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I'm here to tell you . . . if you have NOT seen the Unrated Director's cut of the 2007 Halloween . . . then you are in for a delight. I'm a horror movie connoisseur in this decade of my life and there are very few horror teen slasher movies of the elite echelon . . . but the Unrated Director's Cut by Rob Zombie is one of them!!

I cannot stand movies which absolutely insult the ordinary intelligence of the audience . . . I'm not here for Michel Myers stealing a car and driving back to Haddonfield, IL (Halloween 4) after he has been locked away since 8 years old in the original by John Carpenter & Moustapha Akkad. He would either get lost or crash the car!!!

The version I bought on Blu-Ray has Dolby True HD soundtrack on the first one and DTS - Hi Def Master Audio on the sequel as it was available by then.

I'm here for the Unrated Director's cut because, unlike any of the previous "Halloween" movies, it has a plausible scenario for Michael Myers to escape institutional custody . . . I need to believe that he could escape at that particular opportunity and not just for whatever reason decide to go Hercules one day and physically break his restraints.

The verison I champion has the act of criminal violence provided the emotional catalyst for this gigantic DYFS kid to break his semi-catatonic state and explode with years of pent up violent energy!! I need that lol to make some sense of the movie and I like how Rob Zombie said "In my rendition of 'Halloween'. . . the overgrown kid psycho doesn't drive"

He did that in the original.
 
He did that in the original.


Yes lol a coworker told me this . . . though I didn't remember it outside of Halloween #4. I'm here to tell you . . . I do have a problem with it lol. Sometimes what doesn't fit . . . just doesn't sit right with me regardless of the author/producer.

It is like on "Game of Thrones" where GRRM had Ser Gregor Clegane ~ The Mountain . . . scale the exterior of the Red Keep with climbing spikes at nearly 700 pounds . . . never had any prior climbing accomplishments or such feats of freakish agility . . not a small boy like Bran Stark who had been climbing since 4 or 5 probably (I know I did at that age easily climb trees but lost my squirrel ability by 10)

Whether it is John Carpenter or George RR Martin . . . if it doesn't fit then . . . I just cannot get past it lol ;)

@darkcurry ~ Didn't you have an issue with Michael Myers stealing a car and successfully driving to Haddonfield, IL? I'm sure at eight years old in the 1980's or 1970's being locked up in a mental ward for 16 years is not conducive to being able to successfully operate a strange car and then reach your destination right?

Didn't you have an issue with the Mountain scaling the exterior of the Red Keep to gain access to the royal apartments of Princess Elia and her children . . . the man is MONSTROUSLY MASSIVE and has never been know to climb anything before or since?!?
 
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^^^ I can not front lol . . . all this circumspection about the original John Carpenter & Moustapha Akkad "Halloween" has motivated me to place an Amazon Prime order for the just released Ultra Hi-Def 4k Blu-,Ray disc which is on sale for $10 off. It is supposedly 4K Ultra Hi-Def remastered from the originals of 1978 and on a Dolby Atmos soundtrack. I wasn't even going to get it but dammit lol I just ordered it and the new release of "Halloween #4" on Ultra Hi-Def 4k remastered disc.
I almost ordered the Blu-Ray of "Black Christmas" but thought better of it since I can stream it for free practically on Prime Video with the best sound effects via my Sony 4k UHD player with it's DSEE. If you have NEVER seen the original Bob Clarke "Black Christmas" then please do so as its free on Prime Video and extremely underrated . . . it even predates John Carpenter's "Halloween" by four years and is of the same caliber in my educated assessment
 
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Marvel's Hit- Monkey:


After a Japanese snow monkey’s tribe is slaughtered, he joins forces with the ghost of an American assassin, and together, they begin killing their way through the Yakuza underworld.



 
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Sony Pictures Entertainment and PlayStation have released the first official trailer for their upcoming Uncharted movie. Based on the video game series, Uncharted tells the story of Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) his first adventure with rival-turned-partner Victor Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg).



 
Yes lol a coworker told me this . . . though I didn't remember it outside of Halloween #4. I'm here to tell you . . . I do have a problem with it lol. Sometimes what doesn't fit . . . just doesn't sit right with me regardless of the author/producer.

It is like on "Game of Thrones" where GRRM had Ser Gregor Clegane ~ The Mountain . . . scale the exterior of the Red Keep with climbing spikes at nearly 700 pounds . . . never had any prior climbing accomplishments or such feats of freakish agility . . not a small boy like Bran Stark who had been climbing since 4 or 5 probably (I know I did at that age easily climb trees but lost my squirrel ability by 10)

Whether it is John Carpenter or George RR Martin . . . if it doesn't fit then . . . I just cannot get past it lol ;)

@darkcurry ~ Didn't you have an issue with Michael Myers stealing a car and successfully driving to Haddonfield, IL? I'm sure at eight years old in the 1980's or 1970's being locked up in a mental ward for 16 years is not conducive to being able to successfully operate a strange car and then reach your destination right?

