Nightmare Fuel

I have no idea why but I found some truly horrible items today while online and decided to scare the fuck out of you guys. Prepare your anus [plural being anei? whatever] 

Teletubbies have always been fucking creepy, they live in the hills and worship a baby god in the sun and frolic making toast that looks like peoples faces, pink custard and other horrid things while all being a kids show.... But there things I found today? well..

ALL HAIL SATAN

They prey to their evil god.

Sleep tight kids...

Picture that in your room just staring and staring and staring into your very fucking soul.

Oh god it's worse then Slenderman, just in an empty room and you see this..

I have no words for these horrible masks.. it looks like they ripped off a humans face and made it fit their freakish noses and big eyes...

More terrifying then 'The Strangers'

Obviously a Japanese Teletubby deathmask..

Rotating head that watches you wherever you go..

You too can make your own tuby mask.. complete with the dead, soulless baby eating look in the eyes..

Severed head!

How about some sexytimes? the reflective TV is so you can see the look of horror on your own face as you get porked by this tubby, bondage, unicorn hybrid.

Sleep well kids.... sleep well...

Love

Jigsaw 

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Paranormal Witness

(2011 onwards)

So far this TV show has aired a full first season containing 6 episodes and is airing season two at the moment with two episodes already in the bag.

I found this by having nothing to watch last night and even though it was on a channel I link with fucking awful shitty TV [REALLY?] I thought that sounds good! I only missed the first three minutes which always seems to be a small portion of up coming clips anyway.

Most eps without adverts are around 45 minutes long and contain two stories, though in some cases the main story is so long it needs it own episode. So you get a big long story then normally a little ten minute one at the end.

The acting is really good for something you think would be corny. They get the real life people to tell us of their real live accounts of the paranormal while we watch reenactments of what happened on the screen. Between each piece we see the people and how they react while telling their stories and the first one I saw about the little girl with her 'friend' Emily you could tell it had been killing the mother and father.

I'm a sucker for the paranormal it has to be said, I am a believer though movies like PARANORMAL ACTIVITY don't scare me as I know it's all Hollywood bullshit but when it's like this? in a real life kind of vibe? like a documentary it does freak me out as I have seen and felt things of a paranormal nature and to me they are real.

So the first ep is about a mother and father who bring their little girl to a new home and make it all nice, you know the typical American dream kinda lifestyle and they soon notice their little girl talking to this 'Emily' as the ep goes on we soon realise that Emily isn't just the young girls mind but a nasty spirit who starts to show it's true form by moving things around, smashing things and even dragging the girl down the basement stairs.

After getting a Medium in things get even worse, we realise the spirit is of a male and they even start to see him after they confronted him.

Things just get worse and worse and the fear builds and you can see on the parents faces they are so near breaking point and so scared for their child but are unable to move out due to money reasons and have to deal with this shit head spirit who seems to hate seeing people happy..

Bit of a jealous asshole if you ask me

.. he also announced he wants the parents out but the little girl can stay... so now the spirit is a pedo?

I liked the story it had me gripped and the raw feelings on the people paired with the 'as it happened' type footage makes for a good story even if you don't believe in it.

Next small story is about a girl who died in a car crash and her ghost morns her tragic loss of life.

It's well acted with good stories.

PARANORMAL WITNESS

Acting: 4/5

Plot: 4/5

Scares: 4.5/5

Gore: 0/5

Overall: 4.5/5

XJigsawX

Battle Royale 2: Requiem

IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN BATTLE ROYALE ONE DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW. SPOILERS LIKE MAD.

(2003)

Battle Royale was such an amazing movie and novel and a squeal was no doubt what every fan was looking forward to... or dreading. When I first watched BR 1 and then found out there was a second? I leaped at the chance to watch it.

Sadly it was so.... nothing compared to it.

The books ending was so beautiful and well done that the start of BR2 makes no sense and ruins it. And also Shuya becoming a terrorist? hmm it seems abit taboo and but hurty. I didn't like the new game. In the book and first movie it was about how Japan was going into melt down and the youth of that generation was out of control and something needed to be done to stop it.

