This epic series has always been a favorite of mine.
Frank is a pretty unlikable character right away. With lit candles all around him, Frank works the puzzle box until a light glows from it and then… all hell comes reaching out.
The Cenobites answer the call of the puzzle box and tear Frank apart.
Some time later, Larry and Cynthia are walking up to the house and discussing what to do with the inherited property. Frank had been sleeping on the floor, leaving his make shift camp behind. Figuring that Frank had continued in an expected transient pattern, the couple prepares to move into the house right away.
Cynthia, the wife stoops to Frank’s belongings and takes a photo of Frank from a collection. She has a flashback that explains how she and Frank broke in her wedding dress. Wow.
Larry, gored his hand on a nail sticking out of the banister while trying to maneuver a mattress up the stairs.
He walks around the house dripping blood as he goes, spaced out at the sight of blood. He finally finds his wife, Cynthia in the attic. Shaking off her flashback in the attic. He drips blood all along the floorboards of the room where his brother had opened the puzzle box.
Kristie, Larry’s daughter has a weird dream about a bleeding corpse and a babies cry fills the air. So, she calls her dad and wakes him up to check on him.
Cynthia heads out of the house to hunt for Frank’s next source to heal. She goes day drinking and picks up a man at the bar who comes on to her. She brings him back to the house, and up to the attic.
Kristy gets the box and opens a portal to hell. But manages to escape
“The Twilight Zone Movie” is a 1983 anthology film based on the classic TV series “The Twilight Zone.” The film features four segments, each directed by a different filmmaker, including John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller.
One of the standout features of “The Twilight Zone Movie” is its faithful adaptations of classic “Twilight Zone” stories, which are both creepy and thought-provoking. The film’s special effects and makeup are top-notch and hold up well even today.
The acting in “The Twilight Zone Movie” is excellent, with standout performances from Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Scatman Crothers, and John Lithgow. Each segment also features a strong cast of supporting actors who bring their respective stories to life.
Overall, “The Twilight Zone Movie” is a must-see for fans of the classic TV series and horror anthologies. It’s a haunting and suspenseful film that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Whether you’re a longtime fan or just discovering “The Twilight Zone” for the first time, “The Twilight Zone Movie” is a film that is definitely worth your time.
Quitting Smoking is hard, but with a program like Quitters Incorporated, there really isn’t much choice. If you want to keep your family safe, anyway.
The anthology switches over to another story in the city. The cat meets up with a wealthy gambler, who takes the cat home. The cat witnesses the gambler in his torment of the man who the gambler is blackmailing. A game of life and death, and a pigeon with a mean streak.
Drew Barrymore, spotting #1
The cat finds Drew Barrymore again, this time in the suburbs, and she is a different girl. This girl has bad dreams about monsters. She wants the cat to stay in her room to protect her from monsters, but her mom insisted the cat stay out at night because her pet bird Polly would be the cats first snack.
Something rustled around the house at night, and the new cat friend is outside… so what could it be then?
It’s a frikkin soul sucking troll monster. It killed Polly the bird. The cat gets the blame.
I love the transition to cartoon in the opening scenes. The style of art is edgy and nostalgic to me.
The first story in this anthology is set in a desert town, old and much less populated than it once was.
A shop owner holds his store open, with faith that the town will breathe to life again. The local chief for the native population in town visited, while the shop owner touched up the war paint on his wooden cheif.
The town is grateful to the shop owner for staying through the tough times. The cheif gives a bundle of jewelry to the shop owner to hold for all the credit he gives to the local townsfolk.
But right after the cheif left, The shop owner and his wife walk into their shop to a robbery by three local thugs. A revenge story begins…
The second story follows a group of joint smoking teens to a remote lake.
Summer has past, its almost Halloween. The teens decide to swim out to the raft on the freezing cold lake.
There is something else on the lake, and it’s hungry.
A late night drive gets scary for the lady in the last story.
The animated story that helps flow from one story to the next.
“Once Bitten” is a 1985 horror comedy film directed by Howard Storm. The film stars Lauren Hutton as Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a vampire who is on the hunt for young virgins to keep her immortality intact.
