Minggu, 07 Juli 2013
Movie Review: Dangerous Worry Dolls. (2008)
After a string of criminal events lands Eva in Prison, she finds out that the life inside the Prison walls isn't that easy to cope with. She's reunited with her daughter on visitors day and is given a gift. A box containing Worry Dolls. At night, you tell the dolls all of your worries and place them under your pillow. The dolls are made to take away your worries. For Eva, that doesn't exactly happen the way she was hoping, so now she must take control before the dolls take control of her.
This movie is directed by Charles Band and the screenplay is by August White who is a commonly used writer for Full Moon Pictures that was founded by Charles Band. After watching a few movies by Charles, I've come to realize two things that are common in his movies. One: He has a strange obsession with dolls. Two: His opening credits take way too fucking long.
The last movie that I viewed from those two were, 'Doll Graveyard' and I have to say that 'Worry Dolls' was a step in the right direction. Before you start thinking that I liked this movie I do have to clarify that this movie was DUMB. Dumb, with a capitol D. The first part of the movie gave off a presence that made you think it was going to be a good film. That presence lied.
Jessica Morris' portrayal as Eva was the best in the movie and that's saying a lot since everyone else sucked. I don't think she's a terrible actress, I think she has potential. It was just a really bad script and an Oscar worthy actor/actress couldn't of pulled it off. Paul Boukadakis' portrayal as Russel was the worst. From his obnoxious body language to his annoying acting performance. Every time he was onscreen I got a urge to punch him in the jugular.
Apart from the acting, the directing was solid and the concept of the story was promising. The Cinematography was also pretty decent. The dolls on the other hand were awful. They should of taken the actual concept of the dolls down another path. The way they did it was stupid. The dolls in this movie really should of acted like the dolls in 'Doll Graveyard.' There were also some scenes in the movie that were so unnecessary that it seemed like it was just put in there to make up time.
It was so bad that you couldn't help but think "The fuck!? What was the point of that?" Besides everything that I have mentioned, the real problem with the movie is the screenplay. Man, that's one awful screenplay. It came off like she just half assed it cause she was lazy or possibly bored. This movie was promising and had potential and if it had a different screenplay, I think it could of been good. It would still be cheesy, given the concept of the movie but it wouldn't of been as bad as this.
'Worry Dolls' was enjoyable and is a two time watch and it might seem better the second time around. Even if you watch it more than once, you can't help but notice all of the flaws and they're really hard to ignore. That I think in the long run hurts the film in general. I give this movie 2 1/2 Skulls.
Senin, 24 Juni 2013
Movie Review: One Hour Photo (2002)
Sy (the photo guy) Parrish is an employee of a one-hour photo lab who becomes obsessed with a young suburban family. After developing the family's film for many years, he begins to fantasize about being part of the family, their Uncle Sy. Once he finds a glitch in the family circle through the photographs, he decides to right the wrong the best way he knows how which lets us see the true mental state of Sy (the photo guy) Parrish.
I was told this movie was super creepy and after reading the synopsis for it, I was expecting to watch a SUPER creepy movie. I didn't get that at all. The story in itself was creepy but that was it. I feel like they left so much out and there were too many plot holes. Robin Williams play the role of Sy Parrish and does an excellent job. After watching him as Mrs. Doubtfire, you wouldn't expect to see him pull off a role like this one and he killed it. That's how diverse his acting ability is.
Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan and Dylan Smith did a great job as the Yorkin family that Sy was obsessed with. The movie as a hole takes place in Sy's world. The Yorkin family and Maya are all key points in the movie that help connect the story together but it's really all about Sy. That's all you begin to care about in the film - at least I did. You don't feel sorry for him you just want to see more of an in depth look at him.
At the climax of the movie you get to see Robin's performance really glow but that was it. I wanted the movie to show more scenes of him being psycho but it didn't. That's something I felt like they left out and really should of had in the movie. The contrast blended well with the cinematography in the film but they could of portrayed an eerier atmosphere throughout the movie. All in all it wasn't a bad film but it wasn't memorable and could of done A LOT better. They also could of spiced up the dialogue a bit. The movie was written and directed by Mark Romanek. Don't really know much about him besides the fact that he directed one of Madonna's music videos.
I do like how the movie puts the thought into your mind of what the photo guy could be thinking of when he's developing your photos. You never know whether he's forming an attraction to you or even a hatred/jealousy from what he see's in your photos. Just think of all the times we left film to be developed. For all we know, one of the photo guys could of jacked off to one of our pictures. Good thing we went digital. ;)
I give this movie 3 out of 5 Skulls.
Selasa, 21 Mei 2013
Movie Review: Misery
After Paul Sheldon, a famous writer gets in a car crash during a snowstorm; He's rescued by a local woman by the name of Annie Wilkes. She goes on and on about how much she loves his 'Misery' books and how she's his number one fan. She picks up his latest book, 'Misery's Child' and gushes about how she bought the very first copy.
After reading the whole book, she came to realize she didn't like it and it wasn't how she wanted it to be. She told Paul that he was sent here to write a new book, made just for Annie. The catch. If he doesn't follow Annie's rules he'll be in big trouble. VERY BIG trouble. Paul Sheldon use to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive.
This movie was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. It takes a lot to make me smile throughout a movie and 'Misery' made me do just that. I've read the book, written by Stephen King and it became my favorite SK book. I love when the movie follows the book and they did a great job doing that.
They've added and left out a few things but it wasn't to the extent that it ruined the movie/book. James Caan did a great job as Paul Sheldon. There were times I thought his acting was forced and didn't feel believable. It still felt that way after watching it a few times but it seems more like he was suppose to act that way. A little timid, a little off. Well, he was just kidnapped by a crazy lady.
Kathy Bates is AMAZING. I just love her. I've loved her ever since she was in Titanic as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. Kathy was pure gold in this movie. She really brought the true essence of the character to life. Her performance as Annie Wilkes gave me goosebumps. She was so creepy. It's no surprise that Kathy Bates won an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in 'Misery.'
Richard Farnsworth & Frances Sternhagen did a great job as Sheriff Buster and his wife Virginia. Their lines were so funny and so perfect that it added a little comedy into this horror/thriller without coming off cheesy. Even though they were supporting actors, their performances were still memorable and well done. This is how me and my husband will be when we're in our 70's and 80's.
The Cinematography was great. It added an eerie style to the movie and blended well with the contrast of the film. This movie is definitely one to check out. Great story, great acting and awesome one liners such as "You're going to be just fine. I'm your number one fan." or "You better hope nothing happens to me. Cause if I die, you die." I do wish they added more scenes of Annie freaking out and a little more blood. It wasn't a scary movie and I don't think it's actually considered horror, more of a suspenseful thriller. As many of you know, I have OCD, same as Annie. ;)
If my OCD ever turns sour, I would turn into Annie Wilkes and Jeremy Renner would be locked up in my basement. Thank you, Stephen King, for writing a novel about my evil twin. :D I give this movie 4 1/2 out of 5 Skulls.
Jumat, 17 Mei 2013
May Monster Madness Day 7 Ft. Albert Fish
Disclaimer: "I am in no way trying to condone or justify the crimes these people have committed. My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones to these killers. I am not trying to embodied them as a hero or a villain. I am trying to embodied them as a human. These posts are simply here to get a better understanding as to why they could do such awful crimes. Maybe one day we can put an end to this horrific lifestyle."
Albert Fish is known for being one of the most vile pedophiles and killers of all time. After his capture he admitted to molesting over 400 children and tortured and killed several others. Fish was a small, gentle looking man who appeared kind and trusting, yet once alone with his victims, the monster inside him was unleashed - a monster so perverse and cruel, his crimes seem unbelievable. He was eventually executed and according to rumors, he turned his own execution into a fantasy of pleasure.
Albert Fish was born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C., into a family which had a long history of mental illness. His parents abandoned him at a young age and he was sent to an orphanage. The orphanage was, in Fish's memory, a place of brutality where he was exposed to regular beatings and sadistic acts of brutality. He had very little formal education and grew up learning to work more with his hands than his brains.
According to Fish, in 1890 he relocated to New York City and began his crimes against children. Fish would lure children away from their homes, torture them in various ways including using a paddle laced with sharp nails, then rape them. As time went on, the sexual fantasies he would act out on the children grew more fiendish and bizarre, and often ended in murdering and cannibalizing his young victims.
