Infinite Playlist - Swing

I'm a little under the weather today, no doubt a side effect of all the fun this Halloween weekend, so all you get today is some kick ass music from Miss May I. This is Swing, a cover of some random club-like song that undoubtedly sucked before MMI got ahold of it.

Happy Halloween

This year AMC gives us the greatest treat we could possibly receive for Halloween...

The Walking Dead premieres at 10pm, and although it hasn't aired at the time of my writing this, it already gets the Tales from the Batcave seal of approval for guaranteed awesomeness.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN KIDDIES!

Trick R Treating!

The town we live in decided to have trick or treating tonight instead of tomorrow, which was fine with me as I have to get up way too early for work Monday morning. We had a blast, and I'll just let the pics speak for themselves.

Can't really tell from this picture, but the kids came away with a ton of treats.

And finally, after a long evening of running behind my two little monsters, it was time for a treat for daddy.

The Halloween DVD motherload!

Well, this last week of October certainly hasn't been a disappointment in the dvd department. I started the week off by grabbing Splice and the new Nightmare on Elm Street (which yes, I hated, but I have every other movie in the series so there really was no way I wasn't buying this one too) at Best Buy for $10 each on Monday.

Then on Tuesday a trip to Wal-Mart would tempt me with one of those combo packs with four movies in one package, which I normally wouldn't buy because I like my movies to be separate, with their own cases and all the artwork intact, but this one I simply had to have. I picked it up and put it down at least 20 times, but with a line-up like Creep, Drive Thru, Boy Eats Girl, and Tamara all for $5, it eventually won our war of wills. I'm weak I tell you, weak!

And finally, this weekend a local Video Warehouse apparently had all of it's managerial staff go insane and run a 3 day sale with all of their previously viewed dvd's 10 for $20. After two separate trips, here's what I ended up with:

• Grace
• Deadgirl
• 9
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• Paranormal Activty
• Altered
• Coraline
• The Incredible Hulk
• The Midnight Meat Train
• Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
• My Bloody Valentine
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
• Cabin Fever
• Cabin Fever 2
• Dead End
• Jack O'Lantern
• Shrooms
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• Santa's Slay
• Wolf Creek

Most of these I've already seen and liked, but either never planned to buy, or just never got around to it, but for $2 each, I couldn't pass them up. Clone Wars I picked up for the kids, Paranormal Craptivity I got simply to see if they actually put the name "Mitch Chickentoes" in the credits, and I never got around to buying the Ed Norton Hulk film which I thought while still not perfect, was 1,000 times better than that Ang Lee atrocity. I gotta support the comic book movies though.

Overall, I'm very please with what I got for my $55. It's always good to pad the collection with both quality and quantity, especially when it can be done so cheaply. Feel free to leave your comments of burning jealousy below, I'll get around to reading them after I've watched all of my new movies.

Night of the Demons 2010

Seems as though the new Night of the Demons is making the rounds amongst the horror blogging community right now, and I watched it recently so I may as well throw in my 2 cents. Even though the Batcave isn't strictly a horror blog, I know there are so many of you out there whose movie watching hinges solely upon my recommendations and/or condemnation (which is totally a word, I looked it up).

I have to be honest, I think I've seen the original Night of the Demons once, maybe twice in my life. My absolute favorite of the series has always been NotD2, I've seen it numerous times. So as to how closely this new one follows the general plotline of the original, I can't honestly say one way or the other, though judging from what I've read, it is similar in setup only. My one and only intention with this film was to have fun for about 90 minutes, and watch Shannon Elizabeth simulate fellation on a champagne bottle. In both of those regards, this film is a resounding success.

Night of the Demons isn't going to do much to challenge your meager intelligence. It's pretty much a Halloween flick, that should probably only be watched around that time of year for maximum enjoyment. The plot is pretty paint by numbers, Angela (Shannon Elizabeth) has rented a mansion where years ago a seance was held, and 6 people were murdered, to throw the mother of all Halloween parties. Not long into it, the cops show up and party goers flee the scene, save for, you guessed it, 6 people who stumble upon the bodies of the 6 people murdered there before, unleashing the demonic curse that turns them one by one into horny hellraisers. Once all 6 are turned, the demons can escape the mansion and wreak havoc on the rest of us.

First off, let me say that Angela's was my kind of party, with my kind of people. If it were an actual real event, I would've been the first in line to get in. I had a lot of fun with this movie, it's light on scares and heavy on creature make-up and gore, there are quite a few laughs, and nobody involved seemed to be trying to make it anymore than what it was, a Halloween flick for people who love Halloween. The cast is pretty forgettable performance-wise, but there are lots of recognizable faces. I've already mentioned Shannon Elizabeth, who is starting to show her age a bit in this one, but Diora Baird (TCM the Beginning, 30 Days of Night: Dark Days), Edward Furlong (T2, Brainscan, lots of things that sucked), and Monica Keena (Freddy vs Jason) also round out the cast of people that I had seen before in other things. Also look for super cool cameo appearances from scream queens Linnea Quigley and Tiffany Shepis.

