The Stitcher (Unrated)- a film by Darla Enlow

Fear is Not Created It’s sewn in…

From the director who has previously brought you Toe Tags and Branded comes a new direct to video film called “The Stitcher.” He is just as scary as the Shape in Halloween or Jason in any given Friday the 13th movie. You knew when he was around since there would be buttons laying at and on the victims remains to hint at his existence.

A group of friends head out to Brittany’s new inherited beautifully furnished home for a little vacation- the only downfall is that it’s in the middle of this backwoods hick town full of inbred toothless wonders who made me cringe. I am a sucker for inbreds, they scare me more than any psychopath could on any given day.

Danielle gets lost and stops for directions she gets stuck asking this old dirty fat farting guy for help. He just sat there in a stupor from his own vapors and she storms back to the car disgusted and still lost. Later when everyone but Danielle shows up at the house they get a little worried but since she is flighty they really pay no mind to it.

Digger the pothead made me laugh my ass off. I liked his blunt outbursts and goofy demeanor, He even had his own roll your joint song. I took this movie to my cousins and as we sat there watching we jokingly picked out characters saying it was us, it was just a quick point towards the screen.

She picked Michelle who turned out to be a bitchy as she really is in life, I happened to pick Tamra, and when it turned out she behaved the same way as I do when someone pukes had us rolling- we were dead on. All of the characters in her are definitely memorable.

There were parts this flick that actually made me jump, one scene imparticular that was in the barn where someone sat with a bag on there head. I think from The way they edited it and made The Stitcher move in quick creepy blurs at times was a big plus, plus his stitched up being was a scary thing in itself.

I had a lot of fun with this movie and think other people will too. You’ll be scared one minute and laughing the next, who can resist a ride like that? Some towns have their own whispers of a terror that once was and for this one, The Stitcher occupies it nicely proving that sometimes legends never die!

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Kingdom Of The Vampire- 2007 remake

Nick works the late hours in a video store restocking shelves and dealing with idiots who feel the need to tell their life story while checking out their flick. Every night he closes up and goes straight home always following his strange mother’s requests since you can tell he fears her.

She is an overly possessive mother who happens to also be a vampire who battles with her son Jeff for his attention once he becomes involved with a girl named Nina. He stops obeying her rules and falls in love, the only problem is he is also a vampire and pretty soon he too will have the hunger and will need to feed.

Jeff tries to whole heartedly tell Nina that he is a vampire but she laughs and says he is just plain crazy but still cute. Once mommy dearest finds out about his infatuation she orders him to kill her. Will Jeff comply to his Mothers demands? You’ll need to pop this 2007 remake of Kingdom Of The Vampire in to find out!

Horror’s Scariest Moments

During a recent email volley between myself, Doug and Chris a few lists came up when we began discussing some of what we thought were the Horror Genre’s scariest moments. This Halloween season, if you haven’t seen any of these titles, do so. If you did, this is the month to revisit them. HAPPY HALLOWEEN from THIS IS SOME SCENE. These are in no particular order

Doug’s list

1. ALIEN – Captain Dallas buys it in the hatch. beep beep beep.
2. CREEPSHOW – That farking monster in the box, why would you stick yer hand in there?
3. EXORCIST III – What’s on the ceiling?
4. POLTERGEIST – When the construction worker reaches in to taste the stew from the stovetop – oops I mean the clown. I hate that clown.
5. RINGU/RING – Yeah, the girl in the TV
6. GRUDGE/JU-ON – Under the covers is supposed to be SAFE!
7. SALEM’S LOT – The vampire sitting alone in the room waiting.
8. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD – Zombie #1
9. THE THING – Yeah, you gotta be farking kidding…
10. PET SEMETARY – Zelda sometimes dead IS better.
11. ALIENS – How can they cut the power off, man, they are animals…
12. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS – Last scene. Poor Veronica Cartwright, can’t catch a break between this and ALIEN
13. TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE- Yeah, the man on the wing of the plane, oh yeah, also there is N-O-S-M-O-K-I-N-G!

Chris’ List:

1. The Exorcist: Any scene. Your choice.

2. Halloween: The Shape rising up behind Laurie Strode in that iconic shot.

3. Night of the Living Dead: The little girl attacks her mother.

4. Psycho: The finale leading up to the discovery of Mrs. Bates in the
fruit cellar.

5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The crazy-assed Hitch-hiker. He seems like a
real-life psychotic. However, the scene where The Cook turns out to be part of the clan and beats the poor girl with a broom handle…struggling with his inner-self it would seem…terrifying.

