Fun Stuff 2

Quarantine
-Unusually for a Hollywood production, this film does not feature a musical score
-Wilshire the fire dog also featured in an episode of "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan"(2004) (Season 3, Episode 4)

Day of the Dead(1985)
-The book Dr. Logan gives to Bub is Stephen King's "Salem's Lot." Romero and King have been friends for many years.
-All the extras who portrayed zombies in the climax received for their services: a cap that said "I Played A Zombie In 'Day of the Dead'", a copy of the newspaper from the beginning of the film (the one that says THE DEAD WALK!), and one dollar.
-In the cafeteria scene, William McDermott (Jarlath Conroy) says that "All of the shopping malls are closed." This is a clear reference to the film's predecessor Dawn of the Dead (1978), which is set in a shopping mall.
-George A. Romero played a zombie pushing a cart in the foreground during the final zombie feast, seen from the waist down and identified by his trademark plaid scarf wrapped around his waist.
-The blood and entrails used in the disemboweling of Capt. Rhodes were real. Pig intestines and blood were procured form a nearby slaughterhouse and used to make the scene. During filming the refrigerator housing intestines and blood was unplugged by custodial staff, and the entrails started to spoil causing most of those involved to become physically sick.



Cronos
-Guillermo del Toro started writing on the script as early as 1984, where it was titled "Vampire of the Grey Dawn".
-Guillermo del Toro met with Universal in late '93, where they told him they wanted to buy the rights to this film so they could remake it. del Toro's response was "Who wants to see Jack Lemmon lick blood off a bathroom floor?".



Evil Dead 1
-Filmed in a real-life abandoned cabin
-Most of the demon POVs that glide across the ground were shot by mounting the camera to a 2X4 while Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell ran along holding either side
-Bruce Campbell twisted his ankle on a root while running down a steep hill, and Sam Raimi and Robert G. Tapert decided to tease him by poking his injury with sticks, thus causing Campbell to have an obvious limp in some scenes.
-The opening sequence of the evil moving over the pond, is actually Bruce Campbell pushing Sam Raimi in a dingy whilst he films the shot.
-The original script called for all the characters to be smoking marijuana when they are first listening to the tape. The actors decided to try this for real, and the entire scene had to be later re-shot due to their uncontrollable behavior.
-Sam Raimi originally wanted to title this film "Book of the Dead," but producer Irvin Shapiro changed the title to "The Evil Dead" for fear that kids would be turned off seeing a movie with a literary reference
-On the tape, in which the demon resurrection passages are read aloud, some of the words spoken (which sound like genuine Latin) and that sound like "Sam and Rob, Das ist Hikers Dan dee Roadsa" actually mean "Sam and Rob are the Hikers on the road", as it was actually Sam Raimi and Robert G. Tapert who play the fishermen that wave to the car as it passes them near the start of the film.
-In 2006, The Evil Dead (1981) was turned into a Broadway musical



Evil Dead II
-One of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is "A Farewell to Arms".
-The recap of the previous film includes a shot where the "evil force" runs through the cabin and rams into Ash. When this shot was filmed, Bruce Campbell suffered a broken jaw when Sam Raimi (who was operating the camera) crashed into him with a bicycle. Or so people were led to believe. This was a story concocted by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell as a gag to see how many people would believe it actually happened.
-The references to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) were the conclusion to an unspoken battle of "can-you-top-this" between Sam Raimi and Wes Craven. In Bill Warren's book The Evil Dead Companion, it says that Raimi took the torn Jaw (1975) poster in Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (1977) to mean that Craven was saying that his movie was even scarier than Jaws. Raimi included a torn Hills poster in The Evil Dead (1981) to send the same message. Craven responded by including a scene of Nancy watching The Evil Dead in Nightmare. Raimi responded to that with a scene of a destroyed Nightmare poster in Evil Dead II.


Army of Darkness
-The magic words Ash must use to claim the Book of the Dead are "Clatto Verata Nicto" - a reference to "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto", the words used to command the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still
-That beat-up Oldsmobile that goes through time with Ash belongs to director Sam Raimi. He included it in most of his early movies, each time more banged up than the last. The items in the trunk of the Olds are not product placements; they're what Raimi actually had in his trunk.
-An issue of the magazine "Fangoria" can be seen in the car's trunk.
-The original script was 43 pages.



