PRIMITIVE SCREWHEADS

In The Hall Of The Mountain Grill

While I was working on In The Hall Of The Mountain King, I kept thinking of the Hawkwind album title that is so similar. Hall Of the Mountain Grill was partially named after a resturant on Portobello Road, Notting Hill, West London, that the band used to frequent thirty five years ago, and that Grieg thing. I am sure that it's nothing like this place. I bet they didn't have a dragon's skull on their wall.

I thought about making the walls using brown bricks for wood first but I didn't like where that was going. Then I tried making the lower part of the wall brick and used brown for the wood on the top half. I finally kept going with the brick. I made the walls kind of tall thinking it was a way to keep the place cool in the summer. You see that in old buildings. I didn't put on a roof because it would have been a lot of work and it would make everything to dark to see very well. I have not had great success roofing things in as much as I would like.

I had figured I would put up several shields. For decoration and to represent the various tribes that meet at the Mountain Grill without fear of attack. It's a place to meet in truce. Kings and villians stop in for a turkey leg. It's the house special. After the shields went up the upper part of the wall looked pretty bare, so I figured they should put up some weapons and trophies. You still see resturants doing that. Now I had a use for the dragon's head and wings. I had picked up a second copy of set 7021 Viking Double Catapult versus the Armored Ofnir Dragon then they were on clearance at the LEGO Store.

 

I kept the dragon from one set intact.  It's a nice dragon. I didn't care much for the catapult, there's some nice brown parts and a couple of guys. Two of them are in the scene.

    

That's one yelly viking. I guess you have to be to fight a dragon, or turn down a croissant. Back in the corner you can see a Severus Snape minifig pretending to be some caped guy of intrigue. He fits in with the Fantasy Era Castle stuff. There are three Star Wars Minifigs in the mix, the rest are mostly Castle types, and the manager with the ladle is a fireman. Our hostess is Miss Gail Storm in a dress. She's from the Adventure series. I'm trying one of the red hair pieces from those Exo-Force guys. I recently saw someone use that red hair as a plant, in a flower pot on a balcony. That was nice. Here it adds some color to the scene.

 

Friday Night Movies 163

Lucky Number Slevin was our first feature. I am a big Bruce Willis fan and eventually see all his movies. This one finally turned up at Target for cheap enough. Josh Hartnet visits New York, where he's mugged. Lucy Liu is the neighbor of the man he's visiting. She find him there, in the apartment, with just a towel on. She leaves and some bad guys pick him up, in the towel, and take him to see the Boss. They punch him some. The bad guys think he's his pal, Nick Fisher. Nick is in a bit of trouble, he owes a ton of money to Morgan Freeman and Sir Ben Kingsley. Ben is The Rabbi, and Morgan's the Boss. Leaders of rival crime gangs. Morgan has quite the plan. Josh needs to kill the son of his rival or he's going into the fridge with this other corpsesickle. Bruce Willis shows up as the mysterious Mr. Smith. He's really a world class hit man with a plan. Morgan wants him to kill the son of his rival Sir Ben, who he thinks had his son killed. What a bunch of dicks, huh. It gets more complicated while the plan plays out and in one of those movies where "nothing is as it seems" the cliches keep piling up. I enjoyed most of the movie and wasn't unhappy that I bought the movie. It's worth watching again, but not until the facts settle and I forget some of the story. Maybe Sunday. I'm kiddin', it'll be a while. There was some complaint about the dialog. I didn't have any problem with that. The writer is a tv guy, who worked on Bionic Woman, Karen Sisco and some show called Kidnapped. This is his only movie. The director did a bunch of stuff over seas, and I thought he did an ok job. It gets a 7.8 on the IMDb and I think that's a bit high, but it's fairly good entertainment.

