Casting News & Director For ‘ Captain Marvel ‘ To Be Announced This Summer

Move Over Guardians of the Galaxy, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to get that much more busier when Captain Marvel arrives on the scene.

News of a Captain Marvel film has been public knowledge since Marvel’s press-event in October 2014, showcasing their upcoming Cinematic slate . What has remained tight-lipped however has been exactly who will portray the popular heroine and the Director that will helm the ambitious project.

In an interview with Fandango, Marvel Studio’s President Kevin Feige revealed that fans guessing game as to the identity of the lucky actress that will embodied Captain Marvel’s alter ego Carol Danvers will soon be over. “I think we’ll be announcing a filmmaker in the next month or two, and probably some cast members later in the summer, at the end of the summer.“

From Sci-Fi icons such as BattleStar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff to Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s own Eliza Dusku – and even UFC Megastar Rhonda Rousey – fan speculation has been rife as to who should be awarded the role.

Feige also hinted as the nature of the standalone Captain Marvel film, revealing that it will serve as an origin story “about Carol Danvers and that journey to being Captain Marvel.“

Captain Marvel is currently slated to hit theaters on March 8, 2019.

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Arrow SN4 EP15 – ‘ Taken’

So it’s time for my latest review on Arrow so in this episode we carry on from where we left off in the last episode with Damien Darhk having taken Oliver’s son William. We also see Vixen make her live action debut to help Oliver and the team fight magic with magic.

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So we at the start of the episode we see Felicity at a rehab center with Curtis’s boyfriend trying out the implant that he gave her in the last episode, she attempts to take her first step and unfortunately buckles and is caught by Oliver.  We see the pair leaving the rehab center and who should arrive in the car park but none other than Damien Darhk, Oliver attempts to run up to confront him but of course Darhk uses his powers to hold him back, he taunts Felicity by apologizing about what happened over Christmas and offers her some advice that she may want to think about a motorized chair.

Oliver then receives a message on his phone and Darhk advises him that he is going to want to see it, Oliver takes his phone out and is confronted by a video message showing William playing in front of a fire place. Darhk advises Oliver that he has until tomorrow night to formally pull out of the race for mayor and give his support to Ruve Adams, Felicity asks Oliver who the child was and Oliver is forced to tell her that it is his son.

Felicity and Oliver arrive back at HQ and start to argue about why he did not tell her he had a son to which Oliver replies that Williams mother said the only way he could have contact with William was if he promised to not tell anyone. Felicity cannot believe that she would be that evil about him keeping him a secret just as the rest of the team arrive, Felicity tells him as William was living in Central city he should tell Barry and ask for his help but the look on Oliver’s face tells Felicity that Barry already knew about William. Felicity then asks the team if any of them knew about William and Thea is forced to admit that she found out a few weeks ago but none of the others knew.

Oliver then receives a call from his campaign manager advising him that a Samantha Clayton is in his office demanding to see him, Oliver tells the team that Williams mother is here and that he has to go meet her. Oliver goes upstairs to meet her and straight away she blames Oliver and wishes he had never found out about William, Oliver decides that it’s time to tell the truth and admits to Samantha that he is the Green Arrow and that is why William has been taken. We see Oliver take Samantha down to the HQ to show her he is not lying and to introduce her to the team including Felicity who is not looking impressed to say the least.

The team discuss a plan to try and find out where Darhk is keeping William, Oliver tasks Thea with speaking to Malcolm as he also knew about William and has an axe to grind with Oliver after what happened between them. We also hear Oliver mention someone who he thinks can help by the name of Vixen and just like that we are taken to another city too see three armed men running from what sounds like a wolf. After one of the guards is taken out by an invisible force the other two stop to face there attacker and are greeted by Vixen she knocks both men on the floor and as she is finishing off one of them the other is about to attack from behind cue Oliver turning up and putting an arrow through his arm to stop the attack. Vixen explains to Oliver that she had that under control and Oliver explains that he knows but he needs her help.

Oliver takes Vixen back to HQ to meet the team and Samantha it appears that Vixen can harness the abilities of animals through a mystic charm that she wears around her neck meaning she may be able to help track the location of William. Vixen asks Samantha if she has anything that belongs to William and she hands over a Flash action figure to her, she begins to sniff the toy and warns Oliver that Barry must never hear about this and then that she has picked up Williams scent. The team head off to a hotel and we see Vixen sawing through the sky of the form of an Eagle checking to see how many guards Darhk has guarding William. Oliver is on the roof across from the hotel with Diggle and he apologizes for not telling him about William, Diggle says he understands why he kept it a secret as he is constantly worried about his own child Sara and that is why he knows where Sara is every moment of the day.

Oliver swings from the building and smashes through the window of the hotel only to be confronted by Darhk and William is nowhere in sight, Oliver draws and arrow and Darhk reminds him that he played that game before and he knows who wins. The pair begin to fight each other and Darhk gets the better of Oliver and puts him through a table, Vixen arrives to help Oliver and unleashes a wolf and starts to fight with Darhk he also manages to get the better of her and holds her in place with his powers and makes a comment that he knows where her charm comes from and when he kills her he will put it to better use. Oliver gets back to his feet and is about to attack but Darhk uses his powers to push Oliver out of a window, luckily he manages to grab the ledge and Vixen rushes to help him back in and it appears that Vixen has lost the scent of William and Darhk has vanished.

The team regroup back at HQ to discuss what they will do next to save William but as they are discussing this Oliver receives a call from Darhk to advise him he should not have gotten the Arrow involved in there deal and he has to get himself in front of the camera now and step down from the mayoral race. Oliver decides that he has not other choice but to step down despite the teams advice that he should not give in that easily but all he wants to do is get William back safe and he calls a press conference to step down and give his support to Ruve Adams. Vixen speaks to Oliver privately after the press conference and advises him that when they they get William back he should keep his distance from him to save anyone else using him against him in the future.

