Dead Silence

Posted by Ironspike on Jun 13, 2008 in Movies | 0 comments

FYI: this post was moved from my myspace.com account. It’s an older post.

Premise: A guy investigates his wife’s murder that seemed to involve a dummy and a legend about a ventriloquist that was also murdered.

I had high expectations about this movie. For me, all these slasher & mutant flicks are just getting old.

So, here we have a movie that involves a bunch of creepy dolls. I don’t know about the rest of you, but ever since that clown doll from Poltergeist tried to kill that little kid, scary movies with dolls just creep me out.

You might say Chuckie from Child’s play was great. I’ll have to disagree. We all knew that chucky was possessed. We knew what he was gonna do. That clown.. that’s a whole other level of fright.

Now saying that, I expected a lot of scary shit from Dead Silence. It just didn’t deliver. Ever thing is really predictable. What is sad is the movie had all the elements it needed to deliver some really good scares. It just fails at it.

Not to give the movie away… but just from the previews and the first few minutes of the movie, I knew the basic story line of the movie. Some old hag who played with dolls got blamed for a murder. She was hunted down, made to scream, then her tongue was cut out and she was killed.

So, you pretty much know that’s she hunting down the people and their descendants that were responsible for the murder.

Hence, that’s why his wife was killed. However, the ‘mood’ is never set in the movie. For instance, the movie starts with the happy couple getting a package in the mail with no return address.

They open it up and low and behold a very old dummy! Well, they laugh and make jokes and play with the damn thing.

The husband leaves to get some grub. His wife gets killed. He comes home…… he HEARD her calling him into the bedroom where he finds her murdered. Hmmmmmm I’d find that strange.

He decided to investigate… and takes the dummy on a road trip back home. I don’t know about most folks… but getting a fucked up doll and then my wife dying in the same night… I’d find it a bit strange.

The doll had “buddy” inscribed on its neck.

Well, I would be ripping “buddy’s” arms and legs off and using them for kindling. I’d be drilling some holes in his wooden head and using it for a ash-tray.

Anyway, the movie drags on and on and on.

All the while everyone is toting around this dummy. There are some parts that are creepy, the dummy moving his eyes around and staring at stuff.

However, the dolls were used very rarely. It was pretty much focused on the ghost of the owner.

You always knew she was coming because all the external noises would stop. You could only hear you’re self. She’d jump out and try to scare you into screaming. If you screamed… she’d rip your tongue and jaw off. So, pretty much this old bitch was always trying to creep up on someone.

I was thinking to myself, just close your eyes. If you can’t see something your a lot less likely to scream. Hell, if worse comes to worse just cut your own tongue out. I don’t think you would die then.

I wonder what she would do? She’d be like what the fuck? Heck, what if you were deaf… you’d never know she was coming. You wouldn’t be able to scream anyway. 

Sooo, I wasn’t a big fan of the movie.

I do pose this question… if anyone goes and see’s this movie.. please please please shoot me an email explaining the very ending. I just didn’t get that part.

The Colony 911 Call

Posted by Ironspike on Jun 13, 2008 in Wavs | 2 comments

The Colony Traffic Stop

From time to time I come across actual 911 calls.  A lady refuses to pull over for the police and calls 911 to inform them she did nothing wrong and will pull over when she gets home.  I didn’t know there were folks out in the world like this.

Lowes – Frisco, Texas

Posted by Ironspike on Jun 10, 2008 in General | 2 comments

This picture was taken in the number two stall.  The ‘Green’ sharpie marker is the indication of a man who takes his work seriously.  The block style lettering indicates that he has some form of education and might suggest he has graduated at least the 8th grade. Now as for his ‘statement’: it pretty much says “Hey, I’ve had a sexual encounter with a man who likes to wear women stockings. I liked it.” So, he want’s to share his experience with the rest of the male community.  He didn’t leave a tag line so I can’t inform him that most of the male population is not into that deviate behavior. However, more power to you man!