30 in 30 - DAY SIX - The Warriors (1979)...850 POSTS!!!

Not a horror movie this time around, but a cult classic for sure. I had never seen this before watching it this week. I can understand why it is so loved by so many. Lots of atmosphere, characters and cool dialogue. So many one liners from this movie are used over and over again in pop culture...I had a lot of fun watching this one. Definitely recommended. Basically a top gang boss gets killed at a rally and by deception, the gang known as the Warriors get blamed for it. Most of the film is their journey back across the New York City landscape as they are hunted by all of the rival gangs on their way home to Coney Island.

"You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?" -- Cyrus --





One of my favorite "gangs" in the movie, The Furies - all dressed up in to baseball uniforms with painted faces and baseball bats!





Cool "oh yeah" moment - David Patrick Kelly plays Luther who helps to hunt down The Warriors. I know him best as T-Bird from the first Crow film. He was a lot younger here and had a bit more hair as well.

"Warriors....COME OUT AND PLAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!"

30 IN 30 - DAY FIVE - PIECES (1982)

YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO TEXAS TO HAVE A CHAINSAW MASSACRE!



A pretty straight forward campy "whodunit" gorefest from the early 80s. Chainsaw murderer gets loose on a college campus - blood flies, mayhem ensues. Somehow, throughout all of these grisly out-in-the-open murders - some in broad daylight - the college campus remains open and students go to class during the whole ordeal! Haha! Some pretty grisly stuff, so much so that I really can't post any of THOSE pictures. A fun slasher film featuring a well respected British actor - Edmund Purdom. I want to say he was a vampire or some other such creature in some other movie but perhaps I'm thinking of someone else.

The Memphis Belle

So the Memphis Belle was in town this weekend. This was not the actual plane from WW2 - that is in a museum in Dayton, OH I found out this weekend. This was the filming model used in the film "Memphis Belle" - still very cool - living history. Unfortunately, we couldn't get into it as they were giving rides back to back until late in the afternoon and we were there pretty early. Didn't want to wait around for 3-4 hours but I did get some vids of takeoff and landing and some great shots:











If you look closely here, you can see two nazi swastikas above the tail cannons. Very cool little detail...



Also there nearby was a B25 Mitchell bomber. It is in its own hanger and they are attempting to restore it. If memory serves, it was recovered from Lake Greenwood, SC. Very very cool bonus I wasn't expecting. We did get to walk up to this one and see it up close.





A view through the front plexiglass.







Bomb recovered from Lake Murray...







Cool bomb sight...and it still works!



Inside the B-25 hanger were also several items of interest...several models, some old dials, a large B-17 painting and some flight helmets...





This thing was huge.















Final two shots of the Belle as she was readying to take another group of people up in the air.



Goodbye, Memphis Belle...

New Sketches....One done and another one thrown in...

So Jason unmasked was pretty much done last week..put a few small details in and signed off on it last night.



Then for fun, I got a quickie Mumm-Ra in too! I never really noticed how much he resembles an asian dragon/anime villain until I drew him last night. Ha! Still a quick and fun exercise. .05 Pen and Sharpie...

30 in 30 - DAY FOUR - I, MADMAN (1989)

What is it with all of these movies from 1989 lately? Ha! Here we have another "stinker" from the late 80s decline. It wasn't a terrible film, just very formulaic/derivative. Girl reads horror novels and as she does, the things she reads start to come to life. Murders ensue, her policeman boyfriend doesn't believe her story, and then the killer begins to stalk her by the end! A decent protagonist, some good SFX, but some really terrible acting. It's a b-horror movie for sure and if you're looking for that kind of thing, then you will enjoy this. Hell, there is even a hairless, stop-motion animated monkey demon that shows up too! Have fun with it!







I remember this getting the cover of Fangoria back in the day as if it was some sort of second coming horror hit. I had to laugh then (and still do now) over the "More over, Freddy" line. Yeah right.

30 in 30 - DAY THREE - SOCIETY (1989)

Some crazy movies came out in the late 80s! Haha. From Brian Yuzna, producer of the original Re-Animator and director of its sequel, Bride of Re-Animator comes this wacko movie. A clear commentary on social classes and the limitations that come with that. A Rob Lowe lookalike (Bill Warlock - yes that's his real name) slowly discovers his adoptive family is not what they seem to be - soon enough, the slime flows and the mutations run amok!





"You're right, son...I AM a Butthead." HA!!!



You have to see this movie to believe it. Yuzna has a lot of fun here, but I can see why European audiences LOVED IT back in the day and why American audiences didn't dig it. It wasn't released over here until 1992.

30 in 30...DAY TWO....PSYCHO II (1983)

After 22 years, Norman Bates is coming home...

I have to admit, I haven't seen any of the Psycho sequels other than some crappy made for TV movie about the Bates Motel that came out in the mid 80s. I imagine this came about because it was cool to have a sequel to EVERYTHING then. There really isn't a reason for this to exist other than to see our favorite mother's son again and suck some more money out of horror movie fans. That's not to say its a bad thing - this is a fairly well constructed sequel - Perkins plays an "older" Norman about as good as can expect and the supporting cast of Meg Tilly (sister to Jennifer Tilly), Dennis Franz (Die Hard 2) and Robert Loggia (ID4, Scarface) get a fair amount of play here.





This must have made at least decent money back in '83 as a Psycho III came out a few years later. Most of this centers around some relatives of the victims from the original trying to frame Norman for more murders and send him into a downward spiral of insanity. Despite their best efforts, Norman doesn't sway until the last 10 minutes or so and then that's where an ending comes completely out of left field. It's unexpected but not entirely a cheat either. I've always heard about the ending with the shovel, and now I know why it is fondly remembered by fans of the film.



Can't wait to see what Psycho III has in store!