Horror Report

Day: April 18, 2015

  • Carrie Fisher unloads: Drunken scenes, Lando’s dirty talk, and hangovers from hell

    Carrie Fisher unloads: Drunken scenes, Lando’s dirty talk, and hangovers from hell

    The UK TELEGRAPH is among the sources to compile from of the best quotes from a recent ‘Date with a Princess’ STAR WARS celebration.. Carrie Fisher became, as usual, the honest Leia.. Those in attendance were most likely either shocked or thoroughly happy at the juicy gossip on the display with Fisher and her French Bulldog, Gary, on stage..

    As the TELEGRAPH reports, some of Fisher’s own words.

    She got drunk with the ROLLING STONES before the Cloudy City scene filming..

    “And they’re a partying bunch of guys, and though I didn’t drink at the time, to be kind of amenable, or whatever, I drank. I used to say I’m allergic to drinking, and this would have been a demonstration of that. And we stayed up pretty late. Charlie [Watts], that one, he didn’t have a lot of facial expressions. He’s like the Darth Vader of the Stones.

    “And we stayed up really late and got to the set about two hours later. And we weren’t hung over, we were still in our cups. And if you watch the movie you can see that: Harrison and I are smiling as we arrived in Cloud City. Doesn’t that sound like a euphemism?”

    Lando Calrissian had a dirty mouth..

    “Billy Dee Williams was funny. Right before he was going to kiss my hand, he’d say something incredibly filthy, and I would laugh. Something about the Force and it being with me… He was a lot of fun to work with.”

    Fisher thought her kissing scene in STAR WARS was ‘hot.’… She dubbed herself the ‘space slut’..

    On her favorite STAR WARS scene:

    “Probably one of the scenes where I said something awful to Harrison. ‘Scruffy looking nerf-herder’, something like that. What a moron.”

    Should you want more, here is the stream. Skip back in time if you want the juice.

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNTpnUR61g]

  • The Plumbing of Walmart story in perspective

    The Plumbing of Walmart story in perspective

    Walmart suddenly closed stores in a number of states last week.. All for what the corporation called plumbing problems. Every news account however details that no plumbing permits are being sought..workers in Walmart were suddenly without work.

    Conspiracy theorists went hog wild.

    JADE HELM!!
    FEMA CAMPS!!
    ASTEROID STRIKE!!!

    If you want to hear an alternate, sensible, and true podcast about, I have an idea.

    Last night Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis tackled the WALMART closing issue in a refreshing way, Clyde Lewis correctly said that this has nothing to do with FEMA camps or Jade Helm.. instead, if you look at the stores WALMART suddenly closed for the ‘plumbing’ issues, it was all locations where workers had previously protested low wages. Yes, there is more to the story. But conspiracy theorists have gone overboard. Sometimes the answer is much simpler than a vast conspiracy.
    But we also know that the official plumbing story doesn’t hold an ounce of water..

    The full show here:

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  • I Finally saw BABADOOK. And it made me quite sad

    I Finally saw BABADOOK. And it made me quite sad

    By now you most likely have too. And even more, if you didn’t, you read enough to decide if would even appreciate the film.

    I won’t write a long winded review at this point, simply because I’m late to the game. But I will say that it was a little painful to watch.  The horror element is interesting. We are deflected at first, in a sense, and told to fear the BABADOOK.  The mother continues to try to burn the book containing the BABADOOK’s words. The child, in this case a remarkable Australian actor Noah Wiseman who I think carried the film much better than even the main star Essie Davis, is also battling demons. His demons aren’t typical, though. He has fears like other children.. he has sadness and grief. And in this film, he has a clearly mentally ill mother.

    I am going to perhaps spoil it a bit, but not intentionally. Read on if you want..

    I think the BABADOOK is a farce. I don’t believe it to be real.. even more, Essie Davis’s character Amelia is a former children’s author. I think she understands the profound ways to either comfort to frighten children. In BABADOOK, she does both, sometimes simultaneously.  Her demons are in the basement in this film–the death of her husband defined her existence. She never fully mentally recovered from it, and as a matter of fact, descended into mental illness. The BABADOOK wasn’t real, but she made it real. She created it in her own mind and convinced her son that it was real, too.  The ‘monster’ that Samuel was forced to battle in the end was his own mother–a mother who slipped by police and circles of friends with her mental illness. Instead of anyone helping her, they shoved her away. As we often do in society.

    Samuel and Amelia had no family or friends in the end. They were abandoned.. they were alone. Amelia to somehow deal with her mental problems alone and her son, Samuel, forced to grow up without a father and under the gun of a mother who either may hug him or try to stab him.

    The movie is heavy handed with metaphors. It’s scary at first.. but when I started to consider what I thought it was really about, I was left was the final impression at the end of how sad it was. How hopeless..

    Even though the final scene provided comfort after a movie of some rough stuff–and a dog strangling–I wasn’t at ease at all. I think the mental illness–the BABADOOK–will rise again. You can never get rid of the BABADOOK. And in this case, as long as Amelia tries keeping her personal demons locked away, the BABADOOK indeed will return again.