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Laagna is een subdistrict of wijk (Estisch: asum) binnen het stadsdistrict Lasnamäe in Tallinn, de hoofdstad van Estland. De wijk telde 23.469 inwoners op 1 januari 2020. en is daarmee wat aantal inwoners betreft de vierde wijk van Tallinn, na Mustamäe, Väike-Õismäe en Lilleküla.

De wijk grenst vanaf het noorden met de wijzers van de klok mee aan de wijken Paevälja, Loopealse, Tondiraba, Sõjamäe, Pae en Kurepõllu.

Geschiedenis

Lasnamäe was tot in de jaren zeventig van de 20e eeuw een terrein waar kalksteen werd gewonnen. Het gebied is een kalksteenplateau. In de jaren zeventig begonnen de toenmalige Sovjetautoriteiten flatwijken te bouwen voor de vele immigranten van buiten Estland. In de jaren tachtig stopte men daar geleidelijk mee. Het ontwerp van Lasnamäe lag bij het architectenbureau Eesti Projekt onder leiding van Mart Port (1922-2012).

De flatwijken bestonden allemaal uit kleine groepjes geprefabriceerde huizenblokken, microdistricten genoemd, die onderling gescheiden waren door doorgaande wegen. Laagna is geen uitzondering.

Door Laagna loopt de verkeersweg Laagna tee. Voor de aanleg van de Laagna tee is een stuk van het kalksteenplateau afgegraven. Vandaar de bijnaam 'Lasnamäekanaal' (Estisch: Lasnamäe kanal) of simpelweg 'Het Kanaal' voor deze weg. Tussen 1986 en 1992 heette de weg Oktoobri tee. De weg heeft een brede middenberm. Oorspronkelijk lag het in de bedoeling daar een lightrailverbinding tussen het centrum van Tallinn en Lasnamäe aan te leggen. Over het nut van die verbinding wordt nog altijd gediscussieerd.

Voorzieningen
In de wijk is een polikliniek met de naam Medicum en een sporthal waar atletiek bedreven wordt, de Lasnamäe Kergejõustikuhall Tallinnas. De wijk heeft twee middelbare scholen, het Tallinna Laagna Gümnaasium en het Russischtalige Lasnamäe Vene Gümnaasium.

In de wijk is het Vene Noorsoo Teater (Russisch: Русский Молодёжный Театр, Russisch Jeugdtheater) gevestigd, een Russischtalige theatergroep van en voor kinderen.

Vervoer
De weg Juhan Smuuli tee vormt de grens met de wijken Kurepõllu en Pae, de Puname tänav met Sõjamäe, de Varraku tänav met Tondiraba en de Liikuri tänav met  Paevälja en Loopealse. Het openbaar vervoer in de wijk wordt uitsluitend verzorgd door bussen.

Externe links
  Website van het Tallinna Laagna Gümnaasium
 ,  Website van het Lasnamäe Vene Gümnaasium

District in Tallinn

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OKC Police: Man Fatally Shot By Officer Had Stolen Gun
Tuesday, December 18th 2012, 10:17 am
An Oklahoma City police officer shot and killed a suspect following a domestic dispute Tuesday morning near Cashion Place and Youngs Boulevard in northwest Oklahoma City.
Police were called to a home in the 2100 block of N.W. 32nd Street around 8:45 a.m. A woman called 911, saying someone she knew was trying to get into her home. She told police she would not let him in because he'd previously stolen something from her.
Police say the officer encountered the suspect in the street about a block away from the house at Cashion Place and Youngs Boulevard. The suspect was armed with a stolen semi-automatic pistol.
The officer attempted to convince the suspect to put down the weapon, but the suspect refused and the two engaged in a physical struggle. According to the department, a witness stopped to help the officer. The officer eventually fired his weapon, hitting the suspect.
The suspect died at the scene. Police are not releasing his name until his family has been notified.
The officer who shot the suspect has been identified as Anthony Franklin. He works out of the Will Rogers Patrol Division and has been with the Oklahoma City Police Department for five years. Police say Officer Franklin sustained minor injuries during the struggle. He was treated and released from a nearby hospital.
Officer Franklin has been placed on routine administrative leave while the department investigates the shooting.

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Due to the nature of our work with these kids, volunteers typically start off working in the kitchen, office, school, arena or doing various other work projects. After a staff-volunteer relationship is built and maintains consistency, many of our volunteers go on to develop relationships with the residents here.
We really seek out volunteers with a heart to serve consistently wherever there is need at Still Creek Ranch. Flexibility is key to serving here. Below are some of the areas and ways we are blessed by our volunteers each week.
Volunteers help out in the kitchen daily between the hours of 9 am and 1 pm. There is a need for assistance in the preparation and serving of food to our children, and the organization and cleaning of the kitchen and pantry. No prior experience is needed.
When there is a need, volunteers also help out with our athletic programs. The kids at Still Creek play volleyball, basketball, track, and cross-country.
We have volunteers come out weekly and help with tutoring in our school. Volunteers are also needed to help make copies for teachers and clean/organize the staff workroom.
There is much administrative work to be done in the office daily as well as maintaining cleanliness and order. Based on the time commitments volunteers and interns are willing to make, many are put on specific projects and tasks in our office that they take ownership and responsibility of. This could be anything from managing our files to coordinating events and fundraisers.
Volunteers assist our facilities manager with various outdoor tasks on our property. Raking leaves, cleaning flower beds, painting fences and cleaning outside are some examples of opportunities in the past.
Based on prior horse experience, volunteers come and help teach classes to our kids during the week and also assist in the upkeep of the arena during the weekends.
We would love to extend other service options that will give groups an opportunity to serve this semester & would bless us greatly. Below are some options. All proceeds or items collected will go directly to the children's care.
Paper goods Drive: toilet paper, paper towels, etc.
Toiletry Drive: shampoo/conditioner, body wash, toothbrush/paste, etc.


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Phoxinus – rodzaj ryb z rodziny karpiowatych (Cyprinidae).

Występowanie
Europa, Azja Północna i Środkowa.

Klasyfikacja
Gatunki zaliczane do tego rodzaju:

 Phoxinus bigerri
 Phoxinus brachyurus
 Phoxinus colchicus
 Phoxinus issykkulensis
 Phoxinus keumkang
 Phoxinus lumaireul
 Phoxinus oxycephalus
 Phoxinus oxyrhynchus
 Phoxinus phoxinus – strzebla potokowa
 Phoxinus poljakowii
 Phoxinus semotilus
 Phoxinus septimaniae
 Phoxinus steindachneri
 Phoxinus strandjae
 Phoxinus strymonicus
 Phoxinus tchangi
 Phoxinus ujmonensis

Gatunkiem typowym jest Cyprinus phoxinus (Ph. phoxinus).

Przypisy

Karpiowate


The total number of pig farm samples that have tested positive for the porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) virus now stands at 7522 in 30 states.
The total number of pig farm samples (termed "laboratory biological accessions" in the official report) that have tested positive for the PED virus (PEDv) since April 2013 now stands at 7522, which includes 414 for the month of June 2014 so far.
Polish authorities have identified the country's 1st ever case of African swine fever (ASF) to be found in farm pigs, the chief veterinary officer said on Wednesday 23 Jul 2014. Previous cases of ASF, in wild boars, promoted Russia and China to impose restrictions on Polish pork exports, causing a fall in domestic pork prices.
"This is the 1st case of ASF in farm pigs in Poland. The area lies 3-6 km from the border with Belarus. About 200 farm pigs from the danger zone of 7 km (4.3 miles) around the county of Grodek may have to be put down. This is the same area where 9 cases of ASF in wild boars were identified earlier this year .
Information received on [and dated] 21 May 2014 from Dr Joaquin Braulio Delgadillo Alvarez, [director general for Animal Health, National Service for Health, Food Safety and Quality (SENASICA), Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food], Mexico, Mexico.
causes severe diarrhea and death in suckling pigs. Any sudden onset of unusual diarrhea should be investigated immediately by a veterinarian.
Transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) and porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) cause very similar symptoms to SDCV. Both are reportable in Alberta. The government will respond to PED the same as for SDCV, but does not respond to TGE cases. Lab testing is necessary to confirm the presence of TGE, PED, or SDCV.


Social work is a hugely challenging area, which places great demands on individuals and teams almost every day of their working lives. For this reason, universities have to be especially careful in their selection processes, to make sure that they choose the right calibre of students for their courses.
In social work, your interview will be far more important than your qualifications and your personal statement, so you need to be well prepared for the kind of questions you will be asked.
What do you think a social worker does?
Why does society need social workers?
What experience do you have of social work?
Has a social worker ever worked with you or your family?
What is the ultimate aim of social work?
What do you think people expect from social workers?
Is there a particular area of social work that interests you, and if so why?
Describe a typical week for a social worker?
What are the biggest issues in social work right now?
What do you hope to achieve as a social worker?
What qualities do you have that would make you a good social worker?
Are you a good listener, and can you listen without judging?
How would you go about calming down an anxious or agitated client?
Social workers often have a huge caseload. How would you manage your time effectively?
How would you distance your own feelings from an emotional situation?
When is it right to take a child from its parents?
Should we waste resources on people who don't want to be helped?
Is the welfare state a trap for the poorer members of society?
Is the so-called 'bedroom tax' fair?
Isn't positive discrimination as bad as the problem it is trying to solve?
Would you be able to help a person who you did not personally like?
If people bring problems on themselves, shouldn't they have to find their own solutions?
Shouldn't families be left alone to sort out their own problems?


