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Deadly Messages is a made for TV movie from 1985 starring Michael Brandon and Kathleen Beller.
It is directed by Jack Bender(Child's Play 3).
Laura Daniels(Beller) is dating Michael Krasnick(Brandon) and while she is out with him, her roommate, Cindy plays with a Ouija board, calling up the spirit of some guy called David who was murdered in their apartment. Cindy is strangled and Laura sees this, but when she calls the cops, there is no body or no killer around and she looks like a fool. The cops aren't too happy with her. She starts to see some weird guy following her around and she feels unsafe. She goes onto the Ouija board and comes into contact with a guy called Mark who tells her that he will kill her as she is a witness to murder. She sounds like a crazy person when she tells Michael about this and she is sure that the creepy guy who is following her wants to kill her.
Laura's life begins to change as she is sacked from her job for lying on her resume. Her boss checked her references and they were all lies. She can't understand why this is happening to her. She goes to the doctor and has a brain scan to see what's up with her. It is apparent to the doctor from her results that she has had electroshock treatment . Michael is surprised as she has never said anything about it. He confronts her and she denies everything. She and Michael fall out over it. She investigates this Mark person and discovers that he has a sister Jennifer in a mental home. She is then attacked in her apartment by the creep and when she calls the cops, they don't believe her.
She visits the mental home and talks to the nurse who recognises her as Jennifer.She was an inmate of the mental home until she was attacked and she escaped from it. She discovers that it was her boyfriend David that Mark tried to kill and he wanted to kill her too. She witnessed it and she had forgotten it for years but the Ouija board brought back her memories of it. That was why Mark came back and tried to kill her. He tries one more time but Michael shoots him dead and Jennifer remembers all of her past. They can move on now...
An watchable TV movie. It was entertaining and worth a watch. The story was solid and I liked it. It is a good mystery thriller. I give it a 6/10.
This episode starts with Bob wandering around alone until he meets Glenn and Daryl and they let him join the group. Cut to modern day, and Bob is with Sasha and Maggie. Bob nearly gets bitten by a walker, but just escapes. They are all relieved. They see the sign for Terminus and they decide to go as Maggie thinks that Glenn might have gone there. Meanwhile, Daryl and Beth are still on the road and they come to a funeral home and find loads of food and drink suggesting that there is someone living there.
Maggie takes off, leaving Bob and Sasha together. Sasha wants to stop and stay at the next town they meet, but Bob thinks that they should go after Maggie, so they do. They find a sign that she wrote in blood telling Glenn that she has gone to Terminus so they follow along. Daryl and Beth hear something outside the house and when Daryl goes to see what it is, a group of walkers attack. Beth goes out the back window as Daryl faces them. He escapes and when he looks for Beth, he finds her bag on the ground, but she has gone. He sees a car pulling away and he has to let it go as he can't keep up with it. Sasha and Bob meet up with Maggie again and they all decide to go to Terminus.
Daryl meets a group of survivors who are led by Joe( Jeff Kober). They ask him to join. Glenn finds Maggie's bloody note and he heads for Terminus.
This episode begins with Daryl and Beth together. They are on the road and they have to fight off walkers. Beth insists that she can take care of herself, but she really can't as Daryl saves her from walkers. She and Daryl end up in a golf clubhouse and they find bodies around. Walkers come in and Daryl kills them. Beth wants to have her first drink of alcohol. Daryl takes her to an old run down house and he gets some moonshine there. They drink and talk and Daryl gets upset as he feels guilty about Hershel's death.
Later, they decide to leave and Beth suggests that they burn the house down as Daryl tells her about his bad past in a house like the one that they are in. They throw the alcohol around the house and then Beth sets fire to the house . They give the finger to the house and move on. Not much happened in this episode as it was a bit talky and slow. I suppose they are trying to flesh out the characters, but there is only so much I can take of Beth. I just don't like her character at all. Anyway, this was another slow one...
Dracula 3D is a 2012 Italian horror movie directed by Dario Argento and starring Asia Argento and Thomas Kretschmann.
