The Unborn

When I saw the trailer for this movie I was psyched! Holy crap, this is the perfect movie for me I thought. My boyfriend looked over at me to make it clear that he will not be going to this movie. Thinking him a stick in the mud, I ignored his warnings and viewed it anyway. Verdict: The Unborn should have stayed that way.

The movie opens to some skinny girl jogging when she happens upon a Japanese Inspired little boy and a creepy ass dog wearing a mask. There is no bloody reason for the mask or the dog except to try and make the audience so confused, they think they are being terrified. Following the masked dog into the woods, she finds the abandoned mask and a jar with a fetus in it. What the fuck? Oh, it’s okay boys and girls, it’s just a dream.

The next day Casey, the skinny girl who sees fetuses when she sleeps, is discussing her dream with her best friend who conveniently is all about dreams and ghosts and is not embarrassed by it at all. When she over hears on the baby monitor of the children she is sitting for, some strange conversation for a small boy and an infant child. Upon investigation she finds the boy who looks like he's been transplanted from one movie about a freaky kid into this one, holding a mirror to the infant and yammering away about some dude named Jumby who wants to be born. My interest is lost at this point as I do not know what kind of fucked up parent would call a kid "Jumby" unless they didn't have a sign that read "kick me" to tape to his back.

Rather suddenly Cassey starts to see the Japanese rip-off everywhere and then her eyes start turning a different colour. The ophthalmologist tells her it's because she is actually a twin who's twin wasn't born. What kind of eye doctor says that kind of crap.

Eventually she starts to investigate her late mother who killed herself instead of watching this movie. She finds a grandmother who is extremely young for being in a Nazi concentration camp having experiments done on her, I wasn't really paying attention to remember what the experiments were for, but there was some spirit called a Dybbuk who took over her twin brother. And then the great actor Gary Oldman joins the cast and I wept for his lost carreer. Blah Blah Blah, exorcism and Dybbuk go poof.

If it weren't for the hysterical laughter going on in the theater, I would not have enjoyed myself at all. The movie was full of cliches and was not visually cohesive. It threw everything that may have been scarry in one movie into this one. I guess you could say it was "Horror Gumbo".

Daily Memory

Aaah, my youth, dangers were around every corner. Playgrounds were made of cement, iron and wood chips, and you could form a smoking habit at the age of four, simply by enjoying your favorite flavor candy.

These things were genius! You would blow on one end and powder would puff from the other just like a real cigarette. You could find candy cigarettes right next to the lollipops made of mercury and gum drops made with lead.

the good, the bad, THE UGLY

To protect the innocent, I added this handy-dandy black box.

Being a woman with Italian blood, it is taught at an early age to not let this happen to your upper lip. We learn to embrace the pain of wax because the alternative... well it's terrifying.

Crap I want but don't need

Aura Bracelet fully sprinkled
Marsya Chakra Jewelry

TWILIGHT Necklace Set - New Moon, Fire and Ice
the artist of this shop is super nice, and her jewelry is all Twilight inspired and crazy beautiful
Norianes Bijoux

Where The Wild Things Are
Realisation Creations

When Strangers Appear

Around the same time that I picked up Session 9, I picked up this understated film. With no theatrical distribution in the US, it went virtually unknown and appeared only on the shelves of your local DVD shop. Quite unfortunate if you ask me, because it is an engaging cat and mouse chase thriller. With the cast being only 6 people, and an isolated diner in Washington State the viewer becomes just as involved with the situation as the main character.


Working at her late father’s once bustling diner during the day, Beth is visited by her only customer of the day thus far. A stranger who appears hurt and afraid asks to use her bathroom where he begins to tend to his wounds. He then sits to order, but disappears when three surfers enter the restaurant. They ask questions about the car parked out front, make small talk and order food. When entering the kitchen, Beth is cornered by the first stranger, Jack, who tells her that they are dangerous men who are trying to kill him and to not give his location away to them. Unsure of believing him and trusting the surfers, Beth tries to avoid the situation completely.

Drawn to Peter, Beth confides her worry when she discovers her friend is missing and is becoming increasingly harassed by the town sheriff who at one time took advantage of her. Everything takes a sharp turn when Beth discovers the item that everyone has been looking for hidden in her diner’s restroom.

Rarely does a movie as effective as this come along. Fans of this genre will not be disappointed.

Daily Memory

I believed right up to my senior year in college, that if you didn't milk a cow to drink its milk, their udders would explode. And to me this was a cold hard scientific fact.

Then I met someone who never blew their nose because they believed that particles of brain matter would be lost in your tissue, that I began to realize, that I was luckily not the dumbest person I knew.

THE GOOD, the bad, the ugly

Since my main squeeze was sent to Greenland, I am trying to put my boredom and energy into redecorating. Since I have five months to do this before my sugar daddy gets back I am taking it one room at a time.

