Review "Carrie":

I know it's been awhile since I wrote a review but the problem I've been having for the past couple of weeks has been a mixture of writer's block and laziness. I watched the wonderful movie "Carrie" on Halloween and I must say that this movie hits very close to home. I've always said if my high school experience was a movie it would be titled "Carrie" I feel for Carrie, I understand her pain and her feelings. I don't think there was anything wrong with what she did to her classmates (to a point ;D), I simply think it was just self defense. Come on if you were constantly tortured by you're classmates every single day and you had a religious psycho mom you would have a mental breakdown too. It starts out with all the girls playing volleyball in gym and Carrie being shy and socially awkward she missed the ball so the other team won so of course her team mates were mad and started yelling at her and one of the girls hit Carrie on the head with her gym hat. It's a freakin volleyball game in gym class give Carrie a break. Talk about poor sportsmanship.

Their all taking a shower after gym and it shows all the girls running around the locker room naked and it shows Carrie in the shower. While she's washing her legs blood starts running down her legs and it gets on her hands while she's washing herself. She sees the blood and freaks out cause she doesn't know what's going on and she hasn't had her period before so she runs out of the shower screaming and tries to get one of the girls to help her, but since their all bitches you know what they did? That's right instead of helping her they all started to tease her chanting "plug it up." The gym teacher pushes all the girls away to comfort Carrie and she calms her down. The teacher talks with the principle about what happened and had Carrie come in to talk to them and told her that she had permission to go home. The stupid principle kept calling her Cassie even though the gym teacher told him several times that her name was Carrie. After talking to Carrie while it was starting to get to her he calls her Cassie and she yells out "It's Carrie!" and his lamp on his desk breaks and she runs out of his office. While Carrie is walking home some stupid little boy is riding around on his bike and decides to taunt Carrie so he rode by Carrie yelling "Creepy Carrie, creepy Carrie!"

Once he did that Carrie looks at him and he looses control of his bike and he fell off. That was the funniest thing I ever saw, I laughed so hard. After Carrie gets home it shows her mom Margret at Sue's house to preach the word of Christ. I hate people like that which is why I never answer the door :D Margret talks to Sue's mom and she, like me isn't interested in hearing about "her" opinion on religion. Margret walks towards the door to leave then turns around and says "I pray that you find Jesus" and I pray that you find sanity. She heads home and the phone rings, it's the school letting her know what happened. She calls Carrie to come down stairs and explains she's a woman now and starts quoting the bible telling Carrie to repeat what she says and when Carrie wont she would hit her with the bible. After that she tells her it's time to pray for forgiveness and she drags Carrie kicking and screaming to the closet where she locks her in there and not letting her out till she stays in there for a long time praying. No wonder she snapped. The next day all the girls except Carrie are on the track field where the gym teacher is yelling at them for what they did to Carrie and told them that their punishment is a week detention and if they miss one day they wont be able to go to prom.

It continues to show the girls in detention then the main snotty girl Chris aka "Head Bitch" gets pissed and refuses to show up for the rest of the scheduled detention so of course she's not able to go to prom. Sue convinces her boyfriend Tommy to ask her to the prom cause she thought it would be nice and help Carrie. Out of all the girls that teased Carrie Sue is the only one to actually feel bad and try to make it right. You go girl! Tommy tries to ask her out but she keeps turning him down since she thinks he's just trying to make fun of her. Throughout the movie she notices that she's able to do things with her mind and she begins to read books about it and realizes she's not the only one who has that gift. She gets home and tells her mom that a boy asked her to prom and her mom tells her she can't go which makes Carrie upset and she pushes her mom with her mind and tells her that she's going and there's nothing she can do about it. Chris tells her boyfriend Billy that she wants to make Carrie pay so they head out to a farm and they kill one of the pigs. Carrie gets ready for the prom and her mom walks in the room and tells her that she can see her dirty pillows, Carrie informs her that their just breasts and every woman has them.

She heads off to the prom and she's having the time of her life then they announce the king and queen of the prom which ended up being Tommy and Carrie. They get up on stage where they give her a crown and flowers and she stands there smiling then suddenly it shows Chris under the stage holding a long rope. She lets go of the rope which drops a bucket of pig blood all over Carrie and everyone just stands there in shock at what just happened then one of Chris' friends begins to laugh and Carrie begins to hear her mother's voice in her head saying over and over again their all going to laugh at you then she totally snaps and begins to set the prom on fire. Everyone is running around screaming trying to get out of the building and a lot of them ended up dying including Tommy. Carrie is walking home while drenched in blood and it shows Chris and Billy driving in the car behind Carrie and Chris steps on the gas and tries to run her over but Carrie hurry and turns around and makes the car tumble over and burst into flames. Don't ever try to mess with a girl who has special powers, she'll kill you. She gets home and takes a bath to get the blood off of her and explains to her mom that everyone was laughing at her and it was bad.

Margret tells Carrie about how she fell in love with a guy when she was a teenager and she ended up having sex with him and she liked it but she ended up feeling dirty and vile and guilty once she got pregnant. After that she vowed to live her life spreading the word of Christ which is why she started being a crazy religious freak. She hugs Carrie and ends up stabbing her and Carrie falls down the stairs. Margret walks down and tries to stab her again but Carrie uses her mind to make all of the knives in the kitchen to fly towards her mom and kills her. Once she clues into what happened she hugs her mom screaming and crying that she was dead. Even though her mom was abusive Carrie still loved her. All that pain fuming out of Carrie makes the house catch on fire killing Carrie and her mom. Later it shows Sue's mom talking on the phone about what happened at the prom and how Sue is sleeping a lot which the Doctor says is normal considering what she's been through. It switches to a dream that Sue is having, she walks up to Carrie's grave to put some flowers on it then Carrie's hand pops out of the ground and grabs Sue's arm. She wakes up screaming and crying and her mom tries to calm her down then the scene fades away and the credits roll up.

