Is anyone else still watching this, or is it just me & the wifey? Ironically, the character I like least is Hannibal himself. Other than that bit of strange casting, I really dig it. It's no Dexter, but I'll take it.

Still watching it.  I'm really quite liking it, including both the leads. I'm thinking Mads may be my favorite Lecter, actually.  (While I appreciate Hopkins scenery chewing glee, I'd always liked Brian Cox better anyhow.)  Once you get used to how completely impenetrable Mikkelson's face is, you notice he's doing some nice subtle work.  Hugh Dancy gets to project more (a lot more), but even he is keeping things pretty tight.

The series is interesting because it is so ... still.  Very quiet. There's actually quite a lot of violence, and some of it's pretty graphic, but the whole tone of the thing has this low key peace to it, so you don't quite notice.  I'm finding that really interesting.  I hope to hell it doesn't change. 

THANK YOU!!!!!  At least I'm not the only one who liked Brian Cox better.

Mads is doing a FANTASTIC job and I completely agree with your analysis.

I'm really behind, but my DVR is one of my best friends.  I just need the time to watch it.

The Never Ending Story II.

Think about it for a second.

I'd rather not.  It comes bundled with The Neverending Story.  When I bought it I had to take the bullet.  I don't think it would sell without the original.

You also forgot (as most of society is trying to do) The Neverending Story III.

I'll never mention that on this site again.  Sorry.

It saddens me greatly to say this.

RIP Jeff Hanneman.  You were one of the greatest.  You will be missed.

It's such a tough thing though.....  like where do you draw the line of someone who just simply "isnt all there"  is a total weirdo, computes things in his/her mind completely differently than the rest of able thinking human beings....and the kind of weirdo that is capable of carrying out such horrific acts? How do you decipher the two? And what actions can you take against the latter, who hasnt committed any crime yet and still has all their rights as a human being? Alot of these people carrying out these acts, have no prior criminal history. Like Holmes out in Colorado.....  they obviously noticed something was little off with the kid...... but what do you do? Lock him up? Tell his parents the guy has all the warning signs of being a homicidal lunatic and we're locking him up? Even though he hasnt done anything? It's definitely a tough issue to tackle. How about that kid in Conneticut? Obviously the kid wasnt right from the get-go. You supposed to treat him like a caged dog for the rest of his life? I dunno, maybe?

We could just go back and do the same thing us Greeks did way back when. You gave birth to a baby that has an obvious deformality? They threw it off a cliff for the fishes. You came out flippin' and floppin', no argument. Baby was overboard.


GC.....you know that's why there are no dumb greeks right? 

You've never met my sister.

From the library picked up:

The Omen (1976)
Hellraiser
Frailty
Frozen
V/H/S
adding these to my collection asap

plus

Spy Kids 4 - for my 6-year old

and a Dora DVD for the little one

Appreciate the kind words.

When 9-11 went down.....it was almost so crazy, it was sureal. Like it was fake-life. What you only witness on television, it just doesnt seem real. Same goes for any other tragedy that's occured. Natural disasters, mass shootings, etc....  it's not a reality until something hits home like this. 

This on the other hand.....seeing that street (Boylston) and knowing I've been on that very street literally hundreds of times. And all the eyewitness videos/pictures of literally in the middle of the madness....  just strikes a cord within me that I'm not used to and really can't describe. It's bizarre. Seeing a little kid in a wheel chair with an obvious horendous leg injury......just turns my stomach. I'm in Texas now, but that area IS my home. I never resided within the city limits myself, but almost every RedSox game I've been to (COUNTLESS....and I mean Countless!)  we usually park a mile away and walk down Boylston street to get to Fenway. It's like a mile and a half walk but it's always extremely pleasant. The patrons walking to the game, the feeling in the air is almost indescribable. Anyone who has experienced the Fenway Park area, an hour or two before a RedSox game, will tell you how euphoric and unique the atmosphere really is. No other venue in sports can compare. The green monster in left field, outside, is literally on a sidewalk. The stadium is just there. No parking lot, nothing....     and just the thought of bombs going off during one of those days.....    can't really put it into words. And unfortunately I have a bad feeling they're not going to find out who is responsible. Hopefully someone will be brought to justice....but......  I dunno, we'll see.

Now you know how I feel about 9/11

Picked up the Toy Story Trilogy and Frankenweenie from the local library. 

I replaced my badly toddler-chewed copy of The Incredibles (yea eBay for 2nd hand disks!).  I really want to see Frankenweenie, but can't convince either of my kids to ask for it.

I haven't seen it yet either.  Not as much time as I'd like.

Picked up the Toy Story Trilogy and Frankenweenie from the local library. 

Holy cats- is she in that, GMG? I haven't seen that flick in so long that all I really remember is Christina Applegate being in it.

Danielle Harris is the little sister who's a tomboy. 

I like it so far.  I'm waiting for it to get more graphic.

I liked it.  I need to see it again to truly appreciate it.

Evil Dead (2013)

I just got back from watching this.  While I enjoyed it, there were some things that bothered me but that’s because I’m THAT MUCH of a geek that suspension of disbelief doesn’t always work.  It’s hard to turn that off.

