Bullet for a Vampire: Ye Gods, was this awful. The mobsters were funny in their way, but overall, the acting was as wooden as the stakes. As for the "home movie" at the beginning, it went on way too long. Don't try to be poignant when you know you're delivering schlock.
The Town that Loved Pizza: Amusing in its own awful way. Looks like a bunch of students got drunk on cheap beer and decided to make a movie.
The Garden Tool Murders: This is the most enjoyable of the lot. The action seemed to flow more smoothly.
Demon's Day: This one played like a video from an understandably forgotten, not particularly talented, and extremely cheesy hair metal band.
To be kind, this was a lower than low budget production. They worked with what they had available.
On the positive side, the people involved obviously enjoyed themselves. There are some potentially excellent character actors. They had heart, you have to give them that.
I have been watching The Vampire Diaries on Netflix. Tsathoggua and I give it two thumbs up. While the target audience is teenage girls, the show is far more Buffy the Vampire Slayer than Twilight.
My son adds the caveat that Buffy the Vampire Slayer contained far more vampire fighting than vampire fucking. Angel did not come along till later in the Buffy series. While there is some vampire slaying in The Vampire Diaries, the focus of the show is the romance between Elena and Stefan and the rivalry between Stefan and Damon.
Although the question does arise of how the holy hell a 162 year old being could abide being around high school kids, even if Elena is quite emotionally mature, the romance between Elena and Stefan comes off as far less creepy and psychologially abusive than the romance between Bella and Edward. Elena is also a better role model for teenage girls than is Bella. While she experiences depression following her breakup with Stefan, she does not become non-functional.
Overall, the series is well constructed without too many cringe-worthy lines. However, I find the need to beg the question of why the "good guy" vampires in modern times don't satiate their need for human blood from blood banks rather than relying on animal blood. As well, since it isn't necessary to kill a victim to feed...ah well, I'm not going to dwell on it.
If vampire fiction is your thing, give this show a go. It is a lot of fun.
I previously mentioned this film in this post, and featured the trailer. Now I'm gonna give you the whole thing.
Maybe it's because I was a teenager/young adult during this area, but a lot of the horror movies, even the bad ones, have a certain charm that many of today's movies, in spite of the improved special effects, lack.
2011PG-13102 minutes
Believing their home is haunted, a suburban schoolteacher and his wife uproot their family and move to a new place hoping to leave the evil spirits behind -- only to discover that the house wasn't haunted ... but their eldest son is.
Most terrifying film since the Exorcist? Hardly. Things jumping out at me from the dark are going to make me jump, but it takes a lot more than cheesy CGI spooks to scare this old horror hack.
Excellent atmospheric creepiness and good acting make this one reasonably enjoyable to watch, although the movie is filled with tropes. The disjointed script and far too many instances of characters Acting Appropriately Stupid become annoying at times. It was a fun diversion, but I was glad I didn't pay to watch it in a theatre.
Per the Netflix rating system, I gave this one three stars. I liked it more than I disliked it, but there was nothing about it that made me really like it.
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Great alt-folk choices for the KHEL 666 crew last night, Morella! Tonight I think I'll play a little more undescribable goodness. Follow along, either on our KHEL 666 blog or on our Facebook page, if you care to.
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Dahlings, my nightmare was nowhere near this interesting, but I was bloody glad to be woken from it. I dreamed that I was working my job at the Gerri Atrik Retirement Community. I was on the ground floor putting up notices, when one of my least favorite residents, who lives on the third floor, called. I said I would be right there.
That was a lie on a grand scale. I became so lost that I ended up out on the street in an entirely different building in an entirely different city! I was terrified that I was going to lose my job. This experience is hardly what I call restful. I believe that Dr. Zigmund Fraud would refer to it as "brain sweats."
I think that I really need some time off. Not that I can afford it, but that's what I believe is needed.
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Hello, and let me briefly explain my reason for creating another blog.
I'm part of a group of friends who manages an online radio blog called KHEL 666. We were using the ping.fm service to send our posts to our Blogger blog and our Facebook page. But Ping ceased to support blogger.
It sucked, because it seemed that we would have to close down the blog.
But then H.P. Liebekraft found Posterous.
My other writing sisters are crowing about how wonderful it is.
Hopefully I'll enjoy it as much as they do. They seem to think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and Stephen King.
Man, I envy these skeletons! Just chilling and getting hammered. It's been years since I've done that. My kidney problems mean that I will never do it again. I might as well drink bleach as to drink alcohol. It would be just about as bad.