The team meet back at HQ to try and figure out the source of Darhk’s power as Vixen has never come across someone this powerful before and she brings up the fact that his must be using some sort of mystical artifact to draw his power from. Captain Lance tells the team that he thinks he has seen this artifact when he went to see Darhk and it was kept in a cabinet, Vixen asks Captain Lance if he can describe the artifact to her and she will try and draw a picture to help them figure out how it is powered he says he thinks he can and the pair go off to put the sketch together. The rest of the team head off to comb the street to see if they can track Darhk down in the mean time and Oliver asks Felicity if he can keep Samantha company while they do this.

Samantha and Felicity have a chat about the situation they are in and Samantha backs Oliver’s story up that she was the one who asked him to keep William a secret despite him telling her there was someone special in his life that he would like to tell. Evetually the team meet back at HQ and Vixen knows the exact artifact that Darhk is drawing his powers from and that it is powered by using lay lines and Felicity sets to work tracking the lay lines against the places they have faced Darhk. Felicity manages to pin point the nearest location that is central from there meeting with Darhk and the team head off to the mansion to save William and finally stop Darhk.

The team arrive at the mansion which is heavily guarded the team take up there positions as Vixen soars over head to give the team a birds eye view of what is going on. Oliver moves in and engages the guards and while Darhk is distracted by the noise outside Vixen swoops in through the window and before Darhk can grab her she flies off with the artifact. Just as the guards are defeated Darhk appears and grabs Oliver, Thea and Laurel in a choke and starts to squeeze the life from them, William comes out from behind him and Oliver tells him through gasped breathe to back inside. Darhk tells William to stay where he is and that he wants him to see this.

Meanwhile Vixen has met up with Diggle on the edge of the mansion grounds and she summons the strength of a Gorilla and starts smashing the artifact against a rock to try and destroy it. Vixen struggles at first but Diggle wills her to continue to try as he does not think the other three have much time left finally with one last almighty smash she destroys it and Oliver, Thea and Laurel drop to the ground. He looks concerned and tries to regain his control over them but this does not work and it appears his powers are now gone. Olive and Darhk begin to fight and Oliver manages to get a shot off with a trick arrow that ties Darhk up just before Oliver punches him unconscious.

The police SCPD turn up and place Darhk under arrest for the kidnap of William who is then reunited with his mum back at the police station she goes to give him his Flash action figure and the boy announces he would now like an Arrow action figure instead. Oliver leaves to say goodbye to Vixen who advises him maybe she was wrong about him keeping his distance from his son.

We then cut to a scene back at Oliver’s apartment of him filming a message to William explaining everything and that he has asked his mum to take him away and not tell anyone including him where they are going and that he asked his mum to only show him this when he turns 18 so he can make his own decision on if he wants to know Oliver. Felicity comes in and Oliver asks her how much she heard of that to which she replies all of it and that she cant believe he has made yet another big decision without her. Oliver tries to explain but Felicity has had enough and puts her engagement ring on the table and says she needs some time away from him as he is still keeping secrets from the one person he should tell everything. We then see Felicity’s foot move and she then takes her feet off her chair foot rests and stands for the first time after the accident she then turns and walks out on Oliver with the episode coming to an end.

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Ian Somerhalder Says Eight Is Enough

At the Walker Stalker Con in Nashville, Tennessee on Sunday, Ian Somerhalder announced that The Vampire Diaries will end after season 8.  Somerhalder says that they want to give it their all in Season 8 and with this last season, “To really do the story justice.”

As sad as I am to see the show end, I’m glad that they’re not going to drive it into the ground before calling it quits.  With Nina Dobrev already gone, and Kat Graham and Somerhalder announcing that next season (S8) would be their last, it was time.

The CW has not officially announced the end of the show… they only just announced last month that it had been renewed for Season 8.

For the S8 finale, I think they need to do what Jensen Ackles has stated would be his desired ending for the show.  He has always said that he thinks they should end it with Sam and Dean driving through Mystic Falls in the Impala.

No matter how the show ends, I’ll be there for the finale.  I love the Salvatore Brothers (they’re my second favorite TV brothers)… and they are by far the sexist vampire brothers EVER, hands down.

Klaus and Elijah are a close … and I mean VERY close second.

The Originals SN3 EP17 – ‘Behind The Black Horizon’ Star Joseph Morgan Directs S3E17

SN3 EP17: Behind The Black Horizon

Written By:  Declan De Barra & Diane Ademu-John

Directed By:  Joseph Morgan

I must admit that I didn’t get the memo that Joseph Morgan was directing this episode, so it was a complete surprise when  the opening credits told me so.  He did an excellent job.  I especially liked the shots of Freya’s (Riley Voelkel) face when she was on the ground and the shot of Vincent (Yusuf Gatewood) practically bending over backwards (literally) when The Ancestors were forcing him to help Lucien.

Last episode was all about sibling rivalry, but in this one we learned that even though they may fight among themselves, they’ll band together to fight FOR each other.  It’s that whole ‘I can pick on my little brother all day long, but you better not touch him’ thing that is so very contradictory, but we all feel it.  When Lucien and The Ancestors made Vincent kidnap Freya, all of the Mikaelson Brothers came together to save her.  Even Finn was working with Elijah!  I know!  I’m sure that’s one of the first signs of the apocalypse.

