Awesome App | Halloween Word Search

My iPhone is my most favorite Toy.

Recently, I've been downloading Halloween Apps and Games to keep the Halloween spirit alive year round.

This week I stumbled upon this App. It's "Halloween Word Search".

The app isn't super spectacular, or special, but it's kind of fun!

It's a word search, for Halloween words.

 

Each Puzzle has a spooky background, and when you find the word, it highlights it in Pumpkins or Stars.

 

Then, you let up, and it circles it just like you would on a regular word search. 

The puzzles are pretty easy, so if you're super good at these things, this might be a little boring for you. Only a few of them have stumped me, and I'm not very good. 

It's a nice time kill, and kind of fun in the Halloween spirit - and, it's FREE! 

This one will stay on my phone for awhile. I enjoy it!

NECA's SDCC Exclusive is AWESOME!!!

San Diego Comic Con announced one of their exclusives and I really, REALLY wish I was headed to the Con to get my hands on this one...
Ladys and Gents I present... The NECA figure of NES Jason!

Do you remember this game? Did anyone play it?

I remember it being really scary (I was 8. What do 8 year olds know?). When the "alarm" would go off saying Jason's ready to strike, I would be halfway across the camp and the anxiety I felt was intense. I also remember the music being super creepy.

Though, after watching the review by Aqualung on YouTube (PLAY above), I quickly remembered how impossible this game was, and actually, how terrible the game design is. It's the same thing, over and over, and the premise is basically to keep your campers alive, light fires in cabins, take on Jason's floating head of a Mom, and eventually "Kill" Jason. Pretty anticlimactic at that. Each fight scene is exactly the same!

Most games that are adapted from a movie storyline are pretty bad, and I'm always suckered into them because I stand in the store and think to myself,

"I LOVE the movie - therefore this game must rock!"

Um... Wrong. So Very Very Wrong.

Watch Aqualung's review to get the whole experience.
Watching the review is worth the 15minute refresher for nostalgia if nothing else.

Oh How I love 8 Bit games!
 

But, horrible game OR NOT - the figure is kind of awesome! It makes me want to play the game, and even worse, makes me want the game to be that much better!

I really would love to get my hands on this figure for my collection!

This figure makes me giggle. I kind of forgot that Jason was purple in the game, until I saw the figure. My husband showed it to me and asked if I even knew what it was from... and initially I didn't, but once he pointed out that it was his likeness from the NES game my lust for the figure began! 

So my San Diego Comic Con goers... If you're willing to hook a girl up let me know, otherwise I'll be trolling the Ebay pools when SDCC is over!

Movie Review | Scream 4

From the beautiful (and creepy) mind of Wes Craven, Scream 4 is what I've come to expect of the slasher genre and in my opinion redeems the franchise after Scream 2 and 3 which was one train wreck after another. It's ranking at a 3 star film from most "experts", but on my Netflix queue it's a 4 star film, and that's not easy to achieve in our household.

I am a big Scream fan - The movie came out in 1996, I was a 6th grader, and forbidden to watch movies like this. So naturally, I peaked while my brother was watching it, and it scared the ever living crap out of me - and it still does.

The movie was one of the first of it's kind in main stream movies. Breaking barriers that there wasn't just one killer, but two, and they revealed the sick reasons behind their madness.The Scene where Billy and Stu reveal their thought process and adhering to the "formula" of scary movies to carry out their killings was genius. I have no shame in naming Scream one of my favorite teen slasher films.


Scream 4 takes place 15 years after the original. The anniversary of the Woodsboro Massacre is upon us, and Sidney Prescott has returned to Woodsboro to promote her book when just the night before Ghostface (I wish they had a better name for that) had killed two local girls. Poor Sidney, returning to town just in time for chaos. Evidence was found in her car, thus leaving her stranded in Woodsboro as an active suspect in the murders currently taking place in town. More people murdered, and the crazy film geeks of our beloved Scream 4 tell us the "rules", just as Randy did in the original, in the sequel and in the trilogy (see first video) Sidney and Gail Weathers both are there to visit the class as they name off the NEW rules, and how different they are here in 2013(see second video). For me, personally - it kind of left my head spinning, I had just about everyone pinned as the murderer right up until the killer pulled the mask off in the end, and I was blindsided. The rules may have helped a lot of people figure out the killer, but not me. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention.

The movie was definitely "More extreme" and I really appreciate the "Stabathon" and the Stab movies that mirror the Scream movies - though I have to say it's pretty extreme that there are 7 of them!  I think I should have a "Screamathon" but I'm totally locking myself in a second story building and turning off the ringer on my phone first.

