Monday, May 14, 2012

Mannequin (1987)


This guy was totally a very lonely person. He falls in love with a mannequin, and hilarity ensues. Of course, the mannequin comes to life at night, which makes it not as bad as it sounds. I love this film. Especially the pink limo....

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Idiocracy (2006)

This movie totally made me laugh while making me feel like I was losing my I.Q. Dax Shepard is very convincing as an idiot. Then again, he's done other excellent films such as Without A Paddle.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

George Bush smoking weed, running after a girl who is going to get married to someone else, and finally getting the girl and your friend to Amsterdam. Priceless.

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

Another stoner movie? What is this kid, some weed head? No, actually, I don't smoke weed or anything else, I just love comedy. Hilarious, hilarious comedy involving Neil Patrick Harris.

Watching this makes me want White Castle, which I've never had before.

Grandma's Boy (2006)

Grandma's Boy. STONER MOVIE! Or video game nerd. However you want to look at it. Either way, this guy's grandma drank his weed. How many people get to say that? Not many.

Watch it! I totally say watch it with your friends and then play DDR

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Galaxy Quest is an excellent Tim Allen film. It's more adult than some of his other films, which is nice knowing that he is just as good in a children's film as in a more adult film.

I love that Alan Rickman is in this film. He totally plays Snape in later films.... :D

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Set in a bar, two brothers who are both highly criminaly minded are on the run from the American judicial system and decide to go to Mexico. Of course, there are a lot of surprises, but then again it is Quentin Tarantino who directed this film.

It's excellent. I recommend it highly.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Mad Max (1979)

This is a movie set in a future that looks somewhat bleak. It's based in Australia, and the world seems full of desert.

Max is a road cop. He tries to help keep order in a future where order and law are breaking down.

His friend is burned badly and Max becomes disillusioned with the police force that he is a part of. He begins to take matters into his own hands when a rogue gang of bikers brutally runs over his wife and son.


From then on, Max is his own man, never being tied down by anything but his pursuit of justice.


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Jeepers Creepers II (2003)

Never do I want to go on a school bus a long distance away. Ever.

It's been four days since the events of the first film. It is the 22nd day of the Creeper's 23 day hunting spree, that only occurs every 23 years.

The Creeper starts targeting the chaperones of the high school football team, and then begins targeting the kids. He removes body parts, sort of adding them to himself so that he stays alive longer. Its ridiculously creepy when the camera gets so close to the Creeper that you can see his eyes and the weird flap on his head, and you see his wings, up close and personal.

I really hope that bats from Hell don't look like this.


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Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Jeepers Creepers was a song in the 1930's. It seems innnocent enough from the lyrics, but the song title is downright strange. Some of the lyrics are just as equally eerie in the way they are sung.

This film is really good, I just will not watch it at night. A brother and sister are driving home from college, and stumble upon an old church with tons of bodies sewn to the walls of the basement.

Creepy, right? Well, I refuse to watch this movie at night. Completely, entirely, refuse to. It's a good film though, showing the dynamic between the two siblings when they believe the other one is in danger.






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Bride of Chucky (1998)

The Bride of Chucky, or Child's Play 4, is set just one month after the end of Child's Play 3. Tiffany, a former lover and accomplice of Charles Lee Ray, decides to get the remains of the doll, sew it together crudely, and then bring his soul back into the doll.
At first she mistreats him, and he then electrocutes Tiffany with a television dropped in her bathwater. Chucky brings Tiffany's soul back in the bride doll that she had got him for him to "have fun with".

The two murderous dolls then decide they need to get human bodies, and they chose the town's teenage rebels as suitable bodies. They force the teen pair to drive them around, and Chucky realizes he needs the necklace that he died wearing in order to finish the ritual. They go to the graveyard he was buried in, and the teens are forced to dig up his body.

In an outstanding end, an investigator comes and sees what happens. He kills Chucky, and Tiffany was on fire due to the teen girl shoving her in the oven. After that, there is a moment of the investigator inspecting everything, and Tiffany leaps back to life in order to give birth to a baby doll with very razor sharp teeth, setting the scene up for Seed of Chucky.