So, while Klaus and Hayley were on a mission to find out what Lucien was up to, searching all of his business holdings, the other Mikaelsons were searching for where Lucien and Vincent had taken Freya (which bt-dubbs was MYSTIC FALLS!  Loved the scenes with Deputy Donovan… and that Matt helped them save Freya).  During Klaus and Hayley’s search is where we got the best line of the episode.  Klaus saying…”Ladies first” right before all Hell and Hayley broke loose was just great.  Hayley and Klaus decimated a whole security detail.  It was awesome.  I love Hayley… she’s the badassiest of all the badasses.  And, you definitely do NOT wanna piss her off.  Nope.

And all along, Lucien was wanting to become an Original.  Well, not exactly an Original, he wanted to be the Windows 10 of Originals.  He said an upgrade… but basically what he did was become that annoying upgrade that nobody wanted but is being forced down our throats.  He wanted to be a hybrid… like Klaus.  Only where Klaus’ bite will not kill an Original, Lucien’s will now.  Finn found that out the hard way.

In this episode, we all found out that “Always and forever” applies to all the Mikaelson siblings.  Even the one that they kept ‘daggered in a box’ for 900 years.  At the end of the episode, there was a touching scene where Finn’s siblings were throwing his ashes into the river after each saying a few touching words about their brother.  Even Kol said something nice.  But, in typical Klaus fashion, his words were merely “Just know that you will be avenged”  That’s Klaus for you.

And see, that’s why today when I saw that meme on Facebook … ya know, the one that says “You’ve been kidnapped and the star of the last show you watched is coming to save you… how screwed are you?”  I was very happy to get to say that Klaus Mikaelson was coming for me.  I’m pretty sure I’m good.

And, if not, I will be avenged.

Supernatural SN11 EP18 – ‘ Hell’s Angel ‘

 

SN11 EP18: Hell’s Angel

Written By: Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming

Directed By: Phillip Sgriccia

I’ll be honest with you, dear readers, I don’t even know where to start with this one.  I mean, I know it’s my job to break all this down for you, but this one was… well, how does the word “OhmyChuckthey’retryingtokillus” sound to you?  Yeah, you’re right, it’s probably too hard for non-fans to pronounce.

Okay, let me try again.

I have to admit, that at first I was like “Where are they going with this?”  I mean, I love Crowley as much as you can actually love The King of Hell… but I was shaking my head wondering what he was up to. BUT, please take note that is a very big ‘but’, once he had The Horn of Joshua, The Show was off and running.

Last night we saw the return of a few famdom favorites… Mark Pellegrino (as Lucifer), Ruthie Connell (as Rowena, who was presumed dead after Lucifer broke her neck. But as we’ve learned over and over again…nobody stays dead on Supernatural), and more importantly we saw the return of Sam’s ‘bitch face’.  I was so very glad to see Ruthie…uh… I mean, Rowena back.  I’m not ashamed to admit that I had a bit of a fangasm right there on my couch.  Yep, sure did.  So anyway, Rowena was helping Amara (Emily Swallow) heal after that “dreadful smiting” from the Angels.  Then, once Amara aka The Darkness showed off the depth of her power, Rowena was more than a little  … hmm…. frightened beyond belief doesn’t seem to cover it.  Anyway, she changed her mind and decided to try Team Winchester again.  That’s right, she went running to The Boys and their temporary team mate Crowley.

The best line of the night was in fact a line and then a reaction.  Sam is telling Dean that Cas wanted to say “yes” to Lucifer.  And, Dean responds, “Yeah, well there’s times I want to be slapped during sex by a girl wearing a Zorro mask, but that doesn’t make it a good idea.”  Then there’s Crowley’s reaction.  I actually had to rewind and watch that one a few times.  Okay, so many times that Lucy (my BFF that watches The Show with me every week) got a little peeved with me.  It was priceless.  Go watch it; I’ll wait.

Waiting…

See!  Told ya!

There were a lot of tense moments that kept me on the edge of my seat during this episode.  The fight inside Cas’ head was … well… things got broken.  Mark Pellegrino is just the best Lucifer EVER!  But, that ending?  Man, I can’t believe I willingly let them do this to me every damn week.  Seriously.

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Anyway, next week is the first of two weeks off then when The Show comes back on the 27th it’s another MotW episode.  See ya’ll in two weeks!

The Catch SN1 EP2 – ‘ The Real Killer ‘

Hi All!  Here’s a  refresher before tonight’s episode.

In last weeks’ episode, we were treated to more of Alice‘s memories of her relationship with Christopher. Alice dreams about their first date, in which her subconscious kicks up clues that  she probably feels that she should have picked up on.  They are discussing how people are generally so into themselves that they aren’t interested in finding out about the other person, and when they do seem interested it’s because they want something.  After a pregnant pause and a smile, Christopher says he’s interested. Cut to  steamy naughty dream sequence.  On the first date, Alice?  Really? Did I mention that your kids should probably not be watching this show?  Their date conversation continues with what each do for a living.  Her job is 24/7 but she makes time for the important things.  He is a Venture Capitalist, which, he flippantly explains, means he takes people’s money for a living.  Any good lie has a kernel of truth, right?

At this point Alice wakes up, and eyes the painting.  She makes the decision to bring in the firm’s newest recruit, lawyer and resident romantic Sophie Novak played by Elvy Yost.  Sophie believes that Christopher is not messing with Alice’s head, but is actually saying that it was real.  Alice thinks she should go to the museum and tell them everything, but Sophie advises against that plan for now.  Sophie reminds Alice that they have a new client coming to the office, a very high profile one who has recently been acquitted of the murder of his very rich wife.  Alice, from her perspective, is certain that he did it.

On the way to the office, she stops by the museum and discovers that the painting is there. Which one is the fake?

