Infernal Affairs

 

            Now having got my full share of Halloween movies for now, I decided to take a foreign trip if you know what I mean. If you remember a movie that finally gave Martin Scorsese his first ever Oscar award. Infernal Affairs was that movie it was based on set in the Boston area of crime. Furthermore, this is one of those films that if you want to watch and see which is better, Infernal Affairs is a perfect example to see which film did it better. 

             Idealistic police cadet Chan Wing-Yan (Tony Leung) is recruited by Police Superintendent Wong (Anthony Wong) to go deep undercover as a member of the criminal Triad society. Into the same cadet class, crime boss Hon Sam (Eric Tsang) installs new triad member Lau King Ming (Andy Lau) to become a long-term mole for the gang. A decade later, both have risen through the ranks in their respective aliases -- but when both covers are in danger of being blown, a game of life and death ensues.

             Now I knew that ahead on this year that the Departed has reached its 20th Anniversary mark, and Infernal Affairs was one of those movies that I haven't watched but feel the personal need to watch. Just because I wanted to explore more open worlds to cinema. It's strange to find that a movie like the Departed would almost use the exact same scenes or story telling but while watching Infernal Affairs, I suddenly realized that holy crap, this is the exact same movie as the Departed, but with different character arcs as well as backgrounds. And sure I would assume that yeah, if you’re going to make a U.S. version of Infernal Affairs you'd need to remake it in a way, but I don't know maybe remake the movie and have different scenes, though to the films credit this is only an hour and forty-one minutes and the Departed was two and a half hours long so, granted Scorsese did at least create some scenes and background arc to each of the characters, moreover set up a background to the city, unlike Infernal Affairs it goes right to the action. Now with this movie you do get to see more mutual respect with both moles so there's that, as well as showing different directorial structure and no Markie Mark trying to be tough. I'm officially going to stop talking as of right now, and say that if you’re looking for a foreign film to watch in you spare time Infernal Affairs is on HBO Max so, I would highly recommend watching both Infernal Affairs and the Departed to see which movie did it better, and as for my personal opinion I do love Infernal Affairs I thought this was a great experience to watch as well as worth watching on streaming services. So, hands down this were a great film watching experience furthermore would recommend watching this foreign classic, from beginning to end.

           

10 Year Anniversary of Pride + Prejudice + Zombies

 

         There comes a time when you just need a good entertaining post-Halloween movie to wash my hands from the Final Nightmare and the last two Jason movies, too make a long story short I found a movie that I've not seen for a good ten years and this was defiantly the perfect choice after watching the last Freddy and Jason movies and more importantly I never laughed so hard at a slow motion walk and action sequence in quite a long time, so there's obviously something I missed ten years ago. 

         In the 19th Century, a mysterious plague turns the English countryside into a war zone. No one is safe as the dead come back to life to terrorize the land. Fate leads Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James), a master of martial arts and weaponry, to join forces with Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley), a handsome but arrogant gentleman. Elizabeth can't stand Darcy but respects his skills as a zombie killer. Casting aside their personal differences, they unite on the blood-soaked battlefield to save their country.

         I believe the last time I watched this movie was for certain when it came out sometime in February of 2016, and this was a time when I was able to get away with going to do a double feature at the movie theater. And really at the time I didn't think much of it considering that this was one of those movies that seem meh, or you've already seen these kinds of films either way just some mediocre slosh of cheesy action movies you've seen in the 80's or 90's. Ten years now after watching a ton of B-movie slosh that are most certainly entertaining I now have to say that this was a movie I underestimated and I'm glad I kept my copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Like the thing that just makes me laugh so, much that the infamous scene where the Bennet sisters are all walking together is so, funny that I forgot that this was in the movie and yet the way they filmed was of course stuff you've seen everyday but I honestly don't know how to explain it I just think that it's probably been so, long that I forgotten this movie and decided to re-watch it again and after years of watching so, many movies on Tubi I learned to loosen up just except that there are times when you need a good laugh and movies like this are a perfect example of that. And not just the scene where the Sisters are walking in slow-mo but the fight scene where Darcy and Lizzy are beginning to fight and all she does is throw books at him until things escalated quickly once she grabs the fire poker and continues to fight each other and you can tell that they recorded their dialogue because you can't talk and fight but again it's just funny and awesome mainly considering that the entire book of Jane Austin is derived with Zombies so, you had to blend drama and action that throwing the books and her yelling is just way to funny that I wished someone would of entered the room and had the awkward look and just left, unfortunately it didn't happen at all, but still hilarious to watch. The fascinating aspect of this whole movie was actually based on an actual book and I literally heard about it but didn't care much and it's the same with the film but now, re-watching the movie it's so fascinating, and all the writer, really did, was just used all of Jane Austin's dialogue and writing and incorporated tons of action sequences for which in my opinion I would imagine that's in the range of copy and pasting and just publishing it into a book but what do I know. Now going back and rewatching Jane Auston meets Zombies I did have a great sense of refreshment towards Pride + Prejudice + Zombies, like I've seen it, as well as didn't think much of it but yet this was one of those movies that almost caught me by surprise in terms laughter. And sure when you make a bad movie or any type of lame action movie the worst thing you can do is make it funny like Batman and Robin, but with this movie from the drama and seriousness of the whole movie I have no clue if this movie was unintentionally being funny or trying to be a serious film, either way didn't win any awards either way so, there's that. Now having washed my eyes clean of the last two Jason and Freddy movies I now feel refreshed and will gladly wait for another ten years till I feel like wanting to rewatch this bizarrely entertaining movie. And as for all of you if you have Netflix or Amazon Prime, I will highly recommend watching this with your kids, I mean I've never read the book nor watched the film with Keira Knightly so, in terms of wanting to watch Jane Austin's actually novel turned into an accurate light I believe I'm good in not watching it for now.   

 

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

             

              If society tells us that we need to prepare for Christmas, well I say to society to eat my a**. I'm continuing with some Halloween gems till I feel like stopping the monstrosity. Also, concluded the chapter to the Jason Voorhees films and I'm not going to lie this was one of those times where I wished Jason would literally go to hell and just slay demons and that would be an interesting movie instead they decide to make a movie without Jason?

              Well, it's like this the FBI decides to blow up Jason (Kane Hodder) and so, for some reason Jason has supernatural powers and is able to poses people and continues his rampage, ugh hell look it's times when you take away Jason and add new ideas then it just gets worst almost like a Final Nightmare. 

