Tonight actor and friend of the show Doug Jones will on to talk about his new book upcoming projects and Legion. Director Anthony DiBlasi will be on afterward to talk about his new movie Dread, based on the short story by Clive Barker.
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Chris
Author: Chris
Writer and radio show host in Worcester Ma
Legion or why God hates us
Legion staring Paul Bettany was a complete waste of time of a film the only real good thing in it is that Doug Jones appears as this demented Ice Cream Man in the beginning of the movie. The movie starts off well enuf Denis Quad is one of the only 3 other stars in the film. He owns a beat up old Garage and dinner with his son. Paul character play the Angel Michael. Not sure who did it best him or John Travolta. Anyway so Mike shows up tells some girl who does not look really pregnant that her baby needs to die. But wait I am pretty sure they never say why the baby has to die. Is it the anti christ or is it a demon. It’s just kinda goes down hill from there. The special effects were good the idea that and Angels Halo is a color not a thing around there head is a new twist on how and why Angels are badass. Recently Angels in the past few years were shown as pissed off whiney power hungary pains. Dogma, Supernatural, and several others. I now hear they are making a Legion sequel all I can say is please fix some of the awful plot holes left hanging and do something with the half angel zombies in this movie cuz they were useless the first time around.
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Legion Event tomorow night
Stop by the Entertainment Cinema in Leominster MA tomorow night for a chance to win some Legion prizes. T-shirts and Posters. Doug Jones one of the stars of Legion will be on the show this coming Sunday.
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Arisia 2010
Arisia 2010 has come and gone I would like to thank my good friend Jerome Connor for getting me involved in it last year. I would like to thank Dan Kimmel for getting me on the 2009 film in review panal. Big news from the people who brought u the Sci-Fi Film Festival come the Horror Film Festival. YAHHHHHHHHH
I got to see the Repo the Genetic Opera Play/movie thing that was cool. It was much better than the Buffy musical last year yuck. I got snubed by a friend ut made a great new one. I ran into Chad from Thats Entertainment (my local comic book store) and the free lunch comic guys were great to have dinner with. I got to have Breakfast with Musical guest of honor SJ Tucker and her friend Persis got me a room to sleep in thanks so much. The other two panals I was on were lack luster at best.
BUT THE PARTIES were AWSOME . THey mod was great and it was fun to go to the parties with someone this year last year it was dull as hell. I got to watch two hours of old trailers that was a great flashback to the old days of cnema . It was fun to see SJ Tuckers Concerts those were alot of fun. The second one was the best. Well I hope to return to Arisia next year and to have as much fun as I did this year.
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Horror/Sci-Fi TV Shows Jan 2010
Demons– A new show on BBC America. A teenage learns he is the long-lost great great grandson of Abraham Van Hellsing, and with the help of his god father the blind but immortal Mina Harker he must now take up arms against the forces of darkness. This show would have been call Van Hellsing but we have already got a movie and Anime show with the same name. It’s worth checking out on Sat nights and the theme song is kinda catchy. It will tide you over till Only Human returns this spring.
Superntural-After a month and a half break Sam and Dean return, this time they end of going to a crazy house to fight ghosts but almost go crazy themselves. As I have stated many times if you love horror then you will love this show. The first 4 se This is the last season of the show. Look for vol 3 of the comic coming later this month.
Caprica-The long-awaited prequel to Battle Star Gallactica picks up right where the movie that came out early this year left off. THe show is a little to artsy fartsy for a sci-fi show, I recommend this to only the real die-hard BSG fans. At some point the show is suppose to lead into the Cylon human war.
DollHouse-As we wind down these last few episodes, we at Radio of Horror want so desperately for this show to find hope on another network. The problem is so many networks are having problems with shows of their own. Once upon a time I would have said lets move it to Sci-Fi, but once they became SyFy and got taken over by a corporate bitch who knows what could happen. Joss Whedon stop going to Fox with your hit ideas.
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Daybreakers
The movie Daybreakers is a mesh of several different ideas most of which we have already seen before in Anime, Angel, The Matrix and Blade. This was suppose to get the bad taste of the movie Twilight out of our mouths, but what ended up happening was we got a taste of something we have seen to many times before. It’s social undertones are also once again derivative and pointless. I thought the cast was something I could look forward to seeing. William Defoe is the good guy for once and Sam Neil is the bad guy. Very rarely do they play these type of characters. However Ethan Hawke is trying way too hard to be like David Boreanez’s Angel. Witgh his brooding and non human blood diet. I can’t recommend this movie at all. If you want to see a good, but different kind of Vampire movie check out Let the Right one In, Thirst, or 30 Days of Night. If you came to the Leominster MA Entertainment Cinema, then thank you hope you had a good time and enjoyed your prizes.
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SJ Tucker Arisia 2010 guest of honor on the show tonight
Skinny White Chick SJ Tucker is a singer songwriter. She is going to be performing at Arisia 2010 next weekend. go to http://www.skinnywhitechick.com/ for more information
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Mitzi Kapture on the show tonight
The female star of Silk Stalkings will be on the show tonight. She also apeared on Batwatch . She will be attending a Con in CA this Feb 13 and 14. Check back with us for more info on when that is. Check us out live at wcuw.org to listen to her. She was at the supercon Mega Fest this past Nov.
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Horror/Sci-fi Comics Jan 2010
Twice a month we will cover the comics coming out. This way we can cover a lot more than we have been in a much simpler way. If you read comic then you know there are too many at once to review.
