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I liked this movie quite a bit and I've been waiting for someone else to find it.

I even nominated Sean Young for "Best Supporting Actress" in the Online Film Critics Society awards, but of course no one else had seen it.

Very original movie that proves you don't need to spend a ton of money to scare the audience.

The third act in the Asylum's Mega Shark Trilogy (can't wait for the inevitable box set!) is due on January 28, 2014. This time the military creates a giant mechanical shark to battle the monster; hilarity ensues.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_iwTW_u2Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_iwTW_u2Y</a>

Looks like they even lured Debbie Gibson back to reprise her role from the original!!

(Marks calendar)

100% Matthew Broderick Free!

That should be the tag line on the 2014 movie's poster. 

Trailer looks great!!

I am looking forward to this one.  Pacific Rim had a multitude of plot holes, but the epic battle in Hong Kong harbor is great fun.  Could do with a whole movie like that.

They are predicting temps between 30 and 40 F with a bit fog and occasional rain for the next seven days. I predict yet another snowless mild christmas/winter this year again.

My gut reaction to this movie was pretty simple and basic:
"Man, that is MESSED UP!"

Here is a quick synopsis:
Somewhere deep in Appalachia is an isolated community of hillbillies that worship a hole in the ground.
"The Pit," as they call it, feeds on human sacrifices, and in turn it heals their diseases, makes their soil fertile, and protects the community from harm.
For generations one member of the community has worked as "the Potter."  He will periodically go into a trance and craft a clay jug with a human face.
Whosoever's face is on the jug will be taken to the pit and sacrificed, their throat cut and their blood fed to the pit to purchase its blessings for another season.

   Ada is a beautiful young teen who has been having sex with her brother.  She suddenly finds out that her parents have betrothed her to marry a young man she cares very little for, that she is pregnant with her brother's child, and that the Potter has made a new jug - with her face on it!  She hides the jug in the woods before he can come out of his trance, and the Pit suddenly starts claiming victims throughout the small community, butchering them and leaving their severed limbs and entrails along the edge of the pit.

  Ada's father, the Priest of the Pit, tries to appease its wrath, but eventually it claims Ada's brother, and then him as well.

  Can Ada escape before her secret becomes known?  Can Dawai, the Potter, satisfy the pit by sculpting another jug face?

  This movie takes an incredibly far-fetched premise and makes it believable.   These Appalachian primitives are repulsive, and at the same time, you are drawn into their narrow, limited world and come to care about their fate.  You wonder how many of them will survive . . .


Because the Pit wants what it wants.

Bloody cold.  The wind cuts like a knife and blows tears from your eyes (and then freezes them) and my fingernails sting.  Forecast says to expect five more days of it.  I put blankets on the horses and I don't usually do that until the cold snap the end of January! 

We did get a bit of snow last night: think 'Frosted Mini Wheats cereal': the grass still shows through.    I hope we get more.  For whatever reason, it's a whole lot easier to take the cold with snow on the ground.  We don't get a proper winter here in the south: this frozen-mud-festooned-with-dead-grass thing gets depressing. 

Just so it doesn't get lost in the mix, I will say that this exactly matches part of "The Stepford Children" (1987).   Blonde girl, motorcycle accident, she seems completely completely normal later on, and the teenagers are being replaced with robots.

Happy Birthday AJ Bauer

Thanks much, ER, my dear friend!  And A.J., as a fellow December child, you have my sympathies and congratulations!