Pin.

Jim and I were trying to find a good movie to watch the other night, and somehow, we stumbled on Pin.

Man, I am so glad we did.

After reading one single phrase in the synopsis: "life-sized anatomically correct medical dummy"; I knew this was a winner.

Here's the trailer:


5 minutes in to this movie, and here's Pin:

Tell me that isn't the most disturbing dummy you've ever seen in your life.  He looks like you've just interrupted him in the middle of him telling an important story.  I mean, he kind of looks pissed.

But pair the way he looks with the way the doctor makes him talk...you have pure movie gold:

Skip to 6:34, that's when Pin talks....I have nightmares of that voice.

Basically, Pin is considered a type of story similar to Psycho, and I can definitely see the similarities, but this movie is frightening, disturbing and sad all at the same time.  There's so much going on and all of it makes me uncomfortable:

1.  Leon and Ursula's relationship.  They are brother-sister, but the whole movie has me thinking that Leon wants to get with Ursula.
2.  Leon and Pin's "relationship".  I feel sorry for Leon, especially at the end.
3.  The parents' storyline in the movie.  They are almost like Stepford people.  The mother is a crazy obsessive compulsive who is obsessed with cleaning everything and is pretty much a psycho.  The father I guess the most normal, but I think his vantriloquist doctor act is creepy.
4.  Poor Ursula.  This girl never had a chance, although despite how horrible her life is and how crazy everyone else is, she seems to turn out the most normal?
5.  The Nurse and Pin. Yikes.
6.  The scene when Ursula finds out she's pregnant.  Oh god.


There's so much material here.  You need to see this movie if you like bizarre films that are frightening in a non-gory way.

I will leave you with this though:

Doesn't he kind of look like one of the Baldwins?

I dunno, maybe it's just me?

Monster Bash 2010 (the Lite Edition!)

After the massive explosions that were Monster Bashes 2007 and 2008, I find it a little embarrassing that Monster Bash 2010 wasn't so big. Granted, I really didn't have the time and money to put into MB 2010 as I did for the other two, but still, if it has the title of "Monster Bash", it should be spOoOoOOooOktacular!

But, despite all of the roadblocks, we managed to throw together a "lite" bash, and you know what? It was still pretty spoOoOoooOooOktacular!

Can you guess what I am?  I'm a skeleton, with a hat and whip....give up?  Indiana Bones!

Indiana Bones poses with Jason, who is holding the coveted best costume prize

Santa Cos and Luigi show up

Monster Bash Brownies

Eyeball Caprese

zombie Pete won the best prize award

Monster Bash Pumpkin Cake

Pastry Princess and....Sherman from The Wiz

Pumpkin carving results from the Monster Dash

Zombie Pete wrapping Q-tip Renee during the Monster Dash Mummy Wrap

Pastry Princess v. Luigi during Monster Dash

Not too shabby for a last-minute bash!

2011 planning started 9 months in advance so we're in great shape for this year's to blow your faces off!

The Candy Buffet

Since it's only fair that we start off on the right foot, I figured I'd give you a little insight into why M.B. Blog has been so quiet over this past year...

The reason is this: The Candy Buffet.

Oh man. This Candy Buffet. It should've been one small aspect of my wedding, but unfortunately it took on a life of its own, surpassing every other portion of our wedding day.

It was an homage to the trick-or-treater in all of us...and since we're such spoOoOoOooOky friends, I wanted to share a few pics of my pride and joy:

These were our escort cards attached to chocolate pumpkin lollipops, this was a sneak preview of all of the candy to come...

This is a nice front view of the entire buffet, my aunt had made homemade chocolates, including a completely chocolate bride and groom, front and center, as a surprise to us

My LOVE dishes, filled with candy corn

A nice side view, I can't get enough orange in my life

The amazing Catherine from For Your Event Planning and NJ Candy Buffets, brought all of my candy buffet dreams to life, including spending probably a massive amount of time separating Reese's Pieces and M&Ms by color for me

Pumpkin jar!

These were my fave: Raspberry filled chocolate pumpkins wrapped in orange foils (made by my Aunt Wendy!)

