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Voodoo Moon
I really, really love Voodoo Moon. It’s absolutely a guilty pleasure and I’ve watched it, I don’t know how many times by this point. I don’t know anybody else who has seen it though, unless it’s someone I made watch it, which is unfortunate because for a low-budget indie horror, it’s got a fabulous cast.
Starring Charisma Carpenter, Eric Mabius and featuring Dee Wallace and John Amos, this is the story of a brother (Cole) and sister (Heather) who survived a town massacre when they were kids. Now, it’s years later and they must return to fight the evil (SPOILER: It’s Satan!), which caused the massacre. Since that day, the brother has dedicated his life to fighting evil in all it’s many forms and has garnered a rich knowledge of spiritual knowledge ranging from Christianity to msyticism to voodoo, and has acquired a motley crew of extremely loyal people including bikers, ex-cons, cops and his ex-girlfriend who all show up to help him prepare for what may be his final battle.
Is there anything truly original here? Nope. And the story can get a bit convuluted at times since there are soooo many peripheral characters. Plus the backstory is somewhat confusing because of various backflashes and vague references. But overall the concept was, I thought, great. It might just be that I’m partial to good vs. evil stories involving humans and Satan or one of the fallen ones. I’ve always found that creepier than Leatherface chasing screaming teens. (I can probably blame my Southern Baptist upbringing for that…)
Then there’s the fact that Cole could only defeat Satan (or Daniel as he’s called here) by using a mixture of religions. There were some Christian aspects in there, the aforementioned voodoo, Catholicism, some Buddhism, and so on and so forth.
The final thing I loved so much is how some of his friends have these seemingly random supernatural powers themselves. One woman heals him of injuries and one guy can hear his voice in his head (and then yells out to whomever is standing around, “I’m coming little brother!”) Oh and Cordy’s all psychic (who saw that coming?). This totally leads to fun!
Voodoo Moon has a little bit of everything and borders on just this side of cheesy – I highly recommend!
Versatile Blogger Award
Hi guys! Cinema Schminema has been nominated for the “Versatile Blogger Award” by Arlen Shah. About Arlen Shah: Here You can find Writer, Blogger Arlen Shahverdyan’s Books, Poems, Painting, Photos, Thoughts, Blog Posts, Articles, etc.: The main content of this Blog is Creative as well as Environmental (Ecological) but it also consists of much other interesting information for all the Readers. The main aims of this Blog are to represent the Author’s works as well as to inseminate Love and Care to the Nature. It’s an interesting place so I suggest you check it out! 🙂 And once again, thank you Arlen!!
Here are the rules of the Versatile Blogger Award:
1. In a post on your blog, nominate 10 fellow bloggers for The Versatile Blogger Award; and link to them.
2. In the same post, add the Versatile Blogger Award.
3. In the same post, thank the blogger who nominated you in a post with a link back to their blog.
4. In the same post, share 10 completely random pieces of information about yourself.
5. In the same post, include this set of rules.
6. Inform each nominated blogger of their nomination by posting a comment on each of their blogs.
So here are my nominations:
- The B-Horror Blog
- Aloha Mister Hand
- Bernadett
- Tim’s Film Reviews
- Daniel J. Davis
- Night train to Mundo Terrible!
- Musings of a 22 Year Old
- Tracie Louise Photography
- Gorehound Mike’s Weird Cinema
- Dead Derrick’s Reviews
10 random pieces of information about me:
- Malcolm McDowell hit on me once. True story. And all I could think of was that scene in “Caligula”…you know the one…
- I’ve written a novella and self-published a book of poetry.
- I’m currently in my first play in 6 years.
- Somewhere online (I’m not telling where), you can find me in a couple of episodes of a sci-fi webseries.
- I rarely sleep.
- I used to be in an improv troupe called “Nuns in Straitjackets”.
- I desperately want to visit Prague.
- I’m a sucker for dance and cheerleader movies. I’ve even seen “Honey 2”. Don’t judge.
- I make wicked awesome salsa.
- Buffy is my hero.
Once again thank you Arlen Shah!!! 🙂