In 1898 he married and later fathered six children. The children led average lives up until 1917, after Fish's wife ran off with another man. It was at that time the children recall Fish occasionally asking them to participate in his sado-masochistic games. One game included the nail filled paddle Fish used on his victims. He would ask the children to paddle him with the weapon until blood ran down his legs. He also found enjoyment from pushing needles deep into his skin.
After his marriage ended, Fish spent time writing to women listed in the personal columns of newspapers. In his letters he would go into graphic detail of sexual acts he would like to share with the women. The descriptions of these acts were so vile and disgusting that they were never made public even though they were submitted as evidence in court. According to Fish, no women ever responded to his letters asking them, not for their hand in marriage, but for their hand in administering pain.
Fish developed his skill for house painting and often worked in different states across the country. Some believe he selected states largely populated with African Americans. It was his belief that the police would spend less time searching for the killer of a African American child than a prominent Caucasian child. Thus, several of his victims were black children selected to endure his torture using his own labeled "instruments of hell" which included the paddle, meat cleaver and knives.
In 1928, Fish answered an ad by 18-year-old Edward Budd who was looking for part-time work to help out with the family finances. Albert Fish, who introduced himself as Mr. Frank Howard, met with Edward and his family to discuss Edward's future position. Fish told the family that he was a Long Island farmer looking to pay a strong young worker $15 a week. The job seemed ideal and the Budd family, excited about Edward's luck in finding the job, instantly trusted the gentle and polite Mr. Howard.
Fish told the Budd family that he would return the following week to take Edward and a friend of Edward's out to his farm to begin working. The following week Fish failed to show on the day promised, but did send a telegram apologizing and set a new date to meet with the boys. When Fish arrived on June 4, as promised, he came baring gifts for all the Budd children and visited with the family over lunch. To the Budd's, Mr. Howard seemed like a typical loving grandfather.
After lunch, Fish explained to the family that he had to attend a children's birthday party at his sister's home and would return later to pick up Eddie and his friend to take to the farm. He then suggested that the Budd's allow him to bring their oldest daughter, ten-year-old Grace along to the party. The non-suspecting parents agreed and dressed in her Sunday best, Grace, excited about going to party, left her house for the very last time. Grace Budd was never seen alive again.
The investigation into the disappearance of Grace Budd went on for six years before detectives received any substantial break in the case. Then on November 11, 1934, Mrs. Budd received an anonymous letter which gave grotesque details of the murder and cannibalism of her precious daughter, Grace.
The writer tortured Mrs. Budd with details about the empty house her daughter was taken to in Worcester, New York. How she was then stripped of her clothing, strangled and cut into pieces and eaten. As if to add some solace to Mrs. Budd, the writer was emphatic about the fact that Grace had not been sexually assaulted at any time.
By tracing the paper the letter to Mrs. Budd was written on, the police were eventually led to a flophouse where Albert Fish was living. Fish was arrested and immediately began confessing to killing Grace Budd and several hundred other children. Fish, smiling as he described the grizzly details of the tortures and murders, appeared to the detectives as the devil himself.
On March 11, 1935, Fish's trial began and he plead innocent by the reason of insanity. He said it was voices in his head telling him to kill children that made him do such horrendous crimes. Despite the numerous psychiatrists who described Fish as insane, the jury found him sane and guilty after a short 10-day trial. He was sentenced to die by electrocution.
On January 16, 1936, Albert Fish was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison, reportedly a process Fish looked upon as "the ultimate sexual thrill" but later dismissed as just a rumor.
I want to thank everyone who has stopped by my blog for this wonderful bloghop and a big shout out to all my new followers! Thank you so much for joining me on this wonderful horror ride! Another big shout out to Annie, Emma and Ked for hosting this bloghop and letting me be apart of it. Thank you! :)
Kamis, 16 Mei 2013
May Monster Madness Day 6 Ft. Ed Gein
Disclaimer: "I am in no way trying to condone or justify the crimes these people have committed. My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones to these killers. I am not trying to embodied them as a hero or a villain. I am trying to embodied them as a human. These posts are simply here to get a better understanding as to why they could do such awful crimes. Maybe one day we can put an end to this horrific lifestyle."
When police went to Ed Gein's Plainfield, Wisconsin farm home to investigate the disappearance of a local woman, they had no idea they were about to discover some of the most grotesque crimes ever committed.
Ed Gein was born August 27th, 1906 In La Crosse Wisconsin. Ed lived with his older brother Henry, his father George and his mother Augusta on their 160- acre farm a few miles outside Plainfield Wisconsin. His father was a major alcoholic and his mother was an over bearing psychotic mess. As far back as the boys could remember, Augusta was either dishing out farm work for the boys to perform, quoting versus from the Bible or trying as hard as she can to teach Ed and Henry about sin. Especially about the evils of sex and women.
George died in 1940 as a result of alcoholism which left Augusta in full control of Henry and Ed. Henry died four years later and left Ed fully responsible of his mother's welfare. He took care of her and attended to her over demanding needs until her death in 1945. Now all alone, Ed sealed off all but one room and the kitchen of his large farmhouse. After the Government started paying Ed as a part of a soil conservation program, he no longer had to do any farm work. Yay for Eddie! Now he has all that time to devote to his special "hobby".
Ed was a recluse, didn't spend anytime with people and kept to himself. He spent hours being obsessed with his sexual fantasies and reading books on the Female anatomy but no one had any idea. Since his mother filled his head with the thoughts of how evil sex and women are, he couldn't get rid of the images of sex and dismemberment. He was also fascinated by the experiments performed in Nazi camps. Ed befriended another loner, Gus and they spend some boy time robbing graves for bodies so Ed can perform the experiments he's always wanted to do.
This little shindig went on for more then 10 years including Ed removing his mother from her own grave. His experiments became more gruesome and bizarre over time including necrophilia and cannibalism. Gein's obsessive fantasies centered around his over powering desire to turn himself into a women. He would skin his victims and construct the items so he could then drape on himself such as a female mask and breasts. He even made himself a female-like body sized jumpsuit.
Gein's desire for a sex change escalated when he thought the only way to perfect his plan is by having fresher bodies. On December 8th, 1954, Gein at the ripe old age of 48 killed Mary Hogan, owner of a local Tavern. The police weren't able to solve the strange disappearance of Mary, but the blood found at the Tavern made the police suspect foul play. They weren't able to convict Gus since he was already institutionalized before the killing began. Only Gein knew how many women he has killed.
On November 16th, 1957, Gein entered the hardware store owned by the lovely Bernice Worden. Ed has been in that same hardware store before so Bernice had no reason to fear him and suspected anything. Bernice didn't give it a second thought when Gein removed a .22 rifle from the display rack and inserted his own bullets into the gun. Right after Ed loaded the gun he shot Bernice and stuffed her body into the store's truck then came back for the cash register cause serial killers need money. Once Ed got home he unleashed his perverted psychotic fantasy upon his newest victim, Bernice.
Since Gein wasn't very good at covering up his tracks. Bernice's son Frank who was a deputy sheriff noticed his mother was missing and found blood on the floor in the store and found a store receipt that included a half gallon of antifreeze. Frank remembered seeing Gein in and out of the hardware store the previous week and Gein did question Frank about going hunting the next day. The police decided to pay the lonely Mr. Ed Gein a visit even though he has never been involved in any known criminal activity. Gein was located by police in a store near his home. The police then went to Gein's farmhouse in hopes of finding Bernice Worden but little did they know what exactly they would find. The shed was the first area searched. Officer Schley opened the shed door to find a woman's naked corpse hanging upside down, the body disemboweled, and the throat and head missing. The body was, you guessed it Bernice Worden.
They later went on to search Ed's house. The house was dark so they used oil lamps to guild them through. Once their eyes adjusted they saw something more horrific then anyone could ever imagine. Every where they turned they saw various body parts, some used as household items such as skulls made into bowls, jewelry made from human skin, lips hanging, chair seats with human skin upholstery, facial skin that was well preserved and resembled masks, a box of vulva's among which was his mothers, painted silver. You see, if you raise a kid filling his head with the thoughts of how evil sex and women are he's going to become obsessed with the sexual side of nature and take that obsession out on you. And in Ed's case, he did just that. The body parts identified came from 15 different women and some weren't able to be identified. They also found Bernice's heart in a pan on the stove. The police officers who witnessed that gruesome site would never be the same again.
Gein was committed to the Waupun State Hospital for the rest of his life. He admitted that he killed older women because of his love-hate feelings he had towards his mother, well duuuuh! He never would admit to his cannibalistic or necrophilia activities even though there had been some strong reasoning's behind it. Gein died from cancer at the age of 78 and his body was buried in his family plot in Plainfield. The property eluded the horrific and evil memories for the people of Plainfield and later it was torched by citizens. This bizarre and gruesome crime caused by Gein turned him into a "celebrity." Several horror movies were loosely based on Ed Gein's life and crime spree.
