I had a dream...

...about Bruce Campbell. That's all you need to know on that subject.

Review: House On Haunted Hill (1959)

Director: William Castle
Starring: Vincent Price, Carolyn Craig, Richard Long, Carol Ohmart

Plot: An eccentric millionair and his wife invite five strangers to spend a night in the house on haunted hill. Survivors will get 10,000 dollars.

Even though this is an old horror movie, it really startled me at one point. The movie is well filmed and the special effects work. Running only 75 minutes, the plot is dense but there is still enough time for character development.

One thing that I find funny in most of the old horror films: when there is a thunderstorm, the flash and the rumble always come at the same time. If this happened in the real life (which is rare) it would mean that the lightnings are hitting near you all the time.

Excellent movie. Classic. Watch it!!

Stars: ****

The Evil Dead Drinking Game

Me and my friend played it tonight. She drank cider and I drank beer. We watched the first Evil Dead movie and got almost through the second one...

The rules are very simple. You take a sip of alcohol when any of the following happens:

* Ash gets hurt
* Ted Raimi appears as a shemp (watch the commentaries and you'll know)
* the camera moves from the evil entity's point of view
* Ash says somethin korny (all the one-liners count, especially "workshed")
* The Necrocomicon is mentioned
* the mystical words are cited
* a character gets posessed
* Ash talks to the evil dead

Honestly, beer is enough when playing this drinking game. Even at the very beginning of the first movie you have to drink quite a lot.

I think I better get some sleep now so I can watch the end of the second movie and Army Of Darkness. I just hope my friend is up to it. No drinking game this time! (but we're going to do a Romero drinking game some day)

And guess how many misspelled words I corrected while writing this.

Weird Dreams Are Made Of This...?

My sister (soon 13yrs) had a dream about my dog. That's not weird, but what happened in that dream was weird. Helka was growing tomatos and wore blue overalls and a hat. My sister drew a picture of it.


Click to enlarge this work of art (and weirdness).

Of course my sister isn't the only one to see dreams about my dog. My mom once had a dream that Helka wore brown pants. And I saw a dream that she rode a small motorbike but could not turn it. So I had a rope attached to the bike and when she reached the end of the rope, I went to turn her and the bike around. Weird...

Review: Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Director: Ruggero Deodato
Starring: Robert Kerman, Francesca Giardi, Perry Pirkanen, Gabriel Yorke

Cult classic movie about a documentary film crew that disappears into the South America jungles while searching for cannibal tribes, and the search party sent after them.

The reason why this film has become so "must see" is simple: violence and sex. Since Cannibal Holocaust was made in 1980, with pretty low budget, the 70's adult movie influences are very visible. Sometimes it looks like a snuff film. And since the animal rights movements were nothing like today, the animal killings are real.

Apparently the movie was banned in over 50 countries. But what I really admire about this film is that it is almost like a documentary. The way it's shot and how realistic it is.

Very much a must see if only you have the stomach.

Stars: ***