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Watch Waiting… Online
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.
Director: Rob McKittrick
Actors: Anna Faris, Chi McBride, David Koechner, John Francis Daley, Justin Long, Luis Guzmán, Ryan Reynolds
Drunk Parents (2019)
Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes.
The Resurrection of Gavin Stone (2016)
Gavin Stone, a washed-up former child star, is forced to do community service at a local megachurch and pretends to be Christian so he can land the part of Jesus…
Private School (1983)
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a…
My Tutor (1983)
High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive 29-year-old to tutor Bobby over the summer…
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an…
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020)
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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Hard man Ricky is incarcerated in a futuristic prison where ultra-violence is his only means of survival in the corrupt, sadistic system. He must battle his way quite literally 'through'…
Alien Invasion (2018)
The police confirms the presence of a "86-Code" in the National Park. A beast, coming from another world, could have woken up from its lethargy.
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
An uninterrupted rehersal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play…
Queen Poppy and Branch make a surprising discovery — there are other Troll worlds beyond their own, and their distinct differences create big clashes between these various tribes. When a…
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Trending
The Lost Empire
A police officer and her two companions battle an evil genius with diabolical plans to destroy the world. Whoever can find the three sacred jewels can anticipate total power.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
The Road to Edmond
Cleo loves his life as a youth pastor in suburban Denver, but his genuine support for a teenage girl has put his job in jeopardy. When the church's Elder Board…
Trailer: Waiting…


Daily high temperatures increase by 5°F, from 68°F to 73°F, rarely falling below 60°F or exceeding 84°F.
Daily low temperatures increase by 4°F, from 51°F to 55°F, rarely falling below 44°F or exceeding 61°F.
The month of June at Rennes - Saint-Jacques experiences gradually decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 49% to 41%.
A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Rennes - Saint-Jacques, the chance of a wet day over the course of June is decreasing, starting the month at 25% and ending it at 19%.
The average sliding 31-day rainfall during June at Rennes - Saint-Jacques is essentially constant, remaining about 1.4 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 3.1 inches or falling below 0.3 inches.
Over the course of June at Rennes - Saint-Jacques, the length of the day is essentially constant. The shortest day of the month is June 1, with 15 hours, 47 minutes of daylight and the longest day is June 21, with 16 hours, 4 minutes of daylight.
The latest sunrise of the month at Rennes - Saint-Jacques is 6:11 AM on June 1 and the earliest sunrise is 5 minutes earlier at 6:06 AM on June 16.
The earliest sunset is 9:58 PM on June 1 and the latest sunset is 13 minutes later at 10:10 PM on June 26.
Daylight saving time is observed at Rennes - Saint-Jacques during 2019, but it neither starts nor ends during June, so the entire month is in daylight saving time.
The chance that a given day will be muggy at Rennes - Saint-Jacques is essentially constant during June, remaining within 1% of 1% throughout.
The average hourly wind speed at Rennes - Saint-Jacques is essentially constant during June, remaining within 0.1 miles per hour of 9.5 miles per hour throughout.
The hourly average wind direction at Rennes - Saint-Jacques throughout June is predominantly from the west, with a peak proportion of 39% on June 30.
The average surface water temperature at Rennes - Saint-Jacques is increasing during June, rising by 4°F, from 57°F to 61°F, over the course of the month.
The month of June at Rennes - Saint-Jacques is reliably fully within the growing season.
The average accumulated growing degree days at Rennes - Saint-Jacques are increasing during June, increasing by 352°F, from 428°F to 780°F, over the course of the month.
The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Rennes - Saint-Jacques is essentially constant during June, remaining within 0.2 kWh of 6.6 kWh throughout.


Trover – An old English and common law legal proceeding against a person who had found someone else's property and has converted that property to their own purposes. The action of trover did not ask for the return of the property but for damages in an amount equal to the replacement value of the property. English law replaced the action of trover with that of conversion in 1852.


Last week was the five-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami near Fukushima, Japan which killed at least 15,000 people and caused a meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear power plant. Today, the region continues to recover from both the natural disaster and clean-up efforts at the nuclear facility.
At the same time, while some governments around the world have become more cautious about nuclear energy, the International Atomic Energy Agency, reports that there are 442 operational reactors globally, with an additional 66 under construction. Twenty four of the new projects are in China and reports suggest that twelve new reactors are planned for India. (Note: in China and India, nuclear power accounts for about 2% of total output, with +70% of energy output coming from fossil fuels).
As demand for energy increases, evidence of climate change continue to increase as well. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the earth's land and ocean surface temperatures for 2015 was the highest since it began keeping record in 1880.
To address the challenge of climate change requires assessing trade-offs, embracing a broad set of solutions and moving beyond watered down resolutions.