We find Christopher at a high end jewelry shop where he is telling the sales person that he needs a gift that says “I did something really bad, and I’m sorry”.  The sales person goes off to the vault to find something appropriate,  leaving Christopher free to look around at the other clientele.  He circulates, very slickly lifting credit cards, watches and bracelets from the other shoppers.

Margot and Reggie meanwhile are planning a sting on a grieving Princess who is coming in to LA.  They tell Christopher he cannot take part because he is burned; he is being sent to Shanghai where they will join him in a month.

While Alice is waiting at the office,  she tasks Sophie with finding out if there is any way of telling which painting is fake.  Partner Val is becoming progressively more pissed at her own ex, as he failed to show at their mediation session.   The team gathers around a computer to watch clips of their soon to be client Jeffery Bloom (Adan Canto), being acquitted.  Alice tells them that her gut is saying he did it,  he had means and motive, and his alibi was a 4 hour opera during which he could have left, killed his wife, had dinner and still have been back in time to catch Act 3.  Sophie thinks that it was a love story, Alice asks between  whom; Jeff and his dead wife Edith Rockwell or Jeff and the $40 million dollar estate that he can now claim.  Sophie says between Jeff and his new wife, award winning journalist Rebecca Bloom, played by Christine Woods, who believes he is innocent.

Jeff and Rebecca ask the firm to find out who really killed Edith.  Rebecca tells them that the more she looked into Jeff’s case the more the evidence against him didn’t add up.  She was so convinced that she not only fell in love with Jeff, she married him while he was still in prison waiting trial.

Jeff was a model (presumably penniless) and Edith a fashion designer which was how they met. They eventually married in spite of the 40 year age difference, which did not sit well with Edith’s son,  Payton Rockwell (broody Greg Audino).  Payton’s alibi is that he was in the bar, chatting up the bartender Tracy Lassin (Annabelle Borke).

The team takes a tour of the crime scene, Edith’s house.  In Payton’s room, Danny finds his tablet.  Rebecca points out that a very high Payton and his mother had an argument that night, presumably because of Jeff being the sole inheritor.  Jeff says he and Edith were supposed to go to the opera with friends, but Edith was so upset by the fight that she stayed home, and he went alone.  Ummmm, what happened to the friends? is the question I am asking myself.  Tickets for the opera really aren’t cheap, so from my point of view, the friends would have gone anyway.  Did anyone bother to question them during the original investigation?  Anyway, I digress.  The scene that Jeff found on his return looked like a robbery gone wrong.  Jewels were missing and Edith had been strangled with her own scarf.  Rebecca’s theory is that Payton did it, stealing the jewels to finance himself and his habit.

Meanwhile, Christopher has been sent packing to the airport, with a stern admonition to make no stops along the way.

Former Interpol and current FBI Agent Jules Dao  is in a parked car outside of Alice’s office.  Alice spots him and goes to confront him.  Across the intersection, Christopher steps out of his ride, and stares longingly at Alice.  Reggie has been following Christopher and tells him to get in the car.  They see Agent Dao and realize that Christopher cannot leave, as all exits from the city will be covered.  Agent Dao tells Alice that he has figured out that Mr X is Christopher Hall, her ex- fiance.  She threatens to call his superior at the FBI.

Back in the office, she remembers some pillow talk.  She had told him about her family, he tells her his are all dead.  Convenient!  Christopher tells Reggie that he is in love with Alice, and Reggie spells out what will happen to Alice if Margot finds out.

Meanwhile Danny and Sophie have found pictures of a beach house party complete with intimate pictures of Payton with bartender Tracy, on Payton’s tablet.  Danny is tasked with finding out whose beach house it is, and Alice tracks Payton down to question him. Moody, broody Payton not only refuses to answer her questions, he backs into and pushes her car out of the way, and roars off, nearly clipping Alice in the process.  What a JERK!  Kind of points to him as the killer.

Christopher is told that the Middle-Eastern Princess (Medalion Rahimi)  is not the mark.  The real mark is her guardian and de facto controller of the kingdom Kassim Halabi ( Navid Negahban) The con is to get him to invest in some fictional, very expensive property development, but it has been discovered that the Princess does not plan to stay in LA long enough for them to work it.  Christopher sees the opportunity to insert himself into the con.  He shows up at the airport with a Hunter Green Austin Healey, the exact same car that was her father’s favorite.  He whisks her away by letting her drive, leaving Kassim at the airport with Margot and Reggie.  Christopher and the Princess have a conversation that fascinates the Princess enough that she decides she wants to stay in LA.

Danny has discovered that the beach house belonged to Payton’s grandparents.  Sophie has found out the the artist of the painting always painted to the edge of the canvas which means that since a forger would only be able to paint what is inside the frame, this would be a way to determine which is the fake.   Alice opens the back of her painting, to discover that the edges are painted.  The painting in the museum is the fake.  Sophie and Alice decide that they will not tell Val yet, but will instead find the forger, and use him or her to find Christopher.

Danny and Alice go to the beach house to try to find the missing jewels.  Danny searches the house, Alice the property.  She searches some kayaks stored under the pier, stepping in some oily gook.  She finds the jewels, making it look bad for Payton.  Payton is in the wind now which really makes him look guilty.  Alice decides that since she was so wrong about this case, she should take time off.  Val won’t let her.

Sophie has found the forger and has coerced the name of her client, one Julian Mersch.  She has cross referenced this name with Christopher Hall and has found two obituaries, both with tragic back stories and no family, and both published in the NY Tribune.  Alice and Sophie realize that this is how they can trap Christopher.