Movies such as Psycho with Norman Bates and his unnatural relationship he had towards his mother. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Even though there wasn't a character that was an exact Ed Gein model, Leatherface did take on some of Gein's infamous traits such as the removal and wearing of his victim's skin. Years later, Ed was an inspiration for another character. Serial killer, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. Just like Ed, Billy treasured women's skin and wore it like clothing in some strange transvestite ritual. Other movies that were based on Ed Gein were the 2001 film Ed Gein, also titled In the Light of the Moon, in which Steve Railsback plays the main role, it has been said that this film comes closest to the true account of his life and crimes.
The 1974 cult classic Deranged was strongly influenced by the Ed Gein story. Roberts Blossom plays Ezra Cobb, a man is dominated by his mother, who loses his mind after her death. Poor Eddie, if only his mother wasn't crazy and didn't mistreat him and his brother and filled their heads with nonsense. I totally understand that a lot of religions believe you shouldn't have sex until you're married but come on. There is a right and a wrong way of teaching your kids that. Augusta did it the wrong way. She went overboard on trying to convince the boys that sex and women are evil and they should stay away from it and she failed to show her kids love and compassion. There's no surprise that he turned out the way he did and how obsessed he was with the female body. Poor, poor Eddie.
Rabu, 15 Mei 2013
May Monster Madness Day 5 Ft. Charles Manson
Disclaimer: "I am in no way trying to condone or justify the crimes these people have committed. My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones to these killers. I am not trying to embodied them as a hero or a villain. I am trying to embodied them as a human. These posts are simply here to get a better understanding as to why they could do such awful crimes. Maybe one day we can put an end to this horrific lifestyle."
Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to 16-year-old Kathleen Maddox. Kathleen had run away from home at the age of 15 and spent the next few decades drinking too much, with periods of time spent in jail.
Since his mother couldn't take care of him, Charles spent his youth at the homes of various relatives and often at special reform schools and boys homes. By age nine, Charles Manson had already started stealing and soon added burglary and stealing cars to his repertoire.
In 1954, at age nineteen, he was released on parole after an unusual bout of good behavior. The next year, he married Rosalie Willis, a waitress, and they had a son together, Charles Manson Jr. (born March 1956). Even while married, Manson had continued making extra money by stealing cars. In April 1956, he was again sent to prison. After Manson had been in prison for a year, his wife found someone new and divorced Manson in June 1957.
In 1958, Manson was released from prison. While out, Manson began pimping, stealing checks from mailboxes, and conned a young woman out of money. He also married again, to a prostitute named Candy Stevens (real name Leona), and fathered a second son, Charles Luther Manson. Manson was again arrested on June 1, 1960 and sent to the McNeil Island Penitentiary off the coast of Washington. His wife soon divorced him.
Manson spent the next six years in prison. It was during this time that he befriended the infamous Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, former member of Ma Barker's gang. After Karpis taught Charles Manson to play the steel guitar, Manson became obsessed with making music. He practiced all the time, wrote dozens of original songs, and started singing. He believed that when he got out of prison, he could be a famous musician.
On March 21, 1967, Manson was once again released from prison. This time he headed to San Francisco where, with a guitar and drugs, he began to get a following. In 1968, he and several followers drove to Southern California.
Manson was still hoping for a music career. Through an acquaintance, Manson met and hung out with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys did record one of Manson's songs, which appeared as "Never Learn Not to Love" on the B-side of their 20/20 album.
Through Wilson, Manson met Terry Melcher, Doris Day's son. Manson believed Melcher was going to advance his music career but when nothing happened, Manson was very upset.
During this time, Charles Manson and some of his followers moved into the Spahn Ranch. Located northwest of San Fernando Valley, the Spahn Ranch had been a popular location to film westerns in the 1940s and 1950s. Once Manson and his followers moved in, it became a cult compound for "The Family."
Charles Manson was good at manipulating people. He took pieces from various religions to form his own philosophy. When the Beatles released their White Album in 1968, Manson believed their song "Helter Skelter" predicted an upcoming race war. "Helter skelter," Manson believed, was going to occur in the summer of 1969 when blacks were going to rise up and slaughter all the white people. He told his followers that they would be saved because they would go underground, literally, by traveling to an underground city of gold located in Death Valley.
However, when the Armageddon that Manson had predicted did not occur, he said he and his followers must show the blacks how to do it.
Manson told four of his followers to go to 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles and kill the people inside. This house once belonged to Terry Melcher, the man who had not helped Manson with his music career. However, Melcher no longer lived there; actress Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski, had rented the house. On August 9, 1969, four of Manson's followers brutally murdered Tate, her unborn baby, and four others who were visiting her (Polanski was in Europe for work). The following night, Manson's followers brutally killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home.
It took the police several months to determine who was responsible. In December 1969, Manson and several of his followers were arrested. The trial began on July 24, 1970. On January 25, Manson was found guilty of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. On March 29, 1971, Manson was sentenced to death.
Manson was reprieved from the death penalty in 1972 when the California Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty. Charles Manson now serves a lifetime sentence and periodically comes up for parole.
Though he's been in prison for over three decades, Charles Manson has received more mail than any other prisoner in the U.S. Charles Manson is currently being held in California's Corcoran Prison.**
A lot of people would argue as to say he wasn't a serial killer. But when you think about it, you really don't need to commit the actual crime to be classified as one. Charles Manson may have not killed these victims but he brain washed his "family" making them think it's the right thing to do and they must carry out the act.
My opinion, even though he didn't killed Sharon Tate, her friends and the LaBianca family, I would still call him a serial killer. The fact he was able to brain wash and manipulate everyone into killing these people puts him in that classification. He told them to kill people and kept putting in their minds that they were "God's" work to rid the evils of the world.
He thought up the crimes, the people, when and where it was going to take place and "forced" his family to do his Will. Ed Gein only killed two women and he's classified as a serial killer. The fact that he thought up everything and told his family what to do, in a way makes him a serial killer.
Charles Manson is the type of person you really shouldn't be alone with. Not because he might hurt you but he will brain wash the fuck out of you to make it so you hurt yourself and possibly others without even having a sense of what you're doing. I've watched a couple of interviews of him and he is one psycho, messed up hippy.
**Information from BIO.com
May Monster Madness Day 4 Ft. Ted Bundy
May Monster Madness Day 3 Ft. John Wayne Gacy
Selasa, 14 Mei 2013
May Monster Madness Day 4 Ft. Ted Bundy
Disclaimer: "I am in no way trying to condone or justify the crimes these people have committed. My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones to these killers. I am not trying to embodied them as a hero or a villain. I am trying to embodied them as a human. These posts are simply here to get a better understanding as to why they could do such awful crimes. Maybe one day we can put an end to this horrific lifestyle."
Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell to Louise Cowell on November 24, 1946, at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. Elizabeth moved back in with her parents in Philadelphia to raise her new son. For the first few years of his life, Ted thought his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister. Hmmm... maybe that was the start of the craziness??? In 1951 Louise and Ted moved to Tacoma, Washington and Louise married Johnnie Bundy, a military cook.
Ted was well behaved and grew into a handsome young man that was liked by many in his school. After high school, Ted enrolled into the University of Puget Sound and continued to do well academically. Unfortunately, Ted began to feel uncomfortable around his peers who seem to be a lot richer then he was. Later in his sophomore year Bundy transferred to the University of Washington to escape the uncomfortable feeling of his financial inadequacy. Although Bundy had friends, he never seemed to fit in comfortably while participating in social activities. This was a result of Bundy's acute shyness that made him appear socially awkward.
Bundy hardly ever dated but lucky for him, in 1967 Bundy met the woman of his dreams. She was smart, pretty, wealthy and sophisticated. Pretty much everything a guy looks for in a girl Bundy got in this woman. Atta boy! To top off this wonderful relationship made in "Heaven." They both shared a skill and passion for skiing and spent many weekends on the ski slopes. Bundy fell hard for his first love and tried desperately to impress her by over exaggerating his accomplishments. He won a Summer Scholarship to Stamford but his time there wasn't impressive enough to swoon her. She decided that Bundy lacked certain important qualities and he wasn't husband material so she ended the relationship and broke Ted's heart. His obsession towards her went on to haunt him for years.
