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October 31, 2009 in
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Tags: 80's, cyborg, halloween, horror, mask, robots, snakes, television, Tom Atkins, witchcraft.
Halloween III is one of the strangest movies in any movie franchise. As I’ve mentioned before in a previous post, it’s a sequel to film that it has absolutely no relationship to. While it can be said that they tried to incorporate the Silver Shamrock company into the later films of the Halloween franchise, it’s pretty clear that beforehand they really didn’t have any intentions of keeping this film in the continuum of the world that gave birth to Michael Myers. In fact, the only appearance of Michael Myers in this film is a brief clip from the original Halloween of Mr. Myers walking down the stairs as a promo for a broadcast of the original Halloween movie. So while the original intent of this movie was supposed to be a telling of a “halloween story” after Myers death in Halloween II, this movie is really about Dr. Dan Challis (Tom Atkins) and the Silver Shamrock company.
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Television isn’t something we usually talk about here at Internal Bleeding, because let’s face it, TJ Hooker hasn’t been on in years, and something like Trueblood and all that vampire BS really doesn’t appeal to me. One thing that I’ve always thought was missing was a zombie show based on a really interesting story that focuses on the survivors, and their attempt to get out of a scary situation while the undead horde bears down on them. My prayers were answered when I found Dead Set, a British television show that centers around a zombie outbreak that happens during a season of Big Brother. Because the participants in the Big Brother reality show are cut off from communication with the outside world, they’re entirely oblivious to the fact that the world around them is being over run, and their production crew is in imminent danger as well.
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Remember Virtual Reality? You know, the game where you’d put on a helmet and hold a controller and it would look like you were actually in this low resolution polygonal game? It was pretty big in the early 90’s, so much so that there were a few movies made about the fad. Evolver is one of those movies, and it’s the name of the game that’s played. Ethan Embry (as Ethan Randall) is one of the best evolver players, and he gets awarded a real robot that will play with him anytime he likes. The robot learns after each round, and adapts to try to beat his opponent. While it sounds like an awesome robot, the robot isn’t satisfied with shooting out foam balls and darts anymore, it wants to learn how to kill.
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James Woods plays a small cable channel exec in David Cronenberg’s 1983 Film “Videodrome“. Max Renn (Woods) runs the small network Civic TV, which shows the most offbeat, weird and bizarro shows on TV (I have to admit, it sounds like my kind of station), and he’s always looking for a new show to put on the airwaves. The newest crop that his sales agent is proposing aren’t edgy enough for him, it’s all too softcore, too pedestrian. He needs something a little more shocking, not only to keep interest in his station, but also because he needs something to get excited about. Soon after, his tech intercepts a few minutes of “Videodrome” and Renn’s interest is piqued.
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Isn’t it always fun to get a package in the mail? I like to get packages, it makes me feel like I’m someone special, even if I did order it for myself like a big boy. In Robert Scott’s “The Video Dead” (1987), a man gets a special delivery that he’s not expecting. In the wooden crate, a TV. Too bad this TV only shows one movie… “Zombie Blood Nightmare” (which by the way, looks like an awesome zombie movie). Zombies pop out of the ground during this movie, and eventually the TV spawns some zombies – and through the magic of film, they all fit through the 19 inch opening on the TV to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting owner of the house.
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