sudah kahwin?

marriage.

what does that mean? stuck to the same person forever n ever thru the good & bad?
what feelings does it evoke? happiness?  fear? uncertainty?

i was looking thru my frens and family wedding pics and started thinking....
every girl dreams of her fairytale wedding..where she will be the beautiful princess and her beloved charming prince will be at the end of the aisle..
and yet...

Leong yew and nicole

Danny & Su yin

may jet & Selwyn

sieh jin & chen may

piano teacher audrey n hubby

 nydia and darrel.

i concluded that Marriage is not a child's game.

u cant say " I love u" then wed the person and wake up one day not recognizing the person next to u.

people change in time and situations will never be the same always.

only fools marry thinking its love forever and beds of roses n chocolates.

only fools think that beauty lasts forever together with youth and health.

only fools marry hoping that everyday is fun, all play no worries.

wait till reality sets in.

yr partner grows old, ugly n wrinkled, or stricken by Alzheimer or cancer or paralysis or bankruptcy tor cheats on u then your so secure bubble would burst!

Can u possibly imagine the responsibility and commitment involved?

Marriage the not a problem solver to whatever unhappy shit ur stuck in.

its a  

WAKE UP CALL AND A WHOLE NEW SET of problems to solve.

look at ur parents, u think they had it easy? do u think u could handle the stress and quarrels that is gonna come.

Love is tested thru the journey of marriage. and its a long tiresome emotionally draining road.

Dont get married outta blind love rush..the consequences are sometimes too overwhelming to bear.

Not everyone's married is doomed to fail.

Be wise to love, be wise to choose n pray for personal strength to not marry the wrong person n dig ur own grave.

i wish u lots of patience, wisdom and tolerance to all married couples and wanna-be couples as well!

p/s- when is it my turn?

i'm not ready to sacrifice that part of my life yet to such a long time commitment. call me selfish but i aint no fool to rush in man..

hahaha..long more time after i had my share of travelling n foolin around.

currently busy swimming againts wind and tide before settling into the world's wave current...

Vampires galore!

Ah, i open the papers, mags and Internet and find a very obnoxious thing popping out every nook and corner! can u guess wat greasy horrible-ness has struck? it repulses me to the bone!

yeah Eclipse is out in Europe and soon to be screen on local shores on the 8th july. 
yuck yuck yuck ( i have to repeat it yes i do)!

the story written in the book is of acceptable level but when played on screen the dragginess n corny love forever lines shit can really get on ur nerves and u wanna shout- GET ON WITH IT!! JUST MAKE A DAMN CHOICE, MARRY OFF , GET A ROOM OR A TREE n MAKE BLOOD SUCKING VAMP BABIES! the drama they need to go thru...shish!

Just take a good look at Edward. anemic-sun glittering skin, gay-ish freak and his super pura pura bodoh batu gf Bella. WATS SO INTERESTING ABOUT THEM?

wat kinda weirdo did the casting? either blind, deaf or dumb..i think a combination of all 3 and comparing the casting ppl to handicap ppl will be an insult to the latter..

have u seen how she looks like in real life? she's a ROCKER wei ( and a ugly one in fact). how come she talks like a poisoned half dead mouse on screen? liven up, buck up ur act wei missy!

In WORLDS APART contast to the cursed damned show mentioned above, not all vampires are doomed to such pathetic loser levels.

let me introduce u to a breed of manly macho and eye candy looking dudes who know their thang!!

i'n more of a vamp diaries fan myself! its corny still but not horribly mushy n slow paced as Twilight series!

 go download the entire season if u have the time!

The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural–fantasy horror television series developed by Kevin Williamson, based on the book series of the same name by L. J. Smith. The series follows the life of Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), who falls in love with vampire Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley). The series also focuses on the lives of Elena's friends and other inhabitants of the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. The series is a mix of teen drama and the supernatural. and Stefan's bad ass brother-Damon Salvator is sizzling HAWT!! ( i always had this thing for bad boys ;)

take a pick and tell me whatcha think!

Chubby Buan in Toy barn

This is a short silly clip i took of us after shopping in gurney.
Buan had so much fun he was laughing all the way home.
This shows that We are all young at heart inside =D
hope u enjoy it!

i'm a Ferrari car!

This cute big boy here is Buan- u can call him Bulan (moon in malay) or Bulat (round) if u forget his name.

This is him playing some baby Superman game (5-7 years old) in Toys R Us!

he was having a good time and i interupted him and told him i wanted to go home..

on the way home he said something really stupidly funny.

He blurted:

"You ah just like a Ferrari car. pretty on the outside but maintenance fees super high! i'm going to die soon. the money foundation for your new house is sinking into the ground and u will have to live in a pigeon coop!"

WAKAKAKAKAKAA!!
i laughed my ass off upon hearing this.
yes i admit i've been a bad girl and a big spender recently and during holidays i go outta control. like the time he came to Sban i used up almost RM1.5k of his..i didnt buy no diamond ring just eat and play and go out...i dunno how fast money eveporates like petrol on a hot day.
*PUFF* like magic the money disappeared into thin air..

among the activities we did:

  Visited Aquaria KLCC entrance fee RM30 per person

ALL THE EATING in the world plus socializing (many pics are not in lazy to upload)

 New Zealand natural ice cream. Orange and strawberry sherbet my fav!