Because of the break up, Ted suffered from extreme depression and dropped out of school. During this awful time he learned that his sister was really his mother and his parents were his grandparents. Bundy got the reputation that he was a petty thief. Because of that he decided to return to college, excelled in his major, and earned a bachelor's degree in psychology. A little while later, Bundy became involved with another woman by the name of Elizabeth Kendall (the pseudonym she used when she wrote "The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy") who was divorced with a young daughter. Elizabeth fell head over heels in love with Bundy. Even though she had suspicions that he was seeing other women, she continued to stay by his side and her devotion to Bundy grew stronger. Ted wasn't interested in marriage but he allowed the relationship to continue even after reuniting with his first love who was attracted to the new confidence that is Ted Bundy.
Bundy worked on the re-election campaign of Washington's Republican Governor Dan Evans. Evans was elected and he appointed Bundy to the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee. Bundy's political future seemed secure, when in 1973 he became assistant to Ross Davis, chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. It was a good time in Bundy's life. He had a girlfriend, his old girlfriend was once again in love with him, and his footing in the political arena was strong. Ahhh yes. Things were looking up. If only Bundy could of kept this going. young women began vanishing from college campuses around Washington and Oregon in 1974. Later that year two women were approached by an attractive man at a Seattle state park. He introduced himself as Ted and asked if they could help him with his sailboat but they refused. Later that day two other women were seen walking away with him then they were never seen alive again.
In the fall of 1974 Bundy enrolled in law school at the University of Utah and he moved to Salt Lake City. Oh shit. Carol DaRonch was attacked in November at a Utah mall by a man who was dressed as a police officer. Lucky for her she managed to escape. She provided police with a description of the man, the VW he was driving, and a sample of his blood that got on her jacket during their fight. Within a few hours after DaRonch was attacked, 17-year-old Debbie Kent disappeared. Around the same time, a few hikers found a graveyard of bones that happened to be the missing women from Washington and Utah.
Both state troopers got together and made up a sketch identifying the man known as Ted. The man who would approach women asking for help, usually appearing helpless by wearing a cast using crutches. That's how he got them. He knew women were programmed with the maternal instinct and couldn't pass up on helping a person in need without feeling extremely guilty about it. Sometimes guilty enough they go back and help them anyway, despite the funny feeling they have in their stomach.
Each state that had missing women compared similarities of the women disappearing. They were both white, skinny and had long hair that was parted in the middle. The dead women found in Utah appeared to be hitten over the head with a blunt object, raped and sodomized. I guess he likes back door play. The women were also kidnapped during the evening hours. The police knew they were dealing with a sick and twisted serial killer that had a way to travel from state to state. On January 12, 1975, Caryn Campbell vanished from a ski resort in Colorado while on vacation with her fiance and his two children. A month later Caryn's nude body was found lying a short distance from the road. An examination of her remains determined she had received violent blows to her skull. Over the next few months five more women were found dead in Colorado with similar contusions to their head, possibly a result of being hit with a crowbar.
In August 1975 police attempted to stop Bundy for a driving violation. He aroused suspicion when he tried to get away by turning his car lights off and speeding through stop signs. When he was finally stopped his VW was searched and police found handcuffs, an ice pick, crowbar, pantyhose with eye holes cut out along with other questionable items. You never know if those things were part of his role play in love making. People have strange obsessions, it's possible. They also saw that the front seat on the passenger side of his car was missing. Police arrested Ted Bundy on suspicion of burglary.
The police compared things found in Bundy's car that DaRonch described to them. After she picked Bundy out of a line-up they felt they had enough evidence to charge him with attempted kidnapping and they felt confident that they caught the guy responsible for the tri-state murder spree that went on for more than a year. In February 1976, Bundy went on trail for the attempted kidnapping of DaRonch. After waiving his right to a jury trial he was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison. I guess all that practice with back door play will finally come in handy. ;) While Bundy was in Prison police were investigating links to Bundy and the Colorado murders. According to his credit card statements he was in the area where several women vanished in early 1975. In October 1976 Bundy was charged for the murder of Caryn Campbell.
Bundy was extradited from the Utah prison to Colorado for the trial. Serving as his own lawyer allowed him to appear in court without leg irons plus gave him an opportunity to move freely from the courtroom to the law library inside the courthouse. In an interview, while in the role as his own attorney, Bundy said, "More than ever, I am convinced of my own innocence." In June 1977 during a pre-trial hearing he escaped by jumping out of the law library window. He was captured a week later. On December 30Th Bundy escaped from Prison and made his way to Tallahassee, Florida where he rented an apartment near Florida State University under the name Chris Hagen. He enjoyed the college life and was happy to be back. Even his fun, happy times in College couldn't hide the reality and it was a matter of time before the monster inside Bundy came out.
On Saturday January 14Th, Bundy broke into Florida State University's Chi Omega sorority house where he bludgeoned and strangled to death two women, raping one of them and viciously biting her on her buttocks and one nipple. He beat two other girls over the head and before he could kill them, their fellow roommate Nita Neary who came home early and caught Bundy in the act. Nita Neary came home around 3 a.m. and noticed the front door to the house was ajar. As she entered she heard hurried footsteps above going toward the stairway. She hid in a doorway and watched as a man wearing a blue cap and carrying a log left the house. Upstairs she found her roommates. Two were dead, two others severely wounded. That same night another woman was attacked and the police found a mask on her floor identical to one found later in Bundy's car.
On February 9, 1978, Bundy killed again. This time it was 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, who he kidnapped then mutilated. Within a week of the disappearance of Kimberly, Bundy was arrested in Pensacola for driving a stolen vehicle. Investigators had eyewitnesses who identified Bundy at the dorm and at Kimberly's school. They also had physical evidence that linked him to the three murders, including a mold of the bite marks found on in the flesh of the sorority house victim. Bundy, still thinking he could beat a guilty verdict, turned down a plea bargain whereby he would plead guilty to killing the two sorority women and Kimberly LaFouche in exchange for three 25-year sentences.
Bundy went on trial in Florida on June 25, 1979 for the murders of the sorority women. The trial was televised and Bundy played up to the media when on occasion he acted as his own attorney. Bundy was found guilty on both murder charges and given two death sentences by means of the electric chair. On January 7, 1980, Bundy went on trial for killing Kimberly Leach. This time he allowed his attorney's to represent him. They decided on an insanity plea, the only defense possible with the amount of evidence the state had against him. Bundy's behavior was much different during this trial than the previous one. He displayed fits of anger, slouched in his chair, and his collegiate look was sometimes replaced with a haunting glare. Bundy was found guilty and received a third death sentence.
During the sentencing phase, Bundy surprised everyone by calling Carol Boone as a character witness and marrying her while she was on the witness stand. Boone was convinced of Bundy's innocence. She later gave birth to Bundy's child, a little girl who Bundy adored. In time Boone divorced Bundy after realizing he was guilty of the horrific crimes.
After endless appeals Bundy's last stay of execution was on January 17, 1989. Prior to being put to death Bundy gave the details of more than fifty women he had murdered to Washington State Attorney Generals chief investigator, Dr. Bob Keppel. He also confessed to keeping the heads of some of his victims at his home plus to engaging in necrophilia with some of his victims. In his final interview he blamed his exposure to pornography at an impressionable age as being the stimulant behind his murderous obsessions.
Many directly involved with Bundy believed he murdered at least 100 women. The electrocution of Ted Bundy went as scheduled amid a carnival like atmosphere outside the prison. On January 24, 1989, Theodore Bundy died at around 7:13 a.m. as crowds outside cheered his death.
My thoughts on Ted Bundy are, he's been "wronged" by women in his life. He thought his real mother was his sister and his grandmother was his mother. His first real love dumped him because he didn't have the qualities she wanted. He felt like he needed to get revenge on women since every time he sees a woman he remembers all the pain and hurt he suffered because of it. Ted Bundy showed America that even pure evil can look damn good.
May Monster Madness Day 3 Ft. John Wayne Gacy
May Monster Madness Day 2 Ft. Jeffrey Dahmer
Senin, 13 Mei 2013
May Monster Madness Day 3 Ft: John Wayne Gacy
Disclaimer: "I am in no way trying to condone or justify the crimes these people have committed. My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones to these killers. I am not trying to embodied them as a hero or a villain. I am trying to embodied them as a human. These posts are simply here to get a better understanding as to why they could do such awful crimes. Maybe one day we can put an end to this horrific lifestyle."
