Hey everyone sorry for the lag in blog time. Nothing too exciting has happened in the past couple days that was blog worthy every single day so I figured I would wait a few days and then just catch everyone up on whats been happening. I think I will just go with Wednesday and Thursday nights. So Wednesday night my friends and I had a very awesome horror movie mini marathon,which turned out very successful if I do say so myself. The two movies we chose to watch were The Last House on the Left (the new one) and Teeth.
Now I don't know about anyone else but I have seen the original Last House on the Left by Wes Craven and I was less than impressed. Granted it was one of Cravens first horror flicks, but it was just terrible. That crap scared people in the 70s???? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE! It weirded me out at times and made me laugh a lot. The plot is basically the same in both movies with just a few differences. The basic gist of the movie is there is a family with a daughter who go to their vacation house on a lake and the daughter wants to go into town to hang with an old friend. They meet this kid their age who says he has pot which they are very interested in. He mistakingly brings the girls back to where the kid and his family is staying and while they are hanging out getting high the kids father, uncle, and derranged semi lesbian aunt (I guess?) come back and are less than pleased with the new company. The family turn out to be murderers on the run and do not intend to let the girls who in fear of them ratting them out.From then on there are rapes, stabbings, shooting, and lots of chasing. The "bad guys" think they kill the girls and need a place to crash and end up trying to spend the night at the house of the parents of one of the girls. None of them know who anyone is. Basically the parents find out what the crazy people in their house did to their daughter and really let them have it.
In the original there is a very bizarre soundtrack and it plays at very random times. However in both films there is not much soundtrack at all. There is a lot of silence, sometimes uncomfortably so, during scenes which makes watching those scenes very uncomfortable, which is probably the whole point. I have to say in the original version the "bad guys" seemed to do a lot more horrible things than the parents but in the new one the parents were the real bad asses kicking some serious murderer booty at the end. And one other really uncomfortable difference was in the original the creepy murderers make the two girls touch eachother and in this new one, the leader of the group rapes the daughter for a seriously uncomfortable amount of time. Seriously. If you do not like rape scenes then I suggest you not see this film because it is quite graphic and it goes on much longer than you want it to. However if you really enjoy seeing people be tortured then you should TOTALLY see this movie!
Ok second movie up was Teeth. Now I had heard about this movie a couple years ago and had seen it last summer. It is the most bizarre movie ever but I think everyone should totally see it because its just too ridiculous not to watch. So the basic premise of the movie is about this girl who grows up spreading the word of Jesus and telling kids everywhere to not have sex before marriage. One day when her boyfriend, who also "promised" to abstain from sex as well, tries to force himself on her and they both discover that she has a set of razor sharp teeth in her vajayjay. You can use your imagination from there to figure out what happens next. And then basically also for the rest of the movie. This film is sick, twisted, and darkly hilarious and I think everyone should go out and rent it. If you can handle it.
So that was my Wednesday night. Last night, on Thursday, me and some girlfriends went to go see John Roberts! For those that do not know who he is, if anyone has ever seen the YouTube videos Jackie and Debra, The Christmas Tree, or The Phone Call to name a few, he plays Debra and also the mother. He is so funny and last night his comedy show consisted of them playing all his videos and then he would come out as the character and elaborate. It was not as seriously funny as I hoped it was going to be but I can understand because once you have this popular video with lines that everyone has memorized and are so famous now its hard to make new things up and expand on them. But it was still really funny. As a mini surprise David Cross showed up! I'm pretty sure he just came out and tried to wing it and I don't even care he was so funny! I hate to say it but I laughed harder at David Cross than at John Roberts :( But both were still really funny and so entertaining to watch.
As a mini side note if anyone ever goes to Comix Comedy Club (353 W 14th Street) its a really nice place. I'm not sure about late night shows but for a 7:30 show tickets were $15, it was a two item minimum and the food was delicious. I would definitely go there again!
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