Alice revisits Jeff and Edith’s house to see if she can find any other clues about where Payton might be.  She takes her shoes off when she realizes that they still have oily gook on them.  While she is searching Payton’s room, she hears someone enter the house, so she grabs the nearest bat and waits.  It is Jeff.  She tells him that she hasn’t found anything yet, and notices that he has oily gook on his shoes.  AhHA! She tries to leave, accusing him of feeding her the information she needed to frame Payton for him.  He says that he can’t be tried again for the same crime.  Rebecca is behind him, and has overheard his confession.  Jeff lets Alice leave (??), she calls Danny and orders a security team while she can hear a very loud domestic going on inside the house, followed by a thump and the sound of a body falling down the stairs.  She re-enters the house to find Jeff at the bottom of the stairs dead, and a blood spattered Rebecca in shock at the top.  Alice can sympathize with how Rebecca is feeling.

Sophie has found a death that fits Christophers’ pattern.  She and Alice realize that if they place an obituary, they can use it to track Christopher when he uses the dead guys’ social security number to build a new identity.

Later that night, Agent Dao shows up at Alice’s house to apologize, she is no longer a suspect in the investigation but what kind of detective would he be if he didn’t follow up on every lead?  She closes the door in his face.  She then places the obituary for Micheal Thorne in the NY Tribune, while Agent Dao is in his car listening in.  He has placed a miniscule bug on her door.

Cut to Christopher reading the paper in the lobby of the hotel where the Princess is staying.  She confesses that she really is the Princess Zara Al-Salim, and asks him if that bothers him.  He introduces himself as Micheal Thorne, and tells her it does not.

I confess that I do not have any favorite moments for this episode.  In fact, I am beginning to think that the whole premise for the show may be fatally flawed, in spite of starring Mireille Enos.  But hey, I initially found The Killing boring as hell, so I will be watching tonight to see if The Catch can change my mind.

 

 

 

 

The Inspiration Behind Norman Bates **GRAPHIC CONTENT**

Since there was not Bates Motel episode this week i thought i would have a look into what or who inspired Hitchcock’s Psycho and the birth of Norman Bates and what I found was totally disturbing but very intriguing nonetheless. Norman Bates was a fictional character created by Robert Bloch for his novel Psycho and was portrayed by Anthony Perkins in Hitchcock’s 1960 film of the same name, but did you know that Norman wasn’t just purely fictional, he was actually based on a convicted murderer by the name Ed Gein.

*WARNING DISTURBING CONTENT TO FOLLOW*

Who is Ed Gein you ask? Well Ed was born on the 27th August 1906 in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Ed also goes by The Mad Butcher, he was killer and a body snatcher and his crimes were all committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin where he exhumed corpses from local cemeteries and fashioned keepsakes and trophies from their bones and skin. Ed Gein confessed to killing Mary Hogan a tavern owner on December 8th, 1954 and Bernice Worden the Plainfield hardware store owner on November 16th, 1957. Gein had been in the hardware store the evening before Bernice Worden disappearance, the Police suspected Gein and searched his property and what they found was disturbing. Investigators found Worden’s decapitated body in a shed, hung upside down by ropes at her wrists, with a crossbar at her ankles. Her torso was dressed out like a deer and she had been shot with a .22-caliber rifle, the mutilations to her body occurred after her death. Upon searching the house the investigators were even more shocked, sickened and disturbed by what they had found.

The following is what was found in Gein’s house:

● Whole human bones and fragments
● A wastebasket made of human skin
● Several chairs covered in human skin
● Skulls on his bedposts
● Female skulls and some with the tops sawn off
● Bowls made out of human skulls
● A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist
● Leggings made from human leg skin
● Masks made from the skin of female heads
● Mary Hogan’s face mask in a paper bag
● Mary Hogan’s skull in a box
● Bernice Worden’s entire head in a burlap sack
● Bernice Worden’s heart in a plastic bag in front of Gein’s potbellied stove
● Nine (9) vulvae in a shoe box
● A young girls dress and the vulvas of two (2) females judged to have been about fifteen years old
● A belt made from female human nipples
● four (4) noses
● A pair of lips in a window shade drawstring
● A lampshade made from the skin of a human face
● Fingernails from female fingers

All the items found at Gein’s house were photographed and then destroyed, he told investigating officers that between 1947 and 1952 he made as many as 40 night visits to three different cemeteries to exhume recently buried bodies while he was in a “daze-like” state (similar to what we see with Norman’s blackouts) On 30 of those visits he would come out of the daze while still in the cemetery and left the grave in good order and return home emptyhanded. On other occasions he would dig up recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother and took them home, where he tanned their skin to make paraphernalia. Soon after the death of Gein’s mother, he began to create a “woman suit” so that he could become his mother to literally crawl into her skin. His practice of donning the tanned skins of women was described as an “insane transvestite ritual”

Sheriff Art Schley from Waushara County, reportedly assaulted Gein during questioning by banging Gein’s head and face into a brick wall and as a result Gein’s initial confession was ruled inadmissible. In 1968 Art Schley died of heart failure at the age of 43, before Gein’s trial, its said by many who knew Schley that he was traumatized by the horror of Gein’s crimes and his fear of having to testify about assaulting Gein, caused his death. November 21st 1957 Gein was arraigned on one count of first degree murder and pled not guilty by reason of insanity, he was found mentally incompetent and unfit for trial and sent to Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and later sent to Mendota State Hospital where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. On November 14th 1968 Gein was found guilty of first-degree murder by Judge Robert H. Gollmar and spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. Gein’s house and property were scheduled to be auctioned March 30, 1958 , amid rumors the house was to become a tourist attraction but on March 27th the house was destroyed by fire and arson was suspected but was never officially solved. The car he used to haul the bodies of his victims was sold at public auction for $760 to a carnival sideshow operator Bunny Gibbons, later Gibbons charged carnival goers 25 cents admission to see it. Gein died on July 26, 1984 of respiratory failure due to lung cancer at the age of 77 in Stovall Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute.

