It's been a while since I've been to the blog, a little over a year... and a lot of things have changed. Reaper has been canceled, booooo CW! Supernatural was renewed from it's final "Kripke's planned ending" season, yeah CW... I hope. True Blood is my new favorite, but now they are pitting werewolves against vampires. I know this was a series of books before it became a television show and the writers use this as plot refrence, however seems convenient timing with the height of Twilight mania (don't hate the Twilight). Even with that said, I really enjoy this show. The eccentric nature of characters like Layfette and Jason Stackhouse, weigh the overly dramatic stories successfully combining a grocery store romance novel with the slick producing of creator Alan Ball.
A few of the newer shows this last year like Vampire Diaries, Happytown, The Gates, havent worked for me. It's just a matter of time before their replaced. Maybe Dexter will return in September with Season 5 premiere saving the day. Season 4's surprise ending was one of the best ever written in television series (you have to see for yourself).
Speaking of grocery store romance novels let's jump right into the Twilight films. Oooh, just kidding Twilight fans, I'll get trashed for that one. All kidding aside, I really did enjoy the first two films for what they are. They have changed today's vampire into a romantic story similar to Dracula from the films of the 20's & 30's. He had this quality as well, luring women to his castle with his charm not to marry them, but so he could eat them. I'm glad the Twilight films have come to the party. There is room for all of us here, and all kinds of interpretations of the legend, that is the freedom of storytelling. They even wooed David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy) to direct the most recent, Eclipse. If I could make one small request to the producers it would be fangs. Fangs, fangs, fangs, fangs, maybe that's four requests, but my point is that I can even do without the blood and gore for the pg-13 rating, but a vampire needs fangs. Don't let'm starve.
I do have to give warning to twilight fans, the time will come, I don't know when, but the vampire will change again when the next generation calls for something else. And we will welcome that to the party as well. "You're a vampire, Michael. My own brother, a goddam shit-sucking vampire. You wait 'til Mom finds out buddy!".
The loss of Corey Haim will forever leave a spot in all 80's horror fans and our generation. If you remember garbage pail kids, Saturday morning cartoons, neon colored pants, video stores and VHS copies of Silver Bullet, The Watchers, Lost Boys, then you know exactly what I'm saying. They will never make movies like that again, it's more than the death of a child star, it's the death of an era of film, R.I.P Corey.
There has been a few hidden treasures in the sea of mediocre horror films the last 12 months has produced. Zombieland! Halloween ll! Jenifer's Body! Friday the 13th (the remake)! Look for my late reviews in the coming weeks of each. I have yet to watch the Nightmare remake, maybe DVD, I am conflicted. It is another death of a character and an era that can never be replaced. This need to restart franchises instead of creating a new is becoming tiresome. What the producers don't understand is Englund was Freddy, it's not a character you can replace like Dracula or the Wolfman. Try remaking Beetlejuice with Dane Cook... yeah, you see what I mean, will never work.
I will continue to visit this blog as much as time allows reviewing and revisiting horror movies, news, reviews. Thanks for visiting. Stay tuned.
Standing in line at a local Michael's craft store check out line, I noticed these bad boys. The ghost flavor is described as a mystery in each bite... and the black vampire version is said to taste "blood orange".
Thank you Mr. Rodriguez for seeing this one through! The most exciting (not real) trailer that ran during the Grindehouse interludes has been put into motion. Ever since Dirty Harry has been "making punks lucky" no film has come close, until this. Danny Trejo is Machete. Also starring Robert Dinero, Jesica Alba, Don Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, and freak'n Steven Segal, looking cool again... what did i just say?
It's been a while since I've been to the blog, a little over a year... and a lot of things have changed. Reaper has been canceled, booooo CW! Supernatural was renewed from it's final "Kripke's planned ending" season, yeah CW... I hope. True Blood is my new favorite, but now they are pitting werewolves against vampires. I know this was a series of books before it became a television show and the writers use this as plot refrence, however seems convenient timing with the height of Twilight mania (don't hate the Twilight). Even with that said, I really enjoy this show. The eccentric nature of characters like Layfette and Jason Stackhouse, weigh the overly dramatic stories successfully combining a grocery store romance novel with the slick producing of creator Alan Ball.
