Recently re-read Der Kleine Vampir Und Die Tanzstunde, written by Angela Sommer Bodenburg.
Throughout her series of My Friend The Vampire she keeps every book spooky, creepy, and kid friendly. The series also does a great job as making kids say "Eww! Gross!".
In short the series is about a young boy who meets another young boy who happens to be a vampire. This vampire also has a quite large family, and a Sister who has a puppy love crush on the vampire's new friend.
All the books are great, for all ages. Especially for those who like buddy stories.
Also recently read Everybody's Dead.
Written by the same guy who wrote Monster Motors, and some movie about blabbering twinkies, and it's nothing short of a great read. If you've ever been in a fraternity during an apocalypse, this comic will speak to you.
noiseredux Presents THE MONTH OF HORROR (2015) (remake)
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My six-year-old daughter and I are reading Now You See Me. It is part of the Poison Apple book series, and she loves it. We will probably finish it up tonight. It's spooktacular!
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you guys are all watching good stuff...
Sorry to be brief, we recently watched
-hadn't seen Re-Animator in years. But a classic. Anything Lovecraft that's done by Brian Yuzna and Stuart Gordon is going to be great. This is no exception.
Sorry to be brief, we recently watched
-hadn't seen Re-Animator in years. But a classic. Anything Lovecraft that's done by Brian Yuzna and Stuart Gordon is going to be great. This is no exception.
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It's possible the belongs under What Are You Playing, but being that I'm consciously playing these titles as part of my Halloween extravaganza, I figured I'd talk about them here.
Any hoo, I just finished Castlevania: The Adventure for GameBoy (which apparently I've erroneously been calling "The Castlevania Adventure" for years) last night. I'm not going to lie, I started losing interest about half-way through this one, and had to consciously force myself to finish it. It's not that it's bad per se, I just found it to be wholly and completely unremarkable in terms of gameplay. The controls feel a bit sluggish by a fraction of a second, there are no special weapons, the levels and enemies are fairly uninspired, etc. For a Castlevania title, it just felt a bit blasé. Having said that both the music and graphics are keeping in pedigree with the history of the series, and from that perspective the series transitioned very nicely to the burgeoning handheld system. I'll post some additional thoughts in the Games Beaten thread (well ... eventually anyway), but long story short I don't see myself coming back to this one anytime soon.
Moving onward and upward I fired up Maniac Mansion upon competing C:TA. I was in the mood for an adventure game and it was between that and Grim Fandango Remastered which I have in my Steam library but have not installed. Being that I didn't want to wait for the 5GB download to complete (an overnight proposition on my sluggish rural internet connection), I opted for Maniac Mansion. Even better I opted for the Maniac Mansion Deluxe fan remake which is basically just a graphically improved re-skinning of the original SCUMM title. This game is just a joy, and probably situates well within my own list of comfort games. It's basically like a G-Rated Rocky Horror Picture Show - the Game (and really the less said about the actual Rocky Horror Game, the better AFAIC). The LucasArts sheen shines brightly here, and I'm looking forward to spinning through it with a couple of different characters.
Any hoo, I just finished Castlevania: The Adventure for GameBoy (which apparently I've erroneously been calling "The Castlevania Adventure" for years) last night. I'm not going to lie, I started losing interest about half-way through this one, and had to consciously force myself to finish it. It's not that it's bad per se, I just found it to be wholly and completely unremarkable in terms of gameplay. The controls feel a bit sluggish by a fraction of a second, there are no special weapons, the levels and enemies are fairly uninspired, etc. For a Castlevania title, it just felt a bit blasé. Having said that both the music and graphics are keeping in pedigree with the history of the series, and from that perspective the series transitioned very nicely to the burgeoning handheld system. I'll post some additional thoughts in the Games Beaten thread (well ... eventually anyway), but long story short I don't see myself coming back to this one anytime soon.
