It sure has been awhile since my last post. It hasn't been due to
the fact that nothing has been going on. In fact, it's the polar
opposite. I have been busy. I've been to a few shows, went on the
mother of road trips, and even started an internet radio show. Which
means that I have had plenty to write about. I watched the latest
Full Moon movie this afternoon, which was produced, and directed, by
Charles Band. Afterward I felt the urge to blog about it. So, here I
am.
My last blog was way back in February. Don't worry, I am not going
to go into this big long-winded rant about all of the stuff that has
happened since then. But, some of the bigger events of the past
several months have had one thing in common. Now, you're asking
yourself what could that possibly be. I'll tell you. It's whiskey.
Back at the end of April I found myself in Chicago with a group of
some great friends. We were there to attend the first Moonrunners
Music Festival. I won't spend too much time talking about the actual
festival. The one thing that I will say about the festival itself is
that I was prepared to be very disappointed with it. Turned out to be
the opposite. It was one of the greatest musical experiences I have
ever experienced. During the festival itself I really didn't have
anything to do with whiskey. Other than doing a shot of whiskey with
Justin Wells, from Fifth on the Floor. The whiskey part came in
later. After the festival was over I walked back to the hotel that we
were staying at. My friends Blake, Mollz, Jen, Mel, and I were all
sharing a room. Jacob, also my friend, was hanging out in our room
when I got back. The one missing actually was Mel. But, the bottle of
cinnamon whiskey that Mel had brought with her was in the room. Jacob
and I proceeded to drink all of the whiskey that was left in the
bottle. From what I have heard, we had the greatest conversation
anybody has ever had while we were drinking. Sadly neither one of us
remembers it.
Now let's jump forward to the end of May. At the end of May a big
group of people congregated in central Illinois for the taping of
episode 100 of IBWIP. Again the same group of friends that I was with
in Chicago were back together. Just like in Chicago we had a bottle
of cinnamon whiskey. This time Jacob was the supplier of the whiskey.
Also, just like in Chicago, we managed to drink the entire bottle.
But, unlike Chicago, Jacob and I didn't have a great conversation. In
fact the whiskey almost lead to blows. See, the location that we were
at for the taping of IBWIP is located right next to a cemetery. In
said cemetery there are a couple of caches. For those of you who
don't know what a cache is, please go to www.geocaching.com.
I found one of the caches earlier in the day. But, after it got dark
I wanted to go find the other one. Turns out cinnamon whiskey turns
Jacob into a big pussy, who is afraid to go into cemeteries after
dark. Needless to say, we didn't find the other cache.
The final whiskey story comes from my recent vacation. As many of
you know, my lovely wife and I just got back from the granddaddy of
road trips. We went on a 4883 mile journey through 12 states in 12
days. One of the stops was in Deadwood South Dakota. When I was a kid
I went there once with my family, but after the HBO show, I always
wanted to go back. We got into town around lunch time. In the
afternoons there is a reenactment of the Wild Bill shooting in the
new Saloon #10. So, we made our way over to the bar. One of the
things that I wanted to do in Deadwood was do a shot of whiskey for
Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, and Seth Bullock. My wife said that she
would do a shot too. There is one thing that you need to understand
going into this story. My wife is not a drinker at all. She
occasionally has one drink. If she does happen to do a shot it's
something pretty girly. So, I asked her if was going to do a shot of
whiskey too. At first she was going to do something else. I pushed
her to agree to whiskey. After some encouragement from me she finally
agreed. Once we were at the bar in Saloon #10 I ordered up a couple
of shots of Jim Beam. Apparently in Deadwood they don't have normal
shot glasses, because the bartender proceeded to place on the bar two
glasses that were roughly the size of high ball glasses. Then he
filled them up with Beam. What happened next I am sure that my wife
would trade her first born to have never experienced. She thought she
was just going to sip it. But, I told her that it was a shot, and she
needed to drink it all at once. She slugged her shot back, and I
swear I thought she was going to die. She did make a full recovery,
but I did spend the rest of the day promising that I did like
whiskey. I am pretty sure that if she ever even smells whiskey in the
future it will cause some sort of reaction.
Now, onto the reason we are all here.
Unlucky Charms was actually released just today. Full Moon has a
deal with Red Box, so right after work I rushed out and picked it up.
