~*SPOILER ALERT*~
Continuing my October Halloween Horror Film Challenge
with more classic movies!
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers~
The Halloween series continues with a whole new story, and some new, yet old, faces! A Brief movie Synopsis: Six years after the events of Halloween 5, Michael is alive. It seems that the stranger dressed in black that was seen throughout the entire previous film rescued him, kidnapped Jamie, and has kept them hidden away for all these years. Jamie, now 15years old, opens the film as she attempts to escape from her prison with her son who she had just given birth to just hours before. She is being pursued by her uncle, Michael, as she makes her way into a deserted bus station where she hides the baby before fleeing to an empty barn house. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis, now retired and writing a book, overhears Jamie's plea for help when she calls into a local radio station. After DJ Barry Simms ignores her call, Jamie hangs up and leaves the bus station, only to be followed and murdered in the barn house by Michael. Back in Haddonfield, Tommy Doyle, the boy Laurie Strode babysat in the first film, now lives in a boarding house across the street from the Myers house. Relatives of the Strode family have just moved into the Michael's old home without any prior knowledge as to its history. After hearing Jamie on the radio the night before, Tommy finds her baby at the bus station. As he attempts to find the baby help at the hospital, he runs into Dr. Loomis and tells him that the Strodes have moved into the Myers house- they both believe that Michael is back in Haddonfield. Dr. Loomis visits Mrs. Debra Strode and reveals to her whose house she is now living in. Before Debra is able to pack and leave the house, Michael returns home. When Debra's daughter, Kara, gets home, she finds her son, Danny, in his room with Tommy. Tommy warns them of the danger they're in and brings them across the street to his home. There, he tells Karen all that he's discovered about Michael Myers, the murders, the house, and that he believes Michael is under the curse of Thorn by the Druid cult. Thorn is an ancient Druid symbol that represented a demon that spread sickness and caused destruction (the same symbol that he found written in blood on the baby earlier). To prevent this, a child from each tribe was chosen to inherit the curse of Thron to offer a blood sacrifice to its next of kin on the night of Samhain, Halloween. The curse explains why Michael is out to kill his family and his superhuman abilities. Tommy believes that the baby, Steven, will be Michael's final sacrifice. While Tommy goes to meet Dr. Loomis, he leaves baby Steven in Kara's care. Kara learns from the Mrs. Blankenship, the owner of the boarding house, that she was babysitting Michael Myers the night that he killed his sister and the Danny hears the same voice Michael heard that night. During the night, Kara's brother and his girlfriend, Tim and Beth, are killed by Michael. After witnessing their murders across the street, Kara follows chases after Danny who has just entered the Myers house. Kara struggles with Michael to protect Danny, but is able to escape with Tommy's house. Just when they believe that they're safe, the man in black is found in Mrs. Blankenship's house and is revealed to be Dr. Wynn, a friend and colleague of Dr. Loomis. Kara and Danny are abducted while Tommy and Dr. Loomis are drugged and left behind to follow them to Smith's Grove. Once inside, Dr. Loomis confronts Dr. Wynn who has credited himself for bringing about the new cycle of evil in Jamie's baby. Tommy, meanwhile, rescues Kara and together they watch in horror as Michael slaughters a whole team of doctors, including Wynn. After retrieving the children, Tommy and Kara search desperately for an exit with Michael in pursuit. They hide themselves inside a lab where Kara notices tanks containing human fetuses with a chart of runes and scientific letter codes; both connected together by the Thorn symbol. Michael breaks into the room where Tommy injects him with tranquilizers and continues to beat him into unconsciousness with a lead pipe. The group find their way out of the lab where Dr. Loomis tells them to leave without him. The film ends with Michael's mask lying on the floor and the screams of Dr. Loomis as the screen goes black. I've become accustomed to the back-and-forth pull of these movies: Michael "dies," and returns to kill more innocent victims in the next film, and the cycle continues over and over. However, this movie decided to take a little twist! The creators decided to make sense of Michael's killings and superhuman strength: a cult curse! Of course, I should have seen that... Although the filmmakers did a fantastic job in the all-around, I personally don't think that the supernatural and these slasher films ought to be mixed up... Can't we just keep it to the original idea of "Michael Myers has snapped, turned mentally insane, and just wants to kill everyone"??? I do like how Michael has become so clever in his means of killing people in the past few films, and this one did not disappoint! Still, my favorite part was seeing an old character like Tommy make a return more than 15years later! The worst part?