Nandos which i love and he hates (obviously i win)

fishing rm50 per person for 3 hours.

 Fishing continued next day.

super yummy STEAKS!

 Mamak session with frens 1

 mamak session with frens 2.

 tons of shopping here @ Sg Wang 

continuation of shopping back at penang...

SEAFOOD time at Teluk Kumbar (which i'm allergic so i ate the non seafood thingy)

 AFTER 2 days of clowning he took me shopping again and i bought alot of things i think i dont need but it was love at first sight i couldnt say no.

there was Eyeliner,mascara, tons of junk food, 2 bras and panty set from Triumph, ice cream cake, dresses, shoes and my fav hairband! (didnt take pics of em all. some eaten some in the washing!)

did i mention i love pumps? i got 2 new ones now!

i've got a top from MNG looking something like this its in the washing

cute skirt but i'm not sure how to wear it with what?

ANYWAYS, back to the silly comment on me being a ferrari i just sneered back at him and said.

"if u dont like ferrari just go trade in and get urself a SLK which will make u happier."

BUT I WAS not talking about  THIS baby... 

i meant some girl more economical, plain and downright local: something more like...


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Small Little Kancil.

(and then  he kept quiet for a long time..HAHAHAHA!)

'Very Bad Things' is either very clever or very dumb

Very Bad Thngs (1998)
Starring: Christian Slater, Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, Jeremy Piven, and Daniel Stern
Director: Peter Berg
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

When a prostitute is accidentally killed at a bachelor party, self-help course fanatic (and closet psychopath) Boyd (Slater) convinces the five friends in attendance to cover up her death. As the wedding day approaches, one of the five (Stern) starts cracking under the guilt of what they did, and things go from bad to very bad. With the wedding threatened, Kyle (Favreau) soon learns that the only person in his life more deadly and crazy than Boyd is Laura, his bride to be (Diaz).


"Very Bad Things" is a black comedy that's either very clever or very dumb. As the end credits started to roll, I found myself asking, "Okay... what exactly was the point of that?"

Either the filmmakers wanted to tell a story where the moral was "karma's a bitch" because almost everyone who finds themselves dead, maimed, or otherwise hosed have somehow previously wronged someone or been immoral; or maybe the story's lesson was about what happens to otherwise civilized people when they decide to treat murder casually. Whatever the point of the story, I'm not sure I got it.

Nonetheless, the film had a snappy, funny script--assuming one can laugh at multiple murders and the total breakdown of human decency-- with plenty of interesting and well-acted characters (with the exception of Jeremy Piven... I'd describe his performance more as annoying than funny or believable). The best moments in the film went to Cameron Diaz, though, as she transformed from a high-strung bride-to-be, to a shrew, and beyond... until she too gets her just desserts in the film's final moments.

I enjoyed "Very Bad Things", and uttered evil chuckles as the chaotic events of this dark movie unfolded, but the mild confusion I felt when it ended makes me wonder if I "got it," and this costs the film a point on my rating scale.

Anyone out there care to tell me what I missed? I really wanted to like this movie a lot more than I ultimately did.

Kate Jackson provides chills in'Satan's School for Girls'

Satan's School for Girls (1973)
Starring: Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Lloyd Bochner, Cheryl Ladd, Jo Van Fleet, and Roy Thinnes
Director: David Lowell Rich
Rating: Six of Ten Stars

While searching for the truth about her sister's suicide, Elizabeth (Franklin) enrolls as a student at the all-girl boarding school she attended. The faculty and girls all seem friendly enough--especially insta-best-friend-on-campus Roberta (Jackson)--but with a title like "Satan's School for Girls", you gotta know there's witchcraft, evil rites, and guest lectures by the Horned One himself going on.


"Satan's School for Girls" is a better-than-average made-for-TV movie from the mid-1970s. Although uneven in its pacing (partly due to the constricting nature of broadcast TV and the habitual, barely veiled recapping of what's happened to catch up those who tuned in late), there is a nice aura of unease that hangs over the whole film, and it even manages to envoke a real sense of dread at several points. (The best of these is when Elizabeth heads into the main building's cavernous basement in search of clues.)

This could possibly have been a 7-Star film if not for the fact that it starts to fall apart in the third act. Up to that point, the filmmakers play a nice game of "maybe it is, maybe it isn't"... as in, maybe Satan WON'T be making an appearance in this film, despite the title. But then there's a really lame murder scene (where the victim could easily have simply reached up and grabbed at the girls who were poking at him with sticks, and thus made his escape), lots of over-the-top melodramatic acting, and an ending that is flat and unsatisfactory, because it's exactly what we expect it to be all along.

Despite its flaws, I think this film is enjoyable for those who like suspense and horror movies that are driven more by atmosphere than sex and gore. Fans of Kate Jackson (like yours truly) will also enjoy it, because she gives a fine performance.

