Rambo 5 Knife

Sly Stallone has been great at posting pics from the Rambo 5 set on Instagram and this may be the best one yet.  Rambo 5 slices into theaters late next year hopefully.

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Michael, It's Time - Halloween 2018

I first saw John Carpenter's Halloween on its network TV premiere in 1981 and it scared me to death but I also loved every minute of it.  I slept on the couch for almost a week after watching that.  As I grew up we got a VCR and I discovered I love horror movies.  Anytime we went to the local video stores I would explore the horror section to see what new horror I could checkout and I also looked thru the older titles to see what I wanted to watch again.  Halloween was always one of those titles that got rented many times especially when I found a friend that had not seen it yet.  I have presented Halloween to many friends over the years.

Halloween became a bit of an obscure title in the mid 90s even though they were still churning out sequels but was difficult to find on VHS.  Luckily Blockbuster (R.I.P.) started putting out a line of movies for sale and they had the exclusive rights to Halloween so for ten bucks I could now watch it whenever I wanted and the movie collecting hobby-habit began.

 Now, this VHS copy of the movie looked awful even for VHS standards.  If I remember correctly it was recorded in EP mode and was still pan and scan like everything else back then but at least I had it.  Years later I started collected laser discs so I could watch movies in their proper aspect ratio and then Criterion dropped this bomb:

This was the holy grail of movies at the time as it was remastered and in widescreen so this got a lot of play.  I still have this disc(s) but no player though.  In the last twenty something years I have purchased any DVD or blu ray release of this and still enjoy it a couple of times a year including Halloween night.  

Tonight the sequel forty years in the making comes out and The Shape is back in Haddonfield.  It is directed by David Gordon Green who went to the same high school I did, he was a year behind me, and lived three streets over from me.  I did not know the guy but I recognized him from an article once he started making movies.  It is a small world sometimes.  Halloween 2018 has played a few festivals and the word is good.  I will be there tonight, will you?  See you at The Alamo.

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New Release Tuesday

Skyscraper- A security expert must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 stories above ground, when his family are trapped inside by criminals.  This is no Die Hard but it is a good action movie.  The Rock said this was a throw back to Die Hard so I would expect a good Hans Gruber villain but the bad guy in this absolutely sucks on the page and the screen and that almost brings the whole building and movie down.  The Rock is good as this saves the movie and Neve Campbell is awesome in it and makes a bad ass mom and wife.  Give this a spin, you will enjoy it.

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation- Count Dracula and company participate in a cruise for sea-loving monsters, unaware that their boat is being commandeered by the monster-hating Van Helsing family.  It’s October so it is time to watch anything Halloween related, and this is good for the whole fam.

Trick ‘r Treat- Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater.  This is the best horror movie of the last decade.  It is an awesome horror anthology movie that ties itself all together at the end and if you have not seen this do it now.  This is a new release from Scream Factory so it will be great and worth the upgrade.

Bad Ronald- A perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, and he falls for one of the new residents.  I have never seen this made for TV movie and it has gained quite the cult status of late and is getting a blu ray release from Warner Archive.  It’s in my wish list now. 

Ninja Zombie- Orlan Sands is threatened by an evil spider-themed karate cult seeking the location of an archaeological dig unearthing a rare magical artifact , so he turns to his best friend Jack, a martial arts champion, for protection. But when Jack is killed, he has no choice but to seek out a voodoo witch doctor who brings Jack back to life as Ninja Zombie. Now, the undead warrior foil the plans of the cult and its leader, who will stop at nothing to succeed, even if it means kidnapping Jack's fiancee.  I mean, why not?