At any rate, here’s the review...

The movie begins with a girl staggering through the woods.  Two mountain men give her the old ‘bag over the head trick’ and when she comes to she’s chained to a post in a basement.  There’s an old woman speaking a different language while reading from an evil book.  The girl then gets burned alive by her father.

We then fast forward to David, Olivia, Natalie, Eric, and Mia.  They all meet at a secluded cabin in the woods.  It turns out that David and Mia used to go there in their childhood with their mother.  David and Mia have since drifted apart after their mother died.  Mia, a recovering heroin addict, promises to quit cold turkey.

Eric discovers the book (Necronomicon) wrapped in plastic and barbed wire.  After making a chore of cutting away the coverings, he reads from the book (which CLEARLY warns him NOT to do so).  Mia gets possessed and terror ensues.

That’s a close enough proximity.  Not too much revealed there.

The big question is...Did this movie live up to the hype?  The answer is...yes.

The ONLY thing this movie lacks (mostly because it doesn’t belong in this type of movie) is nudity.  I personally would have welcomed some but it probably wouldn’t have worked anyway.

The scares were well done.  There were times when i was looking in the background for the thing to jump out and it jumped out in the foreground.  Way to switch it up guys.  Good job.

There was one big question that I had about the plot, but the movie actually answers this - I’ll let whoever reads this try to figure it out.

The acting wasn’t too over the top, but there was a smattering of cheese here and there.  We also got some funny one-liners.  In order to be a true remake, an homage to the original has to be made.  The cheese in this movie more than makes up for that.  There’s not much of it, but it is there and it’s ALWAYS welcome.

The true star of this movie is the gore.  That was the marketing scheme and it worked.  The movie starts out bloody and ends with even more blood than the first scene.  The gore was absolutely top notch and some of it made me cringe.

While this was very good and enjoyable, I prefer the original to this one.

I gave the original an 8 out of 10.
I’m giving the remake a solid 7 out of 10

It would be cool.  There was a time when Prime, Horrorist, BQueen, Earp, GC, and myself were all state by state.  We managed to get together a couple times, usually at horror conventions.  Threw down a couple times with BQueen and her hubby.  Real cool people there.  Haven't seen Prime in years.  Horrorist doesn't really drink.  Threw down with SirWiggle one time too.  Awesome guy.  Got drunk as shit with Earp a couple times at a con.  Hell, that was the first time I met him.  I'm lucky he didn't try to slice my liberal throat.  I did wake up the next morning with a great sense of shame and an empty wallet.  Something happened...

We might be able to ramp up Horror Nights somehow.  Hell, even a couple Friday night chatrooms might be cool.  Everybody is so busy though.  In my 20's, I was cranking out movie reviews and doing all kind of shit.  In my 30's, not so much.  Wanna get back... 

I try to review at least one movie a month - horror or otherwise.

In regards to Horrornight, we need to make it a set time (the last saturday of every month - or something like that) and be consistent with it.  If we have some nights where only two people show up...so be it.  My fist Horrornight was watching  The Thing with Earp.  It started with more, but by the time the second movie rolled around, everyone else left.

Traum:

Ya, I ended up going on IMDB to find out that alien story. I get that they went out to be extra original with that one but it ended up being the weakest IMO. It was building up to be quite scary as a ghost story, but then it kind of lost me.

Vamp:

I hear ya. I gotta say, despite the overuse of the F word (seriously why do horror movies feel like that makes it better, what are we 17?) this was the best horror flick I've seen in a long, long time. But the sad part is this will not change the industries current cruddy path because this thing didn't even get a theatrical run! Much like Trick R Treat a few years ago, the studios chickened out and threw it to the DVD shelves.

Horror is the type of genre that works exceptionally well with the anthology format. Horror doesn't require in depth character development like a Paul Thomas Anderson film, it just needs an original scary story with believable acting. That's it.

It DID get a theatrical run.  Sadly, it was very, very limited.  It definitely deserved a big one.

V/H/S 2 is in the works - may be done - have to look it up.

I just saw something called Triangle, which is about strange events on the high seas but not, surprisingly, in the Bermuda Triangle.  (Or I guess it could be since they start out in Florida, but it isn't ever implied and isn't the basis for the title of the movie.)

I'd probably give this an 8 out of 10, it was really quite good.  It is sort of a "time loop" thing (that's not really much of a spoiler), which I usually don't like because they seem to be trying so...damn...hard, but in this case it seemed to work and not be annoying because they kept it fairly loose.  It had Melissa George, whom I've noticed pops up in a good number of higher-quality-than-usual horror/thriller movies (e.g., A Lonely Place to Die, which I only found because I keep an eye out for Karel Roden).  I may have to start keeping an eye out for her, too.

I also watched Vamps with Alicia Silverstone and Sigourney Weaver.  If you can't sleep and there is nothing else on, it won't cause serious brain trauma or abdominal distress, but otherwise I wouldn't bother.

Triangle wasn't bad.  It was hard for me to watch because Melissa George had so many ass shots.  Sorry to sound like a pig.  Just being honest.