This film is about Dracula so you know the basic story already. It has characters from the novel, but it is far from a faithful adaptation. In a village called Passo Borgo in Transylvania, a young girl, Tania(Miriam Giovanelli) is attacked by something horrible and killed.Jonathan Harker(Unax Ugalde) comes to the village to take up a job with Count Dracula. He is going to be his librarian. He visits the castle and is shown around by the enigmatic Count Dracula(Kretschmann).He has a wife called Mina(Marta Gastini) and she is on her way to be with him. She is staying with her friend Lucy(Argento) until she can visit Jonathan at the castle. Unfortunately for Jonathan, Dracula imprisons him and he is bitten by the vampire.
Mina is worried about Lucy when she sees two bite marks on the back of her leg. It turns out that Dracula had visited her and bitten her. Mina does not know that - she thinks that Lucy is just sick. Mina goes up to the castle and looks for Jonathan. Count Dracula meets her and tells her that he has gone on an errand for a few days and won't be back. He captivates her and she is under his spell. He lets her go back home and she finds out that Lucy has died. Van Helsing(Rutger Hauer) is brought in by the local priest to investigate and he finds out that Lucy was bitten and he has to kill her when she comes back as a vampire. Mina is horrified when she sees the truth.
Van Helsing knows that Dracula is a bloodsucker and he wants to kill him. He goes up to the castle to have a showdown. Mina is drawn to the castle too. Dracula gets her there and he hypnotises her and tells her that she is exactly like his dead wife. He wants her to be with him forever and she is under his spell. He wants to bite her and make her like him. Van Helsing shows up and there is a fight. He has a silver bullet that he made to kill Dracula. He tells Mina to shoot it at Dracula. She has to fight the spell on her and eventually she does and kills Dracula. She and Van Helsing watch as he turns to dust. They leave, but the ashes transform into a wolf shape so is Dracula really dead?
This film was okay. I am a big fan of Argento and his movies, but this one was not one of my favourites. It was just not great. Maybe it is because Dracula has been done to death in movies and this didn't bring anything new to the story. It is worth a watch if you like vampire movies, but don't expect too much. I will give it a 6/10.
You're Next is a 2011 horror film directed by Adam Wingard and starring Sharni Vinson(Home and Away),A.J. Bowen and Ti West.
The film begins with a man and and woman having sex. When the man goes for a shower, the woman in murdered. Someone writes 'You're Next' in blood and the man sees it when he comes back. He is killed too by some weirdo in a mask. Cut to Crispian Davison(Bowen) and his girlfriend Erin(Vinson) who are going to his parents house for a reunion. His brothers, Felix(Nicholas Tucci) and Drake(Joe Swanberg) are there along with his parents Aubrey(Barbara Crampton) and Paul(Rob Moran). His sister Aimee(Amy Seimetz) is there too with her boyfriend Tariq(West). Felix has brought goth chick Zee(Wendy Glenn)and Drake has his wife Kelly(Margaret Laney) with him. They have dinner and it is obvious that there is some tension between the brothers.
The whole party turns sour when Tariq is shot in the head by an arrow coming from outside. Drake is hit in the back too. Everyone panics. Aimee runs outside but is killed by a booby trap. Erin jumps into action. It is apparent that she is good in a crisis and she tries to set up defenses for the remaining family members. People are in the house and they are wearing animal masks and carrying some serious weapons. Erin is clever and she kills one of them when he attacks her. The parents are killed as is Kelly. Crispian goes out to find help. Erin stays with the others and it turns out that she was brought up in a survivalist compound in Australia before she moved to the States and she knows all about fighting and defending herself against harm.
What Erin doesn't know is that Felix has orchestrated the whole thing and that the intruders are working with him. He wants his parents' money and he is going to kill anyone to get it. He kills Drake and then he and Zee pretend to be scared but the truth comes out and all of the baddies try and get Erin. She kills Zee and the others but there is one left. It is Crispian! He has been in on it all the time. She and Crispian talks and he tries to explain, but she kills him. The cops come and see her standing over his body and shoot her in the shoulder. She tries to warn the cop about the booby trap at the front door, but it is too late and the cop gets it.