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Child's Play 3 (1991)

Child's Play 3 is set eight years after the last film. Andy has since grown up into a young man, and he is at military school because of the insane tale he told as a kid about the killer doll.
A younger boy who is also at the school is told to deliever a package to Andy's room. Ronald finds out that the package is a Good Guy doll, and is excited about the toy. Ronald figures that 16 year old Andy probably wouldn't want the doll, at least that's what I think, and takes the doll somewhere private to play with it.
Chucky realizes that he can possess the body of anyone who knows his true nature, and decides to tell Ronald. He begins the ritual, but is interuppted by the head of the military school who throws Chucky into the trash.

Eventually the kids make it to a carnival and a haunted house at which point the climax of the fighting between Chucky and Andy occurs. Andy eventually tricks Chucky and drops him into a giant fan, and Chucky is cut to pieces. (The fact that he is cut into pieces is very important) Andy is then taken away for questioning.



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Child's Play 2 (1990)


Child's Play 2. This is the second movie in the Chucky series, as I refer to it as. This time around, the toy company that made the good guy dolls is trying to recover from the bad publicity of the Chucky killings. Andy's mother agreed with his story and was taken away for psychiatric evaluation, and Andy is placed in foster care.

Chucky is obsesed with Andy and decides he must find him. Chucky calls the foster care system and claims to be Andy's uncle. He then gets the address of where Andy is located, and then ensues a crazy hour of Chucky trying to transfer his soul into Andy's body.

Of course, Chucky is ultimately beaten again, but not before he racks up a death toll of a dozen or so. It might be less, but that's my rough estimate.

Chucky is eventually "killed" although parts of his plastic body were remade into a new Good Guy doll. It turns out that Chucky spent so much time in the doll body that he is now trapped in it.




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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Child's Play (1988)


The film starts out as a murderer, Charles Lee Ray, is chased by police. He is injured, and is dying. Before his human body dies, he performs a voodoo ritual that would transfer his soul to a doll he grabbed in the toy store he was chased into, so that he had a body for when he found a new human body that he wanted. He decided a child would be best, in order to have a longer life.
Andy, a six year old, wants a Good Guy Doll for his birthday. His mother, unable to afford the full price, buys one from a homeless street peddler who stole the doll from the burned down toy store. (The store burned down after being hit by lightning)

Chucky kills Andy's babysitter, and then the accomplice that had turned on him. Andy is found near the house of the accomplice after the crime is commited and is put into a psychiatric ward when he tells them that Chucky is alive.

His  mother doesn't believe him, until she finds the batteries were never put into the doll in the first place. Then Chucky bites her and runs away. The detective who had chased Charles Lee Ray into the toy store is almost killed by Chucky, but survives by shooting the doll.
Then, Andy, his mother, and the detective manage to destroy Chucky. Or at least, they think they have at the end of the film.
This is entirely the reason why dolls freak me out. I'm just saying.



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Christine (1983)


Stephen King wrote a book, titled "Christine" in 1983. It was so succesful that it was adapted into a movie later that same year.

I don't think I'll ever see this car in person and not look at it without suspicion. Honestly, Stephen King is the reason for many of my irrational fears. Or rather, not him, but the film adaptations of his books. Of course, I don't blame him at all, the man is a genius. But I digress. This is about the movie.
The movie is really well acted and written. It's a bit creepy the way the car is, and I hope that there is NEVER a killer car from, I assume, Hell. If supernatural things EVER possed a car, I hope they aren't going to start killing people.

It's pretty great how they have it so that the car repairs itself. The way that the repair scenes are shown during the film are excellent for the technology available to do something like that.


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Clueless (1995)


Clueless doesn't seem like it would be included as a cult film. It seems more like it would be a teen girl film to watch during a Friday night movie night with her friends. I personally think that this movie has some gems in it, due to the fact that the seemingly vapid main character is actually rather mature and intelligent.
Of course, I still think of her as a spoiled rich kid at the beginning of the movie, but she then turns out rather well when she decides to go to college and she gets involved with the son of her father's ex wife. It sounds bad, but there is no blood relation between the two, so it's ok, but still somewhat strange.
The funniest part is the fact that the main character is trying to win over a boy from her high school and instead she charms the ex wife's son, while unknowingly she is also falling for him.



