“Spookies” 1986

This movie used to come on tv a lot when I was little. Its really creepy and really weird. A group of “twenty-somethings” try to find a place to party and pick an abandoned mansion next to a grave yard. The place is infested with monsters and its owner is going to sacrifice them to bring his love back to life. 

If it seems disjointed and incoherent, that is because its kind of two movies in one. The scenes with the party goers were filmed then the production got shut down and then the scenes with the sorcerer and the boy were filmed and added later.

The Anchor Bay survivors from my VHS collection. I could never truly replace them

With the exception of the “Dawn of the Dead” gatefold slip case, the rest are from Anchor Bay’s clam shell VHS collection. All of them brought me so much joy and enrichment in an otherwise bland and boring existence.

Simon Boswell - “Demonica”

From the soundtrack of “Demons 2”.

More “Nightbreed” comics.“Hellraiser-Nightbreed: Jihad”.

Both “Nightbreed” and “Hellraiser” were given comic series by Marvel’s Epic Comics imprint. Epic was an attempt to compete with the likes of Dark Horse Comics with more adult themed comics including creator owned projects and film adaptations. 

Since Epic had two great Clive Barker creations, they made the epic decision to cross them over. The result is an awesome confrontation between the Tribes of the Moon and the Cenobites. 

In the story, The Cenobites were a driving force for pushing the Nightbreed into hiding. Since the Cenobites want to impose their idea of order on a chaotic universe, the Nightbreed’s uniqueness made them targets. Pinhead and a force of Cenobites have decided to finished the job the humans started and destroy the Nightbreed. It also brings into conflict Baphomet, the pagan god of the Nightbreed and Leviathan, the lord of the Labyrinth and god of the Cenobites, possibly the Devil himself.

It makes for a great horror crossover.If you can, track it down and read it. It is very well written, the art is beautiful, and along with the other “Nightbreed” comics it is the closes we will get to a sequel to the film. It comes in two books. 

As I said in my last post. For her birthday, I took my friend Hunter to see the remake of “Evil Dead”. I am a huge fan of the original and I always prefer classic films over remakes, so I was skeptical. 

Overall I thought it was a worthy effort, but it is not my “Evil Dead”. It had excellent gore, a good deal of it practical effects. The acting was a little lopsided and I thought a few of the set pieces were a little absurd but it was still worth seeing. 

I found out that if this film was a success, and it was, Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell will make “Army of Darkness 2” (technically “Evil Dead 4”) and will cross it over with this film. So in a way, this film is less a remake and more of a companion piece to the original trilogy.