A mother, Amelia, and her son, Sam, find what appears to be a child's book called Mister Babadook about a monster with a top hat and long claw fingers. Both characters are still dealing with the death of husband/father Oscar on the day Sam was born. Sam has trouble at school and Amelia has increasingly sleepless nights worrying about Sam and the Babadook story.…
Here we go again. Apparently, this one was going to be called 5nal Destination, which makes no fricking sense. What the hell is a Five-nal? Just call it Anal Destination and let's get this party started! Sam (played by punchable face Nicholas D'Agosto) and his work colleagues are on a bus to a company retreat when he has a premonition that the suspension bridge…
From South Korea comes this macabre story about an inept policeman in a small village who must solve a series of strange murders to save his young daughter. It starts out innocently enough as the main character Jong-goo is a small town cop who is comically bad at his job and severely unprepared for what is about to unfold. After some unexplained murders, Jong-goo's…
The original concept of Final Destination in 2000 was something new in the teen horror sub genre that started with Scream in 1996. The premise was simple enough: a high school kid on a plane has a premonition about the plane's fiery fate and all the people who exit the plane are then marked for death. Something something, you can't cheat death. Almost a…
Power rankings system devised and compiled weekly by Stemshul. “Expert” analysis by paradroid. Well, well, well! Looks like, as with most things, I'm terrible at predictions. I got exactly one of the final four teams right, although I did manage to pick one of the two wildcard games. I correctly picked the Dodgers to beat the Cardinals, but in a close game 5 that…
I knew absolutely nothing about this movie going into it other than it was on Netflix. Sometimes it is good to go into a story with a blank slate, because then you can be a little more forgiving if things go off the rails. It's mostly in Italian about a group of people car pooling in an RV who get into an accident and…
Ah, yes, teen horror from the late 90s. What started with Scream in 1996 eventually devolved into a formulaic wasteland of 30-something actors pretending to be teenagers. This one is the sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Even worse than the predictable plot was the reuse of the “Come and get me! I’m right here!” line as…
This week's Is This Song Good? podcast features a cover of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game by Giant Drag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-lxSGOhQXs
Power rankings system devised and compiled weekly by Stemshul. “Expert” analysis by paradroid. Current view from Seattle. Week 6 brings us a significant injury! Well, every week in the NFL brings plenty of significant injuries. For example, the Lions this week announced that Pro-Bowl center Frank Ragnow would miss the rest of the season after toe surgery. This is very significant to the Lions…
When animals attack! This is a fun sub-genre of horror, where they take a type of animal and make it bigger, scarier, and more dangerous than than animal would be in real life. Jaws, Cujo, Anaconda, and Piranha are a few examples. It's often very effective as there tends to be natural fears of these animals already. Razorback is an Australian movie about a…
