Thoughts on AMC's The Walking Dead

I don't want to make this a long blog so I'll keep it short haha.

I thought the first two episodes (possibly 3) were good. I really loved the scene where Rick sees his family, and they realized he wasn't dead.

The other scene that was awesome was when the black guy was popping heads with the rifle after Rick left for Atlanta. They followed the book pretty well until then.

Now following the book is, let's face it, impossible. The comics skip seasons with the turn of the page as to where the show takes it day by day. I think the comics had a little bit more gore, and of course less cursing. Merle Dixon did drop the N word, but that's not considered a curse.

I don't know how I feel about the ending. Season 2 could go a lot of places. I don't think it was smart giving the first season just 6 episodes. I think they tried to cram somethings but at the same time it was lacking.

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WHY THE FUCK IS SHANE STILL ALIVE?!?!?!

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Whoa I added color to my page. I guess I'd give it 3.5 brains out of 5. I love zombie stuff, and all of the survival strategizing. This show had potential. I hope the 2nd season is better.

Maybe it was the acting??!?!?!?

I'm writing another blog.

December to Dismember

Wow no posts in December?!?! I've been lacking in any kind of news and I apologize. I've just been extremely busy with the holiday season coming up. I'm probably one of the worst Christmas shoppers in the world. I never know what to get anyone. This year I started earlier than normally... by like a day or two haha. I guess I just want to be clever about it and not disappoint people.

ANYWAYS! I'd like to address the post I put up on my Zombie Digest Blog status the other day. It was a Chuck Klosterman piece for the New York Times about zombies, pop culture, and his brilliant mind and how he uses it. I've read parts of Klosterman's, "Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs". It was funny at parts, and I wish were able to finish it. I don't know where the book is haha.

SURE THING.

I gotta finish the article too . I was half asleep when I saw it so. That'll be for another post.

So after 9-10 years, I finally watched the first Lord of the Rings. It was on Netflix and I was absolutely bored so I started to watch it. I know it's not horror movie related, but I have to say that the orcs in that movie were pretty bad ass looking. It wasn't CGI and whoever did the make up effects on them made them creepy as hell. Overall the movie was better than what I had expected. Frodo is a little bitch by the way. He was given sword and still got his ass kicked. Aragorn and Gimli were cool though.

I have some posts coming up. I'll get to them eventually.

Some things that I'm posting soon:

- The Walking Dead Season Finale/Future.

- Slashumentary I found on Netflix review.

- Graphic novel N. by Stephen King review.

- Cool shit for Christmas.

- You've Got Dead on You awesomeness.

And I'm sure I'll find other shit to talk about and bore you all.

Is Harry Potter a horror movie yet? No? Oh well, too bad!

Yes that's a serious question!

Deathly Hallows definitely sounds like it could have something horror ish, to it, right? I didn't read the books although I wanted to. I was too busy doing important things like beating every Silent Hill game or Resident Evil game known to man. Resident Evil 1, 2 and 5 are the only ones I ever finished haha.

What gets me is that the movie Twilight shares the horror section with many other classics at any place that sells DVD's. Horror? Twilight? NO! I've complained about this before and it just annoys me! Like when I found all the JAWS movies in the action section at Best Buy and had a 3 minute argument with an employee who apparently took his half ass stock boy job of perfecting the genre of movies way too seriously. Jaws isn't an action movie you shit head. There's really only one action packed scene. Quint goes down in Jaws' is mouth, Brody stuffs Jaws' mouth with scuba tank, Brody shoots scuba tank, shark goes KABOOM, and chunks of shark meat sink to the bottom of the ocean.

btw... jobs at Best Buy are cool, but you suck if you can't label movies!

Is anyone interested in ghosts? I'm starting a ghost rant.

All my life I've been fascinated with the paranormal. I know the term "paranormal" stretches for miles in meanings but the meaning for me would just be ghosts. A lot of times people see things that are unexplainable and assume that it could have been a ghost, or something else. I know there's skeptics out there who just don't believe in anything like that. If they seen something that was completely unexplainable they'd think of a million different things before they'd say it was a ghost. Maybe because 99% of the things they were thinking of have been proven to be real? Whatever, I believe in ghosts and over the years I've had my fair share of unexplainable happenings.