An interesting movie which I really enjoyed. I liked the lead as she was not the usual victim running away and screaming. It was different and I have to say that it was one of the better movies I have seen in a long time. It gets an 8/10 from me. See it if you haven't already and I know that you will enjoy it!
Last time, Tara and Glenn met three people in an army truck. This episode begins with Tara sitting in the back of the truck. She watches as Abraham kills some walkers and smiles about it. Cut to Michonne and Carl talk and they are getting on well together. They are going out on a food run. Rick wants to come too, but he is too weak and Michonne tells him to rest up. He goes upstairs and falls asleep in one of the beds. Michonne and Carl talk about her past and she tells him that she had a son before everything changed.
Rick hears a commotion going on downstairs and he goes under the bed to hide. He hears someone being killed. One of the gang comes up to the room and falls asleep on the bed. Rick has to stay under it. Meanwhile, Glenn comes to and realises where he is. He wants to go and look for Maggie. Abraham tells him that he can't just up and go because he will disrupt his plans. He tells Glenn that his pal Dr. Eugene knows what caused the plague and they are going to Washington to talk to someone in power. Glenn insists on leaving and they argue causing loads of walkers to come at them and when Eugene fires the gun, he hits the fuel tank on their truck. With their truck broken down, Abraham, Eugene and Rosita decide to go with Glenn and Tara for a while anyway.
Rick comes out from under the bed and tries to get out of the house but gets confronted by one of the gang. He strangles him and escapes from the house, just in time to warn Carl and Michonne, who are returning. They continue on the train tracks and find a sign telling them that there is 'sanctuary for all', 'community for all' and 'those who arrive, survive'. They decide to go that way. Good episode, lots of action...
The final episode is here and it begins with Stevie Nicks singing the Fleetwood Mac song 'Seven Wonders'. The witches are getting ready to perform the Seven Wonders and find the new Supreme.
Zoe and Madison are competing with each other and they argue. Cordelia breaks them up. Madison thinks that she will be the next Supreme. Misty gets killed when she fails to complete one of the wonders. Zoe dies trying to complete another one. Queenie fails to bring her back to life, so she is out of the running. Madison won't bring her back even though she can. She is the only one left and Myrtle convinces Cordelia to enter the running and she does.
They go head to head and Madison loses on one of the wonders and storms off, deciding to go back to Hollywood. Kyle comes into her room and kills her for not reviving Zoe when she could. Cordelia is able to bring Zoe back to life and she is crowned the new Supreme. She decides to change everything and go public about the witches and get some more to come to the school. Myrtle tells Cordelia that she needs to punish her for the killing of the witches council. Cordelia doesn't want to, but she has no choice, so Myrtle is burned at the stake. The school opens its doors to new students and Fiona comes back, close to death. She and Cordelia talk and Fiona realises that Cordelia is a good choice and she dies. She wakes up in a strange place and she realises that it is a farm. She is stuck there with the Axeman and she cannot leave. She is stuck in her own hell. Papa Legba has claimed her soul finally and he laughs. Back at the school, the butler is Kyle and he opens the door to loads of new witches. Zoe and Queenie are the Witches Council and Cordelia welcomes the new students...
A good season which I liked. It was entertaining and I liked the cast. Now it is time to wonder what the next one will be about...
Sleepless is a 2001 Italian horror/thriller directed by Dario Argento and starring Max Von Sydow.
In 1983, Detective Ulisse Moretti(Von Sydow) is investigating murders in Turin. They call the murders The Dwarf Murders and they have a suspect in mind. He is called Vincenzo de Fabritiis and he is a writer. When he dies, the case seems closed as the cops think that he was the killer. Cut to modern day and a prostitute is brutally murdered along with her friend by an unknown killer. The cops come and they wonder if this is the same killer from years ago. They call to Moretti for help, but he has now retired and he is not interested in helping. When another woman is murdered, Moretti has a change of heart and he shows up at the crime scene. He is sure that it is the killer from 1983.A guy called Giacomo(Stefano Dionisi) comes to stay with his friend Lorenzo(Roberto Zibetti). Giacomo knows Moretti as his mother was murdered by the original Dwarf murderer and he calls in to see him.
