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Horror Fan Zine http://horrorfanzine.com Reviews, news, and commentary on horror movies, both old and new! Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:55:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.24 (C) 2007 Gordyville LLChorror,horror,films,horror,movies,slashers,thrillers,gore,scary,movies,b,movies,cult,filmsTV & Filmbillg@horrorfanzine.comBill GBill Gnohorror,horror,films,horror,movies,slashers,thrillers,gore,scary,movies,b,movies,cult,filmsReviews and commentary on horror movies.Reviews and commentary on horror movies.horrorfanzinehttps://feedburner.google.com Mimic (1997) Mimic 2 (2001) Mimic 3: Sentinel (2003) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horrorfanzine/~3/9SNmvgBD_p0/ Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:45:17 +0000 billg@horrorfanzine.com (Bill G) http://horrorfanzine.com/?p=13428 (Visited 4,957 times, 1 visits today)]]> Mimic (1997) Star RatingStar Rating (out of 4)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, Alexander Goodwin, Josh Brolin, Alix Koromzay, F. Murray Abraham, James Costa,
Javon Barnwell, Norman Reedus

Mimic 2 (2001) Star RatingStar Rating 1/2 (out of 4)
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Stars: Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Will Estes, Gaven E. Lucas, Edward Albert, Jon Polito, Jody Wood, Jim O’Heir, Brian Leckner, Paul Schulze, Michael Tucci

Mimic 3: Sentinel (2003) Star RatingStar Rating 1/2 (out of 4)
Director: J.T. Petty
Stars: Karl Geary, Rebecca Mader, Alexis Dziena, Amanda Plummer, John Kapelos, Lance Henriksen, Keith Robinson, Tudorel Filimon, Maria Oprescu, Mircea Constantinescu, Mircea Anca Jr.

Mimic (1997)

You’re some sort of big, fat, smart-bug, aren’t you?

Dimension Films and the Weinstein brothers are behind the Mimic trilogy, starting in 1997 with the first film directed by Guillermo del Toro, a talented guy known for his love of monsters, dark fantasy, and horror. Mimic was his second full length film, following Cronos (his interesting take on the vampire legend), and it’s a creature feature all the way. If you suffer from katsaridaphobia (fear of roaches), you are advised to stay away from these films, since their plots deal with giant cockroaches that prey on unsuspecting humans. Well, technically, they aren’t “roaches” but a new breed of insect made from termite, mantis, and ant DNA. But why split hairs? These things are big, hungry, and they can even look like you. The result is an uneven trilogy of B-movie monster mayhem – nothing earth-shattering, but then again, not the disaster some have made them out to be, either.

Mimic, the first film, is the weakest of them, and given that it was directed by del Toro (whose Blade and Hellboy films kick ass), I take no pleasure in saying so. And I have watched the movie over 3 times now, trying to convince myself that it is a good monster flick, but I just can’t get there. The first half is good – brilliant, even – but the second half grinds to a halt before delivering a cop-out happy ending. The premise is solid: a deadly disease called Strickler’s, spread by NYC roaches, is killing children. Dr. Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) and her hubby Dr. Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) solve the problem by creating the “Judas” breed – a newly created, genetically modified insect – which kills off all cockroaches in the city. But three years later, a serial killer starts taking victims near an old dilapidated church and the only clue seems to be giant pieces of excrement hanging from the ceilings. The serial killer, as you can guess, turns out to be the Judas breed, now grown up to human size and breeding in the underground subway system. To make things worse, they have adapted themselves to imitate humans in a very clever way.

Mimic - Spoon Kid

Man, I’m tired of this Soundgarden video already.

Where Mimic does things right is in its religious symbolism – the Catholic church setting, for example, being compared with our CDC friends playing God by creating a new species. (As it happens, God, or Mother Nature, is not amused). But throwing Catholicism into the mix is something that del Toro does very well (see Mira Sorvino’s stigmata moment where she cuts her hand to attract a bug). Also he films New York as a dark, damp petri dish, swarming with critters in every nook and cranny. The way he shoots the NYC subway is quite gloomy and ominous (well it’s actually a station in Toronto, but still). There are some good scenes in the first half – one where a person is reaching underneath a cabinet looking for a lost flashlight, just inches away from an insect about to claw her (or something – I know crap about entomology). The best scene takes place on a subway platform where the true nature of the “Long John” figure is revealed – I’ll say no more. But things go south in the film during the second half, where our heroes (including a shoemaker played by Giancarlo Giannini and a MTA cop played by Charles Dutton) become trapped by the beasts inside an old abandoned subway car. At this point, the movie becomes Alien/Aliens, which is ok, but instead of picking up the pace, Mimic slows down, separates everyone, and gives every character a cat-and-mouse scenario. But things take so long to play out here, and everything is so dark during this part of the picture, that it had the effect on me of inducing drowsiness. Good thing I didn’t have to operate heavy machinery.

The explosive ending picks things up a bit, but by then I couldn’t get back into it. The final scene shows us that one of the characters has – impossibly – survived the ordeal, which just removes any goodwill I had left. My personal opinion is that the first half of Mimic is pretty much del Toro’s baby, and the second half is the result of Bob Weinstein’s constant, well-documented interference in the shoot. But even with all the Weinstein nonsense, Mimic is just too slow and lengthy for a 50s monster throwback. Love that creature design, though, and Dutton’s performance comes across the best.

Alix Koromzay in Mimic 2: Hardshell

I hope there’s no anchovies on that… because that’s just gross!

Mimic 2 is a direct-to-video effort, written by Joel Soisson (he also wrote Trick or Treat, Dracula 2000, and, uh, Hellraiser 8). Actually, it’s not that bad, which is slightly surprising. After all, Mira Sorvino and Jeremy Northam (and especially del Toro) weren’t gonna go anywhere near this sequel, but somehow they convinced Alix Koromzay to reprise her role as Remi (Remy?) from the last film. Instead of being the sidekick, though, she is front and center, and suddenly made into a full fledged entomologist (well, the first film never really made clear what her role was) as well as elementary school teacher in some shitty school district in the city. Mimic 2 continues the trend started by the first film by having annoying kids around, but unlike the first Mimic, doesn’t have the will to kill them off occasionally. There are some things it does correctly though – director de Segonzac knows that he’s making a B monster flick so he delivers the goods without overstaying his welcome. Remi is portrayed as a mentally unbalanced “bug-lady” who is a “wacko-magnet.” All her dates are creeps, but the “good” news is that her dates are winding up mutilated with their faces torn off. Detective Klaski (Bruno Campos) thinks Remi did it, and why wouldn’t he? The girl takes photos of herself in every emotional state and writes the names of her male tormentors on each one, then hangs them up on a wall – serial killer style.

