Hemlock Grove

I started watching and I thought it was going to suck at first you know a skinamax bad story porn. I then learned it was made off a book. So I thought it cant be that bad if they followed a book. I was Right it gets you deep into the story and Throw in the loops mystery, action, paranormal never knowing whats was going on is always fun to me.

Hemlock Grove is the much-anticipated, Netflix-exclusive

Do I have something stuck in my teeth?

series that focuses on the most painful transformation that a person can go through in their lives.

You guessed it, that would be high school.

You thought I was gonna say changing into a werewolf, didn’t ya?

Well, you’d be right in thinking that, sinceHemlock Grove– a thirteen-episode bingefest – is based on a gothic horror novel by author Brian McGreevy, which pits good versus evil, joins pseudo-vampires and gypsy werewolves together as a supernatural detective service, and depicts theclass struggle of  Pennsylvania steel ghost towns.

However, there is just as much of a focus on teenage angst, adolescent love, incessant bullying, and maternal/paternal issues, that (dare I say), it is almost too “Twilight”-y for the hardcore horror fan that they were primarily trying to rope in with this series. But, the monsters and the gore and the overall creepiness more than makes up for the soap opera moments that occur quite a bit more than I would have liked.

I’m not saying that at any given moment I expected Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to grace my screen, but it did cross my mind – during the first few episodes – that I might not be able to finish the eleven-plus hours of story line that the series spewed forth.

Did I mention there was monsters and gore, yet?

As a fan of the genre, there were enough gross-out moments to keep me coming back for more. Some of the early standouts include a cringe-worthy werewolf transformation scene – complete with bloody eyeballs dripping out of eye sockets and a transformed werewolf gobbling up a pile of steaming skin that fell off during the process of changing – as well as the opening creature attack, in which a high school cheerleader gets her “lady parts” eaten while hiding in a playground “mini-house.”

Hemlock Grove creates a sense of balance for viewers because it falls somewhere near the center of the tween-romance readers and the blood-and-guts set, without pissing off either opinionated group offanatical fans. Starting towards the end of Episode Two, the mystery that dwells within the series will wrap around the viewers’ psyches and won’t let go; like a snake eating its own tail. The Executive Producers – “torture-porn” pioneer Eli Roth (who also directed Episode One), along with author McGreevy himself – have created a well-structured, modern day fairy tale: one with such familiar faces as the valiant knight, the ferocious “dragon,” the wicked stepmother, the lowly pauper and his princess, the spoiled heir to the throne, the court magician, and (last, but not least) the misunderstood giant.

These are all represented by the characters that dwell within the

Oh man, skin cream will NOT fix it this time.

fictional town of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania. However, this is not your average, run-of-the-steel mill neighborhood. The town is shadowed, both literally and figuratively, by the legacy of the Godfrey family. It seems that the Godfrey clan has been running this little town for as long as it was…well…a little town, period. The Godfrey Steel Mill used to be the primary source of income for the bustling industrial center, but that was some time ago. The mill has long been closed and abandoned and now a new Godfrey endeavor hovers over the town like a bad omen.

The townsfolk have nicknamed it “The White Tower,” but in actuality it is not a tower at all. It‘s a giant skyscraper that houses experiments of the biotechnological variety – and anybody who knows the state, knows that every small town in PA has a twenty-story building within it – just like every town conducts biological experiments, duh.

Ridiculousness aside, the Godfreys, pretty much, own the town and that’s the way they like it. The family dynamic consists of Olivia Godfrey (played with a “now you see me, now you don’t” British accent by Famke Janssen), an overtly horrible human being who gets her kicks from making everybody’s day as cloudy as she can damn well make it. This, of course, includes causing as much misery for both of her children as she possibly can. She is pure evil, plain and simple. What kind of evil? Well, that’s the million dollar query that drives “Hemlock Grove” to the very last minute of the very last episode.

As far as the children go, first, we have the teenage, silver spoon-

The cast of Silver Spoons…I mean, Hemlock Grove.

sucking Roman (smugly and slyly played by Bill Skarsgard), who drives around in a red sports car – picking up chicks, smoking more cigarettes than Robert De Niro did in “Casino,”  and insulting the locals. Did I mention that he pokes at his skin with razors during sex and can make other people do his bidding just by staring into their eyes for a long enough time? No? Well, he can. It’s not exactly normal high school behavior, but he’s a Godfrey, so no one questions it.

