So, I'm currently watching Witches' Night, which I wrote about a little on the ever improving Backwoods Horror site here.  So far, it's much better than I thought it'd be.  The acting is actually rather good and the characters are really well written.  I can really get into the story.  It's wild, man.  Witches in the backwoods, a group of friends in a seriously bad situation.  It's fantastic.  It kind of reminds me of deliverance...except, you know, with witches.  I'm sure this flick will get all kinds of hate mail from wiccans, but what can you do?  You can't please everybody all the time.  It's been a while since I've actually seen a "witch" movie and have it be about something other than a bunch of hippies.

Anyhow, I'd definitely say to check this one out!

I'm gonna leave off with a question, though.  Does anyone else wonder what happens to the surviving characters in horror movies?  I mean, wouldn't there be a police investigation?  Wouldn't the survivors be suspects and arrested?  Hmmmmm.

Hey guys.  I've got my site Backwoods Horror up and runnin, sort of.  Do me a favor and go check it out!

boggy out

UPDATE: Made some changes to the site.  Doesn't look AS bad.  Plan on putting up some audio and video at some point.  I'm a big fan of the Deadpit boys over at Deadpit.com and have been inspired to do my own sort of show.  What I'd REALLY like to do is something along the lines of the old spookshows that'd come on local access channels, you know, with THE COOL GHOUL, etc.  And have a show that does reviews and news and maybe shows a public domain classic now and then with MST3K like commentary.  Anyhow...plans for the future.

boggy out.   again.

So I just watched Diary of the Dead.  I didn't want to jump on the bandwagon of hate before watching it, so I just didn't pay attention to previous reviews.  Sad to say though, they were right.  This movie blew chunks.  I look at it like this: Say you're taking this really hot lady out on a date, things have gone sweet all night, and now you're back at home and she says she has to go powder her nose or something.  So she goes to the bathroom and you start to notice this horrible smell and all of these horrible sounds coming out of there.  I mean, she's still hot, but....

That's the best analogy I can make.  The first part of the date represents Romero's zombie canon up until Land of the Dead.  Then there's land of the Dead (the sounds) followed by Diary of the Dead (the smell).  I mean, its Romero, but...  This movie looked like it should've been released by Brain Damage.  I could find nothing redeeming about any of it.  Other than frying the zombie's head with the defibrillator, the kills weren't all that spectacular, the dialogue was atrocious, the acting was terrible, the list goes on.  It wasn't worse than the remake of Day of the Dead, but, I mean, that wasn't Romero so I expected it to suck.  It's all about expectations.  With Romero, the expectations are high, high, HIGH, so when I see something like this, it just saddens the heart.

So my recommendation.  Well...netflix it and make your own decision, but I wouldn't rate this one very high at all.  I guess it'd warrant a 1 out of 5.

Till next time boils and ghouls...