Sunday, October 19, 2014
The Madness: Automatons Week 2
Starting week 2 of the madness off with some more MST3K. Loving the MST3K clause. This one's about a Van Damme wannabe, a cyborg and dinosaurs running around California. Highlight of the episode was Gypsy kickboxing the crap out of Tom Servo www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGxaePBwC4....Rating: 3.5/5
Little Shop of Horrors is a great movie. The casting is perfect with great cameos from Steve Martin, Bill Murray, John Candy and others, the songs are great and I love the creature effects....Rating: 4/5
Perfect movie for the Halloween season. This tv movie has it all, werewolves, zombies, vampires and it's also a lot of fun. Now we just need a proper North American re-release because upwards of $200 for a used Anchor Bay disc isn't happening....Rating: 3.5/5
This was the first episode of MST3K I ever saw. It was the mid 90's and my parents signed up for the Columbia House MST3K collection where every month we received a new MST3K tape. This was the first that arrived and I was hooked. Still love this episode today and will always be one of my favorites. Highlight of the episode has to be Joel and the Bots singing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3CDX3Q5UxY....Rating: 5/5
Hadn't seen this one in years. Found it more enjoyable this time around than when I saw it back in the early 90's. Watching Edgar grow increasingly more jealous as Miles hides him away from the woman they both love is both entertaining and depressing. The concept of being completely self aware and trapped like Edgar is a theme not explored enough in films about AI. I'm surprised it's not more readily available....Rating: 3.5/5
I didn't see this one when it came out since I would have been 15 and Disney wasn't on my radar. Maybe that lack of childhood connection is the reason I didn't enjoy this one because the rating on IMDB is pretty high and I've seen other's mention this one on lists of movies to watch around Halloween. I just found it boring. The premise is interesting and has a ton of potential but the execution left me bored....Rating: 1.5/5
Great start to season 5. I feel like the show really found its legs in season 4 with a good mix of action, drama and horror. In previous seasons the balance always seemed off. This first episode of season 5 wastes no time however and feels more like a season finale than opener. Even though it was filled with action the episode still took necessary moments to slow down and focus on characters even if only for a short time. Hopefully the show maintains its momentum going forward and continues to build on how these characters evolve following Terminus....Rating: 5/5
Demonic Toys is 86 minutes of good b-movie fun. Honestly the only thing I don't enjoy about this movie is Tracy Scoggins and unfortunately she's the heroine. However the rest of the cast is good fun and I like the design of the toys....Rating: 3.5/5
Demon Seed has been on my radar for some time now and the theme of the madness kind of dictated that I finally sit down and watch it. The movie becomes laughably ridiculous once the impregnation and final reveal occur....Rating: 2.5/5
If only there were a bonus element for terrible green screen because this one would take the cake. Before Harry Potter went to Hogwarts Mildred Hubble was a student at a school for budding witches. I was almost envious of my 4 year old as we watched this because she can enjoy it for what it is while I can't help but laugh at it. It's almost worth watching just for the awful effects and terrible songs. There's also the ridiculous yet awesome Tim Curry cameo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhuPn8_d0Q...Rating: 2/5
An aging puppeteer has a young wife who he believes might be cheating on him. Per usual this episode has one twist ending which I did see coming followed by a second twist that I wasn't expecting. Okay episode. Watch the full episode here....Rating: 2.5/5
In this episode of Monsters a doctor who is locked up in a mental institution believes he can transfer life into small anatomically correct clay dolls. Overall a solid episode with some cool stop motion effects and a grisly kill.Watch the full episode here....Rating: 4/5
Holly's House is only the second episode of the series and is pretty weak in comparison to some others. The titular character Holly is a remote controlled robot dressed up as a giant doll. The robot comes to life and becomes jealous of her controllers relationship with murderous results. The premise sounds much better than the final product actually is.Watch the full episode here....Rating: 1/5
This episode retreads much of the same stuff we've seen in other shows and films about ventriloquist dummies and their owners but it's still a fun episode. The point where the dummy is swapped out with a little person made up to look like a dummy is unintentional comic gold.Watch the full episode here.....Rating: 3.5/5
A robot gorilla? "ro-man" is sent to earth to wipe out humanity leaving only a handful of human survivors to defeat it. Overall this early episode is solid with some great jokes but it's still visible that the show is finding its feet. The giant dart gag did make me laugh out loud for it's sheer unexpectedness....Rating: 3.5/5
Saw this one last year when it aired on ABC and it was fun to revisit. The slasher movie setup as the toys are picked off one by one leaving one "final girl" works well and while the twist is fun it takes away from the child friendly horror movie aesthetic established in the beginning and transitions into a more typical Toy Story plot....Rating: 3.5/5
This one is a follow up to a movie we hadn't seen. While I was trying to catch up on the continuity to figure out what was going on my child got a kick out of it. I thought the movie dragged a bit but then again I am not the target audience....Rating: 2/5
Poltergeist is another on my list of favorite horror films. The entire film mostly holds up (with the exception of that face melting effect) and is incredibly scary for a PG rated film. While the PG-13 didn't yet exist I can't help but think that if The Conjuring ended up with an R there's no way Poltergeist would have pulled even a PG-13 today. Overall a great film and still one of the best haunted house movies ever produced....Rating: 5/5
A boy who has a terrible mother and sister opens up a cereal box to find a small toy inside that grows when you place it in water. However this toy comes to life and keeps growing bigger and bigger. Eventually the boy uses his new friend to get back at his awful family. Silly episode but fun Watch the full episode here....Rating: 3/5
Nightmares and Dreamscapes was a short lived series on TNT where every one hour episode was based off of a Stephen King short story. Battleground is the best of the bunch. Shot without any dialogue the story concerns a hit man who takes out a target who also happens to have a large collection of toys. Later those toys show up at his home and wage a vengeful bloody war upon him. I love this episode and it even contains a little cameo from our favorite Zuni doll from Trilogy of Terror....Rating: 4/5
I still remember when I was in 5th grade and saw this movie in a theater. I had never seen anything like it and absolutely loved it. Still a great movie today and love watching this with my daughter.....Rating: 5/5
This one was on Disney channel and since we had just watched the first one we figured why not give this one a shot. It is a bit of an improvement over the first one. I have realized my biggest issues with the series is that I don't find Halloweentown all the interesting. I find the real world on Halloween night far more interesting than Halloweentown. It is interesting to note that Mary Lambert directed this one who is probably best known in the horror community for Pet Sematary. Too bad this is where she ended up.....Rating: 2/5
A giant pumpkinheaded creature kills people on Halloween. The movie is pretty awful but I knew going in that it was produced by Fred Olen Ray and stars Linnea Quigley so I got exactly what I was hoping for. .....Rating: 2/5
I am currently in Walt Disney World so I while my viewing will be lacking for several days I can make up some points via the Dark Ride bonus. The Haunted Mansion is a classic attraction and I've loved it since I was a kid. My daughter covered her eyes for about 75% of it but she warmed up to it by the end....Rating: 5/5
Another classic attraction. My daughter and 5 month old both loved this one. It's funny to see older kids and adults on it though because it's probably one of the slowest rides in the park....Rating: 5/5
The great thing about this ride is the line is filled with things to keep the children entertained. The ride itself is fun but too short.....Rating: 4/5
This was my first time on the Buzz Lightyear ride and we loved it. Tons of interaction and visuals everywhere....Rating: 5/5
This ride is part of the new Fantasyland (which is now one of the best designed sections of the park. The ride itself is pretty well done with a combination of traditional animatronics and video....Rating: 4/5
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