Honestly, I've only played the game for maybe 3-4 hours, but probably only accomplished 90 minutes worth of a game and I already feel it is going to get old quite fast. We'll see though. There has only been one true Xeno encounter and I just got the tracker.

The problems with the 2011 movie included:

1. The dumb ideas from Winstead's character, such as the filling one.
2. Way too much monster.
3. CGI monster.
4. It tried too hard to make things be the way they are for McCready to find, but still managed to get them wrong.
5. The final confrontation was just stupid.
6. Very poor looking effects. THe practical stuff from Carpenter's movie looks vastly superior to the CGI of this movie.

What's sad about it is the fact that they made some truly great practical effects and monsters for the newer movie that were clearly intended to only have a couple of segments CGI'd for more realistic movements. They were featured in the blu-ray extras. Then apparently the decision was made at some point down the line to completely replace the creatures with digital models. Such a waste, and it's sad that practical effects are so underutilized in movies today.

As for the details within the movie itself... meh. Despite how much I love Carpenter's movie, I somehow managed to not scrutinize the continuity between the two movies. Fairly uncharacteristic of me. There's an axe in the wall, a frozen dude with a slit throat, the burned carcass of a two-faced monster... honestly, I remember being shocked during my first viewing that they put as much effort into it as they did. At least it wasn't a total remake loosely based on Carpenter's version. Those were my original fears for it, based on the title. My enjoyment of the movie may be based on relief.

Student Bodies was a funny comedy horror spoof type. Yeah.

Just watched "John Dies At The End" pretty cool for a comedy/Horror flick. (it's no Sean of The Dead, But it wasn't a waste of time)

Yeah, I hope Harbinger Down can do what The Thing could not.

I will always take good practical effects over CGI. even the best CGI looks, well, fake to me. I'm sure that eventually we will get to the point where digital can pass for real, but not yet. The practical effect monsters move more like I think a real malformed dog beast with tentacles would move. kinda sloppy not fluid seamless movement. I wouldn't expect anything that misshapen, that just formed itself to know right off the bat how to get around.

BTW, been playing Friday the 13th for NES for the last couple hours.. no fear, but an ass load of rage! Someone needs to make a Halloween game where you can play as Michael Myers first person.
(That'll piss off a lot of parents).

Got these:

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Also, we just got back from spending the last few hours at the Alamo Drafthouse for the Mile High Horror Festival. It was an interesting experience and we got to talk to a few people like Gunnar (Leatherface in the original TCM), Julia Adams from Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jeffrey Reddick (Final Destination writer/director), and while I did not get to talk to the at all, I also got to see Tony Todd and Michael Berryman.

I did take some pictures:

Slideshow that has everything I took: http://s1366.photobucket.com/user/Dr...estival%202014

Some highlights:

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Us with Jeffrey Reddick: http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/...psf6c7f650.jpg

Julia Adams autographs:

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Also, here is what I recorded this that was going on during the pre show of Creature from the Black Lagoon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE8r...ature=youtu.be

Speaking of which:

Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D - This is absolutely one of my favorite Universal monster movies of all time and getting to see it in 3D was down right phenomenal. The opening bit when they first find the fossilized Gill Man arm was nothing short of stellar and the 3D as a whole puts most of the movies done today to shame. There were some moments where the screen did seem to get blurry during fast motions, but aside from that, it was wonderful. The movie is amazing. The Gill Man is amazing. And getting to meet the actress from it was awesome. Overall, I give this movie a nice big 9/10 stars.

^ That looks pretty cool, wish we had an event like that here at home.

Wait you've never seen this film in 3D before?! I've actually only ever seen it that way and will probably be trying to see it 2D soon.

No, I did not even know a 3D version existed until BD, but you need a 3DTV to watch it in 3D there. I did not even know the movie was in 16x9 until the BD either since both the VHS tapes and DVDs were in 4x3.

The film was originally released as a polarized-light-3D which is fairly similar in concept to stereoscopic-3D used now, but nowhere near as effective. In the '70s it was released as an anaglyph-3D using the red and blue iconic glasses, this is the only version of the film I've ever seen. As with all anaglyphic films though, it comes off distorted at times and can cause headaches.

Today was a nice cold and rainy Sunday, so we spent the time cranky through a few movies.

