Follow the Buzzards....
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It's been quite a while since my last activity on here.
But that's only because I haven't seen much activity on here myself.
But that's okay. I've occupied myself with plenty other things, especially my favorite thing to cheer: WWE. For those of you who know about all that, you'd probably successfully guess that I'm a real fan of the Wyatt family, all three of them. What is it I find desirable? Is it the beards? Is it the cult-theme going on? Maybe the whole backwoods family out to kill you? Brotherly love? All of the above. For those who have kept up on their WWE, you've notice that they've kind of split up. But I know they'll be back as one.
Anyway, I bet alot of you aren't actually interested in all that. So here's some stuff. Crim already knows, but they've come out with yet ANOTHER Taken copy, called Walk Among the Tombstone. Do you think Liam is ever going to stop losing his family? He should just stop having any, because it isn't working out too well for him. Ouija was probably one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen since that stupid sequel to the Blair Witch Project. The first BWP was awesome, but both the second one and Ouija share a common factor on the fact that, first, they're just not scary at all, and second, they have the same story and effect quality of any Syfy movie you've probably seen, even though there might be a couple movies on the channel that changed its name from Sci-fi for no reason whatsoever.
Yet let's switch to something good. Not too long ago I saw possibly the best two action movies in my life, and though they're kind of cliche as to the retired-bada**-getting-back-to-killing-people-all-bada**-like, going by the names the Equalizer and John Wick. Also, going back to the subject of horror movies, which all of you should know I love, I saw the Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death and Paranormal Activity: The Marked ones. Despite the dumb prequel name, it was an absolutely wonderful movie, and being set in WWII AND being a horror movie, with plenty of emotional toll in it? That's pretty much my perfect movie. Could've had something scarier than some ugly hag that looked quite suspiciously like he evil wedding granny from both Insidious movies. Coinky-dink? I think not. Insidious 2 was pretty good as well. But ultimately, I'd have to say that one of my horror movies of the year was Oculus. You don't see too many movies going all subtle-silent-hill-or-fatal-frame style mind-bending paranormal horror, certainly not since Mr. Boogey doing his little film projects. But ever since the first few Paranormal Activity movies, it's hard to get spooked by a film that didn't looked like something that'd never make you go down to the basement again because you thought they actually filmed something real... in your own house. That's why my Horror Movie King-of-the-Ringu (hope you get the reference to the original Japanese horror fest that made me afraid of wells under houses) goes to he movie As Above So below. Spoilers? Here.
The story takes place as a document to find the REAL Philosophers Stone made by the REAL Nicholas Flammel, which, if you've done your research is supposed to be a real thing. The movie originally stats in the middle east in a totally claustrophobic scene which can make you think quite a bit of the great movie Deliver Us From Evil. Eventually, we go to Paris, and start entering the infamous catacombs where we start getting bit of a cult vibe when we see a bunch of creepy women in blindfolds just.... I don't know... their voices simply get higher and higher in pitch unison, and it seems inhuman. We start getting really creeped out when the past comes back to haunt people, because that's just something true evil does. hen reality bends. Those together make some serious horror equation I haven't seen since he youtube Marble Hornets videos featuring on bit of my absolutely split personality slendering up some college or maybe senior kids. And then we get kind of weirded out when we get to find the Philosophers Stone, but eventually, the name becomes true, and to go to the surface, we must journey downwards. Superspoiler: We see a masked figure in some weird robe. Very brief, but I'll get to that later. The walls come alive to go for more physical fear, but eventually, after some really mind-*********g apparitions, we get to this little plate on the ground, and when you open it up, it opens up to... the streets of paris? As Above So Below indeed. But the main reason I love it is the fact that a sequel is very much subtly hinted. The masked figure seems like it would be incredibly important so some other story, as the woman-cult, since we don't see much of them either. And we don't see what happens to the remaining few people who did survive after they start walking what appeared to be a desolate street in Paris... at day. A normal person wouldn't think much, but I somehow think they never escaped at all. Wouldn't a place that chops up your psyche with visions of the past, alternate present, and possible future really seem like it couldn't make you THINK you escaped? I've got a feeling that the catacombs under Paris are a little deeper than that.
If you didn't read the spoiler, you missed alot. Will I make up for that?
Hah, no.
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