Hell House
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301235/
This is a documentary on Trinity Church (Assemblies of God) in Cedar Hill, Texas. Every Halloween the church puts together a "Judgment House" to scare thousands of visitors into accepting Jesus and joining the church or risk eternal damnation in hell. Members of the youth group rehearse and perform scenes of rape, incest, drug use, and burning in hell. Sounds more fun than your typical spook house, but without the research.
What is sad and stupid is the fact that these people are almost completely removed from outside culture and have little understanding of the majority of what they are damning as being wrong (Harry Potter, Magic the Gathering, etc.) A father speaks with his daughter of doing a rape scene, and discusses being a violent abusive father character.
In reality his wife left him for someone on the internet and he refers to her as if she were dead by saying "she is no longer with us".
At one point the youth group is constructing a scene depicting Satanism, and someone suggests painting a pentagram on the wall. A couple minutes later the camera pans across from 666 graffiti on the wall next to the Jewish sign of David, which they have apparently confused with a pentacle, which has 5 stars, not 6.
These people are oblivious. They have not done their homework, and if they did, perhaps they would realize how stupid they are for being shallow and judgmental not be doing this. It's questionable as to where their morals lie as well, seemingly dabbling into their own dumbed up version of the occult while threatening people with damnation of hell, even overlooking what is written in their own bible, God is the only judge of man.
None the less, it's humorous and worth a watch.
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The Devil's Rejects: Unrated
This one packs a punch. The 2 Disc unrated version is worth getting just for the extras. The second disc is entitled "30 Days of Hell". It runs 2 hours and 24 minutes, and details every day of filming, and every scene filmed. It has to be by far the most detailed behind-the-scenes look into how a movie is made of any DVD I own.
I started watching the unrated version of the film last night, but didn't make it all the way through. I didn't see anything too noticibly different, but may have overlooked some minor stuff. I may update once I watch it. Not sure if it includes the infamas Dr. Satan in the hospitle scene or not, but that is detailed in disc 2.
The movie has 2 audio commentary tracks, one with Rob, and the other with Sid Haig, Bill Moseley and Sheri Moon.
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Warnings From Space - 3 moive set
- Zontar: The Thing From Venus
- Slipstream
- Sci-Fighters
Picked this up at K Mart for 7 bucks. Haven't really watched any of the movies yet, I'm sure they are all terrible. I watched 5 minutes of Zontar, which makes Ed Wood look like Martin Scorsese.
Slipstream stars Mark Hamell and Bill Paxton, and Roddy Piper plays a cop in Sci-Fighters. I was sold.