Soon enough, Remi is trapped inside the school with troubled kid Sal (Gaven E. Lucas) and horny teen Nicky (Will Estes) who just can’t seem to keep his hands off his teacher’s breasts. What a family! The secret of Mimic 2 is that it’s really about Remi’s man troubles and her uncanny ability to attract stalkers – even ones that take the form of 6 foot tall cockroaches. Mimic 2 has bad acting and it’s nowhere in the same league as del Toro, style-wise, but it does dare to violate our main character in a rather icky way, and the final scene is a keeper, let me tell you. I should also note that while Alix Koromzay doesn’t have the screen presence of Mira Sorvino, she shows no fear when it comes to crawling around in the bug slime, so to speak, something I find admirable. I wouldn’t say that Mimic 2 is “good” per se, but for a film about giant killer bugs, it goes down better than the first while making a not so subtle suggestion that when it comes to mating, the males of our species aren’t too different from insects. Oh, and once again, it steals from the Alien movies, but that’s to be expected, right? Bonus: watch for the bug-as-a-man offering our heroine a pizza. Good stuff!

Mimic 3: Sentinel

Watch out for pervy bugs wearing raincoats.

Mimic 3: Sentinel is it’s own unique animal, with director J.T. Petty showing lots of promise. Sure, he shamelessly rips off (uh, I mean, offers homage to) Hitchcock’s Rear Window, but I must say it’s a pretty good rip off. In fact, if Hitch made Rear Window more like this, I might have liked it better. (By that, I mean making it more kinetic, not necessarily throwing in monsters, although giant bugs in Raymond Burr’s apartment would have gotten my attention. Yeah, to me, Rear Window isn’t all that, and I am not a fan of Jimmy Stewart, but we’ll have to discuss that another time). Karl Geary plays Marvin, one of the last kids to contract Strickler’s Disease (from the first film), which has led to his extreme hypersensitivity to his surroundings. Basically, he lives his life in the plastic bubble of his room, only occasionally leaving the house, like when his troubled sister Rosy (Alexis Dziena) wants him to photograph a dead body in the sewer, for example. Marvin has amassed quite a collection of photos taken from his bedroom window; on some of them, he seems to have captured the nighttime murder of a kid and the local neighborhood drug dealer. The local cop (John Kapelos) seems more interested in bedding Marvin’s mom (Amanda Plummer) than solving the case. Plus, there’s this mysterious garbageman (Lance Henriksen) snooping around. Helping out is his pretty neighbor Carmen (Rebecca Mader), taking on the Grace Kelly role. Except that Carmen’s smoking and perfume doesn’t exactly leave a good impression on a dude suffering from something like autism and asthma mixed together.

Mimic 3 is definitely a slow burner, but strangely enough I wasn’t bothered too much. Perhaps I was caught up in its “art film” sensibilities, but more than that – director Petty has figured out that if you are going to make the audience wait, you should reward them with a payoff. He certainly does that here – Mimic 3 is definitely the bloodiest entry in the trilogy, and no character is safe from harm in it. There’s a sequence where Marvin hides from the insect killers inside a kitchen fridge that is quite intense and claustrophobic (as is a similar scene with Rosy trapped in the trunk of a car). Of course, Henriksen kinda seals the deal here; his scenes, while short, are not wasted. In the end, I liked this stripped-down version of Mimic – minimalist, and then explosive. Interesting also, that it would tie the origins of its main character and its bugs together.

Mimic 3

Rear Window 2: Thorwald’s Revenge

In conclusion, the Mimic trilogy should offer enough ickiness to satiate lovers of insect carnage. No, the exposition concerning “evolution” and “mutations” isn’t believable (insects developing lungs? why?) but that doesn’t really matter. These are throwbacks to the horror features of old that warned us about taking science too far (remember Them!?) What’s interesting is that each film has its defenders and detractors – try each one and see which of them you like best.

– Bill Gordon

Mimic 3 Film Set (Mimic / Mimic 2 / Mimic 3) [Blu-ray]
Mimic (The Director’s Cut) [Blu-ray + Digital Copy]
Mimic 2
Mimic 3: Sentinel

Mimic 3 Bug

“Honey… can you bring me the large can of Raid?”

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The Conjuring (2013) – James Wan, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horrorfanzine/~3/rUL7ZoBGdZA/ Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:11:26 +0000 billg@horrorfanzine.com (Bill G) http://horrorfanzine.com/?p=13389 (Visited 2,810 times, 1 visits today)]]> The Conjuring (2013)
Directed by: James Wan
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Shanley Caswell, Hayley McFarland, Joey King, Mackenzie Foy, Kyla Deaver, Shannon Kook, John Brotherton

Star RatingStar RatingStar Rating (out of 4)

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga

Oh no, Darth Maul’s not behind me again, is he?

James Wan has had quite a career, moving from the franchise-creating Saw to the underrated Dead Silence to the overrated-but-still-decent Insidious. The Conjuring is a spook story that showcases the man’s talent (along with DPs John Leonetti and David Brewer) for giving a little bit of style to the haunted house setting and effectively delivering some scares. Oh, sure, it’s derivative as all get-out – try not to think about The Exorcist, Poltergeist, Amityville Horror, The Possession, The Innkeepers, The Sixth Sense, Paranormal Activity, and Insidious while watching it (I dare you), but what he puts up on the screen is skillfully done. I suppose I should be glad that in 2013 you can still make a haunted house/demonic possession movie and have it be entertaining.

The Conjuring is based on supposedly true events surrounding “The Harrisville Haunting” of the Perron family and the help they received from paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in the year 1971. The Perrons are a family of seven made up of mom Carolyn (Lili Taylor), dad Roger (Ron Livingston – yes, from Office Space, and I almost didn’t recognize him!), and five daughters (Shanley Caswell, Hayley McFarland, Joey King, Mackenzie Foy, Kyla Deaver). On move-in day, the dog refuses to enter the house; in the morning, the dog is dead. Folks, this is a bad omen, trust me. Then, bizarre things happen, like all clocks stopping at 3:07am, Cindy (Mackenzie Foy) banging her head against a bedroom armoire in her sleep, ghostly banging on walls, birds killing themselves by flying into the house, and family photos being knocked off the wall. Oh, and little April (Kyla Deaver) has a new imaginary friend that can sometimes manifest itself (he likes to play the hide-n-clap game with a scared-shitless Carolyn). Soon, something unseen is tugging at Christine’s legs and telling her that it wants the Perron family dead. This house is a bummer, man.