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Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)


This movie answers that age old question of "What would you be willing to do if you lost a loved one?" Of course, Ed's mother has died, and because he was, for lack of a better term, a mama's boy. He misses her fiercely and feels that if he could somehow bring her back he would be fine.

That's not the case, however, as Ed finds out when he does manage to bring his mother back from the dead with the help of a rather shady salesman. Ed's mother becomes very jealous of his blooming relationship with the beautiful girl next door who he thinks is a real person. It turns out the girl is an actress, and that making Ed fall in love with her was an assignment that turned real when she realized she had feelings for him.
During all of this, Ed's uncle was living with him after his mother died. Ed thinks his uncle is a bit of a pervert, because he does have a telescope with which he watches their new neighbor girl.

The best part of this movie is when Ed's mother is in the refrigerator in order to keep her body from decomposing.




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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)


I'm just saying, but this movie totally made it so that I felt safe sleeping again. After watching the entire Nightmare on Elm Street series, practically in a row, I was almost convinced that Freddy was real. Of course, this film just tells you otherwise. It turns out that Freddy had a daughter. Who was put in a foster home. And then became a doctor for troubled youth. Yep, that's right! A doctor was the daughter of Freddy.
I absolutely hated the parts of this movie that had Freddy scratching a blackboard. Worst. Sound. Ever.

I love the ending, the fact that ultimately Freddy can be pulled into the real world and killed. That definitely helped me sleep better at night. Of course, I always have been paranoid of things that go bump in the night....

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This is like the Bible of Cult Films. These men are geniuses! Honestly, who would've thought that such a great movie would come from such a low budget? An estimate from the Internet Movie Data Base was £229,575 which is only about $371 016.16, in today's dollar. That's a very small budget.

My favorite moments in this film are frequent. How does a person weigh the same as a duck? It doesn't, quite simply. Unless it's a very newborn baby and a very heavy duck. Also, the names of some of the characters. I mean, really. An enchanter named Tim? I love how they use coconuts as horses.

I don't think I need to say much more about this movie, because if I do I would just ruin the experience of the first time you see it. If you haven't seen it, DO SO! I highly recommend the special edition version so you can watch all the special features.

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Friday, May 4, 2012

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)


I honestly hated this movie the first time I saw it. I found it barely funny at all, and felt it had no plot what so ever. The second time I watched it, I liked it slightly more. It wasn't until the fourth or fifth viewing that I found I enjoyed the simplicity of it, showing a mostly normal day in the life of a less than normal kid.
I am kind of hoping that a second one comes out, because I feel the movie left us viewers hanging. Of course, I have seen the actors in this film in other great movies, but I don't think I've seen anything of them together besides this.

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Animal House (1978)



This is the film that I hope is what started the whole, "Toga! Toga! Toga!" chant that you often think of when you think frat houses and toga parties. Personally, that's why I always think that.


John Belushi. Need I say more?

The storyline is funny, and quite entertaining. I had this movie on the television and was watching it for the first time ever, and my dad comes downstairs and sits there watching it with me. He was surprised at my knowledge of old films, but then again, I did learn from him.

Watching Animal House isn't exactly the most normal way of bonding with a parent, but hey, my blog is about cult movies which in of itself isn't the most normal.

Anyways, I highly recommend this movie to anyone who was a fan of the American Pie movies, which I believe are in and of themselves cult classics. Animal House is a slightly less risque version, and a little more classy. (If that can be managed from a film about a college frat house)







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30 Days of Night (2007)

I love this movie. I don't know why, but I would love to just spend a month of a year in utter darkness. Can you imagine how easy it would be to sleep?

Of course, the story line is a bit dark, to go along with the title. In an Alaskan town during its yearly month of darkness, a group of vampires comes and tries to kill everyone in the town. As the movie progresses, you find out about a love story between two main characters. One of the main characters sacrifices themselves in order to save the rest of the townspeople that are left afterwards. The other main character throws themselves into a life of hunting vampires to avenge the deaths of their loved ones.