Thus the BR act.

But this time the 42 unlucky kids are not so much as 'randomly picked' as 'Hey these kids are shit and in a shit kids school.. no one will miss them if they die, they are just in the way anyway' attitude.

The set up to the game is rough and like a bull in a china shop compared to the well structured and paced opening scene of the first. Also it seems BR2 is so far clutching at the coattails of it's older brother so far. They have a 'touching class scene' where everyone signs a rugby ball, not that unseemlier from the photo of Noriko, Shuya and Nobu in the first.

Second when they are in the game intro room they have a similar 'Nobu Shuya' moment but with kids no one could care about as so far they all have the personalty of a bag of bricks.

The new teacher is also annoying as fuck, least Kitano was lonely and you felt something for him the whole way through but god, this? Also Kitano's kid has joined in the fun of BR2 cus you can sign up for it online... hm.

So this time it's not 42 students have to off each other in a three day time frame but 42 students are paired up [Boy 1 is with Girl 1 for example] and have to take on Shuya and his terrorist gang. The random factor of weapons chosen is out as they want these no good kids to do their war for them.

If your partner dies then you die via the collar system or if they are 500 meters away [I believe?] they also die.  They still have the thing with if you are in a forbidden zone when your not meant to be, you also get your head exploded.. and the three day time frame remains.

The action starts right away and they are shipped to the island where Shuya and co are and they manage to blow up a dingy full of students already... so there goes alot with no care what so ever. Least in the first one you got a small glimpse into most the students ways of dying or something but no, not this one.

So int he first 3 mins of the game we go from 40 to 28...

The 'Tag Team' element is new and must such for people as you need your partner to not be a douchebag, selfish or useless so that part is new and a .. little interesting but I feel it's too little to keep this movie ins the 'fresh' or 'good' mind set.

Like is your doing well at the game and your partner decides to be a div and run away from you... yeah your dead too. I'm not sure if this was a try at a clever and new spin on the plot or a way of knocking down alot of cast as not to pay them as much or to avoid needing to write so much in..

Don't get me wrong there are some touching bits of the movie where bonds of friendship are there bust as I said before, almost everyone personality is that of a bag of bricks. hard to feel for anyone really.

The cheerful announcements of the dead are also once again used to tell everyone who has died but it seems a pointless thing since they are pretty much all bundled together with the same mission but hey what do I know?

There is also a diabetic girl running low on insulin so sucks to be her partner.

So with 14 people left and me with hour and thirty mins left to endure. Kitano's kid leads the charge, more people die and they rush Shuya's hobo tower to try and end it while there are still some of them left.

They rush camp Shuya and get surrounded and as contemplation of peace comes up someone opens their big mouth and more shooting and pointless death. Kitano's girl is fully up for revenge on Shuya even though in the first movie it seemed like she hated her father. She is badass and often leads the charge and won't give up which puts everyone else up shit creek.

And Shuya looks like a gay jedi these days.

Alot of collars then start to make noises and Shuya who this can only bring up bad memories for gets his gang to use their EMP device and stops the collars from blowing up saving the doomed partners of people who just got fucked up and also losing the signal to everyone the government and teacher who's popping pills like mad for some reason send in the real troops to sort things out.

Annnnnd half way through it becomes more of a war story then anything else and I've already lost interest by that point but I carry on anyway. My point is it's just not the first movie and there isn't enough ties to the first to save it.

Our main hero always pulls a face and looks really bug eyed, I think the casting could maybe have been abit better but then again I know shit all about who is big in Japan and who isn't.. but the bug eyes took away any drama there could have been cus that's all you can focus on haha

So..

Gore:  3/5

Story: 1.5/5

Casting: 2/5

Over all enjoyment: 1/5

XJigsawX

Battle Royale

Well I have been on a HUGE Battle Royale kick as of late. I've read the manga and the book years ago and also watched the movie a good 100 times in the past too but I managed to tell a friend about how amazing BR novel was and she went out and bought it and since she has used me as a library all year I decided to borrow it and my god it's just as fantastic as I remember.