Day of the Dead(2008 remake)
-Although the film's plot shares little with the original, many of the scenes and situations from the original are duplicated, such as debating on whether or not a fellow member should be killed even though there's a chance he won't become a zombie, a zombie firing a gun, and the heroes having to make their way through an abandoned missile silo
-The Radio Station is on the Elm Street. This is a reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).



The Exorcist
-Ellen Burstyn received a permanent spinal injury during filming. In the sequence where she is thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her hard away from the bed. She fell on her coccyx and screamed in pain
-The refrigerated bedroom set was cooled with four air conditioners and temperatures would plunge to around 30 to 40 below zero. It was so cold that perspiration would freeze on some of the cast and crew. On one occasion the air was saturated with moisture resulting in a thin layer of snow falling on the set before the crew arrived for filming.
-Christian evangelist Billy Graham claimed an actual demon was living in the celluloid reels of this movie
-When originally released in the UK a number of town councils imposed a complete ban on the showing of the film. This led to the bizarre spectacle of "Exorcist Bus Trips" where enterprising travel companies organised buses to take groups to the nearest town where the film was showing.
-A film goer who saw the movie in 1974 during its original release fainted and broke his jaw on the seat in front of him. He then sued Warner Brothers and the filmmakers, claiming that the use of subliminal imagery in the film had caused him to pass out. The studio settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
-The original teaser trailer, which consisted of nothing but images of the white-faced demon quickly flashing in and out of darkness, was banned in many theaters, as it was deemed "too frightening".
-The actual residence in Georgetown that is used for the exterior shots has a rather large yard between it and the infamous steps. The window that leads to Regan's room is at least 40 feet from the top of the steps. This distance would make it impossible for anyone "thrown" from the window to actually land on the steps. In the movie, set decorators added a false wing to the house, so that Regan's supposed window would in fact be close to the infamous steps.
-The substance that the possessed Regan (Linda Blair) hurls at Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) is thick pea soup. Specifically, it's Andersen's brand pea soup. The crew tried Campbell's but didn't like the "effect
-After filming, William Friedkin brought production to 666 Fifth Avenue
-The sound of the demon leaving Regan's body is actually the sound of pigs being herded for slaughter.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
-Body count:11
-Producers Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller decided not to make a sequel to the 2003 movie. But the fans kept coming to them, asking how the family got that way and wanting to know the unanswered questions in the 2003 version. And after a meeting with Michael Bay, they let Sheldon Turner write the script and they were prepared to make it.
-New Line had to pay $3 million more than it expected to in order to keep the series in the studio fold after Dimension Films made a pricey deal with original rights holders Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel and Robert Kuhn.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Begining-Witness The Birth Of Fear

On their last road trip before they are sent to Vietnam two bothers and their girlfriends they stop in a small town dying from people leaving to find work. On their way through the town they come across Thomas Hewit a deformed mentally insane man who kills his boss when the place he works in goes out of business. When the sheriff goes to the Hewit family residence Thomas stepfather kills him and feeds him to the family. Thus begins the birth of one of the most murderous families in history.

I may watch a lot of horror movies but this one i found alright. It had good acting and special effects but they went overboard with the gore and violence although they did need to do that to give an accurate representation the the Hewit family. This movie could be better if it had a better plot and if they didn't rely so much on gore and shock. I give this movie 3 out of 5 blood stains. Al;so i don't recommend this for people with weak stomachs.

The Exorcist-Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of darkness.

An actress vi sting Washington for a movie begins to notice things changing with her daughter after she plays with a Ouija Board. Meanwhile a former boxer who became a priest begins doubting his faith after his mother gets sick and dies. Eventually the problem with the actresses daughter gets serious enough she asks the priest for help. Thinking she might be possessed he calls in for help from a priest who has dealt with possession before. so one night they go into the little girls room to try to save her. What everyone is wonder is, Will they survive the night?


I had to do this movie since it is a cult classic and its another one of my favorites. The acting in this by all actors is exceptional and the plot is extremely good. The only time they use special effects is for the girls face and little things like when she twists he head all the way around and when the bed shakes. Over all i give this movie 5 out of 5 blood stains.

Day of the Dead(2008 remake)-D-Day Is Coming

In a small town in Colarado, Captian Rhodes and his army seal of the area to contain an infection that most people believe is a simple cold. When Corpral Sarah Bowman who was raised in the town goes to check on her family she sees he moms sick with what she also believes is a cold and takes her to the hospital. That's when everything goes bad. Everyone sick freezes completely still for a minute worrying everyone around them, then suddenly they come back and begin attacking and eating the people around them. Sarah now split up from her brother and his girlfriend must travel through a town filed with thousands of flesh eating undead with two other soldiers to find her brother and his girlfriend and escape.

