tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27378244090041347472024-03-05T20:00:10.189-05:00John Popa's Dead Teenager Movies BlogHere to talk horror, especially the slasher film.JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-37387304981708419902023-06-11T20:02:00.003-04:002023-06-11T21:10:16.194-04:00Nightmare On Elm Street and Halloween Filming Sites<p> I turned 50 recently (thanks for your sympathy) and when I decided to plan a special trip for the event, I decided to go to L.A., where I've never been, and to track down the "Nightmare On Elm Street" and "Halloween" filming sites that are out there.</p><p>So between days at Disneyland I drug my friends around greater L.A. and found the places I wanted to see.</p><p>(I couldn't have done this AT ALL without https://www.thennowmovielocations.com. They did all the work and provide a ton of locations with addresses.) </p><p>Our first stop was the area where Tina dies in the original "Elm Street." Her house is down in Ventura in a cool neighborhood. </p><p><br /></p><p>The exterior of Tina's house in the movie:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaatfJOanve9--ThkhMO27K3YyzzXeFQ3Gzb9fR7BXjHAwqFT7-i-RK2JiBm2hAonrwpDRO3eYCovQpj7wtYfBhoic2ZAaiFgsZtgrN3CFJmJeRwULwOCWLicHxQIdrgo-gPgMeA5MOeMRkfGuTKzOmeG3ygqBfm7vBkn2EYl1LpwiE3B7sh0IItc/s1920/tina%20house.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1920" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaatfJOanve9--ThkhMO27K3YyzzXeFQ3Gzb9fR7BXjHAwqFT7-i-RK2JiBm2hAonrwpDRO3eYCovQpj7wtYfBhoic2ZAaiFgsZtgrN3CFJmJeRwULwOCWLicHxQIdrgo-gPgMeA5MOeMRkfGuTKzOmeG3ygqBfm7vBkn2EYl1LpwiE3B7sh0IItc/s320/tina%20house.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>And the house today ... (with me out front.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEEcM1Zfobf1MEPkp8VPm7Vgmhzw26KH8GZZfcyvHFmu7Dy_GfnLO4aHsL41Fgqhrp0U00MqXO78Rgzh9mwwTnERcDTY3znMY4ipMEMwodsuBUqxCUP9fyaqKA0fnxUuru2c81vbuX0sNVTy2p_jIMZ_o3JfOaWGWzlQf4jI59_mAr2Uzzxct6C1g/s4032/20230604_111515.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEEcM1Zfobf1MEPkp8VPm7Vgmhzw26KH8GZZfcyvHFmu7Dy_GfnLO4aHsL41Fgqhrp0U00MqXO78Rgzh9mwwTnERcDTY3znMY4ipMEMwodsuBUqxCUP9fyaqKA0fnxUuru2c81vbuX0sNVTy2p_jIMZ_o3JfOaWGWzlQf4jI59_mAr2Uzzxct6C1g/s320/20230604_111515.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2_TY9FFZsNmUO4QV0wi7FBwCPma-GYmmy3aDf9BLEBc9xKas_rKQn-gIN2h2MznRRgwIdXLOb_xx3bXVy9Vt6aXEZw28fVJIPcYVgKIdeWaVPnT3H2e5qH0NOCyqI-nS89DHLpR1_u3ujxhL7E4kTZZV_BKWTkEqgvGEkR7sNqchJxNS-NO4e8Zg/s4032/20230604_111525.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2_TY9FFZsNmUO4QV0wi7FBwCPma-GYmmy3aDf9BLEBc9xKas_rKQn-gIN2h2MznRRgwIdXLOb_xx3bXVy9Vt6aXEZw28fVJIPcYVgKIdeWaVPnT3H2e5qH0NOCyqI-nS89DHLpR1_u3ujxhL7E4kTZZV_BKWTkEqgvGEkR7sNqchJxNS-NO4e8Zg/s320/20230604_111525.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The alley where Tina meets her demise is genuinely right behind the house. </div></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLI-javR4Q3GT5pVTHx_gF9P7hRRFAw-aYO9CQo7PrJM3zSd1PiXTerS1xZGzAUWRMQoZ55qI7Plwoq_UVO-eF5VuqJrmqM1jimYj18IjkjcEd9qFL7BVZEgCIkoWfwla9KMqPdsMzUdEURkvrghGg7Lgijw8Otx40evCrSpgst1vl5nfras9fbE8/s1920/tina%20alley.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1920" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLI-javR4Q3GT5pVTHx_gF9P7hRRFAw-aYO9CQo7PrJM3zSd1PiXTerS1xZGzAUWRMQoZ55qI7Plwoq_UVO-eF5VuqJrmqM1jimYj18IjkjcEd9qFL7BVZEgCIkoWfwla9KMqPdsMzUdEURkvrghGg7Lgijw8Otx40evCrSpgst1vl5nfras9fbE8/s320/tina%20alley.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieu1jrKHVbukjPT-UIgWqDPltBGfa_Ow4FUssOFI34M7BoidbQ7xdJEvZmPz9nGYPyuY_SKaCoYipKWrbGIzV53F1XGKV-O_hUBmtSEO7npUCePn7AhovOcmzrcyb089y8q_t1NxFByiEy-e6gXr2nQ7Lk-B_XsTQvvCMjoZtUYJzyC8jRF5ZIy8s/s1920/freddy%20alley.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1920" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieu1jrKHVbukjPT-UIgWqDPltBGfa_Ow4FUssOFI34M7BoidbQ7xdJEvZmPz9nGYPyuY_SKaCoYipKWrbGIzV53F1XGKV-O_hUBmtSEO7npUCePn7AhovOcmzrcyb089y8q_t1NxFByiEy-e6gXr2nQ7Lk-B_XsTQvvCMjoZtUYJzyC8jRF5ZIy8s/s320/freddy%20alley.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>And, again, me in the alley, pretty close to where Freddy stood. There's a blue arrow spray painted on the ground, my assumption is it's telling people where to stand but I can't prove that. It seemed to be the right place.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1KgGW6MAK9FTsnAE6WInwUKvDxVG9bTpOOdwogu6ZspzHrALIM5UzQSO1cstd4qBGY7OqKsKPgRMVP7I84dZHVEfBjiRjWhBQrURuitFyXrqJ7-a1drTxGZvFwvR6OQkyapSWbhAfzY2TGH_5fjvWLiP8Dm1sZzN5CXl8aRdpsi8qXpcRqHhmMc/s1564/351474172_264764719379389_1570758045866616962_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1KgGW6MAK9FTsnAE6WInwUKvDxVG9bTpOOdwogu6ZspzHrALIM5UzQSO1cstd4qBGY7OqKsKPgRMVP7I84dZHVEfBjiRjWhBQrURuitFyXrqJ7-a1drTxGZvFwvR6OQkyapSWbhAfzY2TGH_5fjvWLiP8Dm1sZzN5CXl8aRdpsi8qXpcRqHhmMc/s320/351474172_264764719379389_1570758045866616962_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not far from where Tina died is the area where Nancy walks to school while Rod Lane is on the run, and also where Rod gets caught.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The house Nancy walks past is fairly non-descript, but it mostly looks the same (you can even see where the owners removed the mailbox from next to the door.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhWKncnN0ih6nzFlAdvfUv8_WfYbDll5b0phv6501bhbfj4y3eXVLFEqt3VUmQ2FFLj-g_wg6x1a8ItlFTSfJvVembRtk80bRBcPlz7_mlmqTSmr7FjnN9J5FKv3yTw66SaniOgLZwYZtU2iapE5-A7v5U7LQwn-YJzntKNMTURboOCniCwcd02I/s1920/elmstreet-movie-screencaps.com-2707.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1920" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhWKncnN0ih6nzFlAdvfUv8_WfYbDll5b0phv6501bhbfj4y3eXVLFEqt3VUmQ2FFLj-g_wg6x1a8ItlFTSfJvVembRtk80bRBcPlz7_mlmqTSmr7FjnN9J5FKv3yTw66SaniOgLZwYZtU2iapE5-A7v5U7LQwn-YJzntKNMTURboOCniCwcd02I/s320/elmstreet-movie-screencaps.com-2707.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFO8UFH__-b6y-3v19agffwRyqgiuvPRpDRCgPOH9rGfQ4zHAKiUFvbdSLCznKkXRtMjp_7NLH75hFSg8AY_tynmnEsQfBuhAFic9RH1x3VzGZMWw8OrcS9vMsy4jb5jdmyhr8W802345BB_sQI9pJeC2OtdYIhpTwGIR0lhXjkJ9BO8i3p6zHxw/s4032/20230604_112933.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFO8UFH__-b6y-3v19agffwRyqgiuvPRpDRCgPOH9rGfQ4zHAKiUFvbdSLCznKkXRtMjp_7NLH75hFSg8AY_tynmnEsQfBuhAFic9RH1x3VzGZMWw8OrcS9vMsy4jb5jdmyhr8W802345BB_sQI9pJeC2OtdYIhpTwGIR0lhXjkJ9BO8i3p6zHxw/s320/20230604_112933.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9HYG-0qBjtZ-upxeM0vbhjUHRWS-2fpMMDAkdDEbMkBXSgf1q0kqMRHoAT5jkpiNdZWn8Awr_K-H0CIHmXLNTbv6Pie7eIS4hNH_5T62L2LmTggHN-NB97JpwNQIOVV99QV4c1cJSMvoFQDpXtyZV7muo1BwHfhakw2__10h3KZT-9BiRMZfdOo/s4032/20230604_112934.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9HYG-0qBjtZ-upxeM0vbhjUHRWS-2fpMMDAkdDEbMkBXSgf1q0kqMRHoAT5jkpiNdZWn8Awr_K-H0CIHmXLNTbv6Pie7eIS4hNH_5T62L2LmTggHN-NB97JpwNQIOVV99QV4c1cJSMvoFQDpXtyZV7muo1BwHfhakw2__10h3KZT-9BiRMZfdOo/s320/20230604_112934.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>(Damn, this shirt makes me look really fat. IT'S THE SHIRT, ASSHOLES.)<div><br /></div><div>It's a block or so up where Nancy sees the cop who's following her.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9-rGHHtlUbQngqRZxJYfcRA_B8YvnVrFTdV0lWV8SU8sebS3mFyxbqf-qg8TrozOOHKY4poRa5DuLdGjLuh5qFvDCTc-yLk0p42r2ViWIZ035j7V1nkglLxpV4YWEUxcE9m2oVQljKnVy43jZII9V6i7vOZZ_jbWwVAe7xQ3jra-ZP-3c8eA79I/s1920/cops%20trees.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1920" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9-rGHHtlUbQngqRZxJYfcRA_B8YvnVrFTdV0lWV8SU8sebS3mFyxbqf-qg8TrozOOHKY4poRa5DuLdGjLuh5qFvDCTc-yLk0p42r2ViWIZ035j7V1nkglLxpV4YWEUxcE9m2oVQljKnVy43jZII9V6i7vOZZ_jbWwVAe7xQ3jra-ZP-3c8eA79I/s320/cops%20trees.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>And me, doing my best cop impression.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEywn3Sm3wtRmDUq0Z6vPaZ9pkOmvPbvsRgMCLwyed-aBPXgcmnXAzdRBjD4j2m1EzW_g7sECYx1gbfk8peZLHCvHIk80enmTcoBu7BvWKZDwabhHhwUSJKpLFpr7L7H9QSObR7SAtV8IszkSbd1PG3jS2jpk7Pv-CSf9nn59DzI3pEmLJR0E-vM/s4032/20230604_113236.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEywn3Sm3wtRmDUq0Z6vPaZ9pkOmvPbvsRgMCLwyed-aBPXgcmnXAzdRBjD4j2m1EzW_g7sECYx1gbfk8peZLHCvHIk80enmTcoBu7BvWKZDwabhHhwUSJKpLFpr7L7H9QSObR7SAtV8IszkSbd1PG3jS2jpk7Pv-CSf9nn59DzI3pEmLJR0E-vM/s320/20230604_113236.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>When Rod gets caught he runs for the corner right next to the trees.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcHG6pHMKedLyu8BjdivdML3a56eiztMYCBCFk1oNmm1ebZHHyJfjV_mfqcEgexDceLfslUgHjdMWK5xI7B735j3jJQGalVpP2n2G6593goNiA2CqLh3PnKrmuZAYGpi3qui7w89_alvww1zBc9RVVCywxNG4enkmdf6bBekXcjCtn7uzeA9p6Ds/s1920/rod%20chase.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1920" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcHG6pHMKedLyu8BjdivdML3a56eiztMYCBCFk1oNmm1ebZHHyJfjV_mfqcEgexDceLfslUgHjdMWK5xI7B735j3jJQGalVpP2n2G6593goNiA2CqLh3PnKrmuZAYGpi3qui7w89_alvww1zBc9RVVCywxNG4enkmdf6bBekXcjCtn7uzeA9p6Ds/s320/rod%20chase.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I also fled from the scene.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW_Cb-9piWuSMt8GppRw6zNroGOm3UDisEOjImkrUQCNPja0hC4t9Na0usVM7mWuEcvEjnHA_-UMnpyJyEbGH1a1o7IkBISi7DaDO32inSMEHEudAfv1Jora8d0H8-L0R8c70XpvCZBRuqqwxjm4arVVdWqt-KtyiodQBiGxGeDbYZRl4mHt_nu0/s4032/20230604_113321.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW_Cb-9piWuSMt8GppRw6zNroGOm3UDisEOjImkrUQCNPja0hC4t9Na0usVM7mWuEcvEjnHA_-UMnpyJyEbGH1a1o7IkBISi7DaDO32inSMEHEudAfv1Jora8d0H8-L0R8c70XpvCZBRuqqwxjm4arVVdWqt-KtyiodQBiGxGeDbYZRl4mHt_nu0/s320/20230604_113321.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQY4fLrPZHIjSYSYSovTPD3VibFjVjLsqd6vAItrNkURoZq8mq2UAe2WUkKTqEgTlA0aB4dT1vKO6lfnmvLpdNURUpO0m53qmnR2wdBfgWQr1STHreKVIevMKdklH7beYBJwuTVGn0OQcTXkVrO7m6l9XK2hWWVNPF3FDzvZQ3F70wLP_nRA4IXs/s4032/20230604_113424.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQY4fLrPZHIjSYSYSovTPD3VibFjVjLsqd6vAItrNkURoZq8mq2UAe2WUkKTqEgTlA0aB4dT1vKO6lfnmvLpdNURUpO0m53qmnR2wdBfgWQr1STHreKVIevMKdklH7beYBJwuTVGn0OQcTXkVrO7m6l9XK2hWWVNPF3FDzvZQ3F70wLP_nRA4IXs/s320/20230604_113424.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Fun story, while we were taking these pictures there were a few neighborhood kids on bikes who didn't know their neighborhood was used to make "Nightmare." Hopefully they'll go watch the movie now and be traumatized like I was seeing it at such a young age.<div><br /></div><div>That's everything we saw in that neighborhood and I did get that tingle when I saw these places, knowing I was where it all happened so many years ago.</div><div><br /></div><div>But my friend and I had more locations to scout!</div><div><br /></div><div>From the Part 1 sites we next found ourselves in "The Dream Master," where the movie's Crave Inn still sits today as a cool, working coffee shop.</div><div><br /></div><div>The girl at the counter who was forced to be my photographer didn't know the movie was filmed there. The manager did though and seemed more concerned that his employee didn't know!</div><div><br /></div><div>(My friend Cassandra is the generally unwilling other person in the pictures here.)