The movie itself was exactly what I was expecting. The plot was a
mockery of those modeling reality TV shows, only with monsters. It
basically was some leprechaun type monsters chasing around women in
their underwear. But, the truly exciting thing about Unlucky Charms
was that Full Moon has brought back Video Zone. Now, for those of you
that aren't familiar with Video Zone, it was a featurette that was
after the credits of the Full Moon movies on VHS. They usually were a
making of type of video. Now a days most DVDs are full of extra
features. However, I think Full Moon was the first to include them on
all of their movies. There was also mention of a couple other really
cool things that Full Moon has up their sleeves. But, I'll let you go
out and rent the movie for yourself to find out about them.
Beers With Charles...Confessions of a Horror Fan
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Grindhouseflix
I know it’s been awhile since my last post. It has been a
bit busy. That, and I was struggling with a worth topic to write about. Well it
turns out that I have a few things to cover. Plus, they are actually recent
events too, and not stories from the past.
First topic of discussion is that I signed up for
Grindhouseflix.com. For those of you that don’t know what that is, it’s a
streaming service that Charles Band, and Full Moon, put together. It’s only $5
a month to watch streaming grind house films. It’s really wasn't a bad deal
since your received a $25 gift card to the Full Moon shop when you bought a one
month subscription. Plus, Full Moon has a half price Valentines sale every
year. I ended up getting a couple t-shirts, and a copy of Meridian, for my $5.
Turned out to be not such a bad deal for me in the end, although I still haven’t
decided if I am going to cancel it or not.
Second topic of discussion is that February turned out to be
a decent month for shows for me. I bought my ticket for the Moonrunners
festival in Chicago in April. I am guessing there will be a post about that.
Plus, I made it to two shows.
The first show was Those Poor Bastards. For those of you
that don’t already know, Those Poor Bastards are my favorite band. With my love
of everything horror, the music fits perfectly. As a bonus they reside in
Madison, which is about 45 minutes away, so I get to see them play a lot. I
have been going to Those Poor Bastards shows for several years now, and
probably the best part is that Wyatt, and Vincent, are very friendly. I couldn't tell you the countless hours I have spent talking with them at the shows.
The second show I made it to was a Joseph Huber show in
Milwaukee. That show was extra special for several reasons. Joseph Huber is
quickly becoming a favorite artist of mine. His song writing is great. He has a
great voice. If you ever get a chance to go see his solo show, GO! It is truly
amazing. Plus, my very good friends Blake, and Mollz, made the trek north to go
too. Probably the best part of the night was that my lovely wife went as well.
She has gone to shows with me in the past. But, this was the first time she
went to a roots show. It turns out that she had a pretty good time. Amy and
Mollz discovered RumChata at the show. Then Amy taught Mollz the proper way to
do shot.
With the highs of the past month there have been some lows
as well.
The first is that my favorite beer is getting price gouged
at bars. The one bar in Madison used to sell PBR tallboys for $2. That was a
great price. Now they sell regular cans for $2.50, and tallboys are $4. $2.50
for a beer in Madison is still a good price. I didn't bitch, but I did ask why
the price hike. I was a bit surprised when I was given a truthful answer. I was
told that it’s one of their most popular beers, so they decided to raise the
price. They said it didn't slow the sales at all. Then in Milwaukee it was $4
for a bottle of PBR. That’s the same price they were charging for a bottle of
Lite. Now, you can go to the store and buy a 30 pack of PBR for $15. That’s a
big profit.
The second low of the month would be that my kids have turned
out to be a couple of schemers. I ‘used’ to have a Kindle Fire. I had it for a
little over a year. That thing was great. My oldest daughter had a regular
Kindle, a phone, and an iPod. The iPod was actually an iPod that I found on the
ground a couple of years ago. Shortly after I found it I gave it to her. The
new Kindle Fire came out not too long ago. My oldest wanted a Kindle Fire. She
was originally going to save up for it. But, ended up blowing the money she had
saved. I saw this as a chance for me to get one. I offered her my Kindle Fire
in exchange for the iPod, and her Kindle. My plan was to sell them both, and
throw in the little extra money I needed to get a new one. My youngest sunk her
teeth in as soon as I got my hands on the iPod. She played the ‘but, you gave
it to her’ card. Out of guilt I felt obligated to give it to her. So, I ended
up with just a Kindle that doesn't do anything but display text. It’s not all
that bad though. They both have smiles on their faces.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Ghost Warrior
My wife read my last two posts and was a little put off that
they both seemed to be about other women. Now it was never my intention to make
either post seem like they were about other women. In my defense I couldn't tell you what either woman even looked like. Both experiences were a long time
ago. After this was brought to my attention I asked her if she would feel
better if I blogged about her instead. She wasn't up for that at all. Since I didn't get her blessing to write about her I thought I would write about
something that the both of us were involved in.
