Monster Pens

Aren't these cute?  Found them at Office Depot. 

Nothing like having a little monster or alien to write with.

Monday Movie Review - THE COTTAGE

If you like black comedy like "Shaun of the Dead", but without zombies, this is the movie for you.

What starts out as two guys kidnapping the daughter of their rich boss just for the ransom money goes hilariously wrong, but the entire movie is played very straight and very tongue-in-cheek.  It seems the cottage they take the girl to (who more than once wipes the floor with their asses before she's subdued) is right next door to the abode of a serial killer.  Once the killer finds out they're there, he goes after them.  It becomes the killer after the kidnappers after the vicitm.  Then the victim and kidnappers vs the killer.  Then...  Well, you get the drift.

The acting is fantastic, since I wasn't familiar with any of the actors.  The gore effects are superb.  It's a UK film, so there might be times you'll have to rewind just to double-check what was said. 

But on the whole, this flick makes for super entertainment.  Which is why I whole-heartedly recommend that you: 

Merry Bloody Christmas!

Horror 4 Sale

I was given these two movies.  They're brand new, still in their original package, and never been opened.

Each is $3, which includes postage.

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****

FACE

A serial killer is burning away the flesh of his victims with acid, leaving only the bones behind. The police turn to Hyun-min, a former forensic sculptor adept in reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting skulls. With the victim's bones in his house, Hyun-min's daughter begins to experience disturbing visions. As he races against time to find the answers and save his daughter, the deadly truth behind these victims reveals a sinister conspiracy that threatens everyone involved.

SILK

Armed with a newly invented material called the Menger Sponge, a paranormal investigative scientist, Hashimoto, and his team investigate a crime scene.  He captures the energy of a ghost: an unidentified 13-year-old boy.  Who is this ghost?  Why does it kill people? As they get closer to solving the riddle of the boy's past, he learns the horrifying truth.  Fearing that the ghost child is dangerous, the team decides to isolate him, but in doing so they unknowingly unleash a mysterious force, a much more powerful and ferocious energy to which the boy somehow seems connected.

 

Monday Movie Review - TRAIN

A group of American college athletes are over in Europe, participating in some games.  The night before they're supposed to head to another country via railway, they go on a bender and end up having to take an alternate train, since they missed their original departure.

What they don't know is that this train has no intention of letting them arrive alive at their destination.  They're young, they're strong, and that means they're perfect victims for a group of crackpot doctors to kidnap, torture, and ultimately use their body parts and organs in a weird donor-transplant scheme.

There is one lone female who survives, and it's through her eyes we see all the carnage inflicted upon the college students. 

Think "Midnight Meat Train" with a female hero.  Think of any mad slasher/serial killer who chops up countless victims, while a single teenage girl manages to elude his clutches, only on a train.

I have to admit, the gore is pretty spectacular, but the biggest problem sticking in my craw was the fact that these people would slice open and extract organs from their still-living victims without any kind of sanitary containment whatsoever.  The walls are grimy, the slabs are caked in dried blood, and the whole place reeks of filth, and we're supposed to believe these organs are being placed in other people, and those people survive?

This movie also has places where it drags, but all in all it would make for an okay viewing on a lazy weekend.  That's why my recommendation is that you:

'Tis the Season To Be Ghastly

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Zombie Safe House

You gotta admit, this concept art and ingenuity is phenomenal!

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