where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Saturday, August 29th, 2009
show: 6:30 p.m.
costs: $10.00 Ticket + $3.75 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Cherry flavor ) Coke + $4.00 junior Popcorn = $17.75
auditorium: 14
seat: 5th row, 7th column
synopsis: A year after Michael Myers' ( Tyler Mane ) body disappears in an accident en route to the county morgue on a Halloween night, more people meet with gruesomely violent deaths in the Haddonfield community.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Bloodied survivor, Laurie Strode ( Scout Taylor-Compton ) walking in the rain at night; 2.) The transport van; 3.) At the hospital; 4.) In a farmer's field at night; 5.) At the Rabbit In Red stripper club; 6.) Book signing event; 7.) Angel Myers; 8.) The Newman Hour TV show; 9.) The Halloween party; 10.) Sheriff Lee Brackett's ( Brad Dourif ) residence; 11.) The would-be Samaritan; and 12.) The shack.
audience reaction: A few laughs among the somewhat bored audience.
recommendation: Wait for this to come out as a rental--it should be ready by Halloween if you won't be busy Trick-or-Treating.
spoiler alert! First, why weren't professional trackers and bloodhounds dispatched to hunt down Michael Myers in the first place, especially since he preferred to walk rather than to hitch rides? ( You can't really fault Michael for not hitching rides because it can be very dangerous to accept a ride from strangers! Ha, ha, ha. ) Since he didn't really leave the general area, why did Michael take a year to once again catch up with his intended victims? Why didn't the transport van have airbags? Why didn't Laurie activate the fire alarm to summon help in the hospital? Why did The Moody Blues' "Night in White Satin" keep playing over and over and over ON the television? Why didn't Michael's head get bashed-in by the baseball bat? Why didn't the farm girl drive off? Why did the Vietnam Vet "old fart", holding a gun, walk up to Michael? How did Michael get from the party all the way to the sheriff's house so fast by just simply walking the distance? How did Michael get inside the house? Why didn't the stupid girls call 9-1-1 right away? How did Michael get downstairs without being detected in the process of doing so? When the sheriff happened upon the naked body of his daughter, why didn't he cover her up with his jacket? ( Oooh! I know this one: He went out of character and ogled the young, hot actress's body--the horny Viagra "old fart" that he is. ) Why didn't Laurie drive off? Why didn't the car horn and explosion alert the cops right away? What witness? Where? Why didn't a cop escort Dr. Loomis ( Malcolm McDowell ) to the door, at least? And, last, why was the isolation room in the psycho ward so big and spacious?
Why was this stupid film released two months before Halloween?
fyi: Scout Taylor-Compton can act well enough so I hope this movie doesn't relegate her to roles in crappy films or sound the Death Knell to her career.
Back in Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines, one pre-dawn morning on our way to pick up our mom at the airport, our army jeep hit a carabao ( water buffalo ) on the highway as it chased after some punks who provoked it. The carabao laid crippled on the road's shoulder with some of its intestinal contents littering the road. The carabao did manage to gore the windshield on the passenger side, though. But none of us got seriously harmed--not even a scratch ( except for my brother who got a black eye when he hit the back corner of the passenger seat with his face ); and the jeep didn't even have airbags, seat belts or headrests! My right foot got caught in the machine gunner's stirrup which kept me from flying toward the windshield. So that scene with the cow is pure bull shit, based on my family's ( plus a neighbor's daughter who accompanied us ) personal experience in a smaller and lighter vehicle that had none of today's vehicles' safety features!
word of advice: If you don't know how to write a decent movie script and/or direct a film, invest some money and hire people who do! And I'm willing to work cheap ( Asian Sweat Shop Labor ), for now, as I've said more than once already.
tidbits: Clearly, Rob Zombie is The ED WOOD for this century!
Before that trip to the airport, I brushed my teeth over the kitchen sink. As I was putting the Colgate toothpaste back in the cupboard, its cap came off and fell on the counter. Right there and then, I had a premonition that something bad was going to happen. As it turned out, I was right.
