It doesn't get any better than this, it gets really good at the 2:00 minute mark.

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This weekend past I took in a double feature of Halloween II and The Final Destination.

The latter I expected to be crap simply because it is a Final destination film. I expected a lot of gore and creative deaths and I got what I expected. I did not expect a riveting story and sharp dialogue and acting. FD4 did not disappoint in this sense. It was what it was, an enjoyable 3D gimmick.

Halloween II was the biggest disappointment since Halloween I was remade by Rob Zombie. I will say this, RZ knows how to market a film, unfortunately that is all there is to this grim and brutal follow-up to the 2007 reimaging that took the horror out of The Shape.

Zombie spent the first hour of the original remake crafting an intricate back-story explaining why Michael Meyers is what he is. That alone stripped the terror out of the original screenplay from the 70's where Michael was just plain evil...no rhyme or reason for it.

In Halloween II Zombie takes the character into a whole new direction. The shape is now a lone drifter walking his way across IL back to Haddonfield, a trip that takes 1 year as he is guided by vision of his departed mother a'la Ms. Voorhees. For some reason his mom's specter totes around a white horse and we get some psycho-babble script before the titles explaining what White Horse syndrome is.

The surviving cast, Laurie Strode, Annie Brackett and her sheriff father have all been changed for the worse. Where they were once All-American folk the events of the first film have had a tremendous impact on their psyche. Laurie is a wreck who is haunted by nightmares as the titular holiday approaches as does the one year anniversary of the terror she survived leaving her an orphan. She now attends psychiatric sessions regularly as she tries to cope with her loss and resume some sort of normal existence.

Annie, her best friend is now an agoraphobic, never leaving the house throughout the film and Sheriff Brackett is just getting by haunted by the murders that rocked the small town just one year prior.

The opening scene, which takes place in a hospital on the same night of the attack from the first film builds tension that the rest of the film fails to capitalize on. Instead of remaking John Carpenter's Halloween II which took place entirely in the hospital, Zombie thumbs his nose at the source material making the entire opening segment a dream and then proceeds to make his own film and the franchise takes a terrible nose-dive from here.

Halloween II is filled with brutal rage induced violence that is disgusting and vile for the sake of being disgusting and vile. The worst part of the film though is that Zombie took these characters, horror Icons in and of themselves and turned them on their ear.

The dialogue tries to be cutting edge and controversial as two paramedics discuss the joy of screwing dead bodies while they are still fresh. It comes across cheap and pathetic rather than shocking. The rest of the cast curses up a storm simply because that is the way RZ and his regular entourage speak.

Laurie Strode is now a mental basket-case who is frail, weak and downright filthy. She is tattooed and the house she shares with her friend Annie and the Sheriff is in disrepair, vandalized and poorly lit. Satanic imagery like pentagrams and 666's are spray painted on the walls of the house and everything is outdated from the stove to the fixtures. All I kept thinking about when the characters were eating was "I bet it stinks in there." Then out of the blue Laurie runs from the table and throws up for no reason and i suspect that it was because of the odor in the house.

Doctor Loomis, the hero from the original franchise as well as Zombie's remake is now an attention seeking media whore pimping his new book and no longer cares about the lives touched by the monster he tried to cure. It was a disservice to the character and the story and it was just lame. His superhero revelation at the end of the film was flimsy and ridiculous and served no purpose whatsoever.

Halloween II is an abomination of film making and does not deserve to be called a Halloween film. I never thought I would suggest Halloween III: Season of the witch over any other Halloween film, but alas...rent that instead of seeing Rob Zombie's abortion of a film franchise.

Zombie tricked us, this film is no treat.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=58909Stallone is Turning Hunter Into Rambo V

Last Monday, it was announced that Nu Image/Millennium Films had given the green light to a fifth installment in the "Rambo" franchise. The trades said that the "storyline for the fifth film revolves around Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the U.S.-Mexico border."

According to Sylvester Stallone in several communications with Ain't It Cool News, that storyline is way off. Instead, Sly gave the site a rundown of what to expect instead. Several days later, the site followed up with an official synopsis for the film that is being passed around, and that's where it gets interesting.

You see, Stallone has owned the film rights to the novel "Hunter" by James Byron Huggins for about 10 years, and it looks like he's adapting that book as the next "Rambo" film. Here's the synopsis for the newly-titled Rambo 5: The Savage Hunt:

Angelina Jolie is a wraith and she feeds on Brad Pitt. Just look at the fan mags in the checkout lane.

I've been reading FPW for almost a year now. I've read almost all of the RJ books except for All the Rage and Conspiracies, too hard to find locally. I'm not reading By the Sword, and for the last couple of books I've been hearing about the Twins. I can't for the life of me remember who they are, what book they were in, or how Jack took care of them.

I've read all the RJ books in order from Hosts on up over the last few months so a lot of little things have started to blend together as to which book it was in. I just can't seem to remember them at all.

I'll be done with By the Sword by next week so I'll be all ready to pick up Ground Zero when it comes out!

For anyone living in NYC who can't wait to get Ground Zero, I was in Strand yesterday (Broadway and 12th) and saw a copy of Ground Zero in the used book section for 12.95. It is in the back by mystery on the top shelf (use a ladder).
They said that oftentimes they get reviewers who sell them their copies before the actual publication date.
They only had one copy, so first come first serve!

Hi everybody..

inspired from fpw´s post in "my so called life" ...

Quote:8/7 - just received the new German edition of Reborn. They're calling it ERWECKUNG. I'm told that means "resurrected." Close enough. Lots of times they change the title without telling me. I can see that with something like ALL THE RAGE, which was a play on the English expression (they called it TOLLWUTIG), but why change HOSTS to TODESFREQUENZ?

.. im asking you guys if there are any funny translations in other languages then german.

The funniest translation of all is that the german publishers changed repairmanjack into handymanjack.


i´m looking forward to your reply.

Anybody watching The Colony on the Discovery channel? I caught a commercial for it while watching something else on Discovery one night (prolly Mythbusters) and thought it sounded interesting. So a couple nights ago I watched two episodes online. Not too bad.

The premise: "The Colony is a controlled experiment to see exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild under an extreme global catastrophe. Watch as 10 volunteers try to survive and thrive with no electricity from the grid, no running water, and no communication from the outside world."

It's interesting what they decide to spend their time on and the things they come up with. And I like that it isn't the sort of reality show where somebody "wins" at the end and somebody gets voted out every week. This is meant as a social experiment, not a contest.

It can't be completely true-to-life, of course... the participants know the outside world is right there in case of a real emergency, there are obviously cameras and sound equipment all over the place, and they are confined to a very limited area (in order to simulate a devastated city). So I imagine that if there really were a catastrophe, the people in this show would behave the same way, but moreso. The couple of pushing matches that happened probably would have been much more violent, even deadly, if the situation were real.

Anyway. Just wondering if anybody else has seen this and what you think of it.

I was on ComingSoon,Net website and read about a new movie being filmed;

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=58696

The movie, "Stake Land" has a role going to be portrayed by Kelly McGillis, which sounds very similar to the FPW's character, Sister Carole Hanarty[SIZE=2][SIZE=2][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE] in both the novel, "Midnight Mass" and the short story, "Good Friday" (which has been incorporated into the novel).

Both are RC nuns, had a crisis of faith and from that become vampire hunters.

Now I know that "Midnight Mass" has already been made into a movie, but this is to similar to be a coincidence.

After all, aren't there no more coincidences???

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