MOVIE OF THE WEEK

SCIENCE'S NEWEST MIRACLE IS MANKINDS BIGGEST FEAR.

NEXT WEEK: THE LAST EXORCISM

POSTER OF THE WEEK 2

HALLOWEEN SPIN OFF

Let us introduce you to filmmaker William Sanders. He lives, breaths, sleeps everything to do with Michael Myers and the original Halloween. He has even gone so far to grabbing a few lines of dialogue from the film and creating an entire ninety-nine minute indie film named the "Last Supper: The Russellville Hacksaw Murders"

"Last Supper" is based on a line of dialogue from the film when Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) goes to a cemetery in search of Judith Myers’ grave. While in search of the grave marker, the graveyard keeper tells Loomis a story about Charlie Bowles, but before the gravekeeper can finish the story Loomis goes on about Michael Myers and the story of Halloween continues there.
For reference the dialogue reads per the script: "Every town has something like this happen. I remember a guy over in Russellville. Charlie Bowles. About fifteen year ago he finished dinner, excused himself from the table, went out into the garage and got a hacksaw, then came back into the house, kissed his wife and two children goodbye, and then proceeded to ..."

"This small scene has left many fans including myself wondering what did ol' Charlie Bowles do?" says Sanders. "In my research for this script and film, I have found that Charlie Bowles was a real man from John Carpenter’s past; rumor has it that he lives in Russellville, Kentucky, near Bowling Green and was a theatre owner at the theatre that Carpenter used to see films at."

"Last Supper: The Russellville Hacksaw Murders" has been written and will be directed by Sanders. Shooting begins this fall, quite possibly Halloween time. What do you think Bidites? Good idea for an extension of the original film?

SAW II: FLESH AND BLOOD (VIDEOGAME)

JIGSAW (TOBIN BELL) RETURNS FOR MORE HORROR, PAIN, SCARES, AND BLOOD!!!!

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Below is the official press release:

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., today announced that actor Tobin Bell will return as Jigsaw, voicing the bone-chilling character in the upcoming video game sequel of the most successful horror franchise in history - SAW. Currently in development for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, SAW II: Flesh & Blood introduces a new storyline that will haunt players as they go deeper into the horror and mystery of Jigsaw's subjects.

"Tobin Bell had such a prevailing performance in the first SAW game that there was no question about bringing him back for the sequel," said Shinji Hirano, President of Konami Digital Entertainment Inc. "Having Tobin's voice and likeness in SAW II: Flesh & Blood will give players their own haunting one-on-one relationship with Jigsaw, creating a horrifying and frightening experience that no SAW fan will ever forget."

"We are excited Tobin Bell is lending his voice once again for the video game's second installment, SAW II: Flesh & Blood. It's important for us to bring the original SAW elements into the gamers' view while staying consistent and keeping our diehard fans happy," said franchise producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules of Twisted Pictures.

The award-winning actor has claimed two MTV Movie Award nominations and three consecutive Spike TV Scream Award nominations for "Best Villain." Winning the Fuse/Fangoria Chainsaw Award for "Best Butcher," Bell's Jigsaw is widely regarded as one of cinema's most terrifying villains. His chilling and immediately recognizable voice is essential to the terror because he rarely confronts his victims in person, preferring to communicate via recordings, speaking through a puppet named Billy. Jigsaw traps his victims in brutal mechanical devices and forces them to acknowledge the mistakes in their life while testing their resolve to live, usually with gruesome and deadly consequences.

Following the success of the first SAW video game, SAW II: Flesh & Blood invites players back into Jigsaw's twisted world in an entirely new storyline that takes place between the first and second film. This time around players are put in the shoes of Detective Tapp's estranged son, Michael, who has been captured by Jigsaw after betraying his father. As the game evolves, players will face mind-bending puzzles as they navigate their way through Jigsaw's terrifying world and defend themselves against his minions. And of course, players must survive a new collection of stomach-twisting traps such as "Elevator Music," which chains victims to an elevator that will tear their bodies in half if they fail to solve three sets of puzzles before time runs out.

SAW II: Flesh & Blood will be released in North America, as will the seventh installment of the SAW film franchise in 3D, which is expected to hit theaters nationwide this Halloween. For more information about the game, please visit Konami online."