Saturday Scream Queen: Megan Fox

Megan Fox's first major role as a recurring part in the American sit-com "Hope & Faith," which ran from 2003 to 2006. From there, she went onto starring in the back-to-back toy-based, sci-fi action blockbusters "Transformers" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." (She reportedly did lots of screaming in those two films, although I've not seen either.)

Fox has lately turned to the horror genre, with starring roles in 2009's "Jennifer's Body" and the 2010 horror-western "Jonah Hex." She will reportedly not be returning to the "Transformers" series, so time will tell if she appears in future horror films. (Her next film is "Passion Play," a comedy, but on a most distant horizon is the comic book adaptation "Fathom," which could be an excursion into sci-fi horror, depending on what elements the filmmakers choose to emphasize on the screen.

BACK!

i'm back to penang..this is a short post cause my nose is on BAD SINUS DAY STRIKE!
today i repaid my sleep debt, means i slept a total of 14 hours today!! WHOOpie

all the pics of sban holls will be up soon in FB once i settled my work and cleaning up a lil of the house
(sad piece of info: we caught SO LITTLE fish in sban..such a let down)

tomorrow marks my working life coming back to life after putting Creampuff to hibernate for 1.5 months due to exams and holls. bet my ballons skills are rusty by now but this weekend i have a total of 9 hours of clowning and 4 hours of travelling in total..

i miss FB and the blogosphere!! hoping to read and comment on ur blog asap!!

Anyone has quick relief for sinus cause my nose is gonna get me into BIG trouble by the time i put on my clown red honk honk nose tomorrow...

Here are the REAL fractured fairy tales

Deadtime Stories (aka "Freaky Fairy Tales") (1986)
Starring: Scott Valentine, Nicole Picard, Cathryn DePrume, Matt Mitler, Kathy Fleig, and Mike Mesmer
Director: Jeffrey S. Delman
Rating: Five of Ten Stars

A babysitting uncle (Mesmer) who wants nothing more than to watch porn on cable in peace, tells three twisted fairy tales to his young charge in hopes of getting him to shut up and go to sleep.

Generally speaking, you can't go wrong with an anthology film, if you like the horror genre. Anyone tale may not be to your liking, but they're all usually short enough that they don't ruin the whole movie for you. This is one of the reasons I enjoy the anthology film, and I seek out as many of them as I can.

In the case of "Deadtime Stories", we have three bizarre spins on traditional fairy tales that are placed within a framing sequence featuring an less than enthusiastic babysitter and his demanding charge. The camera-work, lighting, and soundtrack are all pretty decent, as is the acting, but the script is severely wanting throughout the film, with both the jokes and scares being far inferior to what I suspect the writers thought them to be.


The film leads off with a straight forward fairytale yarn, featuring two hideous witches who have purchased a slave boy (Valentine) to help them bring the third member of their coven back to life. Unfortunately for them, he falls in love with the beautiful maiden (Fleig) they had intended to be their prime sacrifce. The most straight-forward tale within a "fantasy" setting, it is also the funniest at time, probably because it's not trying so hard to be funny.

The second tale, a modern-day spin on "Little Red Riding Hood" sees Rachel (Picard), an oversexed teenaged girl, and her grandmother get stalked by a very upset "wolf" (Mitler) after a mix-up at the neighborhood pharmacy. While this story is funny early on--Uncle Mike's frustration at missing the bikini special on TV is shining through--the humor quickly fades. While this is also three of the stories that attempts to present the most straightforward horror aspects, it never quite manages to ratchet up the tension or the fear... mostly because of all the time spent with Rachel and her boyfriend having a rendezvous in a maintainance shack by the public tennis courts. "Uncle Mike" was just a tad too obsessed with horny teenagers, and thus, as the kid he's telling the story rightfully said, it became boring.

The third tale, a modern-day and quite bizarre spin on "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" has Goldie Lox (DePrume), a teenaged sexual psychopath with amazing telekinetic powers team up with the Bear Family, a clan of homicidal criminals. The neverending stream of puns and sideways fairytale allusions, plus the slapstick nature of the action,clearly demonstrates that this was supposed to be an allout comedic romp with horror overtones. However, just like the second story fell short of its mark, so does this one. There are some chuckles in the piece, and the Goldie Lox character and her house full of boyfriends presents the film's most chilling moments, but overall the tale feels like it has "first draft" written all over it.

I think that if the script for "Deadtimes Stories" had been taken through a draft or two more, we might have had a film to rival great anthology films like "The House That Dripped Blood" (click here for review), but as it is, we've got a halfbaked piece of work that barely rises to acceptable levels of filmmaking. It's a shame, because this one had real potential.

The Greatest Prank Call EVER!

WATCH THIS TILL THE END and pump ur speakers up.
kinda dirty at the back so make sure ur parents aint listening to it too! hahaha
me and my bro laughed our eyeballs out listening to it!!