His sister Shelley… ummm… not so normal either. See, Shelley (played by a FX-laden hybrid of young newcomer Nicole Boivin as the “face” of Shelley and the “World’s Tallest Model” Amazon Eve as the rest of Shelley – which is pretty cool in my book) is around seven-feet-tall, has broader shoulders than The Rock, and has feet that are bigger than Shaq does – and that’s not the weirdest part. She hides half of her face behind her hair (which is a wig, by the way), because half of her face looks like a cross between a lemur and Sloth from “The Goonies.” Oh, and her nickname happens to be “Glowworm,” for the way her face glows-blue when she blushes.

Where’s the father, you ask? Well, you’ll just have top watch the show to find out.

On the other side of the creek, literally, we have the Rumancek family – Peter (played by Canadian “eh”-lister – sorry -Landon Liboiron) and Lynda (a criminally misused Lili Taylor – she’s in every episode, but is only listed as a “guest star” in each one, for pete’s sake!). The writers of the show really want you to never forget that they are gypsies by nature, since the word “gypsy” is used more than any other word except the word “Vargulf” – which I will explain the origin of later. They have moved into a small trailer on the edge of the Godfrey property line and it seems that they have a few secrets that they’ve brought with them in the process.

Peter is a hairy teenage boy (although, I really didn’t see all that much hair on him, I mean he’s no Steve Carell, that’s for sure) who is mysterious and empathetic. Apparently, the girls are noticing this about him and he attracts the attention of young weirdo Christina Wendall (played by an annoying Freya Tingley) who stares at him while he sleeps in his hammock. This attraction turns out to be detrimental for Peter, as she starts a rumor at school that Gypsy Pete (I made that name up, sorry) is a werewolf – because his index and middle fingers are the same length. Maybe she should be a writer – or at least an investigative journalist – because Peter is a werewolf, after all.

Quick Side Note: Peter is the one that changes to a wolf in Episode 2. So make sure, even if you hate the first episode and don’t want to watch another second of the series, that you watch this particular scene. It is gross AND it is awesome!!!

There are so many characters in “Hemlock Grove,” I could write Part Two of the book just listing all of them. I’ll just speed through a few more of the more pivotal ones. There is Roman and Shelley’s uncle, Dr. Norman Godfrey (played with a wide emotional spectrum by Dougray Scott). There’s Uncle Norman’s daughter – not to mention Roman’s uncomfortably-close cousin Letha (confusingly played by Penelope Mitchell) – let’s just say it – this character was stunningly underdeveloped.  Then, there’s the enigmatic Fish and Game Warden, Dr. Clementine Chasseur (played with reckless abandon by “Battlestar Galactica” star Kandyse McClure) – that’s all I’m giving up regarding this character. There’s the out-of-his-depth Sheriff Sworn (also a “Battlestar” guy, himself, Aaron Douglas). There’s also the isolated mad scientist who works in “The White Tower” actually he’s got a little bit of Igor in him, as well – Dr. Johann Pryce (yet another M.D. – this one’s played by Joel de la Fuente. stop.) And last, but not at all least, my favorite character – the gypsy fortune teller/sex therapist/town hooker/cousin of Peter, Destiny Rumancek (played by Kanietiio Horn). The scene where she eats a nasty-ass worm that had been feeding on a jar of intestines, just to get some “answers” is awesome – awesome and gross.

The plot line, however, can get a little overwhelming at times. Yeah, I know it’s a long series and they need intersecting stories and character arcs to take up 50 minutes every week. That being said, there were certain times when I would be watching and a situation or character was mentioned and I literally had to rack my brain to remember who or what it was. The main artery in the main body of Hemlock Grove is Peter and Roman chasing after the Vargulf, though. See, I told you that word would come up again. It is a gypsy word for “rogue werewolf” and the amateur Hardy Boys are convinced that it’s doing all of the killing in the town, of which there is quite a bit of – mostly of the female variety. The rest of the storylines are interesting and mysterious, especially the secretive nature of Olivia and her motives, but the Vargulf plot keeps the show going. It just takes a minute or so, at times, to remember that there’s a Vargulf running around at all.