The Conjuring (2013)

“Hey, little help over here. The kid’s not gonna sacrifice himself, ya know.”

Things get bad enough that the Warrens (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson – he also starred in Insidious) are called in, where they discover that a decent number of people have died on the property in violent and tragic ways, preceded by a terrible sacrifice and suicide that I’ll leave up to the movie to tell. The rest of The Conjuring involves your typical evidence gathering (thermometers, cameras, bells-on-doors, motion-picture cameras) which is required to prove to the Catholic church that some unholy stuff is going on, and then they can send over an exorcist. This just serves to piss the entity off, and we get the expected showdown where the fate of somebody’s soul is at stake. As I said, you’ve seen The Conjuring in countless movies before, but Wan has a knack for this sort of thing. It’s all here: jump-scares, eerie music boxes, suicides, spooky basements, moving doors, exorcisms, people being dragged around by unseen forces, children in peril, and a very creepy doll called Annabelle. It’s interesting that the film was rated R not for gore, sex, or language, but simply because it is too terrifying. I didn’t find it that scary, myself, but it’s definitely intense and creepy in spots. It’s well-acted and has some nice fluid camerawork, with sweeping shots and one nice touch where the camera turns upside down as a terrified Christine (Joey King) looks under her bed, and then rights itself as she gets up. I also find it interesting that the film chooses Catholicism as the “correct” religion and sticks with it (kinda how The Possession runs with Judaism).

For this kind of thing, I find The Conjuring to be better than Insidious and worth the look for those who need their fill of theme-park-ride scares and “boo”-moments. It also does have a kind of nostalgia hanging on it, as Walter Chaw pointed out, harkening back to the old-fashioned William Castle spook-shows. There’s also the historical aspects of the picture to lend it interest – the “based-on-true-events” stuff that lovers of ghost-hunting should eat up. Have fun, kids!

– Bill Gordon

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Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston

You have been damned… to an eternity of TPS reports!

  • Can anybody explain the title to me? Who, or what, is doing the “conjuring” here?
  • The Annabelle doll depicted in the film was really a Raggedy Ann Doll. More about that here.
  • If you want to know more about the Perron family, check out History vs Hollywood.
  • Here’s our brief writeup on the Warrens, whose ghost-busting adventures have inspired many books/movies (Amityville, the Demon-Murder case, Smurl haunting, Snedeker haunting, and so on). In the 50s, the Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research. Ed died in 2006; Lorraine still works on investigations and still runs the Occult Museum, located in her Connecticut home.
  • For even more about Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren, try reading The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren or Conversations With Ed and Lorraine Warren
  • Regarding the Warren’s collection of cursed artifacts – did anybody flash back to Friday the 13th: The Series?
  • There’s talk about “who Patrick Wilson looks like.” To me, he looks like Bob Odenkirk mixed with Christian Slater.
  • James Wan’s next film is Fast and Furious 7. Should be interesting to see how he transitions from horror to action.

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Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horrorfanzine/~3/qdIFaRUxyuI/ Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:44:57 +0000 billg@horrorfanzine.com (Bill G) http://horrorfanzine.com/?p=13372 (Visited 2,507 times, 1 visits today)]]> Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Directed by: John D. Hancock
Starring: Zohra Lampert, Mariclare Costello, Barton Heyman, Kevin O’Connor, Gretchen Corbett, Alan Manson

Star RatingStar RatingStar Rating (out of 4)

Let's Scare Jessica to Death

Bathing styles of the 70s. The 1870s.

Well, the title Let’s Scare Jessica to Death is misleading – coming in, I expected to find a film about some kind of conspiracy to frighten poor Jessica (Zohra Lampert) into offing herself, but it turns out that this is an early 70s reworking of the Carmilla story, in which a group of lost souls find themselves prey to a vampire/succubus/revenant. It’s a film of its time, coming in that weird period between the summer of love and Watergate, during the height of the Vietnam war, past the point of Hunter Thompson’s watermark where the wave finally broke and rolled back. As Kevin O’Connor’s quasi-hippie Woody says “we’re all running from something…. we’re all kind of… wandering spirits.” By the end, nobody is filled with more disappointment than poor Jessica, her hopes of living a simpler life among nature dashed, not to mention the destruction of her marriage and, probably, her sanity.

Jessica has just gotten out of an asylum due to some kind of breakdown, so her husband Duncan (Barton Heyman) takes her to their new home in the country with friend Woody in tow. Death is already with them – their ride is a hearse, and they are greeted by the older men in the town with contempt. Given the revelations at the end, the fact that the townsmen think of the new group as “hippies” and “creeps” is funny, given that they are revealed to have their own brand of communalism and other stuff I won’t spoil. Before our group reaches the house, Jessica has created impressions of gravestones to hang on her wall; she has already started seeing and hearing things but won’t talk about it for fear of being sent back to the hospital. But she’s relieved to find that the squatter in their newly acquired home is real (“That’s ok, Jess, I see her too.”). Red haired Emily (Mariclare Costello) proves likable and free-spirited enough that the threesome invite her to stay awhile, which is certainly a mistake because she becomes romantically entangled with both men. Things get weird when Duncan and Jessica try to sell old artifacts they found in the house, including an old photo from the late 1800s with a girl in it who looks suspiciously like Emily.

Let's Scare Jessica To Death

Attention BRC Residents! Non-potable Water!

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death is a slow burn. By the end of it, Jessica’s grip on reality is practically gone, but unlike some reviewers I have read, I didn’t find the story that confusing. In fact, I think it’s rather straightforward; the film gives plenty of clues to what is going on. Things progress maybe a little more slowly than they should, but I think the focus is more on what’s going on in Jessica’s head and how she feels. (There are lots of internal monologues, and a nice touch is to occasionally intermingle another person’s thoughts with Jessica’s, giving a sense that she might indeed be losing her sanity again). Zohra Lampert is good in her role as the fragile, vulnerable lead, but Mariclare Costello is perfect – she knows how to play sexy and dangerous; she makes the movie work.

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death is by no means perfect – I think that maybe director Hancock throws in too many symbolic references (the poisoned apples, the “angelic” but “merciless” faces, the hearse, the mole) but it’s very atmospheric, nightmarish, and creepy in that 70s way. You can tell it gets some influence from 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby (especially the last bedroom scene); on the other hand, the electronic score and scenes of Woody’s spraying machine seem to have influenced 1974’s Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. My final thought on the movie is that it is extremely sad; not scary per se (although some might find it that) but just filled with melancholy and fatalism. It’s a flick about sheep inviting the wolf for dinner and a bit of commentary on the flower children’s broken dreams. Funny title, though.