</div><div><br /></div><div>The movie's Crave Inn:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdK3-AAhgYd8lIIp0Et0EQyjFi4porY4truAWEVFj0Wafc1CZEZQrpdDKaltydoW14FDfMTL-GTp9K3w3CzucWbkJlqRE8qVJ9K0GnYfPRwwxQB2BKrwhr-qcT1uF3KYCoo9dsAnWS53X8G8Gn2_zTrpq0CzUOFnsbogOHVeXs8LTxec_usXimYoY/s832/craveinn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="832" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdK3-AAhgYd8lIIp0Et0EQyjFi4porY4truAWEVFj0Wafc1CZEZQrpdDKaltydoW14FDfMTL-GTp9K3w3CzucWbkJlqRE8qVJ9K0GnYfPRwwxQB2BKrwhr-qcT1uF3KYCoo9dsAnWS53X8G8Gn2_zTrpq0CzUOFnsbogOHVeXs8LTxec_usXimYoY/s320/craveinn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The real cafe today:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg71CXuoIZpQbTam5QMSnO9_CNGH6N8V47BloLpFOx7oYodM8WvLrfYq91TdisB4ZFXmlDwcMMXeee--NogOeHLg5TDqVYuxqd1zi661GGxUf-vvjHGDdaDZToD_GPLpzjq3J_k_qkuXkaT8o8w44jSd4bvIniF7HTdJCugt4g_TQOmf8dPYI_BmDo/s4032/20230604_120022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg71CXuoIZpQbTam5QMSnO9_CNGH6N8V47BloLpFOx7oYodM8WvLrfYq91TdisB4ZFXmlDwcMMXeee--NogOeHLg5TDqVYuxqd1zi661GGxUf-vvjHGDdaDZToD_GPLpzjq3J_k_qkuXkaT8o8w44jSd4bvIniF7HTdJCugt4g_TQOmf8dPYI_BmDo/s320/20230604_120022.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Freddy and Alice:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6mNBTXYKUNRuTZN0DnzrKPVW7NGfipr0wpmvcAjLHByEJ3WiSLD3Pxb53rgIui0aUc2Iui6BQoulv3CcyZgfGmbdW6UlGGYTrYMiInQVnX904isejyUN4uEtkkGWy9s8k7O4c2TuTc3G0GntnenIVoPmEKnjyXfszmAZlg9LrTyD_7ovkLcB8R2M/s1600/A%20Nightmare%20on%20Elm%20Street%204%20The%20Dream%20Master%2014.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6mNBTXYKUNRuTZN0DnzrKPVW7NGfipr0wpmvcAjLHByEJ3WiSLD3Pxb53rgIui0aUc2Iui6BQoulv3CcyZgfGmbdW6UlGGYTrYMiInQVnX904isejyUN4uEtkkGWy9s8k7O4c2TuTc3G0GntnenIVoPmEKnjyXfszmAZlg9LrTyD_7ovkLcB8R2M/s320/A%20Nightmare%20on%20Elm%20Street%204%20The%20Dream%20Master%2014.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Me and Cass:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVj5ay6QeRjnKg835BZn0fCgCo-zIqkFQIE5zCfzQFPu2Jhv9Q479K3vg5uYomRLjqtkn5GHErxXD4UDlgj2XgdD-yYu1Na8YRth6U6_-7Kv-0adlN2p1DCQKbrszqe5FWphxp8NeqlzEi5DQbvAff7MtNmV8WWahTmN2QtGPlMU5CW-pXUBSImnw/s4032/20230604_120729.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVj5ay6QeRjnKg835BZn0fCgCo-zIqkFQIE5zCfzQFPu2Jhv9Q479K3vg5uYomRLjqtkn5GHErxXD4UDlgj2XgdD-yYu1Na8YRth6U6_-7Kv-0adlN2p1DCQKbrszqe5FWphxp8NeqlzEi5DQbvAff7MtNmV8WWahTmN2QtGPlMU5CW-pXUBSImnw/s320/20230604_120729.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>After spending a few minutes reliving "Dream Master" the time came to find the Westin Institute from "Dream Warriors." It's a building on UCLA campus.<div><br /></div><div>Good news: the building is easy to find.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bad news: the shot they use for the exteriors was on the opposite side of the building from where we parked and were initially looking.</div><div><br /></div><div>This wouldn't have been a big deal except for the fact that in order to get to the side where the shot came from we kind of had to crash UCLA's graduation ceremony!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_0cxKXDCSslTH9NHRpHakgDSdm4LdQxui_MS9-REvcZyyJpUemoxEajyi_Qlfm3H5mb1oy3guoqJplTrwVgVVTCKR0EECB3renVGOMe6N2ezaTjQlduPa60QBoC-toGk3WPONS2xyjBBogOZGOmdyEP5LQEuxs881-lwk0S4o_nS_pe5FC57wWog/s846/dreamwarriorshospital.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="846" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_0cxKXDCSslTH9NHRpHakgDSdm4LdQxui_MS9-REvcZyyJpUemoxEajyi_Qlfm3H5mb1oy3guoqJplTrwVgVVTCKR0EECB3renVGOMe6N2ezaTjQlduPa60QBoC-toGk3WPONS2xyjBBogOZGOmdyEP5LQEuxs881-lwk0S4o_nS_pe5FC57wWog/s320/dreamwarriorshospital.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2Bs6r7MJj5WijZxIzkhRcf4Ry9BE8BD4Bqn4fw44O5P1xWMTXnKErGKvUfit70bGhUAke301WH40GDvCQXt63LMAlwG_kuFQ2ANA5B3Wx0Ue8wZbSav7Fndm-ocHzXxv8znWnuGGm_3W9YfUZTxWSojN4zmM2E2ebpIBaxJDjYl0ZHC8roMEpeU/s4032/20230604_125124.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2Bs6r7MJj5WijZxIzkhRcf4Ry9BE8BD4Bqn4fw44O5P1xWMTXnKErGKvUfit70bGhUAke301WH40GDvCQXt63LMAlwG_kuFQ2ANA5B3Wx0Ue8wZbSav7Fndm-ocHzXxv8znWnuGGm_3W9YfUZTxWSojN4zmM2E2ebpIBaxJDjYl0ZHC8roMEpeU/s320/20230604_125124.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgneyN8RswPetTLQQLXc-z8ioc5WbZ-1i0Xqtdxoh340Sgc_miYTO2rlTkGU_nzmVo7dekwxNsZXxWtq2asLbmCX7aMCqurCveMxX7qCDCR680eHiHR5fydkCAygt9R43yYMl_WqyjSJtD3DnTvz3I0I3VRhyGv2yYDXbKxP7BSxa8NJkdRlS1538A/s4032/20230604_125211.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgneyN8RswPetTLQQLXc-z8ioc5WbZ-1i0Xqtdxoh340Sgc_miYTO2rlTkGU_nzmVo7dekwxNsZXxWtq2asLbmCX7aMCqurCveMxX7qCDCR680eHiHR5fydkCAygt9R43yYMl_WqyjSJtD3DnTvz3I0I3VRhyGv2yYDXbKxP7BSxa8NJkdRlS1538A/s320/20230604_125211.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And that basically wrapped up day 1 of our tour. The next trip though would take me to the promised land, though - the Elm Street house itself!! <div><br /></div><div>I was surprised how small the neighborhood is - the cameras certainly make things seem more sprawling than they really are. The house isn't so big either.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was also surprised to see that the suburban neighborhood is right off Sunset. Blvd, fairly close to the infamous Sunset Strip.</div><div><br /></div><div>As I understand it the current owners don't especially welcome the attention their house gathers but we were very harmless and respectful, as I would hope everyone is.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii26YkxFHS-o7bPX5TsufHIvcliN3AnmequxkmRgGvXOLY3EtDnxgQppCgictlwptWwCfNoiHHgzhdZV-f5cpIDtVYho8kSMk19HyxtqZP98p4hwv_3S3BvemRS4ol2pfrrR-wiaJW0hlKauzJrowk_w_VfegKkUehC-ITRxeq-TkxPL-jHBwacFU/s1920/elmstreethouse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1920" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii26YkxFHS-o7bPX5TsufHIvcliN3AnmequxkmRgGvXOLY3EtDnxgQppCgictlwptWwCfNoiHHgzhdZV-f5cpIDtVYho8kSMk19HyxtqZP98p4hwv_3S3BvemRS4ol2pfrrR-wiaJW0hlKauzJrowk_w_VfegKkUehC-ITRxeq-TkxPL-jHBwacFU/s320/elmstreethouse.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I was like "we're all here for the same reason" as we got out of each other's ways.</div><div><br /></div><div>The shrub Michael watches the girls from is instantly recognizable!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZVE5VLpHdrhaA_Bh6bchfxQ4m_OvC9vaG9LkpNJmPx_M_z-Q2nwbwkRvHXHOXUtvkY_CbA5yrAcjoK5_clnNynuB6IEpmtAy7Yg4bZZHblelof9M0pnwTIpix-R-peOJtQVq5PwmXu1aWiYTF6JA17XxfrY94SbRddG5TSbLnBgAb58UXW0UnCDA/s863/michaelhedge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="863" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZVE5VLpHdrhaA_Bh6bchfxQ4m_OvC9vaG9LkpNJmPx_M_z-Q2nwbwkRvHXHOXUtvkY_CbA5yrAcjoK5_clnNynuB6IEpmtAy7Yg4bZZHblelof9M0pnwTIpix-R-peOJtQVq5PwmXu1aWiYTF6JA17XxfrY94SbRddG5TSbLnBgAb58UXW0UnCDA/s320/michaelhedge.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyz0zp_8nB_wsGIO4L-OuSuR5KjBpp5ZVQSreUdwt5tD3N6uyu9AweuLcLfFpJoTrpnp99OUNu5fxvCNxAMYjm559i6A_2KeK7OAo581P-Me2dsWGZk6IePzYdWPvyp1Lb1NSZifWUbA2yvJ9qSKNX8n4CmH0ZcOL10VZlcaC2BvsAenCybwEq1so/s4032/20230606_134709.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyz0zp_8nB_wsGIO4L-OuSuR5KjBpp5ZVQSreUdwt5tD3N6uyu9AweuLcLfFpJoTrpnp99OUNu5fxvCNxAMYjm559i6A_2KeK7OAo581P-Me2dsWGZk6IePzYdWPvyp1Lb1NSZifWUbA2yvJ9qSKNX8n4CmH0ZcOL10VZlcaC2BvsAenCybwEq1so/s320/20230606_134709.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Fun fact about the stoop where Laurie sits, the owners set out a basket with a fake pumpkin and a laminated sheet that has some screencaps of the house, as well as a note confirming it's the right place and welcoming you to take pictures.</div><div><br /></div><div>I like to think they can do that because horror fans are respectful of their privacy. Still, a cool gesture that made the visit that much more fun.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCVjRxSIR4Gqp-RQskNxVHLwZ43fqZEAcjv05n_rCutN6mxyEFHcA61D1bFV-VUHEX5xpZywr3pTH98pA7fxqVzBa3wvyRy76xsi9cVHKTRYYiXn8ttBJFTlbSxh0_e--Ia45xNILCKIcQgbD0R4cyEqIJh8Kxfny4WL7KMfD73THzQixMJSDtZQ/s615/lauriestoop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="615" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCVjRxSIR4Gqp-RQskNxVHLwZ43fqZEAcjv05n_rCutN6mxyEFHcA61D1bFV-VUHEX5xpZywr3pTH98pA7fxqVzBa3wvyRy76xsi9cVHKTRYYiXn8ttBJFTlbSxh0_e--Ia45xNILCKIcQgbD0R4cyEqIJh8Kxfny4WL7KMfD73THzQixMJSDtZQ/s320/lauriestoop.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQaEOeNAVwZWQnCR-qg0eoTVu08Z-WiogNBi88gE1wqFhuhPTaVdFcxYPoDuD76JdjgMhfVexkRSICGUWff4yBdojdrp2cijJ-B-J26iup_vqoHjE0g0iHgmMvfCiz6xVIK-Izs4raJV3qSemS1E9eqosEE4PsxhgH9PEr9iO5gKQhnW5L-80ZLsc/s4032/20230606_140438.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQaEOeNAVwZWQnCR-qg0eoTVu08Z-WiogNBi88gE1wqFhuhPTaVdFcxYPoDuD76JdjgMhfVexkRSICGUWff4yBdojdrp2cijJ-B-J26iup_vqoHjE0g0iHgmMvfCiz6xVIK-Izs4raJV3qSemS1E9eqosEE4PsxhgH9PEr9iO5gKQhnW5L-80ZLsc/s320/20230606_140438.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Oh, one more fun fact - a couple blocks away from the Meyers hedge is Pee Wee Herman's house from "Pee Wee's Big Adventure."<div><br /></div><div>What a neighborhood!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_GWuUwQXD6R8wdySfh0pgQpMFbbTkzwWVIGwampC7W-U1unES7I1Bd5MEwlqlLZ2zX7TiOkSGNOE3fcajbBRtKIT_tjwuRte6sWS-4eDMF_kZjzJ2jXz6tPdaKnyxMF1dvLeLVSERBThR0QsClWftnNRLNeOL7bf4AkAd-XF-54QdQGws_JJ-zbQ/s962/peeweehouse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="962" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_GWuUwQXD6R8wdySfh0pgQpMFbbTkzwWVIGwampC7W-U1unES7I1Bd5MEwlqlLZ2zX7TiOkSGNOE3fcajbBRtKIT_tjwuRte6sWS-4eDMF_kZjzJ2jXz6tPdaKnyxMF1dvLeLVSERBThR0QsClWftnNRLNeOL7bf4AkAd-XF-54QdQGws_JJ-zbQ/s320/peeweehouse.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3hFQQOSrx7_nIspMC9RC87IoiK2jWdEiMUAJcRVi6go_a3uarXSNCXb1tBmX1FPnOzS5GB-vc-d6SN1-saXbav0iy6IeI1nJa7Bw8H4B22yuASaMSPpGoWCcEFTxO8JDWmO9j6YUj5fFIne-nD5WILoaO3VZgNPrQ8XDoAebley1_2MlOvNDpGqs/s4032/20230606_133943.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3hFQQOSrx7_nIspMC9RC87IoiK2jWdEiMUAJcRVi6go_a3uarXSNCXb1tBmX1FPnOzS5GB-vc-d6SN1-saXbav0iy6IeI1nJa7Bw8H4B22yuASaMSPpGoWCcEFTxO8JDWmO9j6YUj5fFIne-nD5WILoaO3VZgNPrQ8XDoAebley1_2MlOvNDpGqs/s320/20230606_133943.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-58056011563779078302021-06-08T13:19:00.003-04:002021-06-08T13:28:28.289-04:00Crystal Lake Memories TourObviously, I've wanted to take one of the Camp Crystal Lake movie site tours for years but I'd always heard it was difficult to get into - you had to enter a lottery and hope for the best, assuming the weekend they were happening was even available. <div><br /></div><div>Well, the people in charge have opened up the amount of tours over the last year or so and finally this year my friend Paul said we should probably do it. Once I saw there were tours available on my birthday, we were locked in and planning a trip to scenic New Jersey! </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm not 100% sure how I'm going to do this, whether I should follow movie chronology or the map of the tour. Luckily, it's been a few days so some of the order of things are blurry - so you're basically going to get things in the order I remember them! </div><div><br /></div><div>Crystal Lake Tours runs the tour of the campsite where the original movie was filmed and it's pretty dang thorough - BUT, there are a few scenes from the movie that were shot in a couple towns away from the camp, mostly scenes were Annie is trying to get a ride to Camp Crystal Lake to start her summer as a camp counselor.
