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The Midnight Meat Train on DVD

Written on October 6th, 2008 by Red Hawkone shout
The Midnight Meat Train on DVD
 

I first read about this movie in Wizard Magazine’s annual rundown of all the upcoming movies that are coming out or in production. The little mini-article (really a paragraph) said that Vinnie Jones would be starring in it and it was about a serial killer who stalked his victims on the subway. I didn’t hear much about it after that, till Vinnie Jones himself was on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show talking about the movie (which Craig said sounded like a porno). After that, again, I didn’t hear very much about it.

That all changed last night.

Last night, I was looking through FearNet’s list of movies and started watching 2001 Maniacs again. Before I could even get on to the movie, there was a preview for… Clive Barker’s Midnight Meat Train. As soon as I saw that, I thought, "Cool, it’s finally been made!" then I went through the list of movies again, saw it and started it up. Was it worth the wait?

The film starts with a young bald guy waking up on a subway car. He’s groggy, so he staggers to his feet, starts walking up the aisle and suddenly slips on a patch of blood. Looking ahead, with all grogginess gone, he sees the floor leading to the door completely covered in blood, with some more on the windows. He finally manages to make it to his feet and over to the door, looking into the next car, where he sees a figure killing someone.

 

Scene from The Midnight Meat Train<br />
on DVD
 

From here, we go to photographer Leon. He’s trying to make it as a freelance photographer, but not getting many jobs. His girlfriend Maya gives him the good news that their friend Jurgis is going to hook Leon up with one of his rich contacts. Leon meets with the contact, Susan Hoff, who looks over his work and basically dismisses it (Jurgis tells him it was good, though, because if she disliked it completely, he would’ve had one minute instead of five). That night, following Hoff’s advise, Leon heads out into the night to take pictures of people. Following this trio of gangsters into the subways, he catches them in the act of almost assaulting a girl on the stairs leading down to the train platform. After taking some pictures he gets their attention and avoids an ass-beating by pointing out the surveillance camera that’s aiming down at them. After checking with the girl (who gives him a very nice kiss as a way of thanking him) he takes one more shot of her after a hand stops the train doors from closing so she can get on. She takes a seat several rows away from the owner of that hand who we only see in the background and blurred during this next scene… even while approaching her, he stays blurred and out of focus. The last we see in this scene is a large shape, like a mallet, swinging down and hitting the girl in the head, practically spinning it around completely…

This movie was really well-done, I thought, with a plot that kept you wondering. Who is this big guy with the large hammer? Why is he killing people on the subway and what does he do with the bodies? How is he getting away with it? To add to the mystery of the film, Jones doesn’t talk during most of the movie. He says one word during all of the show (beating his previous silent record set in the remade Gone in 60 Seconds). What the man does well is act, though, even without using his voice.

The cast in this was well-picked. Leon was played by Bradley Cooper who doesn’t have much of a career in the genre, but he has had some notable films and series under his belt: five episodes of Nip/Tuck, The Comebacks, 46 episodes of Alias, and Wedding Crashers, to name a few. Leslie Bibb plays his girlfriend Maya and she did well with the screen time she had. She’s been in Iron Man, Wristcutters: A Love Story, The Skulls  and is going to be in this year’s Halloween-related anthology Trick ‘r Treat.

Brooke Shields had a small part as Susan Hoff, but she played the rich society lady with a taste for the morbid pretty well. As stated earlier, Vinnie Jones plays Mahogany, the subway serial killer, and does an excellent job at it. His genre credits include last year’s HorrorFest entry Tooth & Nail (which I hope to cover soon), X-Men 3: The Last Stand as the Juggernaut, and WWE Films‘ Steve Austin vehicle The Condemned. And, of course, the whole thing is based on a short story by Clive Barker, who introduces the film when it’s chosen on FearNet. The film was directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, who also directed and wrote Versus, Alive, and Godzilla: Final Wars.