– Bill Gordon

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death

“Bring out your dead!”
“But I’m getting better…”

Let's Scare Jessica to Death

“If you want to put me into an early grave, that hippie folk music should do it.”

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Christmas Horror Movie Gift Guide http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horrorfanzine/~3/9ft9SGYQ9sM/ http://horrorfanzine.com/christmas-horror-movie-gift-guide/#comments Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:00:54 +0000 billg@horrorfanzine.com (Bill G) http://horrorfanzine.com/?p=8218 (Visited 1,573 times, 1 visits today)]]> Want to get some of your horror fan buddies some horror related gifts this Christmas? Try Horror Fan Zine’s Christmas Horror Movie Gift Guide! In this edition we’ll list some great horror movies and horror TV shows to buy your friends and family this Christmas holiday. Or maybe just get them for yourself!

Christmas Horror Movie Gift Guide

Christmas with the Dead (2012)
In his quest to fulfill a promise made to his wife, Calvin sets out to right his wrongs and make it the best Christmas ever for his family. If only it wasn’t June and the majority of the population, including his wife and daughter, hadn’t been turned into flesh-eating snappers by a mysterious atmospheric phenomenon, he’d be in pretty good shape. Written by Joe Lansdale, who also wrote Bubba Ho-Tep

World War Z (2013)
Brad Pitt from the United Nations is here to save the world from zombies. OK for a PG-13 zombie flick.

Christmas Evil (1980)
A holiday favorite of John Waters (how’s that for an endorsement!) you’ll totally have a blast with this surprisingly entertaining chiller about a loner toy maker (Brandon Maggert – Fiona Apple’s dad!) who takes his desire to be Santa a little too far. Also known in circles as You Better Watch Out, it tries to humanize its psycho central character, who retains a certain childlike innocence but is faced with the selfishness of the adult world, which sends him over the edge. Part Frankenstein, part Taxi Driver, and it even has a metaphysical ending that we swear was ripped off by Thelma & Louise! See our review here.

The Conjuring (2013)
James Wan’s spook story featuring the adventures of real life paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren. Stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson.

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)
This is the Christmas-themed slasher that sent mothers and religious groups into an uproar when it entered theaters back in 1984. Little Billy watches the shocking murder of his parents by a dude dressed in a Santa suit and is sent to an orphanage run by an evil nun who teaches him that the guilty must be “punished.” Now grown up and adopting her philosophy, Billy (Robert Brian Wilson) puts on a Santa suit for his job and promptly loses it. The result is your expected bloody mayhem, including a scene with a nude Linnea Quigley (well, that’s redundant, right?) getting impaled on a pair of antlers. Naughty!
Also included here is the first sequel in the “franchise.” It’s pretty bad, but also quite hilarious, featuring Billy’s younger brother grown up and played by actor Eric Freeman, whose performance (and eyebrows) must be seen to be believed. The most infamous scene went viral on YouTube (“Garbage day!”) Read our review of both films here.

American Horror Story: Asylum (2012-2013)
Season 2 of this enormously popular horror series. Stars Jessica Lange.

Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! (1989)
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991)
This 3 disc set collects the next three films from the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise, all gone straight to video. In Part 3, Bill Moseley plays the role of Ricky this time (played by Eric Freeman in the last film). A crazy scientist has kept him alive for experiments. Coming out of his coma, Ricky gets back to killing, and also targets a young clairvoyant blind woman (Samantha Scully). Also stars Robert Culp, for some reason (he was in Santa’s Slay too – see below).
Part 4 is directed by Brian Yuzna (Society, Bride of Re-Animator, Beyond Re-Animator) and features special effects by Screaming Mad George, so you know that it’s possible to take a little bit of that coal and make a small diamond out of it. The film deals with witchcraft and some nasty bugs. And Clint Howard’s in it (along with Reggie Bannister)!
Part 5 cranks up the sex a bit and throws in killer toys courtesy of Mickey Rooney! Screaming Mad George is back with the effects.

Night Of The Comet (1984)
Shout! Factory releases this 80s cult classic on Blu-Ray with tons of extras, including three audio commentary tracks. Will be released on November 19th.

Black Christmas (1974)
No Christmas horror movie gift guide would be complete without Bob Clark’s seminal holiday shocker about the girls of a Canadian sorority that fall prey to a psycho killer during Christmas break. The killer’s name is Billy and he likes to go on about somebody named Agnes, but we’re never sure what the hell he is talking about. But hey, you know those psychos – always babbling about something. Atmospheric and unsettling, this is the complete opposite of Clark’s other holiday movie Christmas Story, so try not to get them confused when doing your holiday shopping. (You might not want little Timmy getting scarred for life). Black Christmas features Margot Kidder (sexy) and John Saxon. If that’s not enough for you, it has plenty of slasher motifs that were ripped off countless numbers of times, as well as a plot point stolen by When A Stranger Calls! Read our review here. (And don’t get the movie confused with the remake).

Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
Blue Underground finally gives us a long-awaited release of Maniac Cop 2. With Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner, Robert Z Dar, Charles Napier, and the great Bruce Campbell. Written by Larry Cohen (God Told Me To) and directed by William Lustig (Maniac Cop 1, Maniac). Tons of extras. Released on November 19.

Santa’s Slay (2005)
Santa’s Slay is very much a black comedy, but if you are in the mood for a good laugh when watching people get slaughtered by a wrestler in a Santa suit, then you this is the flick for you! WWE wrestler Bill Goldberg plays Santa, who is really the son of Satan who lost a bet 1,000 years ago and had to spread holiday cheer instead of holiday fear. But now that the millenium is over he can get back to his Satanic ways. (Satan…Santa…doh! Why didn’t we see that coming?!). Funny in spots but gets a little too goofy at the end… at least it has the late Robert Culp as an angel now in the form of an old grandpa. Best scene is in the beginning, when Goldberg comes down the chimney and takes out a family of rich jerks including Fran Drescher, Chris Kattan, Rebecca Gayheart, and James Caan!

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993)
Yeah, there’s a Maniac Cop 3, why not? Robert Davi and Robert Z Dar return for more mayhem, joined by Jackie Earle Haley and Robert Forster. Cohen is back writing and Lustig is back as director – well, mostly. Story is that he walked off the set, so Joel Soisson had to take over for him. Maybe the making-of supplemental will explain things. Arrives November 19th.