Netflicks supplies Undead Or Alive with Chris Kattan. This might be the best Chris Kattan movie so far but I've only seen one other one. I thought he was ok in House On Haunted Hill, but really I'm no fan and never watched him on the ten years he was on SNL. I've seen some clips at people's houses but I often fail to see any humor on SNL, and I did not like some of his characters. Here he's mostly not too annoying. I liked James Denton as the soldier who deserted. The movie opens with some zombie action. These are zombies caused by the curse of Geronimo. Our heroes get tossed in the pokey. They escape and rob the sheriff, who is kind of dick and mostly a criminal. I didn't feel bad for him. The deputy gets bitten, then the sheriff gets bitten, and soon Joe got his wish. There was a zombie posse. There are some jokes, not all good, a fair bit of man ass, and some story that just wasn't very novel or inspiring. There's an Indian girl named Sue that has it in for the Army, who have been killing Indians, but she gets sidetracked by Chris and James. Hanging around with them puts you right in the path of the zombie posse. There are some good zombie effects and makeup. Not a great zombie film but something to pass the time. I wouldn't go out and buy it. It's $23.98 on Amazon. Who the hell would pay that? Not me.

Friday Night Movies 162

It was a double header of badness tonight. Netflix delivered up 28 Weeks Later and some nice guys loaned Sperhauk a copy of Aeon Flux which we watched first. I hadn't heard anything good about AF when it hit the theaters in 2005, so I never bothered with it. I was waiting for it to come along for free. Here it is. It's based on a 1991 animated series that ran on MTV. It wasn't much of a series at first, just a few short 5 minute pieces that ran on Liquid Television. I didn't like the drawing style of the cartoon by Peter Chung, which I read on Wikipedia is loosely based on the style of Austrian artist Egon Schiele. I looked at Egon's Wiki page and I don't like that style either. I'm real fussy about my art, disliking many more than I like. And why process something if you don't like it. I think of that style as ugly art. Who needs that. Since there wasn't much going on in the cartoon, Aeon runs and leaps somewhere, fights some guys and dies, they had to really pad out the story, with a story. It's not very interesting. The last of humanity is stuck together in a walled city, controlled by the Goodchild family. The brothers are at odds and that leads to betrayal and stabbin'. There's hardly anyone likable in the characters and that really pushes me away from the film. The sets and locations are more interesting. Brazilia and some places in Germany provided the scenery. Charlize Theron was pretty and agile. She's bouncin' off everything in sight and there's a steady stream of killin' for the first quarter or so. Then there's a long boring hour or so where we set some story. It picks up for the last quarter hour but by then I didn't care. There's more style than substance. Sperhauk complained about the action scenes. They were rather disjoined and not very well choreographed. The director, Karyn Kusama, had directed Girlfight in 2000. Nothing in between. The story was by writing team Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi who also wrote Crazy/Beautiful and The Tuxedo. Both are much better than this film, but they also have better directors. Oh well, onto 28 Weeks Later.

For some reason the NATO/US military decides to let people back into England only a short time after the 28 day virus has run it's course. All the infected starved to death. Nice. Robert Carlisle plays a guy who ran off and left his wife to the infected. He's re-united with his children in the heavily guarded safe zone. First thing the kids do is escape the zone and head for their old home. Sonny wants a photo of mom, to remember her by, since dad said the infected killed her. They get a photo and more. It's mom, she's alive. Turns out she's a virus carrier but isn't infected. Robert goes to his wife and asks her to forgive him. They kiss and he gets the virus. Pretty stupid, huh. Of course it goes bad and the virus gets into people and they start runnin' and killin'. It seems like a rather tiring virus. You'd need a good fed after all that running. Things turn so bad that the military is ordered to kill everyone. The firebomb the area. Most of the CGI was ok. A couple of soldiers help the kids escape and eventually they die too. Most everyone died, or got infected. It's all bad and all that badness was wearing me down. It's a bit long at 100 minutes, and there isn't much humor goin' on. The people just keep making the same mistakes over and over. It's tiring. I wouldn't bother getting a copy of either of these films.