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It's the 31st Again...
Happy lazy Halloween Everybody!
Sorry, I'm living in a rock that doesn't celebrate Halloween so seriously. It's criminal...
Labels: boring stuff, Halloween, Random Stuff, The Holidays
Welcome to Trash City, Michael: Halloween (2007)
Halloween (2007 Remake)
starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane
*Note: This review covers the Unrated Version of the movie
A comeback for Michael Myers in the new Millennium by Rob Zombie; obviously, I was excited being a fan of House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, and Rob was in the height of his game when he made the latter. But remaking Halloween? A classic of the subgenre? Generally, skepticisms were met but being an open guy, I watched it any way and see if Rob's version of Halloween would meet my standards.
Opening in Haddonfield, Illinois fifteen years ago, a broken down mother of three, Deborah Myers, faces a heavy ordeal when her youngest, Michael Myers, was shown having psychopathic tendencies when the school principal found pictures of murdered animals in his locker. It soon shows that Michael is indeed not all up there when he heartlessly (but satisfyingly) murders a school bully, a death not noticed until after the fateful night he murders almost the entirety of his family that Halloween night.
Massacring his eldest sister, her boyfriend, and his mother's foul-mouthed boyfriend, young Myers is then sent to Smith's Grove Warren County Sanitarium and placed under the care and supervision of his psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Loomis. For over the course of a single year, Michael claims no memory of the murders, barely interacting with anybody and focuses solely on his papermache masks. One day, however, Michael snaps into his homicidal nature again and kills a nurse, leading to Michael's mother losing hope and commiting suicide and Loomis ending his case fifteen years later.
Now in the present, a full grown Michael manages to escape and begins a trail of death as he makes his way back to Haddonfield, seemingly with a plan to murder what is left of his family: his baby sister, Laurie Strode, now adopted and seemingly unaware of her dark past and too what's coming in the night he comes home...
Mixed feelings were inevitable with this one but I have to say, Rob Zombie sure knows how to make a film "personal"; I'm not saying this is entirely a good thing, but must every one of Zombie's film has to have a taste of hicksploitation? This version of Halloween included? Almost every character in this movie were either rude or prude, drunken and dirty, and I find it hard to establish anything with these characters or care for them at all. This surprisingly includes our supposed final girl Laurie Strode, portrayed here by Scout Taylor-Compton as a typical teenager who's more likely to be in-between a conservative and a bit of a snooty mall rat. Yes, she is a girl with good intentions, but she seems to fit closer to the kind of slasher victims that gets killed half-way into the movie and I guess I'm just not used rooting for people like that.
So by the time Michael begins killing people, both as a kid and as a 7 foot tall juggernaut (yes, this is the biggest Michael Myers incarnation we'll ever have), I can't help but feel a strange mix of delight (since some victims really deserved it. Remember, this is the unrated cut; how Michael got out of his cell here had two victims deserving getting what's coming to them) and hollowness. (again, very little people to care about) Still, Rob was determined to create as many answers and twists as he can for his own take for the series' mythology, which is by far the most strenuous element for hardcore fans to accept: while Carpenter's original is a work of patience, slow-moving creepiness that befits the totality of the film's tone, Rob's version is a chaotic and very brutal mess that heightens the bodycount and gore. I'm a fan who appreciates blood so, personally, I think no ill will on this take on the story. The kills are torturous, overdone and very brutal, some giving a few nods to the original, while a few remains shocking and cringe-worthy.
As far as I can point out, the film still follows the same story and flow of the original when Michael finally gets back to his home town after his escape. The only real difference here was that the mystery as to why Michael snapped so suddenly was gone, as the entire first third of the movie revolves around lil Michael before his infamous Halloween night killing spree: with a strip dancer for a mother, an older sister who cares very little, and an alcoholic "father-figure" who throws homophobic insults at the boy, it's pretty obvious why the kid just decided to end it all. During the times he's being treated, it clearly shows how traumatizing this was all for him and how he is beyond saving. Still, the ambiguity to his actual goal once he returns is still present, questioning whether he there to murder his sister to finish the job he started years ago. or because he just love her that much that he wouldn't want her to go through the same shit he went through. This sort of just plainly labels his status as a maniac, albeit unnecessarily long and done multiple times before in so many other slasher titles, so I find it understandable why some would find this an unimaginative twist to The Shape's own persona.
Still, I find it unfair comparing both versions knowing how much effort was put into this; Rob Zombie's Halloween is a darker, grittier and messier take on a slasher classic and that's that. Michael is back, bigger and more menacing, he's realistically frightening, and out to thin down a town's population, one doomed teenager at a time. His get-up, especially his mask, looks interestingly workable with the chaotic tone of the film with all the cracks, grease and grime. (Although I personally prefer his pumpkin mask over his iconic Shatner mask. Not that the white, expressionless mask is outdated, but that the orange papermache pumpkin mask seems to be more in touch with the Holiday spirit. I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority here...) His childhood self though, ironically, was more memorable with all the shock-worthy scenes he had as a grown psycho, and I am aware that homicidal children isn't new to the slasher norm, but none of them were as violent as this kid. And with that said, expect blood gushing out like Niagara Falls, brutal beatings and a lot of stabbings, which happens awfully too often, meaning there's not much room for tension-builders. Just odd pacing problems, hence the near-two hour running time.
The count also depends on what version you'd seen; the theatrical one had a cop-out escape where Michael kills almost every guard that stood in his way. There's also some other versions out there where some of the cast dies very differently, along with multitudes of alternate endings, all of them giving no clear indication of ever opening a sequel. (Then again, Michael was burnt, beaten repeatedly on the head with a steel pipe, and even once decapitated, and yet here he is again...)
Characters apart from Michael himself could use a little work. Or to be more precise, the script itself. I know this is supposed to be a labor of personal love by the director, but must everyone in his imagination have to be so profane? How this will garnish a crowd is beyond me, but I guess he was doing this for people like us, slasher fans who are out for blood and to see our star killer one last time, doing whatever mayhem that made him so loved. (That, or we could try to have some fun spotting a few familiar faces popping around then and there all through the movie. Keep an eye on cameos like Udo Kier, Bill Moseley and even Clint Howard, again depending on which print you'll see)
Perhaps this was the biggest element that tests our patience and open-mindedness for this entry; Can we disregard everything we knew about Michael Myers, Laurie Strode and every mythology the franchise had made, for a fresh and thematically different start? I had my position, and I grew in fondness for this black sheep, gore and profanity in all, but it's nowhere as great as the original classic, no matter how long of a time it was since that Night He Came Home.
1 male bludgeoned with tree branch
1 male duct taped to a chair and had his throat cut with knife
1 male brained to death with baseball bat
1 female gets a fork to the throat
1 female shot herself to the mouth
1 male had his neck crushed against the wall
1 male had his head beaten against the wall
1 male found murdered
1 male had his head crushed with TV
1 male knifed on the gut
1 male pinned to the wall with a kitchen knife to the chest
1 female strangled
1 male had his eyes slashed with knife
1 female knifed, back broken
1 male knifed to the gut
1 male knifed on the back
1 male knifed to death
total: 20*
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Labels: 2000s, death porn, Franchises, gore, Halloween, masked slasher, rape and revenge, remakes, revenge, reviews, slasher
Just AMONG us FRIENDS: A Rant
Dear Three Little Birds Production;
Get your shit right and advertise this film properly.
For those who have heard of Danielle Harris' directorial debut "Among Friends", I just would like to tell you guys that it's a total lie: it's NOT a slasher film.
In this little number, it had six friends invited to a dinner party where they'll be playing one of those mystery games where they try to figure out which one of them is the killer by looking around in a house full of planted clues. Sounds like a slasher plot so far, yes? Especially if the game turns out to be for real? Well, it would have been that case if it did, but no.
Right after they found some gooey red clues (a finger, an ear with earrings, etc.), all six partygoers find themselves paralyzed from the neck down after their hosts drugged them, with plans of punishing and torturing them for a crime they did unknowingly on another friend of theirs.
Just because you're in 80s get-up
doesn't make your movie a slasher
If I'm going to compare this to anything, I would say it's just another version of that dull UK release Truth or Die, only this one seems to know its gore a bit better, yet still fails, at least for me, to entertain. Perhaps I expected too much, but the damn advertising of this film was really promising an "80s style slasher flick", but no, what we have here is torture porn in vein of SAW, and even though I'm a fan of the entire SAW and Hostel series, I don't dig torture porn. I was kinda expecting it to be something like the underrated Australian slasher/torture porn hybrid Redd Inc. where it feels like a torture show at the first half before finally going all stalky-and-killy at the second half, but here is no slasher feel to this, not one bit, so no, whoever keeps giving false advertising for this, cut it out. We slash fans knows what makes a real slasher, or at least one that's heavily influenced enough by it.
A real Torture Porn/Slasher knows how to handle
a situation in blood.
The film is interesting, I'll give you that, and I'm very sure this flick is going to have fans, but if these morons think they could trick us into buying this film by selling it out as a sub-genre that it isn't, well luck to you bastards, it worked on a sap like me. So for those who're loyal to your bodycount movies, or at least those who're soul-searching for a good slasher to rent, take heed of this before spending good money on buying this movie for your collection. I already wasted mine so I don't want you guys to be wasting yours. (There isn't much of a kill count either. One dead Kane Hodder and the rest was "implied" not in a good way...)