All in all, a fun film, one that comes highly suggested. With a pedigree like Clive Barker, who brought us Nightbreed and Hellraiser, how can it go wrong? I give it 5 out of 5. Until next time, remember to stay off that midnight train, cuz there’s no way it’s stopping in Georgia… this is Red Hawk signing out!

Roger Corman Week: The Terror

Written on October 6th, 2008 by Red Hawkno shouts

 

"I’m a weary, disillusioned soldier and you’re the only pleasant site I’ve seen in seven months."

- Lt. Andre Duvalier

   Here at Happy Horror we believe that any movie should be given a fair chance, no matter what the surrounding opinion or age.  Case in point: this little gem that we’re using to kick off my first theme week, The Terror.  Forty-five years ago, this film came out and helped the careers of various actors and yet it’s hardly known today.  Well, four years ago, I picked this up at Wal-Mart for a dollar and just finally got around to viewing it.

   We open the movie with an old man, Victor, in a castle.  He staggers to a chain that pulls up a portcullis and goes through, then enters a secret passageway into another old area.  Following this, we cut to the credits for The Terror.  Following the credits, we see a young man, Andre, riding a horse down the beach.  As he rides along, he checks his compass which spins like he was in the Bermuda Triangle.  He goes a little further, then falls off the horse, falling unconscious only to be woken by the incoming waves.  He gets up and walks a little bit back the other way and sees a beautiful woman.  He asks her where to find some water and she leads him to a pool where he drinks.  He starts following her up the beach further, finally getting her to tell him that her name’s Helene, when she tells him she wants to show him something.  She leads him to a spot near a hole in a rock wall in the water where the waves crash in really harsh.  Helene looks at the hole in the wall for a few seconds then starts walking towards it.  Andre jumps into the water to try to bring her back, but ends up being both buffeted by waves and besieged by a falcon flying overhead.  In the end, he falls in and blacks out…

   This movie was an interesting experience for me.  I ended up neither liking it strongly nor disliking it.  I was more or less in the middle all the time I was watching it.  Some parts stood out for me, others went way too slowly for my usual taste, but it was all good.  The acting was well-done, as I said, and why shouldn’t it be?  The first person we see in the movie, Baron Victor Frederick von Leppe, was portrayed by the legendary horror actor Boris Karloff.  In addition to being the actor who immortalized Frankenstein’s monster in the original Frankenstein, he also played the voices in the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas holiday cartoon, he hosted the 10 episode series The Veil in 1958, and starred in a whole slew of other monster and horror films.  The other major star of the film, Andre Duvalier, was played by Jack Nicholson, a legend in his own right.  Other genre titles he was in include Witches of Eastwick and Wolf, but really, his reputation speaks for itself.  Rounding out the strong male cast is Dick Miller who some might recognize as Mr. Futterman in the two Gremlins movies, and just about every Joe Dante film.  I would be remiss to not mention Jonathan Haze, who has a small part in this film as Gustav.  He plays Seymour Krelboin in the original Little Shop of Horrors, as well as other parts in movies such as X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Teenage Cave Man and Blood Bath.  On the female side of the coin, we have Sandra Knight as Helene.  She also played in Blood Bath, as well as Frankenstein’s Daughter and an episode in the horror anthology television series One Step Beyond.  Playing Katrina, the old woman who helps Andre recover his health, is Dorothy Neumann, who also guest starred in several television shows of the era, including the Addams Family, The Twilight Zone and even an episode of Tales from the Crypt shortly before she passed away in 1994.

   Altogether, I rate this film a 3 out of 5.  It’s a good way to kick off our first theme week, where we’ll be visiting the works of one of my favorite directors, Roger Corman.  So, I’ll see you all tomorrow.  Until next time, this is Red Hawk signing out!

The Grudge 2 (Unrated DVD)

Written on October 1st, 2008 by Red Hawkone shout
The Grudge 2 Unrated DVD
 

"They say that this is one of the most haunted houses in all of Japan."

