Kick Starter funding for Director's Cut Survival Horror: The Card Game

I have heard about Kick Starter but have never participated on the site. My friend Liz sent me a link to a project that reminded her of me and my love of all things horror. I watched the short below and knew immediately this was something I wanted to see become a reality. I call on all my follow horror fans and geeks to check this out. I believe you to want to see this game happen as much as I do.  Please sign in to Kick Starter and help us fund this project so we can all play a game very soon.  I will bring the Cheetos and Mountain Dew!

 

Bowling Heads

Thanks for sending this my way Carl. I so want one! Now if the balls just moaned or screamed as they went tumbling down the lane...

13th STREET – Bowlingheads (Case Video) from RUOK on Vimeo.

Hatchet 2

A pleasant surprise before seeing Robert Rodriguez's Machete today was seeing the trailer for the big screen release of the unrated sequel to Hatchet.  Now that 3D is back and certain to stay as an additional way for movie companies to generate revenue on their films it seems that the unrated film is finally seeing the light of the big screen and not just the DVD release.   I have not seen the first film but will have to check it out now. 

The last unrated film I saw in the theater was Cronenberg's Crash.  This was a very memorable movie experience for me because the mix of car crashes and sex was oddly arousing. This was the intention of course and executed well.  Unfortunately unrated has since just been a marketing ploy to sell more DVDs.  Hopefully this is no more.

Hatchet 2 in a William Castle inspired trailer promises buckets and buckets and more buckets of blood.  Oh yeah!  As Peaches Christ would say, my inner gore whore is getting wet just thinking about it.  I love seeing movies on the big screen with my fellow horror fanatics so please let this be the start of a resurgence of unrated theatrical releases for the genre fodder we love. 




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Forget Twilight and see Adventureland

Horror fans all know Twilight was lame and limp when it came to portend itself as a vampire movie with teenagers.  Give me Lost Boys any day.  I will admit the movie was much better than the novel because it got rid of that tweener internal monologue that only teenage girls seem to get or understand.  Issue could be I am in my late 30s and should not be reading such juvenile stories  and hope to be enthralled by a captivating story.  Damn you JK Rowling!  Stephanie Meyer is so not your contemporary regardless of book sales or those rabid fans at last year's San Diego Comicon.  Sorry Denise but it's true.

Enough of that.  What I want to say is Kristin Stewart has redeemed herself in my eyes with a great performance in Adventureland that gets wide release in theaters tomorrow.  Forget Bella and give me Em any day.  I know this is not a horror film but so what.  Its my blog and I can rant on it however I want.  Besides that it is a great film and reminds me of the John Hughes films from when I was in high school.  If you grew up in the 80s, listen to Sirius channel 8 with abandon, worked shitty summer jobs, and wanted to have, or either had, that great summer romance, you must see this.  It was a great flash back to my younger days and captured my budding hopes and fears at that time on being on my own and in the harsh world without a net. 

Lastly, the soundtrack music is killer with classic tunes of the era.  I will have to get this for my ipod and not the iphone.  I am a Storm man through and through.  My review of the film will be on www.michaelwproffitt.com soon and I hope I still have something to say in Five Sentences or Less. 
-- sent via Michael's Blackberry Storm

Tip you bastards!

I have been to my fare share of gentlemen clubs all across the North American continent and have found some universal truths. These are that you will always leave the place smelling like a stripper, or as my best friend always chimes in, that ol’ whore smell; you will always leave the club alone and not in the company of one of the girls; you will always be suckered in to buying at least one drink for one of the working ladies; being nice will always pay off in some way, and the hottest and most attractive girl will always be the last one on stage as you are planning to leave. But the one universal truth that chaps my ass is that most guys who go to the club do not tip the girls dancing on the main stage. WTF? Of course there is always the old Guido wannabe who drops ridiculous cash for one girl but he is outside of the norm. I am talking about those groups of guys who come to the club and act as if they are too cool to be there and never tip. Hey dick weeds, there is a nude, or partially nude, girl on stage. Give her some cash! Why are you watching some game on the TV over the bar? The girls are working to entertain you so show some friggin’ appreciation. I always pay attention to the dancers on stage and to all of them somewhat equally. Sure there are some that are not as enticing as others, but if you share the wealth, they all appreciate it and make sure you get the attention you came in to the club looking for in the first place. They will give you the lowdown on how the club officially and unofficially works and this can be to your advantage. They are working there to make a living and you want to get your jollies – so just tip and everyone is happy!

My Reading List

I finished the four Stephanie Meyers books and felt anemic.  How can you have novels based on vampires and werewolves with no real violence or blood to speak of?  She is no JK Rowling that I can see.  If this represents the way teenage girls think then no wonder men and women seem to have problems communicating.  Bella is remarkably slow to understand the events around her.  The novels do get better as you move along but they still lack any real bite.

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I need to pack penicilian!

I was forwarded this lovely video made by the owners of the hotel where I will be staying in Denver for the Democratic National Convention. I hope they cleaned the room after she was done!