A New Dawn

Now I know I've been away for a while now and for that I'm sorry. A lot of things seem to keep me away from the computer, mostly life, but nothing keeps me away from getting a little horror in my life. These days you can get it any where, there's horror cons, horror movies, horror Netflix Shows (Which I couldn't sit through, I love the idea of werewolves but I really can't stand wolf movies, I don't know why). Yet the number one outlet that I went crazy for was TV. When The Walking Dead started I was Geek boy crazy, not only was it a comic but I could see zombies every week, it was a dream come true, then there came American Horror Story, hell even Zombie Land was gonna take a stab at tv. It pulled me back in time to the Twilight Zone,  Tales From The Crypt, And Fear It's Self days. Back when TV gave you a bump in the night and it seems that it doesn't plan on slowing down.

El Rey Network and Robert Rodriguez have teamed up to bring a cult classic to your living rooms. From Dusk Till Dawn is now a blood filled tv show that will take over your home and children March 11th at 9pm eastern. I for one love the first movie, and I was okay with all the ones that followed. I felt it could have been a stand alone movie but I understand there was still money to be made out of it. When I heard it was gonna be a tv show I thought 3 things. One "Finally vampires the way they should be, feared, and crazy" Two "I hope they don't mess this up, I hope they don't mess this up" And three "What the hell is the El Rey Network". Now let me a dress all these statements, from last to first. The El Rey Network is an American TV Channel that targets Latin viewers, sooo yes it will be in English, I would have watched it anyway I just would have had to break out my high school note books. The network came into this world in 2013 and was fathered by the vary man that gave us From Dusk Till Dawn The Show, good old Robert (His a hard worker, a movie, show, channel and I can't even get a blog out, makes you think huh). So moving on three to two.

I'm really hoping that they can bring some of the magic from the movie into the show, but after watching the trailer I kind of feel like they missed the mark.  They have a few people from the first movie and it's based off of the plot of part one and set within the world of the other two movies. Meaning we're following the Fuller family and the Gecko brothers but don't be surprised if at some point you see some story about the hangman or a run in with Buck from Texas Blood Money. I like the world and I love the whole idea of the movie, I mean Robert and Tarantino really made some magic there but I'm just not sure here. It seems more darker and they finally get deeper into why Tarantino's character Richie was so damn bat shit crazy. Yet it's just not pulling me in, maybe They'll show us more Next Tuesday when it kicks off on El Rey Network, if you don't have the channel don't worry cause I hear good old Netflix is picking up the show as well. So if Netflix is backing it, it might not be that bad.

I'm sorry I'm getting a knock off Supernatural vibe from it. Two brothers, one that may or may not see
things, take on the demons of hell, in this case the demons are vampires. But still it's horror on TV so check it one here's the trailer to give you an idea of what you're getting into enjoy.

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Oh The Horror, The Horror!

Okay so just the other day my wife and I sat down and fired up Netflix in hopes of finding something scary to watch, which is always a hit and miss on Netflix. Well that night we found this documentary about the Amityville House called The Real Story: Amityville Horror. We took a moment to decide if we really wanted to sit through another Amityville let down, because just last year we sat down all ready for My Amityville Horror which was another documentary about the house, told through an interview with one of the Lutz kids. That movie was more about a washed up bad boy who had daddy issues than it was about what happened in the house. Watch at your own risk, I almost pasted out three times trying to get through that one. But this one stood out cause it wasn't about the Lutz family but about the Defeo murders.

I'm a true crime junkie so that just pulled me in, that and the fact that through out all these years, after making  ten movies no one has every done anything about the case. So we sat down and it was really enjoyable, they talked to a family friend, who answered questions about the Defeos. Then when you thought they were done they took on the Lutz's ghost story about the house, and answered tons of questions. How it started?, Did they know about the murders?, Why was the room red?  They moved into that house just a year after the murders. Who does that? Anyway the movie is worth the sit down if you enjoy the Amityville movies or the case or the book which is really good, way better than any of the movies. 