Make up transfomations!!

my fren Joanne was encouraging me to wear falsies which are actually fake eyelashes btw..
the effect if properly put on with correct make up is AMAZING just like in these videos.

Sorry for the extreme much of nonsense talking which i myself cant comprehend (chinese talk shows tend to talk TOO much crap)
i bet Bunny would love this!
but the transformation from ugly duckling to sexy hawt chick is UNBELIEVABLE!! take time to watch wei!!

Saturday Scream Queen: Acquanetta

Acquanetta's breif film career was at its high point in the mid-1940s when she appeared as the tragic and monstrous creation of mad science in a pair of Universal Pictures' lesser horror films, "Captive Wild Woman" and "Jungle Woman", and a savage high priestess in "Tarzan and the Leopard Women". Her exotic beauty can be enjoyed in half-a-dozen or so other pictures, but her acting career went nowhere and she abandoned it in the early 1950s after marrying an Arizona-based car dealer.

Although the Universal Pictures' marketing department nicknamed her "The Venezuelan Volcano," there is no trace of Venezuela in her blood nor in her family tree. Her real name was Mildred Davenport, she was born in Ozone, Wyoming, in 1923, and was of Arapaho decent.

After quitting the movies, Acquanetta appeared in television ads for her husband's cardealerships, created and marketed Native American-style jewelry, and was active in a number of Arizona art and Native American charity fund-raising efforts. She passed away in 2004.

For reviews of a couple of movies featuring Acquanetta, click here to visit the Shades of Gray blog.

Well... that hombre LOOKS like Jonah Hex

But whut's he doin' in a movie witha script even those "Brisco County Jr." fellers woulda reejected?

Jonah Hex (2010)
Starring: Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbinder and Megan Fox
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Rating: Three of Ten Stars

When an ex-Confederate general (Malkovich) builds a super weapon with which to destroy Washington, D.C., the United States government calls upon scar-faced and ultra-violent bounty hunter Jonah Hex (Brolin) to track him and stop him.


The long-awaited "Johan Hex movie (by me, at least, a big fan of the Johan Hex comics from the 1970s and 1980s... and somewhat less so of the horror-tinged incarnation of the 1990s and the often hollow "return-to-basic" version of the late 2000s) was released today. Sadly, this is yet another example of a Hollywood movie where a bunch of semi-literate filmmakers thought their comic book source material wasn't comic-booky enough. As a result, they have made a Johan Hex movie that has the superficial veneer of the best of Johan Hex, but under the surface it's insipid garbage.

Jonah Hex was at his greatest when he was featured in stories flavored like spaghetti westerns... only with even more violence and grimness. He was at his best when he was down-to-earth tales where he might have a reputation of being some sort of supernatural being... but in truth is just a man who is very, VERY good at killing people. He was a man of honor who had been saddled with a reputation of betraying his best friend and his entire regiment during the Civil War.

That Jonah Hex is not in this movie. Hell, the Jonah Hex from the Tim Truman-illustrated western horror comics from the 1990s ("Riders of Worms and Such" is the one series I can think of at the moment) isn't even in this movie. The writers took away everything that was cool about Hex and replaced it with comic book hash. Bad comic book hash.

I understand and appreciate the need to streamline Johan Hex's back story for the purpose of the movie. I can even understand and appreciate the need to turn Quentin Turnbull from a small in-the-big-picture-but-looming-large-in-the-life-of-Hex "The South Will Rise Again"-type maniac.

But why did they feel the need to give Jonah Hex the ability to talk to dead people? Why did they feel the need to equip him with an arsenal of silly weapons, such as double-horseback mounted Gatlin guns and dynamite-flinging crossbows? And why did they decide that it wasn't good enough to have Turnbull as a monster threatening to destroy Hex on the way in pursuit of reviving the Confederacy--you know, keeping it more personal like the comic book did--but instead gave him a dimwitted "steampunk" super weapon with which to destroy Washington, D.C.?


People like to talk down about comic books, especially older ones. Because back in the 1960s and 1970s, there were no "graphic novels" and there were no "mature comics." However, the Jonah Hex stories reprinted in this book are far more intelligent and entertaining that I suspect either of the writers and producers and director involved in the "Jonah Hex" film would be able to produce in their wildest dreams. Why? Because they are apparently too arrogant and ignorant to recognize when a "comic book" is not "comic-booky" and that its good qualities go beyond the superficiality of drawings and should actually be read if it is to be adapted to another medium.

"Jonah Hex" is a movie that proves that Hollywood IS populated by illiterate people. The only possible way it could have turned out the way it did is if no one involved actually bothered to READ the Johan Hex comics but instead just looked at pictures and had their assistant's assistant skim a DC/Warner Bros licensing bible and summarize it for them. They've got the scarred bounty hunter, they've got the gun play, and they've got the occasional explosion... but they missed everything else that makes Jonah Hex what it is. And they filled that void with the worst kind of comic-booky crap.