I'd like to share some with you.

...this is where you'll probably stop reading haha.

-When I was young, around 8 or 9 years old I had always sensed something in my house. I know that a few yards back behind my house they had found a dead body from the town of Newark. They even named the hill, Dead Mans Hill. When I would wake up like early in the mornings I always looked out my back window to see if it was raining, snowing, sunshine, etc... There were times where I would see a black figure walking. Maybe it was because I had just woken up and my eyes weren't fully functioning, I dunno. BUT, there were also times where I'd be watching television downstairs and all of a sudden hear typing on my computer. The back room is the furthest place towards the backyard where I had seen the figure. There were often times where the printer would go off by itself too. The weird thing was is that nothing was even turned on. Back in the day we had one of these boards where you connected the the printer, monitor, mother board, and anything else in that area to it so all you had to do was hit one button to power everything up.

-My family and I have a tradition? every year where we go camping in Virginia. I did this the first 18 years of my life. We all stopped going after my grandmother passed away, but our last year there, we saw something we still talk about to this day. About 8 years ago we were in Virginia at a campground called Cherrystone. The whole area surrounding this campground wasn't a packed area. It was really low income housing, there were maybe few neighborhoods and a little town with a lawn shop, pharmacy, restaurant, and a food store. I guess you could say it was a poor town. The campsite itself looked way nicer. The people in the surrounding towns were so generous. Some of the nicest people I'd ever meet. It's not like arrogant pricks in Jersey, these Virginian people had manners, and treated you with respect and kindness. We would always take rides down the back roads of the Cheriton town. There were a lot of old creepy looking buildings and schools that were just abandoned. The one day we drove down the back road. This was a longggggg road. We ended up on this court which made it easier to turn around. There were these really old houses. They all had watch towers in them but they looked like they had been painted up nicely to look new. I'm guessing since it was by the Chesapeake Bay, that it was probably a port for the people that lived there at one time. We were leaving the court street thingy and we saw an old lady in her backyard watering flowers. She was just standing there, and she looked pretty strange. She had grey skin and it honest to God looked like she didn't have eyes. Maybe they were small and squinty, I dunno. But we all looked at each other for a split second and when we looked back, she was gone. She literally vanished into nothing. There were no doors close enough for her to fly into like speedy Gonzalez. That was one of the eeriest things I had ever seen. Also down the road from that place is an abandoned school where kids were murdered over racism. Happened in the 60's I believed.

Weird things! But I believe in what I saw.

I'm making a horror movie called Purehell. It's about a hand sanitizer that's going to turn people into zombies. Get it? Purell, Purehell? No? That's kind of retarded, I know.

I just bought the Undead Nightmare download for the Red Dead Redemption Xbox 360 game and it's quite awesome! It is a zombie game, and it's pretty much Grand Theft Auto in midwestern times, with a zombie outbreak. If only they could do GTA V as a zombie apocalypse in New York. Imagine that? The weapons cheat + car cheat + missions + hordes and hordes of zombies + the amount of free time I'll force my self to have to play this kind of game = boring life... YESSSSSSSSSSSS I RULE!!!

I had more to write but I think I'll save that for Wednesday or Thursday for my Spectacular Turkey Thanksgiving Survival Rundown. I'll give you a full serving of 4 different survival tips around thanksgiving...

who the hell am I to be giving people tips about ANYTHING?!?!?!?!

enjoy and keep surviving.

This shit is shorter than Gary Coleman

Is there anything I really want to talk about?

Just spent 3 awesome, funtacular, expensive days in Atlantic City. As I was sitting at the Black Jack table I glanced at the cashier section, then I looked at my surroundings... it was then I realized that this casino is full of living, non flesh eating, normal human beings. I was temped to pick up a chair and use it was a weapon. I walked around every slot machine to see if there was a bunch of $100 bills on the ground. There were no swords or guitars on the walls. Plenty of booze though.