The most appealing thing about Hemlock Grove is not the characters, however. It’s not the eventually riveting narrative (give it at least until Episode Three, people) or its unique take on a played-out mythology. It’s not the “awesome and gross” gore of the transformation scene or the sometimes playful nature of the dialogue.

No, the best thing about Hemlock Grove is the fact that you can watch the whole series, all thirteen episodes of it, in one weekend – or one day – or one sitting, even.

Yes, Hemlock Grove is just what I said it was earlier – a bingefest. Just like “Band of Brothers” (the best bingefest of all-time) before it, I sat and watched this whole saga unfold in the span of a Saturday/Sunday, one-two punch – and it was glorious. The best part about it was that I didn’t have to wait a whole, agonizing week between episodes. Nope, I got to watch one-after-another-after-another-after-another.

However, after the final frame of the series was all said and done, even though the last couple of episodes tied most of the plot lines up sufficiently (and in some cases, spectacularly), I was still left wanting more.

Well, maybe that had something to do with the way they chose to conclude it, but if I told you what the ending actually was, it would simply be too much spoiling for one man to partake in.

You’ll just have to watch it for yourself.  That is, as long as you belong to Netflix. But these days, a household without Netflix is like a town in Pennsylvania without werewolves, gypsies, and biological tampering, right?

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Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Revenge

Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Revenge

I didnt Think I would Like this one. But it is interesting For its a True story and the Killer did his own autobiogarphy. If that isnt creepy enough. This is a good Review I found.
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The quality of the films I get to review for this fine website amaze me to no end. One day I’ll get the cinematic equivalent of bilge water (“Panman“) and then I’ll get something like this little flick which, upon reading the title, I just knew was going to be awful. Instead I found that this is the rather gripping story of one Carl Panzram, who just might have been the craziest yet most sane man alive before his execution on September 5th, 1930.

Directed by John Borowski, who also directed documentaries of serial killers Albert Fish (“In Sin He Found Salvation”) & H.H. Holmes (“H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer”), this documentary tells the story of Carl Panzram and as the film begins we hear Panzram (Voice over by John DiMaggio) tell the viewer that “In my lifetime I have killed 21 human beings. I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arson’s and last but not least I have committed sodomies on more than 1000 male human beings. For all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not worry me, I don’t believe in man, god or devil. I hate the whole human race, including myself…I am Carl Panzram”. I recounted those lines because as soon as I heard them I became immediately fixated on what I was watching. As I have never heard of Panzram those opening lines immediately piqued my curiosity and I wanted to know more.

We are then introduced to Robert Ray, an archivist at San Diego State University, who has three pages from the actual diary of Carl Panzram on display in front of him. Those opening words that made my ears stand up and take notice? They were written by Panzram in his diary, they weren’t the words of a screenwriter as I had initially assumed. Now I’m REALLY interested in Panzram and his life and luckily Boroski has made a film that recounts Panzram’s life in a very meticulous fashion thanks to the help of some historians, the surviving diary pages and one elderly man who was a guard at one of the many prisons Panzram was held at.

Carl Panzram was arrested for housebreaking in Washington circa 1928. Upon his arrest he told the police that the charge he was being held on was minor and he was guilty of numerous murders over the years. The authorities had no idea that he had been arrested all over the country for a plethora of crimes because he always used a different name. He began to tell them about some of the murders he committed and slowly the story got out to the local newspapers. The story of a man being held for a petty crime who is telling the police about other more heinous crimes he’s committed became a big deal in Washington and soon everyone knew the name Carl Panzram. That included a prison guard named Henry Lesser who slowly developed a dialog with Panzram. Although Panzram trusted no man, Lesser slowly gained his trust by showing him the one thing no one ever had before…kindness. He witnessed some of the torture that the warden & other prison guards had put Panzram through because of his reputation.

Lesser became very upset over the treatment Panzram was suffering through and sent him a dollar bill for use in the prison canteen. Slowly the two men began a sort of friendship and after hearing some of Carl’s exploits Lesser encouraged him to write his autobiography. Panzram initially demurred, claiming he wasn’t educated enough to write anything but after a few weeks of encouragement (& some paper and a pencil) Carl began to write his story out. The deal was that Lesser would provide the paper and pencils and Panzram would leave the completed pages in between the bars of his cell when he was done. The film suggests that Lesser was going to use the completed work as a sort of example for people to understand what makes people like Panzram do what they do. When finished, Panzram wrote about 40,000 words detailing his life from his childhood on.