And yes, Ms. Harris. I love you, but this story has been done before. Are you sure you hadn't seen Truth or Die? Well, if you hadn't, I have to admit this is an odd coincidence and kudos to you for not seeing that trash, but yeah. Better luck next time.
I see a lot of similarities with this situation...
Labels: boring stuff, Random Stuff, torture porn
Cheapo Primo Demon Night: Soul of the Demon (1991)
Soul of the Demon (1991)
Starring: Sky Daniel, Garry Godfrey, Harold Allen
Not gonna lie, this looked like another awfully cheap and unoriginal home-made horror movie, a probable reason why no one talks about this but, comparing it with most of the cheap shot-on-video releases, Soul of the Demon has a lot more entertaining effort for our viewing pleasure.
Soul of the Demon starts off with a young boy and his friend uncovering a mysterious box they found near a stream, containing a strange looking gargoyle-like totem. An old preacher suddenly approaches them and warns that a powerful demon is actually trapped inside the statue, demanding the two to put it back. But seeing these kids knew better, and that the old man disappears no sooner after he appeared to them, one of the boys took the totem home and decided research it with a book he found in his local library. (Actually just an hand-made Evil Dead prop with leather covers)
Being Halloween that night, the boy's older brother decided to hang out with his friends at a supposed haunted house after one of them mistakenly announced a party, improvising with babes, beer and a fake seance inspired by his little brother's find. They unknowingly invoked the totem's trapped demon as they did, however, and it managed to possess the kid. Not too long now, the possessed middle-schooler is out to get them one by one, in one gory fashion to the next.
Although constantly described as a clone for the late 80s cult classic Night of the Demons, Soul of the Demon is best described as a 90s time-capsule where everyone had big hair, dresses up in brightly colored get-up and talks in stoner lingo. It's no different from those late 80s and early 90s do-it-yourself horror flicks circulating in those years' rentals, showing all the guilty nicks such as some hammy acting made funny by a cheesy script, semi-cheap make-up and all the simplistic plotting you can find in a B-grade flick, with added tributes to gore classics such as Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 and Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead. Still, I'm not passing this film without a good reason and there's plenty to go around.
As low as its budget looked, Soul of the Demon makes a fun rental with its impressive looking gore and special effects, and an acceptable so-bad-its-good production. The kill count isn't entirely monstrous, but it's modest enough to give us good and gory eye-candies like a gratuitous panty shot before she gets eviscerated with a levitating wood-saw, plus a couple of nice body splittings and an exploding head. It also has some playful looking cinematography and candy-colored lighting to give much more retro-feel to it, as well as some really old-fashioned yet well-animated cartoon ghosts that really puts this title a bit higher in the effort scale than its home-made kins. Strangely enough, there's no nudity here, but I guess you can't win it all.
A bit of a rare gem that really deserves a look if you can snag a copy, Soul of The Demon is a good addition to any Holiday rentals, and a keeper if you like your horror/slasher flicks cheap, fun and explicitly gory. If Night of the Demons could get any gorier, this is probably the closest you can get. That, or you could rent the underrated 2009 remake of that film. Whichever want you choose!
1 male had his head blown apart
1 female torn in half
1 male had his head twisted
1 female impaled through the eye by a levitating sharpened plank
1 female sawed on the groin by a levitating saw
1 female had her head split in half with a meat cleaver
1 male torn in half
1 male had his spine ripped out
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Labels: 90s, cheese, creature, gore, Halloween, influenced, killer kiddies, reviews, shot on video, slasher, supernatural, The Holidays
The Hessian Rises: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (USA/Germany, 1999)
rating: ****
starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton in a slasher film?
If you know your history on 80s dead teenager flicks, Mr. Depp already had his share of slashering with that one famous nightmare man from A Nightmare on Elm Street, but it's nice to see a big shot like him take a stab at this fair sub-genre every little while. And same can be said for Tim Burton on this subject; I'm a fair fan of Burton but even I can't deny that some of his works lately have been, well, "commercialized". Despite enjoying movies like "Alice in Wonderland" (a guilty pleasure)and his latest release "Frankenweenie", that little magic he had on films like Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice is missing lately so I'm just glad to see something as mystifying as this applied in the least expected sub-genre.
Mixing a bit of neo-classical steampunk and Burton-esque brand of Victorian Gothic, Sleepy Hollow tells a version of the infamous Headless Horseman legend wherein Ichabod Crane is a police constable in 1799 with a penchant for the scientific whenever he is doing his law abiding. He is sent to a small town of Sleepy Hollow after a series of unexplained murders had certain members of the town's elites beheaded and the locals believing it's none other than the fabled headless Hessian, a risen undead haunting the woods on a horseback, searching for his lost head.
As Crane is determined to prove a human suspect, he will unfortunately discover soon enough that the legends are true and he has no choice but to apply what he knows to something he hardly believed in since, hoping to find a way to stop the Horseman before it's too late.
Sleepy Hollow is a title with no specific genre, with elements of a period film done away with slasher film-style murders and stalking, conspiracies concerning socialites, and a bit of the supernatural. It was made to cater a wider range of audiences, lured in with some recognizable casts; aside from Depp taking in the role of Crane, the movie also features Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel, a damsel with a liking for mysticism and, possibly, for Crane, and Christopher Walken as the Horseman when he was still alive, giving much intimidating presence in such very little screen time and barely any speech. The rest includes Miranda Richardson, Jeffrey Jones, Michael Gambon, and Christopher Lee, all of which had done a mighty fine job in each of their roles and gave a straight performance to keep the film's tone in place.
The movie is ever polished, with the set-pieces nearly accurate to the period they are supposed to be taking place, even if they are styled a bit accordingly to Burton's macabre sense of artistry. Tim's longtime musical collaborator and friend Danny Elfman even provided a haunting score to go along the town's ghostly image. Everything else from lighting to props, camera works and even its cinematography seems to fit quite well without being overly playful. In fact, the film's quite mature with its story and direction despite having fantastic elements along the plot, and with Crane being the unlikeliest of all heroes to come along and save this town, it did gave the character some depth and development as everything of said fantastic elements seem to clash against his rational understanding.
The pitch originally had Sleepy Hollow as a slasher film in its full exploitation (with a kill in every five minutes) and while it may not look much like it, the movie definitely shows. Though tackling more mature matters such as the ever-going battle against science vs supernatural, and too a romanticism angle commonly found in nearly every period piece, Sleepy Hollow still serves as a homage to classical horror without being overly cliched, with a bit of something from modern horror flicks. Aside from beheadings, the film features some creative murders as well to keep true slasher/horror fanatics satisfied, plus a classic monster brought to life with most onscreen savagery, menace and one of the finest special effects of that decade. Whenever the Horseman arrives, there's bound to be a head rolling off its own neck, may it be man, woman, or even a mere child, hailing to a classic climax wherein the hero battles out a seemingly indestructible monster, with its own twists and takes.
It's not a perfect movie in a sense that it's historically accurate in the strictest, nor will it be all believable, but it's a perfect watch for the Autumnal seasons and Holidays, or whenever you feel classical with a need to see something more than a bunch of dumb, sex-hungry virgins being hacked to bits by a maniac in an animal mask. If you're also a bit dodgy with Burton's directorial efforts lately, or not a fan of him at all, let that not be a reason to skip this. Among all I've seen from his work, this is a keeper and a high class-acted, big-budget gem for all your slasher/horror goodness.
1 male decapitated with sword (mostly offscreen)
1 male decapitated with sword
1 male decapitated with sword (flashback)
1 horse shot (flashback)
1 male had a sword ran through his gut (flashback)
1 male had an arm lopped off with sword, killed (flashback)
1 female decapitated with sword (mentioned)
1 male decapitated with axe
1 female decapitated with axe
1 boy decapitated (offscreen)
1 male sliced in half with a sword and axe
1 female found killed inside an iron maiden (flashback)
1 elderly male mentioned hanged
1 male bludgeoned with crucifix
1 male shot
1 male gets a thrown wooden fence post through his chest, decapitated with sword
1 female decapitated with axe (flashback)
1 female killed
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Labels: 90s, backwoods, child in peril, fantasy, influenced, killer twin, revenge, reviews, slasher, slasher hybrid, supernatural, thriller, Twisted Twist, uber deformed, urban legends
Short Shear terror: Terrifier (2011)
Terrifier (2011)
starring: Marie Maser, Mike Giannelli, Jennifer Castellano
Director and Special effects wiz Damien Leone whips up this demented slasher/horror movie about a lone woman witnessing a brutal murder during one Halloween night, and finds herself being hunted down by demonic looking clown responsible for it.
The story never strays anything more than that, but the execution of the film is anything but bland.
While the premises is a basic set-up for a slasher movie, the story progresses with much twist and turns that slowly degrade into something rather off-putting, and this isn't just because it's very brutal and gory, but direction of the film taps into nightmare logic, wherein anything terrifying can happen and all for little or no reason at all, and it's effectively gripping. Clearly, there's no indication to what's after our lead, but who or whatever the clown is, he's not gonna stay down and let this girl live. This nihilistic and hopeless tone definitely helps bring the terror in Terrifier.
With well-acted roles and realistic gore added along the lines, this twenty minute short becomes a must-watch that I'm proud to have seen and recommend. Especially when Halloween's around the corner...