- Miyuki

Welcome to our annual October festival named Happy Horrorween! I will be your host for the duration of the month, bringing you some of the best in horror from the past and present. And when I say the best, I mean it, as we’re doing something a little different this year: every full week of the month, we’ll be covering five movies that a certain horror celebrity has been associated with (either starring or directing) and on the sixth day I’ll be inducting that person into the Happy Horror Hall of Fame, where they’ll join the likes of Ted Cassidy and… well, Ted Cassidy’s the only one there, right now. But not for long!

Meanwhile, let’s kick things off right with another ghastly, ghostly epic. When I started my October festival (originally named Octoberfest), the first movies I reviewed were the original Ju-On and it’s sequel and remake. That year, Takashi Shimizu (a man who also deserves a spot in the HHHoF) released The Grudge 2 to the United States. A few scenes were, I believe, redone from the original Ju-On (the ghostly girls looking in through newspapered windows, for one), but for the most part the scenes are original to this film. It also somewhat brings the curse back to what the original Japanese films portrayed: jumping from person to person through contact outside of the house.

 

Scene from the Grudge 2 Unrated
 

The film starts with a couple arguing over breakfast (after the usual Grudge opening showing the rundown of how the curse operates), when the woman, Trish, walks around behind the guy, Bill, pours hot bacon grease over his head, then rears the skillet back and smacks him over the head with it extremely hard, causing him to fall to the ground and shake, blood draining onto the floor. From here (after the opening credits where we see a review of what happened at the heart of the curse), we go to the International School in Tokyo, where a girl, Allison, is running to try to catch up with two others, Miyuki and Vanessa. Allison seems desperate to try to fit in with the other two who seem somewhat stuck up (Miyuki comments on how Allison’s only been there three weeks, but Allison corrects her by saying they’ve been in the same class for six months). Vanessa mentions that Allison should eat with them sometime, but balks again when Allison seems too eager.

The trio approach the house and Allison hangs back a moment, wondering what it is. The other two start to tease her a little, telling her that anyone going inside becomes cursed. Vanessa starts in first, then Miyuki follows, pushing Allison ahead of her, as we see through a peephole that someone seems to be watching. Inside, the place is trashed and burned, most likely from Karen’s efforts in the first movie. Vanessa tells Allison that this was where the girl from the international college killed her boyfriend two years prior. As Vanessa and Allison start upstairs, Miyuki hears a noise from the bathroom and investigates, seeing the tub full of water (and leaves). Suddenly the water starts moving and Miyuki backs out quickly, telling Vanessa (who’s happy Allison’s getting freaked out by the place) that they should go. Vanessa talks her out of it and leads the way back upstairs and down the hall to the room where Yoko found the way to the attic in the first film. Allison ends up in the closet on a dare, but then the closet becomes impossible to open from either side. Allison sees Kayako’s face in the panel up to the attic and starts panicking more, finally getting out through the closet door and confronting her "friends" before running out again…

There’s more to the film than just the trio, of course, but I don’t want to spoil any more for you than I already have. You also meet Aubrey, Karen’s sister who’s been sent by their emphysemic mother to bring Karen back to the States again. And there’s also more involving Trish and Bill, the couple from the intro. There’s a lot going on in this movie and just like the first film, the scenes aren’t seen in chronological order so don’t worry if a little confusion might creep in during your viewing. Just remember that all the clues are there, they just have to be viewed in the right order.