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later~
We take an interesting journey through time with this film as the sibling rivalry intensifies! A Brief Movie Synopsis: This film takes place 20years after the events of the original Halloween movie. We open on Marion Chambers, friend and colleague of Dr. Loomis, as she returns home to find that it has been broken into. She recruits the help of a neighborhood boy to do a quick walkthrough before entering herself. After just a few moments inside, she realizes that she is not alone Marion crosses the yard into the boys' house where she finds their bodies and soon becomes another Michael Myers victim. The police arrive just as Michael leaves the house with a file on Laurie Strode and her whereabouts. Two days later on Halloween, Laurie awakens from her nightly haunting of her brother. Since that night, Laurie has faked her own death, relocated, and assumed the alias "Keri Tate". She is now the headmistress of a private boarding school where her son, John, attends. Because of her constant fear of Michael's return, Laurie is overbearing and immensely protective of her son, especially on Halloween night; this causes for the two to constantly be butting heads. After an intense mother-son battle, Laurie gives her son permission to leave with the rest of the students for a weekend camping trip; however, John remains behind to celebrate with his girlfriend, Molly, his best friend, Charlie, and Charlie's girlfriend, Sarah. Without knowing that Michael is stalking the school grounds and that John has stayed behind, she makes plans to spend a romantic night with her boyfriend, Will. That night, the kids sneak out to the kitchens. Michael gruesomely murders Charlie and Sarah and pursue John and Molly back to the main campus. Meanwhile, Laurie has revealed her true identity to Will just as she discovers a gift left to her by Michael. Laurie searches John's room and realizes that he never packed for the weekend; she and Will leave to find the students. John and Molly narrowly escape Michael's grasp when Laurie opens the locked door, permitting them entry into the building- Laurie and Michael come face-to-face for the first time since their last encounter 20years ago. With John injured, Laurie hides the kids in a room while she and Will pursue Michael. After mistaking Ronny, the school's security guard, as Michael and shooting him down, Will is killed by Michael. Laurie grabs the kids and helps them escape off the school grounds. She returns with a fire axe, set on killing her brother. After several intense moments of struggle, Laurie stabs Michael in the chest multiple times and he topples over a balcony. Laurie goes to his body, raises her axe and is ready to deliver a final blow, but Ronny stops her. The police arrive and load Michael's body into a body bag. Laurie, unwilling to believe that Michael is really dead, grabs her axe and an officer's pistol and steals the van. While she is driving, Michael lets himself out of the body bag. Laurie slams on the breaks, throwing him through the windshield and follows-up by trying to run him over. The van tumbles down a cliff. Laurie survives the crash. As she looks at the wreckage, she sees that Michael has been pinned in-between the van and a tree. Laurie approaches him with her axe as Michael reaches out for her hand. At first Laurie seems to accept his compassion for forgiveness, but then she pulls down the axe and with one swing, decapitates Michael. His head rolls down the hill. Laurie watches in relief knowing that Michael is finally dead. First of all, thank you for someone finally deciding to chop his head off! It was great to finally see Laurie's character being badass and taking no prisoners! She knew full-well that Michael wasn't dead, so she took matters into her own hands! The only part that really confused me was the timeline: If it's been 20years since the first film, that would mean that Laurie Strode gave birth to Jamie Lloyd about 10years ago, sparking the events of the 4th and 5th films, and eventually the 6th. And with that, first of all- why the hell did Laurie have her first child and then just abandon her??? Especially when she knows that her murderous brother may, or may not, try to kill her??? And secondly, the 6th film takes place 15years after the end of the 5th film, placing its timeline at 25years following the events of the original Halloween movie... Uhmmm... Didn't Laurie just chop his head off?? I mean, sure, there is still an 8th film to watch, but still. Even if he is cursed, how did Michael come back?? Maybe I'll just have to find the final film to understand it all?? Or maybe it's just a timeline error the change in writers overlooked?? Anyways, again, fantastic job on the all-around on this film! I absolutely loved the death scenes of Charlie and Sarah, hers even made me cringe. My least favorite part, however, was watching little Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character die so soon! Poor baby! (>.<)
>>From this point on I'm totally just taking the Synopsis' from Wikipedia kuz I'm lazy (-u-) <<
The Exorcist~
Started on my next major series! Another major classic I just don't remember, SO, here we go: In Northern Iraq during an archeological dig, archeologist and priest Father Lankester Merrin discovers a small amulet, and after studying it discovers it resembles a statue of Pazuzu, a monstrous demon in the form of a man, falcon, serpent and lion. Merrin suspects Pazuzu, whom he defeated many years ago, will return. In Georgetown, Washington D.C., actress Chris McNeil begins noticing strange and frightening behavioral changes in her daughter Regan such as constant swearing and abnormal strength. When medicine fails, Regan is given a few unpleasant tests, but X-rays results prove "negative" much to the confusion of the doctors. In reality, Regan is now possessed via a Ouija board by Pazuzu, who pretended to be her imaginary friend "Captain Howdy."