This review would be appearing in Movies to Die Before Seeing if not for the excellent performance of Josh Brolin. Despite the trash he has to work with, he gives an excellent portrayal of Jonah Hex, and I can only dream about what he would have done if the writers had left the character with some of his true personality. The film's production crew also earns some credit for the dingy frontier towns that Hex visits during the early parts of the movie, the parts that actually bear a passing resemblance to the source material.

The only truly good performance is from Josh Brolin, but I can't really be too disgusted with John Malkovich and Michael Fassbinder, because they are probably just doing what they were told: That they were in a comic boom movie, so they had to ham it up like larger-than-life comic book villains.

I will, however, blame Megan Fox for sucking. If she was this lifeless in the "Transformers" movies, how can she possibly have a career beyond taking her clothes off in magazines and someday hoping to be a third-tier Bond Girl (if they ever bring those back)? The woman simply cannot act, and she brought nothing to this movie except a little bit of bare skin.


Don't waste your time and money on this movie, even if you might feel tempted just to go watch it for the explosions. You will regret it, even if it's only 70 minutes long. (Although the running-time did make me wonder what Charles Band would have been able to do with the sort of money this movie was made for. Whatever it might have been, it would have been better than this... which is at a level of below-average Band in everything but special effects.

Oh, and just in case my reference to "Brisco County Jr" at the top of the review made this film sound interesting, I apologize. That late lamented television series was a comic-booky and outrageous western with sci-fi and horror overtones that was GOOD. This film is very bad.

Spend your time and cash on the Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex book, or maybe on the "Brisco County Jr." DVD set.





But, whatever you do, don't see "Jonah Hex" until you can get the DVD as a cheap rental. Or, even better, not at all.

'Killer' is deserving of cult classic label

Killer (1989)
Starring: Duke Ernsberger, Andy Boswell, Mark H. Creter, Jeri Keith Liles, and Terry Loughlin
Director: Tony Elwood
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

A maniac killer (Ernsberger) descends upon a small town, butchering random people that annoy him. When he kills Ash's adopted father (Loughlin) and kidnaps Ash's girlfriend (Liles), Ash (Boswell) and his best friend Calvin (Creter) take it upon themselves to end his rampage.

"Killer" is one of those movies that shows that when it comes to movie-making, creativity, skill and talent is more important than big budgets. Made for just $9,500 over a couple of weeks in the late 1980s, it towers quality-wise over films made with one-hundred times that amount of money.

Although far from perfect--some of the acting and writing leaves a little to be desired in spots, and there are several shots where you can tell they were quickly losing daylight--these flaws can be overlooked because of the raw intensity of the overall movie. Shot on Super 8 film with mostly handheld cameras, it has the feel of a much older movie. It feels like it dates from the early 1970s, as the slasher subgenre was being defined, but it incorporates fully mature tricks and techniques, making it a unique film experience.


What is also unique is the performance given by Duke Ernsberger. He gives one of the creepiest, most intense portrayals of a maniac murderer ever captured on film. His tour-de-force performance in the last half hour of the movie--from his chilling conversation with the captured girl about how he is going to slowly slice pieces off her and eat her while she's still alive (and thus fulfill a life-long dream, to his his monologue about how the doctors in the mental hospital drilled holes in his head and allowed his soul to escape and thus made him immortal, to his crazy Russian Roulette gamel, and the extended final chase scene--is one that ranks among the greatest screen maniac performances. I've no doubt that if this film had been made by "serious filmmakers", Ernsberger would have won all sorts of awards and accolades for it. (Forget Jack Nicholson's annoying display in "The Shining". Ernsberger delivers the REAL goods! It's too bad he hasn't appeared in more movies than he has.)

The label "cult classic" gets slapped on a lot things by marketeers and overzealous critics. Mostly, it's code for "this thing sucks, but let's trick people into buying it", but in the case of "Killer" it's well-deserved. It's a movie that deserves a lot more attention that it's ever gotten, and it deserves it now more than ever with a DVD release that features a re-edited and ditially cleaned-up version of the original film with a new soundtrack. It's a film that should be seen by anyone who is a fan of the slasher films--and it's an absolute MUST if you consider yourself an aficionado of the genre.

The DVD director's cut of "Killer" is available from Amazon.com and it's worth every penny. In addition to the movie, the DVD contains an interview with director Tony Elwood and screenwriter Mark Kimray that is interesting and informative--unlike the usual self-congratulatory and/or infomercial crap that often passes for interviews on DVDs--and a second audio track on the film that has Elwood and several of the cast members discussing the shoot and commenting on the differences between the original release and the re-edited DVD version. It's great stuff and well worth the time to sit through.

All in all, this is a DVD that belongs in the library of every fan of the horror film genre.

Decent low-budget film undermined by bloat

Hellbound: Book of the Dead (aka "Cadaver Bay") (2003)
Starring: Elizabeth North, Jeff Dylan Graham, Sequoia Rose Fuller and Lucien Eisenach
Director: Jeff Sessions
Rating: Four of Ten Stars

Diane (North) murders a man and tries to reanimate the corpse with black magic. When the spell appears to fail, her husband (Graham) chops up the corpse and throws it in the sea. But as he is getting ready to dispose of the parts, the dismembered corpse animates. And things only get worse after that....


