Just showing off now

I thought since I don't have much to add today as it's a nice low pressure weekend, I thought I'd simply post my custom sketch and autograph, horror related :D

The Walking Dead is an awesome comic.

She's so lovely in person!

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Silly Saturday!

Silly Saturday!

Having a face hugger as a house mate or pet is just a pain, doesn't pay anything and goes on rude sites.. pfft.. Free loader. Least he doesn't play WoW.

Have a good weekend all.

I Spit On Your Grave

I Spit On Your Grave

2010 version

I decided to give this movie a go, I'd seen it on the list of 'top horrible movies' and thought, well then I shall see this : D and managed to get it in the sale.

Now the Horror genre is something that means something different to each person. People who are scared of spiders may not be scared of the dark, everyone has their own fears. Slashers, super natural, torture... so many types out there and there is bound to be one movie out there that plays on something you are scared of.

This movie is, without meaning to be sexist more then likely touches on a woman's fear more then a mans. The fear of being in this situation, being raped, abused and left to die, that fear victims feel and how they might relate to what's in this movie. Rape is a very real fear for allot of woman [people] and is so different from a haunting, a body snactching, something lurking in the deep. There are people out there who are the type of people who would mean harm on another person in such a way.

This is why I think this movie as a large element of 'this could happen to anyone, shit' and again, like I said mostly a woman's fear and in fact our main character in this movie is a woman.

This movie reminded me allot of 'Last House On The Left' in regards to the rape and the revenge part of the story.

Basically a novelist goes to work on her second book, in the middle of no where in what I can assume is hicksvill, the pump station gives me the ever so familiar feeling of 'Hills Have Eyes' you just KNOW those men will show up again and cause trouble, your made to hate them already almost.

Now the first part of the movie, the sneaking around outside, trying to scare her is a very cliche horror movie tactic, girl alllll alone in the daaark miles from anywhere.... and then come these big assholes and come and fuck her shit up.

Words can't describe how their treatment of her goes, it's not scary to me but it's sick, again it stems from the this has happened to people this could happen to people this could happen to ME feeling. I never sit there after watching something like Land Of The Dead and think FUCK, SMART ZOMBIES! THIS COULD HAPPEN ANY DAY NOW!! no! this could happen.

The cast to me are really loads of nobodies but the acting is good, how our actress deals with it is fantastic, she is a good actor and you can tell that moment her character breaks when she realises no ones going to save her, the cop who 'saved' her is crooked and the only way she is getting out of this is saving herself.

They rape her, beat her, strip her bear and she stumbles away. Unlike some movies this scene is done well, your feeling maybe what she is and it doesn't look cheesy or drag on.

And it has been AGES since I have seen a horror where the gore and the blood look REAL, the blood the blood the blood.. my god it's RED not a shade of pink or neon red! they did their effects very well and I'd like to go on and on about it but I ramble enough as it is.

You can see where this movie is going from the get go but just because you can see how it's going doesn't mean you can't sit back and enjoy the movie.

As sick as it is when the woman goes after the men who wronged her one after one in horrid 'SAW' like ways you can't help but feel happy for her, GOOD! that bastard deserved that! and it becomes less of a horror and more of a victim fighting back, revenge for what happened to her, how this horrid event changed and shaped her into a new stronger person.

The punishments very much remind me of the creative traps used in SAW movies just without the flogging the dead horse aspect of it all. Some are just plain gross and I am with every guy out there who winced and 'OOOH FUCK' when she cut that guys dick off and fed it to him. Reminds me a little of 'TEETH'

ALSO MAN ASS FUCKED BY GUN.. what.

It's well acted, good gore and a good story. Based off of the 1978 version which I suggest you watch before/after/whenever as it's always nice to compare the new to the old.

Plot: 4/5

Gore: 5/5

Acting: 5/5

Scare: 1/5

Overall: 4.5/5

 

I'm awear this review has been a little on the heavy side so to lighten it up.. LOOK ALIKES!

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Ring

Ring

By Koji suzuki

I've been reading alot of horror recenlty as me and my other half have decided to read a book a month and Ring was my Jan book. This novel has three more in the seriers Sprial, LOOP and Birthday. This novel has manga versions which I have also read and enjoyed, thinking of getting them again and also Japanese movies, American re-do's of Japanese movies and also a Korean take on it.

I can't remember much of the movies other then the American ones were terrible and bad and I wish I could forget every trace of them.. but would like to re-watch the Japanese ones as I remember enjoying them.

