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It's Called Horsemaning

"It's more to do with Horsemaning.

Horsemanning was reportedly a popular way to pose in a photograph in the 1920s in which the illusion of a beheading was created. The horsemanning photo fad derives its name from the Headless Horseman, an evil character from Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Soon after its discovery, a series of horsemanning photos began trending on sites like Buzzfeed and people got inspired to recreate the original fad. Horsemanning began experiencing a revival in the mid 2011, along with other photo fads such as planking and owling."

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Monday Movie Review - CONTAGION

I was all set to see another major kick-ass story about a virus nearly destroying the world's population. I loved "Outbreak" and hoped this one was another edge-of-your-seat nail biter.

Contagion is none of this. But neither is it a bad movie.

It starts on Day 2, where an American woman re-enters the US after a business trip to Japan. She is ill, and everything she touches immediately becomes contaminated. The film continues forward one day at a time, two days, then a week. In the process we see how the virus spreads so rapidly, humanity can't cope. Violence breaks out, and millions upon millions of people die - including the stars. That fact alone blew me away. Six major A-list (and most of them Academy Award winners) in this flick, and some of them die in the movie. Wow.

If you're looking for gore or scary effects, you'll be disappointed. The film is slow, very slow. But the acting is superb. There is a lot of tension and suspense. There's a poignant happy ending. Oh, and all questions are neatly wrapped up in the final five minutes.

But because of its very slow yet methodical pace, my recommendation is that you

Alien Wedding: Cake and Shoes Suggestion

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and here are the shoes she can wear with the dress! -->

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Monday Movie Review - ZOMBIE DIARIES 2: World of the Dead

I haven't seen the first Zombie Diaries, but now I think I need to, just to put a prelude to what I've just watched. But, trust me, you can watch this one without feeling you've missed out on anything.

The story opens up where a couple is secluded in their house without electricity, and by their conversation you know some sort of catastrophe has happened. This movie is shot in cinema verite, meaning a guy is going around with a video camera, and you're seeing what he's shooting in "real time". It gives the viewer a "You Are There" feeling.

We then flip directly to a military establishment that is being decimated by zombies. A few troops manage to escape, and they head for the coast where they hope to catch the last boat out of the UK for Amsterdam, where survivors are gathering to wait out the infestation over the winter. Along the way the troops encounter survivalists who turn out to be more dangerous than the undead.

This film was a pleasant surprise. Plus the ending gave it a nice twist. The gore is plenty, although not as graphic as anything by Romero. But the threat felt real, and the story was entertaining. Which is why my recommendation is

If They Did To Us What We Do To Them