6. Jaws: Toss up between the first attack (Chrissie) and the Estuary
attack.

7. The Thing: The blood test sequence.

8. The Exorcist III: The long hospital corridor shot…a figure in
robes…head cutting shears. Yikes!

Ralph’s List

1. Salem’s Lot – The kid scratching at the window to get in.

2. Exorcist – Not sure why, but when she hears that noise in the beginning and she think’s it’s Rats in the attic – scares me.

3. Amityville Horror – the pig’s eyes glowing.

4. The opening to Texas Chainsaw – Creepy photo sequence.

5. Hearing “Joseph” in The Changling – frightening.

6. Recently, Repulsion scared me a lot.

7. JAWS – No question for me, Chrissie’s death.

8. The Birds – The reveal of the hundreds of birds in the play yard outside the school.

Confusions Of An Unmarried Couple- A Butler’s Brother Production

I started to watch this over my friends house and she couldn’t get into it so we shut it off with me having that foreshadowing dread of another boring movie to watch. I was way off because when I got home and popped it in I was actually completely drawn into this couple trials and tribulations in their rocky romance. As I watched I giggled I thought to myself how dead on this flick really was.

Dan and Lisa are a couple that are facing the familiar crisis of infidelity. As they argue their points back and forth on the subject you really get the insight of where a mans head is at during that whole situation, it’s funny as hell as Dan tries to explain why he thinks with his dick. He tells you that as a man he wants variety, different women of different looks at different times.

Every angle of the argument will more than likely drudge up some old memories of these similar topics that you and your mate at some time or other have argued about yourselves. After the two lay all the cards down on the table things turn to some incredible make up sex that you know you’ve all had, why do people get so horny after a fight anyway?

The best was seeing how Dan was dealing with his bad news by crank calling Lisa and even went as far as to sneak by and egg her house. We all deal with our emotions in different ways, and Dan is playing it safe by planning on visiting Lisa and trying to work things out but incase they don’t he sneaks thru the house stealing things that are his and sticking them in his backpack.

I can tell you this, I was in a foul ass mood right before watching this and it made me laugh and put me in a pretty good mood. I would say that most people will enjoy this comical take on relationships if not then they have to be some uptight prudish person that can’t handle the content. It’s far from X rated but it does show how important sex is in some of our unions.

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Revisting the Twilight Zone

RE-VISITING THE TWILIGHT ZONE

By C.B. Sasser

Back in 1983, four of Hollywood’s best and brightest teamed up to bring the beloved television classic The Twilight Zone to the big screen. It seemed like a natural, what with the talents involved: Joe Dante (The Howling), John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), George Miller (Mad Max) and some guy named Spielberg…

Rod Serling’s original series is for my money, some of the greatest television ever made. So the prospect of a big screen version with such talent attached was quite a promising premise. Of course, this was before the project became marred by the tragedy.

It’s unfortunate, even today, some twenty years later, one cannot discuss Twilight Zone: The Movie without mention of the terrible spectre of actor Vic Morrow’s death (as well as two children) hanging over the proceedings. But the fact is, the horrible events do mar the film…it is unavoidable.

For the full details of unfunny, ego-centric murderer John Landis’ despicable behavior which caused the needless death of Morrow and the children, I highly recommend tracking down the book Outrageous Conduct by Stephen Farber and Marc Green.

Twilight Zone: The Movie begins on just the right note with a prologue about a pair of seemingly average guys traveling in a car on a desolate stretch of desert road. The men in question are Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd and they prove to be quite likable and fun in this short segment directed by John Landis. The “story” builds to its climax with the famous, “Wanna see something really scary?” line…thus sending us off on our journey into the Zone. So far so good.

Landis also helmed the first episode entitled Time Out. It deals with an angry bigot (an excellent Vic Morrow) getting a taste of his own racist medicine as could only happen in The Twilight Zone. Sadly, the episode fails to provide an adequate twist or resolution…instead it predictably goes on and on and then just ends. It is also the only segment that is not a remake of an original episode from the series.