Chocolate covered krispie treats with sugar leaves on top

Chocolate covered oreos with orange chocolate drizzle, and some with sugar pumpkins on top

Special thanks to  Catherine at For Your Event Planning and NJ Candy Buffets for working with me on this and making it the most spectacular, amazing candy buffet ever!

Pet Heaven.

Did you beloved MB Blog readers see that poll over on the right hand side of your screen?  MB Blog wants to know what YOU want to see as this year's Monster Bash theme!  I'm not saying it'll definitely be one of those, as I already have a few spooOOoOoOoky ideas up my sleeve, but I am always open to new options.

When we were discussing MB'11, Jim brought up a theme that he has been campaigning for since the birth of Monster Bash, back in Saddle Brook park on a frighteningly beautiful August day in 2006.

And that idea is this:  Pet Heaven.

Much like you, my initial thought was "what on Earth is wrong with you?", but then, as I thought about it, depending on how you do it, it can be quite frightening...I guess.  Jim, I'm really trying here.

Jim's idea of "Pet Heaven" is probably more along the lines of having a bunch of stuffed animals and filling the condo with the fluff that fills pillows and then maybe harp music?

Oh wait, he just told me he wants to attach a stuffed cat to a "pulley" apparatus and every hour, "send the pet to heaven" by utilizing the pulley to raise the cat up...what a creep.

Personally, I think this is just insane, but if I were to humor him, I'd probably negotiate for mutilating the stuffed toys, putting fake blood on the fluff, and maybe have scary organ music.  Jim however doesn't like this and says that isn't pet "heaven" but more like "animal cruelty", which of course is not something Monster Bash wants to have.

Jim just said to hang a cloud in the corner of our living room and have a stuffed cat sitting on it looking at you.

Guys, I don't know, what do you think? 

It's Baaaaaaaaaaack!

Welp, What can we say? Monster Bash has been on a bit of a horror hiatus for the past year. But I can promise you that it has been worth the wait...

Despite my lack of posts, Monster Bash 2010 did happen! We called it "Monster Bash lite" because it wasn't quite as meticulously planned as my other M.B.'s have been, but it was spoOoOooOktacular! I will be posting a little blog about that soon, because my costume was pretty horrendous!

I've also been watching many horror movies because with all of this snow, I've had a lot of time on my hands, so get ready for some repulsive reviews (and probably spoilers, for you spoiler-haters out there who like to call me out on my spoiler tendencies, I'm warning you now.)

But most importantly, I wanted to come on here and announce that today, February 6th, 2011...which most people are focusing on it as being Super Bowl Sunday...has officially become the day that I have begun my tireless work on planning Monster Bash 2011: the 5th annual Monster Bash!!

Trust me, this bash is going to REALLY be the "Bash to End All Bashes"

Get pumped!

Saw III put me at a crossroads...also, who the F is this "Shawnee" character???!

I've been having this ritual that on Friday nights, late at night, when my mind just won't slow down from the insanely horrible week I've just had...

I watch the horror movie that is featured on Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi).

It really doesn't matter what garbage they show, I'm going to watch it-start to finish.

So last night, Saw III was on.



Now, I saw....Saw (the original Saw).
And like...it was alright. I know alot of people like this series, but for me, I just couldn't really get into it.

Don't get me wrong, I love Carey Elwes and Danny Glover. I think they're great. The foot getting sawed off was pretty gruesome too. Maybe I'm just not smart and puzzle-y enough for it? I don't know. It's not that it had problems or anything...I did find the "Jigsaw" guy to be kind of a creeper, but not in a scary way, more in like a "is he a registered sex offender?" kind of way.

"I have some candy in my car, little girl"

I just wasn't in love. It's not you, it's ME, Saw series.
It wasn't a Jason Voorhees moment for me at all.

So when Saw II came out, I was disinterested and never "Saw" it.

Then VH1 did that show "Scream Queens"...remember that? And the host was some chick I never heard of: Shawnee Smith. And they said she was from the Saw series (gotta be honest, I don't remember her in the first one at all, I had to go back and read the synopsis). I just remember being baffled that they considered here the "scream queen of horror" when I had never really heard of her. Was Jamie Lee Curtis busy when they filmed this?
P.S. here's the clip of the winner, Tanedra, in Saw VI:



Yikes. The arm?!

