Camp Blood - Friday the 30th - UPDATE

It appears the Camp Blood venue has changed. Instead of the Hilton Garden Inn, the convention will be held at Sneaky Pete's Sports Bar & Banquet Facility. Which actually makes for a better venue as it overlooks Lake Lewisville and has an actual camp feeling about it.

John Gray posted on the forum, "We are turning the "conventional convention" on it's ear with this one folks, and believe you me, what we are planning with Sneaky Pete's is going to blow you away. I wanted to wait until we could announce it officially on the site, but of course, it was just a matter of time I'm sure before word got out that the venue was changing."

According to John, there is much more room than before as well as Studio Movie Grill being right next door. So the all day Friday the 13th film festival is going to be in an actual theater (with beer and food) on Friday August 13th with celebs and panels. "So basically, you can register in the morning and then watch all the original Friday's on the big screen, in 35mm!" John posted.

GUEST UPDATES:

Derek Mears has yet to confirm on his appearance stating a schedule conflict but had this to say: "Right on. Please tell John that I sincerely appreciate the offer to attend Camp Blood. The reason I haven't committed to John's show is that I am scheduled to be out of town working on a feature at the time of the show. If by any chance my schedule changes, or the shoot dates are moved, I will immediately contact him about attending. Camp Blood sounds great and I hope the con is a success for him."

Kevin Bacon also hasn't confirmed his appearance but rumor has it, it's a no from him.

Miguel Nunez has officially joined the show. You may remember him as Demon from Friday the 13th Part V. Let's just hope Sneaky Pete's doesn't serve any of those "damn enchiladas"!!

We'll let you know when more info becomes available!!

Scream 4 Update

As shooting is scheduled to get underway in July in Michigan we can expect news to keep rolling in on Scream 4. Several casting possibilities have been leaked today including Hayden Panettiere, Ashley Greene and Rory Culkin. According to imdb.com, Lake Bell has also joined the franchise.

If all deals go through, Greene would play Neve Campbell's cousin Jill and Panettiere would be cast as her BFF and uber film geek (no doubt taking the place of Randy). Culkin would play a love interest for Jill and Bell is negotiating to play a police officer who knew Sidney from high school.

And of course, we have the usual suspects, Campbell, Courtney Cox (God I hope her hair is better than Scream 3) and David Arquette.

Humpty Dumpty Horror Movie?

Intandem Films is putting "Humpty Dumpty" back together again. The U.K. sales and finance house has picked up worldwide sales rights on the sci-fi horror flick about a half-human, half-alien creature and will seek out new financing in its role as executive producer on the project. Former New Line exec Mark Ordesky (Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings) is producing with Darryn Welch of Instinctive Film and Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones of the iDream Co. Fabienne Villette will co-produce.

The movie details the story of a creature who unleashes his rage on the world after an act of evil is carried out against his mother. It marks the debut movie from fledgling writer Billy Majestic and will be directed by "Final Destination 2 and Final Destination 4 3D" David R. Ellis. The release date is still TBA but we will let you know as details become available.

I'm not too sure what to think about this one yet. Guess we'll have to wait and see. So, for now, enjoy the art work then head on over and check out the Humpty Dumpty Movie on Facebook and Humpty Dumpty Movie on MySpace.

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Pontypool 2008 - REVIEW

Pontypool is an adaptation of the novel "Pontypool Changes Everything" by Tony Burgess, who also wrote the screenplay. The film revolves around "Shock jock" Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) who has shocked his way off the airwaves in the big city and now hosts the early morning show at CLSY Radio in Pontypool Ontario, which broadcasts from the basement of the town's abandoned church.

What begins as just another boring day of school closures, obituaries and have you seen my cat segments quickly turns deadly when reports of people developing strange speech patterns and committing horrendous acts of violence start flooding in. Before long, Grant and his staff of two, Sydney (Lisa Houle) and Laurel-Ann Georgina Reilly) find themselves trapped in the radio station. They soon discover that this insane behavior taking over the town is actually a deadly virus being spread through the English language. Not the entire language but certain words. Once a person fully understands the infected word the virus then takes over transforming them into vicious cannibals. Now they have to decide, do they stay on the air in the hopes of being rescued or, are they in fact funneling the virus over the airwaves and into the world?

What do you get when you combine a great script, a superb concept and a solid cast? Perfection of course!! That's exactly what director Bruce McDonald and Burgess have achieved with Pontypool. They've proven that a movie doesn't have to be riddled with effects or overflowing with a huge budget to frighten us. The concept is simple... imagine. That's all we have to do. Nothing is out of the question with this movie because it's left up to the viewer. And it's amazing what the mind can do with a few suggestions and some good sound effects. The possibilities are limitless. You would think, me being the huge gore freak that I am, I would've hated it. BUT, there's not much they could've put on the screen that compared to the images my warped and twisted mind came up all on it's own.

Just think about it for a second. You're trapped in a basement with no real clue what's happening outside. The only information you have is that zombie like cannibals are surrounding you and any word you or the person next to you says can turn you into one. You don't have to be bitten, spat on or ingest some mucousy liquid. Simply say the word. It's brilliant... talk about a mind fuck.