Sadly life seemed to be against Carl right from the beginning. He tells the story of a mastoid operation he underwent as a child that took place on his kitchen table as his family couldn’t afford a proper procedure in a hospital and it is intimated that he might have suffered some sort of brain damage because of it. From then on he began his life of crime and we’re told of the constant beatings he suffered as a child at reform school. It’s never too long between beatings and one of the promises Carl makes to himself is that he would “Have his revenge just as soon and as often as I could injure someone else, anyone at all will do. If I couldn’t injure those who injured me then I would injure someone else”. It’s theorized that it was around this time that he began to think of himself as the worst of the worst, someone who could not be rehabilitated.

There are many experts here discussing what might have made Panzram so evil and they discuss a lot of the available evidence which seem to point out the direction Carl went in as he grew older. He wrote that he had “Learned more about stealing, lying, burning, hating & killing” from the reform school he grew up in than anything else. Upon his release he became a hobo and was sodomized by four men in a boxcar which only made his resolve to dominate others stronger. He admits to sodmizing hundreds of men over the years, not for the physical pleasure but for the feeling of dominance it gave him.

As he grew into manhood he, among other things, joined the army and found that it was just another form of prison for him. He only lasted a few months before he ended up in the army prison for three years for theft. In those three years he became physically stronger and upon his release he described himself as “The spirit of meanness personified” and his hatred of his fellow man grew stronger. Over the years he was a guest of hundreds of jails, a few prisons and detention centers and he tells of all the abuse/punishment he underwent while he was there. None of it broke him, all of it made him harder, angrier, meaner and during the few periods of his life where he was a free man he made a point to commit as many crimes, murders, rapes that he could claiming that “Many a man has paid for what those men had done to me”.

Strangely there is no mention of women in his story besides his mother. Panzram only raped other men but he never calls himself a homosexual nor describes any overwhelming desire for men over women. He raped other men to assert his dominance over them, perhaps he felt that he was already dominant over women and that they had no real power to stop him as opposed to men who are physically bigger & stronger than women and would prove more of a challenge to him. In addition, he was only abused by males both in and out of prison so perhaps he felt that he had to enact his revenge over men only.

As the film continues we learn that Panzram hated humanity so much that he had devised a plan to start a war between the U.S. and England! A war that would kill thousands of people, perhaps millions in the end. He was also convinced that he could pull this off…if he was a free man and had the time to set the end game in motion, but he didn’t. Carl Panzram’s writings reveal a very intelligent man who but for a few less beatings and a dearth of caring in his early life might have been a productive member of society. But the hatred he faced as a young boy turned him into the monster he became, a monster with no remorse, feeling or love for his fellow man. There was no humanity left in his soul and after watching the film I wondered if he felt he even had a soul.

He died as he lived, violently at the end of a hangman’s noose. His last lines of his autobiography state that children should be taught the word “Truth” for them to grow up properly. He had the insight to realize this even as his hatred of humanity festered inside of him. He left a last will and testament which asked that his corpse be turned into dog food! He also placed a curse on all of mankind in it as well. The last words of his autobiography state that he’s only sorry for two things: “I am sorry that I have mistreated some animals in my lifetime and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damn human race. All that I leave behind me is smoke, death, desolation & damnation”. Now you tell me…is this one serious mofo or isn’t he?

Although I really enjoyed this film I feel guilty saying it. Panzram led a horrid life and as one of the experts in the film surmise, his words felt more like a warning to humanity. A warning that it is creating more Carl Panzram’s daily and maybe we should stop and take a long look at ourselves before it’s too late. It is an amazing story and a very compelling film about a man who was in essence, evil personified, yet smart enough to know he could’ve been different if not for the abuse heaped upon him. And smart enough to know that society had better heed his words in order to avoid creating someone even more dangerous than he was. All technical aspects of the film are up to snuff as far as documentaries go. John DiMaggio’s voice is a dead ringer for Lance Henriksen’s and, as Panzram, it lends a sense of dread and absolute evil to every word he utters. All of the actors playing Panzram from childhood on are efficient although the obviously low budget rears it’s ugly head a bit too much in some of the re-enactments.