              This is one of those things where I feel like the producers of each the Nightmare and Jason films just wanted to end the franchise because they’re either just getting tired of the same thing or they just didn't have any good ideas to come up. Bottom line around the early Sean S. Cunningham decided to make a spin-off to Freddy and Jason, unfortunately this was going happen in the early 2000's so they all decided to make a film so, bad that they ruined the franchise until the greatest movie of all the Friday the 13th movies hence, Jason X. Look if you’re a up and coming writer or a producer to bring back the Nightmare and Jason films, this is my only suggestion for these films both of them have to be dark comedies with a kiss of horror genre but MUST BE dark comedy because all we want from these films is dumb teenagers or young adults getting killed off. If you’re looking for a casting choice to play Freddy my only suggestion is that he has to be a comedian like Bill Burr or Dave Chappelle, those would be my only two suggestions although maybe someone play the body of Freddy and Bill Burr or Dave Chappelle do the voiceover work like Hayden Christianson as Darth Vader and James Earl Jones provides the voice maybe something like that would work best. As fun as going through the Nightmare and Jason films it did become a huge downer when watching the final films because it looks as if they were releasing these films and the kids of each generation were just getting extremely bored and knew what was going to happen so, that's why these franchise crashed and burned, more importantly is the reason why Freddy and Jason will never ever make a comeback because nobody knows what to do with them hell I suggested making the teens such horrible human beings and they all get killed off that was it, but with these films making them today it feels almost impossible to do because you have to find what they teens are into now and for me personally it's kind of a waste to energy to even research if you ask me. So, like most of these iconic movie franchises, it's time to close the chapter on both Jason and Freddy and let them rest in pieces.  

     

They Live

 

            

            Decided to watch one spooky movie before the month of October is out and this is another John Carpenter movie besides Halloween and the Thing that's another in the pantheon of Carpenter classics. They Live is one of those underrated classics that if you probably haven't seen in life but if you remember a infamous fight scene between Timmy and Jimmy from South Park, well then, that brawl was the inspiration for this brawl in They Live. 

            A wanderer (Roddy Piper) without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses to show the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, the drifter notices that both the media and government are comprised of subliminal messages to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens ben on world domination. With this shocking discovery the nomad fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens. 

            Obviously, I discovered this movie from watching the one of the famous episodes from South Park although I never noticed what they we're referencing, until they showed a making of, TV series to South Park and then they somewhat mentioned They Live, for which I can't back that up although that's the only sense of source I found. And at first finding the fight scene and comparing it to South Park I personally thought to myself that I had to watch this movie mainly because the fight between Roddy Piper and Keith David is fantastic especially when Piper is making hilarious grunts when wrestling with David is just hilarious to watch on screen and it still is because you don't know if it’s a grunt or growling but either way it’s funny no matter what sound effect it is and really David between that fight scene is the only actor that to my knowledge whose grunts or growls were at least normal and yet this movie still holds as the longest brawl ever because it literally lasted for six minutes, I mean there other great moments in the movie but the whole fight scene to my personal opinion is the greatest part of the whole movie. I was familiar with Roddy Piper throughout my childhood mainly because I knew of him through WWE wrestling and he wore a Scottish Kilt, and like Keith David I knew of him from watching Armageddon, before Keith David's voice became more recognizable from Rick and Morty. With all of its entertaining action, and great one liners is that the scary part about the movie is that this is what LA and New York City is like now, in fact Carpenter's concept is quite the opposite since he was basing the film from Ronald Reagan but now crime wave is growing problem in New York and LA that even the Liberals or Democrats are looking the other way, I mean personally if you’re tired of politics, you can always hope that the world burns but then again we don't want that happen because then things would get truly worse. Here's the funny thing about the movie because LA now is just too expensive to shoot now and back in 1988 for four million dollars Carpenter was able to shoot the entire movie for eight weeks in LA for only four million dollars and sure it was may or not be that expensive to shoot but for four mill and eight weeks to shoot Carpenter was able to pull it off and praise for being able to pull that off because you obviously can't do that now. Sometimes a dumb but good spooky/Sci-Fi/action movie always comes into great opportunities especially when you’re trying to explain the Shinning. So, Happy Halloween everyone, if you’re looking for a fun and entertaining movie like They Live then I would highly recommend watching They Live on Amazon Prime or if you have a copy of the movie, you can always pop it into your VHS player, or DVD player hell, even your own Blu-ray player, if you advanced your entertainment system. 

      

Movies I haven't seen in a while: The Shining

 

          Well, it was a long and winding movie trip, but I'm finally done watching all of Stanley Kubrick's filmography. Duh! Wait, a minute, oh no I got everything checked I have every Kubrick's filmography taken out, and yet the only one movie needed to watch to complete the Stanley Kubrick journey is of course The Shining. No, not the shining, I don't want to get sued, sorry to anyone who hasn't watched the Simpsons where they spoofed the Simpsons. Anyway, since my internet was out, I decided on the movie on Blu-Ray as well as have full appreciation to the movie no matter what the choice of actors. 

           Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes a winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing. Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family. 