Friday the 13th - This movie is an oddity because it started a franchise out of what was supposed to be just one single stand alone movie with no sequels. The plot of the movie is simplistic but done in such a manner that it mimics the best of both Psycho and Halloween while also giving the killer a true motive. The downside is that the cast is pretty much there just to die, but they are at least enjoyable characters for what little they have when it comes to personality. One of the movie's best aspects is its first person view for the killer and that makes it really unique. Overall, I give this movie a 7/10 stars and it is easily one of the best in the franchise.

The Thing from Another World - This is an interesting odd ball movie being based on the same story that John Carpenter would go on to re-adapt thirty years later. There is a nice build up to the finding of the UFO and the creature and while the dialog is written naturally thanks to people constantly talking over one another,the actors deliver their lines very seriously and wooden. There are lines that end up funny and I'm not sure if they were meant to be because the actors have such serious faces and responses. The other issue is that every just acts so nonchalantly about the whole thing. A dog is found dead, drained of its blood and those that find it just treat it as nothing at all. The story itself is fine for what it is, but there really isn't any sense of suspense in the last half because of how everyone just blows off everything that is going on. A little bit of paranoia could have been a major help in this movie. Overall, I give it a 6/10 stars as it was enjoyable for what it was, but it was nothing ground breaking or even the least bit terrifying.

Rob Zombie's Halloween - This movie just does not get any better with each viewing. Yes, it is definitely better than Resurrection, but not by much. A lot of the movie just doesn't make sense even without thinking of it as a remake. The characters are just giant jerk monkey and seem to care more about making sex jokes and swearing more than having a real conversation. There is little to no character development at all. Loomis is a money grubbing douchebag. The theme music is played in parts of the movie where it does not make a lick of sense. There is a lot of unnecessary gore and violence. Did Michael really need to kill all of those people in the sanitarium? And the cops? Annnnnnnnnnnnnd Laurie's parents? Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Judith's boyfriend? Did we really need to see those two guys rape a girl? Did we need to have Annie's pointless boyfriend there to die? Why did Michael take Laurie to his house? How did he get her there without anyone else noticing? Why would Lynda and her boyfriend go to the Myers house? Plus, the movie does not even have an ending, it just stops. ARGH!! This movie is just straight up a Rob Zombie movie and is as crappy as The Devil's Rejects. Overall, I give this garbage a 3/10. The best thing about it is that it does at least have a great looking Myers mask.

Friday the 13th 2 - When I first watched this one in 2009 I was not all that impressed with it. This time around though, I liked it a lot more than the first time. It is actually a pretty good film with some nice creativity in the kills and it is nice that they did not just kill off the entire round of people in it. Nevertheless, the movie is far from its problems. The majority of the characters are there just to die, so they have very little development. The other issue is that the editing seems poorly done as shots seem to abruptly cut and what not. It is distracting and does take away from it. Overall, I will still give it a 7/10 because, while not as good as the first one, is still a decent entry.

Of course Rob Zombie's Halloween sucked, it was a remake of a great movie. Almost all remakes of initially good (or better) movies tend to suck. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake stands out as one I really disapprove of, I love the 1974 original as a staple of the genre. The remake was, besides unnecessary, stupid. I'll grant the effects and gore were better but that should be expected from the time gap, yet the original felt more realistic and had a sense of psychological terror with its violence. Trying to humanize Leatherface is also a dumb idea, too many horror remakes try to generate sympathy for the bad guy.

Never saw Rob Zombie's first Halloween. Watched about six minutes of the sequel on tv the other day. Seemed to be the very beginning. It was... odd.

Dafuq was up with the white unicorn and angel? I was only barely paying attention at that point, so I missed most of it. From there, it went to (I assume) Laurie limping around a hospital until Michael showed up. His grunts and growls as he was stabbing one of the nurses was strangely off-putting, despite the context.

I changed the channel when there was a legitimately intense moment where she was cornered in a small security shack, only for her to wake up and show that it was a dream.

There are a few things I need to touch base on in this post.

1. Rob Zombie's Halloween was the first Halloween movie I ever saw, so I had no prior knowledge of what the Halloween series was like before. All I know is that the movie sucked then when I first saw it in theater in 2007, and it still sucks. It is pretty much The Devil's Rejects with Michael Myers, and I thought TDR sucked.