While I am writing this on this snowy saturday morning I have been watching Attack of the Sabertooth on SciFi.  It's something that I wouldn't buy. Hell, I can barely watch it for free. It sure makes those other two look a lot better. It's a Jurassic Park rip off with sabertooth tigers instead of raptors. The characters make some really stupid choices and get 'et. The best of it's CGI is awful. In one remarkably bad scene the main developer gets impaled by a giant tooth. Amazingly bad. It's followed by the equally awful Sabertooth.

Emma Strikes!

The guys over at The Brothers Brick had a post about Klocki, the Polish Adult LEGO Fan Site, and how they have gone bilingual. I thought I would avoid having to go to bed if I go have a look. It's a nice site with a good layout and easy to get around. They feature other builders mostly. They turned out to have some of the stuff that I see on other blogs and some new stuff that I haven't seen before. Of their recent post I particularly liked the piece called Wind by Zgrredek. So sparse but what a great convincing capture of movement. You can see more of his stuff here. Check out the blind date piece, which made me laugh, and the Market place. Very nice.

This other piece by Hippotam, one of the main bloggers at Klocki, I had seen listed before, but it's pretty darn funny and more people should see it. Penguins with flame throwers, who wouldn't find that funny? And really, there isn't too much that you can do with those Arctic guys. Check out his Lethal Duck piece. Very nice. I'll put Klocki on my list of blogs to check out frequently. Good Luck guys. Hey, now it's late. Maybe I should go to bed. I probably need to get up tomorrow. 

 

What I Read In February 2008

A pretty good month for books. Partially to make up for the poor showing last month. It's not about quality, it's about volume. The first volume I finished I actually started reading near the end of January. I always find Jasper Fforde's books slow going. I don't rush through them and The Big Over Easy was no different from his other titles. It was his first book, written before the Thursday Next titles, and heavily re-written for publication in 2006. Sergeant Mary Mary takes up a new post in the Reading Police Force. She's working in the Nursery Crimes Division, under Inspector Jack Spratt. Humpty Dumpty has fallen from a wall. He's shattered. Was it an accident, suicide or murder. I'm guessin' murder, since it's a mystery. Luckily there are a lot of jokes and book references. There's a sequel that I will read in the future.

OutCast - Ghostfire  by Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski. This was the third book in the series. It was ok, but I didn't keep it. I doubt I will pick up the 4th and probably last book. Maybe I will find it cheap. I can hope.

Who Was That Masked Man Anyway by Avi had an annoying kid who works things out in the end. I didn't like the kid at all. He was just too annoying. It's set in the 1930's or something like that. The kid likes radio and can't stand missing his shows. I didn't keep it.

The Star Of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson I will keep. I really liked it. I have liked all of her books as well as her name. Too bad it's as made up as her books. This 2005 book is my favorite of her novels. More of a young adult novel than her previous children's books, it's also more ambitious and richer in detail, with more grown up themes. Annika was left in a church as a baby. She was found by the cook and housekeeper of three Vienna professors. They bring the baby home until they can take her to the orphanage, which is under quarantine, and they grow fond of the little girl. She stays and becomes one of a series of delightful characters living in the neighborhood. Now it's years later and her mother comes to claim her. Annika is all a flutter. It's been her dream to be found by her mother. They move off to a crumbling mansion and then the intrigue starts. Well worth reading and I think re-reading.

The Mystery Of The Haunted Skyscraper - A Power Boys Mystery by Mel Lyle was fair. It's a Hardy Boys type of book with two young guys in their teens solving a mystery that has to do with the building of a skyscraper. There's a bit of danger and some humor and some Indians and a ghost. I didn't keep it. It wasn't a real ghost. Just a Scooby Do ghost.

