“Woah! Hey there, soldiers! Welcome to Captain Unknown Soldier’s Scary Movie Show right here on Tara Normal.com! Every Friday we’ll be showing a scary movie from the mass collection of horror and sci-fi films I’ve collected over the years in my many missions to protect this great nation from super villainy. First up is the classic Night of the Living Dead, directed by George A. Romero.

And since Tara is currently in zombie-filled Evans City, PA what better film to start off with than this 1968 masterpiece which takes place there! In the beginning of the movie, you’ll meet Johnny. We here at the Scary Movie Show have always had a huge respect for Johnny, despite his hideous fighting skills against the undead. He wears leather driving gloves though and that counts for something in our book. Now sit back, grab some popcorn and soda (or straight whiskey), and watch the zombie film that started it all: Night of the Living Dead!”

“That ending gets me every time! I’ve fought against zombies before and lemme tell ya’, they might be lumbering undead idiots, but you can’t underestimate them. One minute you’re putting your cigar out in one of their caked over eye holes and the next you’re surrounded by a whole swarm of those flesh eating monsters. Just because one of them used to be your best friend doesn’t mean he’s still your buddy once he’s turned into a zombie. Or even if you just think he’s a zombie because he yawned. There’s no yawning in war, kids!
That’ll do it for this week’s show! Next week we’re showing the classic House on Haunted Hill starring the brilliant Vincent Price. Until then, keep your semi-automatic machine gun loaded with ammo and keep your heart filled with contempt for evil-doers!”

Since Avatar’s about to make like a billion dollars and it’s about aliens, I thought I’d share this documentary about the planet Pandora from the movie. It’s narrated by Sigourney Weaver. That’s enough for me. Check out the full video below.

Because mastering Klingon and Elvish isn’t enough, now you can learn to speak Na’vi, the language spoken by the blue cat people from Avatar. Learnnavi.org is a site that allows you to download a PDF pocket guide of the fake movie language but it doesn’t come with a fake tail or blue paint. You’re going to have to hit the halloween shop for that.
The language was created by Paul Frommer, a USC professor, and will mostly be learned by people who wish that Neytiri was real and would return their calls.

http://www.learnnavi.org/

One of my favorite recent scary movies is Trick ‘R Treat, an anthology horror movie that stars Sam, a potato sack mask wearing trick-or-treater who just wants some damn candy and to maybe cut a fool.

Here you can see the short film that inspired the Sam character. I love the style of the artwork!

From Fear.Net

I loved Christopher Nolan’s Inception. I was glued to my seat the entire time and I didn’t even want to blink when watching the movie on the big screen. I also loved the trailer for the movie and it’s trademark foghorn sound: BWWWAAARRR.

Over and over again. I wish I could hear that sound anytime I want and transform my life into that trailer. NOW I CAN. And you can too!
At Davepedu.com, you can simply click the red button and get the BWWWAAARRR anytime you want. Enjoy living in the dream!

BWWWAAARRRR

http://inception.davepedu.com/

And this is the version on my Christmas list!

I love Ghoulies 2. I freely admit that. I think it’s one of the best sequels ever in the same tradition that Terminator II is better than part 1 and Godfather II rivals GodFather I. Keep in mind, I know Ghoulies II is a bad movie but there’s so much good in it. Like a little person who quotes Shakespeare. Or a drunk magician. Or a Ghoulie coming out of a toilet to eat somebody.
Please enjoy the trailer for Ghoulies II and then go rent it or buy it. It’s amazing and one of my favorites. Ghoulies will get a mention in the Tara Normal graphic novel I’m working on so it’s best to be familiar with it now so you get the jokes!

This is the DVD collection I own. It has both Ghoulies 1 and 2!

With the holiday season kicking up, especially at our own TaraNormal Shop (CHEAP PLUG!), I like to watch movies that aren’t considered your typical Christmas movies. First up is Gremilins.
Released in 1984, Gremlins tells the tale of an earnest inventor who wants to buy his white man fro’d kid Billy a present that no one else has. What better gift to get an accident prone, careless teenager than a strange creature with a ridiculous set of rules to abide by or he transforms into a hideous, murdering monster?
Mogwais are like pugs except you can get them wet. Or expose them to sunlight. Or feed them after midnight. Do they drink? I don’t know. How would a slight mist on a Monday morning affect them? Not really sure. What if you sneeze on them?
If you get them wet, they will procreate ON THEIR OWN. Little mogwai puffballs will pop out of their backs. Now, if you own a nice Mogwai like the star of Gremlins, Gizmo, then the puffballs will be pure evil. If your mogwai is already evil, then your puffballs will be also evil.
Gizmo may be the last good Mogwai left on Earth. Unfortunately he lands in Billy’s care and Billy is friends with Corey Feldman.
The Feldmeister drops a whole friggin’ glass of aqua on Gizmo causing him to procreate some evil Mogwais. The evil Mogwais conspire to rig Billy’s clock so it reads before Midnight so they can get their KFC on. If Mogwais eat after midnight, they enter a cocoon stage and transform into amazing lizard-like creatures who are cute in their own right. And in the sequel, even HOT!

Yada, yada, yada…Long Island is almost burnt to the ground by Gremlins.
The whole thing takes place right before Christmas and it really gets the spirit of the holidays going around the Noel household. So do yourself a favor and watch Gremilins. You’ll thank me when the Santa story is told by Phoebe Cates. You’ll never think of a chimney in the same way.

You can get a copy of Gremlins here:

One of our favorite sci-fi movies is Forbidden Planet so we are sad to hear that actreess Anne Francis has passed away at 80. We said our thoughts and prayers to her family.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-anne-francis-20110103,0,2031697.story

When you were watching James Cameron’s Avatar, did you find yourself thinking ‘Hey, this whole crazy blue alien stuff would be a kick ass theme for my upcoming wedding!’ If so, then you just hit the jackpot, tiger.

“In Wulingyuan, an area found in the Chinese province of Hunan, forestry officials have apparently taken it upon themselves to utilize it’s resemblance to the floating mountains of Pandora by holding “tours of Pandora” and even Avatar-themed weddings.”

Isn’t that just the sweetest idea you’ve ever heard of. Unfortunately the special effects for this Avatar wedding just aren’t as special as the one’s from Jimmy Cameron’s blockbuster.

“According to one bride, Xiao Tsao, who was married in a multi-couple joint service, “The Na’vi were a couple of forestry workers dressed up in long underwear dyed blue wearing some very unconvincing masks. It was really pathetic.”

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2011/01/03/avatarthemed-weddings-hit-china/

In the 3rd trailer we’re finally getting to see some of the human actors in the movie Battle: Los Angeles. All of the previous ones just showcased things blowing up and things flying (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). Take a look at aliens once again attacking us in cinema. The creepy computer singing at the end weirds me out.