Crimson Peak

This guy looks like a vampire to me.

 I just watched the trailer via twitter of Crimson Peak. I must say I am really really looking forwards to seeing it. Nothing like a haunted house of something of the sort to make a good movie. Unfortunately, we all have to wait until October to be able to watch it. At least it's going to be in 2015 rather than 2016. For anyone who is interest, you can get the official trailer for Crimson Peak here. I'm looking forwards to watching the seen with the bathtub for sure. And the scene with the casket in it. And the scene with bloody skeleton coming out from the floor. So there are lot of great scenes to look forwards to in this movie, and probably a lot more that weren't shown in the trailer. :) Ya know, I have seen a different movie with a house that was supposed to be alive. If I recall it was pretty good too. From what I can tell, the guy to the right over there, must be old then he appears. That's what  I get out of the old photographs anyways. I'll say whether that was true or not after I've seen it. See you then!

New Blog

My blog has always been about horror movies that I watch. Recently, I've been thinking about posting about a few movies that aren't horror movies. I've been wondering whether I should create an exception for those movies. Later I got to talking with my friend Adam a bit about blogging. He has a blog about food, but created a new blog to talk about restaurants. With that said,  I decided that I should start a new blog to talk about all the movies I want to talk about that aren't horror movies. My new blog will be here.

Rob Zombie and his movies part 1

I have seen a lot of Rob Zombie's movies. I believe the first movie of his I saw was Grindhouse. It was interesting, to say the least, as there were two movies, one right after the other, Planet Terror and Death Proof. I like the part that Kurt Russell played in Death Proof. He was main character so I think it really brought to the movie him being played well. I was just a little surprised at how long it took to show his character, it was about 14 or 15 minutes in. Of course, that was counting a few credits at the beginning of the movie, but , I thought it was going to show him first, rather than after a few other people. Still, I think his opening scene was good, and started off well. At about 45 minutes in, I like the way Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) watches the three girls red car drive off, than smirk before throwing his cigarette aside. All the deaths in the first part are well played. The second part, is.. unexpected, to say the least. The second part picks up about 12 or something months later. The movie brings in a few more girls who stop at a convenience store and catch Mike's eye. The girls drive off and end up borrowing someones car. One of the girls, Zoe Bell I think, gets on the hood of the car holding herself on with only leather belts, while her friend is driving the car at top speeds. Mike follows them. He hits them, attempting to get them in an accident. Both him and the girls end up off the road and Zoe get thrown off the car into some bushes. The first surprise, is how Zoe gets thrown, but a few minutes later turns up unharmed. The second surprise, is how Mike ends up getting beaten up at the end of the movie.

Kurt Russell centered.

 This other one, Planet Terror, as I mentioned earlier, was played at the same time as Death Proof. I noted how Rose McGowan was in both of the movies. Her part was some what larger in latter of the two, compared to the former movie. The most details I remember about the movie was the zombies, thousands of them, and someone had to kill his wife because she had been turned into one. Though, a few of the main characters, including McGowan end up surviving. At the end of the movie, I think that the zombies could and should have cause more damage and deaths than they did. Two other Rob Zombies that I liked, that I have previously done posts on was Halloween I and II. Next, there is House of 1000 Corpses, which is, of course, made by Rob Zombie. What was interesting about this movie, was that if you know who is who, and/or you read the credits, you'll know that Rob Zombie made an uncredited and his wife was one of the more main characters. I just think the whole movie was wonderfully put together. With the picking up a hitchhiker, and the whole legend idea, and the car breaking down (epic!) and the whole ex-husband bit. Lots of good deaths through out the entire movie. The last movie I want to mention is, 31 the Movie, which I'm still wait for it to come out. I want it to come out soon, but I've heard they can't make a movie that fast. As they only got the funding for it just over a month ago, it probably won't be finished at least until the end of 2015, if not somewhere in 2016 or early 2017.