Remember, Annie? She's my favorite girl in this movie. Luckily, I didn't get too attached (he says, still with a crush on her like 40 years later.) <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRpcCxcRpIJtUcu6yyGSNK6bnv4S5Yp64dLI4Fh0fWhbNtFDFhF4CBv_0TL32yqaEBNWkDp6tKSpFh-z36iiAm2bO6ggoBGR2j9lu2XaQfhipnQ-mkLRcJwhypT4bCzyNXmEzzI1hTX4/s509/Annie_%2528Friday_the_13th%2529.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRpcCxcRpIJtUcu6yyGSNK6bnv4S5Yp64dLI4Fh0fWhbNtFDFhF4CBv_0TL32yqaEBNWkDp6tKSpFh-z36iiAm2bO6ggoBGR2j9lu2XaQfhipnQ-mkLRcJwhypT4bCzyNXmEzzI1hTX4/s320/Annie_%2528Friday_the_13th%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Annie's walk through town is mostly in Blairstown, starting with the title card scene.</div><div><br /></div><div>In these pictures, the top image is a screencap from the movie, the bottom picture is from my trip. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9n-sgacCuAG-NHECvDn7Z-QB9dg_cwSes7aT8leFG83wksqOBDBtuIzsNZfjDla4m96ICxBLDhA7XIyc5sklxIiOTBbwxl3aRVRgGfhop6hC48DwEygRDTaeVllopeoJNDAwYyW7VHzs/s1564/IMG_20210606_131524.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9n-sgacCuAG-NHECvDn7Z-QB9dg_cwSes7aT8leFG83wksqOBDBtuIzsNZfjDla4m96ICxBLDhA7XIyc5sklxIiOTBbwxl3aRVRgGfhop6hC48DwEygRDTaeVllopeoJNDAwYyW7VHzs/s320/IMG_20210606_131524.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>The bridge has been redesigned but this is the spot. (Pay no attention to the old man in the corner of my picture. Lord knows I tried not to.)</div><div><br /></div><div>From there, Annie comes around a corner on Main St, which is a straight shot up the road from the bridge.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkfH5jdRQNnhOBGroTRCBNU4PWuiZn-RBY8vVpKWckuC2qpwmXOHtsakGdWtwMBrYoJ298D62r3151U_9akeJNgHoZQBVHzZHQ90aOyw1ca0XloSo610wyteSqjAKa9CY2O5l3ngzLb08/s1564/IMG_20210606_131314.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkfH5jdRQNnhOBGroTRCBNU4PWuiZn-RBY8vVpKWckuC2qpwmXOHtsakGdWtwMBrYoJ298D62r3151U_9akeJNgHoZQBVHzZHQ90aOyw1ca0XloSo610wyteSqjAKa9CY2O5l3ngzLb08/s320/IMG_20210606_131314.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div>The red building has been painted blue, you'd think the Blairstown city council would get on the owner to paint that back! </div><div><br /></div><div>From there Annie goes through an archway which is straight down the street, barely 100 yards. The archway is actually right next to the bridge we saw in the first shot.</div><div><br /></div><div>The handsome fella standing in the archway in this picture is yours truly.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkViqeHe7oHartLRBmgABYipcSnfeUo8x3tHFJ7Os2CaUapBVQp6zEJ_guuVVujtbDTy9-_GQ7709L6dHqp_PIYBgACrywkWsW-d8CRp13bPcY4EKGQyWErhuFp8l9brOI5cRT0EiDUU/s1564/IMG_20210606_131648.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkViqeHe7oHartLRBmgABYipcSnfeUo8x3tHFJ7Os2CaUapBVQp6zEJ_guuVVujtbDTy9-_GQ7709L6dHqp_PIYBgACrywkWsW-d8CRp13bPcY4EKGQyWErhuFp8l9brOI5cRT0EiDUU/s320/IMG_20210606_131648.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipRDUo0tCzZRsm3WcYuf03Qvnt8n1inArUMyNJqP65GKykajypQV2DCRtD7YV1ZjFsyHFV5WGW6uppJbqa_NDy2DLyL8OwBjzySaghvA-M7CWTX4itDoZX92gJH0Wkeryox_7QNdJ4lEY/s1564/IMG_20210606_131454.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipRDUo0tCzZRsm3WcYuf03Qvnt8n1inArUMyNJqP65GKykajypQV2DCRtD7YV1ZjFsyHFV5WGW6uppJbqa_NDy2DLyL8OwBjzySaghvA-M7CWTX4itDoZX92gJH0Wkeryox_7QNdJ4lEY/s320/IMG_20210606_131454.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The deli where she asks and gets a ride from Enos is actually an Antiques store now and is across town in Hope. New Jersey. The view from the window is mostly the same. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can see the two triangular windows in the upper right corner, right? </div><div><br /></div><div>The lady who runs the antique shop is super friendly and they do have a picture inside the store of the scene from the movie.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSRaQrZTTiqqH6womOPq1CWxVWJQOELWPxywmMG2vH2xrLdkTtM1gNtizk-Xgvk5RDkDvD6wSW8dYOcTPixrN7kNiZtNkWWFqzwsYyQqL_NhOQoU-ATbFyYWFctVnNNKSjcqKqST8-Q5k/s1564/IMG_20210606_133719.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSRaQrZTTiqqH6womOPq1CWxVWJQOELWPxywmMG2vH2xrLdkTtM1gNtizk-Xgvk5RDkDvD6wSW8dYOcTPixrN7kNiZtNkWWFqzwsYyQqL_NhOQoU-ATbFyYWFctVnNNKSjcqKqST8-Q5k/s320/IMG_20210606_133719.jpg" width="320" /></a>The next stop in Hope is down about 100 yards, where Annie runs into crazy old Ralph and he tells her the camp "has a death curse."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The corner is painted and a little different (and the building is a Burgdorff realty now.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiUPUqUGqAszYLTt07fP8UvKcNknHBvqsPqbVy8IT8ELUWvuNEQKzF1eANv8WRGk3nk1pWDla90h3YIL7_oaRuFW6AcjLuAJVL_CnNRhVevZxxiw56MIrfoo0KxRxLX45wy2zhF_HsUvk/s1564/IMG_20210606_133555.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiUPUqUGqAszYLTt07fP8UvKcNknHBvqsPqbVy8IT8ELUWvuNEQKzF1eANv8WRGk3nk1pWDla90h3YIL7_oaRuFW6AcjLuAJVL_CnNRhVevZxxiw56MIrfoo0KxRxLX45wy2zhF_HsUvk/s320/IMG_20210606_133555.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOT29N7cEmN6yuYHL8BxLYVkYj3xqHpan_ml0Oo3xIIHTxYoCkYkOYIo4lXvlPEEiWOJDuT2Dwj-QZIvO1V_ZkjWBdY-7FRkPDXnQN7dbICK8trHJVyW3gxD0wuv668bvGstyDHBWZmz0/s1564/IMG_20210606_133637.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOT29N7cEmN6yuYHL8BxLYVkYj3xqHpan_ml0Oo3xIIHTxYoCkYkOYIo4lXvlPEEiWOJDuT2Dwj-QZIvO1V_ZkjWBdY-7FRkPDXnQN7dbICK8trHJVyW3gxD0wuv668bvGstyDHBWZmz0/s320/IMG_20210606_133637.jpg" /></a></div>Ralph then rides his bike off (to camp, as we would learn later.) <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Enos drops Annie off in front of a graveyard that's actually about a quarter mile away from the Antiques store and where she meets Ralph, but in the opposite direction.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWhSY_Of-TWqYeOkyvVC6KtaCPInFyN5gXb6OOA526VxM7NfTC7kjgGFWjmy1yX0sXElrJbanrNU3-vGedPq1vvLGaTIeGPGFD26FFJMSzhxkuBzoENZWstSDaUrw7VCSYBiTCSDgkyg/s1564/IMG_20210606_133840.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWhSY_Of-TWqYeOkyvVC6KtaCPInFyN5gXb6OOA526VxM7NfTC7kjgGFWjmy1yX0sXElrJbanrNU3-vGedPq1vvLGaTIeGPGFD26FFJMSzhxkuBzoENZWstSDaUrw7VCSYBiTCSDgkyg/s320/IMG_20210606_133840.jpg" /></a></div>You can probably knock out these sites in an hour or two and they're mostly on the way to the camp. If you're in town and doing like a 1pm or evening tour of the Camp, you can hit this stuff in the morning and then get over to the camp.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Also, when we were getting out pictures, there were other F13 fans there doing the same, including a woman who had flown in from Ireland. Everyone was super cool because, let's be honest, horror fans are the best.)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oh, also in Blairstown is the diner where creepy Steve Christy goes to get dinner during the evening rainstorm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipvu0hDcmk5AnQB1DUICH-vudKpMA_WcNm_3JrOn7OEujxYMilp953xht3s0WUknqDq2zKt-NIkwetsjldz-Aa6lVdUlZ4AgO97ragHnvanZayScixzkIsQNXHAcYzar6eBMldBZUabAs/s1564/IMG_20210606_101600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipvu0hDcmk5AnQB1DUICH-vudKpMA_WcNm_3JrOn7OEujxYMilp953xht3s0WUknqDq2zKt-NIkwetsjldz-Aa6lVdUlZ4AgO97ragHnvanZayScixzkIsQNXHAcYzar6eBMldBZUabAs/s320/IMG_20210606_101600.jpg" /></a></div>You CAN find the bridge where Mrs. Voorhees picks up Annie and it's on the way to the camp, but I didn't get the right shots, or find the right bridge but lots of other people have.</div><div><br /></div><div>Where Annie jumps out of the jeep is closer to the camp but no one seems to be sure EXACTLY where and, really, it would be tough to find, given that everything near the camp looks the same - like a woods.</div><div><br /></div><div>I wouldn't say the camp is hard to find but I will say it's a lot of small, winding roads, you'll need your GPS for sure.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, when you pull up the camp, you have to wait on the street until your time. Our tour started at 6:30 and they didn't let us in until a few minutes before. The roads a bit narrow so get over as far as you can.</div><div><br /></div><div>You're greeted by this sign as you pull in.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjhze6eQ7Yucr24vn3VeoJ3ybRMX47_MGNPgx8_I_CCbd5DS3pe9S4KRyP0VMGZP4uM7TgVUVuJ0LW2vvadAl7ez6MnrhvpRejY45trqFPfMWprl5e9JF89mqoMDLdpuKNuqAPirqMeI/s2048/20210606_182037.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjhze6eQ7Yucr24vn3VeoJ3ybRMX47_MGNPgx8_I_CCbd5DS3pe9S4KRyP0VMGZP4uM7TgVUVuJ0LW2vvadAl7ez6MnrhvpRejY45trqFPfMWprl5e9JF89mqoMDLdpuKNuqAPirqMeI/s320/20210606_182037.jpg" /></a></div>Once inside the staff gathers everyone around and you go through the rules and regulations. There are usually 50-60 people per tour but they break you up into groups of 15 or less and different groups take the tour in different orders. <div><br /></div><div>At the entrance they have the original Camp Crystal Lake sign where you can either take a free picture with your own camera, get a polaroid taken (80's style!) or get a proper digital picture. </div><div><br /></div><div>I got the Polaroid picture, it's the most fun option.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikkjUi2sP6P_T2rWniDa_1S_8vgAUf9FLmv3jFYRYXEwITxR9r_g-1Izh3cF6j5xV68YZFuf9eIzczaBF1QZgiN-jarELEnXscyTYZYgkdYuNkubsyRVBDngC9UmksZjOoayp7_3Ow-VU/s2048/20210606_225221.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikkjUi2sP6P_T2rWniDa_1S_8vgAUf9FLmv3jFYRYXEwITxR9r_g-1Izh3cF6j5xV68YZFuf9eIzczaBF1QZgiN-jarELEnXscyTYZYgkdYuNkubsyRVBDngC9UmksZjOoayp7_3Ow-VU/s320/20210606_225221.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div>They also have a replica of the Jeep Mrs. Voorhees (and creepy Steve Christy) drive. It's not THE Jeep but it's the right vintage. Also, the original cast and crew members who have been part of previous tours have signed the back end of the Jeep too.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizEZkOB8EvPayzPWlROX4gZvdnKZD6loJSmrrbomrS-wKzcs7jaRY7-yCzBofp9ZNHcIHR7Z1Kt1t4jssImaibNmXfGhI6QH4egYdotF68YcidjeMo6ThtzV0afu-ya6IBWoltgbKaVpw/s2048/20210606_190849.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizEZkOB8EvPayzPWlROX4gZvdnKZD6loJSmrrbomrS-wKzcs7jaRY7-yCzBofp9ZNHcIHR7Z1Kt1t4jssImaibNmXfGhI6QH4egYdotF68YcidjeMo6ThtzV0afu-ya6IBWoltgbKaVpw/s320/20210606_190849.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA8CEBz0hn0_NwyH4GmOSv7TV2vnEX0wdVKSVJYWrHH7RYqs2GDs05msiVNTfE9L1OsbbCl5nxp6k9pFHNxbZEFjbj1GHHUTV-XwRXWKyFrITKIaNafsrxISAka9LHA3GoCX2UaNHQOSo/s2048/20210606_190854.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA8CEBz0hn0_NwyH4GmOSv7TV2vnEX0wdVKSVJYWrHH7RYqs2GDs05msiVNTfE9L1OsbbCl5nxp6k9pFHNxbZEFjbj1GHHUTV-XwRXWKyFrITKIaNafsrxISAka9LHA3GoCX2UaNHQOSo/s320/20210606_190854.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5YBsuQXV1IFpBZFTsxSE7eikk3mrvZoBd9fd-TGsvxe43ejnyAdwtuy3HuO1TZxy6I_9pKM-5Kuts_IDKnrdEoPMN10ZgL53T8e1_PIxOxZo48eQriUhlQYp2BntJQX1-nZapmRpr40/s2048/20210606_190857.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5YBsuQXV1IFpBZFTsxSE7eikk3mrvZoBd9fd-TGsvxe43ejnyAdwtuy3HuO1TZxy6I_9pKM-5Kuts_IDKnrdEoPMN10ZgL53T8e1_PIxOxZo48eQriUhlQYp2BntJQX1-nZapmRpr40/s320/20210606_190857.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtFTLID1TJ59LlTFQNa4AnmMKXNiDfTpCRs9tmK8nhr3ag7-21vB_P1UfRVhyCtFpjNduMOlorJueGmB-Ye9mOtxXm0cBbrf-ifD5euqDVT_RQ-lIsKWd9cMPFgFm_otGD73LZDNfMrHg/s2048/20210606_190859.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtFTLID1TJ59LlTFQNa4AnmMKXNiDfTpCRs9tmK8nhr3ag7-21vB_P1UfRVhyCtFpjNduMOlorJueGmB-Ye9mOtxXm0cBbrf-ifD5euqDVT_RQ-lIsKWd9cMPFgFm_otGD73LZDNfMrHg/s320/20210606_190859.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIs_VnogMlnb9k5KhlRC1CrGCI870VPRpuCj_lX2QINTnay3GC9Nq77M9hPatInkYms4FQDGkUdVUgW70XoIQLZ-khNHsaW1wdGyXoYI1bRCK1BM0g_qPgkT-R1ejDL1vFQ47XxbcHhBU/s2048/20210606_190907.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIs_VnogMlnb9k5KhlRC1CrGCI870VPRpuCj_lX2QINTnay3GC9Nq77M9hPatInkYms4FQDGkUdVUgW70XoIQLZ-khNHsaW1wdGyXoYI1bRCK1BM0g_qPgkT-R1ejDL1vFQ47XxbcHhBU/s320/20210606_190907.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>(You can't get in the Jeep, FYI.)</div><div><br /></div><div>While everyone's getting pictures here, you can hit the gift shop and fill up the water bottles they give you with either water, tea or lemonade. Obviously, get some water, especially if it's 95 degrees like it was on my day. </div><div><br /></div><div>You start in the main hall/cafeteria and you can still see the fireplace from the movie's prologue, where they sing a campfire song before those two kids run off to get freaky (and also get killed.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Again, top pictures are screengrabs, bottom pics are my pictures (but they're not in montages like the earlier pictures.)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6PgusnVjYVUddaRw1UOcPxboVCg5sap54t1A8hgIiuFKd_SwI61kxTOG4VCCbf1yhgZfSqpKCsu6jLH26ncIKEBXZk6faHOIDfrTUN-XVCqfJeEcnmmUIS44ottnbQLrpbHo8PPHJnM/s1920/fireplace2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6PgusnVjYVUddaRw1UOcPxboVCg5sap54t1A8hgIiuFKd_SwI61kxTOG4VCCbf1yhgZfSqpKCsu6jLH26ncIKEBXZk6faHOIDfrTUN-XVCqfJeEcnmmUIS44ottnbQLrpbHo8PPHJnM/s320/fireplace2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Pg_1qb_K9ZOAW5t22I0sgim29NTWBJzX5-l7NGzta76AxGm89OC7o-GYYZaZie3cByl4dJh9tAhvojHBYdheLKmRn8MuY-2Snp67E79Kb5HHYdWOeREwQYXYNk6fT6n78iAVpjy2TdE/s2048/20210606_192932.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Pg_1qb_K9ZOAW5t22I0sgim29NTWBJzX5-l7NGzta76AxGm89OC7o-GYYZaZie3cByl4dJh9tAhvojHBYdheLKmRn8MuY-2Snp67E79Kb5HHYdWOeREwQYXYNk6fT6n78iAVpjy2TdE/s320/20210606_192932.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>The movie cuts away as our two horny teens slip off to an upstairs area to get busy. Fun fact, this is the only two story building in the entire camp. They do let you go inside and go upstairs, I'm not sure it looks much like it did then.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Should have gotten a picture of the stairs going up - next time!)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEhOinvsSnCy5Sn-f1qF6bKZhfB83vBPCdfz_g8O7RLdetGusI0TKJ19Zl1w83yW1pD0jYjXKwLdeuUAQyVuLIPY_a4XDOsZoGkNLT3r_xVnxsREkyOyn3hv-ga6-KhTsRR2jOltV6Sz4/s1920/prologuekills.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEhOinvsSnCy5Sn-f1qF6bKZhfB83vBPCdfz_g8O7RLdetGusI0TKJ19Zl1w83yW1pD0jYjXKwLdeuUAQyVuLIPY_a4XDOsZoGkNLT3r_xVnxsREkyOyn3hv-ga6-KhTsRR2jOltV6Sz4/s320/prologuekills.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPefB30kFHPnR5EbWEPeLN9KierKpDYRTZFEOaXXphjV4MJ6TD7XuW145pa3ql94hGszV3RtCKVBJBofsvXWSXrT_f0yGBkiK9EfmLwpdpTWTTft5mH1spY7AkgArBE24oFHd4q_N8T4/s2048/20210606_194340.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPefB30kFHPnR5EbWEPeLN9KierKpDYRTZFEOaXXphjV4MJ6TD7XuW145pa3ql94hGszV3RtCKVBJBofsvXWSXrT_f0yGBkiK9EfmLwpdpTWTTft5mH1spY7AkgArBE24oFHd4q_N8T4/s320/20210606_194340.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTJh5ITjVOYCQMiztakUnRsJ13wqx8VU9z1m2SmZphxL8leIEEctwJvO8PqN44eELjMpuuJMOhgWIzQTu7FNQsJsEtaogS8SrkNrdpHbBLbL0fKXsvpiX-p5rL_Jnqw1WgPa7Y6auN1Ew/s2048/20210606_194554.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTJh5ITjVOYCQMiztakUnRsJ13wqx8VU9z1m2SmZphxL8leIEEctwJvO8PqN44eELjMpuuJMOhgWIzQTu7FNQsJsEtaogS8SrkNrdpHbBLbL0fKXsvpiX-p5rL_Jnqw1WgPa7Y6auN1Ew/s320/20210606_194554.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GwSHoBSB8jaQSpdKFuQ4xtB45O6Y5ns4CFyPM_F9tlG5Vq64nUIpKFiqCkptGQJzx3Mus1DU_zRSo2G5hPLd1405MKIZBy8p4MIR07iKra2nCinS_ooh06XpkeMSoyZNXSmvVn1HIio/s2048/20210606_194557.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GwSHoBSB8jaQSpdKFuQ4xtB45O6Y5ns4CFyPM_F9tlG5Vq64nUIpKFiqCkptGQJzx3Mus1DU_zRSo2G5hPLd1405MKIZBy8p4MIR07iKra2nCinS_ooh06XpkeMSoyZNXSmvVn1HIio/s320/20210606_194557.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVVS4Wxs-k_vLIk7bDjIx5nismVPYoLtxpKcGWrYxrmYnmS_odYyoBNGyYRtCSXKdlaAPsgIgZQOrjTLy61JgQJKR1C2Ktk5v26sBlTRWC5adIPes3bEoNm853Eh6Ntjcc1yX7uGOzcMY/s2048/20210606_194600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVVS4Wxs-k_vLIk7bDjIx5nismVPYoLtxpKcGWrYxrmYnmS_odYyoBNGyYRtCSXKdlaAPsgIgZQOrjTLy61JgQJKR1C2Ktk5v26sBlTRWC5adIPes3bEoNm853Eh6Ntjcc1yX7uGOzcMY/s320/20210606_194600.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The next building we saw was, in the movie, the generator building. It's not a generator building for real, and you can't get inside it.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is an arrow on the windowsill.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ55yTkijnS-jcAG54jdH3_NZlGqFOTj0vTORyqYtHcwNvCHGkojdr0aKchVTprkiTVsA55tkObMWhScye9MlAURaS5N8eEKGPC2X7dcCBEbLYa2FkisSgita7SJNSnqHaLi0RcfCEcMs/s640/bill_reveal.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ55yTkijnS-jcAG54jdH3_NZlGqFOTj0vTORyqYtHcwNvCHGkojdr0aKchVTprkiTVsA55tkObMWhScye9MlAURaS5N8eEKGPC2X7dcCBEbLYa2FkisSgita7SJNSnqHaLi0RcfCEcMs/s320/bill_reveal.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierJK0vigv9VBJbRPVugSGz85p0TB2rsvrQUtvlUwF2BUO0A5QIZ0qrpcoGWBZp2M7IohlWdFqnwtWKkuaN1Wmm_uJw9_Vw0Bjp21biWzutqnX1F828fD5i5JJFf_gsnL12_6feBAJDJA/s2048/20210606_193734.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierJK0vigv9VBJbRPVugSGz85p0TB2rsvrQUtvlUwF2BUO0A5QIZ0qrpcoGWBZp2M7IohlWdFqnwtWKkuaN1Wmm_uJw9_Vw0Bjp21biWzutqnX1F828fD5i5JJFf_gsnL12_6feBAJDJA/s320/20210606_193734.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SgUtsTzXEkiUs0WJ5rGJmQpluHwLFLNjA8T0IscBZT7p_hjrQHSllb8EXElC_btrCwROGarox7Kkq5HwanxR_ZNX99bgcPc2LubbHppHdfcPPtNLV0C-j4cQPXV8f1-AYoiP-IJCtjk/s2048/20210606_193739.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SgUtsTzXEkiUs0WJ5rGJmQpluHwLFLNjA8T0IscBZT7p_hjrQHSllb8EXElC_btrCwROGarox7Kkq5HwanxR_ZNX99bgcPc2LubbHppHdfcPPtNLV0C-j4cQPXV8f1-AYoiP-IJCtjk/s320/20210606_193739.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVk-D-gI_CKVQcWoleKyPgVk-qQsUqx7Ba05XW9XJVy0VpNPgjGD4JeqeQTWtVRYRPqBVPG7vMVe09gKg5fMImS8YLlcJIGg5ILY0g55fterazH5k2usqO-6vODIquIOrdYG_vMFt4SM/s2048/20210606_193750.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVk-D-gI_CKVQcWoleKyPgVk-qQsUqx7Ba05XW9XJVy0VpNPgjGD4JeqeQTWtVRYRPqBVPG7vMVe09gKg5fMImS8YLlcJIGg5ILY0g55fterazH5k2usqO-6vODIquIOrdYG_vMFt4SM/s320/20210606_193750.