"Hellbound" is film that features some nice camera work and some fairly decent make-up effects. The acting is also better than most modern direct-to-DVD horror flicks; in fact, Elizabeth North and Jeff Dylan Graham actually show some real on-screen chemistry and viewers may become invested in their relationship and come to care about them... if they lasts through the first muddled, boring first half-hour of the film.

Even though "Hellbound" leads with nudity and mysterious murders up front, the scene is so protracted that it inspires boredom rather than whetting the appetite for more sex and violence. It also doesn't help that the segments that follow likewise drag and seem totally unconnected with the opening scenes. Even the most patient viewers will start to lose that patience and wonder if this movie is going anywhere by the time everything starts to come together.

This is one of those films where patience (or the ability to multi-task while watching movie) is a virtue, because when this film's story finally gains real focus, at about thirty minutes in, it actually turns into a rather atmospheric and almost classical horror flick, with some very stylish lighting and photography at times. The director shows himself to have a good eye for framing a scene.

However, as good as the final two-thirds of this film are, the weak start drags it down severely. Another weak spot is that I think it features the worst fake blood I've seen in any picture. Usually it's too thin and too brightly red, but here it's so dark to almost be black; it might even be black. (I wonder if someone was reading about the blood effects in "Night of the Living Dead" but attempts to redden-up the chocolate syrup failed and they had to keep going due to budget and time constraints.

Despite it's flaws, I think this movie is worth checking for those with an interest in low-budget horror films. One just has to get through that first excruciating half hour. (With some heavy re-editing and trimming, this film could easily have been a Six-star effort. It would have been about 60 minutes long, but it would have been far better for it.)

Kids say the darndest things!

1. A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he'd found a cat, but it was dead. 'How do you know that the cat was dead?' she asked her pupil. 'Because I pissed in its ear and it didn't move,'answered the child innocently. 'You did WHAT???' the teacher exclaimed in surprise. 'You know,' explained the boy, 'I leaned over and went 'Pssst!' and it didn't move.' ** 2. A small boy is sent to bed by his father. Five minuteslater..... 'Daad....' 'What?' 'I'm thirsty. Can you bring drink of water?' 'No, You had your chance. Lights out.' Five minutes later; 'Da-aaaad.....' 'WHAT?' 'I'm THIRSTY. Can I have a drink of water??' I told you NO! If you ask again, I'll have to spank you!!' Five minutes later......'Daaaa-aaaad.....' 'WHAT!' 'When you come in to spank me,can you bring a drink of water?'** 3. An exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief, finally asked him 'How do you expect to get into Heaven?' The boy thought it over and said, 'Well, I'll run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, 'For Heaven's sake, Dylan, come in or stay out!'' 4. One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her son into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in his voice, 'Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?' The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. 'I can't dear,' she said. 'I have to sleep in Daddy's room.' A long silence was broken at last by his shaky little voice; 'The big sissy.' 5. It was that time, during the Sunday morning service, for the children's sermon. All the children were invited to come forward. One little girl was wearing a particularly pretty dress and, as she sat down, the pastor leaned over and said, 'That is a very pretty dress. Is it your Easter Dress?' The little girl replied, directly into the pastor's clip-on microphone, 'Yes, and my Mom says it's a b-tch to iron.' 6. When I was six months pregnant with my third child, my three year old came into the room when I was just getting ready to get into the shower. She said, 'Mommy, you are getting fat!' I replied, 'Yes, honey, remember Mommy has a baby growing in her tummy.' 'I know,' she replied, but what's growing in your butt?' 7. FOR MY TEACHER FRIENDS.... A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself, 'Two plus five, that son of a is seven. Three plus six, that son of a bitch is nine....' His mother heard what he was saying and gasped,'What are you doing?' The little boy answered, 'I'm doing my math homework, Mom.' 'And is this how your teacher taught you to do it?' the mother asked. 'Yes,' he answered. Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, 'What are you teaching my son in math?' The teacher replied, 'Right now, we are learning addition.' The mother asked, 'And are you teaching them to say two plus two, that son of a bitch is four?' After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered, 'What I taught them was, two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four.' 8. One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of Chicken Little to her class. She came to the part of the story where Chicken Little tried to warn the farmer. She read, '..... and so Chicken Little went up to the farmer and said, 'The sky is falling, the sky is falling!' The teacher paused then asked the class, 'And what do you think that farmer said?' One little girl raised her hand and said, 'I think he said; 'Holy Shit! A talking chicken!'' The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes. ** 9. A certain little girl, when asked her name, would reply, 'I'm Mr. Sugarbrown's daughter.' Her mother told her this was wrong, she must say, 'I'm Jane Sugarbrown.' The Vicar spoke to her in Sunday School and said, 'Aren't you Mr. Sugarbrown's daughter?' She replied, 'I thought I was, but mother says I'm not. '** 10. A little girl asked her mother, 'Can I go outside and play with the boys?' Her mother replied, 'No,you can't play with the boys, they're too rough.' The little girl thought about it for a few moments and asked, 'If I can find a smooth one, can I play with him?' 11. A little girl goes to the barber shop with her father. She stands next to the barber chair eating a snack cake while her dad gets his hair cut. The barber says to her, 'Sweetheart, you're gonna get hair on your Twinkie.' She says, 'Yes, I know, and I'm gonna get boobs too.'