I had my doubts going in. I wasn't sure if it would hold up against higher caliber zombie flicks like Dawn of the Dead or Night of the Living Dead. I'd heard there wasn't much to it but as always, I had to see to believe. And what I found was an intellectual horror that grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me into submission. Although technically, I'm not sure it can be considered a zombie flick since the attackers aren't really reanimated corpses. They're victims of a virus. Oh well, that's a different discussion.

The most interesting character is, of course, that of the sarcastic and sometimes hateful Grant Mazzy. McHattie does a terrific job stepping into a rare starring role and giving us an honest performance. There's a bit of sporadic and very subtle comedy, like the "I forgot to give her her valentine." comment as the chick is bashing her face into the sound booth glass. And the voice, that voice is like butter to me. Yes, I know how that sounds. No, I don't really care.



Houle does a decent job as the tight laced producer. Her character is in a constant struggle to keep the loose lipped Mazzy under control while trying to piece together incoming information. The conflict between the two of them creates quite a bit of tension throughout the entire film. We also have the "technical cowgirl", Reilly, though not around for very long, starts off as a star struck Mazzy fan then transforms into a pretty creepy virus victim. She's also the first and only character we actually SEE transform into one of these mysterious cannibal like creatures. Then there's Dr. Mendez Hrant Alianak. I've read many negative reviews and heard comments about his inroduction into the film but I found his character useful enough. After all, he is the one that figures out the whole English language thing. He also brings in quite a bit of comedy relief, especially when he gets infected and starts randomly speaking in German.

I'll admit, there are some things in the film that could've been better. For example the makeup work on the visiting singers was just terrible. BUT, I've also heard that it was intentional and meant to ramp up Mazzy with the ridiculousness of it all. No one can say for sure except those that made the film. Think they'll ever tell?

If you're looking for a film that is full of gore and action, don't even bother with this film. The gore quotient is lower than my SAT scores and the action is equal to that of a geeky virgin. BUT, you'll also be missing some serious fun. This is a film very few people have attempted and even less have succeed in doing. I found it very intense and suspenseful and very well made. It's a definite MUST SEE!

"Pontypool my Pontypool."

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 - REVIEW

As a huge fan of the original Nightmare on Elm Street, I found it hard to go in without that film in my head. I did my best to put aside my disdain for remakes and the disappointment that Robert Englund wasn't in the role that MADE Freddy Krueger a real life nightmare for us all. I've been mulling over this review for two days now. How do I put aside my faithfulness to the original and give this new film an honest review? The truth is, you can't. The original is there, and it's there to stay and you can't just unsee something. There's no switch you can flip and make like it was never there. With that said, I'll do my absolute best to give it an honest review while throwing in the differences between the two films.

I'm not gonna get into a long synopsis of the film because we all know the storyline, (this ain't our first rodeo). A disturbed child molester gets trapped and killed by avenging parents then comes back to get his revenge by haunting, torturing and killing their children in their dreams. In the original there was never any mention of molestation which amazingly makes 2010's Freddy (Jackie Earl Haley) even more despicable. There was a huge difference in the whole "making of Freddy" thing. This time around, he looked more like a healed burn victim whereas in the original he had a more recently burned look about him. As far as make up goes, I'd have to say 2010's Freddy won the battle.

Now you might ask which Freddy I like better and that's a great question however, I can't answer it. I've honestly never been so torn between an original and remake before. There was always that clear sucks ass or doesn't suck ass opinion in my head but not now. I found the new Freddy to be extremely creepy and more of a "I don't fuck around" kind of dude. The original Freddy had that "I'm gonna toy with you until you can't take anymore then I'm gonna put you out of your misery" thing going for him. As far as I'm concerned, they were both successful in their efforts to grab hold and demand your attention.


Moving onto the rest of the cast who, for all intensive purposes, were just drones added in to give Freddy something to play with. I didn't get why almost the first full hour of the film was dedicated to Kris (Katie Cassidy) when she was in fact the modernized version of Tina who was tossed around the room The Entity style and gutted within the first 15 minutes of the original. Why waste an hour of the film on someone who ISN'T the main character? Didn't make sense to me. And some of her scenes (the one where she wakes up screaming in class) were actually Nancy scenes in the original. She's sitting in class and hears Tina's haunting calls. When she looks out into the hallway, Tina's battered and bloody corpse is there, in a leaky body bag then dragged away. THIS is how we know Nancy has gone from being awake to dreaming. There was always a transition in the original. In the remake it was so hard to tell what was truly going on and I think it has a lot to do with the introduction of "micro-napping" which is described plainly as your brain shutting down. You're awake but you're so tired that your mind just starts dreaming. (Yeah, okay)


And the character of Nancy (Rooney Mara) was a total misfire in every way. Every time I saw her, I thought of the little girl from The Ring. Did she bathe at all during the making of this film?? She was so dull and boring. I found nothing likable about her at all and she really wasn't given much to do. I mean the movie is 1 hour and 35 minutes long and the majority of it was focused on Kris. For the most part, the whole cast seemed like a bunch of blindfolded penguins just running around bumping into each other.