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div>The next stop on OUR tour was the archery range (remember, different tours go in different routes, so we aren't all on top of each other. Giggity.) </div><div><br /></div><div>In the movie the range kind of feels like it's in the center of things but it's really way off in the corner of the camp, as far away from the entrance as you can get.</div><div><br /></div><div>The archery range is, of course, where Ned tries to hit on Brenda by shooting an arrow at her. I may not have the best game but I think I've got better game than Ned. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvgDADfdq-wvELN_TD31oCy9Lm_siK53OEKSYIGE9GdCbMWy85FtFuapQIJytEQ__e9ouA-nG4SOah2-VVPOHsoyHsJw2-kXUmz-zS_uI2Az57tT-gieqiu_rbsl6cRQq3hx8sIKL9ios/s1920/range2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvgDADfdq-wvELN_TD31oCy9Lm_siK53OEKSYIGE9GdCbMWy85FtFuapQIJytEQ__e9ouA-nG4SOah2-VVPOHsoyHsJw2-kXUmz-zS_uI2Az57tT-gieqiu_rbsl6cRQq3hx8sIKL9ios/s320/range2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWNKtVWqfvWYGhL6yHZ_D4916efV0M-H-N8temHuxy3NuTMdE10cXLkrMknzTGrkvIgS2lileANitGOcfV0iZq7vMjPitlUYIJoyaNr2M02NWSXufNLN-GYlyg4aJQ5PJI_JSv4aMKVWo/s1920/range3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We could see the beach and see where Pamela was watching the kids sinnin' and where Brenda thought she saw her. Given years of overgrowth and what not, it's hard to figure out the exact spot where the camera was set.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The beach property has been painted brown and the extensions into the water aren't laid out the same.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Still, for easy reference, if the beach property is painted white, it's from the movie, if it's brown, it's a picture I took.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">You can also see the boathouse down a bit from the beach. 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As a proud city boy, that was close enough to nature for me! (The camp handled it perfectly and immediately got a wrangler on hand to move the snake.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The next shots are from the bathroom where Marcie gets an axe to the face. The building they used was never an actual bathroom though - it's also all the way on the other side of the lake, away from everything else. The movie does a good job of making a lot of these cabins seem close to one another.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They've tried to redress the building to look like the bathroom, it's not *quite* there but you get the idea. You could still get an axe in the face there if you really wanted to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Brenda also goes to the same bathroom but, again the row of sinks was only there during the movie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZug26c42CX9d0rErg0pxM0cGD2ClCDfVh5U_k0IxqkIyHg3D2Umvk09XvygUbw43hSX22LxYbOWQFQQLEHuOj6q2tUOB1dGSpTIYNMau6qCIeGvwLLDxieA3SzH2Stu0uAAw4U4ZADWc/s1280/marcie1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZug26c42CX9d0rErg0pxM0cGD2ClCDfVh5U_k0IxqkIyHg3D2Umvk09XvygUbw43hSX22LxYbOWQFQQLEHuOj6q2tUOB1dGSpTIYNMau6qCIeGvwLLDxieA3SzH2Stu0uAAw4U4ZADWc/s320/marcie1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There is a Monopoly board set up (and they watch to make sure you don't take anything,) It's not THE Monopoly board, but it's from the era.</div><div><br /></div><div>Earlier in the movie, the back room of the cabin is where Ralph emerges from the pantry to warn them and also where (later) Brenda is chucked through the window at Alice.</div><div><br /></div><div>The pantry wasn't real so it's not there anymore. It was just there for the movie. 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text-align: left;">The next cabin we encounter is the cabin where Kevin Bacon and Marcie go to get busy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's not laid out exactly the same either, but you can see the bunks where they were going at it (and also where poor Ned's dead body was laying.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The sex scene pictures are, naturally, mostly close-ups.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The cabin itself is right by the beach, near where Pamela and Alice had their final encounter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9SRlpy8RvWfJkCpOsKYDpPW0IGvYZSQHz6Xmye5QqxtGrLOa5oZVV7987nnD7SdMZJyt6-HhryRCL6qWjG8zHGOCkaPOZg7RsvFrzOUnpEAwEjTpn7MtFRelpXqAKckP2TkHF5lAOR8/s1920/bacon1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The beach is amazing - it doesn't look exactly the same but, man, you just feel the power of the movie when you're standing there.<div><br /></div><div>Also, the beach has eroded a good 8 feet since the time the movie was shot so it's tough to say EXACTLY where Alice and Pamela did what. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thus and so, here are a bunch of pictures from the beach ... </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRptULYcq6asZL0UbLPM_AqXsUYppOvRrBVgRgobk6qOsrjAL4Re_a0pMjq_gBqP-oEwcMrdl_0BUIc38E253ZFDvoch895bw8R2MeWgX89aDzTrdvRD81oEILnw6WBavCpAJR-E1KsdM/s2048/20210606_210934.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRptULYcq6asZL0UbLPM_AqXsUYppOvRrBVgRgobk6qOsrjAL4Re_a0pMjq_gBqP-oEwcMrdl_0BUIc38E253ZFDvoch895bw8R2MeWgX89aDzTrdvRD81oEILnw6WBavCpAJR-E1KsdM/s320/20210606_210934.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It's all on the path leading to the camp from the main lodge - it was basically shot with their backs to the beach. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is also where Ralph rides his bike off, again, during the day. Following the path he really wouldn't go anywhere but, you know, it's movie magic.</div><div><br /></div><div>The cabin with the outside deck where Ned investigates before he dies is gone.</div><div><br /></div><div>The house they were working on the gutters when creepy Steve Christy even more creepily hits on Alice is also gone. </div><div><br /></div><div>They do have pictures where those scenes happened.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8mIo_WKXpuV6Z_EUi2IlRf95J4D7oixjhzDqltcNlLducCTSRUR18L7n99bpTokNySPShQvOt_0e4LgNGvQJKKzagL5cE0Uio8h1NJL-NPtOPE8F6-Kqz63WWfD4_dznV8N35FxDBPw/s2048/20210606_212832.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8mIo_WKXpuV6Z_EUi2IlRf95J4D7oixjhzDqltcNlLducCTSRUR18L7n99bpTokNySPShQvOt_0e4LgNGvQJKKzagL5cE0Uio8h1NJL-NPtOPE8F6-Kqz63WWfD4_dznV8N35FxDBPw/s320/20210606_212832.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfCE5HO99nkUVPDoQKDoVTrK4ZQCXI4ZH-24Sjd2smHxRZJgIN36gsVD3-hdoU_HvNxSpxVvawzP57ANR7IsseXaNdyUY4CvlpzyPBV9LVOlRuBPuKqEkgUEsJC6Np8MZz1aXRiFE_24/s2048/20210606_213929.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfCE5HO99nkUVPDoQKDoVTrK4ZQCXI4ZH-24Sjd2smHxRZJgIN36gsVD3-hdoU_HvNxSpxVvawzP57ANR7IsseXaNdyUY4CvlpzyPBV9LVOlRuBPuKqEkgUEsJC6Np8MZz1aXRiFE_24/s320/20210606_213929.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9mkk9zE6ttvOvZUXmZ7N_pCGHlfe4QmD2Ujthr1Ia96z51sUEtGu0UIViyAudWpwpyWVcU18osIi87TlZnB7oTT5RV5tnGsgQnvDF_s0VvYPOqaOpycDmvrjEyUf04c0bCIm8pGojegE/s2048/20210606_214820.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9mkk9zE6ttvOvZUXmZ7N_pCGHlfe4QmD2Ujthr1Ia96z51sUEtGu0UIViyAudWpwpyWVcU18osIi87TlZnB7oTT5RV5tnGsgQnvDF_s0VvYPOqaOpycDmvrjEyUf04c0bCIm8pGojegE/s320/20210606_214820.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>If I didn't mention it before, the sign at the tour is the actual sign from the movie.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI-cdNdBk_Voq3qXFfYSBsh6qn4H4Ty-2jtCMP9qWZ2RMg_dxVqOJF0y5SReI2eckC3KJryl0QfVMeU0WKpwHZaZ5h_7wdS1HUtEmx-0kKxYpO_PzkZNzSwfI4aL3SgdNTjUw94phN6hg/s2048/20210606_214827.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI-cdNdBk_Voq3qXFfYSBsh6qn4H4Ty-2jtCMP9qWZ2RMg_dxVqOJF0y5SReI2eckC3KJryl0QfVMeU0WKpwHZaZ5h_7wdS1HUtEmx-0kKxYpO_PzkZNzSwfI4aL3SgdNTjUw94phN6hg/s320/20210606_214827.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmDUGI5v_l226Tjt3jLWXjnepnMtTN1PynQ4yoo5EXoBx5YLyxXaTBQWf27vTqXoUNb2wTSG_3ImN50gIwIr7fNBLdJiBQ_Vi5EMvYM8r1oa8IOx_Ua2LLO6oLgAzrL4ps9DYuQNNVVk/s2048/20210606_214841.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmDUGI5v_l226Tjt3jLWXjnepnMtTN1PynQ4yoo5EXoBx5YLyxXaTBQWf27vTqXoUNb2wTSG_3ImN50gIwIr7fNBLdJiBQ_Vi5EMvYM8r1oa8IOx_Ua2LLO6oLgAzrL4ps9DYuQNNVVk/s320/20210606_214841.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The map of the camp. You cover a lot of ground!</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpj_FEwwXxgAHNUf_viKVYHb0NEGhnyDR8zEcNe6-xSrH1Owt91MIMSI6bw8pxRKcz_GqeunDQfAEjus3dm8mhvkF1fxMo6uDau9sKKvxp5qLwR8VXpfe0nTccOyCfQcfND9bXWlt6Trw/s2048/20210606_215448.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpj_FEwwXxgAHNUf_viKVYHb0NEGhnyDR8zEcNe6-xSrH1Owt91MIMSI6bw8pxRKcz_GqeunDQfAEjus3dm8mhvkF1fxMo6uDau9sKKvxp5qLwR8VXpfe0nTccOyCfQcfND9bXWlt6Trw/s320/20210606_215448.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>There's plenty of swag too: <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFcbW6yvVv_heq6CSAtqyaMJtv4w1OTXaF_XwRZKqf376gc8nZauiWOAhUyM7Quxs534Jm_0-vKpLSTSHvP4-QUsQBp5phdAom_V6saZ-R7UHSs6JrgxQZ-vLFA-jkpPF3Kn8s3QH08Y/s2048/20210607_193933.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFcbW6yvVv_heq6CSAtqyaMJtv4w1OTXaF_XwRZKqf376gc8nZauiWOAhUyM7Quxs534Jm_0-vKpLSTSHvP4-QUsQBp5phdAom_V6saZ-R7UHSs6JrgxQZ-vLFA-jkpPF3Kn8s3QH08Y/s320/20210607_193933.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>You can get water and sand from the lake one of two ways: you can buy an empty bottle or you can buy a bottle already filled. The bottles that are already filled were filled on an actual Friday the 13th. </div><div><br /></div><div>Since I went on my birthday, I filled my own and now have lake water and sand from Crystal Lake taken out on my birthday.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwX-i5m_Q78SSrEUzTME7n2pxmis6CT39rJozei3wTA_vs6XBVofVJAZPK6lVb6qwLEOzV-S6yA_NDX9tqtqNjITPBYGrCHJaKsfYMugBf7S8caytPSuazc_A3EwKkeiRs92deLlIwk8/s2048/20210607_211037.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwX-i5m_Q78SSrEUzTME7n2pxmis6CT39rJozei3wTA_vs6XBVofVJAZPK6lVb6qwLEOzV-S6yA_NDX9tqtqNjITPBYGrCHJaKsfYMugBf7S8caytPSuazc_A3EwKkeiRs92deLlIwk8/s320/20210607_211037.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div>Anyone still here?</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, the tour is amazing - definitely make time to go into Blairstown and Hope and get those pictures too.</div><div><br /></div><div>I did a night tour which was super cool, especially being on the beach at night. Still, if you want pristine pictures of everything, do the day tour.</div><div><br /></div><div>And if anyone I know what's a Plus + I will definitely go again, especially if they do a cast reunion!</div><div><br /></div><div>His name was Jason ... </div>JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-69237899314984214632016-10-17T11:13:00.001-04:002016-10-17T11:13:27.776-04:00Why Horror? (Or: What the Hell is Wrong With You?)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I get asked a lot why I'm fascinated with horror fiction. Oftentimes there's that underlying question: 'what made you so psychologically disturbed that you enjoy seeing people be stalked and killed by monsters?'</div>
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Well, here's what I know: I was born in 1973, I was part of the first generation of kids that had "Star Wars" toys, the Super Friends were on TV, so was Spider-Man. I loved all that stuff as much as any kid. When I played with those toys, though, the bad guys always won. Why? They were way cooler than the heroes. I mean - Darth Vader was the baddest ass in the galaxy and Luke Skywalker was this boring, whiny kid. There was no contest. It kept going - The Decepticons always beat the Autobots in my world, the poor GI Joe teams never stood a chance against the forces of Cobra. I was a much bigger fan of Electro than I was of Spider-Man. Even when I started watching pro wrestling, I never cheered for the vanilla babyface good guys, not when The Road Warriors and The Masked Superstar were running around actually being awesome by wreaking havoc and gloating about it.</div>
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And then there were the monsters. Glorious, gross, hideous creatures that prowled the night or the forest or outer space that took whatever they wanted from a world that was terrified of them. Is there ANY monster movie where I didn't cheer for the monster? I can't think of one. </div>
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Now, I wasn't an evil kid. I was a smart ass, maybe a little too imaginitive for my own good, but I wasn't harboring some deep suited hatred against mankind, I was just rebellious and liked stuff with a little more edge to it, even when I was six or seven years old. Charisma was a powerful thing. The good guy saving the day only had limited appeal for me. Especially when that good guy was a milque toast bore like The Lone Ranger who's motto was essentially "I shoot bad guys in the hand and then lecture kids on how to be good neighbors." It's no wonder I cheered for the guys in black hats to put a ball of lead between his eyes.</div>
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Good horror stories aren't about a hero saving the day. They're about a character SURVIVING. Man, that's the stuff. They come out WORSE for it. Does anyone think Laurie Strode was anything but traumatized by the events in "Halloween?" Poor Sally Hardesty probably ended up in a therapists chair for years after the events of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." But as protagonists these characters stand up and conquer their fears. Physically. Emotionally. Mentally. They aren't trained for this. They end up in the wrong place and have to decide if they want to live or if they want to die. Is it really that dramatic that all-powerful Superman shows up to give Lex Luthor the business? Superman has no character. He has no arc. He shows up in every story perfectly suited to win, and that's what he does. Ho hum. A punch in the head FOR JUSTICE.</div>
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I quickly lost interest in safe little child-proof stories and gravitated toward these dark (and highly inappropriate) stories aimed at adults. I wanted to be pushed and pulled through a story. Horror stories assault the audience. Wes Craven has said once an audience doesn't trust the storyteller that's when real horror happens. YES. As a creative kid, that's what I wanted to see. That's what I wanted to DO. </div>
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I wasn't numb to the effects of these movies and stories. It's not like I kept watching scary stuff and grew a thick skin and became immune to their effects. Oh, HELL NO. I was afraid of the dark most of my childhood. I never wanted to be left alone at night. After sneaking a peak of mom and dad watching 'Salem's Lot' once the lights went out I didn't dare look near my bedroom window, I was convinced there was going to be a vampire kid floating out there, waiting to take me to the dark side. But there was a thrill to all of that, even if it made for some long nights in grade school. Everything was ok during the day but once the darkness fell ... well, I wasn't one that wanted to be outside in the woods, that's for sure. I knew what was out there. </div>
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Now, I've spent a lot of my life reading super hero stories, don't get me wrong. I'm not trashing them. I'm just saying not every kid is so enraptured by that kind of story. Even in the golden age - lots of kids were sneaking peaks at EC Comics, which were chock full of blood and guts, when mom and dad weren't looking. Lots of kids picked up pro wrestling magazines based on which one had the bloodiest, craziest looking cover on the newsstand, not because they really wanted to know if Brad Armstrong vanquished The Spoiler. There's more to childhood than white knights and men in black hats. </div>
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I will say, after about 10,000 failed attempts, I don't have many upbeat super hero stories to tell. It's not my thing. But I have lots of scary stories to tell. It's in my genes at this point. Why? Because an otherwise unexpecting character facing and surviving that thing that goes bump in the night is really compelling to me. </div>