We got married in 1999. We decided on Ireland as our honeymoon
destination. We flew into Dublin. We were young, and didn't really know what we
were doing, so naturally we didn't have any reservations anywhere. It really wasn't that big of a deal. The first night we were there we stayed downtown
Dublin in some tiny hotel. Dublin was OK, but we wanted to visit the ocean, and
rural Ireland. We hopped on a bus the next day, and headed to County Wicklow.
We got off of the bus with our luggage and walked to the first bed and
breakfast we saw.
I know this was fourteen years ago, but I can’t imagine
things have changed too much. There were a couple things that we take for granted
here in the States. The first is beef. 1999 was shortly after the whole ‘mad
cow’ ordeal, so unless it said beef on the menu, it was lamb. It didn't make a
difference if it said hamburger, or steak. The second thing that was the way
they waited on you in the pubs, and restaurants. In the restaurants they would
seat you. When you were ready to order you had to wave them down. After you had
your food you were never talked to again until you waved them down again. The
same held true for the pubs. You could be belly up to the bar with money in
your hand. They wouldn't come and take your order till you got their attention.
I know a lot of you are thinking it was because we were foreigners. They did it
to everyone.
Every time we were in a pub we would get involved in
conversations with some of the locals. Remember this was in 1999, and Bill
Clinton was president. Everyone that we talked to loved America. One of the
questions that we got asked over, and over, was ‘why would you leave the
States?’ Mostly we would get into these political conversations with older
folks. It was the third night that we were there we met a brother and sister
from Scotland that were visiting their cousins. We hung out with these two all
night. We made plans to meet back up the next night when their cousins finally
got into town.
The next night came around, and we went to the pub and met
up with our new found friends. It turned out that their cousins were in the
Ireland army, and were home with a group of their friends. Now I am from
Wisconsin. One of the things that we pride ourselves on here is that we can
drink. It turns out that it doesn't matter that you are from Wisconsin, when
you are in Ireland you are a lightweight. These army boys kept buying rounds,
and for a while we tried to keep up. After a couple of hours my wife, and I,
had a couple of rounds piled up on the table waiting for us. You also have to
remember that this was Ireland. These guys are drinking Guinness. I know that
Guinness isn't that strong, but it is thick. Each pint is like a meal.
After several hours of drinking with some of Ireland’s
finest, and our friends from Scotland, we needed to head back to the bed and
breakfast. Mainly due to the fact that neither one of us could barely stand. We
somehow made it back to our room. Honestly neither one of us even remember
leaving the bar, let alone getting back to the room. What we do remember is
what took place a couple of hours after we made it to bed.
Turns out when you drink four gallons of Guinness you are
likely going to ralph some of it back up. After a couple hours, of what I can
only imagine was blissful, sleep I woke up with a churning in my belly. I
climbed out of bed to expel my innards. My beautiful bride had beaten me to the
commode. For a couple of hours we took turns barfing. Nothing says true love
like sharing a puke filled toilet.
More heaving stories to follow I am sure, but let’s get onto
the movie.
Ghost Warrior is
going to be one of the rare instances of this blog that I cover a movie that
does not fall into the horror genre at all. However, it was the second film to
be produced by Empire International, so I felt it was necessary. The movie
follows an ancient samurai warrior that is frozen for over 400 years, and then is
brought back to life after being defrosted. He then must face the modern world,
well as modern as it was in the early ‘80s. I could be wrong, but I am pretty
sure that Ghost Warrior has never
been released on DVD. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though. Watching this
fine film on VHS is really how it should be experienced. In it’s pure, gritty,
and raw form. High definition would just wreck it.
Monday, January 21, 2013
From Beyond
I actually went on a little Charles Band bender a while ago.
One of the movies I watched was From
Beyond. I was sitting here enjoying a Pabst trying to think of a topic to
cover to go with that movie. Then it hit me. I should tell one of my favorite
stories. This is one of the stories that I typically tell my married friends
after they had a couple of kids. They are usually terrified of getting a
vasectomy, but my story tends to ease their minds somewhat.