Key Features:

* Gruesome Mechanical Traps – Jigsaw has devised a new series of traps that will force you to make life or death decisions as you witness the machines destroy others and yourself

* Challenging Puzzles – A new set of puzzles will test your wits as you work quickly to advance through Jigsaw’s game

* New Combat System – The visceral fighting mechanic requires precise timing to defend yourself from aggressive minions

* Unique Horror Experience – With a blend of intense combat, mind-bending puzzles, and a twisted storyline, players will face horror and terror that only SAW can deliver

MOVIE OF THE WEEK

FREDDY KRUEGER IS BACK TO RELEASE MORE TERROR IN THE REMAKE OF THE ORIGINAL CULT CLASSIC.

NEXT WEEK: SPLICE

POSTER OF THE WEEK

RYAN REYNOLD'S "BURIED" POSTER

Plot:Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

FLASHBACK: HALLOWEEN 2

29 Years ago HALLOWEEN II debuted and thrilled many. The film's predecessor HALLOWEEN, a film by John Carpetner and Debra Hill, has grossed over 3 million dollars to date. The film was an obvious sucess and made as a cash cow because of the original movie. The film, directed by Rick Rosenthal, grossed $7,676,836 in one weekend and has grossed over $25,533,818 to date.

The film was overlooked by many as a common sequel. It is, however, a great work of art. The film has good direction and a cast that delivers. Overall the film holds it's spot in the numerous sequels of the HALLOWEEN franchise.

PLOT

(SPOILERS)

The film begins with the last few scenes of the original film, where Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) sends the two kids she's babysitting (Brian Andrews, Kyle Richards) to run and get help after the home has been invaded by psychopath Michael Myers (Dick Warlock). After the kids run off screaming, she is attacked by Myers again, and is rescued when Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) arrives and shoot Myers off of the upstairs balcony.

From here, the film is entirely new. Loomis rushes out to the lawn and finds that Myers has vanished, leaving behind only a bloody imprint in the grass. He instructs a neighbor to phone the news to the police and runs off in search of Myers again. Myers, aka The Shape, lurks in the alleys nearby, watching Dr. Loomis from a distance. Loomis meets up with Sherrif Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers) and they drive off in another direction in search of Myers. Myers then steals a kitchen knife from a neighbor woman (Lucille Benson). Down the street, Myers sees a young girl by the name of Alice (Anne Bruner) outside and stalks her. Inside, Alice is speaking on the phone with a friend who informs her that someone was murdered in Haddonfield. Alice switches on the radio and is shocked at the news when suddenly, the back door creaks open. Afraid, Alice ventures into the living room where Myers jumps out and thrusts the kitchen knife into her chest, causing blood to spurt up onto her neck.

Paramedics arrive at the Doyle house and take Laurie away on a stretcher. She appears to be in shock, and she begs them not to put her to sleep. The two EMTs are Budd (Leo Rossi) and Jimmy (Lance Guest). Jimmy is younger and takes an immediate interest in Laurie, concerned and obviously distressed that someone close to him in age has been attacked in Haddonfield. They take her to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she is tended to by Dr. Mixter (Ford Rainey), head nurse Mrs. Alves (Gloria Gifford), and RN Jill (Tawny Moyer).

Loomis and Brackett circle the neighborhood and happen upon a young man wearing a white mask similar to the one worn by Myers. In a freak accident, they pursue him but an approaching patrol car crashes into him and then into the side of a van. The violent explosion incinerates the body. One of the approaching patrolmen, Deputy Hunt (Hunter von Leer), has come to tell Brackett the bad news that his daughter is among the dead that have been discovered in the wake of Myers's rampage. They drive off to the location so that Brackett can identify her. Brackett, in shock at finding his daughter dead, blames Loomis for allowing Myers to escape and departs, leaving Hunt in charge. Loomis convinces Hunt that Michael Myers could possibly still be alive, since they are uncertain who exactly was struck and killed by the patrol car.

Another young nurse, Karen (Pamela Susan Shoop) arrives at the hospital after staying too late at a Halloween party. She is sharply reprimanded by Mrs. Alves, even as they are both unaware that Michael Myers is lurking in the hospital, watching them--Myers has overheard a radio broadcast announcing that Laurie was taken to the hospital, and has followed her here. Jimmy schemes to be alone with Laurie, both to console her and get closer to her. He reveals to her that the crazy man who was pursuing her earlier was Michael Myers, who escaped from the mental hospital the previous night. Laurie is confused and does not understand why she seems to have been targeted by Myers. Mrs. Alves interrupts and sends Jimmy away, then discovers that the phones are suddenly out of service. The security guard, Mr. Garrett (Cliff Emmich), explores the basement and rear of the hospital to search for the trouble and after he searches one of the closets, Michael suddenly leaps out and kills him by bashing him over the head with the back of a hammer. Mr. Garrett's death goes unnoticed despite the presence of a nursing assistant named Janet (Ana Alicia).

Loomis and Hunt investigate a break in at the local elementary school and find that Myers has been there; a child's drawing of a family has a butcher knife sticking in the image of the sister, and the word "Samhain" has been scrawled in blood on the chalk board. Loomis remarks on the Celtic origins of the word, and he is surprised when Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) approaches him. Chambers, who was with Loomis the previous night when Myers made his escape, has been sent with a Marshal (John Zenda) to return Loomis to Haddonfield, on orders from the governor. Loomis is forcibly taken away, while Hunt promises to find Myers.

Myers continues to murder the staff at the hospital. Budd and Karen attempt to make love in a hospital therapy pool, but Myers turns up the temperature until Budd gets out to check it. After strangling Budd to death, he approaches Karen from behind and seizes her, holding her under the scalding hot water until she drowns, the flesh peeled away from her face.

Laurie has a reaction to her medication and goes into shock, and when Janet goes to get Dr. Mixter, she finds him dead in his private office, a needle thrust into one eyeball. Myers appears behind Janet and grabs her, thrusting another needle into her temple until she, too, falls down dead.

Jimmy goes off to find help when nobody returns, and Jill is summoned by another patient. While she is gone, Myers enters Laurie's room at stabs at her bed, but she is gone. When Jill returns, she finds the room empty. Hindered by a cracked ankle and dazed from the drugs, Laurie limps through the now-quiet halls of the hospital, looking for a safe place to hide.

Jimmy reappears and sends Jill off to get help, telling her to drive into town and bring back the police. But after she leaves, he finds the body of Mrs. Alves tied to a table, an IV tube in her arm having drained all of her blood out onto the floor. Suddenly he panics and tries to run, but he slips in the blood and falls on his back, slamming his head down on the floor, rendering him unconscious.

Jill finds all of the cars in the parking lot disabled, the tires slashed and the engines tampered with. After she runs back into the hospital, she sees Laurie in a hallway and tries to reach her, but Myers appears and kills her with a scalpel in her back. Laurie witnesses it and is terrified into action; she runs through the halls with Myers in pursuit. Rushing down a stairwell and into the basement, Laurie corners herself in a boiler room and must climb through a small window near the ceiling to escape, Myers almost slashing her ankles. After nearly cornering her again in an elevator, Laurie escapes and rushes into the parking lot, hiding in a parked car.

In the Marshal's car, Marion has a discussion with Dr. Loomis where she reveals information that he did not previously know; Laurie Strode is actually the sister of Michael Myers, born two years before Michael's original crime and adopted after the death of the parents two years after. Loomis immediately understands that Michael is after Laurie for a reason and commandeers the Marshal's car, pulling a gun on him and forcing him to make for the hospital.

In the parking lot of the hospital, Laurie sees a dark shape open the car door and get inside--it is Jimmy. He tries to start the car and cannot; Laurie tries to talk to him but he falls over the wheel again, passed out. The horn goes off and Laurie panics again, her hiding place revealed. She tries to leave the car and falls in the parking lot, still dazed. As she lays there, the Marshal's car pulls up and Loomis, Marion, and the Marshal get out and go into the hospital. Laurie cannot cry out until it's too late and they are inside, pulling the doors shut behind them.

As she gets to her feet, Myers appears across the parking lot, walking slowly toward her. Laurie runs to the doors and bangs on them, screaming, and attracts the attention of the others. They let her inside and Myers walks right through the closed glass doors. Loomis shoots him with his gun and he falls over, seemingly dead. After sending Marion out to the Marshal's car to use the radio for summoning the police, Loomis turns to comfort Laurie. Myers rises up again and slits the Marshal's throat with a scalpel, chasing Loomis and Laurie deeper into the hospital.

They corner themselves in an operating room. As Myers breaks down the door, Loomis gives Laurie his gun, which only has two shots left in it. When Myers gets in, he stabs Loomis in the stomach. Loomis falls over, mortally wounded. Laurie tries to stop Michael by calling his name, but he advances on her and she shoots him in the eyes. Blinded, he starts swinging his scalpel wildly. Loomis struggles to his feet and begins releasing oxygen into the room from the many tanks on the walls. Laurie follows suit until the doctor tells her to run. She bolts from the room and runs down the hall as Loomis ignites his cigarette lighter, causing a huge explosion. Even from the inferno, Myers emerges and keeps walking toward Laurie, until the flames consume him and he falls.

As the sky lightens into morning, Laurie is taken outside the hospital and placed into the back of an ambulance, as reporters, authorities and other onlookers watch. She stares blankly as the ambulance pulls away, seemingly in shock, but alive.