Kyle Gallner, who plays Quentin, is effective as Reed Garrett on CSI: NY but here, he falls way short. Another blogger said he looked like a reject from the Twilight saga and I couldn't agree more. I won't even get into Thomas Dekker's portrayal of Jesse (who is suppose to be Rod) except to say he needs to cut back on the guyliner.


I did appreciate the way Samuel Bayer incorporated pieces of the original into the new one i.e. the bloody body bag in the hallway, the bathtub scene, Freddy's face stretching out of the wall. There are also new things added in and changes made that I couldn't even wrap my brain around. Like, Nancy is this meager, timid young girl who hides in her room and sketches. But the first sign that she's deep into a micro-nap she sticks a car lighter to her arm and barely makes a face? Whatever dude, no one is THAT tough.

Also, in the original they were all basically best friends sharing the same dream about the same scary guy in the red and green sweater and the dirty fedora. Now, they're strangers who were actually friends in preschool but don't remember because their parents killed the sadistic freak that was molesting them all. Okay, all together now..... HUH?????????????????? What the fuckity fuck fuck were Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer thinking when they came up with that switch? Let's break it down --- They were all friends when they were little, right? Right... ok so, please explain to me how they all grew up in the same town, went to the same school, ate at the same restaurant and never, ever, EVER remembered that they all used to get a little pickle tickle from the freaky gardener?? Come on!!! You're not just making this movie for horror starved teens! WE ARE HERE!!! The people who've known and yes loved Freddy Kreuger and the NOES franchise since 1984. To us he's a horror icon and if you're gonna redo it, holy fuck, make it good. Is that too much to ask??


Bottom line, Haley delivers and totally carries the whole movie. The changes they made sucked and disappointed but at least the story line stayed the same. I can't say don't go see it because it's not terrible but I'm not sure that it'll be one I rush to get when it comes out on DVD.

The Legend of Bloody Jack 2007 (SPOILERS) - REVIEW

The Legend of Bloody Jack is based on the legend of Jack the Ripper and set in the Alaskan wilderness. It begins with a relative of a murderous occult Lumberjack (GAG) reciting an incantation from an ancient book of spells attempting to resurrect him. Of course he succeeds but isn't able to convince the axe wielding killer that blood is thicker than water and ends up dead. A couple of days later, Ray (Travis Quentin Young), his sister Dawn (Erica Curtis), her boyfriend Nick (Craig Bonacorsi) and a few more of their friends pull up outside a quaint little cabin looking forward to a weekend of relaxation. Unfortunately, the sadistic Lumberjack has plans of his own and starts to slaughter the friends, one by one.

Todd Portugal wrote, directed, produced and edited what can easily be called the most laughable horror movie of the decade. The characters are unlikable and unbelievable. The script is completely nonsensical. The camera work, the editing, the effects... everything was just so bad. I haven't even gotten to the Lumberjack yet. As far as villains go, he's more like Jim Carrey's character in that Lemony Snickets movie. It's almost like Portugal is taking cheap shots at horror fans everywhere. Poking at us in a way that says "You're too stupid to know better." And just when you think it can't get any worse, in comes the "twist" ending.

I'm going to alert you now to **SPOILERS** even though, I'm hoping beyond hope that none of you ever waste your time watching this farce.

So, just before the movie is over, it cuts back to Ray telling his story. Turns out the crapfest we've just sat through for 80 minutes is just him telling a story. His friends berate him for telling such a lame story (I can sympathize) and begin to pick it apart and laugh at him. Then, to add insult to injury, the Lumberjack shows up and kills everyone of them in less than a minute. If he'd done that in the first place it would've saved everyone the time and the headache.

There was obviously no effort put into this film and I'm gonna give you just a few examples how to tell...
It was made clear at the beginning that it was summer in Alaska and that the sun never sets. Well, when Lisa is trapped in the bathroom she climbs out the window. As the audience sees outside, it's clearly dark but when the camera cuts to the exterior shot and her landing on the ground, it's daylight.
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Then there's Deputy Vince (Jeremy Flynn) who drops by the cabin for no reason and seems unconcerned that one of the friends is missing and a blood trail has been found. He tells them he can't get a search party out until the morning, leaving the impression that it's nighttime. Then he walks outside, in the brightness and uses a flashlight. (W-T-F!?!?)
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Any interior shot that catches a window, you see that it's pitch black out.
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There's a scene where Dawn and Nick are sneaking up on Jack as he's chopping away at one of their friends and she says to him... "Don't be nervous." (WHAT?!? Are you fucking kidding me? That has got to be the lamest placement of dialogue in horror history!!!)

Ultimately this movie is a complete joke as a teen slasher. But, let's be honest, what can you expect from the guy who brings us Thumbtanic and The Blair Thumb?

No way would I recommend this movie. Myself? I'd much rather jam a wire hanger up my cooch than watch that mess again.