My wife and I have two beautiful daughters. Our second was
born shortly after my 26th birthday. The plan was after our second
was born I was going to get ‘fixed’. At the time I was working as an
electrician. One of the guys I worked with at the time would always tell this
story of his botched vasectomy. It turned out that he was a freak of nature. He
would tell us about after his second kid he went in for the procedure. About
five years later his wife ended up pregnant. At first it caused quite the
ruckus at their house. Before they ended up in divorce he went in for a sperm
count test. Turned out he wasn't shooting blanks. A normal male has one tube on
each side. This guy had one tube on one side, and two on the other. When they
did the original snip they only did one on each side. After you have the
procedure you are supposed to go in and have a sperm count test done. This guy
never did because he was too ‘busy’.
As I mentioned, after my second was born I went in to get
‘cut’. At the time we were living close to Madison, Wisconsin. Naturally I went
to the UW hospital to have the procedure done. I went through the whole
interview process. They do this to be sure that you are actually ready to
become sterile, and not just doing it for birth control. After I passed the
tests I was given the OK to go under the knife.
I wasn't nervous at first. My dad had gone through the same
thing, and told me there was nothing to worry about. Well the UW hospital is a
learning hospital. Now this normally wouldn't have bugged me. But, it turned
out that the doctor that was supposed to be performing my procedure had a new
intern, and this was going to be her first real procedure. The one piece of
advice that everyone kept giving me was to be sure that I didn't get a boner
while I was getting a part of my manhood removed, and since my doctor was supposed
to be an old man that was not going to be a problem. All of sudden my doctor
turned from a sixty year old grandpa to a college co-ed. It so happened that
she didn't apply the local anesthesia properly the first time. Trust me, a
knife in the ball sack fucking hurts. Once I was properly numbed up I didn't have to worry about boners. That whole area was numb.
The vasectomy itself is a simple process. They make a small
incision on each side. Then they cauterize the vasa differentia. If I remember
right that took about ten minutes to do. After it was over the doctor and nurse
left the room. That left only me and the intern. I was lying on the table while
she stood beside me. We stayed like that for probably fifteen minutes. We
talked about my wife and kids, her schooling, and how she liked becoming a
doctor. Finally she started going over the recovery speech. She told me to be
sure to take it easy for a couple of days. She said that is there is any
swelling that I should apply ice, and that frozen vegetables worked the best.
She told me that if I did overexert myself they might swell up like a couple of
softballs. Then she proceeded to tell me that the incisions were small enough
that they didn't require stitches, but they might seep a little blood. She told
me not to be alarmed if that were to happen. She said, and I quote, ‘If they
start to bleed, just do what I am doing right now’. As anyone would say my natural reaction was
‘and what are you doing?’ I looked toward my crotch and this young intern was
cradling my scrotum, and her reply was ‘just be sure to keep pressure on them.’
To which I responded with ‘Have you been doing that this whole time?’ Of course
she said ‘Yep!’
That’s enough sharing about my balls. Let’s move onto the
good stuff.
From Beyond stars
Jeffrey Combs, and Barbara Crampton, both have starred in other Charles Band
movies. The film was shot in Italy, which was a cost saving method that was
used for several of Charles Band movies. It was shot on a sound stage called Dinocitta
just outside of Rome. Dinocitta was originally constructed by Dino
DeLaurentiis, but was seized by the government for nonpayment of taxes, and
then sold to Empire Studios. From Beyond
was one of the first films shot at that venue during its period of ownership by
Empire. The story for From Beyond is
based on a H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name. This is not the only
H. P. Lovecraft story that Charles Band has brought to life. There is also the Re-Animator movies, which I will get to
eventually, and The Evil Clergyman.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Killjoy
I was trying to think of a worthy topic to blog about as I
was enjoying a PBR, and watching Killjoy.
Since Killjoy consists of an almost
entire African-American cast it reminded me of my grandpa. How does a Charles
Band movie remind me of my grandpa you ask? This past summer I was informed
that he was a bit of a racist, which that is still a topic that I am not
completely buying. Now, before everyone gets all up in arms, this post isn't going to be racist at all, I wanted to do a post about my grandpa and I needed
a segue. I’ll get to the part about Killjoy
in a bit, but first I wanted to tell you a story about my grandpa.
During my childhood my family was broken out into four
different sections. There was my Mom’s family, and my Dad’s family. Then there
was my Grandma’s family on my Mom’s side, and my Grandpa’s family on my Mom’s
side. Of those four sections there was one that mattered to me the most, and
that was my Mom’s family. When I was young we all lived around either other.