And that is how you know I've played Dead Rising 2, too much.

So hopefully everyone has been watching the AMC series, "The Walking Dead". I'm madly in love. Everything about this show captures the beginning volumes of the comic book series. I just got done watching episode 2 and I was a bit confused. In the scene where Rick and Glenn cover themselves in blood, guts, flesh, limbs, etc... I didn't know that was in the beginning. I thought that was later on in the story where Glenn and Rick realize that they were running low on ammo so they went into town. I guess the TV show is trying to cram certain things into one episode but yet they're taking more than two episodes to for Rick to find Lori and Carl. Who cares, right? The show is fucking awesome and I love it. They're releasing Vol. 13 the day before Thanksgiving. I hate waiting!

I tried getting room 1408 in the hotel room and the front desk lady acted all retarded when I told her my reason.

ME: There's a movie based on a Stephen King short story called 1408 where people go into the room and end up killing themselves... no one ever makes it out alive.

Front Desk Wench: Ummm... okay... wellllllll that room is taken. I apologize for your personal requests not being met. There is a 14008, but that will not be ready until around 3 pm... I don't know if it's suicide free.

ME: Just give me the fastest room in the Marina tower.

bastards.

Happy Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Ok so this Halloween morning I have the Ewok Celebration song stuck in my head from Return of the Jedi. Some video on youtube that some guy made a new song for it... I dunno.

So it's Halloween! I thought about how awesome today could be, cause it definitely can't be as bad as last years Halloween. Last year at around 11 am, a tree fell and struck our front porch and completely totaled it. We didn't really care and figured we'd call someone that coming Monday to take a look at it, but our neighbors thought differently and made some calls. In a matter of minutes the fire department and police were at our house and screaming for everyone to get out. We took our time haha. The tree actually knocked down electrical wires and they were swinging and hanging near trees. We were in a hotel for a few days and all. Definitely a scary moment.

Every single year there's one costume that EVERYONE has. For the longest time period of time there was a HUGE amount of people dressing up as Spiderman. It just wasn't the kids either. I seen parents, grandparents, dogs, gerbils, guinea pigs, high school kids, and all dressed up as Spidey. Thankfully that whole charade has ended. A lot of kids like to dress up as the Dark Knight or something from Pokemon (still). Hell If I could go as Bulbasaur or Squirtle I would but I definitely don't think they make those costumes in my size.

This year I think were gonna see a lot of Avatards trick or treating. A big cloud of people in blue-ish suits. This is a good and bad thing. It's bad because it's probably the only costume I'll see (slow trick or treating area) but it's good cause now I get to hand out candy in 3D!!! I got my goggles ready to go! Hopefully it's the last year we see anyone dressed as that dumb bastard from SAW. What's his name? Candy Cane? Oh no wait, that's from Joy Ride... fuck, I can't think of his name... Oh and I hope no one goes as the Dark Knight Joker. That got out of hand the past few years.

(GOOGLES NAME)

Go figure, it's Jigsaw!

One costume that's pretty cool is the Ghostbusters costume. I see a lot of people being Ghostbusters and they have their blow up proton pack with the gun. That's a really cool costume except I wish they had a more plastic toy like proton pack instead of a pool float like thing.

Last but not least lets talk about the candy and all that is sweet! I will say this to those who still trick or treat or have kids they take trick or treating... It's an absolute myth to go trick or treating in rich neighborhoods. They give out the crappiest candy and they don't give out any money haha. I tried with my friends when I was younger every halloween. Stick to your neighborhoods and the people you know.

Shit I forgot to see if my house was egged!

Well I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween. Cause after today hits november and it's the countdown to Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and for me my Mom's birthday on January 9th. Money is crucial right now haha. I'm still going to Atlantic City next weekend though.

Happy Halloween!

Last Time I'll Ever Talk About this Movie, I Promise!

Ok so this is the last time I will ever talk about "Night of the Demons". As I've said many times before, that the remake was coming out, it had Shannon Elizabeth, Edward Furlong, and the main character chick from Freddy vs. Jason. I don't really care to Google her name right now, but I'm sure if you really wanted to know, you'd find out on your own haha.

