'Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave' (Movie Review)

The Return of the Living Dead movies have always been some of my favorites. The overall silly-ness and blood and guts really makes this sequel one of my favorites. 
A college boy discovered two mysterious canisters hidden away in his uncle’s basement. Curious to know what was inside, he had his friends run some tests on the barrel in the lab, only to find out that the canister contained a deadly chemical. Thinking it was just a new type of hallucinogenic drug, they mass produce the chemicals into pill capsules and start selling them to their fellow classmates. As the days progressed, and more and more kids start dying, they finally figure out what the chemical really is; the answer to re-animating the dead, or turn humans into brain hungry zombies.
The first of the Return of the Living Dead series was released in 1985, and is still a better film than this. I did enjoy “Rave to the Grave”, but it just doesn’t hold up to the original three. 
That being said, I give this movie 4 out of 5 stars.

'Prowl' Movie Review (2010)

Prowl is a 2010 American horror film about a young girl who dreams of escaping her small-town life and encourages a group of her friends to accompany her. On their way to the big city, however, their van breaks down and they’ve decided to hitch a ride in the back of a semi-truck. Everything has been fine for a while, until the driver refused to stop. That’s when the group of friends discovers cartons and cartons filled with blood. As the truck takes them to a dark, abandoned warehouse, their panic turns into terror when they start being hunted by blood-thirsty creatures.
The story itself was a good one. However, the camera qualities were a bit poor along with some of the acting, which made the movie itself seem like a college student-film project. The creatures (I’m assuming were vampires) did look remarkably scary, so the make-up job they did for the film was a plus. I give this movie 3 out of 5 stars.

Top 5 Best Classic Horror Films

5) Fright Night (1985)

    'Fright Night' has always been one of my all-time favorite classic horror films. It's eerie, creepy, gory, and an amazing vampire story.
The main character of the movie (Charlie Brewster) is just an ordinary sixteen year old boy with raging hormones just like any other teenage boy, but the only problem is, he suspects that his neighbor might be a vampire. When he finds out he’s right, he tries to do everything to stop him from getting to the people he loves the most. I first watched this movie when I was eight years old and I remember it scaring the living shit out of me. Alas, I will never forget what a masterpiece this movie is.

4) Evil Dead (1981)

                    

                  If you’re a horror fan and you haven’t seen the original ‘Evil Dead’, then you are not a true horror fan. Despite how this movie scared the hell out of me as a child, the more I watched it, the more obsessed with it I became.

Written and directed by Sam Raimi starring Bruce Campbell, this film is about five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in the woods who find an audiotape and a book entitled “Nekronomicon” or Book of the Dead, unleashing a legion of demons and other evil spirits, causing demonic possession, which soon leads to a very gruesome end for the college students. Before ‘Evil Dead’ came out, it was originally a short film by Sam Raimi and the rest of the cast called ‘Within the Woods’.

3) The Exorcist

'The Exorcist' is another classic horror film that I saw for the first time at eight years old, but this one didn't scare me, I just thought it was really bad-ass. I've seen this movie over a hundred times, and it's always been my favorite horror film. 

Directed by William Friedkin, and a film adaption from the novel by William Peter Blatty, this movie deals with the demonic possession of a twelve-year old girl and a mother who is desperately attempts to win back her child through an exorcism with the help of two priests.

2) Halloween (1978)

John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’ actually stands alone as my all-time favorite slasher film. The first film out of the whole series I’ve seen was Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. After I watched that one (and I was seven at the time) I decided to watch all of the Halloween movies, and when I did, they instantly became my favorite.
Starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis, the plot begins with a six-year old boy named Michael Myers who brutally stabs his sister to death, and is soon after placed in a mental institution. Fifteen years later he escapes, returns home, and stalks teenage girl Laurie Strode and her friends, killing them one by one to get to her. 

1) Night of the Living Dead (1968)

This film I actually watched for the first time when I was six years old during a thunderstorm. Did it scare me? Well yeah, I was a little kid at the time, but that didn’t stop me from thinking it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, which it was.
Written and directed by George A. Romero, ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is a cult classic about two siblings, a brother and a sister, who take a road trip to place a new flower reef on their grandfather’s grave, only to find when they arrive that something very odd was going on, and that’s when the girl’s brother was killed by a zombie, leaving her no other option but to run until she found a safe place to hide, and it wasn’t before long until she took shelter in an abandoned farmhouse with five other people and a sick little girl, who was bitten by one of the zombies. Do any of these people get out alive? Watch and find out.