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<span data-offset-key="7fgoc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Rob Zombie’s previous movie “The Lords of Salem” was a definite step in a different direction for the director. It replaced his usual manic and aggressive violence with a sort of slow burn melancholy. When that movie got both a commercial and critical thumbs down, Zombie appears to have decided to get back to his roots with the ultra-violent “31,” a movie that’s no more complicated than the one sentence description of its plot. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2uf1v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Murderworld of “31” is run by a trio of fops in opera wigs and garish costumes. Malcolm McDowell seems to be the leader and Judy Geeson and Jane Carr are his partners in crime. The fops wager on who they think might survive, often changing the survival odds and announcing them over the PA system to the competitors. Injured competitors find their odds of survival decreased, naturally. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c7t94-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The killers they employ are crazed clowns with their own batch of fetishes and weapons. When the first bad guy you see is a Mexican Nazi Midget, you know you’re in for a special sort of adventure. The killers operate like video game bosses, the longer the heroes survive, the more hardcore the clowns get. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e6q0c-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Can I speak freely about how tired I am of Joker/Harley Quinn imagery? We get more of it here. The biggest bad has slick hair and a bloody smile, moving methodically with a seemingly calm drive, blathering on pretentiously about life and death. Before we meet him we encounter a bubbly blonde with a bloodlust and a baby’s voice. It’s completely played out in the DCU, it doesn’t do itself any favors here. Why a person as visually creative as Zombie is aping such a cliched image is a question for the ages. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d6uaa-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The five survivors are given no time to develop, not that it would matter if they did. Sheri Moon Zombie is at the center of it, for no other reason than we know she’s Zombie’s wife and is going to be protected. Jeff Daniel Phillips, her co-star in “Lords of Salem” is back too, as is Meg Foster. They each fight to survive in the same basic way - normally a story like this thrives on the character dynamics, who’s strong, who’s weak, who rises up, who collapses under the weight of it all. We don’t get any of that here. They just take shots at whatever comes their way. Not even the ticking time limit of the game adds suspense as the twelve hours elapse with no real escalation in tension. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="di0ia-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Zombie’s direction this time is endlessly aggressive. I’m not one that usually notices shaky cameras but there’s so much of it here, along with strobe lights, that most of the fight scenes are impossible to follow. At his best Zombie has made scenes of intense violence that he forces the audience to stare at, even when they don’t want to. Here you can’t stay focused if you try, lest you have a seizure. </span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-15773213333163472132016-08-17T08:11:00.002-04:002016-08-17T08:11:05.569-04:00Scream Season 2 FINALE<div class="_2cuy _3dgx" data-block="true" data-editor="5l0o8" data-offset-key="9bbk3-0-0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span data-offset-key="9bbk3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Well, I’m not going to tell you who the killer is. You’ll have to watch. Or ask privately. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="se4m-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I’ll say this: the reveal worked as mystery reveals should, what seemed convoluted and complicated and unpredictable ended up making sense and being fairly simple and straight-forward. There were some twists, most of which worked and made sense. Yes, there are still things that could have been solved earlier if people just would have told each other what they knew and what was going on but, hey, that’s showbiz.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8opuf-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Was every plot thread cleaned up neatly? Not really. Some questions didn’t really get answered. It happens. Still, the finale pulled the focus back on the main characters and the central storyline. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6v6tu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The focus was on Emma and Audrey, where it all began. Noah and Brooke were there at their friends’ sides but were a bit on the sidelines. That was a touch of a disappointment. After so much they’d been through because of all the other nonsense, it would have been nice to see them get their hands a little dirtier. After all, this sick game cost Noah two girls he may have loved, and cost Brooke a boyfriend and a father. They had cause to draw some blood of their own, I’d say.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="lv46-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">If I have a criticism of Season 2 is that it didn’t give the characters the depth of circumstance they had in Season 1. One thing that made the first season work so well was that the murderer on the loose revealed a lot of dark secrets hidden in the main characters. This season had a lot less of that, it was a lot of clean up from season one’s mess. It wasn’t quite as dynamic or dark. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="10gov-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Still, Season 2 of “Scream” was a lot of fun. And they left just enough dangling out there that should there be a third season there’s still more story to tell. </span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-88304135648034049662016-08-03T08:04:00.001-04:002016-08-03T08:04:59.916-04:00Scream Season 2 Episode 10<div class="_2cuy _3dgx" data-block="true" data-editor="putf" data-offset-key="1uhd-0-0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span data-offset-key="1uhd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">As we get near to the end of this season of “Scream,” it seems everyone decided to circle the wagons this week. The killer is being about as subtle as death metal as he points his focus directly at Audrey and Emma and anyone they care about.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b5m3k-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">At the same time, the sheriff and Emma’s mom are getting closer and closer to the conclusion that Brandon James may still be alive after all these years. It’s getting so serious that they’re even using flashbacks to show more of the lost history of Brandon James, Maggie and Sheriff Acosta. You know it’s serious when flashbacks are involved! </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cccrd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The real focus this episode though is on Noah in peril. Using Zoe’s phone, the killer lures Noah back to the beach and stabs him, then buries him alive, setting up a couple clues for Emma and Audrey to come find Noah, maybe in time, maybe not.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="113ht-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Sure, the killer could just kill Noah, but that’s not his point. The “Scream” stories are always about making the protagonists suffer, by making them fail to save the ones they love. Finding Noah dead would be traumatic, sure, but failing to save him would be even worse.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="67l5e-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Emma and Audrey are hardly a united front. Emma still can’t forgive Audrey for bringing Piper to Lakewood, no matter how much Audrey professes ignorance of what Piper was doing.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9podk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">There’s a big reveal though: over the course of their arguing, Audrey drops that she and Piper were together the night Audrey’s girlfriend from the previous season died. So if Piper didn’t kill her and Audrey didn’t kill her ... who killed her? </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2cjve-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Audrey and Emma continued their personal squabbles while looking for Noah. If the goal was to tear them apart, it didn’t really work. The girls found Noah in the nick of time (of course) but then it was revealed that Zoe was trapped in a similar scenario.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="141pp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">While they were in time to save Noah, they weren’t in time to save Noah. While the killer live fed Noah’s struggles to the girls, the videos of Zoe’s struggles were on tape delay, she was gone before they found her at the lake. Brutal.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="csm44-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The killer also took a swing for the fences by calling Sheriff Acosta directly and sending him to the farmhouse where he’d left a mess of dead pigs and human body parts, notably Branson’s missing hand. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="59re2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">At the end, Emma ended up back at home where creepy Eli emerged from the darkness and watched her house. What was he up to? I guess we’ll find out next week. </span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-47045429183269506642016-07-27T08:19:00.001-04:002016-07-27T08:19:57.337-04:00Scream Season 2 Episode 9<div class="_2cuy _3dgx" data-block="true" data-editor="f8rc" data-offset-key="10a7o-0-0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span data-offset-key="10a7o-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The big news this week is that Emma knows what Audrey told Noah, thanks to a mysterious email that seems to have been sent by Zoe, even though Zoe’s denies it and Noah, somewhat controversially backs her. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1pvqk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Emma is naturally pissed at Audrey and that makes Kieran and, to a lesser degree, equally pissed at Audrey. I mean, it’s valid. Audrey confessing to bringing Piper to Lakewood is kind of a big deal.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d6qjv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Really, a lot of this episode has to do with Piper. A visit to Ms. Lang in the hospital by Emma goes badly as Ms. Lang reacts like she’s seeing a monster. Still, Kieran snags the keys to Ms. Lang’s place before he goes. Before that, though, one of Ms. Lang’s cassettes is found dangling in Emma’s locker, which makes the teacher’s obsession with Emma a little clearer and also makes it clear she sees Emma as some kind of raging monster. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="42qdc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Of note, though, the message on Emma’s locker was written in lipstick, which is only interesting because right before that scene we were shown Stavo snagging a tube of lipstick from Brooke’s bedroom.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bj4kh-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">(I’m not really sure why I’m going through this episode backwards, it just seems to make more sense.)</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bo357-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Stavo continues to look creepier, not just for stealing Brooke’s lipstick but his dad finally told Emma’s mom what happened in Phoenix - that Stavo and a friend were playing with a gun, a gun that went off and shot Stavo’s friend in the face. Stavo, though, was cold as ice about it and sat and drew his friend dying. Stavo’s looking a bit more like a sociopath, but, along the way, he finds out that The Mayor was paying Jake to burn down his development that was losing money.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="73k4o-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">A couple loose ends - we didn’t see Eli this episode and we haven’t seen his mother in weeks. If she’s still doing dirty business for the mayor, she could have set the fire in the development, but we still don’t know the tie between that and the bodies upstairs. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="61rsk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Noah tries to prove to Audrey and Zoe that Zoe didn’t send Emma the email with Audrey’s confession attached. But Zoe definitely sent the email to herself and the fake email it was sent from was also registered to Zoe. Noah stood up for her anyway and then, finally, Zoe and Noah totally knocked boots. And we got a ‘Phantasm 2’ reference thrown in to boot. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="efsra-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Kieran and Emma found a picture of Piper and Ms. Lang together at an old foster home and decided to investigate, only to find that someone had decided to throw a rave there - and all the invites were from Emma and Audrey, even though they didn’t have anything to do it.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3m5p2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Creepy Haley reared her head again, this time knowing who actually threw the party saying it was ‘someone she’s seeing.’ Said someone then killed her in rather gruesome fashion.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fd0ms-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">We have three episodes left and there’s still a lot of mystery to solve, which is good. Stavo being a sociopath really doesn’t help his cause but there’s still a ways to go. </span></span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-31857252555340581642016-07-25T14:08:00.001-04:002016-07-25T14:08:50.640-04:00Lights Out<div class="_2cuy _3dgx" data-block="true" data-editor="8h452" data-offset-key="c52q8-0-0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span data-offset-key="c52q8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">“Lights Out” started as a two minute short film that got a lot of buzz going around the horror circuit a couple years ago. Making a full length feature out of something completely devoid of actual story, though, is another matter completely. Luckily the creators of the full length “Lights Out” have kept the pure thrill of that initial short but then, smartly, made it part of a story that’s heavy enough on its own, even before the boogeyman starts appearing in the shadows.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3hlvo-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Similar to recent movies like “Oculus” and “Mama,” “Lights Out” puts into a protagonist’s life that’s already filled with drama. Here we have a young boy stuck in his house with an increasingly crazy mother. His father was killed and his big sister got out as soon as she was old enough. Because of the scary thing in the house, he can’t sleep, which is causing him problems at school. Problems his mother doesn’t seem especially equipped to help him address.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fofsu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">When mother fails to pick him up from school, the duty falls to the boy’s twenty-something sister, Rebecca, played by “Warm Bodies” alumnus Teresa Palmer as a sharp-edged rocker chick who won’t let her boyfriend too close, even though he’s obviously madly in love with her. She’s also in no position to take over parental duties from her mother but, as things escalate, she’s faced with some hard choices.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="816lj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The mother here is played by Maria Bello, always a strong presence, here a broken mix of anxiety, depression and terror. As we learn more and more about the creature in the darkness, we start to see her character unspool, learning this far more than a simple house haunting and the sadness that defines their family is far from an accident.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bmc1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"> At the center of “Lights Out” is a monster that can only survive in the darkness. It avoids any and all light and as long as you can keep yourself surrounded by light, you’re ok. This leads to an assortment of scenes where lights flicker and the monster appears, only to vanish when the lights stay on, or, in some cases, to be able to make a move when the darkness stays.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="88tat-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">As slight as “Lights Out” sometimes is (and even at 81 minutes it still feels padded toward the end,) it’s still working off a foundation of something serious. These are hard characters who have lived a hard life, they’ve hurt one another and been hurt. Palmer’s Rebecca is independent and defiant but knowingly lost. Her decision to take care of her baby brother is not she’s prepared for, but still one she takes, knowing that doing so would put her back near the danger she had fled from so many years ago.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8mpup-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Bello, too, is playing to a serious mental trauma in her character. She’s both manipulated and terrified, a victim from so many directions. She’s lost two men and her daughter to this curse and knows she’ll lose her son. In one scene she attempts to save him by having him embraced by the darkness. She’s the one that gets the most hurt. It’s the tragedy of her situation that fuels the movie’s frantic finale. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="asgqm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Fear of the dark is the basic staple of horror movies. “Lights Out” takes that basic idea and drills into a family dynamic, blurring the line between the horrors of real life and the horrors of the supernatural. It may not be able to completely support its own weight but, even when it falls short, there’s still enough going on in the shadows to make you shiver. </span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-34831523916892636892016-07-20T08:16:00.001-04:002016-07-20T08:16:11.973-04:00Scream Season 2 Episode 8<div class="_2cuy _3dgx" data-block="true" data-editor="9bo1r" data-offset-key="f7q3r-0-0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span data-offset-key="f7q3r-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">This week’s episode of “Scream” took us to the annual Lakewood Carnvial, where people eat dangerously unhealthy food and ride even more dangerous portable rides but the real danger is, of course, the killer that’s on the loose and targeting Emma directly while still screwing with Audrey along the way.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="58bg9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Last week left us with Ms. Lang lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of a high school stairwell, while we didn’t learn the specifics of her fate this week, the Sheriff did find her box of interview tapes with the Lakewood 6 and then hid a tape she made with his creepy son Stavo. (Seriously, though? TAPES? Does she not have a digital recorder?)</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="csgng-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Brooke and Zoe were mostly relegated to pageant prep, with Zoe being nervous about an awful Belle-inspired dress and speaking in public. Brooke saved the day with a better dress and then promptly eased her tension by getting really drunk off a flask Zoe brought, then letting the entire town have it in her pageant speech. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cm6no-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Zoe totally blueballed Noah again, for the record. Poor guy can’t catch a break. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8jpgp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Emma, meanwhile, did Emma stuff - this time with Audrey in tow, as Audrey really wanted to tell Emma the truth about bringing Piper to Lakewood the season previous (although we still don’t know if that’s the whole truth and nothing but the truth.)</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="94j8r-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Creepy Stavo and Eli didn’t help their causes too much. Stavo’s dad, the sheriff, couldn’t find the mask that Stavo has, but Stavo told him if he thinks he’s the killer to prove it. Still, dad did find a drawing of Branson tied to the bedpost. The problem there being I don’t think he has any way of knowing that happened, which leads us to believe it was his video camera in the room that night. He’s still in Brooke’s good faith, hopefully that won’t bite her in the ass.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cci1u-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Eli, meanwhile, was revealed to have a restraining order against him from some girl in Atlanta and when he pushed Kieran’s buttons too much, got a right hook or three for his troubles. For his own troubles, Kieran ended up captured in the funhouse by the killer. Of course he was just bait for Emma to go looking for him but, of course also, she got away and Kieran got saved.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="205a8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Another episode that sort of ran in place - the dangers of long-form murder mysteries is that it’s tough to have huge reveals every week. But next week Audrey should finally tell Emma everything she needs to know and we can assume the killer(s) will make another move.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a5878-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Seriously, though, things don’t look good for Stavo or Eli. One of them will probably be a red herring. I’m not sure which one, though. </span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-69173683409725592082016-07-13T08:10:00.002-04:002016-07-13T08:10:53.486-04:00Scream Season 2 Episode 7<div class="_2cuy _3dgx" data-block="true" data-editor="evp3i" data-offset-key="2h0v3-0-0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span data-offset-key="2h0v3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">“Scream” last week left us last week with one character short one hand, the mayor making a mysterious allegiance with Kieran’s aunt and Audrey telling Noah a version of the truth about her involvement in the previous season’s festivities.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5pv92-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">This week’s episode is another seemingly major turn in the events. Lots of people are paired off, Noah and Zoe go on a real date, Emma and Eli sneak off together, the sheriff and Emma’s mom are off being cryptic together, and Audrey tries to help Brooke clean up the mess she made with Branson (even though they have no idea what actually happened to him.)</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ag881-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We’ll start with Zoe and Noah. As Noah and Audrey go to get coffee, Zoe asks Noah if he wants to get together to study. Noah agrees, only to find out later that Zoe had something more romantic on her mind than studying. Which is all well and good - except the episode kept showing that he was blowing off Audrey during the date, which could be no big deal, but it still felt a touch calculated. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9gqmh-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Emma and Kieran were weird and then she went off with Eli. Oh, the opening showed that Eli likes to sneak into peoples’ houses and watch them sleep. It definitely had an ‘American Psycho’ vibe to it. He does tell Emma about his game, although, it doesn’t sound quite as creepy as he describes it. (Fun fact, Charles Manson and his followers used to sneak into peoples’ houses just for the fun of it too. They called it ‘creepy crawls,’ Eli calls it ‘Goldilocksing.)</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a84pg-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Brooke, meanwhile, goes to Audrey saying she needs help fixing the mess she made with Branson, namely that she left him handcuffed in a hotel room. (They don’t know what happened next.) They go to the hotel (which still uses actual keys, seriously, what century does this take place in?) only to find that there’s no evidence of the bloodbath that befell Branson, nor is he anywhere to be found. But whomever cleaned the place up left a video camera which caught the girls being there.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5lods-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">One thing I was presumably right about was Ms. Lang’s movitvations - she’s trying to write a book about The Lakewood Six. If there’s more to it, they seemingly took her off the table of being a killer when the killer threw her off a staircase. She could still live, and maybe she has some information on her tapes that would help solve the puzzle (maybe putting she and Noah closer to play off his crush on her from episode 1.) </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d6sbf-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Audrey and Brooke ended up at the school where the killer had set a trap for them (the same trap that resulted in Ms. Lang being tossed onto the concrete from a few levels up) but the janitor who arrived to help seemingly messed everything up. We don’t know what the killer had in store for Audrey, or, was it for Brooke? He went out of his way to separate them. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ckt5i-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Still, Audrey ran to Noah after the scene at the school, effectively cock blocking him as he was about to score with Zoe. Zoe, meanwhile, listened to the recording Noah made of Audrey confessing to bringing Piper to Lakewood and then emailed it off. Hmm.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a5972-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Eli and Emma ended up at a model home which is also the home where the killer was storing the bloody bodies of Branson and the guy from the hotel. Just as things are heating up between the two of them, they literally start heating up as the building bursts into flames, and quickly burns to the ground, seemingly killing Branson who was still alive at that point. But that was the end so he could still survive. Sort of. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dh9c7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">More importantly, though, while the killer was active this episode, nearly all the major characters were accounted for. Only Kieran, Gustavo, the Mayor and Eli’s mother were off the grid when it was all hitting the fan. </span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-5229757585266113562016-07-06T11:45:00.001-04:002016-07-06T11:45:47.845-04:00Scream Season 2 Episode 6<div class="_2cuy _3dgx" data-block="true" data-editor="eqeaf" data-offset-key="9qte1-0-0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span data-offset-key="9qte1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">After last week’s more reflective episode the promise for this week seemed to be chaos and repercussions. While it may have been a little less chaotic than imagined, still, more and more true colors are being revealed, not that it’s becoming much clearer who the killer is, or, more likely, who the killers are.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="84lcu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The big cliffhanger last week, though, was Noah stealing Audrey’s phone and learning about all the contact she’s had with the killer. And, I gotta say, that was a helluva cliffhanger. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f93ob-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">This week we find Noah a bit shellshocked to say the least, especially when Emma visits and finds Audrey at the center of Noah’s big board of suspects. Emma doesn’t believe it and Noah, interestingly, does not sell Audrey out. Emma wants proof, which Noah has, but he lets it go. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="an9o0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The mayor is up to shenanigans, too. He goes to Kieran’s aunt (who’s name escapes me) sort of seduces her and then says he has an off-the-record job for her. Does that mean he’s pulling the strings and she’s the one running around in the Ghostface costume now? Well, they want us to think that. What was going on between Jake and him was clarified a bit, and it certainly fuels the notion that the Mayor’s involved. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8eah1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">For the record, I love the smarmy mayor. Bryan Batt should be a lot more famous than he is. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="car8a-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, no one knows the kid from the hotel is dead yet, which is interesting. Apparently they don’t have very good cleaning crews at the local motel. But he’s still responding to Noah’s texts and arranges a secret meet-up to identify Piper’s accomplice.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="erka1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The meeting is at an abandoned carnival. It’s so ridiculously a bad idea, right? Still, Noah goes, gets appropriately freaked out and bails, only to be captured and waking up tied to a broken down funhouse car, with Audrey tied to the car behind him.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7q9he-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Fearing his own death, Noah confesses all sorts of ridiculous things, hoping Audrey would join in and confess her crimes. She does ... to an extent, only to reveal this was all her plan to get them alone and to prove her innocence. The problem with that is the real killer decides to show up.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="98rmu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Emma decides to show up to. And Kieran. So the four of them seemingly save one another. Although, they probably could have ganged up on the killer too, who was still close enough to chase down. But then we wouldn’t have much to do for the next few episodes.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3ssa1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, the emails from long-dead Riley that were being sent to Emma’s dad presumably came from Emma. Which is odd. But we don’t learn more about that. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4bjqc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Gustavo does some recon for Brooke, most notably that Branson’s apparently banging the new psychology teacher and she’s his alibi for the night Jake died. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5dihq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What’s been our lesson so far on this show: Don’t F**K with Brooke. First she schedules a meeting with the teacher and says she was banging Mr. Branson and that she hooked up with him the night of Jake’s death. The teacher’s reaction proves she wasn’t with Branson. So Brooke arranges a rendevous with Branson, ties him to the bed and gets all the information she wants out of him. And a little bloodshed. Again, don’t f**k with Brooke.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="eoeee-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The big piece of information from this scene, though, is that Jake was bribing Branson to get out of town and leave Brooke alone. And Jake said he was getting the money from The Mayor, which explains the texts on Jake’s phone that the sheriff has read.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2ctg9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Audrey goes to Noah and finally confesses everything. That she brought Piper to the city because she didn’t have anyone. She says she didn’t know that Piper was the killer, that Piper denied it even after they started happening. It explains a few things, but not everything. We still don’t know why Audrey’s girlfriend in season 1 had to die.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="efqeu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a common complaint that horror movies don’t address their own consequences - that a movie piles up bodies but we never see anything beyond that, no loss to friends or families, no dealing with the survivors once they escape the clutches of the monster. After last week’s big finish, this week’s episode of “Scream” actually does try to deal with the consequences of it all, although, what could have been a Very Special episode doesn’t take too long before things continue to spiral out of control.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1e5pk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">For those that missed it, everyone in the high school found out Jake was dead last week when his bloody body dropped onstage and his blood dumped all over Brooke. We start this week with the school on lockdown, the police are there and tensions, to put it politely, begin to mount. Before we’re done there are two brawls, Keiran and Emma face a challenge, Noah gets deeper into things with Audrey than he ever imagined, Stavo is backed into a corner by the entire student body, creepy Eli is still being creepy Eli and the new teacher continues to seem to be more than she appears, and none of it is all that good.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8vr58-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">But, first, Brooke. Traumatized by last week’s reveal, Brooke’s our reminder that there’s more to this than a horror movie. She’s shown as mostly in shock, frozen in her Carrie-esque nightmare as cops and doctors surround her. When she does start to talk there’s a frankness to her, but a frankness that lacks the sort of sarcastic bite she normally displays. Where Brooke goes next will be the interesting part of the second half of the season. She’s never been one to trifle with, and the teases so far make it clear that’s going to be even more true. You don’t screw with Brooke.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a9ov1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s also starting to look like the days of being able to screw with Emma are coming to an end. As much as she’s been too damsel-in-distress-y this season, as this episode went on, she seemed to turn a corner and not only did she throw a right hook or two, she also took control of the end of the episode in a way that said she’s emotionally taking control of herself and the situation. This is good, if we want Emma to be one of our protagonists, she’ll need to nut up. That’s what she seems to be doing.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d41ci-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Lots of cellphones come into play this week, from both the living and the dead. It puts information in other peoples’ hands, that’s for sure, most notably the Sheriff and, at the episode’s closing, Noah. I won’t spoil who has what phone but, well, next week should lead to some serious twists and turns as people try to wiggle out of trouble. </span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-49595010387505965712016-06-22T10:24:00.001-04:002016-06-22T10:24:53.767-04:00The Conjuring 2 Review<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
With so much geek culture being the thing in the mainstream right now, it’s not surprising to see horror following suit. The dark and sleazy edges of the genre have been pushed to the fringe (again) and horror is again making blockbusters - big summer blockbusters that are roller coasters of excitement as the creators gleefully make us jump out of our seats with well-timed jump scares and a seemingly endless assortment of haunted houses to exploit.</div>
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James Wan is at the center of all this, having perfected his Hollywood horror skills, which began with the first “Saw” movie and has gone from there to “Dead Silence” to “Insidious” to the first “Conjuring” movie. Is “Conjuring 2” his peak? I guess time will tell but it’s a slick and steady successor to his original that has big box office written all over it. This is not a low budget exploitation movie that happens to catch on - this is Hollywood moviemaking through and through.</div>
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The protagonists of the “Conjuring” movies are Ed and Lorraine Warren, real life ghost hunters brought to film by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. The movie version sees the twosome motivated by love and God to help people who need help. While often in horror the ghost hunters are really just there to provide exposition, Wan uses the Warrens as the emotional crux of the story - it’s their faith that anchors them to reality and it’s the devil himself attacking that faith that causes conflict. </div>
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For “Conjuring 2” the story starts in Amityville briefly before moving to London and the Enfield haunting which is, essentially, the British equivalent of our Amityville horror. There’s nothing especially shocking about the concept: a family is being haunted by something inside their house. It starts with their children and escalates, until the Warrens themselves are called in.</div>
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The difference between this movie and the lesser versions that pop up is Wan’s steady hand. His kind of horror is one of timing - he leaves the camera on a spot in a dark room, sometimes something happens, sometimes nothing happens. How he manipulates that timing is where his horror comes from. When we’re comfortable, he attacks. When it’s bad, he makes it worse. It may not be genius, but it’s still pretty dang effective.