Burke Dennings, Chris's British director, dies mysteriously after falling from Regan's open bedroom window while Chris' secretary Sharon Spencer was out. His murder is investigated by detective William Kinderman, who questions both Chris and a young priest named Damien Karras (Jason Miller) who has lost faith in God after the death of his ill and elderly Greek mother, with only Chris suspecting Regan. After Regan assaults a psychiatrist, the doctors finally decide an exorcism may be Regan's only hope. Chris, however, is tentative as she and Regan have no religious beliefs.
Karras agrees to see Regan for Chris but refuses to perform an exorcism; however, further supernatural phenomena force him to accept Regan needs an exorcism. Karras is given permission by the bishop, who, at the request of the university's president, also hires Merrin to help, since he has prior experience with exorcisms.
Working together, Karras and Merrin attempt to exorcise Pazuzu from Regan, but the demon taunts them, especially Karras for his weak faith and guilt over his mother's death. Karras is dismissed after a break, as Merrin knows he is not mentally fit for a second attempt. Despite this, Karras returns to the room where Regan is now free from her binds and Merrin lies dead. In a fit of rage he assaults Regan and orders the demon to take him instead. Pazuzu obeys and Karras throws himself from the window. He then dies of his injuries, but not before receiving last rites from his friend Father Dyer.
Days later the McNeils leave for Los Angeles. They meet Dyer and say goodbye. Regan remembers nothing, but embraces him after noticing his white collar. After missing the duo, Kinderman decides to befriend Dyer by inviting him to see a movie with him. All I remember about watching this previously was that I was already old enough to not be freaked out. Why/How?? Because my mom refused to let us watch any exorcist movies, fully believing that it would bring evil spirits into our house! So, my sisters & I snuck this into our house when she wasn't home & watched it! Haha. So, now that I'm about 10years older, I can really understand how this film became such an epic classic! Sure, it's not scary, but it is creepy! The make-up is fantastic, and the acting wasn't that bad. Also, for a film during this time period, the graphics were pretty good! I couldn't help but laugh sometimes (watching this in 2013), but overall, it's a good film. I guess it would be a little more scary, perhaps, if I was more religious & actually believed this could happen. I mean, you never know, right?? My only major complaint about this movie would be the amount of cursing and sexual references that were made! Like, who was the person that decided demons were just rude little whores??? Some of the things the demon said/did were immensely ridiculous &, personally I believe dumb & out-of-line. Also, this face is freaking scary, doesn't matter how brave you are!