Danny Dunn and the Universal Glue by Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin is part of a series that I read when I was a teen. This is the last in the 15 book set. It came out in 1977. The first was 21 years earlier. Danny Dunn, his pal Joe and their best gal pal Irene have some adventures. Here they save the town from a flood by using some of Professor Bullfinch's new glue. It's universal. It glues everything together, including the local dam. Damn, that's some good glue. Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary was part of a stack of children's books that I found while getting ready for my garage sale last year. There was a foot high stack of Beverly Cleary books and several Danny Dunn novels. Most ex-library copies. Most in poor shape. In Ellen Tebbits we follow Ellen around over the summer. It's a fun read and kids can learn something. I learned it's better not to lie about being a horse rider. It's hard to fake once you're in the saddle, I guess. Go figure. There's a long segment on fuzzy woolen underwear. I'm thinkin' I'm for it. What I liked, after the gentle humor, was the way that Cleary paints her kids. She likes these characters and that shows. She understands kids pretty good.

Henry Reed's Think Tank by Keith Robertson is the last book in the Henry Reed series. I had read Henry Reed, Inc as a kid, but didn't remember it. Henry Reed and his pal Midge try to earn some coin over their summer vacation by operating a think tank or consulting service. They are fairly successfull even if they barely make any money and there are some fun things going on. The first four of the Henry Reed novels were illustrated by Robert McClosky, who wrote Make Way for Ducklings, which I read in a bookstore while waiting for them to buy some of my books. I had read it many years ago. It's been in print all the 60 years it's been around. It's a slight thing but still pretty entertaining and the art is great. It's only about 40 pages, most with nice full page illustrations by McClosky. That's his original cover below and the ducks that were placed in the Boston Public Garden in 1987.

 

The Magic City by E. Nesbit was pretty interesting. This is the writer that She-who-needs-no-mention liked when she was younger, and according to the Wikipedia so did P.L. Travers, Edward Eagar and Diana Wynne Jones. I could see why she had an influence on them. She was a very good writer. I like writing that flows along and keeps you from noticing it. Where the writing becomes second to the story and you aren't stopping to examine the prose. This is like that. Philip goes to live in the big house of his sister new husband. Bored, left alone while sis is roving the European countryside on her honeymoon, Philip builds a model city out of his toys and books and chess sets and toy soldiers and anything he can get his hands on. He gets tossed magically into the city with his new step sister Lucy. There they have some adventures and some snacks. Nesbit mentions food alot in her books, something that She-who-needs-no-publicity does because she read E. Nesbit. I picked my copy of The Magic City at HPB, with a couple of others that I haven't gotten to yet. I'll keep this book. You can also get copies of many of E. Nesbit's books at Project Gutenberg, for free. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary has Ramona going to third grade with all the trials and tribulations that school can have. Ramona throws up in class, accidently smashes a raw egg on her head, and gets a free lunch. A nice read and I like the little Ramona on the cover of the book.

Bright Shadow by Avi has a girl being given the last wishes in the country where she lives. I didn't care for it very much. I don't think I'll bother with any more Avi books. I had read Project: Genius by William D. Hayes when I was a kid. I bought a copy of that same Scholastic Edition. It's the story of a kid's attempt to build something for the science fair. He likes to experiment and unfortunately the school is taking a beating because of his ambition. There's a smart baby and some other stuff going on. Fun but not a keeper.

Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary has Ramona going into the first grade. She has a new teacher, a new falling out with her friend Howie, an encounter with a dog. She throws her shoe at it. Luckily she gets it back. I have been enjoying these books, the kids are cute, and the stories light hearted with a nice bit of something to learn about life. You're never to young or old to learn something. There you go, some quality there with the quantity.

I like a good sale, I do.

Friday I stopped at the Mall Of America. It was noon and I was done for the day. I need to continually use some vacation so it doesn't pile up in July when everyone wants the time off. After the end of the fiscal you loose the left over, so I take an afternoon off once or twice a week. I was heading home and thought I would drop in to the Lego Imagination Center. It's close to work. I'd already been there twice that week. Monday I bought a large base plate to work on my Moonbase building. More on that later. And Wednesday I picked up my train at lunch. The guys in the TwinLUG group are suppposed to change the TwinLUG display case on Friday evening. Today it still was the same. What up with that?