Gremlins (1984)
Want to get your little nephew started on the road to horror movie fandom? Ease him in with this Christmas-themed creature feature featuring the cute little lovable Mogwai who doesn’t seem so lovable anymore when you feed him after midnight. It’s a Frank Capra fantasy turned on its head. Read our review here.

A Cadaver Christmas (2011)
It’s “Zombies for the Holidays” in this cheese horror comedy / grindhouse spoof. United by terrifying and bizarre circumstances, the janitor, the drunk, the bartender, the cop, his perp, and the student security guard must fight to undo the professor’s work. A dark force is at work in the cadaver lab this Christmas and this unconventional band of heroes are the only hope the world has against an army of living corpses that are quickly recruiting new members. The flick has good word of mouth, and at $5, a cheap gift for somebody’s stocking.

The Thing (1982)
One of the greatest horror movies ever made, John Carpenter’s other masterpiece (besides Halloween) belongs on every horror fan’s shelf. Especially this awesome-looking Blu-Ray edition. Read our review here.

Silent Night Bloody Night (1974)
Very creepy winter chiller that has a nice bloody axe murder, an interesting sepia-toned flashback sequence, and… Mary Woronov! It seems to have even influenced Black Christmas! You can read our review here.

The Shining (1980)
Speaking of winter horror, you can’t go wrong with Kubrick’s masterpiece interpretation of Stephen King’s novel. This Blu-Ray is a great opportunity to let your friends (or yourself) revisit this classic. Reviewed here.

Black X-Mas (2006)
This is the remake of Black Christmas from Glen Morgan (The X-Files). Gory and a mean spirited, but if you hate Christmas and want to see idiot sorority girls get butchered this is the movie for you! Reviewed here.

Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984)
If your friends or family members really hate Santa Claus, then get them this British slasher from 1984 about a serial killer offing various Santas in gory ways. Santas are shot, stabbed, burned, and even castrated. Scotland Yard detectives are too stupid to stop the killings. Plus, there’s boobs and a great tagline: “Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring…….they were all dead!” Read our review here.

Horror Express (1972)
Not exactly a Christmas horror movie but it’s certainly a cult classic and good for a snowy day. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are turn-of-the-century anthropologists fighting off a millions-of-years-old monster on the Trans-Siberian Express. They also have to deal with a crazy (and hilarious) Cossack played by Telly Savalas. There is a lot more going on here and it’s worth the watch… the Blu-ray version is the best this film has ever looked. Apparently, the HD transfer comes from vault elements recently unearthed in a Mongolian film depot. Read our review here.

Silent Night (2012)
This is the sort-of remake to Silent Night, Deadly Night, and it stars Malcolm McDowell as a sheriff who discovers that a maniac in a Santa suit is murdering those he judges as “naughty.” From Anchor Bay.

And that, friends, is this year’s Christmas Horror Movie Gift Guide! Deck the halls… with blood!

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Directed by: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Starring: Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Aiden Lovekamp, Brady Allen, Stephen Dunham, Alexondra Lee, Georgica Pettus, Katie Featherston, Alisha Boe, Brendon Eggertsen

Star Rating 1/2 (out of 4)

Warning: slight spoilers ahead.

Paranormal Activity 4

I find her interesting because she sleeps above her covers. 4 feet above her covers…

Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman are back with their fourth entry in the popular franchise about supernatural happenings inside everyday suburbia, delivered in the style of “found footage.” The previous Paranormal Activity films tried to mix it up a bit by showing us everything from VHS tapes to security-cams to MINI-DV. Paranormal Activity 4 takes place in the year 2011, and almost everything in it is filmed using laptop cameras, something that is funnier the more I think about it, because if you are running from demons and witches, are you really intent on carrying your fucking laptop around? If you’re that kind of person, then Paranormal Activity 4 is the film for you.

I will allow for this: it’s plausible that at the very end, 14 year old Alex (Kathryn Newton) is running around filming everything using her smartphone (it’s never really made clear). Additionally, I suppose you just have to accept the idea that in movies like this, people are compelled to film everything, no matter how dramatic, personal, or threatening to their well-being. But you still have to wonder about a household where everybody has their laptop open and operating 24 hours a day. Don’t people put their computers to sleep when they are done using them and close them up? Anyway, I digress. Paranormal Activity 4 takes place after the events of the second film, where a demon-possessed Katie (Katie Featherston) kidnaps Hunter, her sister’s baby, and disappears. The action shifts to Nevada and follows the life of a nuclear family – Alex, her little brother Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp), her mom (Alexondra Lee) and dad (Stephen Dunham). They are your typical suburban, upper middle class family with a lovely kitchen, featuring self-absorbed parents who don’t really talk to one another, much less anybody else. (Probably the most interesting thing to take away from PA4 is this constant reminder that parents no longer connect with their children, happy to leave them to their treehouses and Xboxes). One day, the new neighbor lady is mysteriously hauled away in an ambulance, leaving our family (I don’t even know their last name) to take care of little Robbie (Brady Allen), because in Paranormal Activity 4, social services does not get involved; just drop the kid off with the neighbors.

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Xbox “Phase 2” initiated

Robbie is a weird kid, and Wyatt becomes more distant from everyone the longer Robbie stays in the house. Supernatural events occur, as they always do in these films, leading Alex and her boyfriend Ben (Matt Shively) to set up all laptops in the house to continually record events through webcams. Chandeliers fall from the ceiling, kitchen knives fly around, and the boys seem to have acquired an imaginary friend, which you can see through the use of a XBox Kinect and night-vision camera. This eventually leads to a demon attack on Alex which almost kills her via carbon monoxide poisoning. And what is the biggest reaction from her dad? Only to brush things off and exclaim how awesome kids are these days with technology (“I can’t even work my cell phone!”) At no point does anybody consider playing back the recorded footage, which shows indisputable proof of demonic entities invading the household. There’s some nonsense about Alex not being able to work the software without Ben around, which is just stupid, considering that any kid can work web cam software these days, and if getting footage is so important, wouldn’t you want to make sure you can watch it?

