21/06/13 Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)

Justice is blind. Turns out it's occasionally deaf, dumb, corrupt or completely absent as well.

If you've heard of this film, you probably know what it's about, if you haven't, this is worth a read:

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

Aside from the crime itself, the most shocking thing in this film is the bare lack of neutrality shown by the judge. It's truly disgusting to see someone who is meant to represent the pinnacle of fairness and arbitrary wisdom so overtly directing a trial and jury towards an outcome.

The scene that sticks in my mind is where an "expert" on the occult is called to give evidence and spins out lazy shit about the suspects being heavy metal fans proves they are satanists and therefore guilty of murder.

The defence then reveals to the court that this professional witness' qualifications were bought via mail order and involved absolutely no tuition or study. At all.

In a sane world, this alone would put the trial on a rocky footing, instead the judge swats away the objection and instructs that the McExpert's testimony be taken into account and is of great value.

Well, I've just qualified as a king-poop of acumen from the university of Pot Noodle and I declare, with a genuine authority, that the judge and his witness are some of history's biggest pair of cunts.

So, the result is that three teenagers, spent 18 years in jail for a crime they didn't commit and the person or people who actually murdered three innocent kids has never been punished.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2028530/
10/10

Massive cunt.

Perkin.

28/10/12 Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Last saw this about 25 years ago when Halloween fell on a Saturday and one of the four available British TV channels decided to put on the least popular film of the Halloween franchise.

Four TV channels, eh? Those were the days.

Also, back then, there wasn't a sell-through film market, if you  wanted to own your favourite flick on VHS, you had to buy a full price rental cassette, they were £70 a pop! That's (roughly) the equivalent of £300 in modern money. A mate of mine bought Four Weddings And A Funeral for a girl he really liked for £75, 18 years ago. She dumped him. He probably could've bought a house or something for that sorta money. Or an entire town up north. Also, any woman who's into fucking rubbish like that... Meh. An admirably grand gesture considering our incomes back then though.

These days people just instantly stream films onto their iTube Facebox and pay pennies for it. No fucking effort required for proper film fans any more.

I've got a subscription to the excellent Canadian horror film magazine, Rue Morgue. Highly recommended for anyone into that sort of stuff. In the last edition, they had an interview with the director of Halloween 3, praising it up as some kinda, obscure, forgotten, counter-culture gem of the genre, so when I saw it was on TV last night, I thought 'Result! Haven't seen it for many years, must be worth a go. Can't be the terrible old shit I seem to remember about a bunch of evil rubber masks and some old tit who wants to kill the world using the power of a Stonehenge brick. Or can it?'

Yes.

It also has some right ol' hairdos and no Michael Myers. Don't get me wrong, with the exception of the first film, I'm not much of a Halloween fan, and even the first is enjoyable rather than brilliant but having a film called Halloween 3, and not involving anything to do with 1 or 2 is definitely dropping a bit of a bollock.

Myers is shit though. Frustrated fuckin' mask wearing odd 'un. Just needs a Pot Noodle and a wank, none of this stabby shit. Twat.

Anyway, he's not in this one, he had a year off*, this one's just the above mentioned masks and shit. It's total penis.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085636/
3/10

Perkin.

*: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/michael-myers-having-a-quiet-one-this-halloween-201110284480