One of the standout features of “Once Bitten” is its blend of horror and comedy, which provides for some entertaining and humorous moments. The film’s special effects and makeup are well done, especially considering its low budget.
The acting in “Once Bitten” is a mixed bag, with Lauren Hutton delivering a convincing performance as the Countess, while some of the supporting actors fall short. The film’s humor is also hit or miss, with some jokes landing and others falling flat.
Overall, “Once Bitten” is a fun and entertaining horror comedy that provides a fresh take on the vampire genre. If you’re a fan of horror comedies, or just looking for something a little different, “Once Bitten” is definitely worth a watch. Just be prepared for some cheesy humor and campy scares.
Me:
Jim Carrey plays Mark. A teenager who drives am ice cream truck.
He eats his burgers well done from the burger stand his two best friends work at.
The teens come up with a plan to get rid of Marks virginity since his girlfriend isn’t ready to give hers up in an ice cream truck at the local teen hook up parking lot.
They travel into the city and tour the night life, till a hook up bar brings the Countess into the picture.
These zombies are smarter than I expected. Smashing headlights with rocks, functional grappling.. but.. no biting yet.. idk. Maybe the biting comes later.
Oh. Fire bad. They didn’t say anything. Ben; the main character, lit a fire in front of the door. The zombies all put their hands up and lurched back into the dark… Maybe primitive human type zombies. (I cant help but picture Captain caveman as a zombie now)
Pretty sure this is the one they used chocolate sauce as blood. Gonna have to Google that.
This actor, Duane Jones is really good. He is the main character, Ben. He comes to the
house and locks it down which keeps Barbara safe. Barbara was played by Judith O’Dea , and did a good job playing shock. It’s enfuriating.
Ok. Eventually the zombies started making the aaarrggg sound when faced with fire. The
A radio show announcement is the first report that zombies eat people.
After the group hiding in the basement come up, we learn about zombies and head shots.
Dude. Zombie lady just ate a bug off a tree.
7 in the house, I think we have reached capacity.
They have the TV set up on a couple chairs,
( I really like these details, where you hear much of the necessary information for the story, and it brings you in, engages you.)
On the TV: NASA radiation suggested as the cause for the return of the living bodies.
Ooh the foreshadowing oh the way it happens is all talked about on the TV.
I love the radio and TV parts.
The group is planning to make a run for it, but they have to get gas in the truck so it will make it to somewhere safer. The gas pump is across the field. The plan to get the gas and come back to pick everyone up then take off seems to be the only way. To start, Basement dad threw Maltov cocktails .
Dude has pretty good aim… all around the car, not on the car. So then that is a tense moment, and it looks like they are making progress.
Omg. They set the damn truck on fire. 2 people down. And now Ben has to fight his way back to the house with only a torch to wave at the zombies.
Basement dad just failed. Didn’t let Ben (main guy) in the house. Ben kicked in the door. After they secure the door, Ben kicks basement dads ass.
The zombies are eating.. the color is so weird lol I dunno what they are eating.. but it looks like they knocked over a butcher shop. Ones got a ham bone, another..is that …a chicken leg?
Now the TV reports instruct to shoot or hit the undead in the head.
Now a posse is forming to take on the horde.
Zombies use clubs… really. I saw it.
It’s captain cavezombie!
They look very green. Probably the radiation, huh.
The downstairs coward fucks shit up when he
tries to make a power play, get shot and goes downstairs to his sick daughter. His wife goes downstairs to see daughter eating basement dad. 2 more dead.
Barbara’s undead brother made his way back to pick up Barbara, 1 more gone. Ben is now cornered in the basement. Basement dad and mom start to rise.. but Ben still has a gun and they don’t even get up off the floor.
Next morning, helicopters fly over the field where the main battles were fought at pensic. (seriously cool to see. I was in do many of these places, years after filming)
Poor Ben. He makes it through the whole damn thing, just to be shot by the rescue team.
The closing stills are easier to see in color, and more disturbing than I remembered. Overall, the color version of Night of the Living Dead was a good revisit.
