dead sessions. You can go here http://www.youtube.com/LockeLackey and watch all of Jason Hall's video game awesomeness! Check out Jay and Craigs Left 4 Dead sessions first though. Hopefully my Left 4 Dead session will be taped so I can show how truly unreliable I am at keeping my team safe!


Where have I been?

With my lack of site updates and all I feel really bad. I've been on a diet, been seeing a nutritionist, surgeon, and a personal trainer. I've been busy with school, helping my mom out, and all other things. I've just been a busy person. I've been currently beating older Resident Evil games for the PS2 (RE:4, Outbreak, Code Veronica). I've been reading this NIGHT of the LIVING DEAD graphic novel and it's pretty awesome. I've been on a old school wrestling tirade and it's just never ending! But I will be back with more to offer I promise!

Paranormal Activity 2 Review... FINALLY!!!

YOU SUCK!

Seriously? This movie was more annoying than Gilbert Gottfried singing the National Anthem in Spanish while running around in circles.

The highlight of this movie was the basic mediocre parts of the first film. If I wanted to watch a bunch of people's lives through security cameras I'd become a security guard at A & P. Every time they would show the cameras in the hours of "Dead Time" nothing happened for the first 30 days. Soo fucking lame. I hated it. It made the first movie go from okay to awesome. I do like the connection between the two. I thought that was quite clever. Other than that I didn't like it. Slow moving, typical sound scaring, retarded horror movie.

The parts that were cool was when the dog gets dragged into the room haha. I thought that was funny. The kitchen scene where every thing opens up at once was cool too.

Every time they showed the sidewalk security camera I hoped something cool would happen. Maybe like a munchkin from the Lollipop Guild would go skipping through or something.

What was the fathers deal in the movie? He just didn't believe everything. He blamed everything on the fucking wind right?

Daughter: Dad the door shut by itself

Dad: It was the wind!

Daughter: Dad the pans fell from the ceiling.

Dad: It was the wind!

Daughter: The baby just slid out of his crib by an unseeable force and dragged down the stairs to the basement with no logical explanation.

Dad: It was the wind!

Lastly, the hot chick with the big boobs from the first one somehow walked all the way to their house, in her underwear and tank top, with blood on her shirt, and no one noticed this. That is so awesome.

This movie sucks. They're coming out with a 3rd now. That one's probably going to fucking blow too. Don't waste your time.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!!!!!

Resident Evil AFTERLIFE

So this movie sucked. Didn't expect much from it. I just needed something to watch while I ate my chicken stir fry and won ton soup.

I thought the first movie sucked.

The second movie was cool I think.

Then the 3rd movie wasn't terrible... but it kind of blew.

Then there's this movie. I just hate how they tried to mix in the Matrix with a zombie movie. Assholes.

I hated the Matrix btw.

It seems like they make Milla Jovavich's character completely unstoppable. She always defies odds, and manages to escape EVERYTHING. So annoying.





Didn't watch Piranha yet.
Didn't watch Paranormal Activity 2 yet.


I have been super busy.

The Rite, right? Am I right? Rite... Right.. well the movie looks good!

The Rite!

That movie actually looks pretty damn good. I keep seeing previews for it and I think for the first time in a VERY long time I'm going to see a movie in theaters. The last movie I went to see at a movie theater was Zombieland. So yeah, it's been quite a while.

Judging by the previews they director/writer/producer/whoever, is trying to capture the aura of the Exorcist. I'm pretty sure if you've seen the trailer then you've already gathered that. It also kind of reminds me of the movie Stigmata, which I absolutely loved but still gets to me.

The movie is based on true events. It's based on the book The Making of a Modern Exorcist by Matt Baglio (thank you Wikipedia).

I like movies that deal with things like demons, and exorcisms. I guess it's the reality of the movie is what keeps me interested. Anthony Hopkins as we all know is a phenomenal actor (you'd know this if you've seen any movies with Hannibal Lector). It should be a good movie, I'm hoping to catch it Monday or Tuesday night when I have time.







Don't know if I mentioned this but I picked up The Last Exorcism but haven't watched it yet. I also just picked up the Piranha blu ray cause I'm an idiot. I've been wanting to see the Village as well. I just haven't had time to do anything lately. January has been a busy month for me so far. So much going on and I know my very few readers probably think I quit doing the blog. I'm currently starting up a Youtube page and doing review videos (cause we all know how original that is). I would review movies, comics, music, and video games. Another thing on my to do list.
I know I said I was going to post a million other things but I just haven't gotten to them. If it's important I'll post it haha.


New blogs in the coming days, I promise.

Shock and Fucking Terror

I'm about to waste more of your time.

I'm writing yet ANOTHER movie script. This genre is horror. My plan is to finish more than 3 pages with this. It would be a personal record of mine actually. I'm tired not finishing projects. I don't know what it's gonna be about, but I know there won't be vampires in it. There probably won't even be zombies in it. I want to take 5 categories of horror films that I love and mash them up all into one. Of course I'll make my own plot and story, I just want to use some kind of substance from them. I'm hoping someone would read it when I'm half way done and give me some tips. This time I'm going to brainstorm this out for at least 2 months before I even lay a finger the keyboard and start my rough draft.