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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

I love this movie. So hilarious and quirky. I mean, really. A truck driver who ends up saving the world from some supernatural force? Along with some pretty great fight scenes, a few ridiculous stunts, and all the classic trimmings of an adventure, complete with a few damsels in distress and the hero riding out alone at the end, in search of the next adventure or the next person he can help.

How often does a movie portray a truck driver in such a great light? I think personally that cross country, real over the road truck drivers are seriously under appriciated. But my favorite part of this film is the fact that Jack, the main character, does all of this to simply get his truck back. To him it seems like a normal day, and he keeps his cool most of the time.



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Monday, March 26, 2012

Children of the Corn (1984)

Children of the Corn. It is a cult lead by a boy named  Isaac Chroner, who tells the children of the town that anyone over the age of 18 must be sacrificed to the god called "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" in order to have a successful corn harvest. Typically the people (children?) are sacrificed on their 19th birthday.


Malachi
Eventually, the rest of the kids get tired of Issac's arrogance and are lead by another boy named Malachi and overthrow Issac. It is revealed that "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" is a demon, and that by burning the cornfield they can escape. By they, I mean the couple who stumble upon the town, named Burt and Vicky, along with two children who did not want to be a part of the cult. 


This movie has a good number of sequels, all of which are good in their own way. I recommend this movie to anyone who has an interest in things such as cults and the possible things that can happen. Although I personally don't think that this is a true cult. At least, I hope Stephen King just made it up....it would be very scary if it was based on something true. 


Issac

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Cherry 2000 (1987)

This is a great movie. I enjoy it because it's so futuristic in some ways, and in others it is very much old school. It rivals the setup of many other films, with how the chase scenes are done. I really enjoy this film much better than a lot of other ones, because I like the more original story and adventure setup, along with the fact a woman is the best guide in the land, or so it seems. 


I love the car that they drive, a Mustang. I love older Mustangs. Something about them just says power. It exudes some sort of great power.


The reason behind the quest is a man who is "married" to a robot, and the robot shorts out, causing him to go on a search for a replacement. He only wants that specific model, a Cherry 2000. It is a hard model to find, because it was a limited edition model. 


During this search, he realizes that Edith, his guide, is the woman he truly loves, and he gives up the Cherry 2000 to another man. 


A scene from the movie, during which we see some of the aspects of this futuristic world

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Mallrats (1995)

Mallrats. Everyone (or possibly the majority of people) knows that one person who seems to spend all their time at the mall. Which is basically what a Mallrat is. This film is one of the first in which Jay and Silent Bob show up, although they are mostly supporting characters, and yet play a prominent role. 


This is about a guy, named T.S., whose girlfriend tells him she will be appearing on her father's game show because the contestant he did have in mind died (it's a bit more complex than that, but that's the gist of it.)


His best friend, Brodie, whom his girlfriend broke up with that morning in a poem, which I thought was highly classical. I enjoyed the fact that he then spends most of the day trying to win her back, and does so successfully  at the end of the movie. I also enjoy that Brodie is a huge comic book collector/geek of ultimate proportions. 


Of course, during all of this, Brodie and T.S. face a lot of obstacles, one of which is T.S.'s girlfriend's father trying to frame them with drugs and get them kicked out of the mall and possibly arrested. 




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SLC! Punk (1998)

This film stars Matthew Lillard as Stevo, one of the only two real punks in Salt Lake City, Utah. His friend is called Heroin Bob, which is ironic because he doesn't like drugs (with the exception of cigarettes or alcohol). 


I feel that the ultimate message in this movie, even if it wasn't intended, is that a lot of the time, you really aren't what you think of yourself as. For example, Stevo and Bob are the stereotypical anarchist punk type, but when Bob is given Percodan while he is intoxicated it kills him in his sleep, and when Stevo loses his best friend (which is Bob) he shaves his head, begins dressing in a more mature and socially acceptable fashion, and decides to go to Harvard. 






I think that another part of this movie is in the fact thaat losing someone so close to you can impact you in all kinds of ways, and that loss affects everyone differently. I always cry at when Bob dies, I just feel so bad for Stevo because he loses his best friend, and I always imagine how I would feel at losing my best friend. I think Stevo handles it rather well, all things considered. 

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