First room down is the office. To the left is my before shot. Gross isn't it.

Below is my great accomplishment.

Crap I want but don't need

Nesting
Kasia Blue

Hammered squares and circles necklace
Elizabeth Rosa's Jewelry

Session 9

I stumbled across this movie several years ago, gotta admit, it was the cover art that caused me to rent it, but the content of the movie had me watching it over and over. A psychological thriller about a gang of Asbestos workers, faced with their weaknesses in a run-down mental hospital. The Danvers State Hospital stood in Danvers Massachusetts until demolition brought it down in 2006, some believed it was haunted, I personally am sad that I missed the ghost tour.

The movie opens with Gordon trying to win the bid to remove the asbestos in the hospital in order to refurbish it for the county to use. Tired from his new born and worried about the stability of his asbestos removing company, Gordon bids low and fast to get the contract. Forgetting his bag, Gordon runs back it to the building and it is at this point he is greeted by whatever it is the hospital holds.

Gathering his crew of four other members, each with their own history. Mike is an acerbic law school drop-out who regrets his decision. Phil, second in command, is pissed that the hotter coworker Hank stole his girl. And Hank the hottie wants nothing more that to head to Vegas to make it rich. Last is Jeff, Gordon’s nephew and a mullet wearing nyctophob.

Over the next few days of working in the asylum, each are affected. While checking on a pulled plug for mullethead, Mike discovers old reel to reel tape containing sessions 1-9 of a patients therapy. The patient’s name is Mary, and she suffers from what appears to be multiple personality disorder caused by a childhood trauma. Listening to the tapes during stolen minutes and after hours, Mike listens to the personalities, who all seem to be harmless, all but the personality known as “Simon”, a genius loci.

As Mike discovers more about the 9 sessions, the madness of Danvers Hospital and the malignant Simon begin to take its hold on the crew, affecting Gordon the greatest.

It may come as some surprise to you that I loved this movie. I know what you are thinking, because I have such great taste and a superior level of maturity I would never go for a movie like this. It’s a good story, and a well paced story of the affects of human weakness, well human weakness when you have to remove asbestos from a crumbling lunatic hospital.

the good, THE BAD, the ugly

Hey Disney, try to have an original thought now and then!

Oh yeah, and stop making TV shows that force me to watch them. I am so ashamed.

Crap I want but don't need

In Dreams Necklace
Elle a Belle

Sisal Rug
Overstock

Delicious Library
Delicious Monster

Doomsday

I wanted to see this movie the moment I clapped my eyes on the poster. It looked so Mad Max that the plot meant very little to me. And in a way, this was very reminiscent of the Road Warrior himself. I liked it, but I have low standards. It had action, Mohawks, cannibalism, a devastatingly awesome virus and a kick ass heroin.

2008, Scotland is being wiped out by the deadly Reaper Virus. Since no one cares about Scotland, they build a wall 360 around the border to quarantine the infection and wait for everyone to just die off. Just as the gates were closing and the last of the military helicopters are leaving, a young woman carrying her small child who just had her eye shot out to the soldiers and begs them to at least take the child. Up the kid goes, with one less eye, an envelope with her address on it and a dream in her heart.

Tick tock, some undisclosed amount of time goes by and we are in the future and the little girl, Eden Sinclair, has grown into a tough as nails Military cop type thing, honestly I don’t know what she does, but they gave her a cybernetic eye to replace the gaping hole that must have been grossing everyone out. All sad because she never knew her mother who was unceremoniously locked in Scotland to die, she keeps the envelope by her heart, believing one day she can go back and like, get her shit or whatever. She must have been knocking on wood or something because the Reaper virus just made an appearance in London and surveillance cameras over Scotland have picked up survivors. What luck, with survivors, there is a cure, and with a cure the government can make a vaccine to sell to the richest people… I mean, to save the civilians.

Sinclair suits up and enters the quarantine zone. Her mission is to find Dr. Kane who is believed to have found the cure after all this time. Sinclair and her team soon discover that a crap load of people survived the virus but preferred Soylent Green to Angus Beef. Sinclair and another member of her team is captured and interrogated by Sol, the group leader. While everyone is snacking on her friend, she escapes after chopping the head off of Sol’s girlfriend and makes a new friend with a fellow prisoner who conveniently is Dr. Kane’s daughter. What luck!

Anyway, they travel to meet the Doctor, get captured again and are brought to the castle where he has set up shop. Turns out, the Doctor has no cure and must be demented because he the whole town is just a Renaissance Fair gone terribly awry.

Blah blah blah, the virus is spreading greater in London and is now within the walls of the command unit. Well, Sinclair better hustle.

Fun times for an evening with buttered pop corn, a sense of humor, and a love for movies about hypothetical viruses with really cool names that wipe out the population in Great Britain. They really like their virus movies out there.