They talk and they go to Vincenzo de Fabrititiis' house to look for clues on the killer. They don't find much. They then go to the train station where the prostitute was killed and see if they can find anything. There is a dead guy at the station who had the killers pen. Moretti is told to back off now by the cops.Lorenzo gets poisoned on a night out when his drink is spiked but he doesn't die. There is something strange afoot.Was it meant for Giacomo? Moretti and Giacomo go back to de Fabritiis' house and find a nursery rhyme the killer was using in his killings. His mother is there and she tells them that she killed her son after he was accused of the killings and she gets them the gun that she used. She thinks that her son was not the killer now. But she falls from a balcony when she thinks that she sees him. They discover that an old hobo is using a dwarf puppet to make people think that the dwarf is still in the house. Moretti and Giacomo follow him to see who he is working for. They find Lorenzo's father there and the whole sordid story unravels. It turns out that Lorenzo was the killer all of this time. He was just a child in 1983 and the police thought that it was a dwarf, not thinking that it could be a child. He has resumed his killing ways and his dad was trying to protect him. The cops show up and they shoot Lorenzo.
An interesting thriller from Argento. I liked it. It was a whodunit and there were some great kills in it.
I hadn't heard much about this film before I watched it, but I think that it is worth a watch and it is entertaining. I had an idea who the killer was early on, but that didn't spoil the film at all. I recommend this to all fans of horror/thriller. It gets a 7/10.
We are almost at the end of the season now and things are really hotting up! Fiona tries to weed out the next Supreme and she starts with Queenie who is on to her. Fiona is wasting away from her cancer and she knows that she does not have long left. Queenie sees Papa Legba who tells her that she can go to hell and back. She travels back to the worst time in her life and realises that it was hell. She goes to find Delphine who is working as a tour guide in her own house. She has killed the real tour guide. Queenie tries to help her, but she won't take it, so Queenie kills her. Delphine finds herself in hell and her daughter is being tortured over and over by Marie for eternity. Papa Legba leaves them to their suffering.
Cordelia has a vision when she hugs Fiona. She sees that Fiona has killed everyone in the coven and that she is still Supreme. She goes to see the axeman and tells him that Fiona is selfish to the core and she can't love anyone but herself. Cordelia and Queenie dig up Misty Day and they bring her back to life. She comes back Zoe and Kyle come back to the school and Zoe tells them that she thinks that she is the new Supreme. The axeman comes to the school and tries to attack the witches, but they stop him. He is covered in blood and Cordelia has a vision that it is her mother's. She sees that he has killed Fiona in her vision. They kill him and then they hang a portrait of Fiona on the wall, suggesting that she has died like all of the others in the portraits. There will be a test for all of the witches to find the new Supreme. It is called the Seven Wonders and they are all going to perform it.
Last time, Rick and Carl were reunited with Michonne. This time, Beth and Daryl are together, having escaped the prison. Tyreese, Judith, Lizzie and Mika are together. They have to hide from walkers which is difficult with Judith getting upset and crying. Tyreese gives Judith to the girls while he fights off walkers who are attacking some more survivors. The people get bitten but one of them tells Tyreese that there is a safe place along the train tracks. Tyreese kills them before they turn and he looks for the girls and Judith who appear with Carol! Tyreese doesn't know that Rick exiled Carol and they decide to go together. They see a sign along the tracks which points to a sanctuary so they decide to go there.
Meanwhile, Maggie, Bob and Sasha are together. Maggie is determined to find Glenn and she tells them that she will stop at nothing to find him. Glenn is at the prison and he tries to find Maggie. He discovers that Tara is there too and he tells her that they have to make their way through the walkers and get out. He is going to find Maggie. They escape and head off on the road. Tara tells him that Hershel is dead. They get confronted by walkers and Glenn collapses so is of no use. Tara kills them and then suddenly a huge army truck pulls up and out comes new characters- Abraham(Michael Cudlitz), Eugene(Josh McDermitt) and Rosita(Christian Serratos).