Now they didn't talk to Ronnie Defeo, The Defeo that murdered his whole family, but I'm guessing that's because he always sounds high when your talking to him and his story changes every time someone speaks to him. But what I really want to know is why hasn't Hollywood just rebooted this whole thing. Forget the demons, the ghost and the evil pig, and use the real story. Six people were murdered in their sleep one dark night in Amityville. Only one person knows why and he isn't talking. The way they all died was odd, the cops still don't fully understand the case. That's what I would make a movie about, I mean true crime movies are killing it in the box office look at Pain and Gain and The Wolf Of Wall Street. If I was making this movie I would tell it through the eyes of a cop on the case or if you really wanna go dark through Ronnie's eyes.

Here is my set up for the trailer. You would start off with a shot of black, then fade in wooden stairs. You hear a news reporting of the murders as the camera shows a pair of dirty boots and a rifle make it's way up the steps. Then you here a police officer ask "Why did you do it Ronnie?" The Feet stop at a door and you here the Rifle being loaded. "Why did you do it Ronnie?" You hear two loud blast, then the sound of the footsteps moving faster, a louder "Why did you do it Ronnie!" Followed by two more Shots. The Camera starts zooming out and you see Ronnie kick open the door, it's zooming back racing down the steps, out of the front door, which stays open till the whole house is in the shot. Then you hear two more blast from the weapon and the door slams shut and you hear "You wanna know why?" A laugh and then "Because I could"

Fade to black, pop on the Title in red bleeding letters The Amityville Horror: Night Of Evil or the beginning or whatever you want to call it. I just think that this would be a better movie than watching a house that may or may not be haunted. With that said the movies weren't all bad and as I said the book is great. But this is 2014, time to rethink things and take some risk Hollywood.

Come on I can't be the only one that thinks this.

Zombies, Zombies, Zombies

So my first day of really horror blogging and it's the night that The Walking Dead comes back. Like always it was great, I love the show and I'm loving the comic book as well. I never really knew about it till the show started, now I got myself one of those thick books and I'm learning just how amazing the base material is. Now as far as tonight's show goes, it was great but mostly because I've been dying to see it again. But Honestly I'm not really into Carl based story lines. He annoys me, I hate the way he treats his father, or the fact that he feels he can hang with the big boys. Yes his a great shot but clearly he can't handle himself beyond the handle of a gun.

There were two times where I was just about to jump up and down to scream "Eat him, eat that little shit" okay fine I jumped up and down. But sadly I'm going to bed unsatisfied. Now I'm new to this blogging so I don't really have a format of how to get my thoughts out, so It might seem like I'm jumping around, but I'm gonna try and stay on track. my main thing about Carl is his got a big lack of respect, I'm not fully sure when he turned into this bad ass, he had one shooting lesson from what I recall. Yet they keep pumping him up as this super soldier kid, who's lost his childhood, and his mother and now his just out for blood. He doesn't respect his father of anyone in the camp if you ask me, his always running off getting into some kind of mess. Just talking about him gets me heated. Yes I'm a 26 year old who hates a 13 year old boy on a made up TV show, I understand I might need to talk to someone about this.

So aside from me wanting Carl to die, the rest of the show was great. I love finally seeing part of  Michonne's back story and I really hope that they show us some more. It seems like their really staying true to the comics with her, bringing in her boyfriend, and her son. The dream was great but I think she really needs her whole stand alone story line much like the Governor got. What I also liked was that Ad for Salem. I'm looking forward to it because I love just learning about the witch trails, I hope that this can bring witches back to TV in a better light, I'm sure it will do way better than America Horror Story has done, I haven't liked that season at all, I really feel like they dropped the ball.

Well anyway, I'm hoping my next post will be better wrapped up then this one, it's the first give me a break. Somethings I'll be talking about in the future is The Walking Dead comic, and The Rise of The Governor. I'm also going to post every Friday, maybe not this Friday, but next week the top 5 horror movies on Netflix to watch so your not just hoping around reading every little bio to find one good one.

So in closing
Carl sucks
Rick almost gave me a heart attack
Michonne has always been a bad ass
Salem looks good but we'll wait and see

So thanks for taking your time to read this and enjoy your day.