Dexter Season 6

This is going to contain spoilers for the first episode of season 6 , if you have yet to watch this, go watch it here...http://tubeplus.me/player/1747366/Dexter/season_6/episode_1/Those_Kinds_of_Things/

Dexter might be at the more drama, csi -ish end of what is considered horror, but i think the character of Dexter Morgan, over the past 6 years has taken his place along side the Hannibal Lecters and Norman Bates, he is every much the protagonist as those serial killers are in there respective films and lets face it even the slashers Pyscho paved the way for , does any one every cheer for the teens having sex in the woods that Jason impales or are we cheering for mr . Vorhees?
The first thing very noticeable about the season opener is how fleshed out these characters have become, the cast's chemistry is undeniable. Hall is charming as usual in the lead role, with Friday Night Lights out of the way , and Madmen, not making a come back is any one standing in his way for an Emmy?
like true Blood, we have long veered from the path of the Lindsey books, where supernatural elements had begun to be introduced , at least where i left off , the books are never at the library or on paperback when i have the money for them, though it's a series i would like to continue reading .
This season's theme is very blatant , religion, with the new big bad using Biblical themes in his killing , to Dexter enrolling his son in Catholic school, there is a good balance of story and violence, the snakes in the intestines scene was the high light of this episode, Dexter gets three kills in polishes off an old high school class-mate, i wonder what his body is at i'm sure , it's higher off camera as we don't get the highschool to where the first season began updates in flash back sequences , but if i remember correctly he already had a good collection of blood samples by the time we first see this case, i'm sure there's a site dedicated to that .
the threat of getting caught isn't present , there were of course several tense moments with that last season and a chunk of time has past in between seasons as Harrison is old enough for pre-school. While it's not a cliff hanger to drag you into the season, it was a satisfying start for me and i'm glad he's back on the air, six seasons , should see the show in the twilight years, i can't see it going on as long as Smallville for ten years so would expect next season to sadly be the last , but who knows ,after watching a stream i now have 3 weeks to wait and shows like Supernatural, which will get a review , the Secret Circle and vampire diaries to tide me over, i imagine board walk empire and the walking dead should be cranking it back up as well and another season of Californication should not be far behind. i know those two they aren't horror, but i watch them , both well written.

Deadliest Warrior - zombies vs vampires

Ok , the premise in and of it's self was silly as their was know way a zombie could beat a vampire at anything except most movies made under the same premise,so i think to make it fair it was 37 zombies for every one vampire. it was however entertaining , the most entertaining element was the fact 30 Days of Night Author Steven Niles , was on the show. He gave the guys trying to argue the case of zombies some pretty good looks and his one comment to the defense that zombies could pass the zombie virus on to a vampire was, well vampires survived the black plague and well.. they are dead.. a fact that seemed to go over the heads of most.
Another point in question was when they were trying to reason a vampire could be bled out by a zombie bite on the right artery, i have never heard bleeding out a vampire as a method of killing them, the closest thing is decapitation. i wondered by a better match up wasn't made like dracula vs frankenstein or the wolf -man , i think any horror fan could appreciate adults arguing this on national tv , it's not like it doesn't happen on fan-boy message boards ,but the presentation was cool to watch. overall i think this season of deadliest warrior has been bland, as there has been too much of an emphasis on modern weaponry and guns bore me i want hacking and slashing.

bereavement

I have been waiting for this one even though stevan mena's first film malevolence didn't do much for me and this was supposed to be the prequel, the hulu trailer looked good and frankly the screaming busty alexandra daddario was looking too good to pass up.for once being inspired to check out a movie for the hot screaming woman in the trailer paid off. what ever mena learned from the first movies mistakes have really paid off here.
alot of slasher films there is no component that the killing machine in question is crazy enough to do this, the killer here struggles with a wide range of emotion and the twists his actions take can be brutally unexpected . no one is safe this is an indispensable quality in a horror, and it hold true here as well. the tone is dark and real , there are only a few hiccups in the suspension in disbelief , they are clustered around killing at the end , it would be major spoilers but the acting is a little lack luster in the reaction to the stabbing , but this could be nit oicking which i am prone to do , wouldn't say this is as flawless i saw the devil , but i am certain this will make it onto my top ten of the year .

dear god no

Local atlanta film maker Jimmy bickert 's low budget homage to the biker exploitation films of seventies " dear god no " is a blood splattered camp fest. also Bickert not only wrote and directed but stars in the film. it's fun drive in -fare , i like my grindhouse a little more serious but enjoyed it more than over hyped, hobo with a shotgun. while i can appreciate them working with in the confines of their low budget diy ethics ed wood it's not. it stands shoulder to shoulder in the gore department with films like hachet 2 and is more well made than say zombie christ. the sound production is the main problem as bits of dialogue often sound distant and mumbled , this flaw is followed by acting and script...mostly the heavy handed dialogue, show don't tell is thrown out the window, the script could have used a few rewrites, obviously not considered a key component to the film, nor was the audience in attendance there to see anything but boobs and blood, both of which would have made more of an impact with character development. run bitch run did a much better job in this regards and the nudity when it came into play was more effective. the rape scenes seemed obligatory to the genre and carried no sense of menace, though to their credit there were alot of ...oh no are they going to go there moments but mainly from the violence which seemed to be the key components to the rape as well as rest of the movie. Of course iim a lover or rape scenes and find them to be highly erotic and felt the eroticism was absent and never felt the girls were properly debased in a sexual manner.
where the movie shined was the more experimental moments use to capture psychedelia and the camera work used to transition scenes, i think if this attention to detail had been applied through out and perhaps more of a grainy filter and grime to the lighting this would sit well next to the movies it pays tribute to . the lighting at times was too bright and gave the film more of a john waters feel. the mish mash of styles was wink at rob zombie and could have stood to have been expanded upon. a fun move that could use a little more love in the post production dept and could be a classic in grindhouse unless left as is .

dragon- con wrap up and review part 3

check out my blog willsmashforcomics if you have no clue what dragon-con is , this is part 3 of a blog series covering the event. horror gets a fair shake at dragon-con, ranging from the zombie -prom, to guests from the field Elvira to robert englund in attendance. the for horror cosplay was present with the doll face killer from the hills run red being the most memorable , in years past i know i have seen leather face and pinhead. horror get mixed into the dark fantasy track, panels i caught were the highly entertaining supernatural panel where micsha collins stole the show. the true blood panel featured writer charline harris who came off as a creepy old rich lady intent on flirting with the panelists, the monster hunter panel featured both sherrilyn kenyon and laurell k hamilton.
the lower profile panels i attended ranges from the normal gambit of genre topics, the occult fact or fiction, vampires, and were-wolves. mainly writers in the field pimping there products , combating twilight and the inevitable back lash. there rather horrifying trends were ya...which when i was a kinda i was reading king and barker from the get go so , not sure why we need to play it safe for the kids? and one author who i had to bite my tongue when she brought up the fact she was wrting christian vampire fiction,i can't believe people were ok with this, it is encouraging to see while zombies are on the rise as well as the were-wolves horror might go the less teeny bopper romance route and one day attempt to scare us again.