A better episode with lots happening. It is good to see some new characters being introduced too.
This episode begins with Nan's funeral. Queenie comes with Delphine and nobody is happy to see her.
Hank's dad wants to meet with the witches to call off his witch hunt. Zoe realises that Marie and Fiona murdered Nan in the bath . Delphine sees that the gardener has cut himself and she invites him in to tend to his injury, but she enjoys seeing the blood and she takes him and tortures him just like old times. She is visited by Spalding's ghost who tells her that he will help to get rid of Marie once and for all if she gets something for him. She agrees.
Everyone thinks that they will be the new Supreme. Cordelia is distraught that she has lost her second sight and she pierces her eyes to make it come back, but it doesn't seem to. Spalding gives Delphine Benadryl to put in Marie's drink and she gives him an expensive doll in return. Myrtle advises Zoe to get out of the house as there are enemies around every corner. Fiona and Marie go to the Delphi Trust to meet with Hank's father who wants a truce, but there is no hope of that and the axeman kills everyone. Delphine puts the Benadryl in Marie's drink and tries to kill her, but she can't. Spalding finishes the job by knocking her down the stairs. He tells her that Marie cannot be killed but that Delphine should bury her in a way that she cannot escape and she does. Zoe and Kyle decide to leave the house and go to Orlando.
The action continues on from the last time when The Governor met his end after storming the prison.
This episode is a slow one where not much happens. Michonne gets herself two walker pals and drags them around with her to help her protect herself. Rick and Carl are in a bad way and they find a house to rest. Rick isn't in a good way and he needs to rest. They board up the house and Rick rests while Carl goes around killing a few walkers on his own. He is mad at Rick who is unconscious.
Carl goes looking for food in nearby houses. He is confronted by a walker and he locks it in a room and heads back to Rick. He sees Rick crawling around and wonders if he has been bitten, but he is okay and Carl is relieved as he doesn't want to be alone. Michonne sees the tracks that Rick and Carl have made and she goes looking for them. Rick comes to and he talks with Carl, telling him that he he is a man now. Michonne arrives at the house and sees Rick and Carl and is overjoyed. She knocks at the door and Rick tells Carl that it is for him and laughs.
A very slow episode with not much happening. It is setting up the story for future episodes I guess, but it is a bit dull.
Episode 10 starts with Marie stealing a newborn baby and giving it to Papa Legba who is a devil type being. She made an agreement with him and she has to honour it. Misty Day is taken to meet Stevie Nicks by Fiona. Nicks gives Misty a shawl as a good luck charm and Misty is delighted with it. Marie tells Fiona that she made a pact with Papa Legba for immortality. She sold her soul and she has to give him something once a year. The problem is that the first sacrifice was her own newborn child and she has been giving him a newborn baby once a year ever since. Madison lures Misty to a grave and she gets her to take off her shawl so that she is vulnerable. She hits her and knocks her into a coffin and buries her.
Nan forces Luke's mother, Joan to kill herself by drinking bleach as punishment for killing her own son. She discovers the baby and Fiona and Marie kill her and offer her as a sacrifice to Papa Legba. Fiona wants to make a deal with him in for eternal youth in exchange for her soul, but he tells her that she hasn't any soul so no deal. Marie and Fiona plot the downfall of the Delphi Trust and the company begins to lose money and go bankrupt. Hank's dad knows that it is witches and he needs to destroy them all now. I liked this episode as I am a big Stevie Nicks fan and I liked the music in it. It was good fun...
Ice Spiders is a 2007 Sci-Fi/Horror movie made for the Sci Fi Channel. It is directed by Tibor Takacs and stars Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa A. Williams and Thomas Calabro.
The story begins at a ski resort in Utah. Dash Dashiell(Patrick Muldoon) is a former Olympic skier and he is now working as a ski instructor. He hurt his leg years ago and that put an end to his career. He works with Frank (Stephen J. Cannell). There is a large group of young people at the resort and they are looking forward to a great skiing vacation. Two hunters are in the woods and they come upon something large and something with a lot of legs. It is a giant mutant spider! It devours them and goes looking for more nibbles! It turns out that there is a lab there and they have been working on mutating spiders for their web silk and the larger the spider, the more silk it will make. Dr April Sommers(Vanessa A. Williams) has been experimenting on the spiders, along with Professor Marks and they have created massive monster spiders. April didn't realise that Marks was accelerating their growth and making them too big.