See I'm open to a lot of things, especially remakes. Hell, I just gave the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street a decent review when most people probably hated it.

With "Night of the Demons" it's hard to put down and criticize it especially with all the thingamabobbers that come along with it. (I'm trying to be professional here with my writing and I'm failing miserably haha). Everything in the new movie is a 110% upgrade from the original. I think that's expected especially since it's been a little bit less than 20 years since the first one was made.

THE ACTING: The acting is better, and that's not saying much. Even with Edward Furlong, Monica Keena (that's her name!), and well...Shannon Elizabeth (who was only a good actress when she played a foreign exchange student and showed her boobs) the acting is still mediocre. Edward Furlong seems like he plays himself in this movie. Monica Keena does a pretty good job, and Shannon Elizabeth does a pretty good job of being the hostess, drunk, slutty, hooking up with girls, evil Angela part. The female actresses weren't that great and the actors were decent. Eh, didn't help the movie.

THE CHARACTERS: They did a good job with the characters. I believe there was a cameo with the original lipstick tit lady who wore the doo wop dress in the original. It's in the beginning when the kids are trick or treating. I was mad they didn't have the fat obnoxious guy with the bad quotes.

THE MAKE UP: Amazing work with the make up and design on the demons. They gave me the fucking willies haha. They made Angela look like Maurice from Little Monsters with a white face haha. HORNS AND ALL. Thankfully they didn't use CGI unless they made their faces turn into the demons on camera. Other than that big props the make up crew. (It's essential to have a good make up crew in a horror movie. The more realistic it looks without computers, the scarier it is.)

THE PLOT/STORY LINE: They stuck with the original story line for the most part. They changed the name of the house to the Broussard House? or something close to that. In the original it was called the Hull house, which I liked better. There was a better handle on the party there. It was $10 at the door and open bar... That's it? Really? I'm going to next years for that price haha. It baffled me that they were able to hook up stereo equipment, a bar, lights and have a HUGE party in a place that was abandoned. It wasn't an abandoned funeral home though, which I thought would have been cooler than a place where a girl just hung herself.

Yes I have different formats for rating movies haha. DON'T JUDGE ME!

I guess if you're bored one day, and have nothing to do, and someone calls you up and starts talking about how bored they are. Then you guys realize you can be bored together and do something boring. You guys go out for a walk and see a guy riding his bike. He flips his bike, lands in a ditch, and this dvd flys out of his bike basket and into your hands. That DVD is Night of the Demons. You don't see the guy for 10 minutes and you assume he's injured or just walking away. Now your friends like, "Hey want to go watch this movie? There's really nothing else to do on a Sunday night at 7 pm when all the malls are closed and we're both broke". Finally you say... "Fine". If that ever happens to you, then watch it. Want to see the nude scenes you pervs? Just Google them and save the money.

THE END of this movie

A Nightmare on Elm Street Remake: My Outburst/It's Okay, everyone cries

So the title has nothing to do with what I'm about to write. There is no outburst, and I'm pretty sure that no one is going to be crying. Even if I did cry, crying is okay. What the fuck am I talking about?

OKAY, so I got a chance to see the remake of, "A Nightmare on Elm Street." Before I saw this movie, I was part of the whole skeptical group of old school Freddy fans, and didn't care to see the remake especially if Robert Englund wasn't playing Freddy. I was 100% sure that no one in this entire world was able to pull of the boogeyman other than Mr. Englund. Some movie parts are just made for one person. Once those shoes are filled, it's really unlikely that you're going to find anyone else who can do the job just the same. It's like when Michael Keaton played Batman. I was so used to him being the Dark Knight, and then assholes like Val Kilmer and George Clooney came along and destroyed it. Kilmer wasn't terrible, but Michael Keaton was the fucking man.

There's an overwhelming trend in movies today where old school classics are being reborn constantly. It's definitely struck the horror scene more so than any other genre. There's also a common trend in a lot of the old school horror fans hating on the remakes. I'm pretty much a self proclaimed hater on most horror remakes.