And trust me that it's an awesome kind of writer who makes you want to re-read his 2 inch thick book of normal sized text. His style is so easy to read and once you get past the ten odd pages of waffle and get to the actual story it's very hard to put it down.

So this review we will cover the manga, the movie and the novel.

Now as with everything there are difference in novel to movie and there are for the most part some big changes in the movie but nothing that takes away from the beauty of this awesome story. The manga follows the novel pretty well from what I remember [I can't remember great shakes about the manga] only VERY over sexualised I am sick of hearing the term 'pink' and other sexual things.

Yes someone does get raped in the novel and I do think there is a sex scene later but they are not over glorified they are mentioned and moved on, he is detailed in his setting the scene and gore details but doesn't focus on the more dirty side of things where as the manga drowns the story in it.

Despite the two being very close to each other the manga is very shit, the over sexed bits and I find the art ugly as sin I also think the way they do Shuya and Nobu is abit.. off not how I mentally see them in the novel and for some reason a boy who is only a year older then them IE Kawada looks like he's 30 and joined the marines.... what.

Everyone is far too 'bishi' for my liking too. Oh and Shinji doesn't do back flips and ninja stunts in the novel. That I think was a big change from novel to manga. Like I said re-reading the novel now and was ages since I saw the manga.

They draw girls and gore really, really well but the men? nope.

The novel as I said is about 2 inch's thick but it goes by so fast when you into it. He paints a very good picture in your head as you read it, the setting the scene, going into the raw emotions the people feel, something that isn't half as good in the manga but admirably done in the movie.

His gore is classic, it's gross, well detailed but not corny or over done. You really like characters in this book and feel for them.

Also something I love about this book is that it is easy to keep track for what is going on and after each little bit that might focus on a different person or different group there is a '_ students remaining' which is a grim reminder but also a good add on so you know how the story is progressing.

I'd say to anyone that this book is worth buying. Buy It Here

I think the movie is what started my love for Asian cinema and to this day I think it is one of the best movies I have ever seen let alone best Asian movie I have ever seen. It's not corny like alot tend to be but it's ageless. It's a classic in my eyes. The cast are fantastic I even love the changes they made from the book as it didn't take away from the story it added it's own charm to it.

People die at different times in the movie to the book like Shinji comes 15th in the book and manga but comes 5th in the movie. Some people even change looks. But this story is a masterpiece. One of the big changes other then some weapons and relationships with the people is very much the teacher Kitano doesn't appear in the manga or the novel he is 'Sakamochi' who seems to LOVE being a dick and his place of power where as ther is something very different about Kitano and he has this really odd thing for Noriko which isn't anything sinister.

He seems to be a lonely man who's hated at school and hated at home and shoes loneliness he also taught the selected class before the BR act in year 6. The emotional connection to people in this movie is just as strong as in the novel I love Shinji to death and Kawada.

It's a great movie to see gore [well done gore] and to see how these kids deal with the issues at hand. If you have seen the movie please read the novel and vice verse the normal snobbery of 'never as good as the book' should be put aside for this because the changes aren't a bad thing.

The only thing that should be avoided about Battle Royale is the manga.

As you can tell Battle Royal is a massive love of mine so please excuse the gushing. But yeah, go buy it, read it and watch it.

Battle Royale Movie

2000

9/10

Battle Royale Novel

1996

10/10

Battle Royale Manga

2000 to 2005

5/10

XJigsawX

London Expo Horror Guests

So I am going to London Expo this weekend and hope to see some of you awesome people there. I will be in cosplay so I don't think many people will be seeing the real me but look out for JIGSAW from SAW on Sunday and please feel free to come up and chat.

So these are the horror related guests [no matter how minor]

Noel Clarke

Dog House and more

Pascale Hutton

Gingersnaps and more

Cassandra Peterson

Elvira

Sarah Carter

Final Destination 2

THIS WEEKEND AT LONDON EXPO

Sonata

[2004]

Sonata is a strange, strange boring ass movie. I bought it for 75p so I don't know what I expected to be honest but maybe more then a soundtrack of strange armature background music.

