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Archive for March, 2010

After all the hype and viral advertising about Paranormal Activity, I had the chance to sit down and watch it, as I didn’t see it in the theater. Honestly I say thank god I didn’t see it in the theater, BUT WAIT! That is a good thing.  I came home from work last night and sat alone on the couch and started it up. What followed was one of the most engrossing voyeuristic spine chilling ghost movies I’ve ever seen.

Paranormal Activity is a faux-reality camcorder movie in the vain of Blair Witch Project, Quarantine and REC, but done very realistically. A young couple plan to document the strange happenings that seem to be occurring around the young woman. With only the knowledge they seem to have picked up from watching ghost hunter TV shows, they set up a microphone and video tape all aspects of their lives. They also call in a psychic who warns them not to pursue the entity within their house or things will get worse. Needless to say things get worse. (more…)

Here is the Trailer for REC2. REC was the tremendously successful (might I add really good) Zombie Flick from Spain that was HORRENDOUSLY remade into the American Quarantine. Rec follows a group of people trapped in an apartment building by the government as there is an unknown contagion in one of the tenant’s rooms. There is a great twist on the zombie genre THAT ISN’T SUPER RABIES! Quarantine just decided to change a great twist to something ridiculous.

REC2 takes up right after the conclusion of the first film, as a SWAT team is sent into the building. The film is in Spanish but has English subtitles, or a dubbed track on the forthcoming DVD. Unfortunately as it is with most European films, it will get released in Britain before it comes to us. It took months for me to finally get my hands on a copy of the first REC, hopefully this one comes sooner. Continue on to see the Trailer.

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This week is Dubbed the week of #2! Three great follow ups and one final in a story arch, bring us one of the best Comic weeks in a long time. Hopefully you’ve picked up the books I suggested in the previous weeks because (next to the walking dead) the books listed here today are the best comics being written today. So if you havn’t picked up the first issues to these follow ups find em and then pick these up too.
The Waking #2

From the writer of Zenescope’s smash hit Wonderland trilogy, and Image Comics THE GIFT comes Raven Gregory’s newest tale of horror. The investigation continues as two bodies go missing from the morgue in search of those responsible for their deaths. Meanwhile, Jonathan Raine struggles to keep his little girl imprisoned or lose her forever. MATURE THEMES (more…)

After Last week’s mythos dump on LOST, we return this week to another filler episode that will follow Jin and Sun in The package. Rather than discuss what could happen, and how Jin found himself locked in a freezer by gangsters, I want to focus on bigger themes. What is EVERYTHING?

Well I’m sure im not the first person to make these connections with Egyptian mythology, but I haven’t read them anywhere else so I will regurgitate what I personally have found out. Last week I posted that the giant statue destroyed by the Black Rock was an effigy of the Egyptian god Sobek, but I was very clearly wrong as it is common knowledge that it was in fact the goddess Taweret. (more…)

First off, I can’t stand anything with mayonnaise in it.  I suppose I can make an exception in my refrigerator if I have guests that like it for some reason.  In any case, I won’t eat the stuff.  Nor will I eat the just-as-disgusting alternative.  Though, now instead of just avoiding an undesired condiment, I feel I need to beat various people and or inanimate objects beyond recognition just hearing about this product.  The fuel for my fire?  Miracle Whip.  Or more specifically, their We will not tone it down ad campaign. (more…)