2. Not all remakes are bad. The Manchurian Candidate remake is just as good as the original. The original is more creative, but the remake does it in a more realistic manner. Plus, the True Grit remake was superior to the original. Also, the Friday the 13th remake is what got me into watching the series.

3. I saw the TCM remake when it first came to DVD and liked it. It also happen to come out shortly after I finished my third playthrough of RE4, so having a chainsaw wielding maniac was awesome. I saw the original for the first time earlier this year at the Alamo Drafthouse. It is a good movie, but honestly, I expected more out of it. It has great moments, I love the way the movie is shot, and the night time scenes are fantastic, but again, I was expecting more out of it. I think both the remake and the original are on equal ground.

4. Back to the Halloween remake, as a remake, your issue with the TCM remake is also my issue with Halloween. The original told all we needed to know about Michael in its first 6 minutes and made Michael out to be a supernatural being in a man's body. Not just that, but I loved the idea that he goes after Lauri just because she stepped on his doorstep (since there was no sister aspect at that time). The remake spends about an hour turning Michael into this kid with a shitty life and that is what made him go crazy. He is no longer evil just because he is evil, he is evil because his environment raised him to be that way. Also, the ending just flat out sucks. Even before I saw the original the ending was terrible here because there is no ending, the movie just stops. The original might have had that open endedness to it, but it symbolized that Michael might not have really been a human, as depicted in Loomis' face. In Zombie's version, Lauri shoots him in the head and screams, credits roll. There was nothing to give the ending a sense of mystery.

I did say almost, not all. I've said before that I like the True Grit remake, and I like The Departed. It's horror movies especially though that get crushed by remakes. Friday the 13th is a weird exception because it's not even a remake of the original it's more of a franchise reboot (akin to the Legendary Godzilla reboot).
Any remake that is on "equal" ground should then rule that the original is better for doing it first. This is how I feel about pretty much every foreign-remake, some of them aren't bad at all, but they're lazy. Let The Right One In, [Rec], etc. I've ranted about this before.

Friday the 13th 3 - This movie sucks. None of the characters have any sort of development and their acting is down right atrocious. It's like they just offered people they saw walking down the street a role in this movie because they didn't have the time or money to actually hire actors. The back story of Chris makes no sense because Jason does not have hair even though he had it just a day or two ago from the incident of 2 (even though he seems to have lost it again in the matter of 12 hours). Granted, it was nice that they wanted to do some type of back story, but the lack of any acting skills on the main character makes it hard to believe. The worst part is the staff seemed to prefer putting in as many 3D gimmicks as possible rather than write a good movie because the plot is just awful. Not only that, but the three bikers and the married couple at the beginning served no purpose other than for someone to say, "Yes, we now have a higher body count than before." Sure, Jason is a lot better in this movie than the last one, but still, for someone who had a machete sliced into his shoulder a few hours ago he seemed to have healed quite quickly. And now he gets an axe to the face that will not be present later. Overall, I give this movie a 4/10 stars.

The only good point of Friday the 13th part 3 was the introduction of the hockey-mask, but I still prefer the burlap sack. The harpoon kill was kinda neat too I guess, also the only good 3D part of the movie. "Hey let's juggle fruit and play with yo-yos and shit!"
"Sure, why the fuck not!"
"We spent the money for 3D conversion so let's use it as weirdly and random as possible!"
Now I'll review some horror movies from my take, I'll be using the "out of ten" scale. Every film is the original unless noted otherwise.
Creature From the Black Lagoon: my personal favorite Universal monster movie, by no means scary anymore, but enjoyable and surprisingly strong practical effects that are still admirable. 8.5/10.
Night of the Living Dead: the first zombie movie, with a strong and at the time break-through casting for lead actor. Creepily simple and effective gore effects and a sense of impending terror set up great atmosphere. 8/10.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: firstly a budget movie, but what a movie it is. An immediate feeling of being isolated from the refined world and one hitchhiker later sets up exactly what they wanted you to feel here. The use of cheaper more realistic effects produces much less buckets of blood than any other slasher film, but comes off more real which is more terrifying in and of itself. The scene when the guy first enters the house and we're jump-scared with Leatherface's mallet to the face is disturbingly real in the performance and a classic scene of the film. 9/10.
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Christmas sweaters weren't scary before this film, and now the fedora is either the mark of an adventurer or a serial killer of children. Freddy Krueger has become the next Dracula of horror films, being even scarier and has a sadistic sense of humor to cause, well ya know, nightmares. That knife-glove-thing has become an icon of its own, and way to send Johnny Depp out of his very first movie roll with a splash (heh heh). 9/10.