Paranormal Activity 4 offers more of the same as the films before it – people dragged around and dropped from heights by unseen entities; secret covens next door; adults too preoccupied with themselves to notice anything around them; victims that should probably put down the camera and run like hell but don’t. Katie Featherston makes her expected appearance – picking up a paycheck – and the revelation of who baby Hunter is just leads to more confusion because – why steal a child and then give it up for adoption? At the end of Paranormal Activity 4, no mysteries are solved and the overarching plot of the franchise doesn’t really get developed much at all. The movie is wholly unnecessary, is what I’m saying. As far as the found footage angle goes, this is old hat by now, and I have noticed that PA4 is almost edited like a normal film. A kill is shown briefly, and then the camera cuts to somewhere else, which doesn’t really make sense considering that we are supposed to be immersed in the “realism” associated with found footage. But this doesn’t play like found footage at all; it plays like a “regular” movie that just happens to be shot with a laptop camera. Whatever thrill we got from watching somebody’s personal home movies has completely dissipated.

But with that said, I don’t think Paranormal Activity 4 is much worse than the last one, which I can barely remember, to tell you the truth. I actually think Kathryn Newton and Matt Shively are quite good in it, which is important, since they are forced to carry the film (even little Wyatt, who is central to the story, is treated more like an object than an actual character). Lots of people feel that this is the worst one; it could be, but it’s not something I can really get worked up over. I merely find it par for the course – maybe people are finally figuring out that the P.A. series is a one trick pony.

– Bill Gordon

Witches Coven

Don’t freak. It’s just an Indigo Girls concert.

There’s an unrated edition of Paranormal Activity 4, but it has nothing to do with anything extra-violent or scary. Mostly just a beginning sequence set during Halloween that introduces us to the protagonists.

Buy Paranormal Activity 4: Unrated Edition/Rated Version (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy + UltraViolet)
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Directed by: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Starring: Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr, Jeffrey Landman, Tamara Glynn, Jonathan Chapin, Matthew Walker, Wendy Foxworth, Betty Carvalho, Troy Evans, Frankie Como, David Ursin, Don Shanks

Star Rating 1/2 (out of 4)

Michael and Loomis - Halloween 5

Finally – the makeup sex.

Warning: Some spoilers ahead

The success of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers proved to Moustapha Akkad that audiences will only show up to a Halloween movie if it features boogeyman Michael Myers slashing folks. So he immediately cranked out Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, because, you know, it’s a friggin’ cash cow. As with most slasher sequels, not much time is really spent on good writing, characters, or direction, but I think in the end Halloween 5 could have been a lot worse. It certainly starts off pretty bad, stays bad through the middle section, but picks up a bit in the final act, with a highlight where Myers attacks his 9 year old niece Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) while she’s trapped inside a laundry chute. You might remember this film as the one that introduces the mysterious “man in black”, but I will remember it as the one that terrorizes a little girl for most of its running time. Danielle Harris, around 11 years old at the time, is traumatized so much in this movie she deserves multiple medals.

The last film saw Myers shot multiple times by police and then fallen down a mine shaft. Naturally he escapes, making it out to a stream where he drifts along to some hermit’s shelter somewhere. Exactly one year later, Myers (played by Don Shanks) awakens (from a coma?) and kills his benefactor, then makes his way back to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois. What’s up with that hermit, anyway? He keeps a comatose body on a table in his cave for an entire year and doesn’t tell anybody? Were they roommates? Did Myers pay his half of the utilities on time? Anyway, Halloween 5 takes its cue from Friday the 13th and backtracks on its tease from the last movie that promised to turn little Jamie into the new Michael. We find out that her stepmother somehow survived her attack, and now poor Jamie, like Tommy Jarvis, resides in a mental home for kids. She can’t speak, but she has a psychic link to Uncle Mikey, so she goes into seizures every time Michael is about to kill somebody. We are reintroduced to Rachel Carruthers (Ellie Cornell – don’t expect her to live long) and her goofy, annoying friends Tina (Wendy Foxworth) and Samantha (Tamara Glynn). They are there to be killed by Michael in a barn sequence that is much more laughable than suspenseful.

Donald Pleasence in Halloween 5

“Are you sure there’s nothing else? Anything… anything but Halloween 6…”

People do very stupid things in this movie. A girl showers alone with her front door open. She yells “I’ll be right there!” at a ringing phone (maybe it’s one of those sentient phones). People leave a costume party and walk into a darkened barn for no reason at all. Dr. Loomis (Pleasence) is now so unbalanced that he should be in a mental hospital himself, but somehow he’s free to walk in and out of the kids clinic so he can occasionally manhandle little Jamie into giving him information. Of course, local cops are incompetent and can’t shoot straight.

There are a few scenes worth watching. Tina’s boyfriend Mikey (Jonathan Chapin) is in love with his car, and Michael Myers takes a hand cultivator to the paint. Myers puts on another creepy mask and picks Tina up in the guy’s car (probably his one and only “date”). It’s interesting that while wearing the “creeper” mask he doesn’t kill the girl (he even stops so she can get cigarettes) and only gets in the killing mood when he puts the Shatner mask on. The final stalking sequence where he chases poor Jamie around in the old Myers house is fairly well done, and this is where Harris earned her paycheck. There’s hardly a scene where she’s not crying, screaming, throwing fits, or in some kind of pain. When she’s finally cornered in an attic, she cries “Uncle”, a nice little bit with a double meaning.

Danielle Harris in Halloween 5

Danielle Harris tries to escape but the chute leads right into Rob Zombie’s Halloween.

Why Myers wants to kill family members is still never explained (in retrospect, that plot point should have been abandoned after Halloween II). Then there’s the unknown man-in-black, connected to Myers through the symbol of the Thorn curse, which is also never explained (until Part 6). His only job is to lurk in the shadows and perform a jail break at the end. I’m not as concerned with the man in black as I am with the fact that the quality of filmmaking has dropped considerably since the first Halloween (there’s even a noticeable drop from Part 4). Director Dominique Othenin-Girard and DP Robert Draper are just not capable of the style of Carpenter and Dean Cundey. Other than the costume party, events in Halloween 5 could have happened on any day of the year. And I don’t know what possessed Girard to give two bumbling cops their own goofy/cartoony theme music. As for Pleasence – well, this has been just a paycheck for him since Halloween II, but his over-the-top performance here is no longer haunting, merely comical. At least the film ends on a dark note. Halloween 5 is a good example of a franchise’s diminishing returns, but hey – at least it’s not Halloween Resurrection.