I know I sound like a broken record in all these reviews, but again, this one it what it is. In the grand scheme of things, it's a pretty awful movie. It's light in tone, substance, and pretty much all other redeeming factors when it comes to cinema. But Night of the Demons certainly plays to a specific audience, and that audience will likely have a blast watching it in a room full of like-minded individuals. Alcohol may or may not need to be present in order to enhance the fun. As for you elitist horror snobs, people who can't just sit down, turn your brain off, and have fun with a movie, there's nothing for you to see here, move along.

Zombie Outlaws!

On October 26th, the Undead Nightmare will be unleashed upon the world of Red Dead Redemption, with an entirely new single-player storyline, as well as brand new multiplayer content.

Seemingly overnight, a zombie plague ravages the once bountiful frontier, decimating the landscape and reawakening the dead. In towns, settlements, and outposts throughout the world, the uninfected citizens are left to fight for survival against waves of the undead. John Marston must ride out into the vast and terrifying world and survive long enough to find a cure.

With four unique zombie classes - each with their own characteristics, plus new infected predatory animals roaming the countryside, and non-traditional weaponry like the Blunderbuss - which can be loaded with looted remains of fallen zombies, the Undead Nightmare Pack offers an entirely original gameplay experience for fans of Red Dead Redemption.

The all new single-player narrative features new challenges, quests, and ambient events, including Missing Persons, where the player must find a missing survivor lost amongst the throngs of undead. This new release also brings new content to Multiplayer, with Undead Overrun, a brand new multiplayer survival mode where waves of infected enemies attack and players must work together to stay alive against increasingly difficult odds.

Providing even further proof that absolutely anything is better with zombies. As you may expect, myself and Mr. Marston are going to have our hands full this week, what with all the zombie folk roamin' the open range. I've been diligently working on finishing up the regular campaign in an effort to prepare to jump into the Undead Nightmare campaign today. Of course I didn't finish it, as I'm still a notorious slacker, and of course I'm still going to play the zombie campaign today. Zombie cowboys, kinda makes you want to watch Ghost Town again, don't it?

 

SuperCam

I'm likely the biggest Auburn fan any of you know, whether you're aware of this or not, unless of course you know Chris, but I think only one of you do. In case you hadn't noticed, my beloved Tigers are having a pretty good season, and that's primarily because of one man, the most explosive player in all of college football, Cameron Newton. To say that Cam is a beast simply does not do justice to his performance every single time he sets foot on a football field.

I've been quiet this season up until now, partially because I've been nervous about every game (nobody expected us to be quite this good), and partially because I don't think anybody is stopping by here hoping to read about sports. But after last night's win over hated (by me anyway) rival LSU, I'm tired of all the doubters and I'm tired of all the haters, and I thought I'd use my one and only voice on the interwebs to cordially invite them all to shut the fuck up. Even if we don't win another game this season, we are the only undefeated team in the SEC, on Saturday we took our #1 ranked offense and ran ALL over LSU's #1 ranked defense, and we made it look easy.

I don't know what the rest of the season will hold, but I know the "Bammers" are nervous, and rightly so. We still have Ole Miss and Georgia to go before the Iron Bowl though. It's going to be a nerve-wracking sprint to the finish for me, and I'm sure the rest of the War Eagle faithful, but one thing is definitely certain, Cam has given us a reason to believe that anything is possible. 

War Cam Eagle

I know the coolest people in the world.

Oh, it's true. For an anti-social bastard who hates everything and everybody, I'm lucky enough to have some of the most wonderful people in my life. As such, I think it's time to do another "thank you" shout-out post, one of which is long overdue.

First, the one that I'm shamefully late on. This summer was one of the most stressful I've ever been through, and that's saying something, but in the middle of it all I managed to close on a home. The ink had barely dried on the paperwork when my girl Lissa (whom I refer to as Betty, for obvious reasons) brought me my very first house-warming gift, a hand-made zombie to live in my kitchen. This guy is easily one of the coolest decorations in my house. He looks a little "Dia De Los Muertos"-ish, and that's perfectly awesome in my book. Click Betty's link to check out her brand new blog, Lissa's Shop of Horrors which we creatively collaborated on in the name department *ahem*I'm a genius*cough*, just keep your hands to yourself, mkay?

Yesterday, my bestest friend in the world, Threels, came by with another house-warming gift, and there are few words that accurately describe it's awesomeness. Threels is a crafty one, and recently took a class on stained glass art. Me being the kind of person I am, I of course used this as a means to beg for cool things to hang up in my house. Case in point, my latest decoration, a stained glass skull. Once again, a nod to Dia De Los Muertos, and possibly Lucha Libre wrestling if you like. She also made me my first apartment-warming gift last year when I moved back to Roanoke, a Batman Begins style stained glass Bat symbol. I recommend giving her blog, Passing Fair, a look, and it won't even take much of your time as her annual posts, while always entertaining, won't require a huge commitment.

Huge thank you's for both of these ladies for the super cool gifts. For me, little things like this go a long way toward turning a house into a home, and I can't express my gratitude enough.

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GWAR makes me smile.