1 male dismembered with hacksaw
1 female found with missing hands and her face beaten flat against steering wheel
Labels: 2010s, gore, Halloween, killer clowns, reviews, Road Hell, short shear terror, slasher, splatter, supernatural, The Holidays, torture porn
Night of the killer naked mannequin: The Fear: Halloween Night (1999)
The Fear: Halloween Night (1999) (AKA "The Fear: Resurrection")
rating:*1/2
starring: Gordon Currie, Stacy Grant, Phillip Rhys
Just when you thought films like Tourist Trap and Maniac made mannequins quite the unnerving object to appear in a horror flick, you'll be in a big surprise...
A follow-up to the rarely discussed 1995 horror flick where a small group of friends in a cabin gets killed off by their own fears, Halloween Night brought us yet another group of teenagers who are planning to celebrate Halloween in a friend's countryside farm, as well as join him in a ceremony to help them harness their fears. My memory of how exactly this ceremony goes is a complete haze (nor do I recall anyone ever discussing it in the movie now that I think harder) but all I can tell is that it includes dressing up as whatever scares these teens the most in Halloween, which is quite unfortunate for this film's costume department as these kids dress in the lamest costumes ever. (one guy's afraid of taking risky decisions. You know what he dresses up as? A lame sheet with sharpie drawings of question marks all over it. charming...)
Anyway, our hero's biggest fear is his dad, who happens to be a serial killer who murders his victims based on their fears. Suggestions say that he's dead now, but our lead is so disturbed about this, he himself is in risk of snapping out crazy and might be the killer who soon starts murdering the casts after the hour mark. But then again, we also have a disturbingly (and suspiciously) life-sized wooden mannequin named Morty, who looks close enough to being alive. If you know your clichés, or love spoiling yourself with spoilers, then you wouldn't be surprised that it is...
Being made under the success of post-Scream teen slashers, Halloween Night is closer to a dead teenager bodycount flick than its predecessor and yet it fails to be anymore exciting. Even if we do treat this film on its own footing, it's hardly a decent watch as a lot of mumbo-jumbo about phobias and Native American rituals were tossed around but it never led to anything but lame teen talk. It strolls along like this in a lovely sluggish pace until Halloween night finally comes and the teens start to drop dead. Unfortunately, even at that the film hardly broke it's blandness streak; kills were tame and occur mostly off-camera, and a lot of uninteresting survivors popped up in the end, with all the good ones dead.
The biggest complain I have with this movie, however, is that it never utilizes its villain's full potential. Halloween Night tries to play around suggesting our troubled lead is the killer; sadly, this mystery isn't done well, so the revelation of a talking wooden totem isn't much of a shock. (or maybe it is depending on how much of a newbie you are when it comes to these kind of flicks. If you are, then you got a long way to go, buddy...) When Morty begins his killings, he stays with his MO of using fears to do murder, something that has its moments despite its cheesiness, but it's overall underused with so little victims and overly simplistic fears to exploit.
There's nothing to recommend about this movie save Friday the 13th's Betsy Palmer appearing as a kind ole' granny (the one you could hug and feel warm about without the risk of getting a knife on your back), so if you're browsing the stalls of your favorite video shop and/or rentals and sees this title, please take notice of the amount of dust and cobwebs hanging all over it. It's there for a good reason...
1 female hacked with axe
1 female hacked to death with axe
1 male bucked on the head by a horse
1 snake decapitated with switchblade
1 female found slaughered inside a box
1 male thrown through window, falls to his death
1 female had her head smashed against and drowned in toilet
1 male attacked by rats
1 female immolated in car explosion
total: 9
Seriously, what the heck is this guy wearing?
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Labels: 90s, boring stuff, Franchises, Halloween, killer dolls, reviews, slasher, supernatural, The Holidays
Today, the Garden! Tomorrow, The World!: Slugs(1988)
Slugs: The Movie (Spain/US, 1988) (AKA "Slugs, muerte viscosa")
starring: Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale
From the brain that brought you the cheddariest slasher to come out from Spain, Juan Piquer Simon, comes a motion picture so grueling, so disgusting, so insane, it's perfect for Halloween Night!...since it's also taking place in Halloween...I think...
Slugs the Movie tells the story of a small town's sudden problem with a horde of slugs invading their gardens. (and their toilets. and their lake) But these are not just any ordinary slugs; they're as big as bananas, have rows of sharp, pointy teeth, and they're hungry for flesh. Ever since they arrived, several people are either attacked and munched on by these tiny terrors, or had succumbed to a strange infection which involve flukes bursting out of their heads.
In a race against time, a healthy department worker, Mike Brady, tries to uncover the origins of these mutant slugs with the help of his biologist buddy (who claims to be an expert on these things and believes slugs naturally have teeth. Yeah, which university did you graduated from again?) and some guy who tends the town's sewers wearing a jersey. They soon discovers that the slugs have been breeding under a toxic dump and are to outnumber the town, leading to certain doom unless they find a way to destroy them.
Oh and Halloween night's coming, so teens are bound to be killed as well. Not that it adds up to anything but let's just humor the fact.
Made to gross out with slime, grime and gore, Slugs: The Movie is a late 80s creature feature with a lot of cheesy moments, implausible biology lessons and a lot of slug attacks. While the plot itself is stretched beyond belief and is understandably laughable, the movie's serious attempt to be, well, "serious" puts it high on the cheese-o-meter that it actually becomes a pretty darn decent ride. High on the bodycount and horrifyingly gory, Slugs showcased the slimiest and skin-crawling kills there is in a semi-slasher-cum-creature film featuring killer invertebrates; we got some dumb teens thrown into the feeding frenzy as one scene actually features a fully nude couple's sexual encounter being interrupted by a floor full of these bastards. Real gross stuff, and sleazily gratuitous as both gal and guy gets covered by giant slugs and pools in their own blood. Other highlights include one business meeting-turned-nightmare as a yuppie who previously ate a soup, unknowingly swimming with slug remains, gets a nasty case of the nose bleed as he ends up infected with parasites that can induce face bursting.
Interestingly, the cast of older generation characters are quite multi-dimensional and stands above the unlucky teens (and a few other "present-as-victim" casts); they're fairly acted albeit the hammy script and direction, which adds another factor why its Slugs is so fun. Add along a random holiday placement that doesn't do much to elevate the story, and countless explosions that seems to be quite unnecessary for a movie whose greatest foe is a swarm of killer slugs multiplying in the sewage system, and you'll have yourself a B-movie best remembered for its high-stake campiness. (I mean seriously? Why not just salt the whole drainage system? I mean sure you could blow them all up in a fiery blaze of glory, but why damage property if you could just fizz these babies up with salt water?)
The only fault I see here is that there are moments where it drags around with a few people just discussing about the danger. Whether it's believable or not, they're mostly jabbering about things that are either painfully obvious or is plain ludicrous that it's kinda boring. Thankfully, the slug scenes are really worth it, especially since there's so darn plenty of them. (both the number of scenes in the movie and the number of slug props itself)
The late Juan Piquer Simon has definitely made another cult classic here; I could dare say that it's in the same level of recognition of his chainsaw-themed slasher Pieces among horror fans, but whatever you make out of it, Slugs: The Movie is a fun watch for those looking for finer gross-out moments, and more obscure critters as a villain stand-in!
1 male devoured by mutant slugs (mostly offscreen)
1 male found devoured by mutant slugs
1 male and 1 female immolated in chemical explosion
1 hamster attacked and devoured by mutant slug
1 female devoured by mutant slugs
1 male devoured by mutant slugs
1 male succumbs to parasitic infection, flukes broke out of his face
1 female devoured by mutant slugs (mostly offscreen)
1 male devoured by mutant slugs, head seen torn open
Labels: 80s, creature, europe, exploitation, foreign, gore, Halloween, influenced, reviews, Sci-Fi, slasher hybrid, The Holidays
Trash from Hell: Trailer Park of Terror (2008)
Trailer Park of Terror (2008)
starring: Nichole Hiltz, Lew Temple, Jeanette Brox
Mindless and gory fun galore this way come in this low-profile, zombie-slasher-splatter mash-up!
Opening up in 1981, in a desperate attempt to run away from her trailer trash life, Norma was on her way to meet up with a young preppy guy who promised to whisk her away from drunken nights, drugged-up meat vendors and prostitutes being filmed for amateur pornos. Unfortunately, a trio of disagreeing rednecks got in the way and accidentally killed her lover, forcing Norma to make a deal with the devil to exact vengeance on them all with a mean rifle before taking her own life.
In exchange, she's there to serve him for eternity, massacring anyone who ventures into her domain, the now abandoned trailer park dubbed The Trucker's Triangle. (Roadies get in. No one gets out!)
Twenty seven years had passed, and countless drive-byers disappearing, a group of six hooligans and their young pastor chaperon were returning from a retreat when their bus crashes and left them stranded in the middle of a raging storm. But spotting the seemingly abandoned Trucker's Triangle not far from them, the hapless group had no choice but to take shelter in it, wherein they were warmly welcomed by a still beautiful Norma. Ghost stories and dinners were passed, all seems fine until evening draws nearer to midnight.
What looked like a night of messy yet comfortable stay, the youngsters will soon find out that Norma isn't what she seems; a revenant with an unholy mission, she and a renegade group of undead rednecks are out to kill off these kids for fun, and they're gonna do it while the night is still young, with deep-fried meat and rock-and-roll!
Trailer Park of Terror is what Two Thousand Maniacs! would have been given that all the folks in that town where more zombified, outrageous, a little fewer, and was directed by a more loosened-up Rob Zombie. The film is nothing new when it comes to the gore and kills, but the beauty of it is that, it never was trying to be anything else. It's straight-up redneck horror with victims being tortured and killed systematically in one various manner to the next, which is very impressive given the film's low-budget and tight schedule.