 

Scene from Grudge 2 on DVD -<br />
Unrated
 

The acting in this movie was well-done all around. Returning from the previous film (at least, for some scenes early on) is Sarah Michelle Gellar as Karen. She’s not on camera for long, but what she has in it is really good. You’ll also remember her from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, among other things. Taking over as star this time is Amber Tamblyn who you might recognize from TV’s Joan of Arcadia, as well as playing Katie Embry in The Ring… she’s also in the non-horror Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, as well as its sequel. Playing Trish is Jennifer Beals, who’s probably best known for the 1983 film Flashdance, but she also played in 1985’s Frankenstein remake The Bride along with Sting and 1989 comedy Vampire’s Kiss with Nicolas Cage. Arielle Kebbel portrayed Allison, the unfortunate recipient of the closet’s locking. She stars in next year’s The Uninvited, as well as having a pretty good history with TV shows and a few non-genre movies. Reprising her role of Kayako, of course, is the lovely Takako Fuji. As for Toshio’s part, this time the part went to Oga Tanaka, as the original actor, Yuya Ozeki, had grown too tall between films. This is just a handful of the talented cast on hand.

The Unrated DVD has some really good features on it. Along with the usual behind the scenes featurettes and deleted scenes, they included Tales from The Grudge, three short films that are kind of offshoots of the series showing how the curse is growing and spreading outside of the house. Also, there’s a montage of the cast and crew goofing around with the scene clappers, set to the film’s spooky score, that is good for a laugh. Finally, as for languages, you can watch it in English or French. Mon dieu!

All in all, I’d be doing this film a disservice if I gave it anything less than a 5 out of 5. I’m looking forward to next year when The Grudge 3 comes out, although it already has a couple strikes against it in my book. First, it’s a straight-to-video offering, and the Grudge experience really works best in a theater environment. Secondly, the director isn’t Takashi Shimizu, but instead, the director of the Tales from The Grudge films, Toby Wilkins. However, Shimizu is producing the film and Wilkins did do a good job on Tales. So, I’ll be keeping an open mind (and wallet) when the third one comes out. In the meantime, there’s still a lot to enjoy about this film, and it definitely begs for more than one viewing. So, until next time, keep your eye out for creepy, meowing kids… and their creaking, croaking mothers… and this is Red Hawk signing out!

Happy Horror Death Note II Ticket Giveaway

Written on September 28th, 2008 by Red Hawk4 shouts

Death Note 2 Ticket Giveaway

How about this? One of the biggest things to happen on the site, yet. Fathom Events is showing the film Death Note II in selected theaters (only in the US, unfortunately) and Happy Horror has been asked to host a giveaway for two free tickets. The film is being held on two nights, October 15th and 16th, so if you want to see it, leave us a message here or in our forums to enter your name. At the end of September (2008) we’ll select a winner through a random drawing and that lucky person will get the opportunity to see the movie!

For those unfamiliar with the storyline of the original anime, or the first film, here it is: the story is about Light Yagami, a student who finds a supernatural notebook with the ability to kill anybody whose name is written in it. With it, Light determines to destroy all evil and make a world where he can rule. Against him is L, the world’s top detective, who’s determined to solve the mystery of the Death Notes and stop Light’s spree.

So, good luck to everybody who decides to enter the contest and we’ll let you know as soon as we find out. Talk to you all later, and as always, this is Red Hawk signing out!

You can find the complete list of where the film will show right here!

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Ghost of Mars on DVD

Written on July 3rd, 2008 by GlowStormLionone shout
A Powder Puff Mushroom
 

Since my review of Pitch Black (coming soon!) I’ve been thinking about my love of the whole mating of science fiction and horror films. Aliens make some of the best monsters and I love seeing how imaginative filmmakers can get when it comes to creating memorable extra-terrestrial fiends. While I wasn’t much of a Doom player, I did enjoy the premise of that game and found myself pretty freaked out by it at certain times. Pathetic I know, but actually… it gets worse.

The first movies I clearly remember seeing in the theaters were Bambi and E.T. when I was around four or five years old. I’m almost ashamed to admit that E.T. scared the hell out of me and after the scene with the rattling trashcans I spent most of the movie hiding under my blanket. For me, E.T. was the first blending of science fiction and horror. Crossing two genres I generally regard highly is almost always alot of fun. I can enjoy just about any crossing of horror with nearly any other genre, but science fiction and horror is my favorite. Man, when those two fuck the results are amazing!