I found this movie to be so bad it made the original Day of the Dead look bad. They leave out almost all the the stuff that makes the original one as good as it was and they added what they believed could have made the movie better but didn't, including zombies which can climb on the ceiling and how everyone who travels with Sarah seems to be amazing with guns. For this atrocity to Day of the Dead i give it 1 out of 5 blood Stains.

Army of Darkness-Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas

In this 3rd and final sequel to the evil dead films, Ash is transported back in time to a medieval castle. At first he is taken for an enemy of the people in the castle and they throw him into a pit to fight some deadites for their amusement. When he kills them with his chainsaw and shows the medieval people the power of his shotgun or as he tells them his boom stick they decide to make him their leader so he can defeat the deadites that plague their country. He is sent t0 go retrieve the Necronomicon which can dis spell the evil that plagues the land but he must say the chant Clatto Verata Nicto precisly lest he summon an even more terrible evil. But when he forgets the chant he says Clatto Verata N... Necktie... Neckturn... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word! Clatto... Verata... N- [coughs] thinking he can trick the evil forces. Sadly though since he didn't say the chant correctly he brings for The Army of Darkness.

Out of all the Evil Dead movies this one is my personal favorite. They may go overboard with the humor but it is still an amazing movie. with the amount of deadites used they could only do half of it in stop motion but to cover for the other half they had people in costumes, people running along trenches in the ground carrying skeleton statue things to be some of the deadite warriors. Overall i give this movie 5 out of 5 deadites.

Evil Dead II- Kiss Your Nerves GoodBye!

The better sequel/remake of Evil Dead 1. Ash takes his girlfriend Linda to a cabin in the woods which was previously owned by an archeology professor. They find the professors tape recorder. They play it and it recites passages from The Book of The Dead. The spell releases and evil force into the woods and turns Linda into a deadite. After ash dismembers Linda his hand begins turning into a deadite so he must cut it off. To fix this disadvantage ash sticks a chainsaw on his arm. It looks ,like ash is about to lose when the professors daughter and he friends show up at the cabin. The rest of the nigh is a chainsaw wielding shotgun blasting demon fighting roller coaster ride.

This movie was a lot better then the first one. The plot is a lot tighter and the acting is a lot better( although they act a little bit bad in this and the next one for humor). They still use one of my favorite special effects stop motion which was the final factor in me adding this to my horror movie collection. They used a lot more humor in this( shown in one scene when ash cuts off his hand and must battle it since it turned into a deadite). Overall i give this movie 5 out of 5 and my personal recommendation to watch it.

Evil Dead 1-The Ultimate Experience In Grueling Terror

% friends go to a cabin in the woods. While inspecting the cabin they find a tape recorder and a book bound in human flesh. They turn on the recorded and it says that the book is called The Book of The Dead or the Necronomicon. the tape goes on to read a passage from the book which releases and ancient unstoppable evil into the woods. Some of them begin turning into Deadites. The others find out from the tape that the only way to stop the deadites is from total dismemberment. Now they must try to survive the night. The question is, can they dismember their former friends?

This movie i found enjoyable but not the greatest movie ever. The acting in it is terrible but they are able to make it better with humor and amazing effects. I enjoyed the special effects in this and all other movies around this time because they don't do it all on computers like they do now days they use stop motion which i find doesn't look as realistic but looks sweeter and funner to do. Thankfully they made a remake of this but because it is part of the evil dead trilogy i give this 3 out of 5 blood stains.

Cronos- sadly i could not find a tag line

In 1535 an alchemists creates the key to eternal life, The Cronos Device. After he dies nearly 200 years later the device and its secretes are lost forever, until an antique dealer Jesus Gris(obviously meant to symbolizes Jesus's Resurrection since he to comes back from the dead) finds it in a statue. Jesus accidentally opens it and it stabs him making him younger. When a dying old business man's nephew brings Jesus to his uncle he finds out it grants eternal life and he can't help but continue to use it. But what he doesn't know is that with the promise of eternal life it gives the user a thirst, a thirst for human blood.

