Possession

I don't see a lot of movies in the theater these dys it feels like a lot of effort which leads to disappointment. Haunting and demon possession movie are come of my favorites,thankfully aside from movies like the Rite there has been some innovative thinking in movies like the devil inside, the last exorcism, and the exorcism of Emily rose, so when tweaks to the theme are taken the easier softer way it diminishes the return.

The possession is well made, there are some well framed shots but the sum of its part renders it less scary than the majority of supernatural episodes.the feel of the movie comes across like a show on the cw , the fact that the girls in this are preteen keeps it from going cw all the way.

The dentist losing his teeth is random and makes no sense as to why a demon would be able to do that and the moths are this what the flies were to the amityville horror only difference being they aren't scary.

Jeffery Dean Morgan was believable enough in his role but the script for his tortured father role didn't give him much to work with and most of the movies problems do fall on the writing.

Setting was a major weakness of this movie, the house they moved into was too new suburban and setting is essential in creating the ambiance needed in horror, I have seen plenty of movies where the setting alone was creepy enough to create unease.
The neighborhood of the Hasidic Jews was the creepiest element, and Jewish mysticism is so obscure in American Jews I found that whole angle to be more suspension of disbelief that other elements, tough the X-ray demon was pretty unrealistic as well, the whole demon mythos they employed felt forced and clinical.

This movie is recommended if there is nothing else you haven't seen on fear.netand are an exorcism fanatic like me and the power of Christ compels you to see every movie of this ilk that comes out, funny enough I tend to skip the straight to video releases of this kind as a slew of paranormal activity wanna bes came out as of late.

Dragon con ...the horror

The largest fan run genre convention is starting to give horror more of its due, the dark fantasy panel is now the horror and dark fantasy panel and sparkling vampires are the bane of all in attendance of that track. The first panel I went to on this was "vampires the good the bad the undead" it focused on vampires in lit...and some film of course came up, I attended this one primarily due to Laurell K Hamilton , but Author Jeanne Stein who writes the Anna strong series and James r tuck who writes the deacon chalk occult bounty hunter series was on the panel as well. Laurell did break the news her next Anita Blake book would be entitled affliction. She also said she was not giving Anita any more powers but focusing on reining in the ones she has. She Sid the same is for Anita's lovers that she was not getting new ones and would never have sex with the police she works with.

Next up was the true blood panel, the actors Sam Tramell, Carrie Preston, Nelsan Ellis, and Joe Manganiello were on this panel, they mainly took fan questions, most notably was Ellis who wore sun glasses and was visibly high as is words took their time forming and he laughed at the drop of a hat. Preston was the most entertaining and joe the most self absorbed. Nothing ground breaking was revealed here aside from in the first season they were more active in suggestions to Alan ball, most of which were ignored and they now resolve them selves to the fact Alan knew best.

We hit up Dr. Horribles sing along blog, the rocky horror of dr horrible, which I followed up with a panel on the metaphysics of Lovecraft where you can imagine no new ground was broken, also a state of the goth scene which will be covered in my Abysmal Hymns blog, though I will talk about the fet life panel and bdsm panels as I tend to lump that in here , given my penchant for torture porn and the innately sexual element to good horror.

For those of you who are unaware of what fet life it's it's a face book for the link community , for those in the lifestyle I'm Wilcifer on there feel free to say hello, so this panel was about the etiquette of social media for a site with an inclination towards the creepy and creepy in the I'm leering at you I. My rain Coatfro th back of the porn shop an not how we use it in the horror world. This panel stated the obvious to people with little social skills to apply to social media.

Once interesting observation about the cross section of this so called geek crowd, came from my own performance with the burlesque show where we preformed a Frankenstein themed piece where a female doctor brings to life a monster who develops a different relationship with his creator, tearing her clothes off and pseudo rape ensues though she is killed before this is consumated , the crowd reaction was mixed leaning towards the shocked and uncomfortable, granted for the Halloween show or a horror con this would go over much differently, but the crowd was mixed heavy on women who surprised their rape fantasies of want to see pretty burlesque the guys at burlesque show tend to be more passive and overly catering to the point of being subservient towards women they fetishize by putting on a pedestal, so violence towards them when they lack the testosterone to have a rape play fantasy did not play into the acts favor, though I had several men come up to me saying they enjoyed it after and women who thought it was beautiful, but I would lean the overall geek vibe to be vanilla.

The Saturday I hit up panels regarding the weaponry of lord of the rings, steam punk music, and Hammer horror, which mainly focused on the box set of reissues an talked about the retur of the brand with movies like Let Me in and the Lady in Black, they focused more on the later period than the classic monster movies, though Lee and Cushing were of course, mentioned.

Sunday ... The spike and Drusilla panel was one of the more entertaining, thanks to James Marsters, Juliet Landau wore sunglasses the whole time and might have been stoned, when a fan asked them to go into theere character for thirty seconds they granted the wish complete with Landau doing the wavering head motions . It was clear the characters from the Buffyverse will now only have life in the comic book which both are having some creative interaction in the writing process.

Monday ...American Horror Story fan track...speculations regarding season two More than being overly reflective on last season which I contribute to the fact that the storyline nd characters are not carrying over into this season, while the majority where informed of this there were still some who though the house was going to stay the same or it would be another ghost story , however a lot of people had seen the little preview snippets on line and where aware it was a crazy nun meets possession type story this go around.