Ghosts of Mars is no exception to that and I dare say it may be the finest film of its kind that I’ve seen so far.

 

A<br />
Powder Puff Mushroom
 

The story told is fairly simple. It’s the 22nd century (the year 2176 to be specific) and Mars has been terraformed so that we humans can screw it up walk on it without worrying about gravity or a breathable atmosphere. The society here is run by a "matronage". In other words, women are running things. We’ve got some lady law enforcement types who will be escorting a prisoner from a mining village to his appropriate penal camp. Of course, they’ll be running into some snags along the way since that’d be a pretty boring story in and of itself.

While some reviews I’ve read didn’t care for the acting, I certainly enjoyed it! The women in charge are Pam Grier (Jawbreaker, Jackie Brown), Natasha Henstridge (Species, Bounce) and Clea Duvall (The Grudge, 21 Grams). All of them have done work I’ve enjoyed in other films, so if you keep in mind that this film was made in the spirit of B-movies then I think you can appreciate their work in this title. The get great big guns, too, so really there’s not too much to complain about. Oh yeah, there’s also Jason Stratham (Cellular, Collateral), their hornball sidekick who’s along for the ride.

Ice Cube plays James "Desolation" Williams, the prisoner in need of transport, and does a damned fine job taking his pimp persona to Mars. Actually it was New Mexico and that’s gypsum covered in biodegradeable red food dye that they’re passing off as the surface of Mars, but I digress. The whole operation should be simple except for one little complication. The mining town is empty because some jackass went and opened a secret vault which freed the spirits of the ancient Martians. These spirits possessed the colonists available to them. This is not a good day and Ice Cube and friends are definitely going to have to make use of all available AK’s to dispense of their demonic foes.

What follows is your basic tale of intergalactic ass-kicking. The Martian spirits are remnants of an ancient civilization (which I’d have liked to know a whole lot more about!) and they’re capable of switching bodies when their current host dies. This helps make things alot trickier and far more interesting. When these spirits get ahold of us normal people they begin to turn us into damned fine interpretations of Marilyn Manson. Apparently, they not only self-mutilate, they also take the time to apply some wicked make-up as an extra fearsome (but lovingly offered) touch of cinematic madness.

 

A Powder<br />
Puff Mushroom
 

I was shocked to learn that it was not Natasha Henstridge who was originally set to play the lead cop-type. It was actually Courtney Love! While I definitely enjoyed Henstridge’s acting, I’d have loved to seen Kurt’s former wife in this role. We already know how deliciously violent she is with mere humans, just imagine how she’d act towards hostile Martians! Unfortunately, she had her foot run over by her boyfriend’s ex-wife which put her out of commission for the filming. Henstridge took over, but she became extremely sick from exhaustion because she’d just shot two other films back to back before she replaced Love and Ghosts of Mars required a great deal of heavy physical acting.

That’ll wrap it up for my review. I’m sure you know that I’m going to give this movie a 5 out of 5 because it’s just so fucking cool! If you’ve not seen it and think you might like it, give it a shot because John Carpenter directed a classic with this one.

So, until my next swear-filled review, this is GlowStormLion reminding you to check your ammo before you start smarting off, fool.

Monster Laboratory #5: Leprechaun Vampires

Written on June 18th, 2008 by GlowStormLionno shouts

This week’s been a real cooker down here in the dusty desert metropolis known as Phoenix, Arizona. All the heat’s serving up a wide variety of sweaty, fantastic ideas, some of which are best left until cooler moments to reconsider. Yet I feel this Wednesday’s Monster Laboratory may well leave a deep mark for its springs from the darkest childhood memories I posess. My deep fear of elves.

No laughing, Merry Readers, I’ve borne enough torture without the added burn of mockery, thank you. As a tiny tike I’d not really had the idea of elves fully explained to me. I’d not yet been exposed to Tolkien’s slender woodsmen variety and Keebler’s pint-sized cooks didn’t really register as elves. To me, elves took the form of tiny people, about the size of your average 3.5 inch action figure. However, the word "elves" sounded innately "evil" so I figured the truth about elves must be sinister.