Exorcist II: The Heretic~
Philip Lamont, a priest struggling with his faith, attempts to exorcise a possessed South American girl who claims to "heal the sick". Afterwards, Lamont is assigned by the Cardinal to investigate the death of Father Lankester Merrin, who had been killed four years prior in the course of exorcising the Assyrian demon Pazuzu from Regan MacNeil. The Cardinal informs Lamont (who has had some experience at exorcism, and has been exposed to Merrin's teachings) that Merrin is up on posthumous heresy charges due to his controversial writings. Apparently, Church authorities are trying to modernize and do not want to acknowledge that Satan as an actual evil entity exists. Regan, although now seemingly normal and staying with guardian Sharon Spencer in New York, continues to be monitored at a psychiatric institute by Dr. Gene Tuskin. Regan claims she remembers nothing about her plight in Washington D.C., but Tuskin believes her memories are only buried or repressed. Father Lamont visits the institute but his attempts to question Regan about the circumstances of Father Merrin's death are rebuffed by Dr. Tuskin, believing that Lamont's approach would do Regan more harm than good. In an attempt to plumb her memories of the exorcism, specifically the circumstances in which Merrin died, Dr. Tuskin hypnotizes the girl, to whom she is linked by a "synchronizer" — a biofeedback device used by two people to synchronize their brainwaves. After a guided tour by Sharon of the Georgetown house where the exorcism took place, Lamont returns to be coupled with Regan by synchronizer. The priest is spirited to the past by Pazuzu to observe Father Merrin exorcising a young boy, Kokumo, in Africa. Learning that the boy developed special powers to fight Pazuzu, who appears as a swarm of locusts, Lamont journeys to Africa, defying his superior, to seek help from the adult Kokumo. Lamont learns that Pazuzu attacks people who all have some form of psychic healing ability. Kokumo has since become a scientist, studying how to prevent grasshoppers from becoming locust swarms. Regan is able to reach telepathically inside the minds of others; she uses this to help an autistic girl to speak, for instance. Father Merrin belonged to a group of theologians who believed that psychic powers were a spiritual gift which would one day be shared by all humanity in a kind of global consciousness, and thought people like Kokumo and Regan were foreshadowers of this new type of humanity. In a vision, Merrin asks Lamont to watch over Regan. Lamont and Regan return to the old house in Georgetown. The pair are followed by Tuskin and Sharon, concerned about Regan's safety. En route, Pazuzu tempts Lamont by offering him unlimited power, appearing as a succubus doppelgänger of Regan. Lamont initially succumbs to the demon but is brought back by Regan and attacks the Regan doppelgänger while a swarm of locusts deluge the pair and the entire house begins to crumble around them. However, Lamont manages to kill the Regan doppelgänger by beating open its chest and pulling out its heart. In the end, Regan banishes the locusts (and Pazuzu) by enacting the same ritual attempted by Kokumo to get rid of locusts in Africa (although he failed and was possessed). Outside the house, Sharon dies from burn injuries after she immolates herself and Tuskin tells Lamont to watch over Regan. Regan and Lamont leave and Tuskin remains at the house to answer the police's questions. Before now, I never even knew that this sequel existed. So, it was actually really interesting to watch! I really think it was an interesting twist on the idea of a demon, the fact that Regan wound up being a "good demon," well, for lack of a better term. Also, as an overall viewpoint, I think the acting got much better from the first to the second film, so that's good. So did the graphics, mostly, so it was more eye-pleasing to the audience. I might even recommend this movie more than I would the original. Wow, a sequel that was actually better than the original?? Well, for me it was! And, lastly, my major complaint was still the immense cursing & sexual references; thankfully, there was less than the previous film.
The Exorcist III~
The film begins with the point of view of someone wandering through the streets of Georgetown, a voice informing us "I have dreams... of a rose... and of falling down a long flight of stairs". The point of view shows a warning of evil about to arrive later that night at a church. Demonic growls are heard, leaves and other street trash suddenly come flying into the church as a crucifix comes to life. It then cuts to Lieutenant William F. Kinderman at a crime scene, where a 12-year-old boy named Thomas Kintry has been murdered. Kinderman takes his friend, a priest named Father Dyer, out to see their mutually favorite film It's a Wonder Life. Kinderman later relates the gruesome details of the murder of the young boy he was investigating that morning, including his crucifixion. Another murder soon takes place; a priest found decapitated in a church. Dyer is shortly hospitalized and found murdered the next day, with the words "IT'S A WONDERFULL LIFE" written on a wall in Dyer's blood. At each murder scene, the fingerprints at the crime scenes do not match up, indicating a different person was responsible for each. Kinderman tells hospital staff the reason for his unease; fifteen years ago the vicious serial killer, "The Gemini", was executed; with every victim he cut off the right index finger and carved the Zodiac