Bear

Famine sure is himself alike. Clearly doesn't give a fuck about anything anymore. People gonna be mad.

"Mastered in France by Nate Higgers."

X-Files, season 6: How the Ghosts Stole Christmas - A monster of the week-type of story, so I didn't need to re watch the entire series to re-watch this. It's not exceptional at all, but it's really fun for what it is. But it could've been a lot deeper and dug a bit more into the characters. But it's very enjoyable nonetheless. 

Alfred Hitchcock Presents, season 1: Back for Christmas - Very basic 50's mystery, but it's not bad at all. It's very cool, although we didn't really get a reason for what happened, and I believe it should've been. But it was very cool. Need to dig into this series sooner or later.

Silent Night, Deadly Night - Classic, mid-80's slasher that's pretty fun and pretty wild. Really dark too. Very much recommended for fans of cheap, cheesy slashers.

The Dorm That Dripped Blood - Cheap, cheesy and bad slasher from the early 80's, but very watchable and fun despite the majority of elements that makes this film (directing, acting, writing, cinematography and so on) is pretty awful. But I recommend this, despite it being far from as fun as Silent Night, Deadly Night.

Krampus - Both this and the classic Halloween flick Trick 'r Treat shows Michael Dougherty's amazing potential. He's just amazing, and Krampus is one of the 5 best Christmas movies ever. Fantastic atmosphere throughout. A modern classic!

Netflix will release a new Ghost in the Shell anime in 2020

Appleseed’s Shinji Aramaki and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex’s Kenji Kamiyama will direct

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/8/18131929/netflix-ghost-in-the-shell-sac-2045-shinji-aramaki-kenji-kamiyama-2020-anime

Fuck Netflix, amirite?

The new Mournful Congregation is an excellent album to get drunk and consider committing suicide to. Dark, majestic and crushing funeral doom with dark, melancholic atmosphere and a feeling of despair, a swirling darkness that surrounds you and threatens to drown you in your own misery. Excellent stuff!

Sale Freux doesn't seem to grow out of ideas and he continues releasing new stuff yearly. I've been a fan of this guy for ages now and he doesn't seem to know how to disappoint. Sounds more controlled and less "rural" and weird than earlier, but still as good.

Heavy/speed metal that sounds shitty in an excellent way. The vocals are so bad, but so cool. Think Exciter meets Tank and old Running Wild. Perfect for drinking!

Many of the earlier visual kei thrash metal bands like Rosenfeld uses harsh(er) vocals already in the mid to late 80s.

I usually don't care about love DVD's, but I'll probably buy this. I so fucking need to see THE King live.

"You listen to non-mainstream artists 107% more than the average Spotify listener - sp here's to being different"

107%. Hahaha!

New track by Vltimas, the new band of David Vincent (ex-Morbid Angel), Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy) and Rune "Blasphemer" Eriksen (ex-Mayhem).

Doesn't sound too bad to be honest. A bit ordinary, but Blasphemer is delivering some really good riffs and both David Vincent and Flo does a great job too. Kinda looking forward to the album.

Me neither. But the first four Rhapsody albums are golden, Power of the Dragonflame is good and both Symphony of Enchanted Lands II - The Dark Secret and Triumph or Agony are good. But not sure I've actually checked out the stuff after Triumph of Agony. It's not like they ever renewed themselves, so I kinda felt I had enough albums.

But I totally recommend Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and ESPECIALLY Luca Turilli. Because both King of the Nordic Twilight and Prophet of the Last Eclipse (inspired by Luca's love for sci-fi films, and especially Event Horizon ) are as good as Rhapsody at their best.

Tales from the Darkside season 3, Seasons of Belief - So first off, I've never really had the chance to get into Tales from the Darkside. I've seen a lot, but not everything and not chronologically. So Tales from the Darkside came first, and in that sense Tales from the Crypt is a bit of a rip-off. And yes, there were a lot series like this before these two, but these are a lot more similar to each other (pulpy horror with lots of cheese and black comedy) which is why I compare them.

One of the main differences is that Tales from the Crypt looks and feels way more expensive, and I am sure the budget was a lot higher too. So production values for most part.

Anyway, this is a Christmas episode set to Christmas Eve about a family where the kids are bored, and the parents decide to tell a story. It's really well-made and fun, even though the two child actors are so-so. But the atmosphere is great, the humour is great and so on. Only problem I have is the casting of the dad, or that he was the dad. He does fantastic, but the actor, E.G. Marshall, was something like 75 years old while the chick who plays his wife was 35 years old. Massive difference, and you can tell. He should've been the granddad or something instead. But other than that I don't have much to complain about. Overall really good and dark.

Inside No. 9 season 3, The Devil of Christmas - This is an anthology series I've never watched, but I read that it was good in the TV-series thread and realized it had a Christmas horror episode so it was just perfect. It's a very, very 70's episode which truly does look and feel like a 70's show, so they managed to capture that for real. The episode is cheesy and corny as fuck, about a film within the episode where the director of that film provide commentary (he is not the director of the episode) and it's really cool and fun. But at the core it's dark and twisted as fuck. I really liked this episode too!