John Wayne Gacy was born on St. Patrick's Day of 1942 to Danish and Polish parents. Grew up in a working-class neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. His father, John Wayne Gacy Sr was a raging alcoholic who beat him and his siblings along with his mother constantly. As Gacy grew up, the non stop verbal abuse he would get from his father made him develop a identity crisis, doubting his own masculinity. At the age of 11, he suffered a blow to the head from a swing and because of that he had frequent blackouts for the next five years. The doctors found a clot in his brain as a result from the blow and removed it with medications. Following that, he would fake 'heart problems' for attention. John was a shy kid growing up and even though he wasn't very popular, he was well liked by his teachers and fellow classmates in school.
John later went on to graduate from business college and started work as a shoe salesman. Gacy married a co-worker, whose family just so happen to own a KFC in Waterloo, Iowa and began to work there as the Manager. He gradually earned the respect of the local Jaycees.He was well liked in his community and was a Democratic precinct captain in the Chicago suburbs in the 1970's. Gacy married twice and had two children. May, 1968 he was arrested for sexual misconduct with a young male employee. Gacy actually hired a thug to beat up the witness, which ended up failing and only increased the charges against him. He plead guilty to sodomy and was sentenced to 10 years. Gacy was a model prisoner and was paroled in 1970 after serving only 18 months.
He then moved to Chicago where he began his new life as a building constructor. Gacy became popular with his new neighbors and colleagues. He would throw theme parties and often dress up as "Pogo the Clown" for children parties and visit the sick children in the hospital. Gacy was once again charged with sexual misconduct towards a young man on February 12, 1971. The witness did not show up in court and the charges were dropped. He finished his parole on October 18th, 1971 and committed his first murder on January 3rd, 1972. He would drive around town looking for fresh meat. Often young male runaways, ex-jailbirds or even male prostitutes. Gacy's victims ranged in age from 9 to 20 years. In order to lure his victims to him, he went down the typical route of a Serial Killer. He would pretend to be a cop by showing them a badge or a gun and arrest them. He would later befriend them and take them home where he would show them magic tricks.
Once he had subdued his victim he would go on to torture, sodomize and garrote them. He would dispose of the bodies by burying them in a crawl space beneath his house. He would start to dump bodies in neighboring rivers once he ran out of room in the crawl space. in 1976, the killings escalated cause he had the house to himself after he divorced his second wife. On December 12th, 1978 he killed his 33rd and last victim. A 15-year-old boy named Robert Piest who happened to live in the same neighborhood as Gacy. Robert told someone that he was going to see his "Contractor" about a job and was never seen again. The "Contractor" turned out to be Gacy. When the police dropped by his house they noticed the smell from the decomposing corpses underneath. After they ran his police record, it wasn't hard for them to get a search warrant of his house. 29 bodies were found in his crawl space and 5 more in a nearby river, 9 of which remained unidentified. Gacy tried to justify himself by claiming he suffered from multiple personality disorder and the murders were made by his alternative personality Jack Hanson. During some of the murders he would be dressed up as his alter ego Pogo the Clown.
While Gacy was in Prison, he spent most of his time making oil paintings. He would paint Disney characters like "The Seven Dwarfs", Michelangelo's "Pieta" or even self-portraits as "Pogo the Clown". After his execution these paintings have become trendy collectors items. Film director John Waters and actor Johnny Depp are some celebrities who own his paintings. His art dealer was Rick Staton of Grindhouse Graphics.
On Friday, December 22, 1978, Gacy finally confessed to police that he killed at least thirty people and buried most of the remains of the victims beneath the crawl space of his house. His first killing took place in January, 1972. He further confessed that he would lure his victims into being handcuffed and then he would sexually assault them. To muffle the screams of his victims, he would stuff a sock or underwear into their mouths and kill them by pulling a rope or board against their throats, as he raped them. Gacy admitted to sometimes keeping the dead bodies under his bed or in the attic for several hours before eventually burying them in the crawl space. During his trail in 1980, psychiatrists testified Gacy was not a multiple personality and he was judged sane. After that, he was convicted of all 33 deaths, making him the worst serial killer in U.S. History. He was put to death by lethal injection on May 10th, 1994 at the age of 52. Execution lasted 18 minutes after one of the IV lines clogged. His last words were “Kiss my ass!”
Check out my first MMM post ft. Jeffrey Dahmer! May Monster Madness Ft. Jeffrey Dahmer
Minggu, 12 Mei 2013
May Monster Madness Day 2! Ft Jeffrey Dahmer
It's May Monster Madness! And I'm a day late. :/ I was going to post this yesterday but I ended up going to bed early since I've been up since 5 am. For MMM I decided to use my "Killer Saturday" posts for the blog hop. If you're not familiar with my Killer Saturday posts, I'll fill you in. I write up articles of a certain serial killer and talk about their life and the killings they committed while giving my personal opinion on the subject. Today's post I'm featuring Jeffrey Dahmer.
Disclaimer: "I am in no way trying to condone or justify the crimes these people have committed. My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones to these killers. I am not trying to embodied them as a hero or a villain. I am trying to embodied them as a human. These posts are simply here to get a better understanding as to why they could do such awful crimes. Maybe one day we can put an end to this horrific lifestyle."
Out of all the serial killers out there, I've always loved learning about Jeffrey Dahmer. I connected with him the most. My heart breaks for this man, I actually feel sympathy for him. Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21st, 1960 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Jeff was born into a loving home of Lionel and Joyce Dahmer, that shows every one that you don't have to be born into a dysfunctional family to be a killer. Jeffrey was a happy kid until the age of 6 when he had to have minor surgery which followed the birth of his brother. The events seemed to have a huge impact on Jeff, he became extremely closed off and lacked self-confidence.
About the same time, a career opportunity came along for his father which ended with the family moving to Ohio. Jeffrey's insecurities worsened, by his early teens he was disengaged, tense and had no friends. During his teens, his parents went through a bitter divorce which was Jeff's reasons for his behavior. He admitted that he first had thoughts of murder and necrophilia when he was 14 but it was seeing his parents marriage breakdown right before his eyes was the cause for turning this fantasy into a reality.
Jeffrey graduated from high school, in June of 1978. While his family was out of town, he picked up a hitchhiker by the name of Steven Hicks. He went home with Dahmer where they drank beer and had sex. When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer got upset and killed him by hitting him over the head with a barbell. Dahmer's reason for killing Hicks was, he didn't want him to leave. That right there made me almost cry. Jeffrey is so desperate for friends and approval and that he didn't want to be alone so he killed him. He felt the only way he would stay was if he killed him, that way he was still "with" him and he wasn't alone.
To hide the evidence, Jeffrey dismembered the corpse of Hicks, packed it in plastic bags and buried them in the woods behind his house. Jeffrey just happened to have a pet cemetery located out by his house where he buried Hicks. At the same time of the murder of Hicks, Dahmer's alcohol intake became out of control. He ended up dropping out of Ohio State University after only one term, due to his drunkenness. His father, who is now recently remarried forced Jeffrey to join the Army and he was posted to Germany.
His drinking problems got worse which resulted in his discharge from the Army two years later. Dahmer got arrested in October of 1981 for disorderly conduct which made his father send him to live with his Grandmother in Wisconsin. His problems with Alochol didn't seem to get better and his next arrest happened during September of 1986, for masturbating in front of two young boys, resulting in Dahmer receiving a one-year probationary sentence. He would spend his time in gay bars, "hunting" as some people call it for young boys. Usually African-American or Asian. While he was there, he came upon his second victim, Steven Toumi. Nine years apart from his very first killing. They checked into an hotel room where they drank heavily. The next morning, Dahmer claims to have found Steven dead besides him.
Dahmer brought a large suitcase to transport the corpse to his grandmother's basement, where he had sex, and masturbated on it, before dismembering it and disposing the remains in the trash. Over his thirteen year crime spree, Jeffrey developed a pattern of murder that persisted throughout the years. He would always find his victims at Gay Bars and lure them home with him with promises of money or sex. Once he achieved that, he would pursue them with alcohol spiked with drugs. He would strangle his victims, have sex with the corpse, masturbate on it, then dismember the corpses and dispose of them. He would usually keep their genitals or skulls as souvenirs. He also liked to take pictures of his victims from different stages of the murder, that way he could recollect each act afterwards and relive the experience.
He found gratification by assembling the skulls and masturbating in front of them. His grandmother grew tired of the late nights and drunkenness, not knowing his other activities, forced him to move out in September of 1988. That wasn't till after he had killed another two victims on the premises. Jeffrey had his lucky escape when he was charged for the sexual assault of a thirteen year old Latino boy. Dahmer claimed that he thought the boy was much older and the arrest made him see the errors of his way and it marked a turning point in his life. His defense counsel argued that he needed treatment, not jail time and surprisingly the judge agreed.