 

A Merry Little Leprechaun Kicking Up His Heels
 

Darby O’Gill and the Little People didn’t help things out. I knew those "little people" were far too large to be accurate. In my pre-grade school ponderings I put together a portrait of elves as being the size mentioned above, as quick as mice but with the temperment of angry Gremlins. Viscious beings well-fed by our scraps having no other purpose that to hide until such time as they might spring from beneath your bed and attack, laughing in Kreuger-esqe fashion as they superglued the door shut so they could keep you in your bed room, attacking endlessly to the soundtrack of piercingly high-pitched cackles.

That’s probably why my parents didn’t let me drink pop after 5:00pm. My imagination respects no boundaries, Merry Readers, even in those single digit years my mind ran maverick. The tiny people might rig booby traps all about, use needles for spears and otherwise possess strength far superior to our own in terms of size to power ratios. Once I learned about the Irish legend on leprechauns, I realized I couldn’t be the only one who knew the true nature of tiny people. Leprechauns lusted after gold, told lies and made you search for special clovers that didn’t exist. The mythology mutated in my mind, growing darker, more terrible.

Maybe my parents began to see signs. When I began kindergarten, they forbid Lucky Charms as part of my nutritious breakfast, keeping me towards Raisin Bran or Wheaties, the choice always being mine. Because I knew Wheaties to be the breakfast of champions, I chowed down each morning in the hopes of maintaining the strength I’d need to fend off any incoming leprechauns.

Around first grade, a darker shadow overtook the leprechauns. I’d begun to stay up later and witness commercials for scary movies. Films featuring those fanged abominations known commonly as vampires. The terror struck deep and spawned a realization: the tiny people must be vampiric! That’s how they could be stomped, thrown against walls or pinned beneath heavy objects and never be badly injured! The day I made this connection a chill shot through me. Tiny undead leprechauns? Why, they’d be as close to invincible as any monster could possibly be!

And that is what I’ve revived in the Monster Lab this week: the bane of my childhood, Leprechaun Vampires. Now that I’m a real grown-up, I’m able to properly evaluate these childish fantasies and measure them against today’s standards. When I did that, I understood that little me came up with nothing short of pure brilliance. Not scary to you, yet? Allow me to elaborate, then.

Let’s use the setting of a movie. We’ve got a family consisting of a single mother and two young kids, a boy and a girl. They’ve gone through some hard times with mom’s old boyfriend which means they’ve lost their house and been forced to move into a large city so mom can be closer to work. Since she’s not even got a car at this point, she’s having to take the city bus. This means she’ll have to leave for work before the kids go to school and won’t get back until long after they’re home again. It’s the only way to pay the rent and the children, ages nine and eleven, fully understand.

Of course, these kids now have a whole bunch of alone time since a babysitter costs too much. They’re on the eighth floor of a massive old apartment complex which means they’ve got to pass any number of drunken bums or twitching crack addicts on their way up the creaking stairs to their apartment. These moments raise great fears, more for the older sister who’s aware of how dangerous people in this city can be. She hurries her brother to and from school, trying always to avoid speaking with anyone. Once they’re home they throw the locks and prop a chair against the door. From time to time they hear screaming, sirens and the occaisional seasoning of automatic gunfire. They try to drown it out with daytime television.

Life in old building’s usually feels spooky. There’s a haunting sense you get when you enter vast brick structures constructed a century ago. Thousands of people have lived, given birth and died within the walls of the Chesterfield Heights housing project. Constructed to house a booming population of impoverished city dwellers long ago, no one chooses to move into Chesterfield Heights. You go there when every other option’s been exhausted. As a result, the place reeks of despair, madness and the unique shade of bitter hatred poverty brings to the world. A setting that calls out to monsters who feed on those negative energies, nourished by suffering and sheltered by the fact that no one else in the city ever wants to investigate problems that go down in Chesterfield Heights.