Didn't you have an issue with the Mountain scaling the exterior of the Red Keep to gain access to the royal apartments of Princess Elia and her children . . . the man is MONSTROUSLY MASSIVE and has never been know to climb anything before or since?!?


You're forgetting that this is a horror movie and Michael Myers was supposed to be possessed or the living incarnation of evil. So we can't correlate these things into our reality.
 
Is it true that the new "Halloween" film coming out this month & the last 1 that came out in 2018 are retcon films?

I saw someone mention they're sequels to the original 1978 film, but they ignore all the sequels in the original films series.

Yes that is correct. The Halloween that came out prior to this one was done as a total retcon as a sequel to the John Carpenter Moustapha Akkad original like Lionsgate tried to do with Texas Chainsaw Unrated with Alexandra Daddario which ignored all the sequels to the original by Tobe Hopper.

It exclusively streaming on Peacock supposedly but I'm good lol.

I will watch the Blu-Ray DVDs of Rob Zombie's "Halloween" Unrated Director's Cut and its sequel which I hated but the reviews said this version is much better than the theater version which made no sense whatsoever lol. Plenty of gore and graphic sex scenes in both of them so I know they're worth the purchase price with the enhanced soundtrack in HD Master Audio.
Do these new retcon films ignore "Halloween 2" from 1981? "Halloween 2" takes place later the same night as as the OG 1978 film & I believe is also looked as a classic, so it would be egregious AF for "Halloween 2" to be be ignored.

I gave the first retcon Halloween flick a chance. Didn't like it. Not interested in seeing this one at all. The originals Halloween I & II are untouchable. GREAT story telling. Re-telling it for whatever reason was not a good idea. The same goes with Rob Zombie's version. Some originals are just untouchable.


IGN.com just put out this clip explaining the "Halloween" film franchise timeline & they confirm these new retcon films ignore "Halloween II":

Keen to watch Halloween Kills but unsure where it sits in relation to the ELEVEN other Halloween films floating about? Wonder no more as we present Halloween: The Story So Far. Current timeline edition!

Presented by Halloween Kills.
 
IGN.com just put out this clip explaining the "Halloween" film franchise timeline & they confirm these new retcon films ignore "Halloween II":


That was one of the best ones in the entire franchise. I get it and I'am on board of certain stories being re-told within a different timeline or universe but there was clearly an agenda with this film. I heard some mention that it was about natural selection.
 
What do y'all consider the best season of "American Horror Story"?

I'm currently watching season 3 "Coven" & this seems like the best season of the 5 seasons I've watched so far. I've previously watched season 2 "Asylum", Season 1, Season 9 "1984", & Season 6 "Roanoke".
 
Aquaman's James Wan Was Secretly Working on a Black Manta Movie
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We all thought the news was too weird to be true and, apparently, it was. Back in early 2019, we found out that hot on the heels of James Wan’s DC film Aquaman making a big box office splash (get it?), Warner Bros. was developing a smaller-scale, horror spinoff based on the creatures who appeared during its underwater trench sequence. The idea was so specific and weird but seemed like the perfect avenue for the director of Saw, Insidious, and Malignant to make a cool superhero horror movie.

Alas, the Trench movie was canceled earlier this year but... we now seemingly know the truth: it was never destined to happen. Last week, Wan posted a shot of Black Manta’s (played by The Matrix Resurrections’ new Morpheus, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) shiny helmet on his Instagram to highlight the costume and production work on the sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. It wasn’t until sometime after that the director revealed something fairly shocking: the Trench movie was never a real thing; instead, it was code for a Black Manta movie. Check out the comment, which I took a screenshot of from Instagram on my phone.
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Screenshot: Instagram/Germain Lussier for io9



Wan, who goes by “CreepyPuppet” on Instagram, was replying to a fan who asked if he’d do a Black Manta streaming series (presumably HBO Max, where lots of things are happening these days). Wan didn’t answer directly, instead deciding to say, “I’ll let you in on a secret, the canceled Trench spin-off movie was really going to be a secret Black Manta movie.” io9 has reached out to Warner Bros. for confirmation or clarification on this news and will update the piece when or if that happens.

In Aquaman, as well as the upcoming Lost Kingdom, Manta is played by Abdul-Mateen. The first film saw him as almost a mini-boss, nothing but a pawn in Orm’s (Patrick Wilson) scheme. But in the film’s end credit scene, Manta is rescued by a marine biologist who agrees to help him defeat Aquaman in exchange for information on Atlantis. These are events that we’ll probably see in the sequel film or, maybe, were going to happen in this spinoff. No matter the case, the most interesting part of this story is the need for Wan and Warner Bros. to, apparently, concoct a fake idea to cover up the real one. Was the Trench movie going to become a Black Manta movie in the middle of it? Or was the studio going to reveal the ruse before release? We don’t know for sure. Honestly, neither makes a lot of sense but it’s certainly a fun and fascinating “what if.”

We’ll next see Abdul-Mateen in The Matrix Resurrections which opens December 22, and returning as Black Manta in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, coming out December 16, 2022.
 

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