A-Z Blogging Challenge Day 5

April 6th

E is for Ectoplasm

Ectoplasm has to be one of the grossest things I have ever read about in my entire life.  If I actually ever encounter anyone spewing this nasty bullshit I will personally spew my own vomitplasm directly into their open mouth.  This defintion from Dictionary.com explains in a nutshell just what ectoplasm is for those of you who are unaware;

      2. spiritualism  the substance supposedly emanating from the body of a medium during trances

Fucking gross!  But I have to admit aside from the vomiting I would pay good money to see some ectoplasm in person, wouldn't you?

 

A-Z Blogging Challenge Day 4

April 5th

D is for Dolls

Dolls have made their presence felt in the last two decades of horror movie madness, as you can see in some of the stills here.  First up we have the "Good Guy doll" Chucky, a.k.a. Charles Lee Ray.  Using the doll as a vessel to continue his killings, Charles Lee Ray really cranked out the chaos in the Child's Play movies.

Next up we have "Dolls", the insane little feature in which a bunch of creepy little dolls run amok in a mansion run by two toy-makers.  I still remember renting this movie during one of the old school weekend horror nights I used to have when I was little.  The scene that still stands out in my head is the scene where the doll runs one of the characters face into a wall breaking the person's nose and crushing their face.

This creepy doll was from a more modern movie titled: "Dead Silence" The doll looks creepy as hell and almost resembles the doll from the Goosebumps novel & movie: Night of the Living Dummy

As you can probably tell I messed up the last few days and forgot to post my entries for the A-Z Blogging Challenge so this entry and the next few will be very short. I'm really sorry to cut these short but I have to play catch-up.

A-Z Blogging Challenge Day 3

April 4th

C is for Cotton Candy Cocoon!

Wow! Where do I even begin? So you probably never thought I'd be using cotton candy cocoons as my blog entry for the letter c right? Neither did I, until I was thinking about posting on chainsaws today and realized "fuck that!". (I'm really trying to be creative with this so I don't bore you ghouls checking in everyday, let me know how I'm doing) So yes I could have totally gone with chainsaws which is so obvious and boring but if my post today was on chainsaws I wouldn't have the chance to post such a f'n kick ass picture as this......

HAHA! Dead dude in a cotton candy cocoon! I am totally down with giving everybody involved with the A-Z blogging challenge lots of love, but seriously do any of you bloggers involved think you can top a post about Killer Klowns using cotton candy cocoons as a weapon?

So as you can see in the previous pic, after the clowns shoot you with their so called "Cotton Candy Ray Guns", you are left incapacitated in the cotton candy cocoon. Then they basically hang you out to dry while they carry on with their Killer Klown business, which consists of many "zany" pranks that leave you little time to fight back. After said clowns are done terrorizing the town and the rest of your friends they actually drink the blood and/or bodily fluids out of your dried out body to provide them with their daily required value of human vitamins.  These Klowns are KRAZY!!!

Well, after only the 3rd day in the A-Z Blogging Challenge with my theme of "tools of the horror trade" I have posted about;
1. Axes
2. Boomsticks! (not BROOMSTICKS hahaha)
3. Cotton Candy Cocoons
This is shaping up to be one hell of a unique blogging challenge!
Oh yeah and don't forget.........................

"In Space, no one can eat ice cream!"

please let me know if there are any misspelled cocoons in the posting, after a while the word just starting blending into itself for whatever reason, or I'm just really f'n tired!

Half Price Horror: Halloween Night

From the back of the book:

"This party is a killer.

Brenda hates her cousin Halley.  And Brenda isn't the only one.  Because Halley keeps stealing other people's boyfriends.  So Brenda and her friends decide to plan the perfect murder.  Something to go along with Brenda's perfect Halloween party.  Not that they're really going to kill anybody.  It's just a joke.  Right?  Ha.Ha."

Boy am I a sucker for Halloween themed books. The thing is most of them are terrible.  I promise to you all now that when I get the time I will publish my ultimate Halloween tale and I promise it will be worth your while.  Well to jump right into things, Mr. Stine really dropped the ball this time.  There were so many different ways he could have taken this book, what with the Halloween theme and all, but he chose to only include our favorite night of the year for about 6 pages.  Why Mr. Stine, why?  Basically the book starts off with us being introduced to Brenda and her cousin Halley's relationship, a rocky one to be blunt about it.  See Halley keeps trying to steal Brenda's boyfriend, and Brenda isn't very happy about it.  Halley takes this a step further and starts hitting on one of Brenda's best friends boyfriends as well.  Eventually we are introduced to Brenda's brother as well, who may or may not be the perpetrator behind the events that are to follow.  After Brenda teases one night that her and her friends Dina and Traci should write their school paper on a murder mystery wherein one of them murders Halley, somebody starts playing very sick pranks on Brenda.  I won't spoil the pranks because they are actually the best and goriest parts of the book, but let's just say I wouldn't read this book if I was a PETA member.  Eventually Halley does enough emotional damage to Brenda, which causes Brenda to suggest to her friends that they should ditch the school paper and murder Halley for real!  One of the things that I found terribly unlikeable about the book was how easily Brenda's friends go along with this.  I know we wouldn't have much of a book if they didn't, but come on!  If someone suggested murdering anyone in the way that Brenda suggests it, I would be on a phone call with said psycho's pshichiatrist and/or the police office immediately.  So basically the whole book revolves around Brenda and her two friends planning this crazy complicated switcheroo murder at Brenda's Halloween party.  The big twists and answers I was waiting for finally come in the last 10 or so pages, when we finally get to the actual Halloween party.  Do the friends go ahead with their plan to kill Halley?  Yes, but with a very crazy twist at the end.  I have to say I was actually somewhat surprised by the ending but not every part of it.  You'll know what I mean if you hunt this one down to read. (Some of it was so obvious it actually caught me off guard, ever had that happen?)  You will also find out who the person committing all the pranks on Brenda was.  Was it her snotty little brother, Halley the bitchy cousin, one of Brenda's friends just playing some Halloween pranks, or maybe even one of the cheating boyfriends just rubbing it in.  I'll give "Halloween Night" 2 Jolly Jack-O-Lanterns out of 5.  It's not worth the cover price, but if you are a Halloween freak like me then you might want to pick it up on the cheap just to get your 10 page Halloween fix.