The movies that will inspire my writing... hmm.

1. Stigmata/The Exorcism of Emily Rose/The Exorcist: Exorcism movies are awesome. It's something that has actually happened in the world. Whether people believe in this or not, it's documented by the Vatican. The realism of exorcisms have always creeped me out since I was young. From the movies I mentioned, to watching episodes of exorcisms on Unsolved Mysteries, all of this must be incorporated.

2. IT/Killer Klowns From Outer Space: Fucking clowns! These things are fucking evil! I don't care if they give you balloons and want to be your friend! They are the devil. It was always a great movie to the very ending with the stupid spider thing. Killer Klowns is a classic and they always freaked me out. I'm not including anything clowns from space, just clowns in general. Another thing from my child hood I hated. I remember when family members had clowns at my cousins birthday parties, it was never a happy time for me. Instead I spent my time plotting an strategy incase the clown turns on us and tries to kill everyone. Wiffle ball bats, plastic forks and knifes, and a basketball were my weapons of choice then. I remember seeing clowns at Six Flags Great Adventure's Fright Fest. I hated those shits. So it's important to add clowns.

3. Friday the 13th/Nightmare on Elm Street/Halloween: Of course these have to play a part. They are the core of horror movies. Whenever you walk alone in the dark and hear any kind of noise, you immediately think it's one of these 3 guys. No matter how fast you run, no matter how far you run, these guys travel fast. Freddy is already implanted in your dreams so you better be drinking caffeine while you're running.

4. Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2/Army of Darkness/My Name is Bruce/Zombieland: In my script I'm going to need that one so called hero. Now Ash wasn't a hero until Army of Darkness if you ask me, but he was the bad ass good guy. I'd like to have someone with the same attitude and awesomeness as Ash without the character being Ash. I don't want this script/movie to have some kind of teenage emo looking kid who waves his fucking wand and eliminates the demon. I want this to be a bad ass character kind of like Tallahassee in Zombieland. A ruthless, dirty mouth, ass kicking mother fucker... There will also be a group of some kind of ass kicking bandits along with this character.

5. JAWS/JAWS 2: I don't really know how to place Jaws in the mix. Jaws just scared me as a kid. The shock and terror that it brought to millions of people is well worth the addiction.

So we have the realistic movie with the exorcism and such. We have evil clowns. There's the mass murderers of the 80's, 90's, 2000's, and today (in which is the fear that the terror is always right behind you). We have the bad ass potential hero and the one who will fight the terror and evil clowns (if I choose to use clowns). And then there's the shock and terror like Jaws gave. Some thing new and dangerous.

Ok, I'm gonna be honest here. I suck at writing things. This is something I'm truly going to give my all. Something I will not hurry up with for the simple fact that I want it to be perfect. The more time spent on it, the better it can become.

As far as zombie movies? I'm not even going to try to step in Master Romero's shoes.

Mean Gein

One of the craziest bastards I've ever read about is a man by the name of Ed Gein. If you've seen movies like, "Silence of the Lambs", "Psycho", and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" then you'd have an idea of where I might be going with this.

Ed Gein, also know as the, "Butcher of Plainfield" was one the worlds most sickest, demented, calm, fucked up murderers ever. In the book, "Deviant" by Harold Scheckter he tells about the early life of Gein and his family. Ed Gein had this droop over his one eye in which kids made fun of him for it. His mother was a strong Christian woman who was pretty much the blood flow of their family. The father was a lazy POS and he did have a brother but I don't remember much about him.

Gein's mother never let him hangout with girls or have friends so he was really sheltered. His only source of entertainment and fun was reading comic books. These comic books were full of Native American and Nazi's and cannibalism. Of course this is something that sparked Ed Gein's sick future but I also think the mother had a lot to do with that as well.

Gein was obsessed with collecting female body parts. He would collect vaginas, lips, scalps, and he would salt them to preserve them. He Killed larger women and he dug his mothers grave and brought her back to his house and stored her in her original room that was sealed shut and kept clean like the way she had it. This was apparently Gein's plan all along.

Gein also killed his brother. It's not a definite thing but it was something that pointed in his direction even though no one prosecuted him for it. I know that he set these woods on fire and guided his brother through them. When the police came Gein led them right to where his brother died. That kind of made the cops a little suspicious that Ed couldn't find his brother but yet he brought them right to the spot of his body. The cops also noted that Ed's brother had bumps and bruises on his forehead from a rock. There was no way he could've fallen and done that to himself.

One that's really striking about Ed Gein is that he was a calm man. People didn't expect anything like this from him. They said he was nice and quiet. When he was in jail he admitted everything without hesitation. He seemed like a normal man and acted like all was well. Maybe in his head he didn't feel as if he was doing something wrong? It's craziness.

The book "Deviant" is a definite must read. I might have been off with a few things here and there. It's probably one of the best books I've ever read. Also the most fucked up. The book is 100% true and I had to do a lot of research cause some of the things I couldn't believe.

Things like this strike me. I always wondered what things go on inside of a persons head when they want to mutilate someone. As sick and twisted as people like Gein might be, they're definitely interesting individuals.

Go onto Amazon right now and purchase this book!