Ed Gein’s story has had lasting effects on American pop culture by its numerous appearances in film, music and literature. His story first came to widespread public attention in the fictional version by Robert Bloch in his 1959 suspense novel Psycho, then in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film of Bloch’s novel. Gein’s story has been loosely adapted into a number of movies, including Deranged (1974), In the Light of the Moon (2000), Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007), Hitchcock (2012), and the Rob Zombie movies House of 1000 Corpses and its sequel, The Devil’s Rejects. Gein has also served as a model for several book and film characters, most notably such fictional serial killers as Norman Bates (Psycho), Leatherface (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs) and Bloody Face from American Horror Story.

It goes without saying that Gein was a deranged human, but he will forever be a source of inspiration for all things dark and twisted.

References:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

The Walking Dead SN6 EP16 – ‘ Last Day On Earth ‘

This post contains spoilers.

Welp.  That was disappointing.  After a mostly good season, The Walking Dead reverted back its old ways and pulled a fast one by killing “a character” but not showing us who it was and largely ruining an otherwise excellent introduction to the new big bad, Negan.  I’ll get into that more later, but let’s start with a quick recap of the episode.

This season, particularly the second half, has been building to this episode and they did a good job creating tension early on.  We heard the ominous whistling and saw strange lights in the dark.  For the second episode in a row, we’re presented with images that we won’t understand until later.  It was creepy and grabbed my attention immediately.

Morgan’s best Rick impersonation

We then cut to Morgan finding the horse we heard about from the guy in the body armor last week.  This was a cool scene and it sort of underscored Morgan’s constant message that all life is precious.  Though, the sign that literally said “You Are Alive” felt a bit on the nose.  Perhaps this is foreshadowing something from the comics but, as someone who hasn’t read that far, it didn’t really do anything for me.  This also kicked off the Morgan/Carol “B” plot of the episode which seemed tacked on and unnecessary.

That’s not to say I hated the idea of Morgan going after Carol or even the scenes themselves.  On the contrary, the show has done a good job of setting up this Morgan and Carol story-line as a sort of personification of the larger debate over killing humans on the show.  It seems like they wrapped up the debate with Morgan killing the Savior that was torturing Carol.  He showed her that there is a time when its ok to kill a human to save someone you love, but only when there are literally no other options.  It was also interesting to see the guys in the body armor, who are presumably from the next group we’re going to meet.  Guys in body armor with horses and stabbing weapons….are we going to see some knights next year??  That is an exciting prospect.

Friend or foe?

Though, to be frank, I didn’t think we needed to have that plot resolved, or even updated, this week.  I would have been content to have not seen Morgan or Carol at all until next season.  It would have added some mystery to the search for Carol.  The real problem was that it just distracted from the main event: the first appearance of Negan.  We all knew Negan was coming this week and its all anyone cared about.  I feel this plot line got lost and was used as more of a break from the action in the RV than to actually tell a story.  I fear most people will forget about what we saw with Morgan and Carol and it just have to be rehashed next season, particularly the bit about the new group.  There’s no way anyone is going to remember that when it gets revisited in October.

I really liked the interlude with the random survivor from the library running from the Saviors.  It confirmed the the creepy whistling was their way of intimidating people and it worked.  That was creepy as hell.  It also showed us how ruthless they are when someone breaks “the rules.”

The main action this week was the journey to Hilltop to save Maggie and the confrontation with Negan.  I liked how they used the complication with Maggie’s pregnancy as the reason to get people in the RV and head to Hilltop.  It was done slightly differently in the comic but this way fit the show more and nothing was lost in translation.

So we have Rick and Co. taking Maggie to Hilltop to see the doctor and, hopefully, save the baby.  I understand Rick and Carl and even a few other people wanting to go and help protect Maggie on the way to Hilltop.  But why bring so many?  Aren’t they worried about an attack from the Saviors on Alexandria?  Yet, they bring Rick, Carl, Abraham, Sasha, Aaron, AND Eugene on the trip to Hilltop and leave Gabriel in charge of the defenses.  I mean, who is left to defend the walls at this point?  Spencer?  It just feels like a stupid thing that the people of Alexandria, especially Rick, wouldn’t do.  Especially after Rick was talking about how important it is to protect  what they have in last week’s episode.

Basically every competent person in the group

Regardless, the RV group gets out on the road and it quickly becomes apparent that the  Saviors are gunning for them.  We see the random survivor from earlier used as an example of what they’re capable of doing.  I liked the confrontation at the first roadblock, Rick tries to make a deal and act like a bad ass before his confidence is slowly eroded throughout the episode.  He obviously has no idea what they’re dealing with.  However, the speech from the lead Savior felt like a little too much foreshadowing.  He tells Rick to treat this like it’s their “last day on Earth,” heavily implying that someone is going to die.  But, we all knew that someone was going to die.  They’ve been leading up to it and teasing it for weeks.  We didn’t need that much more foreshadowing.  Side note, Abraham continues to drop some of the best lines this season.  “What the bitch?” might be my new favorite combination of words.

At times, all the different and escalating roadblocks felt excessive.  As if they were just trying to pad the running time of the episode.  But, I liked all of them.  It showed the power that the Saviors have and how outmatched the group is at this point.  Plus, they were legitimately intimidating and bad ass.  I mean, who didn’t love that chain of walkers?  It also allowed a lot of tension and fear to build up, especially in Rick.  The problem with the pacing wasn’t the roadblocks, it was the constant interruptions by the “B” plot.  I can’t help but think that the episode would have been better if the Morgan and Carol plot was dropped and the episode was a standard hour, as opposed to the 90 minutes we got.