          Fun fact I went to Estes Park sometime in 2021 to celebrate my brother's fortieth birthday and his birthday he got to stay the night at the Stanley Hotel, the very Hotel that inspired Stephen King's the Shining. Moreover had the opportunity to sleep in room 217, and for me it was in really cool place as well as interesting history and the funny story I'll tell to my grave is asking someone where is the hedge maze, and they just pointed to the direction of where it's at almost like he/she is about to say "you see that over there", and you know that cringe face that the gang from It's Always Sunny, has when Mac says fist, that was the reaction I had, like someone told me this was the famous hedge maze was like seeing the iconic Wrigley Field and not being able to see the impressive stuff besides Harry Carey's booth. I haven't seen the Shining in quite a long time and for good reason's it was mostly due to the fact that Jackie Boy's performance in the movie was just way to over the top, now watching the Shining for the first time I did in the best of my abilities was to look at the film through Stanley Kubrick's eyes, and rewatching the movie it still holds up in terms of the haunting aspects and not relying a whole lot of just jump scares or high body counts and with the Shinning it still holds up in terms of the haunting and very creepy visuals and it was one of those things that I forgot but the way Kubrick was able to shoot the film as well as keep the colors more colorful, and more importantly the camera movement with scenes like Danny in his little bike along with sound effects of the wheels rolling from carpet to hard floor is just fantastic. Moreover what Kubrick does best is trying to find something new to the horror, not just creating gore or body counts but more disturbing imagery or somethings to give you a good shock and really that's always something when it comes to horror is that it doesn't have to be either gory or anything to be tasteless like the first Friday the 13th, it just has to have something that takes us aback and when you see scenes of Danny having seizures of foreseeable futures or the chilling music of Shelley Duvall just running for dear life, is what makes the movie so memorable. Now that being said I will say that if they're was one critique I would say about the film is of course the choice of actors and I'm not going to say a whole lot about Shelley Duvall's performance because true it's questionable but you also have understand both Duvall and Kubrick we're in a grudge match with each other but I could understand that Kubrick was trying to make the character of Wendy venerable as well as feeling that dread or not understanding what is going on with her husband so, in all fairness Duvall's performance I can get by on, but it's Jack Nicholson's performance that's just all over the place, like I'd say Nicholson's performance is the one that just drive me bonkers because the man was clearly chewing the scenery all the time where you can't even see the compassion for his kid all you see is just the crazy side to him and when we get the scene where he's throwing a fit to Shelley about interrupting him and I looked at my time code on my Blu-ray player and see that it's only forty-three minutes for which to me, I was shocked to find out that he's now going crazy forty minutes in. Also, just to let everyone know I did listen to Stephen King's the Shining before I watched Kubrick's version and granted it did take a long time, but again you don't see a ton of Nicholson's compassion to his own son nor doing any work around the Hotel, and even after having a nightmare or being accused by his wife of strangling his son, all he has is a disillusioned face, and that's all he has like can't you show SOME CONCERN instead of a bewildered face? I mean there so many things on why Nicholson's performance is so, over the top but you also need to remember that this is Stanley Kubrick here, this is a man that will make almost two hundred takes to get a shot that he likes. Now between which is better, the movie or Stephan King's book, I don't think it really matters because as a visual standpoint Kubrick's movie does have the edge as well as a tense and creepy vibes you get with the movie, and Stephan King's book has the edge in terms of story and character but we can all agree on that an axe is more scary then a wooden mallet I mean sure you can break a few limps or legs but you’re not going to break down door with a mallet sorry not sorry. I keep thinking on why this film gets so much praise by so many people, I mean sure the film is defiantly a great movie and on a technical stand point is one of the greatest visual horror movies ever made but everybody who talks about the Shining tends to forget Nicholson literally being all over the place, and in my honest opinion I think it's because of the haunting feel and sense of dread that you never get in any other film, and you never have that sense of dread or creepiness in any other film and the way Kubrick directed the Shining you can't help but be sucked into this haunting and creepy world of Kubrick's Overlook Hotel. Also, if it wasn't for Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson, you wouldn't get the greatest Simpsons spoof to the Shining just like the lost ending to It's a Wonderful Life on SNL. If you are looking for an amazing haunting movie, I would highly recommend watching The Shining. And in terms of finally completing Kubrick's filmography, I will say I finally got my list in order though I do need to write all the films down so I can remember what I forgot or remembered to jot down. So, hopefully I will have my list ready and published by November for all of you to see and enjoy. 

Videodrome

 

            

            Now in the final months of the Halloween season, I've decided to knock off another film in my brothers list of movies I need to watch, and yet this film is strangely in the range of scariness that this defiantly affects us in terms of much time we use to consume our TV's or even our personal phones. Videodrome is the first David Cronenberg movie in terms of his earlier movies to the first movie I've seen was Eastern Promises.

             As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programing to attract viewers. When he happens to be "Videodrome" a TV show sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on its channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

             At first while watching the movie I was a bit confused almost like watching a Stanley Kubrick movie, and while watching the film for the second time I slowly realized that this film was ahead of its time in terms of technology consumption as well as sex and violence. And in all fairness this film still hits hard in terms of us society members still getting their fix on either sex, violence or any twisted addiction we can find on the boom tube. And now having seen this twice I slowly realized that I need to rethink my life in an honest way. The other interesting thing about the movie and I've never noticed this but Videodrome is the first Rick Baker movie I've seen in terms of special effects, but never noticed that Rick Baker whose a makeup costume guru in Hollywood with notable works like the Original Star Wars films, Gremlins movies and An American Werewolf from London, for which is crazy when it comes to looking at a man's filmography but if there is any 80's film that you loved growing up, or any Eddie Murphy movie you loved watching give your thanks to Rick Baker, because that man deserves it. This is an actual first in the sense of watching a movie where James Woods is in the starring role because throughout my child hood and movie watching years the man was always in the supporting role from like Casino, the Generals Daughter and Any Given Sunday and he's good in those roles but that was it and I'm assuming he was also in Television roles as well but granted I always see him in movies and rarely watch a whole lot of Television but even he does a great job going taking you on this strange world and really if there's anything I've learned from Casio, upon which Woods plays a pimp, he's perfect for the role as a sleazy executive of a TV channel. After watching Videodrome I do feel the need to watch some Cronenberg movies although that's going to be a good two to three movies tops. For good reasons my brother told me about his 1996 film Crash, for which a married couple has a fetish for crashes or getting involved with car crashes, look long story short they both get off mayhem and crashes. And my reason for not watching it is quite the opposite because for starters how the hell are you able to pay so many medical bills if you’re getting off on real life crashes? And two, wouldn't it be more convenient to just watch monster trucks rallies or the Jackass trilogy to get off either way Crash from 1996 I'm not going to watch so, that's, that. For the first time ever Videodrome is one of those films that gives you deep meaning in terms of whatever you’re consuming in terms of violence, sex or even music and how that takes an effect on you psychologically. For the first time watching a body horror movie I would highly recommend watching this on Halloween if you feel the need to watch something new and different though I would highly suggest seeing this movie more than once.  

         

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

            Well, I'm nearing the very end of the Jason Voorhees franchise and this time he takes his act to Manhattan. Though the sad news is that Jason lost his chance to take Manhattan alongside the Muppets hence Muppets take Manhattan in case all your young bloods don't get that reference. Although even if Jason was able to take Manhattan, he would have ended up in the wrong New York City or well, wrong Manhattan. But don't worry, we’ll get to that later. 

            Mass Murderer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) is resurrected from the bottom of Crystal Lake. After he kills a passing boat's occupants, he stows away on a cruise ship filled with high-school graduating class bound for New York City.