sign of Gemini into the palm of their left hand. Kinderman noticed the hands of the three new victims and verified that the Gemini's sign has been there. The Gemini Killer also always used an extra "L" in his notes sent to the media, such as "usefull" or "carefull". Furthermore, to filter out false confessions, the original Gemini Killer's true mutilations were kept a secret by the Richmond police's homemade department; the newspapers were made to wrongfully report that the left middle finger was severed and that the Gemini sign was carved on the back of the victim. Kinderman visits the head of the psychiatric ward, Dr. Temple, who relates the history of a man in Cell 11, that he was found wandering aimlessly fifteen years ago with amnesia. The man was locked up, catatonic up until recently when he began to be violent and claim to be the Gemini Killer. Kinderman sees that the patient resembles his dead friend, Father Damien Karras. However the patient brags of being the Gemini Killer, expressing ignorance over who Father Karras is, and boasts of killing Father Dyer. The next morning, a nurse and Dr. Temple are found dead. Kinderman returns to see the patient in Cell 11, who claims to be the Gemini Killer's spirit, revealing that after his execution his soul entered Karras's dying body. The demon Pazuzu, who had possessed the girl Regan MacNeil, was furious at being pushed out of the child's body and is exacting its revenge by putting the soul of the Gemini Killer into the body of Father Karras. Each evening, the soul of the Gemini leaves the body of Karras and possesses the elderly people with denial dementia elsewhere in the hospital and uses them to commit the murders. The Gemini Killer also reveals to have forced Dr. Temple to bring Kinderman to him or he would suffer in unspeakable ways — Temple believed his apparent bluff, however, he couldn't take the pressure, and so he committed suicide. The Gemini possesses an old woman who makes a failed attempt to murder Julie, Kinderman's daughter. The possessed patient attacks Kinderman, but the attack abruptly ends when a priest, Father Paul Morning, enters the corridor leading to cell 11 and attempts an exorcism on the patient. It goes wrong when Pazuzu intervenes, taking over the patient's body, and the priest is all but slain. Kinderman arrives in time and attempts to euthanize Karras after finding the body of the priest, only to be hurled into the wall by the possessed Karras. Father Morning manages to briefly regain consciousness and tells Karras "Damien. Fight him." Karras regains his free will briefly and cries to Kinderman "Bill, now, shoot now, kill me now!". Kinderman fires his revolver several times, hitting Karras in the chest, fatally wounding him. The Gemini is now gone and Karras is finally free. With weak breaths, he says "We won, Bill, now free me". Kinderman puts his revolver against Karras' head and fires. The film ends with Kinderman standing over Karras' grave. This movie was a major twist from the original two, but it was also fun since it had an air of a "murder mystery." But it was also interesting because it still had a connection to the original storyline. It was also fun of to watch the acting had gotten a lot better so it was perfectly dramatic.
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist~
Many years before the events in The Exorcist, the young Father Lankester Merrin travels to East Africa. Merrin has taken a sabbatical from the Church and devoted himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith. He is haunted especially by an incident in a small village in occupied Holland during World War II, where he served as parish priest. Near the end of the war, a sadistic Nazi SS commander, in retaliation for the murder of a German trooper, forces Merrin to participate in arbitrary executions in order to save a full village from slaughter. In 1947, Merrin is an archaeologist in the Turkana region of Kenya excavating a Christian Byzantine church built around the 5th century — long before Christianity had reached that region of Africa. He meets up with Father Francis, a Maryknoll missionary appointed to ensure that the church is not desecrated, and Major Granville, the British military officer overseeing the dig. In the village, Merrin meets Rachel, a doctor who spent time in a concentration camp during World War II and is haunted by what happened to her there. Merrin's translator and guide is Chuma. Merrin takes Francis on a tour of the dig site. Only the dome is uncovered; the rest of the church is yet buried beneath the earth. Merrin discovers to his surprise that the church is in perfect condition, as though it had been deliberately buried immediately after its construction was completed. Merrin hires more men to uncover the church's walls; as excavation continues, one of the diggers inexplicably experiences a seizure, which was however dismissed as simple heat-stroke. On the site, Merrin meets a shy, physically-deformed young boy named Cheche, shunned and mistreated by the local tribespeople for fear that he is cursed. Although dissuaded by Chuma, Merrin attempts to make contact with Cheche, eventually finding him again at the village, sleeping outside in the rain. He brings the boy to the infirmary, where Rachel looks after him. That night, Merrin has a disturbing dream featuring several nightmarish images (one of which is the face of Pazuzu's 'true form' from The Exorcist). Once the door is uncovered, Merrin, Francis, and Chuma go inside the church, finding it to be also