Friends

Today my friends and I were talking over lunch, and a friend of mine had an idea. Adam said that we (our friends that are on blogger) should each do a post about each others blogs and our friends. The rest of my friends and I quickly agreed. So here it is, my post about all my friends blogs. I know I usually do posts on movies, but let's face it, my blog can't be perfect. This was Adam's idea, so it seems right to start with him. Adam, runs a blog over at Brody's Good Eats. I'm not really sure why he used his last name in the name rather than his first name, but hey that's what he called it. I'll have to ask him... His most recent post had to do with tuna melts, if your a sandwich person, or a seafood fanatic and you like to eat that sort of thing. Another one of my friends is Chloe. She runs a blog called The Dancing Queen. The name of her site is quite short compared to her email address. It's like a third the size. She posts about parties and related things. If you know her, than you know that if there is a party going on soon, than she knows about it. If there is a party, than she is so there. She loves partying. Especially the dancing part. She does the most dancing out of anyone I know. Then, there's Amanda's blog. She has done only two posts both about a video game called Commander Keen. It's called Amanda's Dream Blog and from what I've heard she uses a lot of pictures of the levels in the game in her posts. Finally, there's my friend Lisa's blog. She owns a blog over at Rocky Mountain Lisa's blog. She talks about, well, pretty much anything. Right now she seems to be rotating between posting about relaxing and water, although I'm sure she'll be onto something new soon enough. So those are my 4 friends that are on blogger. A few others have thought about it, but none have built one yet. I finish my post about 31 the movie that I've already started when the movie comes out.

The Upcoming Movie: 31

I've seen quite a few of Rob Zombie's movies, and I liked loved all of them. So when I heard he was coming out with a new movie, 31, I was thinking "I'm going to be first in line to see this movie when it comes out." As of yet, the movie doesn't have release date, but I'm looking fowards to it. Below I have a post for it.

The movie poster for Rob Zombie's new movie, 31.

I have heard a few facts about this movie so far. Fact 1: the name of the movie is 31, because it has to do with 5 people having to fight for their lives for 12 hours on Halloween, the 31st. These people been captured the 5 days before Halloween. I believe it was a person being captured per day, but I don't know that for certain. The situation where the people got captured then have 12 hours and need to stay alive like this reminds me, in part, of Saw. Because, in Saw, people would get captured and then they had differant kinds of challenges that they had to face to make it out alive. Fact 2: the name of it is 31, because that is the day that Halloween is always on. Fact 3: who they have to fight for the 12 hours are clowns. Clowns that are quite the nightmare from what I gather. They're pictured below.

I look fowards to seeing it when it comes out. Me and a friend are going to see it together. This was a unique movie because of its funding. Fans could really get involved by donation and getting prizes from Rob Zombies past movies and all kinds of cool things. Unfortunately, by the time I heard about it, the oppertunity to get involved had closed literally yesterday. I wish I could have gotten the chance to get involved, partially just because I could have gotten some stuff like an original Michael Myers mask. But at the very least I get to watch it when the movie comes out. Oh... right. Had I gotten involved, I could have had my name in the credits of the movie. Not getting that was disappointing, to say the least. At any rate, see you all at the movie!

The Nightmare Before Christmas

My favorite movie around Christmas time is "The Nightmare before Christmas". It combines Halloween with Christmas. The movie starts off showing all these doorways in the form of trees to different holidays forest; Valentines Day, Saint Patrick's Day, Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and finally Halloween which the camera proceeds to enter. I would love if they did a movie of all those holidays twisted with Halloween. At the beginning of the movie, after the trees, it plays a song. The song is called This is Halloween. I would have uploaded the song, but this site doesn't allow uploading songs like that for some reason. I have this song twice on my i-pod. I don't remember how the second copy got on my i-pod. I've seen a house that has all these lights on it and plays that song on a short range radio station. It was really cool. I wish I had videoed it with my phone and I would have upload it. In a way, that song and I go way back. At one point it is mentioned that there are only 364 days left till Halloween. (Actually there are 146 days till Halloween). That would be me. That's because all the best movies are on around Halloween. Although I did see "The Nightmare before Christmas" on the other day though, as I was skimming the TV guide. I actually ended up watched 5 minutes of it since there was nothing else on. In the song it mentions the moon a few times and, as it so happens, when I watched it in October of last year there was a big bright full moon. I'm sometimes surprised at how much light that moon can give off lighting up the whole outside. I'm sure sooner or later the full moon will be on Halloween, but it wasn't last year and it won't be this year either (I checked!).