The film is steadily paced around the first act, but it soon picked up by the time the zombies started to show up. Beforehand, the opening scene where Norma's being picked on by neighboring trailer trash was actually pretty strong, emotional and raw, making her character root-worthy with her massacre, though her motives as a zombie temptress threw this off as they were more notorious albeit sickeningly enjoyable as she levels down with her zombified version of her redneck victims. It's almost a curveball throw at us with all that serious tone of the opening gone and steadily became a nearly-comical splatter film with a lot of outrageous scenes, over-the-top gore and undead hicks.
Speaking of which, the zombies themselves were the real star of this film; their designs were well made and the make-up done for it is really impressive. They have more spunk than the victims (which were more stereotyped victims that only had a few lines or moments on screen); we got one who has a huge crush on Norma and acts as her right hand thug, another who has a habit of filming murder-porn, and even one who rocks a mean guitar solo. (and goes knife happy when you touch his trippy "shit") They're mean, sometimes hilarious and they take a lot of attention whenever they're on screen with their whacky interactions. (so much bonding whenever you're putting your bud together with a staple gun!)
Soundtrack is cool, befitting the Southern fried tone of the film with a bit of death metal and the visuals for this film is overall amazing. The only thing I find missing here is that it could had gone away with a more solid story than just zombified killers out for a night of devil's play, but as far as gruesome kills and cool zombies are concerned, I can bypass any flaws we have in tone and direction and just mindlessly switch off to savor it.
Trailer Park of Terror is everything its own title is promising; a perfect party film viewing for all lovers of cheese, viscera and zombie-redneck-torture-families. Very low profile, but overall satisfying!
1 male pushed and impaled to a fence post
1 male gets a rifle shot to the head
1 female gets a rifle shot to the eye
1 male gets a rifle shot to the chest
1 male gets a rifle shot to the neck
1 female gets a rifle shot to the chest
9 victims shot with rifle
1 female immolated herself with enflamed gas leak
1 male had his neck broken (flashback)
1 female shot from the back of the head (flashback)
1 male had his head torn off
1 male had his back stomped and crushed
1 female had an arm cut off with electric knife, eaten alive
1 female gets an aspirator shoved down her throat
1 male skinned and dunked in oiling oil
1 male ran over by car
The People You'll meet in the Highway to Hell
Labels: 2000s, all for love, cannibalism, cheese, corn-polk, gore, horror-comedy, influenced, revenge, reviews, slasher hybrid, supernatural, torture porn, zombies
Them Evol Satanists: Hack-O-Lantern (1988)
Hack-O-Lantern (AKA "The Damning", "Death Mask", "Halloween Night") (1988)
rating: **1/2
starring: Hy Pyke, Gregory Scott Cummins, Katina Garner
Tis' the Dark Holidays once again and it's a usual tradition for us to celebrate it with skulls, candies and... Satanists who does the international love sign? Oooh, boy, this is gonna be a long night...
Tommy Drindel is a shut-in outcast with a love for Rock-and-roll. He lost his dad in an fiery car explosion when he was a wee lad, apparently the doing of his Satanist-warlock grandfather who once raped his own daughter (AKA Tommy's mum, making him the kid's dad AND grampa) one Halloween night years ago.
Now as a grown teenager, Tommy is visited once again by Grampa with promises of great power this Halloween night through a ritual welcoming him to the great bosoms of Satan himself. However, mum (and Tommy's cop brother) is doing her best to change her rockster son's lifestyle and choice, but some sinister force is out there in a cloak and mask, hacking down friends, family and other random people Tommy encounters. Could it be Tommy himself embracing his destiny? Or is it Grampa? Or could it be even Satan himself?!
Hack-O-Lantern is that one kind of slasher film I usually try to avoid; the ones that does nothing to improve the sub-genre and is tacky all over the place, may it be acting, production value or direction. But it does have a level of charm that got me watching it through and through, probably because it's so darn bad, it's laughable.
Mixing Rock-and-roll, Satanism and slasher tropes, Hack-o-Lantern stands out among other horror films that does this approach with its high level of cheddar-rich corniness and obscurely random scenes. One example would be a random music video that appears as Tommy's ominous "nightmare", with three minutes of head-banging heavy metal, demonic babes in thorny bikinis that shoots lasers out of their eyes, and one impossible beheading involving a trident. Then there's also that one scene in the middle of the film that involves one guy doing the lamest stand-up jokes I've seen, that does absolutely nothing for the plot other than to fill up some running time.
For real, if you're brave or curious, watch this film and fast forward to the part where the town hold its Costumed Halloween party. This guy just walked out of nowhere and starts telling jokes for no God-forsaken reason!
The outrageousness doesn't even stop there; littered with casts that overacts their roles, one Hy Pyke (of Bladerunner, albeit a small role) took the biggest slice of this pie as the evil Grampa who lives a rather obvious life as a Satanic leader of a cult who doesn't know the difference between hand sign Devil Horns from that of "Love". (This has to be the most inept evil cult for that matter) Pyke's character talks in this "evil" tone, looks at everyone with constipated eyes and cackles at every end of his sentence; clearly, this guy's so proud of his evil religion he's making no effort to hide it at all!
Tommy, on the other hand is supposed to be a troubled "youth" but the guy playing him, TV's Gregory Scott Cummins, looks too old to be playing a dude who's supposed to be in his 20s. At least he tries to act young, I mean who else would mistake his sister's love-making as a cry of pain and help? Clearly someone as dumb or naïve as this guy!
Everything else is routine as a slasher; T&A is high as almost every lady that showed up in this pic either bared a bosom, or an arse, or both. We got one soapy bubble bath, one going full frontal as "Lady Godiva", and another for a branding scene which I believe served no other purpose but for sleaze. Gore didn't do much here; so far I only counted two or three brightly red kills but the rest were pretty dry or obscured, with a killer that's hardly convincing at all. Heck, I don't even understand what this guy's get-up is supposed to be! So far, I believe it's a demon but it's too darn elaborate (as in averagely plain) to figure out. The party scenes had their silly moments, but it all trails to a rather predictable end that's entirely open for a sequel which will not come to a reality.
It's a rather low entry for a holiday slasher but it ain't all that bad. It's unintentionally funny, silly beyond believable, and overall hammier than pineapple holiday ham! If you're up for some really cheesy horror flick that you could mock up, then get out there and get hacking with Hack-O-Lantern. Hack-O-Lantern. Even the title alone reeks strong dairy...
1 male brained with hammer, set ablaze
3 males and 1 female disintegrated with laser (dream)
1 male decapitated with pitchfork (dream)
1 female gets a pitchfork to the head
1 male had his head split open with shovel
1 female knifed on the back
1 female garroted with rope
1 male axed on the gut, falls to his death
1 female shot
total: 12
Labels: 80s, backwoods, cheese, exploitation, Halloween, hidden organizations of doom, influenced, masked slasher, reviews, Sacred Bloodshed, slasher, thriller
Chucky's House of Horror: Curse of Chucky (2013)
Curse of Chucky (2013)
starring: Chantal Quesnelle, Fiona Dourif, Danielle Bisutti
After almost a decade since the last entry, Universal Studios finally gave us a follow-up to their Child's Play franchise, albeit toying with us whether this is a reboot or a sequel. While possibility of a reboot is currently (or was?) on talk, Curse of Chucky comes in to satisfy fans, promising that it will return to the serious tone of the first three films.
In this entry, Chucky is back in one piece and mysteriously delivered to the house of one Sarah and her paraplegic daughter named Nica. Believing to be either a prank or a mess-up in the delivery, the two didn't think much about the doll until that night, where Sarah appears to have committed suicide by "stabbing herself".
Flying all the way to comfort Nica in this time of loss is her sister Barb, who tagged along her yuppie husband Ian, their daughter Alice, their live-in nanny Jill and their pastor friend Father Frank. However, it seems that Barb has a secondary intention for the visit when she attempts to make a settlement with Nica to sell the house. Of course, Nica isn't happy with this suggestion, much to the tension coming in between them, but agreed to let her sister's family stay for the night to keep her company and settle this issue in her own terms.
Meanwhile, Alice found Chucky and instantly loves the doll, spending every minute with him much of Nica's approval. This inevitably lead to a bizarre series of deaths and accidents, including electrocution, rat poison and a mean hatchet, all until Nica is left for the picking and a revelation shows what ties lie between her and the killer doll.
Curse of Chucky is honestly good, but not a enough to be a grand onscreen return for our little killer. It tries to build up the same kind of tension that the first three have (and was missing from Bride and Seed), but with so little happening around the first half, the movie practically drags itself around on a scene or two. (Not a bad angle, however, if you would consider how well this worked with the looming gothic feel that provides as much atmosphere as Chucky's creepy stalking.) Due to this, gore was toned down, albeit one or two of them were bloody enough to satisfy a fan.
There's also a matter of the budget being minuscule for this productions, evident on the animatronics used for the doll; though it is quite fine, you can clearly tell how much of the film's money were used on these effects as multiple dolls used looked nothing alike and one kill mostly involves Chucky just staring at his victim as she electrocuted to death. (a really lame one, if you ask me) This also hurts the mythology concerning Chucky being near human underneath his plastic casing, as while it was fun to see Chucky re-attach his own head and survive a knife stab on the back since he's a doll and all, but the earlier films already established that if he was to be stuck inside that plastic body for a long time, he would become more human. Curse made it clear that Chucky was in this doll body for more than a few days now, so why isn't he still all fleshy in the inside? Mancini has a lot to explain...
Not much can be said for the other characters as they're either unlikable or uninteresting, being no more than numbered victims. (Save for Nica, played by Brad Dourif's own daughter, Fiona Dourif) I was expecting Alice, little girl that kept Chucky, to do much more for the sake of pushing the story further into something interesting, but we got none of that and she ends up just being "there". Fiona's Nica character did stand up (ironic word-play. haha) among them due to her disability, but if that's all that makes her noticeable, then the film could have tried harder to make us root for her. (Perhaps put Alice in real danger so she can save her despite her useless legs? That would have been worthy.)