– Bill Gordon

Buy Halloween 5 on DVD
Buy Halloween 5 on Blu-Ray

The DVD edition of Halloween 5 comes from Anchor Bay and features an occasionally amusing but forgettable commentary by director Dominique Othenin-Girard and actors Danielle Harris and Jeffrey Landman. There’s on-the-set footage, a featurettte called Inside Halloween 5, trailers, and a cute brief introduction to the disc by Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell. The presentation is in anamorphic widescreen. The Blu-ray is similar but it also has a brand new commentary track with Actor Don Shanks and Author Justin Beahm.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

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Clive Barker To Write Script To Hellraiser Remake http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horrorfanzine/~3/PaJs0HjhvIc/ Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:16:20 +0000 billg@horrorfanzine.com (Bill G) http://horrorfanzine.com/?p=13227 (Visited 1,226 times, 1 visits today)]]> According to Clive Barker’s Facebook page, the horror author has been tasked by Bob Weinstein and Dimension Films to write the script to the Hellraiser remake. Barker, whose horror novel The Hellbound Heart formed the basis for the original Hellraiser film, had this to say:

The idea of my coming back to the original film and telling the story with a fresh intensity-honoring the structure and the designs from the first incarnation but hopefully creating an even darker and richer film-was attractive to Dimension.

Barker goes on to say that CGI will be minimal; the film will focus more on practical make-up effects. He also said that everybody involved in the project agrees that Doug Bradley should be brought back to play Pinhead. The film will be R-rated and Barker plans to start writing as soon as all legal papers are signed.

Previously, Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer were attached to the reboot, but in 2011 they confirmed that they were no longer involved. The last Hellraiser film was the poorly received Hellraiser: Revelations, which currently is the only Hellraiser film not to feature Doug Bradley. That ninth installment was most likely an attempt to buy time for a proper remake, ensuring that the Weinsteins wouldn’t lose the franchise rights.

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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones – New Trailer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horrorfanzine/~3/oMXqz6oEJVg/ Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:48:16 +0000 billg@horrorfanzine.com (Bill G) http://horrorfanzine.com/?p=13220 (Visited 1,052 times, 1 visits today)]]> As we mentioned in an earlier post, Paranormal Activity 5 will appear in October, 2014. But if you just can’t wait around another year, you could check out the spinoff movie in January, called Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.

The Marked Ones, which was originally titled The Oxnard Tapes, can be considered the “cousin” to the main P.A. series, but with a mainly Latino cast. As the trailer shows below, it’s not a good idea to interact with anything related to Katie or Kristi.

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones stars Richard Cabral, Carlos Pratts, David Fernandez Jr., and Jorge Diaz. It will be released on January 3, 2014. The “official” sequel – Paranormal Activity 5 – will be released on October 24, 2014.

Popular joke going around: there’s so much paranormal activity around, it should now be referred to as “normal activity.”

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Obstacles or Opportunities

By Kevin Moore (Missionary in New Zealand)

What do you do when you’re working your dream job (teaching Bible and missions at Freed-Hardeman University) but your heart is pulling you back to the mission field? Why not ask for a leave of absence? You’d be surprised at how little resistance the administration raises and how happy they are to not pay your salary for the next couple of years!

A mission team is formed. A mission field is targeted. A plan is developed for establishing the Lord’s church in a city where it does not exist. A departure date is set. Fund-raising commences. Our house is prepared for renting, and renters are secured who sign a lease and agree that if they move out before our return, suitable replacements will be found. One-way airline tickets are purchased. We are on the proverbial fast-moving train, and there is no stopping it, no getting off, and no turning back. Then come the challenges.

Due to the economic recession, after eight grueling months on the fund-raising trail and only four months from our departure date and final pay check, zero support has been committed. But we press on. The other members of our mission team start dropping out until all that is left is our family. But we press on. After our departure, in less than a week the renters had moved out of our house without finding replacements to pay the rent and cover our mortgage. Then my wife falls and breaks her ankle in three places, requiring surgery, eleven days in the hospital, and months of rehabilitation. Our vehicle is rear-ended and written off. The cost of living is higher than we anticipated, and the currency exchange rate consistently moves in the wrong direction, decreasing our monthly income. Is this God’s way of telling us that what we’re attempting to do is not His will? Or could it be something else trying to hinder us? It can’t be the former, because we know what the divine will is – go, preach, make disciples. So we press on.

Despite the financial struggles everyone is facing, the support that we need eventually comes through. New renters move into the house we left behind and cover our mortgage payments. Without the original team of co-workers, we solicit the involvement of nearby Christians who prove to be an even greater asset to this new work. My wife recovers. Our vehicle is replaced. The budget is tightened and the family does not go hungry. More importantly, souls are reached, and in just over a year the church of Christ has been planted and is growing where it had never been known before. God has blessed us and this work beyond anything we could have ever imagined!

In recent years I have heard a lot of “church bashing,” but most of it seems to be coming from those who have never stepped out in faith and seen the Lord working through His church nor opened their eyes to witness the generosity and faithfulness of God’s people. It’s easy to sit around and complain about what’s wrong with the church. But if we present ourselves as willing instruments in our Father’s capable hands and persistently go about His business, we will experience first-hand all that is right with the church.

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58).

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Awkward Blog Tour and Playlist

27 Mar, 2012 by in marni bates, playlist Leave a comment

Fire and Ice is one of today’s stops on the official blog tour for

by Marni Bates

Paperback, 300 pages
Published January 1st 2012
by Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 0758269374
Book Summary: Mackenzie Wellesley has spent her life avoiding the spotlight. At Smith High, she’s the awkward junior people only notice when they need help with homework. Until she sends a burly football player flying with her massive backpack and makes a disastrous – not to mention unwelcome – attempt at CPR. Before the day is out, the whole fiasco explodes on YouTube. And then the strangest thing happens. Suddenly, Mackenzie is an Internet sensation, with four million hits and counting. Sucked into a whirlwind of rock stars, paparazzi, and free designer clothes, she even catches the eye of the most popular guy at school. And that’s when life gets really interesting…

Here at Fire and Ice we had  author Marni Bates come up with a playlist of songs she feels fit Awkward. She says…”I love finding music that fits my novels! And when I stumble across a song that connects to my life, I listen to it obsessively.

So here’s my playlist for Awkward:

Starz in Their Eyes ~ Just Jack. This song definitely inspired me to write Awkward because it’s about the way people can manipulate you when you reach a certain level of notoriety. I definitely see Mackenzie as someone with stars in her eyes when her YouTube video garners four million hits.

Solo Impala (Take the Money and Run) ~ The Fashion. I couldn’t resist referencing The Fashion in the book. I love the sense of energy and urgency in this song. I think a part of Mackenzie wants to take the money her newly acquired fame could bring and run. But beyond that . . . this song really has nothing to do with the book. I just love it.

Sideways ~ Let’s Go Sailing Okay, I always think about Mackenzie and Logan when I hear this song and not in a happy, bubbly way but in an I’m-about-to-bawl-my-eyes-out way. I listened to it on repeat when Kenzie finally figures out that she likes Logan . . . and thinks that he’s back together with Chelsea.