Rhapsody, man. Dear God!

They started out as Thundercross in 1993, released a demo under that moniker in 1994 and then changed their name to Rhapsody in 1994/1995 and released their second demo, but their first as Rhapsody, in 1995.

Then in 2006 Rhapsody had to change their name because of some legal shit, and changed it to Rhapsody of Fire.

In 2011, Luca Turilli and Patrice Guers left Rhapsody of Fire and started Luca Turilli's Rhapsody. After a couple of albums Luca Turilli decided to end this, and departure from metal as a whole.

2016, vocalist Fabio Lione who had been a vocalist in Rhapsody since 1995 left Rhapsody.

2018, after Luca Turilli and Fabio Lione have toured as Rhapsody and played some farewell gigs, they had such a nice time that they decided to form a new band. Turilli / Lione Rhapsody

How fucking amazing isn't this?

Guitarist Luca Turilli is one of the most underrated guitarists of all time btw. The shit he did with Rhapsody during their first three albums, Luca Turilli and Luca Turilli's Rhapsody were good. An absolute maestro as far as I am concerned. So much good, cheesy and fun riffing it's impossible not to be impressed.

Since I missed out on my yearly October horror marathon, I decided I'd just do a 24 days of Christmas horror marathon or whatever instead. The goal is to watch a Christmas horror movie every single day up until Christmas. And as with Halloween, which I don't celebrate, I don't celebrate Christmas either. It's just another excuse to watch a lot of horror movies (and certain episodes of TV-series, as long as it's horror or dark, dark fantasy)

A Christmas Horror Story - An anthology film that consists of four short movies, as well as a story about an alcoholic radio DJ to keep it all together.

Unlike traditional anthology movies where each segment is told from A to Z before the next one starts, this jumpt back and forth between the four stories. And tbh, I wasn't too fond of the overlapping segments. Wish they'd just do one after another instead.

First story about the kids breaking into the school weren't all that. Not awful, but nothing special either. It's based around atmosphere, but with the segments being broken into loads of smaller ones and jumping back and forth the atmosphere isn't really there at all.

Second story is better about a police officer who takes his wife and kid out to chop down a tree for Christmas. This one is pretty funny, even though the story itself is a bit uneven.

Third story about the family who goes to the dad's aunt is really good. Just all around really cool. Krampus is the fucking man! The world needs more Krampus stories and movies.

Fourth story about Santa is the coolest. Just total batshit crazy story with a fucking badass Santa. By far the best segment.

You Better Watch Out aka Christmas Evil - A neat, forgotten gem of a slasher film. Atypical, psychological slasher with a surprisingly well-crafted story and loads of unique twist and turns in form of how it's shot, edited, written and how the cinematography and music is done. It's actually got a lot of depth and character, and unlike most slashers (which I fucking love btw!) you can actually analyze this and dig forth lots of good points and social commentary and such. Impressive stuff, although far from the funniest slasher ever.

Silent Night, Deadly Night aka Night of the Dark Full Moon - Proto-slasher from 1972, but filmed in 1970. While not very known, it's pretty good and it clearly was an influence on the slasher genre. This is basically a slasher though. It's slow, weird, poorly made in most ways and weirdly surreal, but the eerie atmosphere is incredible and makes up for all its flaws. It's set during Christmas, but it's not as Christmasy as the other movies.

It's a single LP, and yes it's really fucking expensive tbh. Just put in an order on ebay. Was cheaper, and the shipping was much, much lower as well.

On another site it said it was a double LP. No idea.

6 hours ago, Gaz said:

also finished this during the weekend. it's still awesome, but i felt that this season was a bit weaker than original 3 seasons. don't you think so?

 

yeah, this is a really good stuff. i just can't praise it enough. Shearsmith and Pemberton are fucking geniuses! everyone who likes Twilight Zone or Black Mirror should check it out.

No, I don't feel like it was any weaker tbh. Would rate it the same as season 3 I think.

Not seen Inside No. 9, but I love The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, Tales From the Crypt and other high-quality anthology series so I am gonna take a look. I am doing a 24 days of christmas horror as I didn't have the time to go full in in October. Will start with The Devil of Christmas, and then start form the beginning later.

Ahaha! That's as cool as it is cheesy. And it's very, very cheesy.

Finished Ash vs Evil Dead season 3 and the cancelling of the series is an absolute disgrace. Best thing to ever happen TV imo. The series has gotten better and better with each season, and is just the funniest thing you'll ever see on TV. Bloody as fuck, loads of gore and Lovecraftian madness, as well as lots for jokes and humor that'll have you screaming out of laughter because it's that fun.

Give me a movie, cartoon or a graphic novel that continues EXACTLY where the last season ends. This, ladies and gentlemen, are TV perfection!

1 hour ago, Tokage said:

I wasn't specifically talking about this upcoming Bebop adaptation with that bit - please don't try to tell me for instance that the people behind something like Dragonball: Evolution had any semblance of an idea of what they were dealing with or what made the original likeable.