“Basketcase” is a low-budget cult classic horror film directed by Frank Henenlotter and released in 1982. The film tells the story of Duane Bradley, a young man who travels to New York City with his deformed Siamese twin, who is kept in a basket.
The heartwarming story of two brothers who tragically lost their mother at birth. Then, they have ripped apart in their young teens, then reunited and live happily until their caretaker passes away of old age.
One of the standout features of “Basketcase” is its use of practical effects, which were groundbreaking for the time. The film’s gore and violence is both creative and disturbing, and its dark humor adds to the overall absurdity of the story.
They travel to the city, searching for answers about the separation they endured.
They stay in a local motel when they get to the city, and they meet a colorful cast of characters in their adventures. Including a love interest.
Did I mention that they were conjoined twins, who are telepathically connected, and they are out for revenge for their surgical separation in their young teens.
The acting in “Basketcase” is adequate for a low-budget horror film, with Kevin Van Hentenryck delivering a memorable performance as Duane Bradley. The film’s soundtrack, featuring punk and new wave music, adds to its quirky and offbeat feel.
Overall, “Basketcase” is a must-see for fans of horror, exploitation, and cult films. It’s a fun, gory, and over-the-top ride that continues to entertain viewers almost 40 years after its release. If you’re looking for a horror film that is equal parts disturbing and entertaining, “Basketcase” is definitely worth a watch.
The stop motion effects used in this really help the creep factor.
An adult TV programmer discovers a bizarre broadcast that seduces and controls its viewers in David Cronenberg’s mind bending sci-fi classic.
The movie opens with a video wake up call for Max, our main character who seems to sleep through it.
But we are greeted in the next scene by his bachelor pad apartment kitchen. He thumbs through some photos of topless photos titled Samurai Dreams while he eats leftover pizza out of the box on the counter and coffee bubbles from the well used coffee pot on the stove.
He goes to an office to meet a man, about the show called Samurai Dreams, a Japanese art film of sensual nature. Back in his office, Max and his partners are reviewing the tape and they remark that it’s not tacky or sexy enough for them. One wonders what kind of material they need for their channel.
Max and his editor are in the ‘lab’ and they are apparently hacking video feed from a satellite, they can’t tell where it’s from. They get a minute; which looks like a crime in progress, then they lose picture.
Then, we see that Max is on an interview for a tv talk show. The host discusses the nature of his channel with him. He covers soft core porn to hard core violence. Explaining himself as providing an outlet for violent tendencies with his channel. Nicki, another guest on the show engages in the conversation with him regarding his views. He turns to start asking her out right on the stage while the host talks to Mr. Oblivion, interviewing from video feed, rather than in person.
Back to the editing room, the feed of Videodrome is nearly recovered enough to see that there are hours of violence and beating and torture on this feed. Previously unsure of the source, suspecting Malaysia, the editor says the feed is actually coming from Pittsburgh.
Max and Nicki go out on a date. She is into his video collection and as it turns out. She has him pierce her ears with a pin and a cork as foreplay. Yes. Really.
The next day, Max is at his office and talks to a movie creator who proposes some artistic production of Greek mythology types lounging about, cooing and giggling. Max lets her down as gently as possible since his channel is more hard core than her giggling Greek fantasy.
She proposes the idea of him doing his own show and asked Max, “What kind of show would you do?”
“Would you make Videodrome?” She inquires.
Nicki, Max’s new girlfriend, is packing up. She’s going to Pittsburgh and wants to try out for Videodrome. She is all about the violent production and wants to go be in it. Max protests.
She puts a cigarette out on her breast as if to show him she is ready for the violent scene of Videodrome.
The soft movie creator and Max go lunch, talking about Videodrome. She says to leave it alone.
Videodrome is not for public consumption, she advises.
She thinks its dangerous
“What you see on the show is real, Its snuff tv.”
He doesn’t believe it. He pushes her for contact information. Finally, she gives him one name.
Professor Brian Oblivion. The only name she gives Max, the only lead to go on for finding answers about Videodrome.
We now see Max arriving at Cathode Ray Ministry, it looks like an underfunded homeless shelter.
