Category: Horror – Poems and Haiku
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Haiku: Friday the 13th
Spoilers in case you haven’t seen it.
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Spotify: Disembodied Screams Podcast
YouTube Horror Channel: Disembodied Screams
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Haiku: Friday the 13th Part 2
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YouTube Horror Channel: Disembodied Screams
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Script and Haiku: Clown in a Cornfield
Video for this Script on YouTube: Disembodied Screams
Gore and Effects: Top Notch. The kills were nothing original, nothing most of these Slasher movies haven’t done before but they looked realistic. Plenty of blood was shed. That chainsaw kill when that clown lifted that girl in the air, brutal, right after a texas chainsaw style chase through the corn with chainsaw blaring. Good one. The work out kill, with the blade on the bar, gruesome, and there was a nasty head smash too. No let down in the gore department. If you like blood you get it.
Story, Script, Directing: I can’t complain about any of those. It kept my attention both times I watched it. Eli Craig who did Tucker and Dale vs Evil did a solid job behind the lens and he managed to balance comedy and terror without overdoing the comedy.
Acting: No one took me out of the movie with lousy acting. Katie Douglas who played Quinn was a good solid final girl. Not one of iconic stature, but she had lots of spunk and tenacity and she held her own throughout the movie.
Kevin Durand, I like what he did with his character, Arthur Hill. He added some nice flare to that role and his joker makeup at the end was a nice touch. No complaints in the acting department even the clown fodder teens did a good job in their roles.
Score: Nothing that stands out to me but it fit the movie and set the tone it needed to set when it was used. I can’t say that I was wowed by it or noticed it all that much. But everyone did a great job.
Killer: Frendo looks amazing. I like the look of this clown. You got the costume, the creepy mask, the big shoes that squeak. Nice touch. Frendo looks like a traditional fun clown with some menace added to him or her and when he or she is holding a weapon he or she really looks threatening. I wouldn’t mind more movies with Frendo. All in all, glad I watched it, twice, now, here’s the haiku.
Sharpen your weapons
Bad crop of teens needs to die
Frendo’s time to slay
One more thing: I liked the relationship between dad and daughter. Felt realistic to me. Helped me to root for them and hope they make it out alive. Have you seen Clown in a Cornfield? What are your thoughts about it? Worth the hype or not. Let me know. Take care and have a good one.
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Script and Haiku: Humanoids from the Deep
Video for this Script on YouTube: Disembodied Screams
Roger Corman. That name should be well known to all horror fans. He was lurking somewhere behind the scenes on this movie. And if you don’t know who Roger Corman is, and why he’s a big deal. Here’s what Wikipedia had to say about him.
Corman was famous for handling the American distribution of many films by noted foreign directors, including Federico Fellini (Italy), Ingmar Bergman (Sweden), François Truffaut (France) and Akira Kurosawa (Japan).
He mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
He also helped to launch the careers of actors including Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner.
Needless to say, he was a very big deal.
Moving on, like Monster Island this movie only has to get one thing truly right, the creatures, and this movie shines brightest in that department. Probably the best reason to tune in to it. I love the look of these creatures. Slimy and scaly with nasty mouths and big eyes and claws and long arms and tails and fins and on and on it goes.
These creatures look like nothing you’d want to mess with and when they get to killing they separate body parts nicely and when they don’t kill you they leave a lot of scars behind. That dude in the ocean with half his face ripped off – nasty stuff. Gore is no joke. Plenty of it to go around.
Score, amazing, another one of its biggest highlights. James Horner was the man making the music shine and if you don’t know who he is. Let’s let Wikipedia inform you of that.
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.
Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron’s Avatar (2009).
Horner’s other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner’s other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982),[6] Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991),
Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Apocalypto (2006), The Karate Kid (2010), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
Mr. Big deal for sure and his talent certainly shines in the score of this movie.
Moving on, direction was solid from Barbara Peeters and it was the last feature film directed by Peeters according to Wikipedia and also from Wikipedia, it says there was an uncredited Jimmy T. Murakami directing something behind the lense. Not sure how much he shot or what. But two directors, producer chaos. Sounds like the behind the scenes drama was a lot.
Location, perfect for a movie like this. The scenic little coastal town is a great backdrop for the horrors these creatures unleash. Acting, better than expected. Nothing good enough for Shakespeare but it gets the job done.
All in all, this was a nice revisit for me, and I do think this will get watched more often as time rolls on. I can’t believe I haven’t seen it more than twice throughout my years.
Now, the haiku.
Horny humanoids
Rising from the oceans depths
Coastal town attacked
When did you see Humanoids from the deep for the first time? How old were you? Do you enjoy movies like this? Let me know all that. Take care and have a good one.