Next up is wunderkind Steven Spielberg’s segment, Kick the Can. Surprisingly, this is by far the weakest entry in the film. Proving to be nearly unwatchable, it is an over-long and self-indulgent foray into the lives of several elderly residents living in a rest home whom, for one night, get a chance to be kids again courtesy of Scatman Crothers. It’s Spielberg at his most heavy handed and cloying. I suppose this is supposed to be the life affirming, feel-good episode, but I defy any reasonable individual from wanting to vomit while attempting to watch it. Next…

Joe Dante hadn’t yet really proven himself with a mainstream Hollywood motion picture at this point in his career. That would happen the following year with Gremlins. Nevertheless, his handling of It’s a Good Life, the third entry in the TZ movie, is nothing short of wonderful and it’s where the film finally starts to come into its own.

Dante’s segment tells the tale of Helen Foley (an amazingly gorgeous Kathleen Quinlan) who after dealing with the likes of seedy Dick Miller and Bill Mumy in a greasy spoon, has a fateful encounter with little Anthony (Jeremy Licht).

Anthony brings Helen home to meet his odd-ball, high-strung family. It’s a line-up of pros who really do excellent work here: Kevin McCarthy, William Schallert, Patricia Barry and a pre-Bart Simpson Nancy Cartwright- who, perhaps ironically, is wished away into a hellish cartoon-land!

You see, little Anthony has a unique gift…the power to wish for anything he wants…which most usually materialize in the form of twisted cartoonish creatures bursting forth from his television set. The gleefully bizarre creations are the work of FX maestro Rob Bottin who previously worked with Dante on The Howling.

Director Joe Dante brings his now trademark skewed comic vision to the proceedings and even manages to cleverly underscore each increasingly strange event in Anthony’s household with actual cartoons. Most detractors of this episode complain that it isn’t scary. Maybe not. But it is most certainly weird, genuinely funny and a whole lot of good fun. And that’s the way I like ‘em.

The final segment is George Miller’s Nightmare at 20,000 Feet which has almost universally been accepted as the best episode of the film. And it is quite good to be sure…making one wish Miller did more of this sort of thing.

John Lithgow gives a terrific manic performance as Valentine, a man who is afraid of flying and finds himself aboard an airliner is a particularly nasty storm. To make matters worse, he’s the only one who notices the presence of a fiendish creature on the wing of the plane… a creature who seems to delight in destroying the plane’s engines!

It’s all expertly handled by Miller and Lithgow and builds to a satisfying conclusion. Craig Reardon’s marvelous gremlin creature deserves a word of mention here too. Its a terrifying…if fractious creation that really works.

Jerry Goldsmith (a veteran of the original series) provides a superb score which should also be pointed out as one of the film’s strongest suits. Along with the use of Burgess Meredith as the narrator. Mr. Meredith appeared in no less than three classic and most fondly remembered Twilight Zone episodes.

Twilight Zone: The Movie proves overall to be a mixed bag, but if one is willing to sit through the disappointing first two episodes, he or she will be rewarded with what follows.

Bands and people needed for help with Breast Cancer Benefit Concert

a friend asked me to help get the word out about this concert to benefit breast cancer.

*BENEFIT CONCERT HELP AND INTEREST!
Hi!

I know this is a voice from a stranger! However, my sister and I have been wanting for several years to put a concert together to benefit Breast Cancer as she is a Breast Cancer survivor. I discussed this with several bands previously and all have shown interest and were ready to set a date, however it never came to that for various reasons.

Now we are serious about this. We have a publicity firm that will help from that stand point and with other things as well.

Here is what I am asking for:
Bands that are interested in performing a benefit concert in the NJ/NY/PA area, please contact me at becky@bacstagepass.com . Please put benefit concert in the subject line as I get an enormous amount of spam and solicitation.
People who are willing to support the concert with donations of monetary funds for venue, lighting and all that jazz part of the concert, please contact me at becky@bacstagepass.com with monetary fund donation info in the subject line. *Mind you, I am not asking for any money at the moment. Just to see how many companies and individuals are willing to donate to help make this happen.*
People who are willing to help with various projects to get this concert to happen, such as handing out fliers, spreading the word, helping the day of with bands and what not, please contact me at becky@bacstagepass.com with benefit concert help in the subject line. *Please remember this is strictly a benefit concert and you will not be paid for your time and efforts. You will be donating your time.*
People and companies who are willing to help with supplies of food, drinks and what not, please contact me at Becky@bacstagepass.com with Concert Donation in the subject line.
Last but not least, people who can help with merchandise printing and suggestions, please contact me at becky@bacstagepass.com with Benefit Concert Merchandise in the subject line.