The Walking Dead season 4 episode 1 Review:

We're all probably thinking the same thing about the season 4 premier of The Walking Dead, and what we're all probably thinking is; WHOA! I bet most of us can agree that the episode's events are definitely not what we expected, which made the episode even more interesting.
The new episode of The Walking Dead had more viewers than anyone could possibly count, which pretty much says itself how amazing it was, but this isn't the only season 4 episode 1 review on the web; there are countless people who thought the episode was slow, and it was just a little bit, but there is a reason for that, which being that they need to introduce the season rather than just jump into all the action, which I definitely agree with.
The end of the episode is what got me the most. What is going on? What happened to Patrick? The only explanation I can think of at the moment, and I might be wrong, but my theory is that the virus is beginning to go airborne, but is that really what's happening? Does #TeamPrison have an epidemic on their hands? We'll have to watch the rest of the season of this flawless masterpiece they call a show.

'Curse of Chucky' Movie Review:

When I first heard that there was another Chucky movie coming out, I was skeptical because of how silly Seed of Chucky is, but  Curse of Chucky was absolutely astonishing, and just outright fucking awesome!
In my opinion this movie, along with Child's Play, is the best one in the entire franchise. At first I thought the new style Chucky doll looked kind of weird at first considering the fact that his face looks perfectly restored, but the cool thing about that is it actually explains what happened later on in the movie.
I've read a lot reviews that other people have wrote about it saying that it's "boring", well honestly that is not true. I didn't have a hard time keeping my interest whatsoever, and the story was phenomenal.

I do have one question though that I kept trying to answer myself the two times I watched this movie;
why didn't he bleed when Nika stabbed him? All in all it was an awesome movie. If you're a Chucky
fan then you definitely have to watch Curse of Chucky. Trust me, it's absolutely worth it.

'Salem's Lot' (1979) Movie Review:

Only four words should describe the original Salem's Lot: amazing, scary, eerie, and just flat out one of the most creepiest old vampire movie I've ever seen.
Based on the 1975 horror novel by Stephen King, it's about a young writer named Ben Mears who decides to return to the town of Salem’s Lot (the town he lived in age 9 through 13) to discover that the town’s residents are starting to become vampire.
The film was actually a TV miniseries, and it was overall phenomenal. I loved it, however, the story seemed a bit drawn out which made it extremely slow at first, but it’s honestly worth watching because of the frightening things that start to happen from the middle to the end. I’m proud to own this movie for my horror collection.

'V/H/S' (Review)

'V/H/S' is a horror film about a group of burglars who decide to sneak into the house of a sleeping old man to steal a rare old VHS tape, only to find out he wasn’t just sleeping, but he was dead (or so they thought). Alas, they go looking for the videotape anyway only to find that the house was full of VHS tapes, so they have to watch each one to see which is which.
I thought the movie was pretty genius, only because it’s sort of different than your average found footage film and each videotape (story) is very disturbing in their own ways.

 

 I thought the movie was overall amazing, but the only complaint I have is the shakiness of the camera from time to time, but that doesn’t define the film one bit. I thought the entire thing was scary as hell, and there were definitely a few scenes in it that made me jump. I would have to say the first story is the creepiest though (see photo above), if only I could tell exactly what the fuck that thing is, maybe you can though. This is definitely a horror movie I recommend.

Top 10 Favorite Horror TV Shows

We all love seeing horror on TV, but do you have any favorite horror shows? Check out this Top 10 list to see if any of them are listed. They are listed from least favorite to most favorite, 10 being the least and 1 being the most.


10) Haven

I was pretty impressed with "Haven" when it first came on the air. It was eerie, creepy, and some parts were a little scary, but that happened only until after the first couple of seasons, then it began to go all down hill from there. In my opinion, I think the first season is the best, but each season I found the show getting to be more and more dull, and some parts were even a little boring. However, I do appreciate the style of the show and I just think the concept of it is brilliant, I just couldn't get into the rest of the series although it is still in my list of favorite horror shows on television.


9) Tales From the Darkside

Tales From the Darkside has been one of my favorite horror/suspense shows since I was in the eighth grade. I found it one day on the Chiller channel when I stayed home from school sick, and as soon as I watched it I thought it was one of the creepiest shows I've ever seen, so I watched it everyday at about 5:30 P.M. Alas, I will admit that some of the episodes were hit and miss. One day they'll give you this really creepy-weird episode, and another day they'll give you an episode that's just boring to the core. In my opinion, there were more good episodes than bad though.