Eugene has had some pretty good development over the last few episodes, he’s gone from meek and useless to being an actual survivor.  Plus, he’s putting his smarts to good use with his bullet making scheme and his plan to draw off the Saviors by taking the RV himself.  They really went out of their way to make it seem like he was about to die with that goodbye scene, I mean, he even gave the bullet making instructions to Rick.  I doubt he’s going to die, but I liked the growth and courage we’ve seen in him lately.

Hi…

The end of this episode started so great.  We have the group running through the woods, in the dark, and we hear that super creepy whistling again.  You can just feel the fear in all of them.  They know they’re over matched and there’s nothing they can do about it.  The Saviors get them on their knees and we find out what those creepy lights were.  It was the view of Darryl, Glenn, Michonne, and Rosita from that van.  Now they’re all together, on their knees, and waiting to meet Negan.

I have to say, the Negan introduction was perfect, not to mention Lucille, who was indeed awesome.  Jeffery Dean Morgan’s performance was was amazing.  He was equally scary and charismatic, hilarious and menacing.  He looked the part and played it like he was born to be Negan.  His lines were lifted right out of the comic (minus a few hundred “fucks”) and it worked so well.  The reactions of the group really sold it as well, especially from Rick.  You could see on his face how scared he was, he dramatically underestimated these people and now someone he cares about has paid the price for his arrogance.  It was indeed “pee pee pants city.”

The face of fear

That brings us to the biggest problem with this episode.  We don’t know who paid the price!  AMC nailed the most iconic villain in the series and his introduction but they still screwed it up.  Some will say that this is a classic TV cliffhanger and it simply adds tension and a reason to come back next season.  But, that’s the thing, there’s already a reason to come back next season.  To see the fallout from the person’s death and find out how the group will deal with Negan and the Saviors.  It seems like we’ve been building to this moment all season.  Everyone knew a major death was coming, the show has been dragging it out and teasing us for weeks.  But we didn’t get any release or catharsis from the end.  We KNEW Negan was going to kill someone important, the question was who it would be.  I mean, it can only be one of about 3 of the people that were there, they aren’t going through all this for Sasha or Aaron’s death.

You are so gonna regret crossing him…in about 6 months

The way this played out didn’t release any of the viewer’s tension, it was simply another cock-tease by AMC.  A way to drag the reveal out until next season.  To take such an iconic moment from the source material and cut out the end only serves to cheapen the moment and took away from an otherwise great ending.  Seeing the character who died and seeing their death would have brought closure to this season and made all the waiting we’ve done worthwhile.

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The Flash SN2 EP15 – ‘ King Shark ‘

So it’s time once again for my review of The Flash and in this weeks episode we see Barry struggle with what happened on Earth-2, the return of King Shark, guest appearances from Diggle and Lyla and we the identity of Zoom is finally revealed.

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So after Jay Garrick was killed at the end of the last episode we see the team looking visibly shaken by what was just at the beginning of the episode, Barry decides to concentrate on running around the city looking for other meta human threats while Caitlin struggles to come to terms with losing yet another love interest. Barry wants to go back to Earth-2 as he feels that he has left the whole planet at the mercy of Zoom now they have  closed all the portals. Dr Wells explains to Barry that it is impossible to go back as all the portals have now been closed and there is no way of reopening them.

We then go off to a secret Argus facility where is appears they have been holding King Shark prisoner in a large tank with a laser grid over the top of to stop him from escaping. He appears to have gone belly up so the guards decide to shut down the laser grid, cue the scene cutting to Lyla and Diggle arriving at the facility and we find out that Lyla has been promoted to the new head of Argus and has been tasked with cleaning up Wallers mess. The alarm sounds and the pair arrive to see all the guards dead and King Shark having a snack on them as he sees the Lyla and Diggle appear he makes a break for it and escapes.

Diggle and Lyla pay Barry and team a visit to advise them that King Shark has escaped from the Argus facility as it appears that Amanda Waller had captured him and were experimenting on him to see if they could use his genetic make up to make weapons. Barry is frustrated by this and is not going to wait around for King Shark to find him and that he is going to take the fight to him instead. Barry, Diggle, Lyla and the Argus team take off to track him down by searching the nearest bodies of water next to Central City. The group eventually find him but are unable to capture him and he makes a meal out of another two Argus agents.

During the episode we see Dr Wells warn Barry and Cisco that they must not tell the others about there Earth-2 counter parts, the pair agree to not tell them anything but we see Caitlin’s attitude change towards people. Cisco begins to worry that she is becoming exactly like Killer Frost after she the pair pay King Sharks Earth-1 wife and Caitlin becomes inpatient after they ask for a look at her research. She also snaps at Cisco later on for trying to help her go through the research and find a way to track King Sharks movements.

We also see some issues arise between Barry and Wally during a family game night at the West household, Wally beats Barry’s cup stacking record and makes the claim that no-one is faster than him. Barry is offered the chance to regain his title but he doesn’t seem interesting in having fun with the rest of the West family, Wally seems to be a bit put out by this and decides to head off as he has plans. Joe and Iris pick up on something not being right but there unable to get it out of Barry at this point in time. Joe later arranges for Barry and Wally to meet up at the house to help Wally with his project to get into a engineering college programme, Barry reluctantly agrees to come along and help him out as he knows he needs to take his mind off King Shark.

The pair meet up and at first it takes them sometime to warm up to each other as Barry goes straight into nerd mode and starts telling Wally where he needs to improve his engine designs and Wally states that he asked for his help and not for him to do the work for him. The pair then get down to work and seem to be working well together until Barry gets ahead of his self again and states to Wally that he is trying to help and doesn’t want the college to have a reason to say no to him. Wally takes offence to this and goes to storm out Barry goes after him to ask what his problem is only for Wally to tell him that he has had enough of hearing how amazing and perfect Barry is from Joe and Iris. Just as the pair are arguing King Shark arrives by tearing the roof of the house looking for The Flash as he can smell that he is there. Barry makes sure that Wally is not looking and rushes outside to confront Killer Shark, the fight is short lived with Barry being thrown against a car but before King Shark can finish the job Argus arrive on the scene and scare him off.