Handing down a five year probationary sentence, with one year prison sentence on "day release", under which he continued to work at his job, but returned to the prison at night. He was released after ten months, despite Dahmer's father having written to the judge urging that Dahmer be held until he had received appropriate treatment. He spent three months with his grandmother on his release, where he does not appear to have added to his body count, before moving into his own apartment in May 1990.
During the fifteen months that followed, up to the time of his capture, Dahmer's victim count accelerated; twelve more lives were taken using his modus operandi. Necrophilia is generally associated with issues of exercising control over victims. He developed these rituals as he progressed, experimenting with chemical means of disposal, and he also consumed the flesh of his victims. He attempted crude lobotomies, drilling into victim's skulls while they were still alive, injecting them with Muriatic acid to see whether he could extend his control to the living. Most of these victims died instantly, but he claimed that one victim had survived for a number of days in a zombie-like state, with limited motor function.
On May 26, 1991. A woman noticed a young Asian boy running around the street naked. The boy was incoherent and he was bleeding from his rectum. Dahmer explained to the police that he was his 19 year old lover and they had gotten into a fight while they were drinking and he wandered off. Not noticing that the boy had a hole in his head and ignoring the woman and her daughters pleas, the police believed Jeffrey's story and drove the boys home. Once home, the police left the boy in Dahmer's care not noticing the strange smell coming from his apartment. If they would of taken a look around they would of found the body of his twelfth victim decomposing in the bedroom and enough photographic evidence to arrest him on the spot. Because of this incident, the police involved with this call have been relieved of duty.
Dahmer's luck finally ran out on July 22, 1991, when two Milwaukee police officers picked up Tracy Edwards, a young African-American, who was wandering the streets with a handcuff dangling from his wrist. They decided to follow up on his claims that a "weird dude" had drugged and restrained him, and arrived at Dahmer's apartment, where he calmly offered to get the keys for the handcuffs.
Edwards claimed that the knife Dahmer had threatened him with was in the bedroom and, when the officer went in to corroborate the story, he noticed photographs of dismembered bodies lying around, which included one of a head in the fridge. He shouted to his colleague to restrain Dahmer, who fought back fiercely, but was nevertheless subdued. A subsequent search revealed the head in the fridge, as well as three more in the freezer, and a catalogue of other horrors, including preserved skulls, jars containing genitalia, and an extensive gallery of macabre photographs.
Despite having confessed to the killings during police interrogation, Dahmer initially pleaded not guilty to all charges. However, against the advice of his legal counsel, he changed his plea to guilty by virtue of insanity. His defense then offered every gruesome detail of his behavior, as proof that only someone insane could commit such terrible acts, but the jury chose to believe the prosecutor's assertion that Dahmer was fully aware that his acts were evil, but that he chose to commit them anyway, returning after only five hours deliberation to find him guilty, but sane, on all counts, on February 17, 1992. Dahmer was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life terms, a total of 957 years in prison.
On November 28th, 1994 after only serving two years of his sentence. Jeffrey along with another inmate were beaten to death by inmate Christoper Scarver. Jeffrey was 34 years old.
Say what you want but I feel bad for the guy. He had a hard life, he didn't have any friends and he didn't feel accepted by everyone else or loved. I sympathize with him because I myself didn't have a great childhood. I have a great family and supportive parents so I didn't lack the love from them. I didn't have any or a lot of friends growing up. I wasn't popular in school and I was teased cause I was an out cast. I was timid and kept to myself. I would spend all my time in my room cut off from the outside world just for the fact that I didn't feel accepted by anyone else. I didn't feel love or have love from anyone besides my family. I felt awkward and alone and singled out. That's how Jeffrey was, he was sad and alone. He wanted friends and wanted to be accepted by his fellow peers.
He struggled with trying to deal with his feelings and short comings and trying to find his place in life. He never really found his place. He felt more at "peace" when he was with his victims, he felt that he was finally accepted and that's sad. It's sad that the only way to feel loved or accepted by someone else is when you're with their corpse. It breaks my heart knowing that people go through this and ultimately results to them becoming a killer. I wish Jeffrey had more friends in his life, I wish he had more love and I wish he didn't have to feel the pain that he felt. No body knows how he felt and what he was thinking in his mind. No one knows why he felt that he had to kill people. He admitted the reason for his killings but I don't think anyone can fully comprehend the true reason for doing it but him.
People will look at him and see a monster. I look at him and see a sad, lonely man looking for love and acceptance and willing to get it anyway he can.
Kamis, 25 April 2013
May Monster Madness Is Back!!
That's right you guys! May Monster Madness is back and I'm pumped! At first I was a little worried cause I couldn't think of anything to post about but with a help of a good friend, I figured it out. ;)
May Monster Madness is a blog hop that goes through May 11th to 17th. For the blog hop you can post anything that's about Monsters. Last year I made a post for each of the Universal Monsters. It's a great way to meet a lot of cool people in the horror world and read some fun articles about Monsters.
If you want to sign up or just read up on your Monsters from everyone that is involved, just scroll down and sign up and add the blog links to your blog roll to keep up to date of the blog hop. :)
Minggu, 21 April 2013
Movie Review: Doll Graveyard (Mild Spoilers)
In 1911, 12 year old Sophia was playing in one of the rooms of her house with her four homemade dolls, that her abusive father forbid her to be in. After her father has finally had enough, he forced her to bury her dolls in the backyard. After she "slips" and breaks her neck, her father buries her along with her dolls.
94 years later, the Fillbrook family moves into the house. The son, Guy finds the dolls while playing in the backyard. The dolls become possessed with Sophia's spirit to protect Guy from the constant bullying he faces from his older sister, Deedee and her friends, Olivia, Rich and Tom. Now it's up to the kids to survive the night from the killer dolls.
There is so many things wrong in this movie. I'll start with the acting. Awful, just awful. It's like they weren't even trying to give a great performance. I could of acted more scared in this movie then any of those actors. You would think after seeing your boyfriend get killed from getting bitten in the crotch by one of the dolls, your scream would sound more terrified then a fake croak.
Deedee was your typical valley girl bitch. Hearing her talk is like nails on a chalk board along with her slutty friend, Olivia. She tried to come off more as a hot slut then a dumb blonde. Unfortunately for her the dumb blonde showed through a lot more. I really don't think that was their intention.
Guy was whiny in the movie since he had to deal with all the bullying. His acting was so bad, it came off as though this was his first acting gig. The so called tough jocks, Rich and Tom were idiots. Rich was the worst. I know some jocks are stupid but not all of them are. And they aren't THAT stupid. Rich was the mean bully and his friend, Tom was a lot nicer to Guy but still beat him up with Rich as a result of peer pressure. I think they should of had Tom be mean along with Rich. It didn't mesh well with one being mean and the other kind of of nice but still went along with the bullying.
The only one who actually did a somewhat decent performance (not by much) was Terri who has a crush on Guy. You could tolerate her acting throughout the movie.
Sophia and her Father were equally as bad. Sophia with her "Please daddy, I won't do it again. Please they're my friends." And her father, "You slow dumb witted girl." Good hell, who talks like that?
Next, the contrast of the film was horrible. It looked like it was filmed in the late 80's early 90's. I know they weren't trying to make it look like that since they made it known that it was set in present day of the year 2005. Most of the death scenes were stupid. Sophia falls into the grave that's pretty much a foot deep. I really doubt that can kill her. If it can then I'll be damned.
The script was poorly written. The dialogue between the actors was dumbfounding. While watching this movie I kept thinking to myself, were they drunk when they made this movie??? The story line was bad, and even if they got a new script it still would of been awful. The dolls looked like crap. They were creepy but still crap. They looked like a rip off of the puppets from The Puppetmaster, which is kind of funny since Charles Band who was one of the writers of the Puppetmaster was the director and writer of this movie.
This movie wasn't good and it's a one time watch. Two if you're extremely bored but I don't see myself watching this movie again in my near future. It wasn't that entertaining but I managed to stay focused on the movie instead of drifting off and that is a huge accomplishment for me since the movie was awful. Don't waste your time by watching this movie. I did because I bought a DVD featuring 20 horror films.
I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 Skulls.
P.s. Was this a bad rip off of Dolls?