Please keep in mind that we are trying to make this a mix genre concert and it probably won’t take place for several months to a year. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and is a possibility for date. Right now we are trying to see who is interested in this and who wants to make this happen. This concert is not limited to signed or unsigned bands. Everyone and anyone can perform. There will be several people that will go through the bands that are interested and choose who will perform and who won’t. So it’s like an audition process. However, at this time, we are looking for interest. We’ll give more info on the rest of what we want for the show in the near future.

There are a few Breast Cancer Foundations that we are looking into for support. Once we get working with who is interested and all, we will fill you in on the Foundation that this concert will be benefiting. My sister and our family have done a lot for Breast Cancer Awareness and various parts of the problem. We’ve done work with the Susan G. Komen Foundation and other smaller Foundations. I know there are a lot of scams out there and this is not one of them. This legit and there will be a formal letter and form sent out once we are ready to get the concert rolling! I can’t stress this anymore than I already have, but this is just an interest mailing that I am sending out now. Please, if you are seriously interested in helping with this concert, please contact me.

Please if you are interested contact me. Also, spread the word. I know there are alot of you out there that can help with this. It’s a fun thing for a great cause.

I look forward to hearing from you and do forward this bulletin, please! Thank you in advance for taking time out to read this and for helping out with spreading the word of what we are trying to do.

Thank you,
Becky Collins
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Quest For The Egg Salad- from director Chris Seaver

As I popped this in I thought to myself “Hey anything’s possible, boy was I way off the mark. I have screened a few other movies in the past that starred Tina Krause and had liked her in them, even her cute little elf ears couldn’t play up the fact that this movie really sucks!

I know everyone has their own sense of humor but mine just wasn’t clicking with this. I laughed more at teen ape’s three way snowball gone wrong. Teen Ape is just plain disgusting but that is what is intended so I guess I have to give them kudos for something.

Now don’t get me wrong I love comedies and laughed hysterically to the movie Friday the first few hundred times I watched it but I just wasn’t getting the giggles with Quest for the Egg Salad. I am also always up for crude humor and have been known to make a man or two blush with my truck driver mouth!

I really wanted to laugh, I did! I was having such a bad week so I popped it in hoping for a laugh a minute movie but all I wanted to do as fast forward it. All I can say is if you pick this up intending for a night of side splitting comedy, give it up because it just ain’t gonna happen!

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Legion Of The Liar- A disturbing film of Exorcism

Legion of The Liar was born out of the years of fascination the director had with the touchy topic of Exorcism. All of the concepts shown here were transcribed from Daniel Stanton’s own wonderful head that was filled with scenes of a teen girls demonic possession and a Reverend that tries to save her.

I will state right off the bat that not everyone will be addicted to this movie as much as I am, you have to have that thrill of old mental asylums and love to see their old crumbling walls just imagining all of the bad that happened there- the impure looming of negative energy that would encompass you if you walked down those halls yourself.

Symbolic images coarse over the screen as you listen to patient number 29’s account of what is happening to her as the moody violin pushes it along softly but strongly in the background. The Reverend speaks in a monotone voice that makes you feel safe as you hear the most awful guttural growls escape her weak quivering lips.

Those growls and serpent like hisses on their own are enough to terrify you into going back to sit in that wooden pew at your local church. This is a truly skin crawling evil so nasty it actually makes you question your faith. Meshed in with the present film is old footage of the Ravenwood State Hospital in which this psychological horror takes place.

This is Daniel Stanton’s first film for Cinema Edge Productions and also his first very own directorial debut and to be honest I kind of feel sorry for him because his next film has to be pretty extraordinary to surpass this eerie yet visually stunning account of a girls battle with pure evil.

House Of Pain- A Mike West Film

House Of Pain starts with two girls talking about getting married and how it was no biggy since they have been together for so long any way, it was just kind of like making it official. You know it’s all about that piece of paper women can’t sign without naturally having some big blow out wedding that you should just skip and keep the cash in my opinion- it’ll work out so much better that way!

This Canadian short had one of my all time favorite visuals…rides! I don’t know why I am so fascinated with this, maybe it started because as a kid I was chicken to go on a lot of spooky rides. But at an early age I fell in love with the movies “He Knows Your Alone” with a young Tom Hanks, and “Funhouse.” Both of these flicks have scenes with the insides of a spooky attraction.

After a night of fun the bunch heads over to Nightmare’s a spooky house that is so scary they warn you to scream nightmares if you can’t handle anymore and they will come in and bring you out. The claustrophobic feeling of being in those tiny dark corridors is felt as you watch them traipse thru the building. Just when you think your safe after being rescued, you finally realize that the fun has only just begun.