The kids struggle to stay happy for mom who’s constantly exhausted by her day job. They never tell her about the scary things: the weird laughter that seems to come from the bath tub, the scurrying sounds in the heating vents or the numerous small items that disappear and re-materialize in their rooms almost daily. Little brother desperately wants to tell mom about the strange happening but older sister threatens him. She says mom doesn’t need the stress and that it’s probably rats doing all those things. She never seems to see the evidence he sees.

As winter sets in, the circumstances grow bleak and events ever stranger. Both children begin to wake each moring to tiny cuts in various parts of their bodies. Mom notices, but she says it may be fleas. Even though people aren’t allowed to have pets, many hide their cats. Plus, a great many stray cats sneak in when the outside doors get blown open at night. Fleas, she tells the children, promising to buy a powder to get rid of them as soon as possible. Little brother knows it’s not fleas. He’s awakened once in the middle of the night to see a small shadow creep across the bedroom floor. When he gasped, a tinkling sound of evil laughter came from that direction and the shadow vanished. He’s young enough to be terrified and old enough to realize no one will believe him if he tells what he saw. So he sets to work.

There we go, the perfect set up for the vampiric leprechaun movie. These things can disappear in a New York minute and fight meaner than New Orleans hooker! Sharp teeth, vision take allows them to see in complete darkness and being so miniscule, they need only small quantities of blood at any given time. In fact, in the Chesterfield Heights basement they farm rats to use as a back up supply, milking them for blood whenever there’s danger of them being discovered. Through a network of sewers and other pipes they’ve got something of an infrastructure. Groups trade with other groups, warning each other of any incoming danger of humans discovering them.

Always, the leprechaun vampires stick to isolated targets. Children left alone, single people with no social lives or even the elderly. They prey on those who haven’t got the ability to call in back-up. They thrive on the terror they’re able to evoke from their victims. They’re also nearly impossible to kill. They can hold their breath for hours (allowing them to ride through pipes in your house), be run over by cars and come out unscathed – even a grown man of tremendous strength could not close his fist around any but the weakest LV.

 

A flamethrower is the perfect weapon for fighting<br />
Leprechaun Vampires!
 

They fear two things, bullets and fire. Good luck hitting one with a bullet though, you’ve got better odds of knocking down a squirrel as it’s charging you and since they stick to indoor areas, you’re basically NOT going to hit them. Stick to fire. It’s cleansing properties cause the LV’s to tremble with terror. The pure heat utterly destroys them and they cannot revive themselves from a pile of ashes. Even candles scare them off fairly effectively. The only way to deal with an LV infestation is to firebomb the place. This also gives our movie series the chance to showcase awesome pyrotechnics which audiences adore!

Promotional gimmicks? Yes, I’ve thought of that, too! Action figures, Merry Readers, the Leprechaun Vampire action figure line would be a hot seller. Take a piece of the tiny terror home with you! In fact, an Asian variant could arrive during the opening scenes of the movie. Imagine a child purchasing an action figure, pleased as peaches with his new toy. He’d never notice the fact that it occaisionally moved, but we viewers would. We’d know that given the chance that LV would chew through the packaging and be free to rampage. Entire colonies of them sneaking into Hong Kong toy factories and disguising themselves as the latest, most popular must-have figures of the day. Then once they arrived in the stores, freeing themselves in their new city and setting up homes. Watch out, Wal-Mart, you’ll spread the undead plague!

Now comes the call to action. It’s your job to find the producers, directors and actors needed to get this show on the big screen. Leprechaun Vampires promise to re-invent cinematic horror. Nothing’s scarier than a little evil – there’s your tag line!

Until next I present you with a startling horrific Hollywood revolutionary, this has been GlowStormLion reminding you that it’s never to late to burn your home to the ground for safety’s sake.

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