Rabu, 10 April 2013
Movie Review: Evil Dead 2013
Evil Dead is the remake of the 1981 cult classic, The Evil Dead. Five friends head to an isolated cabin to help their friend, Mia kick start her sobriety. They stumble along a Book of the Dead and unknowingly summon up Demons living in the nearby woods. One by one the evil presence possesses them until one of them is left to fight for survival.
I enjoyed this movie a lot and thought they did a great job. I can't remember seeing that much blood in a movie and it was awesome. The acting was pretty good. Jane Levy, who played the lead, Mia did a great job with that role, her acting did wane a couple of times throughout the movie but managed to stay on top for the most part.
The supporting actors held their own and weren't bad and sometimes even believable. Some were better than others but the acting overall wasn't horrible. I wasn't expecting top notch performances either. I liked how they had no CGI and relied solely on their special effects. It made a lot of people cringe and jump during the movie. I would think if you go to movies like these you would be use to all of the shock value they produce.
It wasn't that funny, which it wasn't trying to be. There were parts I laughed out loud to, then again I was the only one laughing in the theatre. I tend to laugh at things in movies that a lot of people don't laugh at. I guess I'm easily amused. I've heard a lot of reviewers were complaining that the remake wasn't funny like the original.
I didn't think the original was funny and I didn't know they were trying to make it that way. That's because they weren't, not intentionally anyway. I think they're mistaking the original for the sequel. I really liked how this movie wasn't too fast or too slow. It had a happy medium of pace. I hate going to movies and feeling like you're being rushed through the movie which makes it hard to digest each scene since you only see it for two seconds.
I did feel like there was something lacking in this movie. I'm not sure what it is but it seemed that something was missing and they didn't add that certain thing to make this movie 5 skulls. I can't put my finger on it but if I did I would have to wash it. The reason why I think I enjoyed this movie so much was because I didn't like the original. I know, I know. Let me hear it.
I found the original boring and hard to get into, I think I need to give it another watch to see if that changed cause I watched it a few years ago. It makes sense that I liked the remake instead of the original. I usually never like the remake AND the original, it's either one or the other. A lot of people would say that it's blasphemy that I didn't like the original. No, what's blasphemy is them remaking Children of the Corn and adding a prequel to boot.
One thing I found funny was they put on the poster "Scariest film you will ever see." I don't think so. This movie was not scary at all, it was cringe worthy I'll give it that much. But to go as far as to say it's the scariest film is their way of sticking their foot in their mouths. People that watch horror movies won't get scared easily and your chances of scaring them with your horror movie is very slim. The jump scares were even a bummer. If you're going to claim that your movie is the scariest film you will ever see then you better live up to that statement or you're going to have a lot of pissed off and annoyed horror fans. Don't tease us.
All in all, you got a movie loaded with a gory good time and awesome special effects and some humor if you're easily amused like me. Give it a watch, can't hurt. I give this movie 4 out of 5 skulls.
Rabu, 20 Maret 2013
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Sequel Gets The Green Light!!
According to the website ScreenRant and MSN.com, the sequel to Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, got the green light. What made them say YES to a sequel when it only made $18MIL opening weekend? $200MIL worldwide, baby. Even though the states weren't really digging the movie, everyone out of America loved it.
Once the movie hit the $200MIL box office mark, Paramount confirmed that a sequel was in development. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are expected to executive produce once again (under the banner of their Gary Sanchez Productions company), whether Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton will be reprising their roles is left unsaid.
Some think they won't come back and others think they will so we won't know until more information on the sequel comes out. I had mixed feelings when I heard that there was going to be a sequel. At first I thought, why would they make a sequel when the majority of the people who saw it, hated it?
Then I wasn't surprised that they were going to make another one since the movie left the doors open for a sequel to be made. After I had time to think about it, I decided that I'm not disappointed in this news. I didn't hate Hansel & Gretel, I liked it a lot and had a great time watching it. Yes, there were things I think they should of done or done better but it didn't ruin my movie experience and good time.
We have the group of people that were expecting a well-plotted, Tarantino-esque action flick that didn’t bother with romantic subplots or having a ‘message’ that were disappointed and thought it was crap. And we have the group of people that were hoping for little more than a chance to see some witches get slaughtered and Jeremy Renner doing his best leading-man which did enough to make them happy and enjoy the movie. I fall into the last group.
This is what *I* think they should do to make the sequel score at the box office and be better than the first one. They need to slow it down a bit and not make the audience feel rushed and they need to do a better job with the script. Put a little more comedy in it but not too much that it becomes slapstick. Jeremy Renner should do a full frontal, more gore and make it more creepy.
What are your thoughts on the Hansel & Gretel sequel? Yay or Nay?
Jumat, 15 Maret 2013
My favorite Jason Voorhees
With the Friday the 13Th franchise being so huge, like 13 sequels. I've been able to pick which Jason I like the best. It's the same with Leatherface, since they're both played by different people in almost all of the movies, you're able to decide which one is your favorite and which one you thought was the worst.
Besides being Freddy's girl, I have always had a special place in my heart for Jason. I think it's because the way he was treated when he was a child hit close to home with me. Watching the whole franchise, I think it's safe to say that my favorite Jason Voorhees is Freddy Vs Jason. I like how they made him look and act in the movie.
Each actor who played Jason brought a little of their own personality to the character and I thought Ken Kirzinger did the best and really brought the character to life. Every time I watch FVJ, I think to myself "now that's the way Jason should be." Here are some fun facts about Ken while he was working on Freddy Vs Jason.
*He is the tallest out of the nine actors who played Jason. He's 6'5"
Had to undergo some dental work during the filming of Freddy vs. Jason, but it would have taken too much time to remove his makeup and costume and reapply them. When he arrived at the dentist's office still dressed as Jason (without the hockey mask), people were afraid he was an escaped psychopath and almost called the police.
In his first interview concerning Freddy vs. Jason, he did the whole video interview in Jason's costume wearing the mask, clothes and make-up, in order to make the viewers more confident in him and his loyalty to the character.
While filming the scene in the fiery cabin where Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees confront each other in Freddy vs. Jason, Kirzinger actually caught on fire. Being a stuntman for twenty-four years at that time, he remained calm while stage hands rushed in with fire extinguishers to put the fire out. This incident is discussed in the DVD commentary for the film.
According to Kirzinger, the hardest thing he went through for performing as Jason in Freddy vs. Jason (2003), was sinking into the lake. They shot the scene in a tank which was highly chlorinated and had debris to make it look like lake water. Director Ronny Yu wanted the close-up of Ken's eye and wanted him to sink into the water keeping his eye open. Then also he can't breathe because it would be visible on film. He was lying on top of the water and had to let himself sink down to the bottom of the tank without breathing keeping his eye open. Kirzinger really held his breath, and the chlorine in the water burned his eyes.
*Facts from IMDB
Who is your favorite Jason?
Minggu, 10 Maret 2013
Movie Review: Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters
The classic fairy tale gets reborn with a new twist. The story follows Hansel and Gretel 15 years after their incident with a witch when they were kids. Now they're bounty hunters traveling the world, killing witches. Along their journey of bounty hunting they discover a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.
After reading a few reviews for this movie I was a little afraid that I wasn't going to like it. Pretty much every review I've read hated this movie and thought it was crap. Because of that, I went to see the movie with low expectations. Don't get me wrong, I wanted this movie to be good. I've always liked the Hansel & Gretel story since I was little and I love the Brothers Grimm.
So I was really looking forward to this movie. Not to mention my love and obsession, Jeremy Renner as Hansel. :D Thankfully I liked it a lot more than I thought I would and I didn't think it was as bad as everyone thought. It was a cheesy, fun movie. Kind of like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which was also bad ass. The fight scenes were really cool and there was enough gore to please the horror fans and gore hounds without going over the top.
The 3D effects were fun and exciting. After seeing Texas Chainsaw 3D that had NO 3D effects, it's nice going to a movie and getting what you paid for. (Paid $13 to see that movie and got ripped off of the 3D) In my opinion, the script is the reason the movie didn't hold up well. I think they were relying way too much on making this a campy, goofy movie that resulted in hurting the film.
If they went another route with the script I think it would of made the movie better. It also would of made a lot more money at the box office. Hansel & Gretel made $19 MIL. A movie starring Jeremy Renner as one of the lead characters did lousy at the box office, seems wrong somehow. The acting was great, Jeremy and Gemma did an awesome job as Hansel & Gretel. Even though the script wasn't the greatest, they still managed to do a wonderful job despite what was given to them.