So out epic journey starts with a girl in some sort of old fashion dress playing piano while her mother and three very rich middle aged people watch on in glee. The girl is Mega our main character who has a very over protective mother and has the girl home schooled.

This mother daughter relationship is hella creepy, Megan isn't allowed out the house, has a tutor, is only allowed to read what her mother writes as she is a novelist and also.. washes her mothers hair in the bath..

cough..

Her mother tucks her in to bed and tells her creepy stories of a girl who dared to betray her mother and fall in love with a man and loved herself more then her mother, which is pretty creepy but the only thing that is slightly interesting about the whole movie.

The movie is so low budget and slow I found more entrainment in drawing around my note page, I do bitching bunny rabbits and a sun wearing sun glasses, fo real. Anyway at first we think even if their relationship is very.. odd they are at least very loving.

It's clear the girl is very lonely and has to do everything for her mother from bathes to making tea to doing all the house work and never ever leaving the house or being allowed to talk to anyone.

Then the movie decides to be all 'whaky' and her mother brings home a creepy marionette type performer for her to see and understandably it freaks her out and she runs to her room which really pisses her mother off. Pisses the mum off so much that she just has to shag the creepy performer.. what.

So about half an hour in and fuck all has happened other then me being very creeped out by the horrible manikin looking man who bonked her mother..

The girl is sent to give a gift basket to a friend of her mothers and she see's a man who says nothing but looks at her, from then on odd things start to happen as the girl gets wrapped up in this mans image.

Soon Megan gets love letters from a mystery man which causes her mother to flip her shit and go mental at her girl but Megan is innocent, she's never disobeyed her mother and has never talked to this man who is sending her very deep love letters.

The mother starts to be untrusting and raids the girls diary and later decides to make her feel awful about herself, asks her if she thinks about boys.. sex.. and gets her to remove her clothes in front of her. Bad horror movie turning into some kinda freaky mental abuse story... She makes he feel bad about the way she looks leaving her to cry.

This pushes Megan into further crazy and she starts to see the man she saw at her mothers friends house all the time, half of it looks so real and half of it seems like it's all in her head, this is at least done well in the movie and makes it a little interesting.

More love letters come as well as a gift in the form of a fucking nasty china doll who is as ugly as sin. Her mother hides it away not telling Megan about it.

This movie still remaining rather boring also becomes awkward as Megan thinking more about this man who she met a split second and keeps appearing has a bath which looks like it's made from milk.. and well she masturbates while her mother listens in.

What.the.fuck.

Her mum then goes out to get drunk with her agent who becomes a dirty pedo and says all the horrid uncomfortable cliche stuff to the young Mega. He's come to 'tuck her in' and 'come sit on Uncle Alan's knee..' this makes me feel very uncomfortable as it's one of the few things I do not condone.

This horrid and awkward pedo scene goes on and he takes her first kiss. But as he leaves the house he gets what is coming to him as the man of Megan's dreams kills him. Which once again makes us wounder if he's real or a head boyfriend..

So odd things go on and soon Mega sneaks out the house all dolled up with make-up and a nice dress to spend the night with her boyfriend but when she returns and changes back into her night things her mother who's always been reading her diary confronts her, beats the crap into her and locks her into a closet where she will stay until she's learned her lesson.

The last scene is like a bitter end to a fairytale, Megan makes her mother a cup of tea and pretends all is well and like she has given up on the man she loved. Plays piano for her mother as she relaxes fort the evening but the mother doesn't know that Megan put chemicals in her tea and is planning to kill her.

As the poison takes effect on her mother she falls tot he floor, dying and crawling towards Megan who knows what has happened but doesn't care she just carries on playing piano.. untll her mother shoots her a few times.

The movie ends with mother and daughter curled up dead together on the floor.

And I feel I spent the last 90 mins watching the horror movie version of THIS

Plot: 4/5 [It was a good plot and so much could have been done with it]

Scares: 0/5

Gore: 0/5

Creepyness: 2/5

Acting: 1.5/5

Overall: 0.5/5

X6X Jigsaw X6X

Necromentia

[2009]

Now on the back of the DVD it says it's inspired by Clive Barkers work.. if 'inspired' means pretty much ripped off then I will agree. It reminds me of Hellraiser in so, so many ways but despite that it's still a good movie.