Moving onward and upward I fired up Maniac Mansion upon competing C:TA. I was in the mood for an adventure game and it was between that and Grim Fandango Remastered which I have in my Steam library but have not installed. Being that I didn't want to wait for the 5GB download to complete (an overnight proposition on my sluggish rural internet connection), I opted for Maniac Mansion. Even better I opted for the Maniac Mansion Deluxe fan remake which is basically just a graphically improved re-skinning of the original SCUMM title. This game is just a joy, and probably situates well within my own list of comfort games. It's basically like a G-Rated Rocky Horror Picture Show - the Game (and really the less said about the actual Rocky Horror Game, the better AFAIC). The LucasArts sheen shines brightly here, and I'm looking forward to spinning through it with a couple of different characters.
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Previous year's threads seemed to have more game talk mixed in with movies IIRC.
While on the topic of that title... I find it interesting Konami released Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth as a Wii Ware exclusive.
First, it's a title that seems polarizing among fans of the series. Secondly, it came out in 2009 on Wii only, not 360 or PS3. I need to DL this one. I can see it being "lost" for years but will hopefully resurface in a HD compilation.
While on the topic of that title... I find it interesting Konami released Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth as a Wii Ware exclusive.
First, it's a title that seems polarizing among fans of the series. Secondly, it came out in 2009 on Wii only, not 360 or PS3. I need to DL this one. I can see it being "lost" for years but will hopefully resurface in a HD compilation.
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I can see that too, and I would love an HD compilation of all of Konami's "rebirth" games. (WiiWare games are never on sale, and at this point getting them is a bit of a pain.)Jagosaurus wrote:I can see it being "lost" for years but will hopefully resurface in a HD compilation.
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ok, so major update on Slasher Vol. 1... it is now officially going to be Friday The 13th The Game, assuming it gets made. They have decided to go to Kickstarter and tbh this might be the first KS I pledge. More info and screenshots etc: http://kotaku.com/friday-the-13th-game- ... 1736266846
EDIT: Probably going to do the tier that gets you 2 digital copies, so that my wife and I can play together... though the $100 physical tier is actually tempting.
EDIT: Probably going to do the tier that gets you 2 digital copies, so that my wife and I can play together... though the $100 physical tier is actually tempting.
Re: noiseredux Presents THE MONTH OF HORROR (2015) (remake)
Can't be worse than the NES game.
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it sounds amazing. It's kind of like the idea behind Evolve except you've got a team of campers trying to not get slaughtered.
Re: noiseredux Presents THE MONTH OF HORROR (2015) (remake)
I had a long and busy weekend which involved traveling to South Carolina for a wedding. I still managed to slip in some horror movies.
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Poor little Billy saw his parents get brutally murdered by a scumbag dressed as Santa. Poor little Billy grew up in an orphanage run by a stern nun who believes only in discipline. Poor little Billy has now been asked to play the part of Santa at the local toy store. Everyone is naughty. Santa must punish.
This movie is awesome. It spends a lot of time setting up just why Billy is about to go on his rampage, and once he starts, he completely zones out and just keeps killing. Santa is now an ax murderer in the middle of a horrid PTSD episode. Silent Night, Deadly Night is exploitative as hell, it is violent, it is vicious and cruel. Frankly, it takes this genre and runs with it straight into the sleaze and the grime. It did such a great job of this, it even had protests break out in response and got pulled after only two weeks in the theater.
If you like slasher films, should you watch it? Oh yeah! I loved every blood-soaked minute of it.
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
Poor little Ricky saw his older brother Billy gunned down while in a Santa suit. Poor little Ricky also now suffers from PTSD from the murder of his parents. Poor little Ricky only got a budget of $100,000 to make a movie, and originally it was just supposed to be a re-edit of the original Silent Night, Deadly Night. As a result, poor little Ricky's movie sucks something fierce, and over a third of it is footage from the original film as Ricky recaps it. About two-thirds of SNDN2 is flashback as Ricky relates how he ended up in an institution. Then he kills the shrink off screen and walks out to go on his own short lived Santa-themed massacre.
Ricky is a very different maniac from Billy. Whereas Billy was eyes-forward, no expression, dead eyes and only single words, Ricky laughs constantly. He's goofy and playful about his killings. Between his attitude, the minuscule budget, the rehashing of old footage, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 works better as a comedy. It's so bad, it'll leave you laughing. Of particular note is the Garbage Day scene, which successfully managed to enter the public consciousness through meme form. The rest of the movie isn't much better, and since the director couldn't get folks to return, there are some nasty effects used to try and make the nun look like Mother Superior from the first film. It fails; instead she looks like a leper.