It kinda sounds like I'm complaining much here, but truth be told, Curse is still a hoot as it still delivers some good scares and straight killer doll moments. Chucky's back into being menacing, the second half was fun with twists that are acceptable, and it even gave us a few surprises at the end.
Directly released to video, Curse of Chucky is a slasher struggling to get back into its prime, and perhaps one of the few to try this without undergoing a remake treatment. Perhaps a remake will come as Mancini and Dourif does show some interest in doing it, but for now, if you can overcome Chucky's ever-changing plastic face and cheaper bloodshed, then get ready to be Cursed.
1 female found stabbed on the gut with scissors
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1 female knifed on the eye, gouged
1 male had his jaw hacked off with a hatchet
1 male killed, method unknown (flashback)
1 male had his throat cut with kitchen knife
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The factors of 106 are 1, 2, 53, 106.
Here is how you calculate the factors of 106. 106 and 1 are the easiest two factors to find.
Try 1. 1 x 106 = 106, so put these into our factor list.
Take 2. 2 x 53 = 106, which means we add these to our factor list.
Now take 3... no. 106/3 isn't a whole number. So we skip 3.
Next try 4... no luck. 106/4 isn't a whole number. So we skip 4.
Now try 5... nope! 106/5 isn't a whole number. So we skip 5.
Try 6... no good. 106/6 isn't a whole number. So we skip 6.
Take 7... no. 106/7 isn't a whole number. So we skip 7.
Now take 8... no luck. 106/8 isn't a whole number. So we skip 8.
Next try 9... nope! 106/9 isn't a whole number. So we skip 9.
Now try 10... no good. 106/10 isn't a whole number. So we skip 10.
...What Are the Factors of 77?
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Album review: Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith – "Mummer Love"
Harar awakening
What do New York City poet and musician Patti Smith, the late French poet Arthur Rimbaud, composer Philip Glass, Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke and the Sufi Group of Sheikh Ibrahim have in common? After listening to the album "Mummer Love" from Soundwalk Collective, you may begin to find the connection. Review by Richard Marcus
The core of Soundwalk Collective are American based musicians Simone Merli and Stephan Crasneanscki who are joined by an ever-changing group of musicians and artists on a project-by-project basis. By combining their compositional approach – which incorporates everything from anthropology to the observation of nature and explorations in recording – with source material linked to a specific geographical area or person, they create works that bring both a time and a place to life.
Not just musically either, but spiritually and emotionally. At least that's what listeners to "Mummer Love" will discover. Here the musicians are working from a very specific period and place in history: Arthur Rimbaud's time in Harar, Ethiopia from 1880 -1891. After he stopped writing poetry, Rimbaud became a merchant and eventually settled in Harar, where he dealt in coffee and weapons.
Rimbaud also became friends with the Governor of Harar, Was Makonnen Wolde Mikael, future emperor of Ethiopia and Haile Selassie's father. More pertinent to this recording though is that at the time Harar was the epicentre for Sufism in Africa – in fact, to this day the city retains strong links to this mystical branch of Islam.
A true concept album
While "Mummer Love" is laid out like a typical CD with individual tracks, it really is the type of recording that needs to be listened to as a single entity. The whole album is a celebration of Rimbaud's fascination with the world of Sufism and its renunciation of the material in favour of the spiritual. According to the notes accompanying the album, Rimbaud left France to escape Western stagnation and, like the Beats of the 1950s, came to Africa looking for some sort of awakening.
Bringing both time and place to life: American-based musicians Simone Merli and Stephan Crasneanscki – Soundwalk Collective – combine their compositional approach, incorporating everything from anthropology to the observation of nature and explorations in recording, with source material linked to a specific geographical area or person
The opening track, "Aw Abadir", is an unaccompanied solo voice singing a soft and melodious introduction to our tour through Harar and the various places Rimbaud visited, as well as to the sounds he might have heard during his stay here.
Following this overture we are given a ten-minute Philip Glass piece, "La Maison de Rimbaud". While Glass uses minimal notes to create a very austere selection, he still manages to evoke a sense of emotional connection to his subject matter that few could achieve with twice the effort.
Each note falls like a drop of rain onto the listener's ear, resonating as softly and persistently as the ripples in a puddle.
Usually we are so overwhelmed by the sounds generated by stringing notes together that we don't have the chance to fully appreciate a single note and its intrinsic beauty. In some ways this tonal poem reflects the importance of each individual word in a Rimbaud's work.
However, like everything else Soundwalk creates, this piece works on more than one level. Beneath Glass's piano, we periodically hear voices raise and lower in conversation and song. In this undercurrent we hear the background against which Rimbaud lived, the daily inhale and exhale of life in Harar.
The third piece on the album is named for Rimbaud's poem "Eternity". This piece pulls together the singing of the Sufi Group of Sheikh Ibrahim, Glass and Patti Smith reciting the opening lines of Rimbaud's poem. The chanting of the group, Smith's recitation and Glass' keyboard circle around each other, gradually creating a sound collage where each becomes almost indistinguishable from the other.
Emphasising the unique
Yet somehow, they still manage to retain their specific identities. Unlike other recordings which use a culture's music to make some point or another and end up ignoring its real significance, "Mummer Love" is not only respectful, it also ensures the Sufi music is never diminished or relegated to being simply ornamentation.
In "Song of the Highest Tower", a different version of the poem that appears in Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, we again have Smith reciting excerpts from the piece in counterpoint to the chanting of the Sufi Group. However, instead of music being provided by Glass, here it is the work of Mulatu Astatke.
Astatke's percussion provides a wonderful counterpoint to both Smith's recitation and the Sufi Group's singing and chanting. Weaving in and out of each other, they create a texture that is both supple and entrancing. Much like Sufi music is said to be trance-inducing, here we are carried on the waves of sound and lyrics to delve deeper into the world of Harar as Rimbaud might have experienced it.
The album's title song, "Mummer Love", is an original poem Smith wrote in honour of Rimbaud. In many ways an ode to the poet, whom Smith has always cited as an influence on her work, it is also an exploration of the darker and, perhaps, earthier side of the poet. At times jarring and disturbing, the poem also shows how far from the norm of 19th century European life he was and perhaps why he was so comfortable in Harar.
Released on 10 November 2019 to commemorate the anniversary of Rimbaud's death on this day in 1891, and just like the poet, "Mummer Love" doesn't simply regard Sufism as an ornament. Instead Soundwalk Collective has gone to great pains to find the common ground between both the music of their guests and the poetry of both Rimbaud and Smith.
In fact one of the truly remarkable things about this recording is the way it manages to introduce listeners to lesser known aspects of Rimbaud's life and the wonders and joy of the Sufi music of Ethiopia at the same time. This album is a must for those who appreciate poetry and great music.
Richard Marcus
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Making your own washer repair might sound like a great method to save money but then again that's not always the case. There are a number of parts to a washing machine and they could vary quite a bit from one washer to another. Nevertheless, there are a few simple washer repair things you could check on your own like making certain the plug is in point of fact plugged in or if the circuit breaker has been stumbled. There are a lot of more complex things to identify that actually do necessitate the expertise of an expert.
Is the Circuit Breaker Cracked?
One of the most usual problems that might occur with your laundry machine is a bad or defective lid switch. As soon as your lid switch is not working appropriately your washer can't spin and might not work at all. On other machinery, you might find that your washer will not fill with water. The issue can be anything from an exceptional lid switch fuse that requires to be substituted to a damaged water pump.
Well, let's face it. When a handkerchief goes missing we generally blame it on the dryer, but from time to time the washer is to blame for our lost piece of apparel. You see, now and then a sock or small piece of apparel can in point of fact work its way amid the clothes tub and the outside tub that holds the water. When this occurs, that little hanky can work its way down into the channel hose and even into the pump itself. If this takes place, you will have to eradicate the hoses from the pump as well as pull it out.
At times you might not be so fortunate for the reason that you can't remove the hanky from underneath. When this occurs, you are in for some real fun. You might even invent some new flamboyant words. At this point you would most likely have to take away the agitator and the top of the outer drum defense and the internal clothes tub.
Did you think that repairing a washer would be easy? Well, it is not my friend. To top that off you would probably require special tools if you wish to repair the washer on your own, not just your regular handy dandy screwdriver.
In most of the cases, the problem for a lot of individuals is that they are not that technically minded. This means that when their apparatus does break, they perhaps do not distinguish what is wrong with it. There are loads of companies that specialize in washing machine maintenance that would be able to tell what is incorrect with the machine instantaneously. It is without a doubt worth employing one of these professional establishments to come and assess the impairment for the customer, instead of the customer trying to do it themselves.
The great thing about hiring these companies is that they are truthful. They would not force a client to use their laundry machine repairs facilities if they think they would not need them but in its place will assess the price of the repair and leave it down to the customer. The mainstream of the time the faster and cheaper option would be to have washing machine fixed by a local appliance repair engineer.
At the end of the day, Do it yourself washer repair may save you a bit of money in the short term, nonetheless using a professional washer repair specialist in Dallas will save you a lot of time as well as frustration in the present.


