American Horror Story on FX. Wednesdays at 10pm.
Welcome back to another edition of Streeborama, dear Mutants. I recently had the honor of appearing as a guest on the Exploited Cinema podcast to discuss American Horror Story. The podcast will drop this weekend so I thought I would get you ready by discussing American Horror Story today.
American Horror Story tells the tale of the Harmon family as they move from Boston to L.A. to try to rebuild their lives. They take up residence in a newly renovated mansion that they later learn is none other than the world famous Murder House. The Murder House has a long history of mysteries, murders and disappearances occurring within it’s walls. Now the Harmons live there unaware that something evil lurks in the shadows around them.
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From ShockTillYouDrop: While just about every major horror franchise has gotten a videogame (NES gave us the legendarily hard Friday the 13th and “4 Player” Nightmare on Elm St. games in the late ‘80s; Atari had Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre… things they called games), Saw is possibly the only one that would contextually make sense in video game form. Half of the genre games released nowadays start off with someone trapped somewhere without knowing why (like most of the Saw films have), and the series’ locales are the same sort of burnt out warehouses, dungeons, and dilapidated houses that most survival games take place in anyway. In short, it’s no surprise Saw: The Video Game exists, only that it took this long to hit consoles.
Taking place between the first and second films, you play as Detective Tapp (Danny Glover in the first film, but looking/sounding like a much younger guy here thanks to Glover’s refusal to lend his likeness), who Jigsaw apparently took the time to save from his seemingly fatal wounds at the end of the first film. You wake up with a trap on your head, and once you get it off (not very hard), you begin a six to eight hour journey through the halls and rooms of an abandoned insane asylum, avoiding as many traps as you can while pursuing Jigsaw (whose identity is still unknown at this point in the Saw narrative) and occasionally rescuing other characters.
Read the rest of their review at the link below.
via Saw (Video Game, XBox)- ShockTillYouDrop.Com.
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From We Are Movie Geeks: Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is a classic amongst children’s books, not so much due to mere entertainment value, though it has that, but because of how much it means to children whose parents have read it to them. Children empathize with Max, a boy whose mother sends him to his room after he acts out his more aggressive side, a boy who finds solace in a mystical world he creates where monsters roam and wild rumpuses abound. To say Sendak’s story is magical to children is putting it lightly, and saying Spike Jonze’s feature film adaptation is commendable in regards to Sendak’s story is as much of an understatement as you can muster.
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is a master work. It tells its intricate and nuanced story with grace and care that only a parent can give a child, and its characters come to life in startlingly exquisite detail. More than just a coming of age story, the narrative Jonze has expanded from the original book takes the themes Sendak created and flashes them in an immense presence. He does all this without ever allowing the film to feel forced or less than genuine. Such a feature film adaptation of a children’s book could have easily been just that. Jonze, to his credit, is anything but a bogus filmmaker. His visions come across on screen every time he steps behind the camera, and, with WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, he truly captures the feeling within all children that sometimes it is easier to be the wild thing than the conformed.
via Review: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE- We Are Movie Geeks.
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