The spiders begin to take over the ski lodge and go on a killing spree. Dash and April have to try and get the skiers to safety while the spiders try and get them. The army is called in but there are only a couple of guys who are working with Marks to capture the spiders, not kill them. Captain Baker(Calabro) has his army guys on the hunt for the spiders and they are at odds with Dash and the others as Dash thinks that the spiders should be killed, not captured. There are plenty of comedy moments as the spiders try and kill everyone. In the end, most of the spiders are killed, but one. The army guys come and take one away, alive. Dash tries to kill it, but he is stopped as the army drive away with the spider in their possession. Dash has no choice but to forget it.
This was a fun movie with some funny moments. The spiders are massive so if you are like me and don't like them, be warned. I watched this and tried not to shudder as the massive spiders scuttled around. It is better than a lot of bigger budget movies and I would recommend it for a good laugh. I will give it a 6/10.
Thor:The Dark World is a 2013 superhero movie and a sequel to Thor. Unless you have been living under a rock, you will know all about Thor. It stars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins and Christopher Eccleston.
It carries on from the first movie and we see that Thor's brother, Loki(Hiddleston) has been imprisoned on Asgard for his crimes in the first movie. Then, we have a history lesson and we learn that Bor, father of Odin(Hopkins) fought against a Dark Elf Malekith and that Malekith had a secret weapon called the Aether. Bor and his forces manages to defeat Malekith and his army in their homeland,Svartalfheim. Bor buried the Aether and thinks that that will be the last of it, but Malekith has escaped with some of his men and they are in suspended animation, waiting for the day when they can come back and get their revenge. Thor is going around making all of the nine realms safe, but there is something strange happening and Jane Foster(Portman) can see it. She and her pals go to an abandoned warehouse where there are portals to some other world. They are amazed by these, but Jane gets sucked into one of them and she is exposes to the Aether. She comes back, but she is not the same.
Thor discovers that something has happened to Jane and he comes to earth. She is taken to Asgard and she releases some sort of force. Malekith is awakened by this evil force and he begins to prepare to go to Asgard and cause some destruction. He creates a Kursed which is a huge mean warrior and he brings it with him. They steal into Asgard and search for Jane who has the Aether in her. They find her and they kill Thor's mother Frigga(Rene Russo) to get her. They kill loads of others and when Thor finds what they have done, he has to enlist the help of Loki to get out of Asgard and get Jane away. He wants to lure Malekith with the Aether and then they can have their revenge. They go to Svartalfheim and wait to Malekith to take the bait. He does so and the Aether is released from Jane.
Thor can't destroy it though and Loki gets killed while fighting the Kursed. Thor tells him that he will let Odin know of his sacrifice. Thor goes to London with Jane where Malekith is going to release the Aether and destroy the universe. They have to fight him and with the help of Jane's friends, they do so. Malekith is destroyed and Thor goes home. His father, Odin, wants him to take the throne, but he tells him that he can't and he tells him that Loki made a huge sacrifice for them all. He leaves and it is revealed that Odin is actually Loki!
There are a couple of post credit scenes. The first one has the Aether being given to a man called The Collector. It is to be hidden away and never used again. The Collector takes it and then says 'One down, five to go' so this suggests that he will be a baddie in the future. The next scene is in London where Thor comes to Earth to visit Jane and we see a monster which was released during the fighting, stomping around London...A good movie though not as good as the first one. There wasn't enough Loki in it, but I did enjoy Malekith and I thought that he was a good baddie. I can't say I like Portman at all. She just isn't my cup of tea and I don't think she brings much to the movie. Hemsworth and Hiddleston steal the show as Thor and Loki and Eccleston is good as Malekith. Lots of action and some comedic moments which make the movie worth watching. It was entertaining and fun so I will give it an 8/10.
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