Hell, at one point, or another, I have lived in the same house as most of my
Mom’s family. I won’t get into all of that right now. If I started on that this
one post would be about 1,000 pages long. This post I’ll focus on one man, and
to keep this post to a reasonable length, I will try to focus on one event.
I know that I said in my first post that I wasn't going to
post about family. It turns out this is my blog, and I can do what I want, so
every once in a while I am going to post about family. Don’t worry though I
will leave out all of the drama.
My Grandpa Horn was a great man. One of the best I have ever
known. When I was growing up, and after I was a grown man with kids, we spent a
lot of time together. Even after he died, my family and I would go and spend a
couple of weeks every summer with my grandma. That’s not including the
countless weekends every year we would get together. Due to our closeness I was
able to have some very unique experiences with my grandpa. I am not saying that
nobody else has ever had the chance to experience similar things with their grandpa.
But, I know that within my family, some of things we did together nobody else
got to take part in them.
There was the fake fight in the car in the Kroger parking
lot. Then the time we got into trouble for getting into the 50 year old booze while
both of our wives were out shopping for lipstick. There were the daily lunches
at the tavern when I was 13 and 14. Once I put a huge dent in his truck when I
was 12, or 13, and never heard a word about it again. There were the countless
political chats we used to have. There were the three conversations that we
had, one when he got sick for the first time, another right before I got
married, and the third when he got sick the second time. There was the time we
watched porn while my aunt and grandma were sitting in the next room. There
were a countless other things that happened, but I wanted to write about the
one that I was able to share with my uncles and a cousin. Finally, there was
Big Al’s.
After my Grandpa retired my Grandparents relocated about 4
hours south of where we lived. At that point I think I was about 11, or 12.
Every summer I would spend as much time as possible with them. Now I am not
exactly sure which summer it was, but I do remember that my Grandma was still
working. Every day my Grandpa and I would watch Phil Donahue in the afternoon.
One afternoon he had some of the strippers from ‘The World Famous’ Big Al’s on.
You have to remember that this was about 25 years ago. At that time Caterpillar
was thriving in Peoria, which is where Big Al’s is located. So, naturally Big
Al’s did get a lot of business from Cat, and their business partners. I turned to
my Grandpa and said that we had to go. He informed me that we wouldn't be able
to go until I was 21. So, I made him promise that if we both made it until I
was 21 that we would go. He made good on that promise.
As I went through my teens, and very early twenties, the Big
Al’s topic was brought up frequently. Now this wasn't something that we were
keeping under the table. Everyone knew about it. As my 21st birthday
was approaching we started to plan the whole thing out. Originally, it was
supposed to be my dad, two uncles, one cousin, and grandpa. At the last minute
my dad couldn't make it, so the other five of us went. The big adventure took
place one week after my 21st birthday.
Since I now a couple of the people that were involved in
that excursion are going to be reading this, as well as some of their kids, I
am not going to go into too much detail of the night. However, there was one
story in particular from that night I wanted to share. This little slice on the
evening doesn't actually even involve my Grandpa, other than he witnessed it
take place.
The night started off with dinner at my Grandparent’s house.
After dinner we headed downtown to Big Al’s. Over the course of the evening my
cousin and I ended up belly up to the stage. While the dancers were dancing we
were watching. While we were watching we were talking. During one of the
dancer’s routines we became deeply engrossed in our conversation, and stopped paying
attention to the stage. As it turns out strippers don’t like it when you are
sitting at the stage, and not paying them any attention. This particular
stripper had the DJ stop the music while she stood directly over me, and my
cousin. There is nothing in the world like getting the stare down from a
stripper in a crowded room. Just one piece of advice, if you are going to the
strip club, either stay away from the stage, or be 100% focused.
Now that I got that little story out of the way let’s move
on to movie. But don’t worry, I am sure there will be more down the road. I
actually have a couple other posts started about different movies, but really
felt this one was a fitting one to cover for this post.
Killjoy is a
little bit out of the norm for the Charles Band line of films. It really is essentially
a film that falls in the Blaxploitation genre. There have since been three sequels to Killjoy, and as the franchise progresses
it does tend to lean more to comedy than horror. Don’t get me wrong though, Killjoy
does have some pretty funny moments. Really the most important factors that you
need to know about Killjoy are that
it is a Blaxploitation film, the acting is horrendous, and the story is about a
demonic clown.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Ghoulies/Subspecies
I was reading through some of my previous posts the other
day. I know that the majority of the people that read my blog are personal acquaintances
of mine, either friends or family, and likely don’t know who Charles Band is.