              So, yeah, I kind of hate to spoil the plot of Jason Voorhees Part 8, but he really doesn't take Manhattan, he basically must spend a good portion of the movie on a cruise ship and then in the final thirty minutes of the movie he reaches Manhattan. Although they're not necessarily in New York City, they had to shoot the entire film in Canada but with secondary Photography of shots in New York City, and yet strangely enough the film was only made for like 5 million dollars to make for which I'm strongly concerned in terms of where did the money go? Like sure, it's expensive to shoot in New York City but there's not recognizable actors or hell any major stars, I think what may have happened was that the box-office disappointment to A New Blood happened they decided to cut the budget since I would assume the horror fans, we're getting a little exhausted side to the Jason and Freddy films. I will admit after Jason Lives and watching both New Blood and Jason Takes Manhattan I have to admit; I'm getting a little on the disappointing flank myself. I mean it's been September since I watched A New Blood and at times it gets meh, in terms of entertainment granted there was the grass cutter scene and the sleeping bag scene, but with Jason Takes Manhattan there's absolutely not entertaining kills and I'm not expecting a whole lot with the actors but I mean give me some entertaining kills, like that's the many reasons why we watch these movies well, that and the unintentional comedic humor that the cast provides but I mean nothing exciting was going with the actors hell the only drama and scariness I got was hoping the dog made it okay, and spoilers the dog does live for which I give a ton of respect because not body wants to see cute animals die and even actor Kane Hodder stated that he refused to do monstrous acts to a dog saying that it's not Jason's character and that he's a villain but he's not a monster for which I agree a hundred percent. Granted there was only one humorous kill and that's where this guy is punching Jason till he gets tired and tells him to show him what he's got, and then just proceeds to punch his head clean off and that's it I mean it's funny but it took long for the punch line. I'm starting to sense and this is coming from after watching the final Elm Street films and that's Jason goes to Hell maybe a buzz kill as well until we finally get to Jason X for which is still to this day the greatest Jason movie in the Friday the 13th franchise. I'd say watch this film but then again I have mixed feelings with Jason Takes Manhattan, like it has moments but there very slim moments for which if you’re going to watch part 8 at least watch it when it's on YouTube for free, that way you don't have to waste your time buying the movie or renting the movie.

       

October Recommendation: Blade

             Ladies and gentlemen, this is one of the greatest decisions I've ever made when it comes to the month of Halloween. And I know, I've said that a bunch of times, but I really mean it this time when it comes do this greatest vampire movie of all time, Blade. Furthermore, since I desperately needed to get the bad taste out of my mouth from watching Sinners, I need to make a point to society that Michael B. Jordan has nothing when it comes to the presence of Wesley Snipes as the legendary vampire hunter BLADE!

             Born from a mother who was attacked by a vampire, Blade is a Daywalker (half human, half vampire) who wages and personal war between vampires who have been living among us for centuries. Deacon Frost (Stephan Dorff) a nearly turned vampire wants to conquer mankind with the powers of a blood God. Both men will face each other that will decide the fate of the world without nobody knowing.

             I'll admit that I was a little bit weary when it came to watching this movie as well as picking a right time to watch it, but I was waiting for the PM pills to kick in and so, 12 AM makes you do crazy things in life. Though I'm not going to lie through first first five minutes of the movie and the kick a** music of New Order's "Confusion" kicked in I was like "OH YEAH!" and then Blade aka Wesley Snipes came into frame I was so, happy it brought a huge smile on my face. And sorry, not sorry it's officially time for someone to put the foot down and tell the world that this is how you make a great Vampire movie no more of this liberal, woke, bullsh**t where you have to literally invite a vampire into your household so they can murder you in their sleep or vampires suddenly have diamond skin whenever they're out in sunlight, NO I'M PUTTING MY FOOT DOWN AND THE BUCK IS GOING TO STOP RIGHT HERE, BLADE IS THE GOAT OF MODERN VAMPIRE STORY TELLING. AND IF YOU SERIOUSLY DON'T LOVE BLADE OR BLADE TWO THEN YOU DON'T LOVE FREEDOM. Okay, okay, I'm sorry I went on a personal rant but without Blade then you wouldn't see the lights of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor's pecks or Hugh Jackman's greatest and only performance as Wolverine. Moreover, I'm not telling you a lie when I say this the Marvel movies before Blade were not successful as well as nearly going into bad state in terms of movies because Hollywood only viewed Superman and Batman to be the go to Superhero movies to watch, additionally Blade was the first Marvel movie to really change the Superhero aspect as well as give birth to the MCU. So, in all actuality you owe a trillion thanks to Wesley Snipes performance as Blade, no matter how much taxes he didn't pay or whatever political esk bullsh**t you can muster in your troll, liberal mind. This movie alone proves that Wesley Snipes is the only Blade that can ever play Blade in fact I purpose that the Snipes should change is middle name to Blade hence Wesley "Blade" Snipes, furthermore long before I saw Major League or White Men Can't Jump, I always looked at Wesley Snipes as Blade never anything else and now, watching those classic Snipes films back in my teens it was a bit crazy to see him play a wise cracking jokester compared to playing Blade whose a bit more serious but then again Snipes has always been an underappreciative actor. Stephan Dorff is excellent as a over the top villain, especially since this movie was made in the late 90's and nobody expected this film to be great and Dorff was given great freedom to play Deacon Frost in the best way possible. Even the Late Kris Kristofferson as Blade's mentor Whistler, you know watching him play this great character I tend to forget he died two years ago and now going back to him playing Abraham Whistler I do shed a tear while watching Blade because he was another one of those mentor characters that I grew up watching and it's always sad seeing him in his iconic role. No doubt Blade is the perfect vampire movie of modern cinema, though tied with Blade 2, for a gillion reasons if you look back when Marvel was going in the post financial bankruptcy period and they literally had to sell character rights in order to survive and so, Blade was the lifeline for Hollywood films so, after its success Hollywood looked to it as a open door for other Superhero films not, Superman or Batman that can be box-office hits. Blade and Blade 2 are both on Peacock, Trinity on the other hand you can avoid, but I will go to my grave and say that Blade is by far the most perfect modern vampire movie you'll ever going to get in modern cinema so all those fans of Sinners for which are the movie critics and Twilight fans can all kiss my hair no-a**. 

        

Sinners

 

            

             A year ago, this was the biggest movie of 2025. My first impression when seeing this movie is that it's a vampire movie so, if you've seen one vampire movie you've clearly seen them all. Also, I'm curious of all Hailee Steinfeld dirty talk in the movie does she at least use that dirty talk to her hubby Josh Allen? Anyway, I decided in the month of October to finally sit and watch Sinners and see if this movie lives up to the anticipation. 

             Basically, twins both played by Michael B. Jordan decide to buy an old shack by a member of the KKK. Decide to build their own blues nightclub, unfortunately evil aka Vampires upon which things go from bad to worse and must last the night in hopes that the vampires will leave. 