Blackest Night: WonderWoman#2/3, Suicide Squad#67 Weird Western Tales#71, Flash#2/3, JSA#2/3, Catwoman#67,GreenLantern#50, There are so MANY Blackest Night Tie-ins this month. I only named a few no new issue of BN because of the resurrection for one month only of old cancelled titles. It’s a neat fill in for any one who use to collect these books. Some have been dead for years like StarMan and Weird Western Tales, some more recent like Catwoman. Check them out or just stick to GL and Green Lantern Corps.
Shutter Island -A graphic novel based on a movie based on a book based on a true story. WOW that comic has something to live up too. Check it out or wait till the movie comes out. Wait better idea read the Book then see the movie then read the graphic novel.
Other noteworthy books, Jonah Hex#51,BPRD King of Fear#1,Dead @17 Sourcebook,Haunt#4,28 Days Later#5
Check them all out at Thats Entertainment in Worcester MA www.thatse.com
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Arisia 2010 Update and Movie Events
I have just found out about the panals I will be on for Arisia 2010 in two weeks
http://2010.arisia.org/Grid2010
I am on the panal Movie in Review 09 Friday night at 8pm and Horror Anime on Sat
Check out the schedule for more info hope to see you there in two weeks.
Let me no you read the blog and get a prize, Next Friday go to Leominster Ma theater to see Day Breakers and get some cool prizes.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes first came to print as a series of short stories in 1891, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyal. Many different actors have portrayed the famous sleuth over the years from Peter Cushing to a mouse in a Disney cartoon. This time around we have Robert Downey Jr. He is joined by Jude Law as Dr.Watson and Rachel McAdams as the femme fatale Irene Adler. Holmes is on the case to stop Lord Henry Blackwood (Mark Strong) who does not seem to be able to stay dead, from destroying the British government. This film does not act as an origin story since Holmes is so well know. It does as the first chapter in what hopes to be a new series of films, hopefully staring Robert Downey Jr. The film sets the tone in the dark and dirty turn of the century factory era of London. It has a quality to it that makes it seem so real, but you look to the back ground and its got so much CGI that the scenery takes it away from being a FANTASTIC film. Thats not to say its a bad film. Downey is not your grandma’s Sherlock he is a new take on the character but not over doing it that die-hard fans can’t say that they hate the film. Jude Law never seems over shadowed in the film by Downey’s performance. He does a perfect job of being Holme’ sidekick, but at the same time being his own man and portraying the character brilliantly. McAdams is so hot and fresh on-screen she pulls off the villainess in distress so well. The film defiantly sets itself up for a sequel as we get a taste of Professor Moriarty, the long time Holmes villan from the stories.
I viewd the film a the Entertainment Cinema in Leominster MA to a very packed house on New Years Day.I definitely look forward to the sequel in 2012.
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Christmas Horror Movies Part 5
Silent Night Deadly Night
In 1984 a small little horror movie came out during the Holiday season that was considered the last straw with slasher films for moms across America. This helped one of the tag lines connect to the film The film They tried to ban this movie because of the use of Santa Claus as a Serial Killer. This movie depicted a killer Santa cutting up teenagers. The movie was the third or fourth film to use X-mas as the stage for a slasher movie. The movie revolves around a man trying to get revenge on Christmas Eve by going after there kids years later. The movie has been released on dvd twice. The second dvd release was last year and is the better recommendation. SNDL was the only x-mas and for that matter Holiday Horror movie outside Halloween to spawn multiple sequels.
There are 4 other films in the series SNDL2, SNDL3 Better Watch Out, SNDL4 Initiation. SNDL5 The Toy Maker. The only one I can really recommend is part 1. A remake was on the way but was halted and we never heard anymore about it.
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Aexeous
Tonight in studio JG Silva and his wife Christin. They will be discussing the history of there creation Axeous and promoting there book Hords in the Beginning. Go to www.Aexeous.com to check out more info about them and there weird and frightnign robot.
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December Horror TV Spotlite
Every month we are going to start spotlighting shows once a month. Reason being is there are SOOOOO many shows its hard to keep up.
Dexter–The season 4 ending was so shocking it was reminiscent of Dexter’s birth. A baptism of Blood if you will. John Lithgow as the Trinity Killer was downright creepy and weird. Deborah finding out who Dexter’s mother and brother were awesome. But the ending that last scene was off the top. Check out this week’s TV guide to read an interview with the victim.
Doctor Who— All month-long on BBC America they are broadcasting the Doctor Who Specials Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars and The End of Time. The creepy one and I mean UBER Creepy is Waters of Mars. OOOOOO It really freaked me out. After this David Tenet steps down and Matt SMith takes over as the 11th Doctor.
The Witches of Eastwick–Based on the 1988 movie of the same name, It got cancelled I never watched it too bad so sad.
DollHouse–Poor Joss Whedon can’t keep a TV show on the air if his life depended on it. It’s not fair , this was a good show better than Firefly. He needs to move away from Fox and put this on sci-fi no wait they hate good shows too now that they are called SYFY. How about a bunch of direct to dvd movies, like they do in Japan.
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Carriers
In Oct a movie came and went so fast no one saw it but Stephen King it seems. It’s strange how a movie staring Chris Pine, (hot off his role in Star Trek playing the young Captain James T. Kirk) had little to no press for this movie. The second is Stephen King said he loved this movie in his Entertainment Weekly article. The movie is about a virus that makes you very sick and gives you a bad rash and is contagious by touch. Other than that its the drama the characters go thru to survive in a fracked up world. There are no Zombies, no Rage, no Mutants. It’s a movie of survival and what you would do to protect yourself in a world gone dead. Pine should get credit for the different role he plays in this compared to Star Trek. He turns from being the Asshole hero to a victim in this movie in a way you just feel like crap after watching it. It just came on dvd and there is no bonus material on it. Rent it tho its worth watching.