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart ~ Wilco Another heartbreak song. I always pictured Mackenzie listening to this during quiet moments on the bus with ReadySet and Corey. (Spoiler alert! It comes up in Jane’s book, Invisible.)

The Show ~ Lenka I think this song encapsulates Awkward so well! Here’s a sampling of the lyrics: I’m just a little bit caught in the middle Life is a maze and love is a riddle. I don’t know where to go, can’t do it alone. I’ve tried. And I don’t know why . . . It fit the story so well that I used it in my homemade book trailer.

Overboard ~ Ingrid Michaelson I almost used this song for the book trailer. In fact, I was tempted to use almost every single Ingrid Michaelson song. If you haven’t listened to her, you should remedy that immediately. Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles provide the soundtrack to my life. Both of them have wonderful songs with clever lyrics. In fact . . .

Gonna Get Over You ~ Sara Bareilles (or “Uncharted.” It’s so hard to pick just one song!) I think of this as Mackenzie’s victory song when she finally realizes that she doesn’t have to spend her life fearing the Notables. It’s also her anti-Patrick song. Love it! (Spoiler alert! If things hadn’t worked out with Logan, I think Mackenzie would have listened to this song and pulled herself back together. It wouldn’t have been easy, but she’s a strong girl. Although I’m still glad she didn’t have to do it!)

A Million Ways (to be Cruel) ~OK Go I totally geeked out when Awkward readers asked me if ReadySet was modeled on OK Go. The answer: yes! If you guessed this, you win major bragging rights!
I’ve been an OK Go fan for years so I guess it was only natural for them to spring to mind when I started to create my fictional rock band. Naming them ReadySet was an intentional homage . . . and I’m thrilled that people picked up on it!

For those of you unfamiliar with their work: YouTube the following: Here it Goes Again, White Knuckles, and This Too Shall Pass. You won’t be disappointed! I think A Million Ways to be Cruel might be the most fitting for Chelsea Halloway (the reigning Notable queen, Mackenzie’s nemesis, and the main protagonist of book four). She knows exactly how to use people’s weaknesses to her advantage but she still hasn’t figured out how to battle her own insecurities. There might be a million ways to be cruel but what Chelsea will have to face is a lot harder than high school!

Ben Fold fans? Chelsea listens to You Don’t Know Me on a very important airplane flight in Notable. And I imagine Go Places by The New Pornographers and Home by OK Sweetheart as part of her travel music. Sorry, I tend to focus solely on music for my work in progress. Which is actually calling my name right now . . .

Bye! ~Marni

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Thanks so much to Marni Bates for sharing all of her fun song choices with us and Chick Loves Lit for asking us to be a part of the tour! Be sure to check out the rest of the stops on the Awkward blog tour here

Author Bio: My autobiography MARNI (part of HCI’s Louder Than Words series) was on the New York Public Library Stuff for the Teen Age 2010 List. I then signed a four book contract with KTeen and my first YA novel AWKWARD comes out January 1, 2012. In my free time I can be found reading romance novels, rollerblading, singing really loudly (and off-key) in public and . . . watching copious amounts of television.

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1994 - first as a representative then with operational headquarters, Generale Sistemi is structured and affirmed in the field of RFID, with the distribution of a wide range of products and design of systems for automatic identification.

1999 - Generale Sistemi signed a Distribution agreement with TagMaster AB, leading multinational manufacturer and vendor of advanced Long Range RFID products for the transport sector including the complex and prestigious rail industry. Important customers as Fiat Auto Group, Merloni, Bayer, Quirinale and various Italian ministries choose our systems.

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2007 - Extending range of market leads to creation of the division In-Presa, dedicated to the development of systems for smart charging of electric vehicles. Being the result of the decennial experience in the Parking, mobility and fleet management sector, combined with the collaboration of important sector players internationally wide, In-Presa immediately establishes itself as a distinguished and decisive entrepreneurial entity of the R&D background, in the field of electric vehicles charging.

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Apr 22, 2021

George Allen is first and foremost a bike enthusiast and a cycling addict, but is also the proud owner of Feel Good Bicycles in Virginia, County Cavan.

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I was always into anything with wheels from a very young age so I have to thank my parents for encouraging me and getting me good bikes. My Mum brought me to preschool on the back of her bicycle. My first real bike as a child was a Peugeot mountain bike that was black and pink, really cool 80s colours that I got at 4 years old. I would love to do a paint job on a modern bike inspired by it actually. I’ve been told that my dad got a tax rebate and it was the flip of a coin as to whether they got me the bike or some furniture from Ikea.

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Feel Good Bicycles then finally opened its doors on April 18th 2017. What do you find is the most enjoyable aspect of your job on a day-to-day basis?
I love the interaction with customers, talking to happy people about bikes and finding the right bike for them. Getting out and riding a bike makes people happy so I’m delighted to be able to help with that.

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Those who know their bike brands might know that you have a special relationship with the brand UNNO from Spain. Could you tell us a little bit about that relationship?
I have always admired the UNNO bikes since I came across them long before starting a bike shop. When they reached out to us to become the exclusive Irish dealer for the brand I jumped at the chance! They are a very exclusive and special brand who only make 50 frames of each model a year. Years of research has gone into every detail of each bike they have designed so the ride quality is just as amazing as they look. We have a demo model of the DASH for anyone interested to try and will gradually add demos of the other models over time.

For someone who has thought about getting into cycling but has not quite taken the plunge yet, why do you think cycling is an activity that everyone should participate in at some level?
Riding bikes is good for the mind, the body and the soul! There is something for everyone in the cycling world. For some people it is about fitness. For others it is about the social element of being with family and friends doing something together. But across the board one of the most underrated elements of cycling is the benefit to your mental health, regardless of the reasons for cycling in the first place. So many people after getting a bike tell me that it’s “Good for the head” and that’s why they enjoy it so much.

And finally, if people want to get in touch to learn more about you, Feel Good Bicycles or have questions about cycling just generally, where can they find you?
When restrictions allow, anyone can call into the shop here in Virginia, Co. Cavan but we are also online with our brand new website feelgoodbicycles.ie and active on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. If you follow our social media you’ll see me each week doing the ‘Friday Five’ which is a short video about 5 things happening in the shop or the wider cycling community that week. Also, to celebrate Feel Good Bicycles turning 4, we are running some giveaways when you purchase any bike or bike accessories from the website.

Check out feelgoodbicycles.ie for more information about this limited time offer!