5 Movies to help you survive that school spirit!

Already a new school year is upon us once again. Soon the leaves will be falling and the air will have that same dry dingy coolness that brings in fall season. The time when heavy sweaters, and hot cocoa begin to find its way into our comfort zones as we all begin to nestle in to a long and sometimes un nerving pattern. If it were not for the holiday season to keep people pleasant I think we all would embrace our inner demon and ride those waves of madness into total insanity and homicidal frenzy. So to help get all you victims, I mean students prepared for the coming academia fanfare here are 5 movies to teach you how to survive another year with all the crazy and debauched comrades that sit next to you in class, share those communal showers, and serve you at your lunch halls and local pubs, hell maybe even sleeping right next to you or just down the hall. So pop your Adderall, Vyvanse, or Adapect and enjoy these horrifically wonderful tells of terror and collegiate  slaughterfest.
The first film I suggest is “Hell Night” 1981.     
  
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.

The 80’s were for me was the best of the horror decades so far, the stories were simple and not over thought and the actors were dumb and ready to die. Always had nudity and plenty of blood and guts, and they were un apologetic and not politically correct by any means. They were fun to watch. So after “Hell Night” you have to watch  my number 2 film.
“Black Christmas” 1974

A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.

“Black Christmas” is one of my all time favorites. It is from the 70’s so film quality is not all that great, but it is a great psycho slasher flick and it happens during Christmas break- Horror and Christmas, two of my favorite things! So after you finish with this gem pop another whatever you prefer and pour another jack an’ coke and enjoy my number three pick.
“Tag: The Assassination Game” 1982

College assassination game turns deadly as someone starts playing for real.
could not find the official trailer for this one but here is the opening sequence for the movie…

Once you have reach your state of paranoia with this film and calmed yourself back down so as not to assume that everyone in your study group or walking down the halls or hanging in the promenade is going to come at you with a hunting knife or put a cap in your ass then relax with another mixed drink and enjoy an under appreciated slasher flick brings ghost stories and urban tells closer to the new millennia  with my number 4 flick.
“Urban Legend” 1998

A college coed suspects that murders around her campus are connected to Urban Legends.

After you have finished with “Urban Legend” and the Adderall and alcohol have really got your blood going then ball up on your futon and watch my final fright flick.
“Sorority House Massacre” 1986

Beth visits her friends' sorority and finds it hauntingly familiar. The girls' night of fun becomes a night of terror as Beth remains unaware that an escaped psycho stalks the girls one by one!

So have a great and gorific school year and play safe and try to stay alive!

"A Clockwork Orange" 40th AV Edition

 Meh over at Horror-Movies.CA has written an awesome and thorough editorial styled piece on the 40th av of Kubricks twisted tale that everyone one should check out. Here is a snip it....


"Stanley Kubrick was one of the great filmmakers of our time and his profound influence on motion pictures continues to this day. His 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange, starring Malcolm McDowell, portrayed an oppressive lawless society where man was reduced to little more than a machine. The film introduced into popular culture the concept of “ultra-violence,” as singing, tap-dancing, derby-topped hooligan Alex (McDowell) has a “good time” – at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Kubrick’s future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess’ novel."

now jump over to the rest of the article NOW!

"Hatchet II" DVD Extras- Storyboard to Scene

Buffy's First Christmas Episode "Amends"

 It's Christmas in Sunnydale and Angel is haunted with dreams of the people he murdered over the years as Angelus. When Buffy starts getting dragged into his memory-nightmares, experiencing Angel's dreams also, they realize something not natural is happening.


The story starts out with an homage to Dickens by relating Angel's past with a Christmas memory of a past victim.

After Angel's disturbing dream wakes him, he runs to the streets of Sunnydale to shake it off only to run into Buffy doing some Christmas shopping.

At school the gang are still dealing with the riff between the group from the whole Oz and Cordy finding Willow and Zander making out in the basement boiler room. Oz and Willow finally make their amends over the situation. Cordy is back to bitch mode and poor Zander is back to second hand goods...

While Christmas tree shopping with her mom Buffy finds a section of trees that have just died for no reason. Which in Sunnydale doesn't mean pine bark beetles it means evil is afoot.

Buffy invites Faith to Christmas Eve dinner with her and her mom. I love the whole fact that Christmas decorations are strewn throughout the set of this episode. Showing a little Christmas spirit exists in each of the characters even if they don't show it fully.

Angel goes to Giles for help to find out why he was brought back from the hell dimension and finds it hard to talk as he begins to be haunted at Gile's home by his victims.

Angel and Buffy both realize that they are involved in the whole haunting thing as Buffy begins to mysteriously appear in Angel's dreams.

The gang begin their research into what could be behind the hauntings that Angel is experiencing and soon discover that it is the First Evil. Worshiped by the Bringers the First is evil in its purest and most ancient form before gods law.

Buff and Zander decide to do some leg work to find where these harbingers would hold up during their stay in Sunnydale by checking out the local rat hole. Willy the bar owner is of little help though!

That night as Sunnydale begins the Christmas Eve celebration the gang try to follow through with previous festivities planned...

Willow offers herself to Oz and Faith joins Buffy for dinner just as Angel decides to pay a visit to warn/feed on Buffy depending on his will power and that nagging ghost that haunts him...

Buffy then rushes to Giles to let him know that Angel is slipping and finding those harbingers is paramount to his salvation, and by association theirs. Because as we all know an evil Angel is a hungry Angel full blood lust and dark folly.

Buffy finds the Bringers under the dead Christmas trees and kicks their ass and is confronted by the First Evil.

Buffy finds Angel over looking the town from a bluff waiting for the sun to rise. She begs him to come inside out of the day but the day never comes because a freak cold front brings a snow storm to Sunnydale on Christmas Day. Throughout this episode the gang learn and show through action the the true meaning of Christmas is the selfless act of putting others needs above their own.

This show of divine intervention clearly shows that Angel has been given a second chance. With the weather report saying the sun shouldn't be expected to be seen at all today, Buffy and Angel take a romantic walk through the town.