8) Masters of Horror

 
Masters of Horror  is one of those horror shows that pretty much tell a story in each episode. Each one is like an hour long horror film, directed by classic horror movie directors, one of them being John Carpenter. Honestly, I haven't seen every episode, but all the episodes I have seen I thought some were disturbing and others were just mildly creepy, but I thought it was a brilliant show and I hate that it's not on anymore. I do have some of the DVD's, and the ones I recommend are "Cigarette Burns", "Incident On and Off A Mountain Road", "The Fair-Haired Child", and "Dreams In A Witch House".

7) The Twilight Zone

Let me just start off by saying that The Twilight Zone is a classic, and it absolutely deserves to be in my Top 10 List of Horror Shows, although it is also in the category of Scifi. Speaking of which, the Syfy channel shows a marathon of nothing but classic Twilight Zone episodes all day and night for two days straight, which is how I got into it. As I've said about a few other shows, and the reason I'm putting it on number 7 is because there are a LOT of amazing creepy and smart episodes, while other times there were some hit 'n' miss episodes, but it will always be my favorite classic horror show from the '60s.


6) Freddy's Nightmares

Freddy's Nightmare's is another horror TV series that I started watching on one of the days I was home sick from school. If it was on a Friday, I'd watch marathons of it all day long up until it ended. I was a HUGE Nightmare On Elm Street fan back then, and I still am, but at the time I had no idea there was a series so I was pretty confused I found it while flipping through the channels, but I love it because it reminds me of classic Nightmare On Elm Street  which I thought was cool because the stories were different and each episode was only an hour long, hosted by Freddy Krueger (Robert England). If you've never seen it before, you should definitely check it out, because I love it and if you love Freddy you should love it too.


5) Tales From the Crypt

Tales From the Crypt is one of the shows that I've been watching since I was in the second grade. The show scared me, but I fucking loved it so much I watched it anyway, despite the weird dreams it gave me at night. This is listed at number 5 because it's one of my all-time favorite horror TV shows, and the Crypt Keeper is fucking hilarious when introduces the story and at the end of each episode. There are a lot of boring episodes in the series too, but there are more disturbing ones, and once in a while you'll get a psychological episode, which are usually my favorites. My favorite episode of the entire series is in the first season, "And All Around the House" about an escaped mental patient who dresses in a Santa Klaus suit, and stalks a woman and her young daughter all night. Best episode ever, if you ask me.


4) Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer I placed at number 4 because it's one of my all-time favorite shows in the entire world. I started watching it when I was in the eighth grade and I just couldn't peal myself away from the TV lol! The show picks up where the movie left off, but I'm just going to go ahead and tell you that that movie is, without a doubt, the worst movie ever made and if you've never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer, just steer clear from the movie, and just watch the show, because for one thing, it's got so much creepier monsters and better actors. Sarah Michelle Gellar does an awesome job in her role as Buffy.

3) American Horror Story

American Horror Story is at number 3 because it's by far one of the most gruesome, macabre horror TV series' that I've ever seen. When I watched it when it first came on, I was blown away about how scary and breathtaking it was, and I didn't know as I watched how connected to the characters I would soon become. I like the show because each season takes place in a different time setting, and it has a whole different story to it. The first season, however, was the best. It took place in a haunted house with ghosts and demons that could actually harm you. Season two was also gruesome, but not as good as the first season. It takes place in an insane asylum in the 1960s. The third season, the one that's premiers October 9th 2013, is based around witchcraft, hence the name "Coven".

2) True Blood

True Blood is one of those shows where once you watch it, you're going to want to watch each episode over and over again. The show starts off with Sookie Stackhouse (played by Anna Paquin) a waitress with telepathic powers and an attraction for a local vampire patron that comes into the bar she works in. When she starts dating this vampire, her life takes an immediate turn for craziness. All six seasons, in my opinion, were completely amazing. I'm sad to see it end next year.


1) The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead was chosen to be put at number 1, and why? Well should there really be a reason? This show is by far the most creative and different zombie story I've ever seen in my entire life. I usually don't say that about any show, I'm very picky when it comes to entertainment, but this show is absolute perfection and will get you sucked in as soon as you start watching the first episode. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead is now going into it's 4th season, and a lot has happened since Rick woke up from his comatose state. This show is just absolutely brilliant in every way!

Danielle Harris in 'Hatchet III'

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