They also rushed the movie. They tried to throw in as much as possible in a short amount of time. I think they did a sloppy job at that because it was very noticeable of what they were doing. They should of made the movie a little longer so they could add everything they wanted to and have it go smoothly. At the end of the movie I couldn't help but think, that was it? Went too fast and not in a good way. When I go to see a movie with Jeremy Renner in it, I want it to last so I can savor the moment. ;)
Despite the flaws that this movie had and me thinking it was cheesy, I still enjoyed it a lot. To me, I didn't think it was a bad cheesy, it was a good cheesy that lets you enjoy the movie and have a good time. Is it Oscar worthy? No but that means nothing to me since most of the movies that are up for Best Picture at the Oscars are bleh.(IMO)
I give this movie 3 1/2 of 5 Skulls. :D
Selasa, 05 Maret 2013
Movie Review: Pet Sematary
I have the worst luck. I got really sick last Sunday with a migraine that lasted for three days. Along with the migraine, I had body aches, throwing up and pink eye. Then I got an ear infection and now I have croup. Yeah, I can't catch a break. While being "bed ridden" I was able to catch a viewing of Pet Sematary on T.V.
Pet Sematary is based off of the novel by Stephen King. The Creed family moves to a new town in the countryside of Maine. They find out there is a Pet Sematary in the woods behind their house. The neighbors are reluctant to talk about the Cemetery, and for good reason too. There is a dark secret about the Cemetery. It holds the power of life after death and when tragedy strikes, it makes that power too hard to resist.
This movie was fantastic, I loved everything about it. I really like how Stephen King wrote the screenplay for the movie. The acting was amazing. Everyone did a great job, even Miko Hughes who was around two at the time did a great job as Gage. He was so cute and creepy at the same time. A couple of scenes with him made me think that he acted a lot like Chucky from Child's Play. I wasn't too fond of that, though. ;) Dale Midkiff who played Louis Creed did a great job as the main character. He wasn't too bad to look at either, I have a thing for older men.
Denise Crosby & Blaze Berdahl were great as the mother and daughter. I really enjoyed Fred Gwynne performance in the movie as the Creed's neighbor, Jud Crandall. I didn't even recognize that he played Herman Munster from the T.V. show The Munsters until my Dad pointed it out. Another thing that I thought was awesome is this movie was directed by a woman, Mary Lambert. She has also directed other horror movies such as Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, Pet Sematary 2 & an episode of Tales from the Crypt.
It's nice to see women directors making horror films since this genre has been dominated more by men. I really enjoyed this movie and watching it made me more excited to read the book. I'm not sure if it's 100% like the book or very close to it. I'm thinking it might be since Stephen King wrote the screenplay for the movie and I know that his favorite movie from his book was 'Stand by Me' since it was the closest adaptation to his book. That is also the reason why he didn't like Stanley Kubrick's version of 'The Shining' since he didn't make it like the book as much as Stephen King would of preferred.
I think they did a great job at making this movie. You can totally feel Stephen King's presence in this movie. The story line is perfection and I think anyone would be tempted to use the Pet Sematary once they know what it does. The script was perfect and had a lot of great one liners. "Sometimes dead is better." If you're a fan of horror movie ( which I know most of you if not all of you are) and if you're a fan of Stephen King, I definitely suggest this movie. You won't be disappointed. I give this movie 5 out of 5 skulls.
Senin, 18 Februari 2013
Happy Bloody Birthday To Me!!!
Today is the day. The day of violence, despair, blood and cake. Today is my birthday! I am a quarter of a century, 25 years old. It's funny knowing that I'm 25 and in 5 years I'll be 30 when I still get ID'd for R rated movies. That always bugged me cause I haven't been 17 in 8 years. Today was a good day, didn't have to work since I always ask for my birthday off. My Dad took me out to breakfast at Denny's this morning. I had my usual, French Toast Slam.
We were planning on seeing the new Die Hard movie today at 3pm but once we got to the theatre they said the next showing was at 5:40pm. That irritated us cause it said there was a 3pm showing on their website. Oh well. After our movie plans were busted we went over to Buckle and Rue 21. Later that evening we went to TGI Fridays for my birthday dinner. My sister Sheena and her daughter came, along with her fiancé. My sister Maegan and her husband was there and also my parents. It was a very fun night. :)
On Sunday we had a big birthday dinner with the rest of my siblings and nieces & nephews who weren't able to come to my dinner on my actual birthday. It's always fun getting the nieces and nephews together for Sunday dinner. My parents bought me a Red Velvet cake from Costco which was REALLY good. My dad put the number candles on the cake and put them on backwards which said I was 52. Haha!
The Friday before my birthday me, my sister Sheena and her fiancé Will went to the Tavernacle which is a dueling piano bar. At first I didn't think a piano bar would be fun but it actually was. They have a drink called a Purple Popsicle and it tastes just like a grape otter pop. So good! I got a little drunk that night. ;)
For my birthday I have a little tradition that I always do. On my actual birthday I watch Children of the Corn since it's my favorite horror movie and the love of my life. I started a new tradition, the night before my birthday I'll watch Dahmer. And we all know the reason for that. I figure that it's my birthday so I'm going to treat myself by watching my second favorite horror movie and swooning over the lovely Jeremy Renner in the process. He does get shirtless in that movie so win, win! ;)
I got some birthday money from my family members so I need to plan a day where I can go shopping and enjoy that money. I'm in need a new wardrobe so this birthday money will come in handy. When I got on Facebook today I was greeted with a lot of Happy Birthdays and well wishes from my wonderful friends. My friends and fellow horror bloggers Maynard and Emma made me a birthday picture which was so nice to see and made my day.
Emma made me a Freddy picture and Maynard made me a Dahmer picture. They know what I like, it's not hard since I have OCD and everything I like becomes an obsession. I just want to take this time and personally thank everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday and made me some really nice birthday pictures. The last three years my birthday hasn't been the greatest and because of that I always fret the day coming. It's really comforting to know that I have a lot of great friends who are here for me when I need them the most. Thank you so much! :D
Selasa, 12 Februari 2013
Movie Review: Warm Bodies
The movie Warm Bodies takes place during the Zombie Apocalypse where one zombie known as R falls in love with a human girl named Julie. The relationship between R and Julie cause side effects in R that makes them think they might just have a way to rid the Zombie Apocalypse after all.
I'll admit that I wasn't too keen on the idea of this movie. I saw the trailer and instantly thought "Great! A zombie version of Twilight." I decided to give it a try just for the fact that it was about zombies, with me being a Necrophiliac I couldn't say no. ;)I didn't have very high expectations about this movie because the idea of zombie love is kind of cheesy. The zombie, R was played by Nicholas Hoult (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS) he did a pretty good job. His acting wasn't spectacular but it wasn't bad like Kristen Stewart.
Julie was played by Teresa Palmer (TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT) I really like her. She's so pretty and she doesn't come off as a stuck up Hollywood snob (not yet, that is.) I do enjoy her acting and think she's a very talented actress and I can see her making it big. The supporting cast of the movie also held their own and did a good job. Julie's friend Nora played by Analeigh Tipton wasn't too bad. According to IMDB, she placed third in cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model. I don't know why but I had a good giggle from that.
Julie's boyfriend Perry played by Dave Franco was okay. In my opinion I think he did the worse out of everyone in the movie. His performance wasn't memorable and it made me feel like he was in the middle of trying too hard and not trying hard enough. Wasn't my favorite. R's zombie friend M who was played by Rob Corddry did a great job. He was very funny in the movies WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS & HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, so it was nice to see the same funny guy in this movie. Julie's dad who is played by John Malkovich did a great job at playing the over bearing tool father. Even though he wasn't bad I still liked him better in the movie RED.
I enjoyed this movie a lot and had a fun time watching it. It wasn't the greatest movie ever like everyone on Facebook claims but it wasn't terrible and it was a fun movie. I was very impressed at how well they made this movie without making it super cheesy. The soundtrack was awesome and the fight scenes between the zombies were kind of cool. It had a lot of funny parts that had me laughing but it wasn't like 'laugh out loud till you pee your pants' funny. I kept anticipating when they were going to throw in the term Necrophilia in there because of the relationship between a zombie and a living person. They didn't. :/ It doesn't take a lot to please me and make me happy or even amuse me for that matter but yet they continue to not do it. Jerks.
All in all this was a very fun movie and I enjoyed it a lot. I might even watch it again. If you're looking for a fun, entertaining movie that feeds your hunger for horror/zombies then I recommend this movie. You'll have a good time. I give this movie 4 out of 5 Skulls.
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