The plot keeps going from one focus to another every other scene almost so it's a little hard to keep up with unless your paying attention.. unlike me who is writing notes the whole way through. Ugh.

It's based on the lives of three main people. A man called Travis and his handicapped brother, a fay man called Hagen and his dead wife and a mute. But you don't see much about the mute fello till the end.

The movies entrance sequence is alot of creepy and different flashing images which really gets you interested in what the movie has to offer, it's gory and stylish and is a good taster of what's to come. Hagen, the fat guy waked up in a shitty sort of rape ally meets a Freddy Kruger pipe works area almost naked and dripping blood from his back.

Voices of a woman ring all around him and he is pretty confused as anyone would be after waking up in a small shitty alley covered in blood and a massive headache, it's like an average weekend for some students though...

We then see our first demonic being which spouts some crap at the man.

The next scene is the fat guy Hagen talking to his dead wife and giving her a bath, talking about keeping her nice and clean, how he loves her and how he is going to bring her back to life. His basement is full of odd shit and when he gets her out the bath and hooks her into some freaky contraption to test her joints or something it's very much a Frankenstienish image.

There is even an awkward scene where he speards her legs and looks up 'there' with a flash light. Yep, still dead. I have no idea why this was part of the movie but the guy looks like a massive creeper anyway so what do I know? looking at dead people's genitals might be the standard for creeps?

The woman playing dead needs to be a little more.. 'dead' acting as you could see her breathing from time to time and moving her eyelids, I'm sure playing dead is hard but it's these small things that people like me notice that takes from the hard work they had done thus far.

Next scene we have is the man working in a barbers shop and two biker-y types burst in and tell him they know about his dead wife, the baths and the necrophilia and give him the most uncomfortable shave of his life.

But one biker also tells him there is a way to bring his wife back.. they have the power to bring the dead back to life and they want to help him. Biker with shades gives him a sob story about how he was going to do this to his brother but they'd burnt the body before he had a chance.. desperate to get his wife back to life he goes with these very shady folks.

There is alot of occult themed talking and mumbo jumbo and out comes the occult books and all the gab that comes with it. I've watched enough horror to know an odd bit or two about Ouija Boards but this is a whole new concept and it's pretty neat. By carving the board into someones back you can use them to get the dead back or go into hell.

So this is how fat man ends up with a bloody back, he has a nice new cut tattoo of the occult on him.

Now we go back in time and see our next main character 'Travis' his folks are dead and he is struggling for money, skint, living in a shit hole and having to look after his mentally and physically disabled younger brother.

Now we really end up feeling sorry for Travis, seeing the struggle he's going through, coping with money issues and a brother like this. Trying his best to make a life for them both and it seems really frustrating having a brother with so many problems and doing it all alone and he has a job to try and keep at.

He leaves his brother to go off to work and leaves the TV on for him... This is where the odd part of the movie comes in, this really happy and cheerful song about suicide comes on and a really big pig character called 'Mr Skinny' comes to entertain the brother and try get him to kill himself..

Nothing like seeing a really fat man in barbwire..

We are then taken to another scene which seems a mix between a Jigsaw trap and extreme bondage as a woman is tied to a very flash but grimey looking table in all sorts of BDSM style ropes and belts while a masked figure tortures her. Alot of well done gore and realistic blood which is an awesome point of this movie, none of the gore looks fake it all looks pretty good. Some of the best I've seen if I'm honest.

We then learn that the crazy woman paid for the torture and the masked man is Travis, yes his job is torture.

Travis is also hooked on drugs and does some after his little 'job' and has what most people think is a bad trip but he meets a grey awkwardly handsome demon who keeps visiting him in his head from time to time and is trying to worn him about the bad things going on with his brother at home.

He rushes home and catches his brother before he kills himself but from then on realises he can't leave his brother alone any more... He asks another scruffy looking man, a friend to look after his brother while he goes off to maim more people for money.