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“The Conjuring 2” has a secret weapon, though, one that’s a little surprising for a horror movie these days. Whereas so much horror is bad things happening to unlikable people, there’s a real compassion laced through this movie. The family being haunted is being given enough time to breath that you do start wanting the terror to stop. Again, that compassion is carried over to the Warrens. This is not a movie where you root for the monster, for sure. Even scenes where each Warren talks to the haunted girl (a splendid Madison Wolf) tug at the heart strings without being cloying. </div>
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Still, the movie does suffer a bit from Hollywood excess. The last battle is needlessly long and puts its thumb a little too squarely on the themes of the piece. As much as the movie is based on true events - the last act is such an obvious exaggeration, it doesn’t lessen the experience per se, but it certainly takes it from something that may have happened to something that’s clearly a big, expensive action set piece.</div>
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There’s horror that makes your skin crawl and leaves you wondering why you even watched the movie in the first place. “The Conjuring 2” is not that kind of movie. This is a bright movie - a roller coaster ride where you hide your eyes but don’t lose sleep at night. </div>
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Unless of course, you hear something go bump in the night. At that point, you’re on your own. </div>
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<span data-offset-key="fopis-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The biggest cheat in horror is the dream sequence - something really terrifying that our protagonist can’t escape happens, only they wake up at the last second and all is well. “Scream” has used it a couple times with Emma.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fi73e-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">This week, most of the episode is an elaborate hallucination brought forth by some spiked booze that was seemingly sent by Jake, who no one knows is really, really dad yet.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3trcc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">So who DID send the spiked drink? Eli’s the one that found it but he has so many red flags that it seems unlikely he’s the bad guy ... unless they WANT us to think it’s too obvious that he’s the bad guy. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5rnl-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The hallucinations, of course, were all tied to the plot and themes. Brooke didn’t know if creepy Gustav was trying to help her through her sickness or trying to take her clothes off. The hallucination of Jake wasn’t helping matters any. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bfs3d-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Audrey and Noah made out in their sickly state, only to have Zoe, on a date with Noah, join in a bit too, with both of them. Oh, and Audrey told Noah she was sorry, although she didn’t say for what. As we know, she has a LOT of things she could apologize for, not the least of which was the previous week where she was ready to bash his head in with a statue to save her own ass. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5vnl8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Emma ran away and may or may not have been chased by the Brandon James killer - was it a hallucnation? We still don’t know, but it did set the tone that she now thinks there’s a killer on the loose and that the madness is happening again.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8oi45-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">For the episode’s big finale, the school announced the five finalists for their annual beauty pageant, one of whom was Brooke. As she was announced the episode went all “Carrie,” but it wasn’t a pig’s blood dumped on her head, it was Jake’s as his body fell from the rafters and landed on the stage in front of everyone.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ekqe3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">SPOILER-FILLED WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK PART: Last week, Emma was followed by a mysterious car, that turned out meant her dad was back in town. Noah talked to the desk boy at the hotel where Piper stayed last season and found out about a mysterious storage unit where Piper kept her stuff. Audrey went to said storage unit where she found Jake’s bloody body. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="brmnq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Episode 3 of “Scream” keeps the momentum from last episode - Audrey’s going more and more out of her mind trying to keep her secrets - secrets Noah seems determined to find on his own. Emma has all sorts of family drama with her dad back in town and creepy Mr. Branson shows up again to give Brooke trouble. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="822kt-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">So far the real excitement this season is with Audrey trying to get away from her hand in last season’s murders. While we still don’t know exactly how much blood is literally on her hands, we do know there’s enough. This week we saw what lengths she might go to in order to protect herself as she almost took some pretty serious actions about her best friend Noah. With a show like this, though, a major crisis was averted but, still, not knowing what Audrey would have done, but seeing what it looked like she was going to do was pretty heavy stuff.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="apc2n-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We learned a lot about Emma’s dad and, more importantly, learned he’s been getting updates about Emma from one of last season’s victims via email. All this leads to the belief that someone wanted him back in town, the question is why. The episode made a pretty big hint about it, mind you, but there’s a lot left to do.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dnfo7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Again, one thing the show continues to do well is use the horror melodrama as a way to reveal the truths these characters have been hiding from for years. In this case, we learn the reasons Emma’s dad left - they’re not fodder for a murder mystery so much as they’re the end result of a normal human falling apart and losing control. It’s that underlying unhappiness that has made this show work since day one. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5me5e-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Oh yeah, then Brooke and friends ran into douchey Mr. Branson at a movie theater. Weird Gustav was there too and before we knew it he’d aligned himself with Brooke, Noah and Zoe (who’s hoping to get in on some of that Noah action.) It could all be teenage melodrama but, on a show like this, it could be a lot more. We did learn that Branson’s been around more than we thought and that only drove home Brooke’s frustrations with the still missing Jake. Granted, we know why Jake’s missing but the show isn’t letting anyone else know, which is a fun and morbid twist on things. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6a7nq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Still, the real thrill this season is seeing Audrey getting more and more trapped in her own past, with no real end in sight. At some point she’s going to have to tell someone something, right?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2gh8d-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">In the meantime, the killer came closest to taking another shot at one of the Lakewood Six tonight. It got foiled. Maybe next time it won’t.</span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-83140041263320296692016-06-07T07:22:00.002-04:002016-06-07T07:22:36.543-04:00Scream Season 2 Episode 2<div class="_2cuy _3dgx" data-block="true" data-editor="opd6" data-offset-key="v22i-0-0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span data-offset-key="v22i-0-0" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">SPOILER-FILLED WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK PART: Last week, Emma came home from therapy but was still crazy, Noah got more and more obsessed with finding out Piper’s accomplice, much to Audrey’s dismay, Brooke and Jack had a happy moment, then a big fight then Jake got eviscerated.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9j6u2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">After one of the “Lakewood Six” met their untimely end last week, more weirdness seems to be finding the other survivors and Audrey keeps finding herself more and more trapped by her past and the inevitability that someone’s going to find out what she did. Kieran’s somewhat creepy cousin Eli cryptically bumped into Emma (because Emma needs more cryptic encounters in her life,) and the sheriff’s weird son Gustavo continued to give off as many weird vibes as possible to our real heroine, Brooke. Noah closed in on a big reveal as a hotel desk boy claimed he knows who Piper’s accomplice is, which, naturally made Audrey crap her pants.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1rh1g-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, and by the way, Jake’s still dead, although as the episode begins no one knows that. Brooke thinks he’s just being stubborn and his parents are out of town. But where IS Jake? Keep watching ...</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="emd6u-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Emma’s still tormented by her past this week, freaking out when she sees a woman in the coffee house who might be Piper, and then an old crappy mysterious car starts following her around. Rather than doom herself to an entire season of self-pity, though, she makes Kieran take her to the dock where all the shit hit the fan and confront her fears. She relives the tragic finale of last season again and thinks she sees the Brandon James killer but realizes it’s only a hallucination. Happy that she’s seemingly over the trauma of last season, Emma and Kieran totally do it. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d562p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The big conflict this week is with Audrey as she freaks out when she learns the desk clerk at the hotel knows who Piper’s accomplice is. Noah’s excitement at getting closer to the story is tearing Audrey apart and seeing her take action when she needs to is a great reminder that she’s done some pretty hardcore things so far, even if we don’t know EXACTLY what, we have some kind of idea. The question is becoming: what is she willing to do to get Noah off the case?</span></div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-24764923928970687932016-05-31T08:03:00.001-04:002016-05-31T08:03:43.119-04:00Scream Season 2 Episode 1<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
I’m going to try to do these on Tuesdays. I can’t watch ‘Scream’ live on MTV because I don’t have cable but I can watch it the next morning on Amazon. </div>
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SPOILER ADVISORY: I’m not going to spoil episodes week to week BUT, at this point, it’s pretty hard to talk about the show without spoiling Season 1, so if you haven’t finished the first season yet, you may want to wait until you have before reading on.</div>
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Following the harrowing events during the first season of “Scream,” our protagonist Emma went off to get some counseling while the rest of the “Lakewood Six” tried to get on with their lives. Nerdy Noah started a podcast and continues to obsess over the crimes that give him and his friends a degree of infamy that he clearly seems to enjoy, Brooke and Jake are trying to be a couple, Audrey is working at the movie theater and living with a few secrets of her own and smoky-eyed Kieran is left wondering if he and Emma are going to live happily ever after or not.</div>
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Of course, Emma’s return starts to kick events into motion and before the end of the first episode one of the Lakewood Six has been eviscerated. There are a couple new kids in town, the creepy son of the new sheriff who is keeping with the tradition of sheriff’s sons obsessing over Emma, although his seems a bit less romantic and Zoe, a nice girl who seems to be all good intentions, some of them even aimed at Noah,</div>
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(And a quick kudos to the writers for NOT making all the new faces new students. Yes, it’s entirely possible that the lead characters new other people than each other in their years in school together. Also kudos for adding a female teacher for Noah to crush on who doesn’t look like something out of a porn. She’s pretty and absolutely crush-worthy but not to the point of distraction. Well, except maybe for Noah.)</div>
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“Scream” Season 1 ended with a bit of a bombshell as we learned one of our heroic teens may have dirtier hands than we suspected. It’s that character’s mystery and increasing paranoia that is fueling the first episode of season 2. While the easy solution is to start finding answers, that doesn’t seem to be what that character wants. Too many crossed ‘t’s may lead to some questions that are better left unanswered.</div>
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There are a lot of dangers in doing a second season of a show like “Scream.” Too much happily ever after may seem false; not enough may seem to undercut the catharsis of the first season finale. While the writers find a pretty good balance, there’s still an issue with Emma, our heroine, being too much angst and blue balling heartbreak. She’s always in danger of being outshined by straight-shooting Brooke and making them besties so far is already tipping the scales toward Brooke. She may be a bitch about it, but she’s usually right.</div>
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The big wrench in things already is the violent death of one of the main characters. That character was up to something when the new Ghostface found them. We don’t know if it was good or bad, which is what makes it intriguing. Every member of The Lakewood Six has a dark secret. How the show lets them bubble up again is what is going to make or break Season 2. </div>
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New mysteries are already starting to pile up too. The one way to hide the red herrings is to make the pile of them as deep as possible. Everyone has a motive to do something, even characters who haven’t even shown back up yet.</div>
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Or, as the saying goes, everyone’s a suspect. </div>
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Season Two of “Scream” is off to a good start. </div>
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JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-60718921822380058712013-10-18T22:32:00.001-04:002013-10-18T22:32:35.947-04:00Carrie 2013<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">
Despite being around 40 years old, "Carrie" has established itself as a timeless tale - the sort of thing that should be able to be reimagined every couple decades with the same sequence of events but the details of how kids interact tweaked to reach a newer audience. With bullying being a constant current buzzword, a remake for today's kids was fairly inevitable. Signing on director Kimberly Peirce who studied similar themes in the painfully powerful "Boys Don't Cry" seemed like a risk that said this version would definitely push the power of the story's themes, perhaps even at the expense of the plot.</div>
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Most people know "Carrie's morality story - an outcast teenage girl is humiliated at school when she freaks out having her first period in the locker room. What the girls don't know is that the onset of puberty also unleashes the girl's telekinetic powers that build and build as the bullying against her continues. Meanwhile her crazy, pseudo-religious mother torments her even more, convincing her even the most basic of human emotions are sins of the devil. There's a prom, pig blood and tragedy. All this is present in Peirce's version of the story, pretty much note for note.</div>
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King's story has a built in metaphorical weight - the characters are set up in broad strokes - the outcast, the pretty girl with a conscience, the pretty mean girl, the jock with the heart of gold, the well-intended teacher. Each character falls into place pretty much as expected and it certainly creates an explosive mix. There's a heightened reality to the story, making it more of a parable than anything. Peirce's mistake is in how she presents the characters - instead of elevating them, she lowers everyone, making them presumably more realistic, but diluting the power of the character interactions and thus lessening the impact of the story's powerhouse climax. That the movie feels more polite than mean-spirited and more like an after school special than a potboiler horror movie is a colossal misfire.</div>
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Really, the problems start with casting. Chloe Grace Moretz is a talented young actress who tends to draw attention to herself in supporting roles and does that even moreso here. No amount of crinkling her hair, taking off her makeup and frumping her posture and clothing can change the fact that Moretz is a charismatic and attractive person. She isn't convincing as an ugly duckling and her personality is way too warm to convince that she's been kept at arm's length her entire life. She'd really be a great Sue Snell, the character who's supposed to show a kindness beyond her looks. As Snell herself Gabriella Wilde is a Barbie doll at most. Judy Greer as Mrs. Desjardin, the teacher who tries her best to befriend Carrie, has more of an oddball quirkiness to her and never quite settles into any spot in the story. She's not quite warm enough to be a convincing mother figure for Carrie, nor is she much of a foil for the bad girls populating the story.</div>
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Speaking of the bad guys, the story has two. Carrie's mother, played here by Julianne Moore and Chris Hargensen, another student who gets off (literally) on tormenting Carrie. This time around Hargensen is played by Portia Doubleday and she has the hateful kick of a spoiled little rich girl, although the material doesn't really ever convincingly illustrate her hatred for Carrie White. Moore's problems are a bit like Moretz, no amount of frumping her wardrobe and self-mutilation can help the character here who is more two-dimensional than she even is on the page. The character is interesting as a monster but trying to layer her here and trying to dial down her vicious obsession with her god and her daughter takes away her bite and, again, doesn't clarify the powder keg that Carrie finds herself living in.</div>
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And maybe that's it -- for the story to work best there needs to be a feeling that Carrie is being attacked from all sides and that even when something good happens to her - a nice, handsome boy asking her to the prom, for example - it should create that feeling that something bad's going to happen. Here we expect something bad to happen simply because we know the story, instead of fearing something bad is going to happen because of the mood and tone of the characters and story. </div>
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Then there's the question of Carrie White's destructive powers. The issue here is that as she learns about her powers and learns to harness them a bit, it almost brings Carrie out of her shell, instead of driving her more deeply into it. She starts to smile a lot, she watches videos (online of course because this is SO modern) and all of a sudden starts to feel like she belongs. It almost feels more like a super hero learning they can fly than a terrified girl realizing she has a power that makes her even more of an outcast than she already was. If she's not afraid of herself and her power, why should we be? Even when doused in pig blood by Chris Hargensen's mean-spirited trick, Moretz uses magical hand gestures to use her power, like one of the X-Men. It lacks the feeling of someone releasing primal energy trapped inside themself. Even the pig blood itself ends up looking more like a Hollywood makeup job than it does an attack that strips her of her dignity.</div>
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There's a prom, of course, and all the insanity that comes with it. Here, Carrie's revenge feels more controlled, more conscious an effort. But since the character shows no darkness until that point, her sudden mean streak and deliberate attacks on people who she feels wronged her doesn't feel right. She doesn't feel like a victim, nor does she turn into a monster, she just turns into an attacker and despite everything that's happened to her, it doesn't necessarily feel justified. It also doesn't feel like she finally turns into a monster - unable to control the power inside her as she is unleashed on a world that created her. Carrie White, even at her most vicious and violent, is a sympathetic character as we should be able to see the deadly series of events that created her. This version of the story doesn't create that sensation. </div>
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The evening's not a total loss, mind you. There's a genuine sweetness to Alex Russell as Tommy Nolan, the teenaged heartthrob convinced by his girlfriend to take Carrie to the prom and their time together at the dance is downright charming. He certainly has more chemistry with Moretz than he does with the icily attractive Wilde. Early scenes with Carrie and her mother have Carrie calling out her mother's Bible-references and self-created nonsense, giving it the beginnings of an Old Testament vs. New Testament angle. </div>
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Ulimately, though, the world created here is too TV-movie bland and the story is too pasty and dialed down to really exploits its inherent grindhouse power. The movie posters this time around promise we will remember her name. That might be the case, but that's not because of this version of the story. This one's much more likely to be forgotten sooner rather than later. </div>
JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-45868614723367799892013-09-16T22:27:00.000-04:002013-09-16T22:27:11.346-04:00See No Evil 2 Lands Harris, Isabellewww.bloody-disgusting.com is reporting that "See No Evil 2," the sequel to 2006's WWE produced horror flick starring WWE superstar Kane, has landed both Danielle Harris and Katherine Isabelle to star. <br />
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Both actresses are well known to horror audiences, having starred in numerous genre pictures over the years. Isabelle has worked with "See No Evil 2" directors the Soska Sisters in this year's "American Mary."<br />
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More info in the link: <a href="http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3254398/see-no-evil-2-will-star-danielle-harris-and-katharine-isabelle/">http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3254398/see-no-evil-2-will-star-danielle-harris-and-katharine-isabelle/</a>JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-82015644257898131122013-09-15T22:18:00.002-04:002013-09-15T22:18:39.891-04:00"Insidious 2" Brings in $41 Million OpeningOn a tiny $5 million budget, James Wan's "Insidious Chapter Two" rolled over the competition to the tune of a $41 million dollar opening weekend. Even assuming they spent a good bit on advertising, the movie is set to make a good amount of money. Reviews were mixed, with the movie only receiving a 38% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. By comparison, the original has a 66% positive rating on the same site.<br />
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The fact is, reviews probably have little if nothing to do with interest in horror sequels, especially a first sequel. It took "Saw" several creatively unsatisfying sequels before audiences stopped showing up and it's still uncertain what audience reactions to the new "Insidious" really are. <br />