The same can be said about their knowledge of his film companies. With that in
mind, I decided maybe I should play the role of educator. In this post I will
do a little blurb about each company. I will do an in depth post about Charles
in the future.
Empire Pictures was the distribution company that Charles
Band formed in 1983. Prior to the creation of Empire Pictures Charles band was
having problems getting Charles Band International Productions movies distributed
by other motion picture companies. Empire Pictures only lasted until 1988. They
were forced out of business due to financial problems. Charles Band sold Empire
to Epic Entertainment.
Full Moon started in 1989. Rather than pushing for
theatrical releases, Full Moon has always specialized in the direct to video
market. That decision has proved to be very successful for Full Moon. They are
still striving 25 years later. Full Moon is known for several cult favorites
such as Puppet Master, Subspecies, and Gingerdead Man to name a few.
Now that you are a little more familiar with the two film
companies, let’s go over a couple of their movies.
First up is Ghoulies, which
was a theatrical release by Empire International in 1985. The film became a
huge success when it was released on video. The story line is the simple occult rituals
gone wrong story. Ghoulies is probably
best known for the promo pictures, and video box cover, with the creature
sticking out of the toilet, and the tagline ‘They’ll get you in the end’.
Following the success of the film, there were three sequels released. The
latest, Ghoulies IV, was released in
2007.
Next up is Subspecies,
which was released direct to video by Full Moon in 1991. Like Ghoulies, Subspecies spawned three
sequels. Unlike Ghoulies, it also
spawned a spin off, Vampire Journals. The
Subspecies series was nothing more
than the typical vampire story. One very cool fun fact about the movie is that
it was shot on location in Romania.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
The Alchemist
Aside from watching movies, I also enjoy reading. I am
currently reading Crystal Lake Memories,
which is a biography of the Friday the 13th
movies. One of the reoccurring topics of the book is how they had to repeatedly
keep cutting footage from the films to just get an R rating. By today’s
standards some of them would have barely received a PG-13 rating without
cutting a single second.
I just got home from seeing Django Unchained in the theater. There has been some controversy about
Django Unchained. Some say it is too
violent. While others are saying it is flat out racist. Now, I won’t say that
it was, or wasn't either of those things. This blog isn't about Quentin Tarantino,
or his movies. But, this is my blog, and after I got home after seeing the
movie it got my thinking.
With all the blood, and guts, that are shown today could you
imagine if the horror boom of the late 70’s, and early 80’s, were to happen
today. Now I am not talking about all of the recent remakes, but just imagine
if Leatherface, Michael, Jason and Freddy were just being born now. I
understand that Texas Chainsaw Massacre came
out in the mid 70’s, but I still hold it in the same regard as the rest. Plus, I
know that recently we had the Saw franchise. While that was a great franchise, it doesn't even come close to the originals.
I know what some of you are saying to yourselves right now.
You are saying I am crazy for even suggesting another string of remakes. Well
that is not what I am saying at all. First off, let me set the record straight
on the remakes. I mentioned Leatherface, Michael, Jason and Freddy early.
Instead of coming up with original ideas Hollywood has already remade all of
them. Unlike a lot of people, I actually enjoyed the remakes. I like the
originals more, but that doesn't mean I can’t enjoy the remakes too. What I am
saying is that the originals never took place. What if Hooper, Carpenter,
Cunningham and Craven were just starting to make them now? Holy shit, I just
blew your mind.
Once I was able to keep my own head from exploding I thought
I would sit down and enjoy a cold Pabst, and a Charles Band flick. I know that
I said in a previous post that it was proving to be a little difficult to find
some of his movies to watch. Well, it turns out that YouTube has just about
every movie from the 80’s. After a few key strokes, and mouse clicks, I was
enjoying The Alchemist. Hopefully
that holds true with some of the rest that are hard to find elsewhere.
There really isn't a lot to say about this movie. Like other
movies with Charles Band’s name attached to them, originally The Alchemist was planned for theatrical
release, but wasn't released until several years later. Then it was released
direct to video. While there are a couple good gore shots at the very end of
the movie, there really isn't anything else worth noting throughout the rest of
the movie. Overall, the story, effects and acting are all lacking.
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