Sitter falls asleep and the brother with the aid of Mr Skinny kills the friend and hangs himself.

Demon once more warns Travis to go home but it's too late, the demon then makes a trade with Travis, if he helps the demon he will get his brother back and soon Travis is taught all the occult stuff and practises on his dead friend, cutting the Ouija board into his stomach.

Soon after this the plot goes nuts and moves away from these two people and to the mute guy and how everyone's pasts all link up.

I won't go into that as it's an awesome end plot and it finishes it up really nicely and neatly.

Monster's all look like they got dropped from the Hellrasier final cut, the gore is very well done. The actors are good, the acting good, stylishly shot with the dirty grainy feel the whole movie has from start to finish.

I had no ideas what this movie would be like but it's a good one.

Plot: 4.5/5

Gore: 5/5

Acting: 4/5

Scares: 0/5

Overall enjoyment: 4.5/5

X6X Jigsaw X6X

CONTEST TIME!

I've wanted to do a contest for awhile now and I've had a few in mind.. I decided this one first since it's more fun then a simple lucky dip style though one of those will be coming up in later months too so keep your eyes open.

So yes the contest is a fancy dress/cosplay/costume of anything horror related. This can be anything from a horror movie, manga, anime, game, book, or just you dressed as a zombie. As long as it's in the horror genre it's good.

Now lets get past the rules firstly.

RULES

1. One entry per person

2. Must be from something horror related

3. Full size image if possible

4. JPG

5. By sending in the photo you have given permission for it to be posted on this blog.

Ok now that's ok.. how to enter.

Send one nice full sized image [or more] to fucingzombiesblog@hotmail.co.uk

Please include the following..

Name:

Age:

Costume:

Where it is from:

Country:

Email:

Also if you could retweet, re-blog or link this post that would be awesome.

PRIZE

Prize time! if you are from the UK or are planning to go to London Expo in May the prize is one free print from Cosplay Portrait thanks to yours truly. For this prize you MUST have paid entry for the expo. This prize can be claimed on Saturday or Sunday.

Now if you wish to enter and aren't from the grand old UK then there is still a prize. A lovely mystery horror related merch item! it's surprise though!

So there we go. The final date for contest entries are 23rd of May

Look forward to seeing the entries!

Suicide Circle

[2002]

Also known as Suicide Club

I've been wanting to see this for ages but back when I was a teenager it was very hard to find online and my skills of search wasn't as good as it is now and late last night and today I watched it and I loved... the first half. The second half went on CRAZY JAPANESE OBSCURE HUMOUR bend.

It's a typical low budget movie from Japan which isn't bad, movies don't need to be gushing cgi and fancy ass effects as long as the story is good and the acting convincing. I mean come on! The Ring was a fantastic horror and it was just a woman in a white dress and long hair, point made Japan.

So we start our movie with lots of school girls from many different schools going to the train station and lining up, they all hold hands and the most cheerful music you could ever imagine comes on as these girls see a train coming and then jump.

And the crew armed with buckets of tomato juice just chuck it all over the place! buckets of really bad fake looking blood all over the windows, people, the station runs red with the blood of fruit!

So nice action so far minus the very laughable blood but hey tomato's gotta be cheaper then red paint or food dye right?

So after 54 girls kill themselves we are taken to the hospital where two very pretty nurses are sat chatting about going to get lunch late at night and damn are Japanese nurse outfits hot. So one goes off to get grub leaving her friend to worry why it's taking her so long...

Nurse who staid gets worried and calls the security guard and no one knows whats taking the other nurse so long so soon the guard hears nothing from either of them for awhile and heads up to the staff room where he is greeted with no sign of the other nurse just a wide open window, darkness and hand prints on the window pane.. he's abit slow if he didn't think that was abit odd..

The missing nurse comes back and starts to act really odd.. she looks brain washed and casually opens the window and without a second thought announces 'Well, see ya later' and leaps out the window to her death. Just an average day!

Also a bloody bag shows up on the scene of the crime which the police take away.

'Smells like that time of the month!'