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Script and Haiku: Monster Island
Video for this Script on YouTube: Disembodied Screams
Let’s start with this, maybe it’s biggest strength, the reason to tune in, the monster. I loved the creature design in this movie. Put name on Screen Orang Ikan Reminded me of the creature from the black lagoon mixed with the spawning creatures of Humanoids from the Deep.
This creature had big teeth. Nasty claws. Scaly body, strong and powerful, and when it digs in, if it doesn’t kill you, it will certainly wound you fiercely. If you go into this movie just for the creature feature part – you will not be disappointed.
And another big highlight, another big strength, is the gore. There isn’t major dismemberment, maximum carnage, tons of victims, but when this creature gets to killing, the few people it does, it gets bloody, quickly. Gore effects looked awesome. Plenty of blood is shed.
The movie also does a good job of setting up a solid story that keeps your attention and keeps you focused. It doesn’t lag or drag and it’s not too long of a movie either, which is nice. It knows what it is and it doesn’t waste screen time.
I liked the World War 2 backdrop, added some drama and tension to the two survivors who are supposed to be mortal enemies in this time and place. Of course, differences resolve, and they end up working together, but there is nice tension between the two leads as they try to figure out how to defeat the monster.
Setting is beautiful. Even with a monster on the loose you can still take time to notice the beautiful scenery. Name of the screen, Batam Indonesia.
Now, the haiku.
2 lone survivors
Wash ashore on an island
Sea creature lurking
Have you seen Monster Island? What are your thoughts about it? Do you enjoy creature features like this? Let me know. Take care and have a good one.
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Script and Haiku: Until Dawn
Video for this Script on YouTube: Disembodied Screams
Quick disclaimer: I have not played the game, not much of a gamer, so, I had no knowledge of the game going into this movie. I was wide open, an unbiased sponge ready to soak it all up, and I think for that reason and that reason alone, it helped me to enjoy it. More than I thought I would.
And one of the reasons why was the gore. I had no idea this movie was going to be this bloody, this disgusting, this vile. That first set of kills. I couldn’t believe the amount of blood and dismemberment I was seeing. Awesome effects and then, you realize the characters are stuck in a death loop, and you get to see more creative kills again and again and again – big bonus points for that.
Best gore in the movie, for me, might have been the bathroom scene. All of these survivors, back from death, back from dismemberment, planning, scheming, quenching their thirst from the tap, and then one by one they start exploding. The amount of blood in that scene was ridiculous, in a good way.
It’s obvious that money went into this one to make the effects, gore and other things, look top notch. No complaints in the effects department,
Story, script, and directing – solid – the highlight of those three is the direction. David F. Sandberg, who gave us Lights Out and Shazam! He kept the pace moving forward and there wasn’t any lag or drag. The movie was constantly in motion and even as the gimmick of them dying over and over again worn on. It never got stale.
Acting, as good as it needed to be. This isn’t Shakespeare and we don’t tune in for the acting but it was good enough to not take you out of the movie and to help keep you interested in the characters.
Killer or killers, depending on what scene you were in, looked awesome. Liked the look of the main villain – the mask and build of him – very menacing. When he got to crushing bodies. It was very believable.
And I like the use of the sand in the hour glass to show you how long they had to survive. That led to a very intense ending to where I was on the edge of my seat as they cut between them trying to escape and the sand slowly slipping away.
A vicious cycle
Dying again and again
Survive until dawn
Have you seen Until Dawn? Have you played the game? Let me know your thoughts about the movie or game in the comments below. Take care and have a good one.
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Daily Prompt
What are your top ten favorite movies?
When I think of a Top Ten it’s practically impossible to make a list like that and I won’t. I will throw out some I return to often.
Star Wars OG Trilogy (technically one long movie strung together over all three)
Indiana Jones (all of them)
Evil Dead, Scream, Psycho, and Friday the 13th – I can watch any one of those in any franchise and enjoy them.
Batman Begins – favorite Batman movie
Hereditary – freaked me out
Ghost Stories – The original Haunting, The Changeling, Poltergeist, Hell House LLC
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Halloween – 1978
And on and on it goes . . .
Ten is impossible for me. I love movies. Especially horror ones, find them extra tasty, so I usually watch them over others.
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Aliens at the Door Poem
This one is probably my favorite of anything I have made for YouTube. Why? My kids helped me make it. Great memories.
Aliens at the Door (Short Film)
https://youtu.be/oHeCALYjlek
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Script and Haiku for the Movie Alien vs. Predator
Video for this Script on YouTube: Disembodied Screams
Spoilers, possibly, maybe, proceed with caution. You’ve been warned. Here we go.