Here is a picture I took of the moon. Unfortunately this picture the moon is half hidden, but the rest of the pictures I have were out of focus, so I used this one because it was clear.

When he's flying over Christmas Town, it's almost hard to believe that Jack got himself being shot at confused with them celebrating. Just saying. Though I imagine they wouldn't exactly be shooting at him in Halloween Town, right? Not that he can really die... I wonder how many years Jack had been doing this up to this year. As far as what is pulling him over Christmas Town, I find it funny to compare his dog with it's shiny red nose to Rudolph, which I believe is supposed to be comparable. I imagine the Oogie Boogie as one of the highest players in Halloween Town and he could easily defeat anyone he fought. However, in a fight, as Jack practically owns the town, he wins the  fight and manages to defeat the Oogie Boogie. Though, being in that specific town, I would seriously doubt he would be dead. I like the Oogie Boogie's dice, with the "snake eyes". All in all, I like to think it was a great movie. Anyone for a The Nightmare Before Christmas 2?

My thoughts on the Saw Franchise.

    The Saw franchise had some of the best horror movies I have ever seen. The Franchise includes Saw I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII. It is something that I would love if they could carry it on for a 9th movie. I would hope that it would be in 3-D just like the last one. It was a rather successful franchise.
    Saw I was the original Saw, the beginning, and where it all started. Jigsaw, saw it all as a giant test. He was, of course, insane but it was his mind that gave the show its splendor. Also, right of the bat you don't know who the Jigsaw is, there is accusations and then you find out who really is the Jigsaw and culprit. The way his game is talked about at certain points, it makes it sound-like its unwinable, however, someone did make it out alive so it may be hard but it is not impossible and not completely unfair. Close to the beginning, when the two men (Adam and Dr. Gordon) are chained in the bathroom, no one understands what is going on. Then they hear what is going on and realize they are in real trouble. You want to hear what is a real nightmare, especially if you can't wake up, I'll tell you what, having a poison in you and an antidote for the poison in your body from a safe, and the combination is scrambled on the room's walls, while you only have  a candle for light while yourself being covered in a flammable substance and having to walk over broken glass. I told you that, that would be a real nightmare. Saw I was a good start to the franchise.
    Saw II was the sequel to Saw I. Saw II picks up very close to where the first one ends.  First thing it shows is a small game that someone can't bring himself to win and he loses and gets killed. After that Jigsaw is caught be the police but doesn't even lose his edge. On the screens in front of him there is another game in progress, this one involves 8 people. Daniel (Eric Matthew's son), Amanda (who was sentenced to prison after being framed by Daniel's father, Gus (a businessman), Obi (who had aided Jigsaw in kidnapping the other victims in the house), Jonas (who is implied that he had been part of a gang), Xavier Chavez (who is a sociopathic drug dealer), Laura (who becomes physically weaker as the game progress), and Addison (a prostitute). Everyone gets picked off, theoretically even Eric, and Amanda is revealed to have been on Jigsaws side the whole time as his protégé.