So the cops are trying to sus out why so many girls killed themselves is is a cult? is it a crime? or supernatural? oooooh! So we have taken the bloody bag to forensics and we are told that in the bag is a reel of human skin.. that looks alot like really bad cheap value ham sewn together..

I wounder what their budget of ham and tomato's was for the effects of this movie? I think some jam may have been included.

Soon they get a call from a woman who seems to be on to something and he code name is 'The Bat' she informs them there is a website that is keeping track of all the suicides.. but before they happen! white dots mean men and red dots mean woman and of course there are alot more red dots.

So back to forensics who are still trying to piece things together and one man shows us his table of mangled school girl corpses, it looks like something in a really bad art installation..

Our main cop goes home and he has such a nice family unit, a son, daughter and a wife who all seem very happy. They all watch what Japan calls 'idol' bands which the western world calls annoying girl bands.. and god is this idol band annoying and god are they EVERYWHERE.

The idol bit is important for later so you just have to deal with buckets of fucking annoying preteens singing ear killing high pitched J-pop.

Back at a high school where there are mixed feelings on the suicide cult rumours, some aren't fans and some joke about it like it's nothing. A few guys are like LOL LETS KILL OURSELVES WON'T IT BE COOL!!!! and thanks to per pressure there is a cry of YES! LETS DO IT!

One girl rushes to the roofs edge and soon everyone wants in on the action and they all hold hands on the roof and there is a count down while on lookers watch not thinking they'd do it. Soon they all jump and those buckets of tomato juice come back in force.

See back when I was a kid pokemon was all the rage... and pogs. Clearly we were not as hard core as these students.

We soon see that three people wussed out and to not wanna look lame in front of people, go through with it also.. well the guy doesn't want to then a girl decides to take him with her. So is that classed as a suicide, murder or assisted suicide? hmm

The next scene I honestly could not help but laugh at as sick as that might sound but the suicides aren't limited to young school girls and a few boys but adults too. A woman is happily passing and a guy falls on top of her trying to kill himself! The irony was it was her boyfriend, she's more pissed about him hurting her then him trying to kill himself... I see they had an awesome relationship.

The cops by now have clocked on to the connection of the website, the sewn together ham skin and the suicides.. and realise there is a cult out there doing all this and they need to get behind it asap but will not yet class it as a murder case.

They soon get another lead that there will be another large suicide and told where to go, they see a large group of school girls and freak out! but they had nothing to worry about they only pretended to jump and things go uneventfully for our cops.

With the cult becoming such a big thing fully grown woman start to walk around with signs telling people to jump, trying to convince anyone who's bad to kill themselves and all that sort of cult-y thing.

We see a selection of people trying to kill themselves in different ways as really happy music plays in the background again.. and this is the turning point in the movie that takes us from a very good murder mystery sort of set up to a 'wtf am I watching' experience as we see a woman cutting her own hand up with no signs of pain.

Our main cop goes home and shit goes wrong for him. His girl is stood there soaked in blood and grinning like a loon but he fails to notice until he stands up and sees bloody foot prints everywhere. Damn kids and their messes -shakes fist-

It seems his happy family unit wasn't so happy and have killed themselves.. remember it's the cool thing to do these days, everyones doing it! The strange woman calls up the cop once more and gives aload of crap to him and it was clearly not to his liking as he blows his own brains out.

At the same time 'The Bat' and her sister get kidnapped by some really scruffy looking too late for punk rock scene group of guys and dragged away in bedsheets to a disused bowling ally.

Now comes the part of the movie that really throws the plot into the ditch and pisses on it. The main guy of the camp boy band suicide club starts singing to 'The Bat' and her sister while one of their group rapes and kills a woman..

I can see Japanese rocky horror picture show in this group...

So they kill 'The Bat's sister and get her to tell the cops where they are, he decides it's time they get arrested so their names will go down in history but even after they have been brought in by the cops the rash of suicides keep happening even with them behind bars.

This is where our lady who got jumped on comes back into the story, she's visiting her boyfriends place or back home can't remember and has that awful idol groups posters everywhere and she soon sees a message in the poster.. not long after she figures out the idol group are up to something she gets a phone call and given information.