Okay that's it for now, I'll review more later. Pretty much just because I can and I'd like you all to know how I feel about these movies.

Ouch. This review hurts the because outside of parts 4 and 6, this film is the best of the bunch and also features my favorite Jason out of the series, Richard Brooker.

There has never been a definitive timeline as to how much time transpires between each movie of the Friday the 13th series. The only time we get that sense of time is during the Tommy Jarvis saga (parts 4, 5, and 6) in which we see Tommy grow from a young boy of about ten or 12 years old into a young man between 18 to 21 years old. After Ginny defeats Jason in part 2, we have no honest idea how much time passes. It certainly doesn't take place moments after part 2, as Chris's first encounter with Jason takes place years before the events of the third movie transpire. We do know that part 4 takes place just hours after part 3, but as far as the amount of time that passes in the first three movies between them, who knows? After Tommy returns Jason to his final resting place in part 6, we have no honest idea how much time passes until part 7 takes place (as we see Tina kill her father accidentally as a young girl, and is much older when the film begins.) The same can also be said about the time between parts 7 and 8.

Also, Jason took an axe to the head in the end of part 3, and that battle wound appeared on nearly every version of Jason to appear on film after that. In the beginning of part four, there is a large crack in the mask where the ax struck, and a gaping, bleeding wound underneath is, which can be seen when Jason's mask is knocked from his head in the finale. In part 6, when Tommy digs up Jason, he returns his mask to the grave which also sports the same crack from parts 3 and 4. The head wound is also there. Same when Tina destroys Jason's mask in part 7. The wound on his forehead and his eye socket (from part 4) are both still easily noticeable.

Now how Jason's face changed so much in the short period of time between parts 3 and 4 is an interesting question, but then again, each movie has tried to make Jason more and more hideous as they have went on, so this is simply a case of a director and makeup artists putting their own stamp on the series.

Part 3 might not have aged well, but at the time it was made, it was somewhat revolutionary in terms of horror films. Sure, some of the sight gags were cheesy, but let's be honest, movies made in 3D during the 80's were primarily gimmick ridden anyways (Jaws 3D anyone?) and modern movies are not all that different, often overdoing it with CGI or purposely adding in scenes just so the movie can justify being released in 3D.

Friday 3D was also one of the first modern horror movies that had a multi-ethnic cast, was shot with new 3D technology that had never been used before (the Louma Crane) and helped launch the career of Stan Winston, who was uncredited but worked on the original make up and design of Jason in the film. It can also be noted that the movie had two different endings filmed for it, one in which Chris is brutally murdered by Jason at the end, with the other of course being the return of the undead Pamela Voorhees.

Brooker's performance as Jason is what does it for me. He's a mad man, freakishly athletic for his large frame. Where Kane Hodder was an almost cartoonish character, Brooker was far more terrifying in the manner he stalks his prey. You see Jason show signs of frustration, cunning, excitement, agitation, anger and just plain insanity as he will just about anything to get at those kids. He even shows expressions of boredom (which can be seen by the manner he lazily shuffles off the dock after killing Vera) which was more than Hodder ever brought to the role with his exaggerated breathing and super hero style posturing. Brooker's Jason also feels pain, which gives you a glimmer of hope that someone might actually survive an encounter with him.

My favorite part is when he spots Chris on the lake from the cabin at the end. The way Brooker comes barreling out of that house after her was just downright eerie for me watching as kid. Also, the scene where Rick gets his head crushed? One of my favorite 3D gags of all time, and is pretty effective the first time you see it. Most either groan in cheesy disgust, or laugh at its' cheesy hilarity.

Sorry this rant got so long, and is all over the place. I just wanted to clear up some of the timeline stuffs, while at the same time, explain while I love Friday 3D so much. It's a fair opinion, and you're entitled to it. I'm sorry you didn't like it more. =)

No, it would have to take place directly after the second one because of the news report the wife is watching at the beginning of the movie where they are showing Ginny being carted off and talking about the gruesome discoveries. Now they do say the second movie is five years after the events of the first one.