I have not tried to tell you anything about Dragonball at all, and you know this as well as me. So I am not sure what that's about.

Writer Ben Ramsey gas admitted himself that he couldn't give a shit about Dragonball and he took the job because it was a decent payday, and the last draft of the script were based on notes from the studio. The studio decided to get heavily involved in the production of the film. For all we know the first 2-3 drafts of the script might have been amazing and really well-written Dragonball-material that really nailed Dragonball to the core. Who knows. But as soon as studios start to deny directors and writers creative freedom, chances of getting something awful just gets bigger.

Producer Stephen Chow is a massive Dragonball fan and was keen to direct the movie, but he only directs movies he's written himself and they would't let him write it. Again, a massive mistake by the studio. Instead of just letting a talented fan of the source material write, they gave the job to someone who didn't care about the source material.

All I've really argumented for is that Netflix producing this is hella lot better than any major studios producing it. Because with Netflix wee know they won't get involved in the creation of the series, and chances of getting a decent budget is a lot higher than what you'd get from any of the bigger studios.

8 hours ago, Tokage said:

People totally are and totally should be allowed to be unhappy when something they like is taken and essentially fucked up by people who have no understanding of it.

Do you know something the rest of the world don't? Like, if the writer and director and the rest of the people involved are fans or not, if they understand it or not?

So far the only info I've seen is that the first episode will be written by Christ Yost who's a massive comic book and cartoon fan, and who is an incredibly talented writer, as well as the fact that Shinichiro Watanabe will be heavily involved. So if this turns shit, we know for sure we can actually blame the director of the anime. Which is very, very nice.

Finished Narcos: Mexico the other day. It's more of the same tbh, but it's so well-directed, acted and written than it's hard not to enjoy it. Really, really good.

8 hours ago, Jigsaw9 said:

I dunno how to feel about this yet, but I'll reserve my judgement. On the one hand, it's Netflix and a big name so hopefully they won't screw it up.............. on the other hand, Death Note was also Netflix sooo... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Jup, but they only bought the rights to the movie after Warner Bros. decided they wouldn't take the risk because of how poor Batman v. Superman did. The people involved, like director Adam Wingard, writer Jeremy Slater, producers and and a part of the cast were already on place before Netflix bought the rights to the movie.

While a complete shitfest, they did the right thing by not trying to change the creators vision for the film.

But no matter how we see it, Netflix is the better choice as far as adaptions goes IMO. At least at Netflix the people who make it might make it the way they want. At other studios, they won't because they have to make sure they first and foremost please all the people who have never even heard of the original product, before they start thinking about the fans of the originals. Which puts such limits to the projects.

12 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Watanabe better splurge on a katana engraved with the words "no cuts" to make sure Netflix gets the message this time, although I'm under no delusions that someone at Netflix won't find some way to defile the story and get fans pants in a twist. 

But that's the great thing about Netflix, they're like a modern day Roger Corman and they work way, way different from most other studios. They're giving the creators and INSANE amount of creative freedom. If they like your idea, they'll give you a certain amount of money and just keep their hands off and let you do whatever the fuck you want. If you want your TV-series to be only 6 episodes, they'll let you keep it at 6 episodes without pushing for more no matter how popular the series is and how high the demand is for more. If you want your movie/TV series to be bizarre and weird as fuck, they'll let you do that even though they know it most likely won't get them the money back. If you want to make something so slow 98% of the world's population would die of boredom within the first 45 minutes of the movie, you're free to do so. There is no restrictions whatsoever.

When you produce for a major company of a certain size your main goal will always be to not please the fans, but please the regular movie goes. Because it is them who will earn them the money back, not the actual fanbase. So when a big company produce a movie like Ghost in the Shell (or movies based on books like The Hobbit), the movies simply won't be aimed towards the fans of the original anime.

With Netflix you will, if you want, be able to work towards pleasing the actual fans of the source material because they have the freedom to do so. They don't have to double or triple the income like the studios does. 

So making movies and TV-series for Netflix is like still being an indie filmmaker, just with a much, much bigger budget.

And this is the reason why I don't mind Netflix doing it.

tldr; Netflix will give you a massive amount of freedom to do as you please, something other, major studios will not do. It's such a huge difference between something like Netflix and HBO and regular studios.

So if they can get a writer/director who is actually a fan of the series, I have no doubt they'll be able to bring the anime justice by making something great. So in my eyes, that's where it lies. Can they do so? I don't know, but I hope they will.

Not against this at all. Fucking love Netflix and how they work, and I'm positive towards a project like this.

Sounds pretty good. Some really good melodies in there-

Should be said that ever single album is very different from the last one. Doesn't matter if you play Scorn Defeat, Hail Horror Hail, Imaginary Sonicscape, Hangman's Hymn or Graveward. None of their albums are simikar at all. So I highly recommend actually playing through their entire discography.

Most similar at probably Hangman's Hymn and Scenes From Hell and even those are two extremely different from one another. Every album is very unique, not only in their own discography but in general.