"The Entity" My Thirteenth Must See Pick for the Halloween Season

It seems like some of the best horror films are “based on a true story” as in the “Exorcist” or “The Amityville Horror” (just to name two), so goes my 13th overall pick for Halloween viewing fun: 1981’s “The Entity”

Although one can break up with a abusive boyfriend that fact does not always have the outcome one so desires -even when they are DEAD!, as poor Barbara Hershey finds out.

Hershey plays Carla Moran a single mother of three who works during the day and goes to school at night trying to make things better for her family.

Poor Carla awakens one night by strange noises and as she begins to investigate she is smacked and tossed onto the bed and raped. The act causes her to flee with her children afterwards to a friends house. When she explains to her friend that she had been raped she confesses that that she did not see anyone there. Unfortunately for Carla this is only the beginning of long ordeal that leaves her fighting alone until she decides to enlist help from the paranormal community to prove once and for all to everyone (and herself) that she is not bat shit crazy.

As the researchers investigate what is happening to Carla they discover that some sort of evil entity has attached it’s self to her. And as the attacks increase and become more violent the researchers have to figure how to stop it.

For an early 80s flick “The Entity” boasts some cool effects and Hershey does a great job pulling off being raped by an invisible being.

Look for the compressed, hand marked boobs being made by nothing.

Until next time…

"The Dead" My Fourth Must See Pick for the Halloween Season

What would a Halloween season be with out a good Zombie flick? and “The Dead” is right up that alley when it comes to good Zombie flicks.

In  the vein of the “Walking Dead” , “The Dead” is more about the humans that are caught up in the crisis of the recently deceased returning to life and using the living like fat people use a smorgasbord at your local “Old Country Buffet”, then it is about the zombies per say as we find ourselves caught up with Flight Engineer, Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) as he hops one of the last planes out of Africa where -it should come to no surprise since Africa seems the place to find end of the world diseases originating (Ebola anyone?)- a zombie virus is plaguing the continent. But, unfortunately, for Murphy, things do not quite go according to plan and the U.N. relief flight he is on crashes just off the coast. Murphy now finds himself the sole surviving member of the doomed flight and is now completely cut off and on his own.

As Murphy fights his way through the Dark Continent -his only saving grace are his wits and ingenuity that he has learned through years as a soldier, that lend any hope for him staying alive long enough so he can escape and make his way back to his family- Murphy crosses paths with Daniel Dembele (Prince David Osei), a Sergeant in the African Army, as he finds himself on his own pilgrimage of the damned across the inhospitable landscape of zombies and the insane, as he tries to find out where his son was taken when the army evacuated his decimated village.

The two desperate men decide to join forces in hopes of perhaps evening out the odds against what are no doubt insufferable odds and with no real hope of winning.

Shot on location in never-before-seen on film parts Africa (Burkina Faso, French-speaking West Africa, and Ghana, as well as the Sahara), “The Dead” announces the arrival of the Ford Brothers onto the horror scene with what is being touted as one of the most unique zombie films ever. And a definite must see of fans of the genre.

Enjoy.

Until Next time…