Bonus Coverage

If anyone hasn't caught an episode, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time is pretty good.  This was a sketch from a couple nights ago.  I thought it's pretty appropriate for this site.  The quality's sub-par (it's video-taped off of someone's TV), but it's what I found:



Freddy also made an appearance on South Park last week.  Not as good as Swardson's but still funny.  For some reason, the video's reversed:

Seven

New Nightmare

 I've been putting this off.  Not so much because I don't want to review this movie, but completion of this review sets me up for watching Freddy Vs Jason, which is something I never wanted to do again.

Anyway, this movie's kind of "meh."  Like the last one, there's stuff that I liked and stuff that I didn't like.  It's kind of cool that even though they said they were done, they decided to make the seventh film this weird kind of metafiction about Heather Langenkamp.  See, it turns out that this ancient demon that murders people in their dreams has been subdued for years because he's entertained by Freddy movies.  Now that the franchise is dead, he's back to murdering (in the form of Freddy) unless Wes can make one more killer movie to stop it.

There was an underlying self-awareness about the franchise's popularity and its fans that was pretty cool.  It was also cool to see cameos by a lot of New Line guys and actors from previous films.  It's also the first film of the franchise directed by a veteran director (Craven was fairly green when he made the original).

Which also works against it.  As great as the directing is, it comes off as pretentious. It doesn't have that fun slasher vibe that the other ones do.  Makes it kind of long to watch.  Also, this is one of those cases where less is less.  They don't show Freddy in the dreams very much.  I guess Craven was going for a more realistic feel, which doesn't really work, and the overexposure of Freddy in the final scene negates that anyway.  And Dylan mentions several times that Rex (his stuffed dinosaur) protects him from Freddy.  This leads me to believe that Freddy is fighting a T-Rex in the dream world.  That would make an awesome movie.  Also, (I said this before), I don't want to see a movie about a little kid.  What am I, The Pope?

In the end, they stab Freddy in the tongue and burn him in an oven.  Just like Dylan's favorite story, Hansel and Gretel.

I suppose I'll endorse this...

Sure, it's no:



but at least it's not:

My Ears Just Threw Up

I decided this is piece is much better suited for Chunklet:

http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&ID=658

Kylesa

So I'm probably going to be interviewing Kylesa in a couple of weeks.  Does anyone have any questions you'd like me to ask?

PS-I got Spiral Shadow a couple days ago.  It's pretty good.  I should get a full review on Comfort Comes next week.

Dominos Bad

I saw this commercial on late night TV last night.  I thought it was pretty awesome, but I love anything that has anything to do with Frankenstein.  Except that faggy Mary Shelley novel.  I've tried twice and can't make it through that piece of crap.  What a crybaby.  But I guess those are the novels you produce when your contemporaries are Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.  And you know what else?  I'm not going to refer to Frankenstein as "Frankenstein's Monster."  That's stupid.  I can prove it.  No one calls Frankenberry "Frankenberry's Monster."  If anything, I'm calling Victor Frankenstein "Frankenstein's Doctor."  But that's beside the point.  Buy Pizza Hut.

Nox Aeterna

A friend of mine recently writing on Vampires.com.  He posts as Fate.  His first article can be found here:  http://www.vampires.com/vampires-sex/.  Even if you don't like vampires, check it out.  There's an Anna Paquin titty pic.  If you don't like titties: Get out!