              Now as I've said earlier, yes, if you've seen one vampire movie or every vampire movie you've seen them all, for which is an understatement because for me, I've grown up with the Blade movies and Underworld movies and Dracula 2000. Furthermore, the closest thing to a different kind of vampire I've seen was 30 Days of Night and that movie the vampires look terrifying, and with this movie it's sort of terrifying but the same cliche you've seen in every other vampire movie. Now having watched this movie whole, I have so many questions, and there's more questions I have with this movie than any other movie combined, like with this movie the vampires are supposed to have this hive mind where everyone of the vampires are connected in terms of memories or the mind and it feels like if you kill the main vampire everyone feels pain, and it's almost like a strange vampires combined with Zombies or voodoo zombies where you have to kill the main antagonist everyone dies and to me it just doesn't make any sense and it goes to when a human is wondering in the woods and they're normal human beings but when they come back they've suddenly turned and they're like nothing happened and yet the rule in this movie is that vampires need to ask permission to enter a house or residence, and so, really if I'm a black man in the early thirties, in Mississippi with Jim Crow law all around me and white man who maybe a vampire is asking me to enter in my house I would seriously say "GET THE F**K, OUT OF HERE" because in logical sense no black families or night club owners would want white people in their house. Look I could go onto so many things but in closing, the films logic just gets out of proportions where nobody makes the best decisions and the vampires are like zombies from the way I see this film, and this film could be better if I'd be seeing something I've never seen when it comes to vampires but with Sinners it really feels like I've seen one to many vampire movies moreover I'm really getting old when watching these kind of films because today's youth or society I don't believe they've seen any blood sucker movies. To the films credit it does have some killer music and that credit goes to music composer Ludwig Goransson, whose now really becoming the new movie music composer next to Hans Zimmer and legendary John Williams and if you don't believe me Goransson, who composed the iconic Mandalorian music and the epic Book of Boba Fett them as well as The Odyssey and with this movie he does have some great moments especially when the head vampire does the awesome river dance while Rocky Road to Dublin playing and it does have that great sense of Irish feel that I can't stop but watch. To anyone who love Sinners look if you love this movie that finally gave Michael B. Jordan is first Academy Award then keep watching this movie a billion times if you appreciate it, me I'm at that age of my life where I personally feel that vampires are already becoming a distant memory or a typical movie cliche for great reasons nobody wants to live forever and even if you to be a vampire you have to either be goth or live in the darkness to avoid sunlight and never eat any garlic and even if you tend to live forever your probably going to live long enough if the earth does become dust hence the world ending. It's an interesting watch no doubt in fact it was a good once over type of film for me so, if you don't have a blu-ray copy then be sure to watch the film on HBO Max this Halloween season.

    

Street Fighter

 

           After the deeply/brief disturbance while watching Obsession hence me just thinking to myself no more movies, no more, no means no Harvey Weinstein. But then my subconscious gave me a shinning message and said "Joe wake up Street Fighter is out now" then everything came back to normal at last. Ever since the first trailer appeared around a couple of months ago, I was no doubt intrigued in terms of wanting to see this movie especially when the characters look a lot better than they did in the early 90's movie, not to pass judgement deep love for the original.

           Estranged street fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) get thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament -- a brutal clash of fists, fate and fury. However, behind the battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons from their past.

           If you were a child from the nineties you'd know the game Street Fighter II and it's many versions and yet the strange thing is the second installment is more Iconic than the original game and for good reasons, now I have great memories of the game I would always go down to the local arcades and see the arcade game being played as well as going to my Grandpa's home town and trying to play the cabinet there, unfortunately I couldn't even win a match because it was so intense moreover couldn't land a single special move so deep down I couldn't continue on with this game. Now maybe a year ago I did talked about how amazing reliving the original Street Fighter: The Movie and I still hold it in high regard unlike some people, though I still say it's not as bad as Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Coming into this film I did love the expectations as well as the look and feel of the movie especially when a good portion of the characters are taken serious, great examples Blanka (green, electric, monster) has improved a ton since his appearance in the original movie as well as Dhalsim is excellent as well for which again is an understatement considering the writers and filmmakers of the original movie didn't have a lot a money so, you can cut them slack around that perspective. From the actors to the characters and feel everything looks great and Callina Liang who plays Chun-Li in the movie was committed to her role by bulking up and eating 12 eggs a day so, deep down that's commitment, hell even 50 Cent was awesome as Balrog like that man fit the part top to bottom like if there was anyone who got Balrog right 50 Cent to me was the best choice in that role. All the excellence of the movie a side, there were moments where I feel like they crammed way too many characters and they could of just settle on a few of them like some of the street fighters are good and have M. Bison with three or two henchmen in Vega and Balrog, that way you can include the character of Akuma so we can understand each, of the characters motives and what drives them to participate in this tournament. And granted this film is a Ryu and Ken story with Chun-Li in the middle of the story for which you understand them clearly and maybe just include some of the least unrecognizable characters in the first Street Fighter game that way you can at least have some sense of gap in terms of carrying for the main characters that way you can introduce more characters in the next movie. The other thing that slightly irked me a little bit was the ending to the film I just never expected a cliffhanger ending to which again I was shocked but then was like "son of a b***h", "that's not how you end a movie" for which is the same reaction when watching Dune 2021 but that was until the second movie came out on HBO Max, so, hopefully there's going to be a sequel in the foreseeable future otherwise I'm going to be pissed. To say which is better between the 94 version and the latest movie is a bit near sighted because each of them has their own unique positivizes as well as it's convenient billion characters the writers and filmmakers had to cram in, but I say each film is even par in terms of positive and negative sides about the movie and I surely hope some fans can come back and re-watch the original film. I do in fact enjoyed the movie from beginning to the end well, a side from the cliffhanger ending I still think it's a big improvement from the original movie and more importantly you get to see Jason Mamoa as Blanka and even he was the best part of the movie as well. So, if you’re a Street Fighter fan, I hope you take the time and go see it in the theaters or if you want you can wait till it comes out on Blu-Ray for which I would recommend taking your kids to see this entertaining movie because Halloween is coming up and they need inspiration for what they’re going to be for grabbing some candy. And as for me, I’m going to wait till it comes out on Blu-Ray because the more I see the awful preview that is Meet the Fockers I'm going to lose my s**t and sorry not sorry that movie needs to be pulled and thrown in the trash can or blacklisted, furthermore I'm going to stick to my opinion on that movie till the day I day and this is the third time this whole year.  

      

           

Obsession

         Well, after some serious convincing from my own brother I decided to press on and watch the entire movie of Obsession. Like Backrooms this was another film that was made by a first-time director from YouTube but only this time this wasn't in the original idea of sense this was mostly taking the idea out of a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode.  