BUDAK punya perangai

childish. immature. insecure. irksome. "Siapa yang makan cili die yang rasa pedasnya"

the world goes 1 big circle boy.

if u cant take a joke then go run back to mummy and complain.

God blessed u with such good organs called brains, nerve systems and a heart. please use all 3 before doing anything.

watching u carry on like this is self destructive to ur EQ.

one day u will be all alone. no one to marry and no frens to turn to. change before its too late.
dont be proud, ego-istic and think ur correct and righteous all the time.
u think u've suffered? u havent seen the world yet little fry..u seen nothing!

grow up boy. its time to be a man. balls are not meant to shrink smaller.

no more hiding, no more complaining. just grow up!

The Stuff: Snacks that become one with you

The Stuff (1985)
Starring: Michael Moriarity, Andrea Marcovicci, Scott Bloom, Garrett Morris, and Paul Sorvino
Director: Larry Cohen
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

When industrial spy "Mo" Rotherford (Moriarity) is hired by the ice cream industry to discover the secet forumula for The Stuff, a new dessert food that's taking America by storm, he discovers it's bizarre parasite that first controls the minds of those who consume it, then consumes them. Together with the publicist who made The Stuff popular (Marcovicci), a cookie magnate who lost his company to The Stuff (Morris), a media tycoon and his militia of right-wing wackos (Sorvino) and a kid who became aware of the daner before anyone else (Bloom), Mo sets out to save a nation easily swayed by advertising and the promise of a calorie-free tasty snack from itself, as well as The Stuff.


"The Stuff" is a fast-paced sci-fi comedy that's presents spot-on satire of the instant-gratificiaton, marketing-sensitive American public and the image of industrial tycoons as people who are willing to do anything to make a buck. (One can even draw a direct parallel between The Stuff and cigarettes and other drugs if one chooses, because the film shows that even after it's shown to be outright deadly, there are still people who want it.)

The special effects are pretty impressive for the pre-CGI era, with the roiling waves of Stuff when it attacks our heroes toward the films climax and well-done miniature shots of exploding buildings and such. The film is also graced with a fine cast of actors who are given opportunities to shine thanks to some sharp dialogue, hilarious situations, and, according to the director's commentary on the DVD, some excellent on-the-spot improv'ing. (Michael Moriarity is particularly fun as Mo, a character whose disarming, Southern good-ole-boy mask hides a dangerous and coldhearted man who will stop at nothing to acheive goals set by his clients or himself.)


As I post this, it's exactly 25 years since "The Stuff" was first unleashed upon the world, and it has held up nicely to the passage of time. The film is as relevant today as it was when it was first released, which is a tiny bit sad, because, if anything, the American public has gotten more gullible and easily manipulated by ads and the promise of instant gratification than it was in 1985.

Check out "The Stuff", and you'll find yourself enjoying a certified sci-fi classic. It's the perfect addition to the line-up for a Movie Night... and it'll be even better if you serve bowls of vanilla yogurt to guests while watching it. (There are even a couple of unintentionally funny moments that the attententive viewer will be able to mock in addition to all the purposeful jokes.)

Sex in the city

hey pepz, this ain't a movie review blog so dont get mixed up.

This has been on my mind for quite sometime but never blogged about it until now.

Point no.1 whats the big deal about bf/gf living together if both parties are mature and in a healthy relationship?

"CERTAIN" ppl have voiced their concerns and complaints to me recently..

the usual reasons are to get to know each other more, saving money, testing the relationship, making things easier and bla bla...

and of couse easier access to SEX!

hey, dont call me pervert, i aint ancient or naive.

 ask any teen or young adult doing it and they would secretly agree with me 100%

my comment: SO what?

but hello Sandra ur a christian..aren't Christians suppose to be squeaky clean and steer away from all things sinful and bad?

well, i certainly dont encourage young couples to go purposely move in and devote the rest of their lives to that 1 person they are living with.

in things like these one must have common sense and never let feelings cloud one's judgements.

i know of 1 couple who live together and abuse each other physically n verbally daily ( and they are barely 19!) those who are too young and naive to think that living together means happily ever after are SUCH FOOLS!

if ur in deep shit please don't close ur eyes, GET OUTTA the pile of shit ur sitting in..don't go drowning deeper into it.

anyways.back to topic, 2nd thing on my mind is the issue abt doing IT before marriage.

my comment again: So what?

before u start bombarding me with having loose morals, listen to me.

the big fact in life (also seen in Glee) sorry to burst ur bubble is ABSTINENCE doesn't work lah.

look at the media that surrounds us, the culture and pressure that teens are facing! 
SEX is shoved down their throats and being idolised like it was helluva great

many a times people get caught up in situations they are confused or cant avoid and the heat of the moment overthrows the logical sense in most ppl (including old ppl)

i would never point fingers to a girl and say- "OMG, how could u lose ur virginity to that loser..what were u thinking?"