in near-pristine condition. Francis however points out an oddity: churches were built to honor God and thus, usually reached up to the heavens, whereas this building seems as if it is restraining something below it. They find a passageway leading to an underground crypt beneath the church, where they find demonic icons and signs of human sacrifice. Merrin deduces that the church was built and then buried in order to hold this older pagan temple down. On their way back, they find that hyenas (who have appeared out of season) were somehow killed and then eaten by a herd of herbivorous cattle. The chiefs of the local tribesmen, fearing that the church is evil, demands Merrin to stop the excavation. Father Francis then contacts Major Granville to send a detachment to guard the dig from potential robbers, despite Merrin's objections. Two British soldiers attempting to loot some precious stones from the church are then found murdered the next day in a strange fashion (one was beheaded, the other crucified to the altar head downward). Granville blames the tribesmen for the attempted robbery and the murders. Meanwhile Cheche, who had just received an operation in his right leg, is healing at an unusually quick pace. Granville then appears at the village in a rage, demanding the local chiefs to give up the purported murderers, even shooting an innocent civilian in cold blood. Francis is wracked with guilt for summoning the British troops to the village. Things get worse when a tribesman, Jomo, assaults Francis and slaughters the children attending the village school under the pretext of stopping the 'Christian evil' from spreading but is caught in the act and shot. Francis and Rachel note Cheche's speedy recovery and think that it must be a miraculous sign. As Francis prays over the boy, however, he quickly realizes (to his discomfort) that it was not a sign from God but something sinister. He then considers the idea of baptizing Cheche; the boy accepts on the condition that it be held at the church. Meanwhile, the visibly disturbed Granville shoots himself, but not before saying about how he finally knows what Merrin had been going through and that there was no way out for him except to commit suicide. The Sergeant Major relays this message to Merrin, noting at the same time how Grenville's actions at the village were strangely out-of-character. As the locals prepare to wage war against the British troops, Francis, assisted by Rachel, attempts to baptize Cheche at the church but is prevented by the demon controlling Cheche from doing so. Realizing that an exorcism is in order, Francis leaves quickly to fetch his copy of the Roman Ritual. The demon then gains full control of the boy, transforming him into a hairless, androgynous being. An earthquake then seals off the entrance to the church, trapping Rachel and Cheche inside. Merrin asks for the doors to be cleared, but the Sergeant Major (who had assumed command of the troops after Granville's death) postpones his request for daybreak. The next morning Merrin and the British find Francis tied to a tree naked, shot with arrows. The dying Francis reveals to Merrin that Cheche is being possessed and requests that he conduct an exorcism. As Merrin makes his way back at the excavation site, another earthquake shifts the rocks blocking the doors, allowing him to go inside. At the crypt, Merrin finds Rachel – who runs away under a trance – and the now-possessed Cheche. When the demon confronts Merrin over his doubt and offers him a chance to clear himself of his guilt, Merrin dashes back to the infirmary to get Francis' vestments and the Roman Ritual, having regained faith in God. Returning to the crypt, Merrin, now garbed as a priest, begins the exorcism, as the demon once more promises him a chance to change his past. In a hallucination, Merrin finds himself reliving the incident at Holland: despite attempting to change what happened by refusing to cooperate with the Germans, his efforts are proved to be in vain as the troops kill Merrin and all the villagers in retaliation for his defiance. Back to the present, the demon mocks Merrin for his futile attempt. As Merrin attempts to proceed with the exorcism, an aurora appears in the sky as the entranced Rachel attempts to kill herself and the tribesmen charge to battle. Despite the evil spirit's attempts to thwart Merrin, the latter eventually succeeds in driving him out, ending the madness; Cheche regresses to his former condition as the demon leaves his body. At the end of the movie, the British troops are packing up to leave the village, as the locals finally live in peace. As Merrin himself prepares to depart, one of the local chiefs wishes him strength, while warning that the demon is now his enemy and will continue to pursue him. Merrin then makes his way to the infirmary (briefly stopping by Francis' grave) to bid farewell to Rachel and Cheche, now serving as Rachel's assistant. After receiving a rosary from Rachel as a parting gift, Merrin, now an active priest once more, leaves for Rome. This was another interesting movie in the franchise. Of course, as I learned from the Scream series (teehee) the 4th installment of any horror franchise usually deals with a Prequel. This one was a good one to watch since we'd already been seeing images of Pazuzu, and the whole story's beginnings since the very first film. I also loved the ending twist that the girl, not the boy, was actually the person possessed by a demon. Overall, fantastic acting & generally good graphics to watch.
