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I'm talking to you Yorkepussy

Now that that's out of the way, I've been here 4 years and have never spawned my own journal, so at this point I feel like I'm elevating my status as an MB member. Not really, this could fail horribly. This will be an area of free-flowing thoughts, PC/nonPC (your choice) opinions, comedic relief, tastemaking art, recommendations. You name it. I'll be reviewing music, films, concerts, video games, anything I can get my grubby mitts on. Possibly accept the occasional request. Post videos I'm enjoying, songs I'm listening too, pictures. Updates of my adventurous straight edge lifestyle.

So without further ado, a review.


The Babadook gives me faith in humanity. Not in that this is a cheerful movie, as you can maybe ascertain from the picture below, but that the state of horror in celluloid can (and will) remain a thriving genre not hell bent on delivering hollow jump scares or gratuitous guts, but something built and molded from the minds of people who know pure terror, or at least know how to film it.

With genre fare like "Ouija", and "Annabelle" proving loud sounds are starting to not fool the audience anymore, The Babadook takes that risky, bold move to use the silence and atmosphere to create a rife sense of dread that seems unrivaled in today's horror landscape. Since the day this film was released, it set a bar so high, It'll be hard to film anything scarier than this.

Essie Davis plays a woman suffering from a really late stage of grief, meanwhile raising a son never introduced to his father who tries agonizingly to keep her safe from an entity known as the "Babadook". The first time they suggested even so much of a glimpse of the Babadook, I felt fear I hadn't felt during a horror film since watching Friedkin's The Excorcist many, many years ago. And from that point on I opted to view the rest of the film through my fingers.

All In All, The Babadook is one of the scariest films of the last 25 years, wrapped nice and neat in gothic fairy tale chic. Highly recommended. Stop skipping this on your Netflix cue. 10/10

****ing love that film.

I think that Mike Flannegan (Oculus, Hush) is going to make something really amazing in the future. Right now his films almost hit the mark, but their originality keeps it going for them.

^ I really didn't like Hush, despite all fuss I've heard about it.

Review It Follows. I feel like it just comes hand in hand with The Babadook now since they both brought forward two different, yet equally exciting sides of independent horror films into the mainstream.

I feel the same way about Oculus too. I thought the premise and suspense was built well, but it did become aimless and pointless. There was no real motive for what happened in it and that would have made it way more interesting if the characters were a little more humanized or fleshed out.

Still have to see It Follows.

I think Hush was a touch better than Oculus, but they're both very "meh" in my books. Still better than some of the jump scare heavy modern horrors though, and I definitely do see some potential with Flannegan's desire to be a little different.

Get to watching It Follows, seriously. Not quite as good as The Babadook, but it has a killer score and the script was so well written.

DO THIS!!!

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I think you have a deal. Review of The Raid 2 should be up later. Ever get that feeling someone's pushing your eyeball into your socket? For fuck's sake it's destroying my head.

Any film that uses an unstoppable entity as some allegory to aids, take all my money. Just the thought of that gives me a rock hard chub. Oh yeah, it's a good film too.

@Frown I can send you a torrent if you want.

Oh **** yes. That's a Violent J solo album BTW.

But mostly rock hard chub, right?