If it was a mistake then let bygones be bygones. what is done cannot be undone. virginity is just a term. dont be quick to label a girl as loose/cheap if she is no longer a virgin. HELLO!! who are u to judge. Let him who never sin cast the first stone.

then again, i beg u who are still virgins to hold on to what u have for what is lost can NEVER be yours again.

be wise who u choose to share it with and certainly it would be best if u really waited for Mr.Right/ Ms Right to come along cause its like this beautiful present u can give whole not torn apart and cellophane back again and again..its not worth giving it to a guy who claims "he loves u" and the only way to prove it is to consume that love in bed! omg..cheesy shit line. NEVER fall for that!

For those who have crossed the line, life goes on but there is a tingle in the heart wishing to turn back time and make everything right. i wish u luck in finding a life partner who will accept u as who you are and not expect more than u can give. u are precious and u are not a penny less worth in God's eyes. =)

in the end- TO DO it or NOT?

its a personal choice but think with ur brain not with ur heart for sex isn't something hot and fun and physical. MTV and movies make it sound so hyped up exciting but it ain't so much like what the world proclaims.

a close fren said: sex is fun but waiting anxiously for my period to come is traumatic and horrifying each month. if something goes wrong, what could u do? 2 wrongs don't make a right.

someday u look back and realise that sex IS spiritual, not 2 bodies but 2 souls intertwined and it will hurt badly if misused for selfish reasons and wrong people. =(

please use contraception but then again there is no such thing as safe sex.
physically everybody is ready (take a look u have the basic equipment eh?) but are u mentally mature to handle the consequences? think hard...

for those who are doing it let nobody stop u from being happy except urself if u feel deep down its wrong. there are plenty of couples who do it and finally get married and produce wonderful loving families!!

LOVE AND LUST are 2 different things. SEX doesn't represent= LOVE. don't be stupid. dont regret ur stupidity in old age.

this is just my 2 cents worth, never meant to point to anything or anybody.

So,What do u think about it?

The Sarah Landon Franchise: DoA?

Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007)
Starring: Rissa Williams, Brian Comrie, Dan Comrie, and Jane Harris
Director: Lisa Comrie
Rating: Five of Ten Stars

Teenaged Sarah Landon (Williams), shortly after losing her best friend to a drunk driver, spends the weekend in a town she hasn't visited in ten years. While coping with her memories, she reconnects with a boy she used to play with as a child (Brian Comrie), and learns that his older brother (Dan Comrie) believes a vengeful ghost will kill him on his 21st birthday... which is coming up Monday. Sarah sets out to find the truth of what is going on in the small California town.


"Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour" is a film that's part mystery and part supernatural thriller and intended primarily at young girls who would enjoy material like "Nancy Drew" books, the "Clubbing" graphic novel by Andi Watson and Josh Howard, or whatever series featuring girls playing detective and coming up against supernatural forces (or the appearance of supernatural forces is popular these days).

Given that I am not the target audience, the film is a little hard for me to judge. For my tastes, the film was a little slow in getting started, because of the artificiality of the stories Sarah was being told when she first arrived in town. It wasn't that a dark chapter of the town's past was being revealed to her that didn't ring true, but rather the way the people were relating it to her. It sounded like they were telling her a ghost story instead of relating something they considered to be tragic facts. Now, young girls may not mind this, but to me it gave the opening parts of the movie a stilted, artificial quality that even old and stilted mystery movies don't have.

Some things I am capable of judging are the qualities of the movie that apply to all films, no matter who the target audience might be.

In some of those areas, "Sarah Landon" is what I would expect. The story, once it gets past the tediously executed setup phase moves along at a nice pace, the camerawork is decent, the film feels well-researched (the paranoid, deathmarked brother sounds and behaves like he's been spending entirely too much listening to "Coast to Coast AM"), and there are even a couple of well-done "boo!"-type scares and a genuinely scary sequence where one of the characters is confronted by what appears to be a ghost.

However, in other ways, the film is severely lacking. The dialogue is very clunky and what few lines that sound like they might be spoken by a real person are ruined by wooden delivery. None of the performers are especially good, but for a cast of first-time screen-actors being guided by a first-time director, they aren't as terrible as some I've witnessed, except for Brian Comrie. It's not that he was particularly bad, but the role he plays really needed to be performed by an actor with more experience and greater emotional range than Brian Comrie shows in this film.

"Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour" was obviously intended as the first installment in a franchise that was to continue either in future movies, novels, comics, or all of the above. I liked what I saw here to the point where I might give another film a try, or perhaps even pick up a graphic novel if the art is decent.

However, as I mentioned when I originally reviewed this film back in 2007, I doubt there will be a follow-up. And given that it's almost three years later and Sarah Landon hasn't been seen anywhere, I think this film performed badly enough to not warrant any follow-ons.