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"Lethal piñatas": keeping cluster bombs from kids
By Russ Wellen on February 23, 2008 • ( 8 Comments )
ññññññ Five-hundred delegates from 122 countries converged on New Zealand this week in a bid to rid the world of cluster bombs. In the end, though only 82 states signed the Wellington Declaration — the draft of a treaty to ban cluster bombs, sweep lands free of them, and assist survivors — the conference was a qualified success.
New Zealand Disarmament Minister Phil Goff informed the Associated Press that more progress toward banning cluster munitions was made in the five days of talks than during five years of U.N. negotiations. Even Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner for her work leading to the ban of land mines, told ABC in Australia, "We're extremely pleased by the outcome of the conference."
Earlier, though, she accused representatives of Australia Britain, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan of "fronting for the U.S." She feared they might neuter the proposed agreement to make it palatable for the US, which, along with Russia, China, and Israel, shunned the conference.
It seems like just yesterday, thanks in part to America's only woman Nobel Peace laureate, that the elimination of land mines was the feel-good story of the decade. Yet, nature abhors a vacuum and it wasn't long before they were replaced by cluster munitions as the world's most barbaric weapon this side of nuclear bombs.
That leads us to our first question: Doesn't zeroing in on a particular bomb assume that others are acceptable? Why not go to the root of the problem and work to prevent the conflicts — or even all war?
Because submunitions (miniature bombs nested inside the mother bomb) dropped by the US in Iraq, "some shaped like tiny bottles with short ribbons and others that are yellow with tissue parachutes, litter gardens and roof tops," according to UNICEF. The cute little "bomblets," as they've been called, are child magnets.
Such as 11-year-old Afghan, Soraj Habib, who, after picking one up, lost both legs. Now 16, he offered himself up to the delegates at Wellington as living proof of the need to ban the cluster munitions.
Banning them may only be a stop-gap measure until war can be averted. But any opportunity to reduce the killing of children, their mothers, and all civilians, needs to be seized, like yesterday.
But isn't the campaign against cluster bombs just a cover for those opposed to Israel? While we're at it, why does Israel always get singled out for using them against Lebanon?
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, a minister in Angela Merkel's German government, was one who felt the sting of being labeled an anti-Semite. After referring to the cluster bomb as "a sort of lethal piñata," she asked the United Nations to investigate its use by Israel in civilian areas of Lebanon.
Israel, in fact, showered Lebanon with four million submunitions, one million of which may remain scattered across the landscape. Live, they constitute what's been called a landmine-like contamination.
Do cluster bombs really pose as grave a danger as land mines?
"There is a common misperception that cluster munitions are sophisticated weapons," writes Stephen D. Goose in the recent Arms Control Today. Representing Human Rights Watch and the Cluster Munition Coalition, he was also an organizer of last week's conference (as well as Jody Williams's husband). Neither the bomb nor the submunitions, Goose explains, are precision guided.
In fact, it's not well known, but, besides Lebanon, they caused more civilian casualties than any other weapon during the NATO bombing of Kosovo in 1999 and our invasion of Iraq.
Just how widespread is their use and manufacture?
They're stockpiled by 76 countries. "The United States alone," explains Goose, "has an estimated one billion submunitions."
Thanks to the national deficit and the cost of Iraq, the the figure one billion no longer defies comprehension. Imagine if each individual bomblet achieved its objective of maiming or killing a person, or damaging a piece of infrastructure?
How did this conference come about?
A precedent was set in 1996 when the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) failed to ban land mines. Canada rose to the occasion and successfully challenged the world to impose a ban in a year.
In 2006, the same organization came up short again, with cluster bombs. This time Norway took up the gauntlet. The Oslo Process will, if all goes according to plan, culminate in a signing ceremony in Oslo.
Meanwhile, what gives with the countries that weren't in attendance? After all, if this were a nuclear accord, they'd be called rogue nations.
Let's take a look in the mirror. The Bush administration insists that cluster bombs are weapons too indispensable to surrender. Also, they claim — if you've heard this before from Republicans, stop me — existing international law is sufficient to deal with the dangers.
Still, at the UN's CCW meeting in June last year, the US indicated it was open to future negotiations, but only within the confines of the CCW. Turns out we were just trying to avoid the Oslo Process operating outside the CCW.
By the November 2007 CCW meeting, we were reduced to using the tantrum defense: If the use of cluster munitions were banned or limited, certain missions would require our forces to drop many times more non-cluster bombs to achieve the same results.
In other words, if even more civilians are killed and infrastructure damaged, it would be the fault of those who seek to ban cluster bombs.
Can we expect a new president to see the error of our ways and, however late to the party, sign the treaty?
In the autumn of 2006, Diane Feinstein (D-CA) submitted an amendment (No. 4882) to a Pentagon appropriations bill to the Senate. It banned neither the manufacturing, stockpiling nor the use of cluster bombs. It merely forbade their use in "any concentrated population of civilians, whether permanent or temporary, including inhabited parts of cities or villages, camps or columns of refugees or evacuees, or camps or groups of nomads."
Senator Feinstein couldn't have made voting for the bill more pain-free. Senator Obama voted yea, McCain, predictably, nay.
No sense piling on Hillary Clinton at this point. But her nay vote on amendment 4882 might have been the other vote she'll never live down. But we'll never know because Obama failed to call her out on it.
Perhaps, like Hillary, he feared appearing soft on defense. More likely, though, he sensed that it's hard enough for Americans to acknowledge that our government has opened the floodgates to the devastation of Iraq, as well as tortured, in our name. That's quite enough national shame for one era, thank you.
In the interim, all Americans of conscience owe a debt to Norway, New Zealand, and the 80 other countries which signed the Wellington Declaration for helping to keep the torch of humanity burning during America's dark years.
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Brian Angliss says:
I know you won't like this, Russ, but I can't support the banning of cluster bombs (and I can't support banning land mines either). But I like Feinstein's amendment to prevent their use in populated areas.
Of course, even without a damnable signing statement, there's a pretty good idea that this kind of amendment would be struck down by the SCOTUS if it ever got there as being an unconstitutional infringement on the authority of the President as CIC.
Generally, as I've said previously, I'm of the opinion that the best way to wage war is to make it fast and brutal, and to win fast. Modern wars are trying too hard to be "moral", with guided munitions intended to reduce the slaughter. I appreciate that the military and government want to make war easier to stomach, but if it were harder to stomach, then we might do it less. And there's not much that's harder to stomach than seeing the devastation of Dresden, or Hiroshima, or any number of napalmed Vietnamese villages, or the highway of death in Gulf War I.
I approve of the idea of trying to apply rules and international law to warfare, but in every conflict I can think of that was fought with one side trying to adhere to international law and the other side not, the side that fought all-out won. It sucks badly, but there it is.
Russ Wellen says:
Brian, you need to meet my nephew in the Special Forces. For better or worse, he sounds just like you!
The history of war demonstrates, though, that a country's decision to terminate a conflict isn't decided on the basis of civilian casualties, but on damage to its military. The US is one of the few exceptions to the rule.
Which would make it a good candidate to use land mines and cluster bombs againt, right?
TheRadicalModerate says:
I smell an unintended consequence coming on. Cluster bombs are used when the military objective requires destruction of fairly soft targets over a big area. Before the advent of cluster bombs, those targets would be attacked with saturation bombing using dumb iron bombs or with dumb artillery.
In saturation bombing, the amount of explosive you need to put on the target to achieve the same effect is much larger than in a cluster bomb attack of equal lethality. Consequently, the chance of mis-drops, long or short rounds, and really big unexploded ordnance goes way up. I'm not at all sure that the danger to nearby civilians would be reduced if you banned use of cluster bombs, even in fairly close proximity to populated areas. Indeed, you might easily have more unintended deaths. Yes, it's tragic (and newsworthy) when you have maimed kids. It's even more tragic–albeit less newsworthy–when the kid's entire family is vaporized in the mis-drop of a 500 lb. or 1000 lb. iron bomb.
I also have a non-rhetorical question for you: My understanding is that cluster munitions can be set to explode on contact or to have delayed fuzing that explodes later or when handled. The delayed versions serve pretty much the same purpose as anti-personnel mines. Do you have any idea whether anybody has characterized the risk to kids and other civilians in terms of the fuzing of the cluster munitions? It's quite possible that the bulk of the bad stuff that's happening is the result of delayed-fuzed bomblets.
I'd think that it would be fairly straightforward to get international agreements against delayed fuzing, along the same lines as the Ottawa Treaty. Of course, the major arms producers wouldn't ratify such an agreement, just as they didn't the Ottawa Treaty. That doesn't mean that its existence wouldn't be a powerful deterrent to the use of delayed fuzing.
Actually, Russ, your point about the damage to the military vs. civilians is an argument to continue using cluster bombs – if they're the most effective weapon at destroying the military forces of your enemy, then you'll get your enemy to surrender faster by using them.
After participating in the comments over at The Atlantic, I have come to realize why I disagree with you and other supporters of weapon bans – I look at the nature of war very differently than you do. I see it as one of the worst things that humanity can ever engage in, something that's so horrible, so immoral, so evil (I try not to use "evil" too often lest it lose it's meaning, but I think it's appropriate here) that the instant you choose to/are forced to engage in war, the only way to restore yourself to anything resembling decency is to win (or lose) the war fast and then restore civility to both warring parties again.
I should probably sit down at some point and write up my thoughts on the nature of warfare in a careful, coherent manner. I wouldn't expect you to agree, but at least we might come to a better understanding of why I think that allowing the use of horrible and immoral weapons might actually be more "ethical" than banning them. It's a screwed up idea, I know, but then everything about war is.
There is, however, one thing you and I can probably agree on entirely – we've got to have a good way to ensure that mines and cluster munitions are cleaned up after the war is over.
Yeah, war is the real issue, not weapons. Thanks for reminding me to check back over at Yglesias's blog, Brian.
Would really like to read a post by you on the subject.
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Salt Lake City, UT (April 5, 2017): David Weekley Homes, the nation's largest privately-held builder, is now selling three new series of homes in Deer Run Preserve: Bungalows, Cottages and Estates.
Priced from the $380s, Deer Run Preserve Bungalows offers buyers four floor plans nestled on 35-foot homesites. Ranging in size from 1,800 to 2,200 square feet of living space, these two- to three-story homes feature three to four bedrooms, two to three full baths, one to two half baths and two-car garages. The Bungalows series showcases scenic views of the Salt Lake City skyline and nearby mountains.
Deer Run Preserve Cottages provides homebuyers four award-winning floor plans priced from the $500s and offering 2,500 to 4,000 square feet of living space. Situated on 64-foot homesites, these one- and two-story homes have three to seven bedrooms, two to four full baths and three-car garages. The Cottages series offers buyers such upgrades as a super shower in the owner's bath, French doors at the study and a finished basement with a game room and additional bedrooms.
In Deer Run Preserve Estate, buyers can choose from six floor plans on 72-foot homesites, priced from the $570s. Featuring 2,400 to 5,000 square feet of living space, these one- and two-story homes offer three to eight bedrooms, two to six full baths and three- to four-car garages. Homes in the Estate series have options for such upgrades as a gourmet kitchen, a finished basement with media room and an extended covered porch.
Two fully-furnished model homes, The Pontiac from the Bungalows series and The Pennfield from the Estate series, are now open daily for tours.
For more information about David Weekley Homes in Deer Run Preserve, contact 800-240-7487.
The Pontiac model home, from David Weekley's Bungalows series, is open Monday through Saturday for tours in Deer Run Preserve.
David Weekley Homes, founded in 1976, is headquartered in Houston and operates in 23 cities across the United States. David Weekley Homes was the first builder in the United States to be awarded the Triple Crown of American Home Building, an honor which includes "America's Best Builder," "National Housing Quality Award" and "National Builder of the Year." Weekley has also appeared 10 times on FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For®" list. Since inception, David Weekley Homes has closed more than 80,000 homes. For more information about David Weekley Homes, visit the company's website at www.davidweekleyhomes.com.


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