SNDN2 falls short of its predecessor and is much better suited towards mockery with a crowd. Laugh, throw popcorn at the screen, and quote the film endlessly. It's the only way this one should be experienced.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
I'm acknowledging the subtext up front, because everybody acknowledges it at least once. Now that I've done that...
...this movie is AWESOME! Freddy is not a nice guy, but damn! Possessing a kid through his dreams to make him murder for you, haunting him day and night, driving him made and making him kill until he can fully manifest in a nasty, blood-soaked orgy of violence...oh man, Freddy does it again. I particularly love how excited Freddy appears to be when he leaps out at the pool party and starts. Robert Englund is marvelously terrifying in this movie.
Unfortunately it is partly Freddy's antics that led to Wes Craven distancing himself from the project, because he didn't like to see Freddy running around the real world or possessing people and he was tired of only being offered slasher fare to work on. Craven offered some suggestions during filmmaking but largely stayed away from the project, which I find unfortunate despite understanding his reasoning. Freddy's Revenge is an effective and well done horror film
My progress so far:
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Poor little Billy saw his parents get brutally murdered by a scumbag dressed as Santa. Poor little Billy grew up in an orphanage run by a stern nun who believes only in discipline. Poor little Billy has now been asked to play the part of Santa at the local toy store. Everyone is naughty. Santa must punish.
This movie is awesome. It spends a lot of time setting up just why Billy is about to go on his rampage, and once he starts, he completely zones out and just keeps killing. Santa is now an ax murderer in the middle of a horrid PTSD episode. Silent Night, Deadly Night is exploitative as hell, it is violent, it is vicious and cruel. Frankly, it takes this genre and runs with it straight into the sleaze and the grime. It did such a great job of this, it even had protests break out in response and got pulled after only two weeks in the theater.
If you like slasher films, should you watch it? Oh yeah! I loved every blood-soaked minute of it.
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
Poor little Ricky saw his older brother Billy gunned down while in a Santa suit. Poor little Ricky also now suffers from PTSD from the murder of his parents. Poor little Ricky only got a budget of $100,000 to make a movie, and originally it was just supposed to be a re-edit of the original Silent Night, Deadly Night. As a result, poor little Ricky's movie sucks something fierce, and over a third of it is footage from the original film as Ricky recaps it. About two-thirds of SNDN2 is flashback as Ricky relates how he ended up in an institution. Then he kills the shrink off screen and walks out to go on his own short lived Santa-themed massacre.
Ricky is a very different maniac from Billy. Whereas Billy was eyes-forward, no expression, dead eyes and only single words, Ricky laughs constantly. He's goofy and playful about his killings. Between his attitude, the minuscule budget, the rehashing of old footage, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 works better as a comedy. It's so bad, it'll leave you laughing. Of particular note is the Garbage Day scene, which successfully managed to enter the public consciousness through meme form. The rest of the movie isn't much better, and since the director couldn't get folks to return, there are some nasty effects used to try and make the nun look like Mother Superior from the first film. It fails; instead she looks like a leper.
SNDN2 falls short of its predecessor and is much better suited towards mockery with a crowd. Laugh, throw popcorn at the screen, and quote the film endlessly. It's the only way this one should be experienced.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
I'm acknowledging the subtext up front, because everybody acknowledges it at least once. Now that I've done that...
...this movie is AWESOME! Freddy is not a nice guy, but damn! Possessing a kid through his dreams to make him murder for you, haunting him day and night, driving him made and making him kill until he can fully manifest in a nasty, blood-soaked orgy of violence...oh man, Freddy does it again. I particularly love how excited Freddy appears to be when he leaps out at the pool party and starts. Robert Englund is marvelously terrifying in this movie.
Unfortunately it is partly Freddy's antics that led to Wes Craven distancing himself from the project, because he didn't like to see Freddy running around the real world or possessing people and he was tired of only being offered slasher fare to work on. Craven offered some suggestions during filmmaking but largely stayed away from the project, which I find unfortunate despite understanding his reasoning. Freddy's Revenge is an effective and well done horror film
My progress so far:
