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I remember watching this on USA channel back in the day, it's a pretty interesting slasher movie, the whole plot revolves around a killer finding and killing virgins in the town of Cherry Falls. The killer appears to be a long black haired woman clad in black wanting revenge on the town for what they did to her.

The movie stars the late Britney Murphy as our final girl and Michael Bien as her dad, who both have a connection to this killer that she doesn't know, as the body count start to rise, the teens in town actually throw a major sex party to lose their V cards in order to save themselves from the Virgin Killer.

It's a post Scream slasher movie that tries to be subversive with the genre, and I think this one stands out because it does take that typical trope of horny teens being the targeted victims and flips it on its head by making them safe from the killer. Even includes a funny bit where one of the bitchy popular girls can't find a guy in time to pop her cherry.

Worth a watch with a great twist.

Sketch drawing of an orc girl.

So who is excited for this and will be getting it?

Just came from Mortal Kombat 2, and oh boy, this movie was fucking awesome, God damn run that Toasty sound byte because this shit cooked.

Without doing any spoilers (will still tag for spoilers), the trailer is a bait & switch, so much focus was on the inclusion of Johnny Cage, and that it seemed to be his movie, but he shares that with the other protagonist, Kitana. Johnny is still very important and is a major character, but Kitana is the one getting elevated to lead role, (once again sidelining Lui Kang)

The good; The fights are awesome and bloody, some stand outs but the movie generally keeps the action high and never really drags you down with boring bits, everyone does a good job in the movie especially Lewis Tan as Cole Young, he really comes into his own in this movie, feels more fleshed out, and he really justifies his forced inclusion from the first movie. Karl Urban killed it as Johnny Cage, a reluctant hero who has to overcome his own self doubts to be the Johnny Cage we all know and love. The actress for Kitana was fine, she was aight, but she is sharing screen time with Johnny Cage & Kano who end up stealing every scene their in and eclipsing everyone else.

The movie actually feels like the Mortal Kombat tournament unlike the last one where the tournament never even happens, and they really go above and beyond to add iconic locations from the games and give more to see compared to the almost low budget feel of the last one. Also got to say this might actually be my favorite version of Shoa Khan, he always keeps the helmet on, never showing his face even when in speaking moments, I like the voice they gave him too, it's not that try hard raspy voice from the games, but feels closer to that base heavy but distinguished voice from the OG MK2 & 3.

The Cons: Some characters end up not having much to work with and feels less important than the should, Sindel is in the movie, barely does anything and is hardly a character, Noob Saibot is in the movie, but they never call him Noob and he comes way later in the movie and we never get a feel for who he is now as a revenant.

Lui Kang gets snubbed again from being the main character in his own franchise, Shang Tsung is barely a presence in this one, some green screen effects are a bit obvious, and this is more a issue with casting choices of the last movie but I bring it here because it matters. A big beat for the movie is how Kitana & Jade have a close sister like relationship with each other, which ignores the fact that Kitana has a sister/clone, Mileena, and they cast a black woman to play the clone of an Asian woman, we now have Kitana and we know that version of Mileena isn't the clone of her because obviously look at them, and this feels like a problem someone should have brought up in the first movie. Also they had a perfectly good moment to give Kano is cyber eye but instead they gave him a regular eye.

The Ugly: Barracka's face.

Verdict: Honestly it's weird how the original Paul Anderson movie is the best live action Mortal Kombat movie that was followed up with a shit sequel, and this new MK started off with ho hum first movie, only to kill it with a banger of a sequel. It's not the original 90's movie, but damn this is the 2nd best MK adaptation ever. Also Shoa Khan popcorn bucket is bad ass.

Horror has many faces, many weapons, and violent kills, but none are this violent, this terrifying, and a weapon so deadly that no others can match. This is the scariest slasher of them all/s

This was a classic back in the day, just a funny slasher parody some dude made back in ancient youtube times.

I remember playing Star Fox Adventures and thinking this was such a cool villain and was so excited to fight him in an epic boss battle, just to have one of the biggest dissappointing fights. He doesn't hit you ever, he can be beat with 1 hit then he dies because the evil space monkey told him to.

Are they cooler?

I been sitting on this thought for a while now, I don't like Halloween Ends, big shocker I know, that movie is known as a beloved final entry into the DGG Halloween trilogy and a truely perfect end to the 40 year Michael & Laurie saga/s

One of the many flaws of Ends I feel lies with how Michael meets his ultimate demise, in their final battle Michael is killed when Laurie slits his throat and wrist, having him bleed out in on her kitchen table, followed by them dumping his body into a grinder that shreds Michael completely, giving him a very definitive End.

My problem with this is how meaningless it was, Michael was a force of nature, evil incarnate, the Boogeyman, and his death comes in him having his vitals casually slit open to bleed to death, it's anti climatic, it has no greater significance to Michael as a character we have known for 40 years, and as this nightmare being it's a very pedestrian end.

