The Chronicle did a story today about the Jeff Davis Hospital. Apparently we are going get a first hand look at the renovation of the old hospital sometime in October. We’ll be looking forward to that.
Plot line: Amityville Horror is a legend loosely based on the true-life murders which occurred in the early 70’s. After the slaying of the Defeo family by the oldest son, the house was considered to be haunted. One year after the murder the Lutz’s move in, taking into mind that “people kill people, not houses”
Going in with high expectations and already frightened by the thoughts that others had placed in my mind, the Amityville Horror achieved somewhat mediocre appraisal from me. Though the thought of it was more frightening than the movie itself, it was still satisfactory. Each plotline started was completed by the end; it was a nicely wrapped package with a horrific bow on top. I did very much enjoy the references to other horror movies, such as “13 Ghosts” in the final sense. One of the best aspects to the movie was the characters themselves: Ryan Reynolds, playing George Lutz, gave a good performance; I’d have to say Reynolds character was by far the most convincing. Chloe Moretz gave a fine performance as Chelsea Lutz. As said before, this movie portrays a horrific ideal thus making it frightening but once getting the courage to get into that movie thread you see the magician’s trick revealed. You see the trick mirror used to show you that the elephant was gone. With just a few surprises here and there, Andrew Douglas, director, managed to rack in $23,507,007 in the first week alone. Though not the best I have seen in horror genre, it is one I would recommend to watch. Just remember it’s not one to make you pee in your pants, so please leave the diapers at home.
Here are a few links you might find interesting as well:
The story of the original killings
The Amityville trailer at Apple
www.amityvillehorrortruth.com
Hello everybody, we have a new member at HoustonHaunts.com. Her name is Misbah and she will be bringing you extra news and reviews from time to time. Her first review is over the movie, “The Amityville Horror.” Yes, I know the movie came out quite a while back, but we’ve had some procrastination issues to deal with. Hey, maybe you can check it out at the dollar theaters?
Today is Friday the 13th. If I remember right, I asked my first girlfriend to “go out” with me on Friday the 13th. That didn’t last long. Some would say we broke up quickly because your first “love” doesn’t last long, then there are those that would say it was something else. They would say that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day. What do I think? I think she was a little strange since she tried to start an anti-Michael club in high school. Maybe I was little strange since I thought asking her to be my girlfriend on Friday the 13th was cool. Anyways, here are some links you might be interested in if you are a little strange…muhhahah.
Friday the 13th Link 1
Friday the 13th Link 2
Friday the 13th Link 3
Friday the 13th Link 4
I was flipping through the April issue of Rolling Stone because of the cover sub-title, “The Immortals - The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.” I like it when a magazine does a listing of some sort, particularly this type because they usually confirm my belief that The Beatles are the greatest band ever. Regardless, I was checking it out and came upon a great illustration of Joni Mitchell by Gerard DuBois. I immediately thought that this would be great to show here.
I then happily saw an illustration of Black Sabbath by Tim Bower.
Both pictures being eerily great. I knew at some point I would get to see some cool picture of Trent Reznor and expected some dark monstrosity, but instead I see this pissed off looking guy in front of serene Monet like background. Regardless, this illustration by N.Vetri was still a very good painting.
I’ll keep these up until RS tells me to take them down…oh and, the article of Matthews being jealous of Radiohead’s ability to create a good album was great but has nothing to do with this site. Later…