   Saw III is the third part to the Saw Franchise. At the start, it is revealed that Eric Matthews escaped, in a rather painfully manner, but escaped alive nevertheless. Some time passes after that is revealed, and then Jigsaw does someone called Jeff Denlon a "favor". He sets Jeff up with some people that are have let his sons killer get away and eventually the killer himself.. The first person is Danica Scott who refused to testify against his son's killer. When he goes through a door, he enters a meat freezer. Danica is being suspended in mid air by chains which are holding her hands together while being out stretched completely naked being sprayed at random intervals with freezing cold water. Danica and Jeff have a conversation and either Danica is very charismatic or Jeff is a really nice guy, because despite there past conflict he attempts to retrieve a key that would save her life. However, he takes to long and she freezes to death before he can save her. Next, he finds himself with a large vat with Judge Halden chained at the neck at the bottom in it. The vat starts to fill up with liquefied pig corpses, but Jeff (more reluctantly this time) attempts to and succeeds in saving the Judge. The pair (Jeff and Halden) come to a room where Jeff's son's killer  is chained up. The killer (Timothy Young) is immensely tortured and Jeff (being a nice guy) eventually is convinced by Halden to let Young go. Jeff does so but accidentally releases a trap that kills the Judge and the killer gets killed anyway. In the scene that follows it seems like everyone loses, almost... Lynn ( Jeff's wife) is in a room with a bedridden John Kramer (Jigsaw) and Amanda. After hearing John declared his love out loud to a hallucination, Amanda  leaves the room distressed. When she returns she shots Lynn in the back as Jeff comes in who retaliates by shooting her in the neck. With Amanda's last minutes of life, John reluctantly tells her that she had failed a final test. After she dies, John offers Jeff to call an ambulance  for Lynn in the form of a final test. He tells Jeff that he must choose between killing John and forgiving him. As Jeff says he forgives John, he slashes John's throat with a circular saw. The sickroom seals itself as John plays a tape recorder, which in turn, reveals that Jeff has failed the test by killing John, who was the only person to know Corbett's (Jeff's daughter) whereabouts. The tape ends as John dies, and the collar simultaneously activates and kills Lynn, leaving Jeff to despair, trapped in the locked sickroom.
    Saw IV is the part after Jigsaw (John Kramer) is killed. In this part, it is revealed that Jigsaw had another protégé (fellow apprentice of Amanda) who was also assisting him with the killings and tests. The movie starts off having a waxed covered tape removed from the dead body of Jigsaw.  The entire movie takes place on the tape. At the end of it, you see who the protégé is and then it ends.
   Saw V continues not long after Saw IV. Jigsaw is still dead and his attorney is administering his will. Traps are still flying everywhere, Hoffman is still out there and Jigsaw's ex-wife has received a box and a videotape, in which John stresses the importance of the box's contents. Hoffman gets promoted to detective lieutenant. Meanwhile, 5 people get trapped in a underground room and 3 out of 5 of them get killed. More finger pointing is made, this time at who is the accomplice. Although none realizes who the real accomplice is.
  Saw VI, I watched this one on October 23, 2009. In this movie, Hoffman escapes from his glass and the police get close to catching him. Erickson and Perez bring Hoffman to a site where a technician is unscrambling a voice. The technician succeeds and after Hoffman hears his own voice, he slashes Erickson's jugular vein and stabs Perez to death. Erickson is still alive as Hoffman pours gasoline over him and sets the lab on fire to destroy the evidence. However, the film ends with Jill Tuck attempting to kill Hoffman.
   Saw VII, also known as Saw 3D or Saw: The Final Chapter. This movie wraps up the entire franchise. Hoffman survies and Jill goes to turn him in. Hoffman infiltrates the police headquarters and kills everyone up between him and Jill. When he reaches her he knocks her out and puts the original Reverse Bear-trap to her head killing her graphically. Lawrence Gordon enters. and then it is revealed that Lawrence has been helping Jigsaw in secret. Lawrence was supposed to be watching over Jill. He brings Hoffman to the bathroom from the first film and shackles him by the ankle. He tosses the hacksaw he had sawed his own foot off with far from Hoffman's reach, and then seals the door to the bathroom, leaving an outraged Hoffman to die.