The Last Exorcism Part II Hitting Blu Ray Unrated

One of the worst movies of the year so far The Last Exorcism Part II is set to hit blu ray this June and its UNRATED. But would the unrated cut have I don't know maybe an on screen death and maybe s
ome blood? hopefully.

Press Release
From producer Eli Roth (The Last Exorcism, Hostel series) and the producers of Dawn of the Dead comes the terrifying supernatural thriller THE LAST EXORCISM PART II, available June 18th on unrated Blu-ray™ and DVD with UltraViolet™ from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In this pulse-pounding sequel to 2010’s horror hit The Last Exorcism, the evil force that once possessed a young woman is back to prove that “the last exorcism” was only the beginning. Ashley Bell returns as Nell, the role that earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and an MTV Movie Award nomination in the original film. This shiver-inducing follow up finds her back in the relative safety of civilization, living in the city of New Orleans.
Just as she begins the difficult process of starting a new life, the evil force that once possessed her is back with other, unimaginably horrific plans. Co-starring in the film is Spencer Treat Clark (The Last House on the Left), Andrew Sensenig (I Love You, Philip Morris), Judd Lormand (The Hunger Games), Muse Watson (I Know What You Did Last Summer 1&2) and Julia Garner (The Perks of Being a Wallflower).
The unrated Blu-ray and DVD features unseen footage too frightening for theatres, a commentary track with director Ed Gass-Donnelly and producer Eli Roth, and three featurettes, including Hair Salon Scare – The Last Exorcism Part II goes Viral, Nell’s Story and Shooting in New Orleans.
THE LAST EXORCISM PART II was directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly (Small Town Murder Songs), and written by Gass-Donnelly and Damien Chazelle (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench). It was produced by Eli Roth (Hostel series), Marc Abraham (Dawn of the Dead), Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead) and Thomas Bliss (The Last Exorcism).

American Horror Story: Coven Has A Witch ?

Most of the cast of  FX's American Horror Story (season 1) is returning for the third installment of the series called American Horror Story: Coven. 
The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Oscar Nominee Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) will be added as a cast member. Who she will play is not revealed yet.

The Woman in Black Gets A Sequel

Last year Hammer films released The Woman in The Black starring Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliff. Now a sequel has been green lit and the first casting news have been revealed.
Jeremy Irvine of War Horse fame and British actress Pheobe Fox will be starring in The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.  
The story as far as we know is that it's set in World War II after the government has taken over the Eel Marsh house and a group of evacuated children are taken there and awake something sinister.

Source: Deadline

Hemlock Grove Episode 1 Review

The new Netflix original series Hemlock Grove recently hit the site with 13 episodes streaming and I thought I would take a look at the first episode. The show episode was directed by Eli Roth and written by Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman.

The story focuses on the death of a young girl and the mystery that unfolds after. A family of gypsies moves to town and the one kid goes to school or something, then there's this other family who are very mysterious for SOME reason... And here in lies the problem. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING happens! It starts off on a good foot with the murder, but after that the story falls apart when it begins to follows this gypsy family and this other family that doesn't like the gypsy family, and I quickly lost interest.

The key to a good pilot episode to any series is to get the audience interested and invested quickly so that they will stay tuned to the episode and have incentive to come back and watch more, and this show does not do that. And I get why, it's because they want it to be mysterious and not tell you anything about the characters so that you can find out about them as the series continues, but you have to give the viewer something. You have to give them something interesting so that they will want to find out more and honestly there's nothing here that makes me want to come back.

All of this aside, the show does some stuff right. The effects are good, all practical at least in this episode, and the cinematography is great in moments and ok in others, and some of the acting is good with one very distracting exception. Famke Janssen delivers the most over the top performance, while at the same time delivering her lines like a British robot. Every time she's on screen she's distracting. It takes a lot from the experience when she's on screen, and again I get what she was going for. In the show American Horror Story (the first season) Jessica Lange gave a similar over the top performance, but when she did it it was fun and worked with the character because that's what the character was meant to be, and I imagine they were going for something similar here but it just does not work.

Overall Hemlock Grove isn't the worst thing I've seen, but it didn't give me any reason to come back to it. I suggest watching the aforementioned American Horror Story or even the BBC's Being Human instead of this. Both of those shows are far superior supernatural shows than this one.

5/10 - Mediocre 

Did You Know?: The Exorcist

Did you know, that John Boorman was actually approached to direct The Exorcist? Boorman was approached but declined because he felt story was "too cruel towards children." He later went on to direct the god awful sequel The Exorcist II: The Heretic. Those are just some of the facts I bet you didn't know about The Exorcist. Dive in and see what else I dug up on one of the most genre defining series.

This was just cruel to about everyone...

R Rating Is To Blame For Low Ticket Sales? FUCK YOU

We all know that Cinemacon is well on its way in Las Vegas. John Fithian, president and chief executive of the National Association of Theater Owners has blamed R rated films as the reason why seats aren't being filled.
“The weight of too many R-rated movies.” He also said “Make more family-friendly films and fewer R-rated titles, Americans have stated their choice."
Maybe it's because we haven't good movies this year? Like Dark Skies, The Last Exorcism Part 2 and Texas Chainsaw 3D. Maybe we need better movies and fewer less R rated films.
If Americans have stated their choice then how come Texas Chainsaw 3D was 1st in its opening weekend, Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters #1 in its opening weekend and Evil Dead was #1 in its opening weekend oh, and Identity Theft was also #1 in its opening weekend.
So is it the R rating? or is it just a scape goat because of the recent shootings that have taken place.

Source: NY Times 

Swamp Thing Blu Ray Art Revealed

I love Swamp Thing, it's one of my favorite cheesy 80's man in a suit monster movie. So when Scream Factory announced that they were releasing Swamp Thing on Blu-ray I fist pumped the air and screamed "YEAH!"
Now, to get us Swamp Thing fans more excited Scream Factory has revealed the box art for the release.
The only sad part is that we don't get the 93 minute unrated cut due to legal issues as Scream Factory says.