Looks like cubicles with TVs in them, but they’re make shift. Cobbled together with street trash like carboard and wooden signs. Everyone is staring into tvs in their cubicles, surrounded by cardboard, stacks of spare tv’s and other street refuse.
Max talks to the Bianca Oblivion, who seems to run this place. She is the daughter of Professor Brian Oblivion. They go upstairs and everything is ornate and decorative. It’s opulent in this room. A complete contrast to the room below. The office windows; behind expensive drapes, look over the cubicles made of trash and food hand outs while the less fortunate gather and take their places in cubicles, one to each, sitting close to the tv, almost touching it sometimes.
Later that night he is unwrapping a handgun, but a knock at the door makes him close it up quickly and hustle out of the room to whomever came in.
Max sees his assistant, from the wake up call in the beginning of the story. She came in to his house and had a confusing encounter before she says she brought another video for him and quickly leaves.
Max goes to get the tape and it sort of breathes to life, morphing a bit in his hands.
He jumps. You can tell by now he is starting to have problems with reality.
“The battle for north America is going to take place on Videodrome,” the man at a desk explains
Tv is reality. Your reality is half video hallucination.” the man says. He is directly talking to Max through the video.
The man says that he thinks the visions caused tumor. They removed the tumor and it became Videodrome.
Then the man is strangled on the screen by a looming hooded figure just off screen, the man never stops talking and doesn’t fight the strangulation.
The hooded figure takes its hood off and its Nicki, Max’s girlfriend.
The tv starts pulsating and breathing at him all insisting he come to he till finally, he leans into the TV face first. The screen fades out on him looking a bit stuck with his face in a morphing TV screen drawn around his face.
Oblivion says he was hallucinating since seeing Videodrome. The signal creates a brain tumor, creating the visions.
Max goes to speak to Professor Brian Oblivion, but speaks to Bianca Oblivion again. She explains that her father died 11 months earlier. He made thousands of tapes of himself, and that is how he had done the interview with Max and Nicki.
Bianca explains that at the end, the father was more in touch with the Tv than reality. She gives him more tapes to watch. He leaves.
Back at the “lab” the studio, he asks his editor if he has been hallucinating
The editor said he hasn’t been hallucinating.
Back home, Max watching the video again with the Brian Oblivion. Professor Oblivion thinks that the tumor is a new organ, a new outgrowth of the human brain producing hallucination. He says that there is nothing real outside our perception of reality.
Max thinks he sees a gaping hole in his stomach.
He puts the handgun in his stomach, like a pocket. When he removes his hand, the wound is healed
The gun is no where. As he tears everything up looking for it. There’s a phone call.
A car is waiting for him downstairs. It’s a grey limo As the car travels through the streets, a video plays on the car television. The intro for Spectacular optical rolls across the screen. The owner of Spectacular Optical, Barry Convex explains that they produce glasses for needy and high tech military lenses in their wide range of production.
He also states that he is the owner of Videodrome.
The car goes to a spectacular optical store front
He wants max to put on a big helmet and to record one of his hallucinations
He says that max seems to be functioning well. Having been exposed to Videodrome, no one has made it this far.
So he wants to run tests.
He is hooked up to the oldest VR headset ever
And he is hallucinating Nicki again. She gets him to whip her, it turns into a tv with her on it. Then, it doesn’t look like Nicki anymore. Max is just whipping the shit out of this Tv till the scene fades out.
As the camera angle draws out, before it fades… it doesnt even look like Nikki anymore. She looks older, different.
He suddenly wakes in his bed, The tv is fuzzy.
There’s a dead elderly lady tied up in bondage in his bed, under the covers.
Max goes to the phone and calls Harlon, The editor. Max tells Harlon that he wants him to go take photos of what’s in his bed. The editor goes in and looks, he comes out and says there is nothing there.
Max says he needs to see the most recent Videodrome and insists he needs to see him in the lab (production studio) in an hour even though it’s like 5 am and Harlon, the editor protests.
Harlon the editor meets him at the lab. He tells Max that there was no tape of Videodrome last night. Or ever.
The owner of Spectacular Optical; who is also the owner of Videodrome Productions, comes in and explains that Video drome was never sent on open broadcast.