         After breaking a mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win the crush's heart, a hopeless romantic gets exactly what he asks for. However, he soon discovers that some desires come at a dark and sinister price. 

         To be truthfully honest this maybe the first film where I literally gave up and wanted to watch something else, then being convinced to push through, because through the course of the beginning part of the movie I was just so, appalled by the bad acting from the male lead whose supposed to be insecure and don't know how to talk to girls and then we cut to him seeing his cat dying from getting into pills for which what idiot doesn't fix his own glass cabinet? Either way this film was literally turning me off and wanted to give up so, again my brother told me I needed to push through and he was right, the actress who plays the disturbed, possessed, stalker aka Inde Navarrette is literally the best part of the entire movie her presence once she becomes a possessed psycho, is just so unsettling and so, disturbingly terrifying that you can't help but watch this movie from beginning to end and even I was just so, taken aback when she gets all crazy that even I through the course of the movie as well by the end was just thinking to myself "if I get done with this movie I'm going to be a good boy and not get involved with the crazies!" And it's literally the same WTF feeling I had when watching Promising Young Woman where the course of the movie is just so unsettling that you as a male audience member feel terrified and want to run for dear life, furthermore Inde Navarrette does a fantastic job at playing a possessed/stalker that I praise for her to have a successful acting career for futures to come. Now with Navarrette being the best part of the whole movie, everything else was a bit hit or miss at times specifically the two central male characters in the movie, while the male lead is supposed to be of course the insecure type character but the problem is, that we've seen this before and I'm not sure if the writer/director Curry Barker was writing the character as this evil, shy, guy that's literally taking the advantage his crush or just decides to continue on with this relationship with not having the faintest idea of his actions till it's too late or, he's just dumb hell I don't know in all honesty, but if Barker's intention was to make Bear a horrible person, then how could he not know how it was all magic or wanting to get out of it because to me the films logic is just way off the charts in terms of sensible logic, because even I couldn't tell if the character of Bear was supposed to be a manipulative character and that's why if the director is explaining his movie then we have huge problem in ways of the writer/director doing a bad job. As great of a performance Inde Navarrette portrayed in the film, the film's story and logic just doesn't make any sense and sure this film's budget was only 700,000 but it was shot in LA, where everything is expensive and more importantly the story was meh and the male actors were also the worst part of the whole movie. A side from the great female performance this film does deserve credit for showing that anything is possible but at the end of the day I think that if you show this to a group of people who are either feminists or liberals, they will of course praise the movie just like Blade Runner 2049, but if you showed this to people who don't care about any politics and just love movies then they would most certainly ask a ton of questions in what the films purpose. The film is worth watching in terms of Navarrette’s performance, so if you have a Peacock account, I will watch it for the month of October. But personally, I look at this movie as a good one over just something you must experience and lose your mind in terms of what is going on or what would be the best way to make this movie even better. 

  

         

Halloween II

 

           

               At first I tried to watch the movie Obsession, and I couldn't get through the massive, bad acting from one of the male leads, then it I literally tried to watch Scary Movie and it was getting to the point where I was like "okay where the hell is Ray, Ray should be in every scene on the scene", then I went to desperation and so, scrolling my Peacock account literally went to desperation and so, I landed on Halloween II.

               After failing to kill Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) and taking six bullets in the chest from Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance), Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Hospital and, well he goes on a kill crazy rampage. 

               I love the first Halloween movie saw, the Halloween movie and Halloween: H20 on TV and that's pretty much the only Michael Myers movies I've seen. And so, diving into Halloween II, I knew I'd seen bits and pieces of the film especially the infamous scene of Michael Myers on fire as well as picking up where the first film left off and that's basically it, so, basically watching the film all the way through I slowly realized how awful it truly was, like when you think of the original Halloween movie, you think of it as a perfect low-budget slasher movie and everything John Carpenter used or improvised especially with the music was just perfect in every step of the movie. With this movie, and of course it's a sequel you'd imagine sequel being bigger and better, well, this movie they tried to improve everything especially remixing the music to which I was extremely bumped because I felt like "why would you mess with that perfect theme music?" And at times it felt like Jaimie Lee Curtis was just not doing a who lot of anything and granted there were times when I was a bit off with the movie and choose to ignore some of the characters but she was either not saying a word or saving all that energy for the climax of the movie and to be truthfully honest I'm not quite sure if she even knows if Michael and her are related either that or I didn't pay attention. Speaking of Donald Pleasence there were few times in the movie where he does a great job in terms of chewing the scenery and there were some good moments especially when he tries to shoot the not-Michael Myers and for some reason gets run over as well as explodes into flames that was pretty much the best part of that whole movie. And yet they kill off Loomis? Or planned to kill him off but then I suddenly realized wait didn't he return for the other sequels? I admit I do feel the need to watch Halloween 4 and 5 because their what supposed to be Pleasance final movie roles until his liver, gave out because the man was paid in booze money, but after watching Halloween II, I think I'm going to wait till next October. Most sequels to horror films or any genre, are supposed to be bigger and better but this film it was like the intentionally made it to be the worst sequel I've ever seen and granted not as bad as the first three Friday the 13th films because they're not even close to being films, now if you feel the need to watch Halloween II, just think of the Dare program and just say no. 

  

Night Killer

 

                   

            I had a long shift of work and slept an entire day till night hit and so, knowing that I'm not going to be going back to sleep any time soon I decided to watch an Italian slasher movie, and I'm not joking when I say Italian slasher movie I mean it's like of all things one Italian director did right in terms of westerns other Italian directors can't follow up in terms of Sergio Leone's success. Anyway, Night Killer is a great example of Leone to this day rolling over in his grave.

            A murderous maniac who wears a rubber mask kill women. A sort of young woman hears about these murders, not knowing the murderer is coming for her.

            Sadly, this was another one of those films that Red Letter Media reviewed in their Best of the Worst series on YouTube and luckily finding it on Tubi was no problem considering you can find almost anything on Tubi these days. And of course they warned this film being Italian though I didn't realized it would be this boring like sure most of these has some funny moments like the infamous man streaking around in his undies and the hotel guy asking "hey bud what happened to your clothes?" then the guy reply's "I got molested in the little BOYS room" and if you haven't seen this movie apologies for spoiling it though not a whole lot to spoil considering this film is ninety minutes long for which is fine but everything else becomes boring through the course of the movie, and the strange toxic relationship between what is supposed to be a husband making his wife remember s**t but doing screwed up things is funny? But still in the confused stage, like watching this film all the way through I felt like I said "what is this" or "what's going on" several times, and yet I'm still just wondering how the hell the studios of Italy agreed to this or did they read the script? Or did they run out of money to make this film? Like there are so many questions I have about this film even though this was made by the same guy who made Trolls 2. And when it comes to the Hollywood system sure, you must make these weird, dumb, bad movies to keep the lights on but the last time Italy made a great movie was when Sergio Leone was still alive. Though to be fair I'm showing slight sarcasm because there is the film Life is Beautiful, upon which I haven't seen, but with films like these it still gives me a huge headache in terms of who green lit these strange, dubbed movies? Look if you’re looking for some entertainment to turn your brain off from today's bulls**t then I would defiantly recommend watching Night Killer on Tubi, though to be warned you'll feel a bit bored and so, I would just stick to watching Evil Toons but make sure your wife and kids aren't watching. 