I really loved this movie and it made me feel like I was just like Carrie. Even though I don't have any special powers I still got teased and made fun of by my class mates in school and it made my life a living hell. To this day I'm still surprised that I never had a mental breakdown. In a lot of ways me and Carrie are a lot alike which is why I understand how she felt and why she did what she did. Sometimes constant bullying will drive you to you're breaking point and you end up doing things you never thought you would do. This is why you should never bully another person cause you never know if their going to end up killing all the people who bullied them or killing themselves. My sister told me that I was the type of person who would go to their high school reunion to murder everyone. Hahahaha that comment made my day. I give this movie 5 out of 5 skulls.

Movie Review, The Shining:

It took me a long time to actually watch The Shining but when I was at work I noticed that the electronics department had horror movies on sale for Halloween and one of them just so happen to be The Shining. The movie starts with the camera "flying" over the lake of Colorado with very eerie music playing which I did enjoy cause it made the movie more creepy. Jack Torrence was on his way to the Overlook Hotel for a interview to be the new caretaker from November to May. Meanwhile back at home Jack's wife Wendy was telling their son Danny about moving to the Overlook Hotel if his dad got the job but Danny wasn't too pleased with this idea and tells his mom that his imaginary friend Tony doesn't want them to move there. Jack's interview goes great and he gets the job as caretaker and one of the workers tells Jack about the old caretaker in the 70's how he suddenly had a mental breakdown and murdered his wife and his two daughters by killing them with an axe.

If someone told me that someone snapped and killed his family while staying at a hotel I wouldn't even want to go into that hotel let alone live there but apparently that didn't scare him since he took the job. While Jack is still at the hotel Danny starts brushing his teeth while talking to his friend Tony then suddenly he starts to have weird flashback of things that happened before but he doesn't know what it is. After that he had a spazz attack so Wendy called the doctor to come check him out but she didn't really find anything wrong with him that's when Wendy and the doctor started talking about his past and how Jack would drink a lot and one night he got drunk and hurt Danny's arm. They get packed up and head off to the Overlook Hotel, once they got there the guy who interviewed Jack was there and gave the whole family a tour of the hotel. Dick Hallorann the hotel's chef offered to give Danny some ice cream while they showed Wendy the other part of the hotel. While Danny was eating the ice cream Dick talks to him about how he was able to talk to his grandmother without even opening his mouth and his grandmother called it "The Shining"

About a month or so goes by and Jack starts showing signs of anger and Danny's flashbacks start getting worse and more intense. Every now and then he would see two twin girls and then he would see them laying on the floor dead with the whole hallway covered in blood with an axe by their body and it shows blood rushing out of the elevator which in fact was my favorite part of the movie. Time goes by and Jack starts to get more hallucinations and his anger starts to sky rocket. He heads down to the bar and starts to have a conversation with the bartender but there is no one in the bar but Jack. He meets Delbert Grady who use to be the caretaker in the 70's who killed his wife and two daughters. Grady tells Jack that Wendy is starting to become a problem and his son is bringing an outside party into the situation and he needs to stop them before they get out of hand. Jack starts yelling at Wendy so she gets a hold of a baseball bat to defend herself and ended up hitting him over the head knocking him out. She locks him in one of the food storage rooms and tries to get Danny out of the hotel since his hallucinations are getting worse day by day.

Jack gets out of the room and gets an axe and starts chopping up the door to get into the room where Wendy was while he's chopping up the door Wendy opens up one of the windows and puts Danny through it and tells him to run and hide. Once he chopped a big hole in the door he sticks his head up against it and says the famous line "Heeeeeres Johnny!" he sticks his hand through the hole of the door to unlock it and Wendy cuts his hand with a knife, Jack leaves to take care of his hand and Wendy runs out of the room to escape the hotel then she starts seeing ghosts of people who stayed in the hotel in the 70's. Jack runs outside sine he could hear Danny out there so he tries to run after him but couldn't find where he was hiding. After trying to find Danny, Jack starts getting tired since being possessed takes a lot out of you and he's running around in the snow then he gets stuck outside and freezes to death. Wendy and Danny drive away from the hotel in a snow tractor and it shows a picture of the Overlook Hotel Ball in the 1920's with Jack standing in front of the crowed wearing a tux then the closing credits appear.

I really liked this movie and it was one of the best Stephen King movies since my personal favorite Children of the Corn. The music was tastefully done and the acting was wonderful. Jack Nicholson did a great job as Jack Torrence. He was mean, cocky and a major douche bag, every time he opened his mouth I had the sudden urge to punch him in the face. Shelley Duval wasl great as Wendy Torrence, even Danny Lloyd was great as Danny Torrence. The acting in this movie was very outstanding for being in that time back in the 80's. My only complaint of this movie was I wish it was more creepy and more dark, it had some creepy parts but the whole movie in general wasn't very creepy and if they remake this movie since I heard rumors they were thinking about it they should make it more dark and creepy then this one. All in all I did enjoy this movie very much and I would watch it again and it's definitely one of the best horror movies of the 80's. I give this movie 4 1/2 out of 5 Skulls.