Early Halloween tricks/treats!

I'm a horribly big fan of the Pop Vinyl stuff. They have these min mystery boxes of horror guys now too!
My lady bought four of these and another surprise Friday night.

There are three guys I really want; The American Werewolf in London wolf mini, David eating from a Chinese take-out box from The Lost Boys, and Cthulhu.

Walking Dead Season 6.....

The picture changes yet again.

Tomorrow is the start of season 6 of The Walking Dead.

The make or break season for me.
Why?
The series is sort of reaching the same point that the comics were when I bowed out of it. The Alexandria story arc was alright, but the events leading toward and events of issue 100 had me just walk away from the book. The show seems to be moving toward this point.

The giant sweeping changes from the comic to the show are another reason. They have moved so far away from the comic that is more of a alternate reality version of The Walking Dead.

Morgan is back and a jedi ninja. There are these Wolf guys and then all the trumped up drama from Rick in Alexandria.

It is going to be rough for me this season, unless it becomes balls out awesome somehow.

Death Wolves!

Been waiting to see what these would look like. I am not disappointed.

Love the deer skull helmet and nits of bone armor!

I'm a bit on the fence with the fighting claws and giant fur ruffle. The claws need to be longer, more brutal or both! A quick conversion there. Have to live with the big fur ruffle though. 

I wasn't looking for more models anytime soon, but I these guys and girl will be in my army eventually!

Halloween reboot #2 The Crazies

 VS

Evans City, Pennsylvania is the backdrop for the events of The Crazies. Outside of this small town a military plane has gone down. Hey that can happen. Well low and behold that plane was carrying a bioweapon. Opps! Well that bio weapon stuff gets into the water and the inhabitants of Evans City slowly become infected. This biological weapon infection causes a myriad of issues; uncontrollable laughter, malaise, aggression, rapey tendencies, forgetfulness and a fondness for brutal physical assault.

Not to worry as the government and military arrive to close down the town, save the people and cure this infection. Well that is what they say they are going to do. What they are really trying to do is cover everything up, destroy any evidence of the incident, round up the “crazies” and shoot the occasional towns person. Now, two firefighters and a girlfriend have to make it out of town for help and safety. All they have to do is not get killed by “crazies”, the military or infected.

The Crazies was directed by George Romero and was released in 1973. After watching it I was truly disappointed. It….well it really isn’t good.

The Crazies  2010 Reboot

Pierce  County, Iowa is the backdrop for the remake of The Crazies. As before a military plane carrying a bioweapon payload falls out of the sky. Of course it lands in a body of water that dumps into the local town’s drinking water. This bioweapon makes people all strange and eventually uber violent and black veiny. The sheriff, his pregnant wife and his loyal deputy must figure out what is going on, how to survive the infected townsfolk, steer clear of the military and escape to safety.

The Crazies from 1973 was not really good and in comparison, the remake is not too damn bad.

Halloween reboot #1 The Fog

The REBOOT

The Fog was a tale about a small Northern California seaside community that was set to enjoy its 100^th anniversary. Hooray for them! Well that is until a strange fog bank begins to slip into town nightly to scare and murder the townsfolk. See the ghosts of a doomed sunken boat full of lepers wants their revenge one hundred years after the fact.

The Original

The original movie is a great sinister ghost story. The atmosphere is creepy and scary without a fancy special effects and gore. The tension builds well throughout the film. The screenplay and score are good. It also brings some heat with Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Adkins, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh and Adrienne Barbeau (me-ow!). it even throws in a fun little gotcha ending that I found awesome when I saw this in my youth! It might  not be seen as John Carpenter’s best work, but it still pretty damn fun and one of the better ghost stories I’ve seen over all the years.

THE FOG 2005

Here we have the same seaside town doing a 134 year anniversary of their town founders. Wait is 134 years a real anniversary thing? Anyway the whole creepy fog begins to arrive and ruin the lives of any and all the townsfolk with its cargo of ghost lepers. Especially, the ancestors of the original four founding fathers of the town.

Alright, the original was fun. The reboot was anything but that.

Halloween moth again and #900!

My 900th post to date and so that is a thing!  What better way to kick it off than to celebrate October!

The time has come again where everything pumpkin and scary is en vogue.

Hello October! The month of delicious scares and spices!

As always I’m going to dive into the arena of spoooooky movies that are more popular this month than most. I am going to shock and scare myself more than I ever have when it comes to horror movies. How? Why?

See I am going to watch as many of the horror movie remakes as I possibly can this month! This is an equal part time crunch and waste of time crunch. There are just so many reboots out there I don't have the time to cover them all. 

I am diving into the Platinum Dunes horror movies, the remakes of John Carpenter films and the reboots of some of the cult classic spooks and thrillers!

Yeah I’m going force my way through some of the popular and cult classic rebooted films. This is probably going to suck!

This is my idea of survival horror. I have to survive all this remake drek!

Here is hoping I find a gem within all these, but it is doubtful.

Happy Halloween!

First up is the  reboot of a favorite of mine; The Fog!

Zombie Dice expansion

After a few games of Zombie Dice it was brought to our attention that we needed the expansions.

A quick trip and back to the game store and we had Zombie Dice 2: Double Feature and Zombie Dice 3: School Bus.

These expansions don’t change the fundamental game. The expansions add new dice, have a few little scenarios to play and basically just add a new bit of risk reward to the game.

Zombie Dice 2: Double Feature has three new dice. These three dice are added and three other dice are removed. The dice represent the Hunk, Hottie and Santa? What? Well there are three quasi-scenarios in this expansion: “Big Summer Action Film,” “Santa Meets the Zombies” and “The Direct to Video Sequel.”  Theses play exactly the same, there are just minor tweaks. The biggest is replacing the standard yellow dice with the new alternate Hunk, Hottie and Santa dice.

The Hunk die replaces a shotgun blast with a double blast causing two hits. Instead of a single brain though, it has a tasty double brain. Sadly, the rest of the sides contain a pair of single shotgun blasts and feet.

The Hottie has two shotgun blasts, one brain and three feet.

The Santa die is all kinds of crazy. This die represents the jolly old elf’s bag of goodies he carries. I guess even zombies like X-mas? This die has a double brain a helmet, and an energy drink, a shotgun, feet and a single brain. See everyone loves Santa. The helmet side gives the player/zombie a bit of ablative armor. They can now keep rolling until they hit four shotgun blasts instead of three. The energy drink allows all feet rolled during the current turn to be counted as brains. One cannot out run a zombie chock full of Red Bull.