This death is so lackluster because twice in this series Michael was given the perfect death, the first time being the explosive ending of Halloween 2, Michael is crippled by his sister Laurie, shot in both eyes and giving him that iconic tears of blood look, followed with Dr. Loomis, the man who spent all Michael's life trying to study him and understand him, turning on the gas, ready to end the monster he kept hidden away. He explodes the room and the final shot is Michael walking out covered in flames as he burns away.

The fire cleansing him and bringing his rampage to an end, Michael returned back to the pits of Hell he came from.

Fast forward 40 years and Halloween 2018, Laurie finally fights her tormentor, the source of all her and her families generational trauma (for the second time in the series), trapping Michael in the cage she built to protect herself in, and setting her home ablaze, with Michael deep in the basement staring up into the family his evil has haunted for generations, and seeing them triumphantly beating him, ending this cycle of trauma, as the house burns away with all the pain and sorrow created by Michael while he burns in the ground below like a demon of hell being sent back. While you never see him die in the fire (in case the movie made money and they needed a sequel), the symbolic nature of seeing everything burn away, it was a family's legacy of pain being turned into ash and freeing the family to finally live again.

These endings felt powerful and symbolic, but Ends just doesn't have that, the way you kill the slasher has to mean something, it can't just be a fatal blow that kills them, it has to be a symbol to show that the nightmare is over, that the heroes have overcome something greater than just the physical force behind the killer.

Does it bother anyone else that the mask on the poster is a generic hockey mask that is nothing like the actual movie mask?

This might be the first Resident Evil live action movie to have a male protagonist.

The Paul Anderson movies all had Alice be lead character, and while WTRC had both Chris & Leon (I guess you can call them that) that movie obviously favored Claire as the lead with her being the one most aware of the situation and moving the plot along while Chris & Leon were just there.

Zack Cregger's Resident Evil is actually the first one to make main character a dude, just thought that was interesting.

Rewatched the original Friday The 13th last night, and I started asking by the end if the always intended to bring Jason as the killer for the sequel or not.

The original never establishes Jason until the end when Mrs. Voorhees shows up, nor do they ever try to build up a legend around him when the locals talk about the camp being cursed, the only time we hear the name Jason is when Mrs. Voorhees talks about her son drowning which is what sets her off on this murderous rampage.

Yet, the fact they decided to give kid Jason this very deformed look during the flashback and a more swamp creature look during the jump scare at the end. There was a level of thought to his character beyond just motivation for the killer, that I have to wonder if they always planned something with him. I remember people like Tom Savini and other crew members were against the idea of turning the final jump scare of the original movie into the main killer of 2, since Jason was dead.

I think right now we are in a golden age of game to movie adaptations, Sonic The Hedgehog, surprisingly made a great adaptation with each new movie going further and further to bring the cast of Sonic in.

We had the Super Mario Movie that didn't reimagine the Toadstool Kingdom as a grimmy city in a cyberpunk style with evolved dinomen, and we have a Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movie coming out this year that tries to look like the games and brings in the cast of the games.

So why is it that Resident Evil still can't do that? I am going to watch Zack Greggor's Resident Evil, I don't think it will be bad, instead the trailer looks really good, and while I am not against the idea of making an original story that feels and even might be going on parallel to the games, I still wonder why make something that looks not like an RE game.

I know we had Welcome To Raccoon City that tied to look like the games, but the problem there was instead of them adapting 1 game, they tried doing 2 games, and they made terrible casting decisions and hired a diverse cast to play a white roles, what was worse is despite the swap none of the actors actually played the character they were playing.

Movie Leon does not act, look, sound, or comes off as game Leon, and the idea they had to adapt RE4 with this guy, dear lord if they did, Ashley would be the one saving that version of Leon.

We had 6 Alice lead movies that didn't bother to be like the games past the 2nd movie, a terrible YA netflix series featuring Lance Reddick as Blade, and a terrible mimicry with WTRC.

Again will see this new movie, will probably be great, maybe the best RE movie (low bar) but when so many other movies based on games are making actual efforts to adapt the game to big screen, why is Resident Evil still not even remotely trying.

Was rewatching this episode, S4E3 One Crew Over The Crewcoo's Morty, and while the general idea is just how tired and played out Heist movies are, the fact Rick created essentially an AI tool to generate Heist slop using simple prompt commands, which then goes on a never ending rampage of absorbing as much people into it's never ending Heist, made me wonder if they low key made a preemptive criticism of AI usage to generate art and scripts.

Throwing a recommendation, NSiTWT is a foreign horror movie where a camp for youths with addictions go for a detox and they are camping near a house where an old woman had been keeping her 2 boys locked away to protect people.

Her boys, 2 grotesque fat monsters break free and start a cannibilistic killing spree, forcing the campers to fight for survival. It's a bonkers movie, lots of gore, a good plot, and a bat shit sequel that I really wanna see a third for to conclude the story

Something about him just looks so nice compared to the Legacy version. They are both the same figure, no new molds, and maybe not even any retooling, but damn the 86 version looks so good.