There were good things about the movie, it's just that the characters were so flat and boring to watch because their acting was terrible and none of them were there other than to give the movie a high body count. I do agree that Brooker was a great Jason though.

As for the multiple endings, I learned about those last night on the bonus features of the disc. However, you are a little off. The one where Chris is decapitated by Jason and wakes up was never filmed. The one they did film was Chris decapitating Jason, but they felt it was too definitive so they went with the ghost of the mother appearing in her dream.

The ending in which Jason was decapitated was actually the ending that was never filmed. The original alternate ending was intended to be the final 3D gag of the film, and had Chris wandering into the barn after awakening in the boat in search of Rick, where Jason kills her (with her head flying into the audience via the magic of 3D ). As she is being killed, she wakes up screaming, showing us all that it was just a dream. This ending was also the ending that was featured in the novelization. While the scene was never released officially, it has been screened at horror conventions and there are screencaps that exist of the scene. I've included some pictures below (pictures taken from the Friday the 13th memoir "Crystal Lake Memories")

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This ending was also immortalized in toy form by the Revoltech figure for Jason, which included an accessory hand that held Chris's decapitated head.

As for how far after part 3 takes place from part 2, it's anyone's guess really. It can be assumed that the movie starts off hours or days after the second one ends, and picks up some time later. That's the way I've always interpreted it. Maybe they forgot the part that says "several weeks later" at the bottom of the screen in post production? It wouldn't surprise me considering the movie ran over schedule and over budget...lol. Who knows?

It's been about a year since I've last watched the film...it's definitely about time I watch it again!

Interesting, as they said that was the ending never filmed.

I like the scene towards the end in Friday part 3 when she tips the book shelf over and some books from the top shelf actually hit Jason down on the first floor, but he reacts like each one is a hefty blow. In reality being hit by a book assisted by gravity should hurt, but Jason cowering from the rain of books is pretty funny when you see all the other stuff that happens to him and he just keeps on walking.

RZ Halloween II - Well I'm not really sure where to begin, as this movie does some really great things, but at the same time, it does so much wrong. First off, I will say that the movie was not as bad as I initially thought it was last year. It does have an interesting premise of showing Laurie's life after Michael and how messed up she is from it. Unfortunately, this movie really should have been called Hoboween as Michael is just that, a hobo. I also do not like how they have him making grunt sounds whenever he kills someone or has him talk. Another issue is the timeline is all messed up. In the first one, it says 17 years have passed after Michael's mom killed herself but now it says 15. That just does not make sense. Nor doe this new kid even pull off young Michael. His mannerisms are completely different from the last kid and he does not even try to act messed up. He is just there. Nevertheless, the biggest problem with this movie is that it is just way too damn long. There was no reason for it to be 2 hours when 90 minutes would have just been fine. In fact, if they were to cut out every scene with Sheri Moon in it, along with the pointless kill run at the Red Rabbit (which for some reason I thought had Michael setting the place on fire), that would probably fix all of the movie's pacing issues. Other than that, this movie is still terrible, but it could be worse. As such, I'm going to give it a 2/10 because it is just slightly better than Resurrection, but Michael has been humanized way too much to give it anything higher.

So, Chiller ran a horror movie marathon the other day, and I watched Flatliners for the first time. Would anyone really consider that a horror movie? I mean, I guess there was a ghost... kind of. I'd think of it more as a thriller than anything, although parts were pretty comical (unintentionally) too.

I bought The Evil Within last night for my Xbox One. I like the game, but it isn't even as intense as I would've liked. Whereas Dead Space basically made me immune to jump scares after it released, I'm afraid Outlast may have dulled the excitement that comes from being chased by big, nearly invincible monsters. Everything has a "business as usual" sort of feel to it in EW. They did get me with a jump scare for the first time in a very long time, though. A shrieking ghost of a woman lit on fire came bursting out of doorway in front of me. I miss moments like that, like back when I got into Resident Evil for the first time.

I'd give my left nut for some action figures, though. I was initially disappointed in the creature designs. The basic enemies are just zombies wrapped in barbed wire, which also seems to be carrying over into the upcoming Resident Evil: Revelations 2. That's boring. The part I just finished, though, had a very crazy spider-like enemy... picture the girl from The Ring if she suddenly sprouted multiple extra arms and legs and could manifest herself from the blood of corpses lying on the ground. That was a great, memorable moment.