 

"Halloween Night"

Author: R.L. Stine

Publisher: Scholastic (1993)

Cover Price: $3.50

Half Price Books Price: $1.00 (clearance shelf)

for anybody looking for the lowdown on my Jolly Jack-O-Lantern rating scale please visit this link!  But keep in mind this was written for movies but can be interchangeable for books as well.  Also the only thing that is going to receive the "Seal of Suck" are things below a 1 JJOL rating.

Oh and by the way all of the covers you see on my Half Price Horror reviews are actual scans of the copies that I own including my first review "The Nightmare Man"

A-Z blogging challenge day 2

April 2nd

B is for Boomstick!

Keeping with the theme of using "Tools of the horror trade" for the blog challenge I decided today to go with Boomstick.  I could have gone with blade, or butcher knife, or even bullet, but how boring is that?  I picked what has to be the coolest weapon used in a horror film---that starts with a B.  This is my BOOMSTICK posting.

If you're wondering where you can find the boomstick it can be found in your sporting goods department at your local S-Mart.  So why the boomstick?  Well is there any other "tool" with more stopping power than a shotgun, a.k.a. Boomstick when dealing with a deadite infestation?  I don't think so.  Also Bruce Campbell and the Evil Dead series were some of the first things I was exposed to in the world of horror home video.  The Evil Dead and more specifically Army of Darkness are still some of my favorite horror movies to this day.  Bruce Campbell also happens to be one of my favorite actors to watch even though some of his most recent work hasn't been horror related, but still manages to kick ass. If you haven't seen Mr. Campbell in some of his most recent work you should check out "Burn Notice", the show is amazing! (Jeffrey Donovan kicks ass in it as well!)

Allright you primitive screwheads if you wish you had a boomstick to deal with your pesky deadite problem then "come get some" in the comments. A little overboard on the evil dead comments?

Oh yeah by the way....... (spoilers!!!)

Super "almost" secret director's cut ending stillshot

A-Z blogging challenge begins today with the letter A............

So today marks the momentous occasion of the first day for the A-Z blogging challenge.  For each day in April myself and several other (more like 1,000) bloggers will be using each day of the month to post a letter of the alphabet and a blog post of our own theme to go with the letter.  If you want to check out all of the other blogs participating, which I highly recommend checking out, you're in luck because I've added a tool on the sidebar that you can use for easily visiting all of the blogs with just the click of a button. Thanks to http://writing.wordit.com/ for the tool! So the theme I picked for my blog is "Tools of the trade for horror charactors"  Come back daily for a new entry, (minus Sundays) and don't forget to check out all the other blogs participating! (I will still be posting regular blog entries along the way as well!)

April 1st

A is for Axe

One of my alltime favorite uses of the infamous axe is by Mr. Patrick Bateman, THE American Psycho. The scene in which the axe is used is played out so well by Christian Bale that I'm really not sure if I should be laughing or hiding in fear. My favorite part about the scene other than the actual explosion of blood from Jared Leto's head is the hilarious use of Huey Lewis' "Hip to be Square" as a social commentary and an insight into the band itself, which Patrick points out to his victim.  Another great part about the axe scene is the dialogue exchange between the two charactors about whether or not that is an axe, and the question of, "is that a raincoat?" (hilarious)  Something I found interesting about the scene is the look of said axe and how squeeky clean and proper it looks before the killing, which fits perfectly with Mr. Bateman's self image. (I hate reading into things, so I'm not sure if this was meant to be taken this way or....) I won't go into any details about the rest of the movie since this is just focused on the "tools of the trade" for the horror charactors themselves, but if you haven't seen it yet go netflix it, or buy it this weekend.  You won't be disappointed.  So if you're yuppy friend had better business cards than you would the axe be your weapon of choice for offing said yuppy friend?  (disclaimer:  never use as axe for anything other than it's intended purpose!) haha