 

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

 

            

           Well, it's been a long month since this sequel came out, and I was a bit wary about whether this was going to be better than its predecessor. Although my sister is a negative Nancy when it comes to movies and this is the same sister that worships Harry Potter for which I have nothing against but she also has copies of all four 50 Shades of Grey books, and so, saying Ready or Not 2 to make my sister negative always gets me off in a not so, creepy way.

            After surviving an all-out attack from the Le Demos family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she's reached the next level of the nightmarish game, and this time with her estranged sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton), by her side. To survive, Grace must keep Faith alive and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the World. Four rival families are also hunting her for the throne, and however wins will rule it all. 

            I'll even admit when I first saw the trailer to the sequel, I was a bit weary in terms of okay you made a perfect movie in first Ready or Not film, why mess with perfection? And to the films credit yes, this sequel is basically the same as the first film if you pit these two together frame by frame, they're basically the same structure just with bigger things or bigger risks as I would say in a better way to describe it. Tough to the films credit this film really does hold its own in terms of story and more importantly character development and a lot of that goes to both actresses Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton. Originally the writers/directors both had the idea of Grace having a sister in the first movie, unfortunately that didn't happen so when Searchlight Pictures asked them about a potential sequel both men behind Radio Silence and the first film told them about the sisters storyline and each party agreed. And I personally believe that both Weaving and Newton really hold their own in terms of character development as well as something to root for, furthermore I just love a good sibling drama/comedy like the same way Thor: Ragnarök has with both Thor and Loki. The other thing in what makes this film so great is that it has a satisfying ending, and I'm going to stop with that because I want all of you to watch this entertaining sequel from beginning to end, so, just think of it as John Wick killing the devil cult. Shawn Hatosy who plays one of the main antagonists does a great job, because through the course of the movie he at first looks like he's weak but then evolves into a unlikeable psychopath which is great exploration of a antagonist if you ask me and even Elijah Wood does a great job playing a mysterious lawyer who works for the devil whose both charming and serious but more importantly respectful to the fellow protagonists. No doubt the sequel has the same story structure as the first film with the same gimmicks as well as jokes but for me personally what holds the film all together is the sister storyline and the ending for which I still say is fantastic and I'm not going to spoil anything because I watched this film a twice as well as watching the ending a bunch of times and so, I would strongly suggest checking the film out on Hulu or watch the film on your kids Disney Plus account in case of you wanting to pull a derange prank on your wife and kid though if you don't want to that's perfectly fine, I mean personally it's not like you’re going to have him watch these films back to back. 

      

Wes Craven's A New Nightmare

 

             

            And so, we conclude the seventh and final movie of the Freddy Kruger movie universe. Furthermore, is the seventh film that how I would say it kind of killed the Freddy Kruger binge in my personal opinion granted they're maybe some out there that may or may not have loved this movie but this film in my professional movie watching opinion was like well okay, but I'd rather watch the OTHER Freddy Kruger movie.

            Reality and fantasy meet in unsetting ways in this installment of the long-running horror series, which finds director Wes Craven and actors Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund, all portraying themselves. As Heather considers making another film with Craven, her son, Dylan (Miko Hughes), falls under the spell of the iconic disfigured villain Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund). Eventually, Langenkamp must confront Freddy's demonic spirit to save the soul of Dylan.

            In a strange turn of events when a year ago I claim that out of the five Nightmare films I'd pointed out that the odds were better films than the even films mainly because they had better actors well, sort of better actors as well as a backstory to Freddy Kruger's past and especially his mother. Now the sixth installment was more entertaining than the seventh film and I never expected this to happen, especially when Wes Craven is trying to make Freddy Kruger back to is original form as a scary dude which in all seriousness is a bad idea. I mean sure the first film I would say is a much better film in my personal opinion because Freddy was supposed to be a mysterious character that roams around furthermore you don't have a fully developed Freddy which makes it interesting and also in a sense scary and yet I would still prefer the original Nightmare over Jackie Earl Haley's movie despite not even seeing it. Prior to the films pre-production yes Craven actually wanted to take Freddy serious instead of being a cartoon character but the problem with that is, audiences wanted to see the cartoon version of Freddy that's basically what made him entertaining as well as the only thing worth watching from the second film to the sixth film, and now watching this film with a serious Freddy loses it's flair and more importantly it's worth the watch and having spent four dollars and twenty-seven cents I do feel like this was a terrible idea in terms of renting a movie on my phone, though I'm expanding the horizons of Freddy Kruger so, I had to at least find out. The fact that they even try to keep Freddy in the shadows through the course of the movie kind of like Jaws and Alien also, loses its flair because we all know what Freddy looks like so, why are we keeping him in the shadows? Furthermore this film after watching Freddy's Dead loses it's comedic flair almost like your searching for a woman on craigs list and you see that this woman is extremely hot and you have a massive erection and then later you actually go on this date and it's either Joy Behar, or Whoopi Goldberg looking woman or a woman like the soccer player Megan Rapinoe whose a massive liberal and thinks woman are superior than men, then you realize your erection is deflating like a balloon that's basically what Wes Craven's A New Nightmare is basically. Now having watched A New Nightmare I would strongly suggest if you want to watch 80's horror movies that have comedic taste I would suggest watching Nightmare on Elm Street 1-6 and just forget the seventh movie even existed because right now I wished I never watched A New Nightmare and would say that Nightmares 2 and 4 are way better than A New Nightmare though that's not saying a whole lot to say though look either way I need to get this movie out of my head right now. 

 

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

 

           A year ago, I went on a Nightmare on Elm Street binge going from the first film directed by Wes Craven to its successors for which before you say anything New Line Cinema at the time had to make sequels because they we're an up and starting studio. But with sixth installment to Freddy's adventures, I have to give this film a ton of credit because this film is an example of doing 3D right and unlike Friday the 13th part III who did the absolute worst job of creating 3D and it's been a year since I've seen that movie and I have nightmares seeing the bad 3D effects.