She goes to the concert of the god awful idol groups concert and manages to get back stage where loads of kids are giving it the old cult mumbo jumbo but she ignores it and goes to the stage where more kids spouting even more crap are there giving her a round of applause.. by this point I am pretty lost in the movie.. I won't lie I watched the rest of it with a raised eyebrow and a 'the fuck?' look plastered on my face.

Next we see is a giant box full of woman and rats running around on the floor. Creepy kids are all watching on as a man cuts skin off of the woman to add to the sewn together skin roll and then we cut to a man who's hung himself with Christmas lights.... arg what is this.

The end of the movie is pretty much the idol group giving their last performance... the movie just kinda ends.. nothing real is given away about what happened but if you watch carefully through the movie you notice alot of things that build up to the end.

So.. the first half of the movie would get a 5/5 but thanks to the second half... well.

Gore: 1/5 [though laughable as anything]

Acting: 3/5

Story: 4/5 [first half] 1/5 [last half]

Over all enjoyment: 3/5

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Horror In Art!

Instead of a silly Saturday I have something pretty awesome to show you guys! I went to London with some pals and my partner yesterday and in Camden market there is a stall that personalises wooden bears and I spotted this guy.

I didn't ask how much cus I had a feeling over £20 but those are pretty cool!

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The Woman In Black - Novel

(1983)

Not often I read something older then myself but since seeing the movie and really enjoying it I really wanted to read the novel and I was shocked to see how small the novel was, I was expecting something you could murder someone with, a big brick shaped book but it's pretty slim.

Now if you have only seen the movie you are in for a slightly different story. There are similarities in the book and the movie but it's good to not re-read the same thing as you watched.

I don't know how to review without killing the plot same with all reviews I guess haha so yes SPOILERS LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE COMING.

First biggest change it's told in first person, it's from the thoughts of Arther Kipp as he recalls his time dealing with Eel Marsh House and the horrible things that transpired there. The movie and the book both have Krekwick, Arther, Samual Daily and Mr Jermone but what happens for the most part is different. The chain of events and how it all flows are near enough the same.

He's sent from London to do a job, the people around him know why he is here and act funny about it but instead of being cold and trying to banish him from the village the Inn keeper is very kind and allows him to stay, instead of hating him and wanting him gone people treat him with an awkward kindness.

Also kids don't drop like flies in horrid ways in the book like they do the movie and Arther sees the Woman In Black in the village at Mrs Drablows funeral which never happens in the movie version. He then goes to Eel Marsh House but no one tries and stops him. Once there he also sees the Woman In Black but has a stubborn mind set to not believe in ghosts.

During his stay all manner of creeping ghostly hauntings happen to him, similar to the movie version and it's Arther's wits against the creepy and eerie land around him shut off from the rest of the countryside by the causeway which is subject to tide and how he deals with it while trying to work.

The story unfolds and we find out more about the horrid things that happened in that house and why it's so haunted. Arther gets away with nothing more then frazzled nerves and returns to London to be with his wife and new baby but soon he sees the Woman In Black and suffers an awful tragedy.

The book ends with Arther finishing his story which he never intends people to read during his life time but he hoped writing about his past would chase away the returning nightmares.

So he doesn't die we realise this from the start of the book when he has remarried and with a new family.

Now the story is still fantastic, the ghostly bits you can picture in your head everything is very well described and builds up a world. There is a bit where he is in the nursery and there is pretty much 3/4 of a page telling us in detail what is in the room.

My only really big issue with Susan Hill's writing style is she uses 'AND' a little too much it'll be something and something and something and something... Yes I've seen four ands in a row like that at one time. If you don't mind that slight display of sloppy writing then go for it.

The movie wasn't miles and miles apart just the start and end are different then in the novel.

Now I plan on seeing the theatre show and maybe this year there will be a review of that up by me!

Story: 4/5

Writing: 3/5

Enjoyment: 4/5

Over all: 5/5

A short, non taxing good old fashion ghost story.

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