When i first saw this movie i tonight it looked good so i bought it. what i didn't realize is it's in spanish so i don't recommend it if you don't like reading subtitles. I enjoyed the acting in this movie. It is pretty good for a b movie. The acting of Federico Luppi who plays Jesus and Tamara Shanath who plays Jesus's granddaughter Aurora is almost perfect when they are together. They seem like actual grandfather and granddaughter. But the best acting in the whole movie is Tamara's since she plays he role perfectly, i could think of no way to make her acting better. Although i enjoyed much of this movie they left some small things unanswered that i would have enjoyed explained and the acting of the old dying tycoon and his nephew could have been improved. Overall i give this movie 4/5 blood stains.

Day of the Dead-Prepare yourself for the darkest day of horror the world has ever known!

When zombies walk the earth and humanity is on the brink of destruction a small group of military personnel and scientist have taken refuge in a underground missile bunker. They are studying the undead to try to understand how they came back to life and hopefully to find a cure. As the military personnel slowly grow insane they find out that one of the scientist have been using their people in test with the zombies. This puts them over the edge. Now the scientists must fight against the military while the undead slowly take over the bunker.

This movie is another one of my personal favorites. It is the third and final chapter in George A. Romero's " Dead Trilogy". The acting in this like in many other zombie movies is alright except for my favorite character in it,Captain Rhodes played by Joseph Pilato. In the movie you can tell he is the first person to go insane and you can really tell that in the scene were the scientists are going insane as he threatens to shot one of his men for not shooting one of the scientists. But one of the main reasons he is my favorite is because he has the best line "Choke on 'em". Over all i give this 5 out of 5 blood stains.

Quarantine- Contain The Truth.

A reporter and her cameraman go to spend the night at a fire station for their shows. When the firemen get called to a medical emergency they go with them thinking it is just a normal call. They were horribly wrong. When they get there things begin happening from a older lady attacking them to one of the firemen falling down almost 5 stories. They decide to leave after that but when they try to the police and government block of the building and warn them they will shot anyone who tries to leave.

I thought this movie was alright but what really made me hate this movie was that they showed the ending of the movie in the previews. the acting in this was alright and the special effects were pretty good. But sadly this is nothing compared to REc which is the original version of this. Even though they are almost identical since quarantine is the english version but REC is better since it has a sequel which explains were the infection came from. I give this movie 2 out of 5 blood stains(which i feel is being generous.)

Fun Stuff

For this post i feel like doing something knew so i will give you some intresting facts about the movies i have already given reviews for.
VideoDrome
-The TV station "Civic TV" is patterned after City TV, an actual television station which started out in Toronto and was particularly infamous for showing soft-core sex films as part of its late night programming schedule. At one point in the film, one of Max Renn's partners is called "Moses" which is a reference to City TV founder Moses Znaimer.
-David Tsubochi, who appears here briefly as a Japanese porn dealer, later became a Minister in the Ontario provincial government. His appearance in this controversial film as a pornographer was exploited by the opposition.
-The original title was going to be "Network of Blood"

Planet Terror
-The original title was going to be "Project Terror"
-Rose McGowan(Cherry Darling) is germaphobic, and had to have the stripper pole sanitized before doing her go-go dance routine.
-Felix Sabates(DR.Felix in the movie, ya i know very creative) who plays Dr. Felix, is in fact a real doctor and is actually Robert Rodrigues's personal physician
-Skip Reissig the man who plays the strip club owner is actually Robert Rodrigues's real estate agent.
-The appearance of Bruce Willis in a minor role is a subtle nod to an old marketing trick often employed by Grindhouse makers. They would contract a big-name movie star to appear in their movie for one day, for a few frontal shots only, while the rest of the scenes were done with a double filmed from the back. A picture of the big star would then be placed prominently on the movie's poster in order to boost sales. (Example: Bruce Willis character of Lt. Muldoon is never in the same frame with the other lead and supporting actors indicating that all of his scenes were filmed separately.)
-The main character's name is El Wray. In Robert Rodrigues's earlier movie, From Dusk Till Dawn, Seth Gecko is trying to get to a place called El Ray.
-When Tammy is changing her car radio station, the DJ is heard to dedicate the upcoming song to the "departed Jungle Julia."
-In the scene in the hospital when Dakota is called on by her husband Dr. Bill Block to bring the needles there is a brief shot of her notepad which reads: "To do / Cereal for Tony / Crickets for Tony's pets / Kill Bill" - the latter of course a reference to Quentin Tarantino's movie Kill Bill.

