I love cheap movies!

I was at Rogers Video yesterday and got The Watchmen AND My Bloody Valentine in 3-D for $3.19 each! score!





I've already watched My Bloody Valentine last night. I don't know if I'm 3-D illiterate though or what because I don't think I got the 3-D effect. Everything was just green. Strange.

Every summer...

...there's something that happens in Toronto.

Something magical
and exciting

and very, very expensive.

What is it you ask? Well it's the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear!

I went two years ago and had a blast meeting Tobe Hooper and Sid Haig and Rugero Deodato! Such a fun-filled day. I didn't get to go to the one last year because I was in Newfoundland and I missed my love Bruce Campbell. We will be together some day!

This year there are more great guests including Bill Moseley and GLENN DANZIG! Check out the rest of the guests here!


Who's coming with me!?

Orphan

Someone had told me the ending to this movie a couple of weeks after it came out so I didn't even bother seeing it because the ending that the person had told me was lame. But my sister and I had nothing to do the other day so we watched Orphan.
The movie is about a couple who has two children but wants to adopt a third after they had a miscarriage years earlier. The go to an orphanage and meet a young girl named Esther who they quickly decide to adopt. As the little girl gets settled into the house weird things start to happen and Esther seems to be at the scene of the crime each and every time. The young girl torments the parents through putting the other two children through hell and back.
The ending is still pretty ridiculous. You think the little girl is just psychotic but then BAM! Absurdity.

watch a bit

Movies your mother would (not) approve of

Happy Mother's Day to moms and grandmas everywhere! My mom bought me my first Goosebumps book, My Hairy Adventure, and on the cover there was a picture of a boy staring at himself in the mirror in the midst of turning into a werewolf. I carried the book around my house for days before I even cracked it open because I wanted to read it so bad but at the same time I was terrified of what I would be reading. My mom finally said to me "it's just a book. it's not real. but if you never read it, you'll never know." Thanks mom for encouraging me through everything. You always had faith in me.

And now for movies your mother would never approve of... unless you're my mother. who would probably go see these with me.

Grace
Grace is pregnant with a baby who dies before it is born. Grace decides to carry the baby to term anyway and give birth like it was still alive. And somehow, her child miraculously comes back to life. But it is no normal baby. Maybe this is where zombies started...

Super bloody and graphic and this movie makes me believe that I will never breastfeed my children ever.

snippet!


Inside
A pregnant woman is in a horrible car accident in which her husband is tragically killed but her unborn child lives. She goes on living her life after the accident and maintains a healthy pregnancy. Just as she is rounding her due date, a strange woman shows up at her house in the middle of the night.

And she wants her baby.

gore!gore!gore!


The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
The fact that this movie came out in 1992 makes me quiver. I remember watching it a few years after it came out, probably 1996 or 1997, and although I haven't watched it since then I still have vivid memories of how much this movie disturbed me.

Anyway this movie is about a psycho nanny. She acts like the family's best friend while she is in front of them but begins wreaking havoc on their family behind their backs in the worst imaginable ways.

trailer!


Friday the 13
Oh Mrs. Voorhees, your little boy turned into such a monster. I think the first one is the best example of the mother/son bond.

the remake sucked

Still searching...

...for a copy of James and the Giant Peach on DVD. I have been in over ten different stores in different cities looking for a copy of this movie...And I leave each store empty-handed.


I know I could just order it online...But where's the fun of the search in that one?

You Don't Know Jack

You Don'n Know Jack is an HBO movie about Dr. Jack Kevorkian AKA Dr. Death. For those who don't know, Dr. Kevorkian was the man who brought the idea of Euthanasia to the United States. There was so much controversy over the doctor assisted suicide practice that Kevorkian introduced that the feud and protest went on for years. I guess the practice is similar in idea to abortion, where both raise so much public outcry.
Dr. Kevorkian was played by Al Pacino. I totally forgot that Al Pacino was the man behind Dr. Death. He did such a good job of convincing me that he WAS Kevorkian that I'm still stuck with the question in my head of whether assisted suicide should be legal or illegal.
Susan Sarandon also plays a small part in this movie as a close friend and supporter of Kevorkian.
If you're at all interested in the subject of Dr. Death and the legal and moral debates raised by the subject, it's definitely worth checking out.

Check out the trailer!

A Nightmare on Elm Street

I used to be totally against remakes. I hated everything about them. I thought that the originals were as good as they possibly could be so there was no point in updating them to make them "better". But over the years my opinion has slowly changed. I'm not saying that I agree with every single remake every done because there are definitely some useless and pointless remakes (Quarantine anyone?), but there are some movies that would just be so cool if they were updated slightly and given a face-lift.
Before I came around to the idea of remakes being not so bad, I would worry myself with the question "what if they remake Freddy?" And then my worry became a reality. Luckily after I had become okay with the idea of remakes.
And I'm glad they redid it. Freddy needed a little bit of an update. I am slightly disappointed at the fact that they found a new actor to play Freddy Kruger, but I was looking around a comic book store a few weeks ago in Toronto and found a magazine with an interview with Englund (I wish I could remember what magazine it was in. Rue Morgue maybe?). They had asked Englund of he was upset that someone else was playing Freddy in the new movie and he responded by saying that he was getting too old to play these high-energy parts in movies now. I can definitely see where he's coming from, and I don't really think of anyone who could have done a better job of Freddy than Jackie Earle Haley.
I didn't really care for the majority of the actors in the movie as they were all young and mildly-gifted actors. But that's just one of the charms that the original movie passed on to the remake.
Haley did a great job of bringing out Freddy's menacing side without losing any of his dry, sarcastic humour. It was definitely weird to be seeing close-ups of Freddy's face and instead of his looking like Englung wearing a mask, Freddy looked like a real burn victim. His face looked as if it had been smoothed out by it being melted in a fire. It was a really cool new face to give Freddy.
I also appreciated the way they had many of the memorable scenes from the original in the new one, yet they were minorly tweaked. Like instead of Nancy's boyfriend being eaten by a blood-gushing bed (original), they had Nancy fall from a blood-gushing ceiling onto her bed. Just these minor details were really cool.

Overall, I loved the new A Nightmare on Elm Street. It will definitely be added to my collection as soon as it's released on DVD!