Harlon the editor was playing Max tapes, and Harlon did not watch it.
They exposed him to the Videodrome signal. It works on anyone that would watch the torture and murder.
Harlon the Editor explains that they have plans to use Videodrome to feed off of the dredges of society that would watch such things.
“Ready for something new?” Spectacular Optical/ Videodrome owner, Barry Convex asks. He brings out a VCR tape.
The video pulsates and the wind starts blowing. Max’s stomach opens up again.
The man puts the VCR tape in maxes stomach.
Max crawls along the floor and hears a voice. Kill your partners at channel 83.
Max digs the gun out of his stomach and suddenly there are metal parts growing through his fingers and down his wrist. The latex hand and metallic looking cords now part of his hand, locked in around the gun
Max arrives at the office and we see no weird attachment on his hand, just the gun. But no ine else sees it. He walks into a big board room and shoots the both partners without delay. During the bustle of everyone running to the gunshots, he hunches over and looks to be shot, his assistant hustles him out of the room, he slips on out of the room as she realizes he might not be hurt
Max runs off again
Back to the Cathode Ray Mission. The voices tell him to kill Bianca Oblivion. He breaks a window to get into the church where Bianca Oblivion’s office is.
In walks Bianca Oblivion.
Max tries to insist that he just runs his tv station, but she isn’t fooled. She says that they control him like a video. And he is going to try to destroy her.
Max reached in his guts for the gun again and it looks grosser. His hand and gun covered in gross ooze.
The tv screen reaches out reflecting his hand gun shape.
The shape from the TV shot him. Now, Max seems to be under some kind of a trance.
He repeats after Bianca Oblivion:
“The video word made flesh, Death to Videodrome, Long live the new flesh”
Off to kill the owner of Videodrome.
Max goes to the Spectacular Optical store. It’s a regular glasses store up front. In the back room, Harlon the editor is taping up boxes. The owner, Barry Convex is at the spring line release show.
Editor holds up a tape that looks like its made of flesh and he puts the tape in maxes stomach. His arm is suddenly locked into place in maxes stomach and the wind blows out of nowhere again. Max’s stomach bites the flesh off of the editors hand and now he has a primitive club like robot hand, sticking out from the gore that was his arm. He stumbles back and hits a wall where he explodes. Cinderblocks blow apart the wall has a hole in it the size of a truck.
Max goes to the Spring Release event. There’s dancers on stage. Videodrome is owned by the Spectacular optical owner, who is in the middle of his announcement to the audience when Max walks on stage pointing his gun hand at the owner.
Max’s hand is morphed with the gun again more fleshy and gooey. Kind of purple now. It’s getting pretty gross now. That’s probably infected.
He shoots Spectacular Optical owner on the stage and dude melts away, bubbles and crumbles apart in 80s horror true fashion.
Max runs off and hides out in a cargo ship. A tv appears in front of him. His dream girl, Nicki is on it and telling him to complete the transformation by killing his old flesh.
Gun merged alien gross hand, he shoots himself in the head.
Long live the new flesh.
Fade to black
That is Debbie Harry, from Blondie that played Nicki, the dream girl.
Bruce Campbell. Dang sir. That dude was always handsome af.
This classic cranks up the splatter, spray and gross. I love it.
The scenery has an authentic feel, which engages me more as a viewer. The sound is well done. The story plays out fairly believable in the opening scenes. When all hell starts to break out, a hole in reality tears open, and the whole forest seems to be haunted and evil.
The make up is awesome. It’s rough and make shift, effective as hell for the brain twisting vibe of this movie.
Is that milk?
I like all the “extra” in this movie. He just put his hand through a mirror like it was water and screams with a realistic reaction, “that shit is NOT supposed to happen!” His real reactions in an unbelievable moment make the situation feel like it’s really happening.
There are good animated support characters,
“What happened to her eyes?!”
I love the claymation effects they use in the classic body melting apart scenes
Was that creamed corn?
Back to the woods, the camera closes out with more flying around as seen in the beginning. I find this is a really cool effect. I will have to check out how they did it for Evil Dead.
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