Anyway, I was fascinated by this Shawnee character and why she was considered the Queen of Horror. I thought that was me?
Why was she given this title? After the show would end though, I'd quickly forget all about it.

Then Saw III came on. And I remembered my quest. Who was this Shawnee character anyway? I had to know. Once and for all.

Well, IMDB.com and Wikipedia.org have some extensive info on this woman. Here are 5 frightening Shawnee facts:

1. She starred in The Blob, Who's Harry Crumb?, and Summer School.

2. She fronted a band called "Fydolla ho", which she founded with Robert Trujillo (Metallica) which sounds like Veruca Salt/Hole kind of?:


3. She is now in a band called "Smith & Pile" which is a country band.:


4. She has 2 kids and is rumored to have a 3rd on the way.

5. She apparently hates horror movies? I think that's a lie. Since she's starred in a whole heap of them.

Ok, so now I feel better knowing about her. But what's her deal in these movies?

So I watched Saw III, and as a general rule with any horror movie, after I've started watching the first 15 minutes, I'm invested. Good or bad, I need to watch the whole thing.

So I did.

I don't know how I feel. Maybe it was because it was so late at night and I just couldn't sleep, but I think I liked it. I definitely didn't hate it. And I couldn't stop watching.

Could I be at a Saw Crossroads?

The Pig Vat scene made me almost dry heave...and the Twisting Rack was pretty hard to watch...I think the PG version is more fun to watch.

I do think that because I skipped Saw II, I missed out on the flashbacks, because I had no idea who some of those people were. But overall, entertaining.

I don't know if I'll see Saws IV-XXXXXVVIIII, but I thought Saw III was pretty decent.

So wait, the guy had brain cancer?!? WTF?

Final Destination Formula

A couple of nights ago, I couldn't fall asleep. It was just one of those nights. After almost ripping my own face off from the rhythmic sounds of Jim snoring and me not being able to wake him up to keep me occupied or even to talk to me...I turned on the tv to see if there was anything to put me to sleep.

Flip, flip flip...

Ah, what's this?

I got to TNT and there it was: Final Destination 3.

Not 1, not 2...3.

3 Final Destinations.

Now, I've seen the first one. That airplane scene was pretty neat, if I do say so myself.

I saw the beginning scene to part 2...also very well done. Scary even. Those Final Destination people really know how to play off of our own fears of death, don't they?

Now 3. 3 was...well, exactly the same.

The beginning involves a roller coaster (I'm spoiling, in case you can't tell-so don't be "a hater"-I watch too much Jersey Shore...more on that later)

The roller coaster scene is also cool. I mean, not as cool as the other two...but still, very cool. And scary. Because it makes me think of all of those times that I sat on a roller coaster, waiting and thinking of us flying off the tracks. So yes, you got me again, FD3.



And then the rest of the movie? Aside from that awesome tanning bed scene:


it all fits the same pattern of Final Destination films.


I mean, the characters are sorta different...

FD3 Stars that girl from that dance movie:


and the guy that played Deckard the creepy computer geek in Halloween: Resurrection:

(the guy on the left)

other than that...same.

Here's the FD formula:
1. Crazy death scene after starring character experiences premonition of said death scene.
2. A certain amount of people who would have been involved in the above crazy death scene are spared due to main character's premonition and/or freak-out about the aforementioned premonition.
3. The survivors feel guilt...some don't feel guilt though. Main character feels insane amounts of guilt and is treated like a freak by society.
4. Survivors begin dying one by one in cleverly done death scenes...in the order that they would have died in the original crazy death scene.
5. Main character and sidekick discover "death's pattern" and try to save the survivors.
6. Main character and sidekick (sometimes love-interest) manage to defy death and "survive".
7. Time passes and then death comes back for them in crazy death scene ending.
8. Sequel.



Did anyone see the 3D one yet? Is it any good?
It looks 3D licious: