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"Sleep is for babies; Men get stoned unconscious"
- Ujjwal Dey

"Take a bee for instance or an ant. We live like that. Only, they believe in their purpose while we struggle to find our own."
- Ujjwal Dey

"We drive till we find a sunrise that we like"
- Ujjwal Dey

"For a nomad, there is no language barrier. He is nature's child. If someone can't understand you, it means you are becoming civilised."
- Ujjwal Dey

"The winds don't bend to our wishes, but we can set ourselves free to fly to new skies."
- Ujjwal Dey

"A truly wise man knows there is nothing to fear. A happy man knows there is more to endear. An intelligent man knows how to slap them both back to reality."
- Ujjwal Dey

"The tornado of passion, the torrent of love - all you can hold on to is your faith, for trust may need a reason - but belief comes from within."
- Ujjwal Dey

"The only true fear a Man should overcome, is to fear to tread into his own self - to not look within."
- Ujjwal Dey


"When we shed our clothes and put on new ones, we never do change our nature. But there is the opportunity and possibility to change to suit our new colours, to be dressed for the success every conditioned human seeks.

When we shed our mortal selfs and stand immaculate before our Creator, we never do change our indestruc...tible Soul. But now we recognise there is the opportunity and possibility to be our inherent self, to be undressed from the Maya/ illusion of self.

For we are fragments of the Super Soul and his image however small in a smallest mirror, will forever possess virtue and compassion. Just as a drop of ocean still belongs to the expansive ocean and retains its flavour, no matter how miniscule - it is there - you are it."
- Ujjwal Dey

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Get American Address and Ship all goodies in one bag

Hello dudes and dolls,

Wonderful uber-cool websites for Christmas shopping.

http://www.darkfigures.com/

A very cool website with the best action figures from your favourite characters in Movies, Books, Games, TV shows, etc

http://www.cmdstore.com/

This one has all that plus action figures of NFL players and celebrities - get your own Johnny Depp or Fox Mulder (X-Files) or Lost/ Heroes/ 24 etc. If you are ever in Canada, visit their huge store.

• Unfortunately many websites including the 2 above don't Ship to India.
• Also many good websites charge ridiculous amount of money to Ship to India.
• Then, you may be buying a single product from a website and shopping at multiple websites for a few products.

So how do you get all your goodies to your home in India - bunching the shipping from different websites and shipping them together to India?


Fear Not - I present to you, your very own American Address

http://www.comgateway.com/

ComGateway - Get American !!!

Get a free American Address.

For fellow dorks like me who like to buy American - many shops won't ship outside USA/ Canada because of the troubles they have to go through to declare stuff with the American government staff on international shipping. Also such shipping is expensive at some sites for no reason. Or for buying from multiple websites and shipping it together.

So you can have your own American Address and then these guys will ship it to you anywhere in the world.

Example: I recently tried to buy The New Yorker box DVD of 100 years of their magazine issues and they claimed a ridiculous USD 60+ for Shipping to India. LOL.

And I want my Jason Voorhees and Hannibal Lecter and Indiana Jones and Capt. James T. Kirk from the Collectibles Store mentioned above.

So now - you have a virtual home in USA with ComGateway - store all your stuff there till they arrive from multiple websites and then send them all to your India Address in one gigantic Goodie Box.

LOL - isn't DotCom Business the best. Makes me wonder how much more ideas are out there waiting to become the next Yahoo/ Google/ Amazon.

AWESOMENESS !!!

Shopping online: Action figures, Toys, Fiction Stars, Movie Characters

Hey dudes and dolls,

Buy your own pet monster....

http://www.cmdstore.com/

http://blog.cmdstore.com/

http://www.darkfigures.com/


Bloody expensive - maybe Santa Claus will stuff it in my stocking - hope he leaves my legs in one piece.

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Movie Review: Nightmare on Elm Street 4

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Nothing to write home about. Well, it is better than the movie number 3 reviewed earlier.

The reason this movie works for me is simply the better setting/premise for the story - a high school atmosphere, safe and friendly - and then Freddy is back and the giggling kids are dying.

LOL.

So the high school premise definitely is better than the unbelievable mental hospital setting in previous movie.

Also - then there is a better play among the characters - unlike in previous movie - sort of understandable interaction/ rapport.

Here, the girl from previous movie Kristen gets used by Freddy Krueger to bring in other kids into her dream and thus feed Freddy's bloodlust.

So her 2 surviving friends from previous movie are sucked in. A pet dog gets sucked into the dream and the dog digs up the grave where the yummy bones of Freddy Krueger lay in restlessness.


Well, it was kinda funny - the scene where the dog pisses on Freddy Krueger's grave and Freddy comes alive through that.

It would have been funnier if the dog was a bitch. LOL. Imagine that. Well the dog was named Jason and I wonder if it is in any reference to the other big franchise of the time - Friday the 13th.


A good funny line that worked for me was when Kristen is back in Freddy's wonderhouse and she sees a diner ----

the waitress asks her "Come on, what will it be - I don't want to stay here forever."

LMAO


But most of the supposedly fun bits are too tedious. Also, too many good characters seem to die very lame or rather in easy/uncreative ways.

The best part of this movie is that it emphasises its main premise - the subtle distinction between reality and dreams.

It is normal for kids to be fascinated with dreams and it is normal for them to be wishful thinking at many ages.

So this is the film series' trump card you know.

To present the blending horizon of dreams and reality - a real waking horror when you consider its implications.

So enjoyable movie - but nothing exceptional.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_4:_The_Dream_Master

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Movie Review: Nightmare on Elm Street 3

Wes Craven and John Carpenter are two horror flick directors I admire, simply for their devotion to pulp - plus the vast array of skills they possess, well beyond being simply a "Director".


A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

That said - this Wes Craven franchise - is disappointing. Not directed by him but co-scripted.

I don't know - even the pathetic Hellraiser 6 I reviewed last week seems better than this 3rd Freddy movie - which was co-scripted by Wes Craven himself.

Oh the humanity!!!!!!!!

http://nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com/

Well it is just typical slasher and gore - no real creativity or originality.

Freddy's Mom shows up as a ghostly guide in this one. Freddy Krueger - the bastard son of a 100 criminally insane men who have attacked staff member of the facility - and now that Nun/mother is back to guide a psychiatrist to find a solution to end this terror.

Sounds horrible - but from the look of it - it isn't.

Also - I have the 3rd and 4th movie in this Nightmare series - both of which claim horror and humour.

Call me silly, but I couldn't see any humour. There is no joking or witty one-liners or irony or satire or comedy of any recognisable sort.

Maybe the skeleton of Freddy with the blade battling briefly with the psychiatrist at Freddy's grave (discovered to eliminate Freddy) is supposed to be funny - but it is so only in a stupid clumsy horror way.

Evil Dead movies were horror + humour.
Even Hannibal series has horror + humour.

But I would call it false advertising on their movie/DVD covers when they say it is great horror and humour.

Even the gore is very predictable and lack the imagination which I would say is poorer than the Jason X or Midnight Meat Train (brilliant by comparison) I reviewed previously.


But let's not forget - this Nightmare 3 was made way back in 1987.

So I will discount the lame typical horror fare silliness as cultural factor of the movies back then.

But there is no excuse for not having a story to make a movie on. LOL.

So the last of the Elm Street children are locked away in a mental hospital suffering fatal nightmares and this time a kid from the first movie is now back providing therapy for these kids. And this hot chick seems to become unspecified but implied love interest of the male doctor who at first doesn't believe in Freddy dream terrors but then "gets with the programme" so to speak. An unbelieving old haggard female plays the boss of the mental hospital who fires these 2 nitwits for encouraging the delusions of the kids - 2 of whom have died since they started their treatment.

Laurence Fishburne is wasted in this movie as a wardboy type of character. He was not even prominently mentioned and his name appears on the DVD only because he is now an established celebrity - well it duped me into buying the damn movie.

In the movie credits Fishburne is mentioned as "Larry Fishburne"

Thank God he changed his name cause with that name it would have been difficult to be a critically acclaimed actor. I watched him briefly on CSI - but that was some old season which I can't find on air anymore.

IMDB lists his acting career dating back to 1972 - so a long wait for him to break into the big celeb world. Haven't seen him in any great movies recently - so don't know what's going on with him.

John Saxon wasted in here as well. But well, he has never been a force to reckon with really.


Back to this movie....
Logically - think about it - if some damn doctor/s tell you that your kid is haunted in his/her dream by some evil bastard son of devils - would you leave your kids in these idiots hands for medical treatment. So I sympathise with the old woman playing the hospital head - she is almost shown in poor light, but she is generous and kind and the 2 therapists seem to understand her point of view and its only the kids who think that old woman is nuts.

Well - if it isn't believable, if it isn't anything new, if it isn't even remotely scary with all its display of blood and guts - what is it ? It's not a good horror flick.

Watch at the risk of your own patience and pocket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_3:_Dream_Warriors



Wikipedia Said:
In Jan 2008, Variety reported that Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes production company would be rebooting the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Robert Englund will not reprise the role of Freddy, and that Samuel Bayer was hired to direct the film.


For Trivia

Wikipedia Said:

Nightmare 7 (1994) written and directed by Wes Craven

Craven had intended to ask Johnny Depp, whose feature film debut was in A Nightmare on Elm Street, to make an appearance as himself. But Craven was too timid to ask him. Upon running into each other after the film's release, Depp said he would have been happy to do it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Craven%27s_New_Nightmare Also..... Johnny Depp made a cameo appearance in the sixth installment, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Wikipedia Said:

Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor, best known for playing the fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in 1987 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in 1988. Despite his reputation for appearing in horror films, Englund is a classically trained actor.

Movie Review: The Midnight Meat Train

The Midnight Meat Train

Clive Barker's short story gets rewritten for a film. Based on a short story that appears in his collection "Books of Blood". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Blood

Well the short story was pretty awesome. The movie adds characters including a girlfriend and a change of job for our Leon who becomes an artistic photographer in the movie from desk-nerd in the short story (The Subway Butcher had addressed him as an accountant with being meat as the most useful thing he could ever be - LOL).

Well - the movie is gripping - but not because of the storyline - which has changed considerably.

Leon is in the movie stalking Mahogany (Subway Butcher) because he has strange notions about him and Leon's dreams seem to suggest either ESP or just mental imbalance.

Okay, I don't want to be cruel - the short story as it was would be a poor tiny movie-let - so the change to the storyline was the rational thing to do to make a movie out of it. The short story solely existed with the 2 characters - Leon and Mahogany.

Gripping movie? Well because its "bloody" shocking at the gruesome crime and gore shown in this movie.

I MEAN WOW!!! I didn't know such graphic explicit violence was even legally allowed to be shown.

Well, okay, it is all relevant - since we are dealing with a professional butcher who now for some reason is hanging midnight train passengers, naked, upside down - like a line of fresh cows for slurping by..... ? ? ?

Well, that's the other major change from the short story into the movie version - the motives, purpose, confrontation, etc.

Watch it - I would say it is much better than the regular horror franchises I have been reviewing recently.

I had an afternoon nap and did have a brief nightmare - the actors are great - unknown but good talented actors - the Subway Butcher indeed looks his role and acts like one - as if this movie was being shot without the knowledge of a psychopath who is billed as Mahogany. He is that good and convincing as a dedicated butchering killer.

Brooke Shields in a small but very visible role in this movie. Love that gal.


Please try and find and read the short story before watching the movie - you will appreciate both the story and the movie more that way.

Just goes to show that Clive Barker's short stories are so intensely good horror pieces that they are even relevantly adapted into modern movies so many years later - and it works.

http://www.clivebarker.info/

I hope some decent director does something well - a decent modern adaptation of - H P Lovecraft fiction.

Will I see the day that happens? I will haunt Hollywood in wait baby !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Meat_Train

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Movie Review: Jason X

JASON X
Evil gets an upgrade

Wikipedia says: Friday the 13th is the highest grossing horror franchise in the United States, with approximately $614 million. The Hannibal Lecter film series follows closely with $573 million, A Nightmare on Elm Street with $522 million, Halloween with $517 million, Scream with $400 million, Saw with $378 million, Psycho with $371 million, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with $315 million, and the Child's Play film series rounding out the list with approximately $200 million. The financial success has extended to home release, with more than five million DVDs sold by 2005.

The tenth movie in this ever successful franchise!

There already is a 2009 reboot of the franchise that I have yet to hunt down.

This is better than you would hope.

At first imagining the "hero" of countless Friday the 13th movies in space seems ridiculous.

But there is a nice back story to cover this excuse for mayhem and murder in outer space.

So Jason is frozen with cryogenics since he doesn't die by electric chair or lethal injection or hanging or firing squad, etc. Then in the future when Earth is doomed - a team of teenage students land on Earth as routine educational "bus trip" and find a dead woman beside the ice chamber of Jason at the now decrepit Crystal Lake facility.

Back on the ship their teacher revives the woman who had also frozen, who recounts her death by Jason - who is now missing from his autopsy table. LOL.

And the deaths in space begin.

But don't worry - within a minute of the movie starting, Jason is already hacking away at army generals and scientists in 2010.

I don't know which SciFi to compare it to - except maybe Alien - but that had the sexy Sigourney Weaver battling it out alone for most of the movie.

These idiotic students from year 2455 have now done the same mistake - brought the killer on board the ship.

Jason X is definitely a good SciFi with its technology display and humour.

Plus, there is a hot lovable cute female android who goes one-on-one with Jason.

The entire movie is gripping, especially the last half will have you glued to your seat and you won't know whom to root for actually. Well the human characters, even though played by unknown actors - are good actors, and in the small time have a decent enough characterisation to make you sympathise with them.

Of course, like all slasher films, this too has the space-borne students getting horny at every opportunity in scenes in which sometimes they end up getting f***ed (killed) by Jason.

There is intrigue, action, horror/ gore, backstabbing (not just by Jason), SciFi, humour, even a bit of love and humanity, great fireworks and special effects.

Fun movie for FRIDAY THE 13th that went by 2 days ago. Won't give you nightmares because its just a slasher movie and not really a mindbender like a few of the Hellraiser or Hannibal series or some of the other cool horror flicks.

On a scale of one to five, I would give it a 3 and yet say you will enjoy it. The 3 because I am not a fan of the slasher genre, whereas the Hannibal type of horror is more comprehensively entertaining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_X

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Movie Review: The Game Plan

THE GAME PLAN

No matter how many times they show this on TV, I watch it again and again.

I simply love this cute story of a successful football player finding out he has a young daughter and then the humour of him dealing with the spunky kid and then there is also the ballet teacher as a romantic interest. Even the various other characters - the footballers, the guy's PR manager, the whole cast is simply beautiful and perfect in this perfect story.

A MUST SEE MOVIE !!!

It has to be the best movie Dwayne THE ROCK Johnson has ever done and I don't know how he will ever top this.

Going from his macho image to this loveable giant - he does it so naturally - because in reality - he is a great guy.

Vin Diesel and Arnold Governator have failed in their attempts to showcase their acting skills through Kid Movies.

Here The Rock has successfully made a great movie as well as showcased his talent on screen in being so fluent in his dialogue, timing, rapport with the other cast members, his visible presence, charm and in general AWESOMENESS.

A true WALT DISNEY movie - it has a happy ending and the music and dancing at the end credits is worth seeing again as well.

Great cast of actors - every one of them lively and entertaining for every second they are on screen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Plan_(film)

A movie made for USD 22 m, it grossed $USD 137,766,652 worldwide in box office - plus it earned USD 45.79 m in DVD - a clear commercial winner as well.

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Movie Review: Hellraiser 5 and 6

Clive Barker broke onto the literature scene like a bat out of hell - suddenly so many great short stories by him were everywhere and loved and ingested to the very core of horror fiction fans.

Then came HELLRAISER.
So this post for Friday the 13th November 2009.

Hellraiser: Inferno

So well I couldn't resist the cheap discounts on this anymore. Seduced by its mystique I indulged in guilty sinful pleasure of this movie - one of many in the Hellraiser franchise.

I haven't seen any other of the Hellraiser movies but it doesn't seem to matter.

The movie is AWESOME ! It starts off with a noir-like narrative by a super-intelligent police detective. You may think he is so upright and just - but he has his own indulgences and he likes a lot of kinky stuff and drugs on the side even though married (happily) and has a kid daughter.

This is the kind of horror movies that are truly scary.

The stupid ones with those puppet creatures and special effects look comical and irritating.

This - we see Hell on Earth - and that's scary. Because these sequence of events unfold such that you would think it could happen to you and it sure seems more scary to find Hell so close to home.

So the detective has to get to solve this riddle, this puzzle - this case - before he is completely implicated in random murders and loses his sanity.

The Pinhead is here known at first as "The Engineer" - which is his streetname and people think of him as a grandiose criminal and boss of organised crime.

"If you hunt for the Engineer, the Engineer will hunt you"

Pretty awesome blending of modern elements with the core nature of our human fears.

The actor playing the detective is good I think - he has that face for that role - he does well. Craig Sheffer is the guy who was in Academy Award winning movie from Robert Redford "A River Runs Through It" with Brad Pitt.

Strangely this fifth installment of Hellraiser was also the first to go straight-to-DVD.

I say this is a great movie - and the idiots don't know the innovative presentation of horror and of that franchise.

The ending is left open, whether the police detective lives in his Hell forever or takes the only way out - suicide ?

You don't need to see blood and guts to create a horror film - it is all in the mind, the unsaid, the evident, the implicit, etc.

Idiots I tell ya! Its a great movie !
The whole idea - the point of view of a cop trying to be the best cop and at the same time battling his personal temptations - and then the "game" with an unknown criminal mastermind - THE ENGINEER (Pinhead).

wiki said: Inferno is unique in the Hellraiser series in that it underplays the high level of gore of the earlier films. Many scenes cut away before the moment of violence. Others praised the movie for relying on physcological terror and not relying overtly on consistent gore and the presence of Pinhead [Doug Bradley], instead the character acting as a demonic morale judge and his screen time cut back to even less of that of the original picture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellraiser:_Inferno

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Hellraiser: Hellseeker

This one was the next one.
Okay movie. Not that scary. Very irritating at times. The guy has lost his memory in an accident and like him - we don't know fact from fiction - as he goes about reconstructing the events of past.

Also went straight to DVD - that's about right for this.

The original gal from the first Hellraiser movies - the only human to have escaped Pinhead - returns in this movie.

And she will make a deal with that Devil.

Not really spooky. Very lame horror and it turns out as not even a good suspense nor crime story.

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I guess I tried to read up on Clive Barker and Hellraiser series out of curiosity and appreciation of his imagination.

But it gets repetitive if every film in that franchise is going to talk about some horny promiscuous man having multiple sexual partners and a few indulgences of drugs/booze thrown in for good measure.

I mean, so much can be done with this - and they stick to the successful horror formula used by every other horror movie - young people having sinful sex - and getting paid back with nightmares that turn real.

They are going to remake the original movie (well someday, been quite a wait since announced).

Check out this official site of that multi-talented man:
http://www.clivebarker.info/

He is a playwright, horror author, fantasy children's novels author, painter, illustrator for his own books, directed the first and most successful Hellraiser movie, etc. etc. etc.

One of his short stories was made into the successful movie "Candyman". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_(film)

Hope to see more from him soon.

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Movie Review: Bullitt

AWESOMENESS !!!

Steve McQueen - BULLITT

He did whole lot of things for this movie including driving the car himself in the great car chase in San Fransisco. Year 1968.

No damn studios here - real hospital - real streets - real airport.

Even the doctors and nurses shown in the hospital scenes are actual doctors/ nurses - not actors.

Great stuff.

I have a DVD which they call "New Digital Transfer" - whatever that means.

Jacqueline Bisset as I have never seen her before - she looks so innocent and beautiful instead of the gorgeous bomb she is in later movies. She is actually perfect opposite copper BULLITT who wouldn't be attracted to fake smiles, glam or artificial beauty.

She looks splendid in her small role. As does Robert Duvall, so young he is in the movie.

I have the Special Features which has "Steve McQueen's dedication to reality" - a great small feature that shows how he did himself - all that action and making a REAL story instead of a glam movie.

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Movie Review: Neverwas

NEVERWAS (2005)

A great idea for a movie, a good concept - totally ruined and wasted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwas

Ian McKellen completely wasted in this stupid pathetic movie.

Aaron Eckhart? Well he has done some great movies - but I guess he accepted scripts hoping to make it to the very big league and didn't really pay attention to what shite he was putting his name to.

Is it a wonder the movie went straight to DVD and never was released in cinema halls?
I am not at all surprised.

The concept: A brilliant psychiatrist returns to a hospital where once his father was admitted for schizophrenia. His father had written one super great children's book about a kid finding justice for his banished father who is the King of a great kingdom.

This fantasy of the children's book is to blend with the work of the psychiatrist in this mental hospital.

The reality: A stupid bullshite movie full of cliched crappy characters and worse scenes and pathetic unconvincing acting.

I sympathise with the actors - they had nothing to work with in the first place - poorest of script and worse direction.

Everything looks so lame - and the way these patients are presented and the 2 leading actors/characters - the father/son - King/saviour - is totally pathetic and stupid.

Other wasted talent include Nick Nolte and Brittany Murphy.

It was neither a commercially nor critically acceptable movie.

There is complete lack of concern for the subject of mental illness and how such patients are to be portrayed. No insight into any characters nor the medical condition nor why the damn book is important to anyone.

There is so much that could have been done with that concept.

There are so many innovative ways mental illness has been blended into a great movie:
* Girl Interrupted
* Instinct
* One flew over the cuckoo's nest
* A beautiful mind

I would say even a film like Dark Knight with Heath Ledger as Joker is a better use of mental illness in a movie's primary storyline. And Aaron was great as the TwoFace villain another mentally affected guy in that movie.

Waste of time and producer's resources.

The film's name is ironical for the idiots who ruined this project.

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Movie Review: Species - The Awakening

Species - The Awakening

If there is a worse movie in recent years then I have yet to know about it.

The first Species movie was brilliant piece of pulp scifi.

The second the lame sequel which should have killed the franchise.

Then came this piece of retard film-making which is worse than shooting your own horse and placing its decapitated head in your own bed - it not only ruins the whole concept and future of Species, but also makes you vomit at the stupidity that gets millions of dollars of investors in a professional place such as Hollywood.

Somebody tell director Nick Lyon to find himself a new vocation as a favour to himself instead of sharing his miserable lack of talent with fans of the original Species movie.


WHAT IS SPECIES AWAKENING ?

Complicated question - here is a simple answer:

ingredients: Species DNA premise, X-Men makeup, Matrix style upload of knowledge, leaps as seen in Spiderman, horror from The Omen, etc. etc. etc.

A hash of a million cult movies - with a choppy editing job - with no comprehensible script skill - with the worst of ham acting - forget predictability, it will shock you at its pedestrian entirety.

Phew! I am at a loss of words to describe the utter futility of attempting to watch this piece of shit float around and then jerk around, like a turd refusing to drown, fretting about frenetically and stinking up the surroundings with the disgust that makes you want to burn down the house for having noticed this pile of crap in your home.

On the plus side - the doll faced protagonist villain looks good for a few early moments - where she is whiter than Nicole Kidman and has her nose and facial appearance as well as hair. I think she may have risked ending her career before she could start. And maybe you will not notice this nonsense and concentrate on skin display instead.

What is the original beauty of Species - Natasha Henstridge - doing these days ? She was the best find to come out of a pulp movie in years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_-_The_Awakening

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