Altered States
-In his autobiography, director Ken Russel said he tried mushrooms during the making of the film, which resulted in a bad trip.
-The book was partially based on dolphin researcher John Lilly, who invented the isolation tank, and first started taking drugs while "tanking".
-In a 1981 interview with the New York Times, Blair Brown said many of the actors and crew tried out the isolation tank. William Hurt actually hallucinated, while Blair Brown found it very peaceful.

Dead Alive
-During the lawnmower scene, movie blood was pumped at five gallons per second.
-300 liters of fake blood was used in the final scene of the film.
-The Spanish title of the film literally translates to "Your mother ate my dog", a line said by Paquita in the film, who happens to be played by a Spanish actress.

The Thing
-The film was originally banned when released in Finland
-The original movie, The Thing from Another World(1951), took place at the North Pole. This version takes place at the South Pole.
-In the close up shot of the United States National Science Institute Station 4 sign, a 'Smokey the Bear' sign can be seen.

HellRaiser
-Doug Bradley's character's name wasn't "Pinhead"; this was a fan nickname that began circulating after the release of the film. The script originally identified his character as 'The First Cenobite'. In the sequel films, 'Pinhead' became the character's "official" name, and Bradley is credited as "Pinhead" after that point.
-The film's working title was "Sadomasochists From Beyond The Grave".
-The address for the house in this movie is 55 Ludovico Place. The name of the institute in A ClockWork orange (1971) where Alex is deprogrammed of violence was the Ludovico Institute.
-For the video release, the film had one of the most unusual pieces of bonus material that has ever been offered: a Home Shopping Network show where merchandise from the movie could be purchased. The show was hosted by a giddy old lady claiming to be a hardcore fan of the movie.
-Doug Bradley was originally offered a choice of roles between one of the mattress movers and the Lead Cenobite. He originally thought it important that, as a new film actor, the audience should be see his face, and nearly turned down the Lead Cenobite role.

HellRaiser- Satan's Done Waitin

When a man and woman move into a new house a drop of blood brings forth a terrible creature- the mans half brother Frank Cotton. The mans niece soon figures out that he had lost his body to the Cenobites, a trio of monsters summoned by a puzzle box who are demons to some and angels to others since they bring those who solve the puzzle box into an eternity of pain and suffering were eventualy one cannot tell the diference between pain and pleasure. And they are coming back for Frank.

This movie and all the other hellraiser movies are in the top spots for my favorite horror movies. The whole idea behind the cenobites and the puzzle box peaked my interest when I first heard about it. The acting in this movie may be average but they make up for that with the plot and the great lines the characters have. Soem of my favorite lines int he whole movie are -

Kirsty Cotton: Who are you? Lead Cenobite: Explorers in the further regions of experience. Demons to some. Angels to others. -Lead Cenobite: We'll tear your soul apart!- and finaly my favorite line ever right before Frank is shown what real pain is "Jesus Wept!"

Overall i give this movie 5/5 blood stains.

The Thing-Man is The Warmest Place to Hide

A group of scientist in the Arctic are surprised when a group of Norwegians in a helicopter come to their base shooting and throwing grenades at a dog. Their helicopter blows up and the scientist are left with no explanation. At night the dog changes and kills some of the other dogs. Thy soon realize that there is an alien in their compound killing team members and coping their form. In the end each of them are left with one question. Who is infected?

This movie is one of my favorites and a cult classic. It keeps the characters in the movie and the people watching guessing who is infected. One of my favorite parts is when they are trying to burn one of the guys who are infected and his head jumps off and changes into a spider thing before they burn it. I even consider the ending one of the best horror movie endings ever. I give this movie 5 out of 5 blood stains.

Braindead- Some things won't stay down... even after they die

Lional has to spend every day taking care of his over portective and overbearing mother until one day when she follows him to the zoo on one of his first dates and is bitten by a rat-monkey and later dies. But the problem is she doesn't stay dead. As he tries to deal with the growing problem of his Zombie mother he also has the task of repairing his broken relationship with the woman he loves.

Brain dead is one of my personal favorite horror movies. The plot is average compare to most zombie movies but one of the things i noticed the most was the amount of blood and gore. One cool thing i found out after watching this movies is that right before the end when Lional breaks out of a zombies stomach they use 300 galons of blood. But they probably used double that in the over all movie. I give this movie 5 out of 5 blood stains