Pet Sematary Two~
Totally had no clue that this movie existed, so it was absolutely necessary to watch before anything else! Following the accidental death of his mother, Renee, during production of her latest movie, thirteen year old Jeff Matthews and his father, Chase, a veterinarian, move to Ludlow, Maine. Jeff soon learns about the Creed family and the cursed Indian burial ground. After his friend Drew's dog, Zowie, is shot by Drew's stepfather, Gus Gilbert, the town sheriff, Jeff and Drew bury Zowie at the burial ground in an attempt to bring him back to life. The dog returns from the dead, but is unusually fierce, and his eyes have an unnatural glow to them even in daylight. Zowie is treated for his gunshot wound by Chase, who finds that the wound is not healing and Zowie has no heartbeat. Chase sends a blood sample to a lab and learns that Zowie's cells have completely deteriorated and are no different from those of a dead canine. Jeff and Drew go to the pet cemetery on Halloween for a night of horror stories about the Creed murders when Gus comes looking for Drew and punches him. Before Gus can hit his stepson with one of the gravemarkers, Zowie rushes out of the shadows and kills the abusive, overzealous sheriff with a bite to the jugular. The boys bury Gus in the burial ground. Gus returns to life, but now exhibits stiff movements and treats Drew more fairly, but remains mostly silent and in a zombie-like state. Soon, he becomes more crude and sadistic, such as when he raped Drew's mother, or when he brutally skins his pet rabbits for supper. Zowie breaks out of the veterinary clinic and kills three cats before entering Chase's home and attacking him. Chase survives with an injured arm, but is shaken. Jeff and a bully, Clyde Parker, get into a fight in a ditch. Jeff is about to have his nose cut off by the spokes of his own bike when Gus shows up. Gus orders Jeff to go home, then kills Clyde with his own motorcycle (his scarf gets caught in the moving rear-wheel, pulling his head and face into the spokes, tearing it apart) and notices that Drew witnessed the whole killing. Gus traps Drew inside his house with Zowie, who has gone completely savage. Drew escapes through an upstairs window and gets in the car of his arriving mother. Gus chases them down the highway with his police car, killing them by forcing them to collide with a truck. Gus returns to Clyde's corpse with a police shovel and body bag, saying "I'm takin' you up the hill, Clyde, buddy. That's the way the Indians did it." Later the News talks that there`s a funeral for Amanda and Drew and that Clyde was "missing" and that his motorcycle was found. Jeff becomes obsessed with reanimating his mother. He has Gus exhume her corpse, and meets him at the Indian burial ground to re-bury her. His father is told that his wife has been removed from her grave by Gus. Chase rushes to Gus' house and is attacked by Zowie but manages to kill the undead dog. He enters Gus' house only to find the dead man waiting for him. Shooting Gus in his chest has little effect on him, and just as Gus is about to kill Chase with an electric drill, Chase retrieves his gun and shoots Gus through the head, killing him. Jeff's mother has come back to life. She stabs and kills Chase's housekeeper, Marjorie Hargrove, in the attic. Chase arrives and finds Marjorie's body as well as his son embracing his undead wife. He is unmoved by Renee and tells Jeff to get away from her. Renee then asks Jeff to go downstairs so she and Chase can "talk". An undead Clyde then arrives armed with an ax, and fights Jeff. Chase gets knocked out by Clyde`s ax, and Renee locks everyone in the attic and sets the place on fire. Before Clyde can kill Jeff with an iceskate, Jeff defeats the undead bully by sticking a severed electrical cable in his mouth, causing his head to explode. Jeff then grabs Clyde`s ax and chops down the attic door and grabs his unconscious father. As they escape Renee tries to convince Jeff to stay by muttering, "I love you," but Jeff gets himself and his father out of the attic, leaving his mother to die in the flames. As Renee burns, she screams out "Dead is better!". Jeff and Chase move out of Ludlow to start a new life back in Los Angeles. As Jeff and his dad leave Ludlow, the film ends with pictures of everybody that died like Gus, Marjorie, Clyde, Amanda and Drew and also Renee along with an earlier conversation between Jeff and Drew before Gus kills Drew and his mom. Another great sequel. Just as the original, an animal is freaking KILLED & it's so depressing, this time a cute/pretty dog! And, the owner, a young boy, has to bury it! It was just so depressing. I was pretty pissed that the school kids were so rude to everyone, and the the officers was an asshole- I was so happy he died- too bad they brought him back to life. Sadly, in the end, the best friend and his mom were killed. It was also pretty sad when the main little boy had to kill his own mother in order to make things right. But everything ended happily! Well, except that one of the kids was brought back to life and he never made a reappearance. Hmm, so what happened to him?? Overall, great, yet sad movie with good acting.
These past couple weeks of Horror Films were all about the classics! And now that that's taken care of, it's time to move onto some more interesting movie choices (for me)!
Sincerely Yours,
Lisette Monique Diaz
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