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Meanwhile, "You're Next" is at a box office total of about $18 million. While the movie was inexpensive, it still has to be seen as a disappointment given how successful so many mid tier horror movies have been this year. "You're Next" was better received critically than either of the "Insidious" movies although audiences were more mixed, some being taken out of the picture by it's off-kilter tone. Still, horror movies sell well to their hardcore audience and "You're Next" has a good chance of becoming a cult classic that does well on DVD, especially as director Adam Wingard's career goes forward.JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-27368037894764578032013-09-07T11:05:00.002-04:002013-09-07T11:05:18.502-04:00Happy Birthday, Dario Argento!Today is horror's technicolor madman, Dario Argento's, birthday.<br />
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"Suspiria" was the first Argento movie I ever watched and, to me, is still his best.<br />
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Here's that first scene, in all its bloody glory.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRG2qpEwl4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRG2qpEwl4</a>JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-20663962820203462722013-09-05T13:55:00.001-04:002013-09-05T13:55:37.113-04:00Curse of ChuckyFirst scene from "Curse of Chucky" has been released.<br />
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I was never a big fan of the "Child's Play" movies but this one actually looks decent. Hope it's something the fans like!<br />
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I think you've all heard of that one, right?<br />
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In overview, I have to say pretty much the entire movie is here, on the page. Most of the cuts are dialogue.<br />
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It's worth noting that Carpenter wrote the script intending to direct - I'll try and track something down later that was written without a director attached to see if those are more different. But Carpenter wrote in his shots which if you write screenplays hoping to sell them, they tell you not to do.<br />
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The opening is a touch different - it has the POV shot moving in on the house until it focuses on a Halloween mask, which it describes as 'a large, full-head platex rubber mask, not a monster or a ghoul, but the pale neutral features of a man weirdly distorted by the rubber.' In other words, that's the traditional Michael Meyers mask. This moment is skipped in the movie and, instead the POV starts eyeing the house and moving in for the first kill - which is pretty much the same.<br />
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That big crane shot Carpenter talks so much about when the parents find Michael holding the knife is in the script. Again, the way this movie was shot was not a happy accident, Carpenter was pretty meticulous about laying it out.<br />
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Dialogue between Loomis and the Nurse is a little different, nothing significant, the order's different and the scene talking about moving Michael because it's the law isn't on the page.<br />
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There's a moment in the script where Loomis talks to a patient and the patient tells him "It's all right now. He's gone. The evil's gone." Cool and foreboding but they moved the lines over to Loomis after the car drives away. As written Michael's escape is a little more involved and Loomis is in the car for it. Nothing significant though, unless you really wanted to see Donald Pleasance get punched.<br />
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The cut to Haddonfield's the same - Laurie talking to her dad then meeting up with Tommy. Again, the tracking shots on Laurie are all laid out. The moment where they call the house 'The Meyers House' isn't in the script. My guess it was added for clarity.<br />
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Scene with Loomis and his co-worker's the same.<br />
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Scene with Laurie in class while Michael watches is the same except the script says Laurie doodles the phrase 'Laurie Strode is lonely.'<br />
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The scenes with Tommy and the bullies and Loomis on the phone are switched in the script.<br />
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In the scene where the little boy plows into Michael, in the script Michael drops a butcher knife, covers it with his foot and picks it up. That's all cut. The script is clear that we never see Michael's face in all of this.<br />
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The dialogue Loomis says on the phone is completely different - in the script it's more like he's calling home, instead of calling in another warning. The script doesn't note the dead body left behind at all.<br />
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Girls' chatter walking down the street is pretty much the same, scene with Laurie seeing Michael, then Annie going up behind the bush to see him is the same. Scene with Sheriff Brackett's the same.<br />
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Script has a two or three line exchange with Laurie and her mother that's cut as the movie itself moves right upstairs to Laurie seeing Michael amongst the neighbor's drying laundry.<br />
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Again, there's an order switch - in the screenplay Loomis goes to the graveyard before Annie picks up Laurie, which is switched in the final cut.<br />
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Scene with Brackett, the girls and Loomis is the same.<br />
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One of the funny moments in the movie is the abrupt cut from dusk to dark when the girls are driving around - one seond it's nice, they turn a corner and it's pitch black. In the script, that whole conversation about Ben Tramer is supposed to be at night, after a shot showing the moon to make it clear it's night. No idea why it was moved to dusk. But it does make it seem like Michael follows them for a loooong time.<br />
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Michael getting out of the car and watching the Wallace's is the same.<br />
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Loomis and Brackett's dialogue is mostly the same, although the bit where Loomis says he has a gun permit isn't in the script.<br />
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Nothing new for awhile - Laurie and Annie on the phone, with Michael outside and Tommy seeing The Boogeyman is essentially the same. The dog getting it's the same.<br />
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Not a lot of changes as time goes on - there really isn't a lot of dialogue at this point, it's mostly shots.<br />
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The scene where Michael watches Annie go into the house where Laurie is he's also supposed to have a knife. Interesting that in the two scenes where Michael's supposed to have a knife, instead of showing the weapon, they used that hot scare with the factory whistle sound as a replacement. The whistle's more jarring, especially since so much of the movie is pretty quiet to this point.<br />
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The set-up and delivery of Annie getting killed is about the same, although the script has a short scene where her dad calls, probably there to give Michael more time to sneak into the car. Annie's death is a little different in the script, in the script Michael just pops up, covers her mouth with his hand and stabs her in the throat. <br />
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Scene with the kids and Laurie is the same.<br />
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Kids playing around the Meyers's house is the same, other than the script has the kid saying "bullshit" instead of "bull." Loomis and Brackett is the same.<br />
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Lynda and Bob is the same - long sequences like this take up so much space in a screenplay. <br />
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Bob getting killed is the same. No, Michael looking back and forth at his dead body is not in the screenplay.<br />
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The next long stretches are pretty much the same. Loomis finds the car, Laurie goes over to the Wallace house, she has her first confrontation with Michael and then runs back across the street to the Doyle house. All that's right there. <br />
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In fact, the entire climax is pretty much as written, which is a testament to Carpenter. This is very much a director's screenplay, all the cuts and action are right there.<br />
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Anyway, if you're so inclined, peruse the screenplay sometime and see how many little decisions got made along the way to tighten the screenplay into what is now "Halloween."<br />
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<br />JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-28768344627234341262013-09-01T14:27:00.003-04:002013-09-01T14:27:22.794-04:00Back For the AttackOk, I'm going to get this thing rolling again here ASAP, especially as Halloween approaches. My hope is to do more than just reviews - I mean, reviews are fine, I actually like writing reviews, but there are a lot of reviews out there.<br />
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I'll probably do a 'Favorite Horror Movie' countdown in October. Emphasis on FAVORITE, so it's not a BEST list. I don't know what's the best, but I know what I love.<br />
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I've also found a good amount of screenplay drafts online. (They're not hard to find.) Still, a lot of them are pretty interesting glimpses into how movies are made and what things get cut and what things don't. Dialogue in particular tends to run long in original screenplays but actors can often reduce the need for so many words.<br />
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Anyway, I'm still here and going to try to make my corner of the horror web count.JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737824409004134747.post-83772344551813513772010-10-17T15:48:00.000-04:002010-10-17T15:49:53.032-04:00Rethinking the Nightmare RemakeI usually try to avoid being that guy on the internet saying "if I'D written this book/movie/comic book, it would have gone like THIS and it would have been AWESOME." Anyone can do that and I at least try to keep in mind that creative industries aren't always about getting a creator's ideal vision into circulation and I also understand that sometimes people just have different ideas than I do about a character/franchise. So I TRY to avoid armchair quarterbacking, even when I'm talking about something I don't like.<br /><br />But for the recent "Nightmare on Elm Street" remake, I'm going to make an exception :) Spoilers for the remake and the original abound.<br /><br />Wes Craven's original movie is a classic, but there are certainly moments of sloppy execution and a great deal of undeveloped potential in it. Unlike most slasher movies, it was fueled by an incredibly original IDEA and one idea almost certainly creates tangential ideas. We've had 25 years or so to extrapolate on the core concept so the hope was in a remake that they'd produce something, while probably not better, at least a little tighter.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the remake has a mound of underveloped ideas of its own.<br /> <br />I'm not trying to start from scratch here but I think even given the circumstances of the recent remake, there's a better movie to be made then what we ended up with. It's OK, but it could have been really good. <br /> <br />The crappy part is they screwed up within the first five minutes. In the original the initial scene is of Tina wandering through a boiler room, obviously frightened, then Freddy shoots up behind her and she wakes up, safe in her own bed. We really didn't have a clue what was going on. In the remake, in the very first scene we meet all the major players and then one of them has his throat slit by Freddy, right there in front of his girlfriend.<br /><br />Where do the characters go from there? It's this impatience -- that horror movies have to have a kill before the opening sequence is over -- that really hamstrung this remake. In killing the guy off immediately, the characters don't have any ability to interact with any sort of range. They're deeply disturbed and freaked out from the outset so all they can do is look somberly at one another for the rest of the movie. Now the original had an element of surprise in that no one really knew the premise or the characters. The remake doesn't have that and surprise is essential to horror working. The original still allowed the protagonists time to be three dimensional and to laugh and to be engaging. For the first fifteen minutes or so, Tina just had a bad dream, for all we knew it could have foreshadowed a lot of different things. Until she did in the dream, we didn't really know that was where the movie was going to go. Even without the surprise of fans not knowing the premise for the remake, there was still time, if they didn't kill someone in the prologue, to let the kids interact more and let Freddy percolate a little bit before he finally delivered that first kill. It also would have allowed the kids more time to start putting together the notion of the shared dream.<br />To a lot of people, the most memorable and harrowing sequence in the original is the death of Tina, the first death when she's in bed, then in a nightmare, then it cuts back to the bedroom where we watch her get cut wide open by an unseen Freddy. It was shocking because we didn't have any idea where this movie was going and because Craven set Tina up as the protagonist. When she got ripped open it was a wonderful horror thrill. The remake, in interviews and the trailers, promised a recreation of that scene and tried to deliver it. But it didn't work as because it was predictable and ultimately underwhelming. That's not the actress's fault, I actually thought Katie Cassidy was a very strong presence in the movie (and was also strong in the generally disliked remake of "Black Christmas,") even though she wasn't given much to do, other than hang around and die.<br /><br />My idea for her would have been slightly different. Let's accept we're going to kill her the same way, she's going to fall asleep, walk through a nightmare and Freddy's going to tear her apart and through her around the room. The writers already sort of screwed up the Nancy character anyway, by making her mousey and artsy. Not that it couldn't have worked, it just didn't. Still, Nancy is the only one who believes Kris when Kris says there's something crazy going on at the funeral in the remake. Why didn't she go to Nancy's house later and why didn't they talk about Freddy? Instead Kris just goes home and, again, waits around for Freddy to find her so they could try to remake the bed scene from the original. <br /><br />So move the bed death to the end of the second act, basically to where Johnny Depp got sucked into the bed in the original. You want a final death to push Nancy to make her final attack on Freddy, so use this one. The Nancy/Quentin boyfriend/girlfriend relationship was pretty shoddy in the remake anyway. So make Kris (the Tina character) the one fighting to stay awake, make her the one doing all the desperate things to stay awake. She KNOWS what's going to happen when she falls asleep. Still do the teases with her drifting in and out of sleep and running into Freddy and escaping. Make the dread come from both she and Freddy knowing at some point or another she's going to fall asleep and not going to be able to get away. She knows it, he knows it and WE know it. All any of us can do is wait. <br /><br />As the other kids start dropping around her, it gets worse and worse, then at some point ... she gives up. She can't take it anymore so she sits at home quietly, lays in bed and just goes to sleep. Meanwhile Nancy's trying to get answers, trying to figure out who and what Freddy is. But, here's the thing: I wouldn't show anything. We see her go to sleep, then we let the music start to do the work. I'm talking some seriously sad music, very quiet. A couple Freddy scratches cut through the air, we see the sleeping girl react. If we're being particularly melodramatic, a tear could slide down her sleeping cheek. We go to slow motion as she raises up off the bed. It's possible we're cutting between Kris dying in slow motion to Nancy learning something important about Freddy, but realizing she's learning it too late to save her friend. Again, slowly we see the cuts tear across Kris and see her fly across the room, before she finally slumps back on the bed, bloody and dead.<br /><br />I think it would be a pretty tragic scene. I know I harp endlessly that horror movies need to be more sad, more than anything, but I think this would have worked pretty well. It would have delivered a scene from the original people were waiting for but in a new way that would have added to the story and built off what we already know about the situation coming into the movie.<br /><br />There's also a lot of awkwardness in the remake about the parents. The original at least gave the parents the strength of their convictions: they hunted Freddy down and took care of him when the justice system failed them. And then they went back to their lives with only a dirty secret between them. The remake implied that the parents didn't really MEAN to kill Freddy, they were just trying to smoke him out of a hiding place. That doesn't work. The story is about evil (Freddy) begatting evil (the parents becoming vigilantes) begatting EVEN WORSE EVIL (Freddy coming back from the dead to kill the children of the parents who killed him.) The kids are completely innocent and are paying for their parents's crimes. That's pretty hardcore.<br /><br />The remake's really sloppy with the parents. I realize they probably didn't have a lot of movie time to dedicate to parents debating their past actions but the time they DO give to it is pretty unsatisfying. What the movie says is that the parents accidentally killed Freddy and then decided to have their children never discuss their childhoods or ever remember their time with Freddy, who the remake says molested them (in the original he killed the kids, the molestation is implied by circumstance but never clearly mentioned.) Regardless, when the first child dies the family had pictures of him at the funeral, including pictures of him with the other kids Freddy got to, although, in their minds they didn't meet until high school. It's not unworkable conceptually: the parents killed Freddy and vowed to their kids would forget it ever happened, getting rid of pictures of them together. We can also assume the city had a couple grade schools and you can move kids around to keep them from being in school together. The movie says they were five at the time and, let's be honest, I don't really remember anyone from my kindergarten class, other than the kids I stayed with through grade school. I even get why the mother of the dead teen might want to show pictures from when her son was young with his friends. But DISCUSS it in the movie. <br /><br />Keep in mind: there's no reason for the parents to think the guy's death was anything but an unusually violent suicide. The kids know better but the parents don't, that's pretty common in horror. So at that funeral, the parents should have some sort of issue with that family having pictures of the children together, pictures they've tried to keep from the children for a long time. And why does Kris's mother keep the old pictures and her daughter's slashed dress? They were in the garage, it's not like Kris found a secret room where they were kept. Honestly, it felt like that stuff was left around because it gave the writers a trail of exposition to let the characters sniff. I liked that the movie let Nancy's mother suggest that the reason the kids were all dreaming about the same boogeyman was due to repressed memories. But I think there could have been a stronger moment or two of follow-up with the parents as well. They had two particularly strong actors, Connie Britton and Clancy Smith, to work with as the main parents. They were woefully underused. <br /><br />I like that a couple of the families moved away and that Freddy got them too. I never especially loved the notion that Freddy was tied directly to Springwood. I like that as a theme for slasher horror, though, but I never bought that if someone left Springwood that Freddy wouldn't find them. Isn't that the point of his existing in the dreamscape? You can't escape him. <br /><br />Rooney Mara was a pretty unremarkable Nancy but I don't blame her. In fact, she's very charismatic in a small role in "The Social Network." But the "Nightmare" remake reduced her to a sort of mousey art student who never really went after Freddy the way Nancy did in the original. She went looking for answers, sure, but in the original she definitely went to take the fight to Freddy. It didn't help Mara that the final scenes with Freddy pretty much reduced her to a victim in terms of his means of attacking her. In the original, the final showdown was as straight-forward a fight as you'll see, Nancy took it to Freddy and put him on the run. I think the remake tried to be too clever with getting Nancy out of the dream, and needing her boyfriend to do so. I'm not against a boyfriend saving the day sometimes, but I don't think Nancy was strong enough. At first I thought Nancy was quiet but was going to bloom as the movie went on -- predictable, yes, but it seemed the only useful reason to make her so waif-like. But she really never really got to be aggressive or on the offensive. In fact, Freddy played her and Quentin for fools the entire time when he lured them to his lair. They thought they were going to be proven right but he just wanted to prove them wrong. <br /><br />Which brings me to the most glaring mistake the remake made: the notion that Quentin doubted whether or not Freddy was really guilty of the crimes the children accused him of. It just didn't work as a red herring because, come on, it's FREDDY KRUEGER, everyone knows he's guilty of everything, otherwise we wouldn't be watching "A Nightmare On Elm Street." Had the filmmakers gone through with it and said Freddy was on the revenge mission because he was falsely accused of molesting a bunch of kids wouldn't have worked either. You aren't going to sell that Freddy Krueger is anything but the boogeyman so why bother. It wasted a lot of time that could have been spent building up the characters, both young and old and making the horrors and dream traps more frightening. Stick to the basic origin, the monologue Marge gave in the original.<br /><br />One thing l obsessively liked about the original was how the first couple murders could be justified in reality. Rod killed Tina, then Tina killed herself. It takes that notion of the parents not understanding what was going on and amplified it. Same with Nancy almost drowning in the tub. Any kid can drown in the tub. Sure, it lost its wheels a bit when Glen got sucked into the bed and the whole geiser of blood but keep in mind: it's possible all of that happened in Nancy's dream and there were also scenes shot of Glen coming out of and then collapsing on the bed that were shot but ultimately not used. It's possible the geiser of blood could have been a dreamed exaggeration. Nevertheless, the remake tried to imply that Kris's boyfriend killed her, then got arrested for it and died in prison but his death in prison was bloody and violent and lacked the cleverness of Freddy hanging him so that it would look like a suicide.<br /><br />There are a couple ways to look at it. It's reasonable to suggest Freddy would WANT the parents to know he was back, killing their children but the mythology initially seems to keep him in the children's dreams. You could also say that in making it look like they're killing each other that Freddy's letting the parents know that they've failed to protect them again, just like they did when he was alive. It's petty but it still sort of works. If Freddy really wanted the parents to suffer, getting to watch the families fall apart as their kids die and turn on each other would probably be entertaining. No reason a parent couldn't eventually believe that Freddy is haunting the children and take their own life, convinced they've ruined their own life and the lives of their children. It could've been a pretty damning moment.<br /> <br />I generally thought the "Nightmare" remake was OK. I get why people hated it. But it frustrates me because even further developing these little things that were right there would have made for a better movie, a scarier, sadder, more emotionally taut horror movie.<br /><br />People still might've bitched about it, of coursre, but I wouldn't have been one of them :)JohnPopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795856163401824947noreply@blogger.com0