Anyway, this book is awesome, it's well paced and his style makes it an easy read, he really puts you in the mind of the characters and you can picture them in your head so easy, the story is as we know it blah blah watch a movie, die in 7 days but so fleshed out compared to the movie versions, we find out the real way it kills you among Sadako's real secrets and issues.

This book is not scary but it is a good read, sometimes it looks like it might be dragging or veering off but just as it gets to the dragging moment it sorts itself out and comes along greatly. I won't go into too much in this review as I really don't want to ruin a killer read.

It's a good read and I plan on reading the others, in fact LOOP is on it's way and Spiral is a story for another day!

4/5

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Well..

Last week was pretty.. yeah and thus no posts but from tomorrow we will be back up and running again!

Bitchin'

Posted on fb by a good friend of mine I looked on google and damn, this bike is some badass stuff.

That is one awesome bike I don't even want to think how much that cost to make or buy.

Also..

Am I the only one who wishes they could see a race between these two?

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Silly Saturday

Silly Saturday

Know what is the worst thing about being lost in space?

Fucking face huggers in the cereal :/

THOSE AREN'T FOR YOU!

Space Horror

A type of horror that has it's own genre I feel. There's not many space horror's out there, there are however enough good movies about aliens on earth to keep us going but not horrors IN space. Also known as sifi-horror. I think for me the movie that owns this genre over and over again is Alien whose long and glorious franchise has spanned from 1979 to 1997 and has also been part of a VS movie but if Freddy VS Jason has taught us anything it's avoid anything vs anything for your own sake.

So as I was saying, ALIEN is the mother of this little sub genre of horror. I remember watching it as a kid and being captivated by it, how sleek and awesomely designed the Aliens were, somehow the design just looked like 'yeah aliens could so be like that'.  The movies are slow going but build up a sense of dread, the things with horrors in space is.. we know so little about space that for us to be stuck out there with something unknown, so very far from anyone who could help is terrifying.

The casting is good, the acting is fantastic for such an old set movie the B movie cheesyness is no where to be found in this franchise, it is just good solid horror. Even the gore back then was spot on, I think movies today could learn allot from the brilliant execution this movie had.

Event Horizon is another good space horror, the unseen force that lurks around every corner keeping you on the edge of your seat is very much there. It's another well created horror movie having all the right elements of what should be scary, keeping the cheese away and for the most part a good acting and cast crew which is always a plus point in horror as horror tends to go down the drain if the cast are as believable as a yeti wearing Madonna's fashion line.

This movie also has the whole 'going mad' and self destruction element going on showing people are as dangerous as anything else out there trying to get you.

Pandorum is much newer 1t 2009 filling the gap between the old school and the newschool of the genre, again another good movie, not as awesome as the movies before it but it was again something of a good watch, the aliens weren't as 'alien' as before or as 'unseen' as before but it's worth a watch.

The newest space horror that has come to the worlds attention is Apollo 18 and I can't say much on this as it is on my ever growing pile of 'TO WATCH' DVD's so it'll more then likely get it's own spiffy review when I get around to it.

I still think instead of making SAW 10000 or another bull shit 'haunting of' 'paranoaml..' why don't we fill the gap in the market? it's shown that space horrors have something good and awesome in them.

Now I think the biggest game that comes to mind for a space horror is DEAD SPACE. I enjoyed the game, the aliens.... um not aliens were awesome. The story goes our main man is going to see his wife, girlfriend whatever on another ship and a crazy region has sprung up and so have these horrid things called 'Necromorphs' the designs are fantastic and there is nothing as unsettling as a baby with tentacles and going through a kids nursery to see exploding babies.

Game play is easy to get on with, very good plot in the first, not as much in the second but these games are a fantastic add on to the space horror niche. Also with it's own rather enjoyable anime prequel I think DEAD SPACE deserved a mention up here.

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Uzumaki

Uzumaki

By Junji Ito

I've read this once before and re-reading it at the moment as it is one fantastic manga and a good example of strange horror. The art style is good, not too 'ANIMUUU DESU!111' in case that's what puts you off of manga in the first place. The art style like I said is enjoyable, detailed and does gore rather well.

I found out about it by accident years ago while trying to find another horror manga but I am glad I found this. This manga is 20 manga's long which in the grand scheme of how they work, that is not allot at all, it also have a movie adaption which is TERRIBLE it cuts out all the good bits and takes ages to get into the story at all, it's also allot of money to get hold of it these days [so I'd really not bother unless like me you want it for the collection]

The story is based around a young high school student and her boyfriend, her boyfriend goes to school in the next city over and notices how odd this place is in comparison and warns his girlfriend to leave with him, she scoffs that he's nuts and then really, really odd things start to happen.