I heartily recommend “Carl Panzram: The Spirit Of Hatred And Revenge” to anyone even remotely interested in serial killer history. It’s a fascinatingly sad story made even worse because it’s all true. And Panzram was right, mankind has created people far worse than Panzram in the years after his death. And we will continue to do so until we create the one who will end it all for us, if we haven’t done that already.

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House Hunting

Yes I agree with the Title comment "Family is Hell". The lies,cheating,stealing To say a few thats in most family's. Now in the movie it goes to every bad situation most you could get think of. Murphy must be these family's best Friend. It starts out kinda Corny as hell family looking for a house to move to and a guy running in to them and saying come look at my house I'm selling 17 acre Great place to live happy. Then the Daughter sees his Face go Scream mask kind of. Then they go to the house and that is when it gets the Story starts getting the thrills started. They are stuck cant leave. The Power of the recorder that wont stop saying the same thing wont stop. That would make anyone Crazy "Norman Bates" carzy. It then gets deeper storys of every one. and the 5 W's come Who What When Where and Why. they dont all get awnsered till the ending but finding why the are there is the fun question for this movie. As it says "Family is Hell". heres the review From Movie Mavericks
 Eric Hurt’s feature directorial debut is a tense look at ghostly revenge. The Hays and Thomson families are out House Hunting, both arrive at a quaint house on 70 acres of land, and both are immediately taken with it. When they come across a bloodied girl running through the woods (Rebekah Kennedy) things take a turn. Now the families find themselves trapped at the house, any attempt to leave turns them around and they land right back at the doorstep. Weeks pass as Charlie Hays (Marc Singer) and Don Thomson (Art LaFleur) try to keep their families together – and sane. But the pressure of isolation begins to creep in, and the ghosts are getting restless. Soon they will reveal why these families are being held hostage here, and it won’t be pretty.

This is a great flick for Eric Hurt’s first feature. Here he’s a quadruple threat acting as director, writer, cinematographer (along with Todd Free) and producer. House Hunting plays on the J.J. Abrams ploy of mystery with answers that only beg for more answers. The difference is the ending to this picture is actually satisfying, even with a slight downer twist ending (which is often the case in the horror genre).

Which brings us to how does the twist ending actually work? Without going into much detail and ruining the film for the uninitiated, I believe that the house is a sort of honey pot for evil. This means that evil people are also caught up in it, along with their acts – and families. There aren’t a ton of scares, but there are a lot of tense situations that we find the family members in. The ending sequence reminded me of the Shining and in many ways these people lose their minds from the isolation. I also enjoyed the In the Mouth of Madness type trap, where driving away from the house will get you right back to the house.

The acting has peaks and valleys, but during taut moments the actors really go all out. This is especially true of star Marc Singer, best known as The Beastmaster. It’s good to see him stretch out his acting chops, and in a role that he is perfectly cast in. All the actors fit neatly together and feel like they come from the same world.

House Hunting is a creepy, well-directed and acted thriller with bouts of horror. Worth watching for fans of the genre and those that like a dark mystery.

Director: Eric Hurt
Stars: Marc Singer, Art LaFleur, Hayley DuMond, Rebekah Kennedy

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The Survival Game

I Thought this movie would be a lame Teeny popper movie.
When you go camping, you expect to put up with a few hardships--bugs, mosquitoes, maybe even some rain. But you don't expect your weekend to include kidnapping, guns, and fighting for your life.
Sounds lame to me the plot. But Konrad Case is cute and a Good actor. It has a Hollywood story line from the 80's. It didnt do the blood guts thing like the 80's or the BAD acting like the 80's. It keeps the story going not knowing all the aspects going on. The 5 W's Who what where when why going threw most of the movie. it may be an only one timer movie but fun to watch. Good fights and the Trailer Trash bad girl Stephanie Barone did a Good job at not liking her the whole movie. heres the IMDB raters that watched the movie

Votes	Average
Males	69	2.9
Females	14	5.6
Aged under 18	1	10.0
Males under 18	1	10.0
Aged 18-29	30	3.2
Males Aged 18-29	22	2.8
Females Aged 18-29	8	7.3
Aged 30-44	36	2.9
Males Aged 30-44	32	2.8
Females Aged 30-44	4	4.7
Aged 45+	16	3.3
Males Aged 45+	14	3.4
Females Aged 45+	2	1.4

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