         Murderous ghoul Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund) has slaughtered every child in his hometown. He ventures on to a new location, scouting fresh young victims to hack up with his finger blades. Basically, reunites with a long-lost daughter (played by Lisa Zane related and sister to BILLY ZANE) furthermore, creates more rampage than you can possibly imagine also, Springwood, Ohio has turned into the worst places on earth although it's like New York or LA and Chicago being a complete disaster compared to what Springwood is now in the film.

          Like I've probably said this a year ago and I'll say it again, Friday the 13th part III is one of the worst 3D movies ever made although enjoyable to watch at times, but the 3D effects are just, a complete, disaster almost like if you go to Muppet 3D in Disney World or any 3D movie that just pops out of the screen and creates that out of the screen 3D effect, it's like that but without the 3D glasses for which makes it sad and pathetic. Compared to Freddy's Dead, this movie is of course awful but the 3D effects are at least decent compared to Part III of Friday the 13th, and so, this isn't say much but I will rather watch Freddy's Dead over the third Friday the 13th film if it comes to best 3D effects between those films combined. At first watching the movie a band sounds familiar from my youth and I slowly realized that the "Goo Goo Dolls" wrote a song for the film and I was like "holy crap, I haven't listen to them in a coon's age", and that's the same band I use to listen to along with Matchbox Twenty and Creed and some of them are like reliving your favorite movies at your teen's age and are just flat out bad, that's what "Goo Goo Dolls" are like. Like the previous movies there's not a whole lot to say other than I feel like this film is the definitive film where we finally see Freddy Kruger who we all know and love kind of like Jason Lives and I feel like if you bring back Freddy now he's got to be played by a comedian as well as make it a dark comedy either way it's been 16 years since the last Freddy film has been made and I doubt anyone is going to make that possible. If you take away the first Nightmare film and just focus the sequels to Elm Steet in terms of what is the best I would say the third film is the best one out of all of them then Freddy's Dead is second best and then we get to the fifth film for which explores more of Freddy's backstory and to close this all out some of these films are a great breath of fresh air and this was a great comedic piece of unintentional comedy as well as trashy sets that become somewhat of why is that town look like a trash sewer? Or why does Springwood now become like a worst part of Chicago, New York City and LA and this film has all those elements in terms of trashy sets. And Freddy's Dead was a great conclusion to this Nightmare adventure but then we finally get to the seventh installment for which was like Bill Lumbergh repeating "ooh, yeah" then proceeds to leave. 

  

           

The Crazies

 

                So, now having watched the documentary about George A. Romero's Resident Evil. I decided to watch a George A. Romero movie that's NOT Night of the Living Dead. And quite frankly I haven't seen any of George A. Romero's work that's not Night of the Living Dead, for which in all fairness I wasn't all big but I'm pushing the age where I need to expand my horizons. Turns out the Crazies caught my eye, upon which Romero originally directed and created the Crazies for which I had no clue until now. 

                 A Military plane crashes near a small town, infecting the water supply with a deadly virus that causes insanity then death. The army moves in to control the situation, only for the civilians to treat them as invaders and then infect them all. 

                 I won't sugar coat it if you get past the overacting or confused eating an orange, this film is fantastic and shocking horror movie. I remembered another movie titled “The Crazies” sometime around 2010, and I wasn't all big into the horror movie genre because most of them were not great or just lame on so many levels, bottom line didn't have an interest in watching the REMAKE to the Crazies. With Romero's Crazies, this film has a ton of relevant as to today's world especially when we had the Pandemic, we were all forced to stay indoors as to having forced to wear masks all the f**king time and more importantly being two feet away from the other person, so, watching this film almost feels like re-living the pandemic again only no military declaring martial law. So, maybe George Romero was preparing us for the worst and we didn't listen so, now I'm declaring to find many George A. Romero movies for this entire month. Now this movie is not entirely scary but this is one of those films like Night of the Living Dead, Romero is one of those directors that again I respect a lot because when you’re making a horror movie especially making a lower budget but making it work in the best way possible and having did Night of the Living Dead, Romero decides to do the opposite and make psychopaths with an infection but also explores themes of sickness and military forcing in door laws and citizens fighting to survive the government and more importantly having great scenery with limited resources, so, in a strange way George Romero is like the Stanley Kubrick of horror although I can't back that entirely up, but just saying after Night of the Living Dead and the Crazies. The original Crazies is on Tubi for which, yet again Tubi is still the king of hidden gems so, if you’re looking for a shocking horror movie as well as directed by George A. Romero then I'd recommend spending an entire month watching George A. Romero movies until Halloween hits in 2026. 

    

George A. Romero's Resident Evil

 

   

             After watching the latest Resident Evil movie as well as considering it the greatest horror movie of this entire year. I decided to watch another Resident Evil movie, though, not the Paul W.S. Anderson film, GEORGE A. ROMERO'S RESIDENT EVIL. Yeah, apparently George A Romero was hired to write and direct Resident Evil, unfortunately studios and legends have different ways in terms of control. 

              Filmmaker George A. Romero redefines the Zombie genre with "Night of the Living Dead," but his vision for an adaption of the video game "Resident Evil" was never realized.

              Like most documentaries you get to know a lot about the gaming franchise of Resident Evil as well as George A. Romero's film career and strangely enough there's a ton of films in George A. Romero's filmography that I didn't realized he directed such films like the Crazies hell even, I didn't know that was even an original movie to begin with. Though this documentary goes to great lengths of telling the story of how George got involved with Resident Evil such as directing a commercial to the second installment and especially getting involved with Constantin Films a German movie studio that bought the rights to the games of Resident Evil at the time were still making their third installment (though I could be wrong), now I haven't read George A. Romero's script for Resident Evil but having watched Paul W.S. Anderson's version I would most certainly preferred Romero's. Although this was during the early days of Hollywood studio system not knowing how to adapt these video games into movies from Street Fighter to Mortal Kombat and even the Super Mario Bros, they have a different viewpoint or want to go at a different direction now from what I've learned Romero's adaption was of course faithful to the games as well as dark story, but Constantin films wanted a different approach for which is convenient and this is an important lesson tip to all up and coming writers, if your planning pitch a video game adaption, you’re going to have a ton of battles to get the film right and at times video game adaptions aren't always a winning battle. If you’re a huge fan of the Resident Evil games as well as a big fan of George A. Romero, then I would highly recommend watching this documentary for the Halloween season and maybe playing some Resident Evil on the side.