REMAKE THOUGHTS:

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: I didn't hate it, thought it was just okay. I really enjoyed Robert Lee Emery's part as the Sheriff. That guy is awesome.

FRIDAY THE 13: Sucked. I can't believe I bought that movie. I got the box set for Christmas last year and that eased the pain.

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR: I thought this movie was actually pretty good. I'm a fan of the Amityville legend, and that movie definitely fit in.

THE CRAZIES: This movie wasn't terrible. I'm pretty happy I downloaded it over spending the $20 on blu-ray. It's definitely a movie to watch if you haven't seen the original. The plot is cool especially with the whole plane in the marsh thing.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

For once in my life, I really don't have anything negative to say except... why is Freddy all of a sudden a fucking pedophile? Like through out the movie they made it clear as fucking day that he did sexual things with Nancy when she was 5 years old. Apparently Wes Craven wanted to make him a rapist in the original movie but ended up not doing it due to current world issues at the time. I think it kind of puts a bad name on Freddy in a way. I liked it the way it was when he was just a child murderer, and the he killed all these kids.

I won't say I'm a fan of the remake but I definitely won't put it down. The dude who played the new Freddy had big shoes to fill and I gotta say he did a decent job. Freddy's new look is kind of down syndromish? Don't mean to offend anyone, but that's just the unintentional ignorant impression that I got. The voice was awesome. There were a few jokes here and there, but overall it wasn't terrible.

Of course the no name actors and actresses led to some mediocre acting.

Don't ignore the movie if you're a fan of the old one. It's not even that long. Rent it on Netflix, Blockbuster, iTunes, whatever. No one says you have to buy it.

It was definitely better than the Friday the 13th remake, that is totally for sure.

So I was Googling horror movie remakes that are coming up, and I'm kind of shocked at what I found.

FUTURE REMAKES

CHILDS PLAY: I've talked about this before. I think it's a good idea. The dude who does Chuckies voice is returning and that's pretty much all that matters with this remake. I feel as if Child's Play was cheated out of good sequels. The first two movies were the only ones watching. The rest of them were just made to make some money. I think a remake and a darker story can really turn that Good Guy Doll into a murdering masterpiece. The horror scene needs a good thrasher story. Let's hope they do it.

EVIL DEAD: Yes and no... I'm gonna say no. A big no. Chances are Bruce won't be back to play his young gorgeous Ash character... If it ain't Bruce, it ain't happening.

THE GATE: Are you kidding me? That movie is fine right where it is. Those little monkey goblinites that come from that little hole cannot be replace with computer digitalized cgi monkey goblinites... fuck no to this!

PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS: Loved this movie as a kid. Just watched it a few months back. It definitely doesn't need to be remade... leave it alone.

POLTERGEIST: This is probably number 32 on the Worst Ideas of All Time list. This movie was more than just a story line. The actors and actresses had such unique roles that trying to find people that share the same unique characteristics is going to take a life time. Who's gonna play the midget psychic lady? or Carol Ann? or Kane? All of those people had something eerie about them.

SCREAM: So let me get this rumor straight. On the interwebs, it says that they are not only making a new Scream, but it's going to be a whole new reboot starring the same actors? How does that work? Why was Scream even considered a horror movie to begin with? Fuck that. I hated the Scream movies. Fuck you and don't make anymore. STOP! Okay I'm done with this.

Now the last movie that's in the works of being rebooted is a movie that I have grown up with and loved for a very long time. I'm talking about the movie IT starring Tim Curry as the evil Pennywise the dancing clown. Why does this movie need a remake? That's a good question! If you ask me, I'd say you're fucking retarded. The one and only thing about the movie/book was at the end when he turns into a fucking Spider. That pissed me off. All of this clown evilness and it ends up just being one big ugly fucking spider. But I guess that's what makes the movie so... different? Besides, Jonathan Brandis is in that movie. Don't piss on his legacy haha. LEAVE IT ALONE!