Barry arrives back in the house as the West’s are tidying up the mess and Wally turns to Barry and asks if he has been hiding under his bed he had heard he was meant to be this amazing person and he didn’t take him for a coward this causes Joe to snap at Wally before he leaves the house looking annoyed that his father has taken Barry’s side. Barry tries to defend Wally but Iris and Joe know there is something else wrong with him, Barry comes clean and tells him all about there Earth-2 counter parts and what happened to Joe and that even though it was not his Joe that died it was still just as painful. Barry also admits that he feels like it is his fault that Jay was killed due to him being the one who opened the breaches, Joe and Iris advise him that it is not his fault and that he needs to move past this if he is ever going to be happy.

We go back to Star labs and Cisco confronts Caitlin about her behaviour and accidentally lets slip that she is acting like she was over there. Caitlin manages to get out of Cisco about meeting her Earth-2 counter park and what she was like and is a little shocked to think Cisco would think she could turn into that sort of person and that she just needs time to get over losing Jay. Eventually Caitlin manages to find out that King Shark uses Barry’s electric charge in order to track him giving the group the idea to reverse this process to track him instead. Barry, Caitlin, Diggle, Lyla and the Argus team head off to the river to try and lure King Shark out with a decoy of Barry giving out an electric pulse.

King Shark takes the bait but the tranquillisers that Cisco has planted in the decoy have had not effect and he ends up on land and it appears that bullets don’t do any good against him so Barry takes off over the water and King Shark gives chase. Barry uses his electric charge to send shocks through the water harming King Shark before sprinting around in a whirlwind and eventually hitting him with his now trademark lightening bolt rendering him unconscious. Argus reel him in and place in him an impenetrable holding cell so that he can be transferred back to the facility, Lyla promises Barry that they won’t be experimenting on him like Waller was. We also see Diggle give Barry some advice as he has noticed that Barry has been struggling and it’s around how to losing people that are close to you and using his experience of when he was in Afghanistan and lost his friends.

We see Caitlin catch Cisco out by touching her with her cold hands and when he calls he Caitlin she asks why she is calling her that and she hates that name before laughing at him, Cisco obviously doesn’t find it very funny but is glad to see her a bit happier.

At the end of the episode we see Barry call everyone together and advise them that he is not ready to give up on Jay and that they will find a way to get back to Earth-2 and also that he plans on stopping Zoom once and for all when he gets there revealing Jay’s helmet in a case to honour his memory. We see a cut scene to Earth-2 and Zoom holding the body of Jay he drops him on the floor and the prisoner with the metal mask looks distraught, we then finally see Zoom remove his mask only to reveal the face of Jay Garrick and says “Well this is a complication”.

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Damien SN1 EP5 – ‘ Seven Curses ‘

Wow! What an episode, it was dark with little twists that are slowly starting to unravel bit by bit. By far the darkest episode yet, and I believe its only going to get darker as it unravels more. Before we get in to the ‘Seven Curses’ let’s do a quick recap of ‘The Number of a Man’.

‘Number of a Man’ SN1-EP4

Detective Shay asks Damien to come in for further questioning, in regards to the recent deaths that are centered around Damien. They each threaten each other, before Damien mentions Ann’s interested in him. Shay visits Ann, she shows him the vault which is now a wine cellar and suggests Damien’s time spent as a war photographer has effected his mind. Simone’s mother brings in a witch doctor to put Kelly’s spirit to rest. The witch doctor burns her belongings which emits an orange flame before turning blue. In the ashes, they find her journal with the number 666 burned into the page. Shay’s son Jacob nearly drowns in the backyard pool.

Ok lets jump into ‘Seven Curses’ SN1-EP5

Like i said before, this episode was a cracker and Glen Mazzara, his team and the cast are killing it! Just to be clear they are killing it an awesome way, every episode just gets better and it hooks me in just that little bit more. This episode we see Damien looking for help which makes us believe he’s not just the beast in the making but also a man, will he be able to balance both sides of himself or will the beast take over? Damien seeks help from a Doctor which leads him to a veteran hospital where he runs into the woman who’s son he had saved from the on coming train, she was visiting her husband who was in the hospital and asks Damien if he would meet him.

We see an immediate connection between Damien and veteran, it pulls at the heartstrings and he photographs the veterans daily struggles in the hops of getting their story out. Simone believe Damien is the sole cause of he sisters death but Amani believes he is suffering mentally . We see Ann asking if she has been a good mother and keeping him safe, hinting she is actually his biological mother. Simone gets more than she bargained for while looking for photos at Damien’s apartment, two men in dark clothing and masks break in and ransacked Damien’s apartment looking for him. While at the hospital the veteran asks Damien to assist him in committing suicide, but he wants no part in it, he has had seen too much death. Damien searches the hospital when he finds the Veterans bed empty and he stumbles across a group of injured individuals that start chanting about the serpent with the number 666 when he enters the room. Damien’s connection with the vet leads him down a dark path as he photographs his suicide, its raw, dark and heartbreaking.

In this episode we are also starting to see a relationship form between Amani and Veronica and we have also learned that Veronica is Ann’s daughter and Damien’s sister. The Vatican also comes into play in this episode and you see the crypt where the daggers are held. This by far is the best episode to date, we are learning more about this life and the people surrounding him but there are still many questions to be answered.

Episode Rating This Week: 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