I think the initial problem I had with this movie was the PG-13 rating. I don’t like cutaway kills, I want to see it all in its full gory goodness, and there would have been some good gory goodness in this movie without those cutaways, but putting the gore lover side of me aside there’s still lots to like here. The Aliens and the Predators look awesome, enjoyed seeing not one but 3 Predators and I enjoyed seeing the aliens. Always enjoy them and the fight scenes between aliens and predators was great. Paul W.S. Anderson, director, some love him, some don’t, I’m in the middle of that argument, did a great job behind the lens with the fight scenes. Easy to see, easy to watch, some great slow mo at times.
And the overall pacing of the movie is great too. Doesn’t lag or drag and we aren’t drawn in to a bunch of useless human drama. They’re mostly there for Alien Fodder.
Acting was solid the little bit that was needed. Location – awesome – love seeing movies in the snow and I enjoyed all of the pyramid stuff as well. One of the best parts of this movie was the setting. Great score too – and on and on it goes.
Two fierce enemies
Battling for survival
Chance for dominance
One thing that is a positive about the PG-13 rating. This is a good gateway movie for kids who aren’t old enough for the other R rated movies in either series. I do like that aspect of it. Now, your thoughts on the movie? Comment below. Take care and have a good one.
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Script and Haiku for the movie Trick or Treat (1986)
Video for this Script on YouTube: Disembodied Screams
The world lost Ozzy Osbourne recently and I was trying to think of something fun to pay tribute to him. And, lightbulb, this movie popped into my mind. I haven’t seen it in years and thought why not dust it off and give it a watch. It was on Screambox so easy to find and watch and spoilers, possibly, maybe, proceed with caution – here we go.
I will go on the record and say that I wasn’t the biggest Ozzy fan, he was never one of my go to artists, but I have enjoyed his music throughout the years and I love the fact that he often dipped his toes in the horror genre in his music, as a solo artist – Mr Crowley, Bark at the Moon, immediately come to mind, and even in the Black Sabbath years, lots of horror to be found there too. Just listen to the song Black Sabbath and you will hear what spooky truly sounds like – it’s very ominous and creepy. And in case you care about this, this is my history with Ozzy – I don’t know of a time in my life when he wasn’t in the public eye or I wasn’t aware of who he was. I missed the Sabbath years because I was born in 1972 but I caught up with Ozzy in the Eighties, when my love of Metal blossomed, and to this day, Metal is a constant in my life. I love it. And not just the mainstream metal – I go deep – Cattle Decapatation – deep at times. I just love metal. Love the way it makes you feel. Makes you feel alive and present – in the moment – youthful – and imagine being a young kid, close to the teens, and seeing this album cover at a friend’s house.
That probably helped to jump start my love of horror too even though I didn’t know it at the time. Anyway, I didn’t mean to have a long intro into this video but I felt like putting all of that out there so you know where I stand with the man, the prince of darkness, Mr. Osbourne. Rest in peace Ozzy – your legend will never die.
Moving on, lets now get into the movie Trick or Treat, which I truly enjoyed from start to finish. It’s full of music that I grew up on, music that was popular when I ventured from a kid into a teenager. Needless to say I knew going into this revisit that I would dig the music featured in this movie and I did – big time. Score is pumping throughout. Filled with that great Eighties metal sound. Thumbs up for that and thumbs up for the effects – biggest highlight had to be the effects, from the green mist coming out of those headphones that enveloped a woman’s body and nearly brought her to orgasm and in that same scene that gooey ear as her boyfriend pulled up one of those ear pieces. Beautifully gross and disgusting. Loved the blue lightning effects and the bodies being blown up and turned to dust. Lightning effects were top notch. Surprisingly good creature effects too. Not enough gore for a gorehound. I was expecting a lot more, but there’s a little bit when needed.
Acting, Story, and Script, kind of one big fleshy lump, they worked as well as you’d expect a movie like this to work. Nothing groundbreaking but there was nothing so bad in any of those areas that tanked the movie for me. Enjoyed seeing Marc Price, Skippy on Family Ties, in a lead role, did a great job with that task, and Tony Fields was awesome as the villain Sammi Curr – liked his look, very Eighties hair metal vibe. He nailed this role and directing, solid, better than expected. Charles Martin, the director, did a great job keeping your interest held throughout the runtime.
A young man bullied
Looks for answers from the dead
Revenge from the grave
Have you seen Trick or Treat? Do you enjoy movies like this or music like this from the Eighties? Were you a fan of Ozzy or Sabbath? Would love to hear about your concert experiences. Take care and have a good one.
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Haiku: Wall Scratchers
A creepy haiku I did for my Disembodied Screams YouTube Channel.
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Haiku: Cold Hunger
Put this together for my YouTube page Disembodied Screams last night.
Plus there are two new episodes available on that channel – 5th edition of Skulls and Coffee and Horror Haiku 2
https://youtu.be/6sO_cLjs5WA
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