I won't tell you too much as it would ruin an amazing manga for you but I will say this is a well paced manga where every issue something is going on! snail people, crazy preg ladies and god knows what else if you like strange and odd horror, this is awesome.

For those interested I have provided a link for the manga! it can be read in all it's well scanned glory here = http://manga.animea.net/uzumaki.html try and donate a little to the nice for providing us with awesome cheap manga.

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The Faces Of Horror

When people think of horror they think of the old school faces of horror like Freddy, Jason and Mike Myers and their very long list of franchises. The villain from SCREAM is also a face of horror even if the list of those movies are on one hand you get his mask sold all over the western world on Halloween and in fancy dress stores and he has become one of the iconic symbols of the horror genre.

I think our generations 'face of horror' has to be Jigsaw from SAW, the movie has been out every year running now and Jigsaw is the new icon for horror for this age what with the SAW movies being current and a lengthy 7 [and counting] movies long. It's funny though how Jigsaw has been put up there with such icons of horror, he unlike all the others was never 'bad' or 'evil' or even 'supernatural' like some of/all of our other best friends. He is just a dying man who felt he needed to teach people a lesson, one that would 'help them' a good idea maybe but poorly executed.

But hey.. he spent all of movie 1 playing dead and became such a popular face so he must be doing well, and fuck! he died in THREE and there is SEVEN movies! he's doing very well in legend if you consider that!

So to avoid making this a SAW post. I think we should take a little look at what I consider the 'icons' of horror.

Friday The 13th

The owner of the biggest list of movies is this, Friday the 13th. First movie made back in 1980 and the last movie made in 2009 making this a 29 year old franchise! Our hero is the lovely Jason Voorhees who made hockey masks totally part of fashion statements everywhere.

Halloween

Our second biggest franchise with a stomping ten tittles to date, first in 1987 and last one made in 2009 making Michael Myers and his parent issues 22 years of gory goodness. Less said about anything Rob Zombie did the better though... right?

A Nightmare On Elmstreet

A personal fav of mine with the oh so awesome but don't let him near your kids Freddy Kruger! 1984 was the start of this loveable fella's career as all round scary mother fucker with the most recent movie being a rather fantastic one may I add being made in 2010. 9 movies long and a lifespan of 26! Though I have a feeling there will be more remakes on their way.

Hellraiser

Making BDSM and pins all the rage it's Pinhead in Hellraiser, who doesn't know about Pinhead? even if you have never seen a horror with him in you just know him and that's a good horror icon along with Freddy and Jason one look and you know who it is and maybe aware of the franchise. 9 movies long also starting at 1987 and the last one only in 2005 or 2011.. depends on who you ask. So this franchise is between 18 and 24 , again depends?

SAW

Now this franchise is just a mere baby at 6 years running but hey, the guy died in three and they are still milking the shit out of it so I'll be here till SAW 29402 comes out. John Kramer being our not so scary bad guy who's love of creepy puppets on tricycles has put him up there with some of the greats.

Final Destination

Not so much a 'face of horror' as a suspect creepy breeze of wind. This franchise shows us that Death has nothing better to do then mess with peoples radios and come up with very long and over the top ways to kill teenagers and young adults. Oh and Death is CLEARLY the wise black coroner who has been in all the movies some how.. Also ANOTHER franchise [Saw..] who kept saying it was going to end and then another came out, but going on what happened in Final Destination 5 it seems that even the creators have decided it's all one big joke. Anyway five movies long and counting this started in 2000 and last movie came out 2011.  This baby is about 11 years which... feels too long.

Scream

Another franchise by Wes Craven, he seems to be pretty good at this horror jazz. Since this movie came out so many lazy and uninspired costumes for Halloween was born, and so many bad 'funny' movies inspired off of it's back. The franchise is only 4 movies long with a huge 11 year break between three and four, maybe more will come? First started in 1996 and last one in 2011 this franchise is 15 years long.. less if they decided to either end at 4 ha.

Hannibal Lecter

Not so much a franchise but very much a horror icon, the movies are amazingly well done and no one could have filled the role better, non horror fans also say what a good movie these are, and everyone knows Hannibal Lecter one way or another.

Ramble over!

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