I won't go into much detail about the ending, because I really think you should watch it for yourself.

Here's what I didn't like about it - the script felt very bumpy and amateur, and the calls from Ghostface were really campy, and I think in large part to the crap that the "Scary Movie" franchise has laid on us, it's hard to take it serious any more. I also wasn't a huge fan of all the gore, I know that these movies are supposed to be bloody and violent, and that killing isn't "clean" but when you see a corpse and you can see their fake intestines, well, that's when I call it quits. Gross.

I liked that I didn't know who both the killers were at the end, and I even liked that my favorite character got killed - sometimes when you're rooting for someone you hate to see them go, but this worked for me. I gave it 4 stars out of 5 - if you like the original, I say watch this one, but take it with a grain of salt, there are a few lines that are going to make you roll your eyes.

Thanks for the 4th Wes Craven ... Please, for the love of God I'm begging you - STOP HERE! The franchise isn't going to get better!

Can't Look Away | The Lure of Horror Film

 The EMP Museum in Seattle brings in different exhibits all the time. This exhibit has been there since October of 2011 and I didn't really think to make it a priority to see because I am not a huge Horror FILM type girl. I like it, but to be truthful, the ones I LOVE make other people cringe! (Hotel Transylvania, Hocus Pocus, Silver Bullet, etc.). I was at the EMP because we had family in town and they wanted to see the other exhibits, so I wandered down to this one, I have to say I really enjoyed the collective awesome they put together for this exhibit! If you live in the area, and like spooky things, I have to say - go for it!

 It's beautifully curated and I think it poses a really intriguing question - What is it about horror films that keeps us glued to the TV?!

I think it is the quest of the unknown...

Where is the killer?
Who is he going to take out next?

What would cause someone to go so crazy and do this?

Do demons like this really exsist?

The decorations in the exhibit were really something - all of the light fixtures on the ceiling were made out of Hannibal Lector's mask.

And the wooded dividers between all the TV monitors that were playing various horror flicks, and documentaries exploring the "Lure" resembled a walk through a spooky forest!

I would love to have an entertainment room to look like that some day!

On to some of the exhibits...

The switch board that brought "Bride of Frankenstein" to Life! *Swoon* Holy grail... right there!

Shaun's classic white shirt and red tie from "Shaun of the Dead".

A Zombie outfit from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video.

The Wall of Wisdom (as I like to Call it) 100 Horror Movies you need to see before you Die. A few of them I totally agree with - some I don't see it, but I think that's probably because again, my taste doesn't exactly fit with this - I mean Hocus Pocus isn't on here, Lame.

But really, they are classics... Love it!

I didn't have a lot of time to explore the exhibit otherwise I may have made a list and seen if I could check one off at a time. That being said - Netflix has an awesome selection on Streaming right now - I just watched Scream 4 - Review to come!

The next wall of the exhibit showed different "types" of scary people in movies, and what their characteristics may be. I took a photo of each of my favorites... But I think there were 25 total (or so).

Which ones would be your favorites?

Not the original... from the 2009 film. However, still pretty cool.

And who can forget the "Critters" Movies... He was so small!

And the Alien from Alien - It's about 6'7" and slender - Obvious a human was wearing it - not electronic.

My Husband and I then hit the Scream booth. I was kind of shocked at HOW sound proof it was. The basic gist was to scream while the camera inside took 4 photos of you. What turned out is your scream for the first two shots and then your resting face for the last two, the photos don't click super fast - It's kind of funny.

The door to the both...

This is my Mr. Spooky Scary... Isn't he handsome! He was my "Model" for the Scream Booth. First you sit in the seat... and then let the machine "Scan" your hand.

Then it tells you to either do a scared scream or a psychotic scream (as if you're the killer). We both were prompted to do the "Psychotic scream".

Then they show you some scary photos... you know, for "Inspiration" and then they line up your face... and you Scream...

That's Mr. Spooky's shot... Pretty good... NO?

This is mine... which I was obviously laughing through... wish I would have done it a second time - I could do better.

The last exhibit we explored is the wall where they turn you into a Monster. You step in front of it and it gives you different appendages. Kind of funny. We played here for a LONG time.

We're goofy like that!

So the question still begs... If horror film scares us... why do we like  LOVE it ?!?!

Their hypothesis is that it's a Test of Courage, the struggle of Good Vs: Evil, the Heightened Emotion, the exploration of Taboo Subjects and the Nightmares and Dreams... What is yours?