American Monster Movie

This title pretty much says it all. Recently there has been a big drought in Hollywood when it comes to a really solid monster movie. The last decent one was Cloverfield but we didn't even get a good look at the monster until the last 5 minutes of it. It hurts my heart when the only supernatural thing that people want to see in movies are vampires that bedazzle and big cuddly werewolves that look like collies.

Before Cloverfield it seems like the only way that people would see a monster movie is if it was actually a comedy like Gremlins or Little Shop of Horrors but I still think that if you put some big scary alien thing in the middle of a group of people they will be scared to death and there wont be anything funny about it.

Apparently this week Stephen Hawking says he believes that aliens do probably exist and if we ever do meet them then we are in trouble. For an example he used when new settlers wiped out the Indians when they came to this land. In that scenario we are the Indians. Maybe thoughts like these will inspire people to go back to the good old days of King Kong and Godzilla and come up with some mutated out of these world creatures that come down here and do the monster mash.

I really liked The Mist as a movie and the mist itsef was extremely scary but it bothers me when I can't even get a good look at the monsters that are causing all of this damage. The flies and pterodactyl things dont count because compared to those big monsters with legs that look like sequoias, those little things are ants.

Self Promo

As I was watching The Mist again I noticed that David's paintings looked rather familiar. The Mist is the only work by Stephen King that I've read, but I've seen the covers of The Dark Tower books before. I thought it was interesting to find references to other horror works in the beginning of the film. I've never seen another Stephen King-inspired movie, but I tried to find out if this happens in other Stephen King adaptations. I couldn't find anything, though. Sorry if this is all very obvious to the Stephen King fans!

The Fog vs. The Mist

I remember thinking when The Mist came out, "Hasn't this already been made like three times?" But no, that was The Fog. I saw neither of them in theater, and I didn't know that The Mist was based on a Stephen King book. I did know that The Fog was a remake of an older movie, and I thought at the time that The Mist was a cheap knock-off of The Fog. I thought maybe it was a new trend in horror movies. By now I've seen both of them, and I'm not a big fan of either of them.

Never as good as the book....

I guess the old saying holds true with "The Mist" — the book is always better than the movie. I read the book before watching the movie, and I felt that someone who only saw the movie might be confused at first. I especially enjoyed the beginning dialogue in the book because you get to see the dynamics of the family. The movie doesn't capture those relationships.

I also thought it was interesting that the movie didn't include the sex scene between Amanda and David. I'm not disappointed, but I thought movies normally liked to "sex it up."

Of course the endings were totally different. I normally don't like when things don't have a conclusion, but the book's ending was way better than the movie's ending. I don't know why screen writers drift so far away from the original.

My Uncle's Experience with the Possessed Man

I mentioned in class a few weeks ago about my uncle who had to deal with a man who was demon possessed. Well, I found his testimony and scanned it in so you all could read it. My uncle's name is Clay Quarterman and he has been a missionary in Portugal and Ukraine. This is his story:

I'm can't remember if anyone is writing about possession this time around, but feel free to cite him if you need to use this for your paper.

Art's Hands

In "Pop Art," Art does not have fingers. His hands are described as pads with thumbs. Take a look at the picture on the right: tileshop_pmc_inline.html. It's called severe acrosyndactyly.

The Amityville Horror

I have been trying to think of another book that included a good bit of animal's sensing the supernatural, paranormal, etc. And I've got it! The Amityville Horror. The dog in this story is very aware of the spirits in the house. I think this will be my other source, since I recently read the book and enjoyed it.

Not sure why I'm posting this, but I'm just happy to find another source. :) Good luck to everyone else.