But, I'm talkin' about last Friday. I had the afternoon off and I was in the LIC at the MOA. That's the entrance I usually go in. There's a little parking lot in front of the mall that mostly one can find a spot. The LEGO store is right at the end of the short hallway from the door. The entrance doesn't have those flower pots anymore. There are huge decorative concrete blocks that you can walk through but couldn't get a car through. I read on LEGO's site that this was the first store they opened, back in Aug 1992. I found my pictures of the opening day at the store and if I ever get some time I will scan them. I took them to both of the LEGO LUG meetings.

In the store, in the near present, I was hoping that I would find some new clearance sets. Those are my favorite kind of sets. Plus, I had a $10 gift card burning a hole in my pocket. If you're ever mad at me and want to get your own back, then give me a really big dollar amount LEGO gift card. I guarantee I will hurt myself rushing to the store to spend it. That and the potential hernia from carrying home all that LEGO. Oh, and the sore muscles from sorting. It's the gift that shouts, "Payback Time!"

Anyway, back in the past, or last week, I find a good parking spot near the door and the store is having a sale. Wow! There are a whole bunch of things to choose from. So many I don't even need some of them. Luckily, as a LEGO collector I don't feel I need to collect everything. I don't have any Click-its or Galidor. I started with some thing cheap and bought 8 packages of gift wrap. It's only 2 bits a pack. I'll have some to keep and the rest to wrap presents. At the rate I give out presents I'm set until I retire. I got some Christmas cards with a Santa Minifig on them. There were a bunch of sets at half price. The Star Wars Y-Wing. Not for me. Don't need those parts. There's a Bionicle set that has a nice windshield but I don't need it. What I need is a Storm Lasher. It's got 12 scimitars, and several other good parts, and it's only 10 bucks.

That's the Exo Force set 8117 Storm Lasher and that's the parts that I thought were interesting. You can see it's kind of bug like. Part of it detaches and flies around. I did not build one. This picture is good enough for me.

       

I like the small Firefighter set. It has a few nice parts and the $1.49 price was great. Usually they are $3.49. The firefighter's coat has reflective strips on his coat. I like the little fire hydrant. You never know when you might need a few firemen.

These Creator sets were half off of $4.98 and there are a nice little pile of redish brown parts to be had. I made the monkey and it wasn't that great. I like those 1 x 1 plates with the pointy bit sticking out of one side. Looks like a tooth or it could be a minifig shoe. Here they use them for the monkey's fingers. Three on each side. There are a couple of palm fronds. Those might come in handy. I always liked the LEGO Palm Tree. It's very stylish. The store had some other sale items, most of which were of no interest to me. Now I forgot what they were. I did pick up a copy of The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide. It was 40 percent off of $24.95. I have seen it on Amazon for about $17, so it was about the same. I'm actually reading it, so I will mention it more later when I get around to the March reading list. I bet you can't wait.

 

That's the Firefighter from the above set with the head from that Exo Force guy. The Exo Force guy is not from the Storm Lasher set. That ship is being driven by a copper colored robot. That Exo Force guy is from the Golden Guardian set. I got a few of that one on clearance too. The Exo Force guy has two faces. This one and a calmer one. I don't like the bigger eyes very much. The Firefighter has only the one face, but he has two axes. All the better to chop you up in the new Horror Thriller - Fireman, Bake my Child. The tag line is, "He's not here to save your ass." The Exo Force guy now looks like one of those Anime characters that need a shave and a hair cut. Stubbly McBanginface. I was thinking that the red hair and the Firefighter face would look good in a dress. Like some weird cross dresser who just doesn't care anymore. I'll leave you to your imagination, while I slip off to bed. Chop, chop.

Zebriffic

While pokin' around in some of the LEGO blogs that are out there I found this old post with this cool piece of art. It's from Bricks n' Bytes, which seems heavy on the bytes. There are some good things scattered through the single page which stops last December. Check out the giant Star Wars figures and a nice spaceship. The person that did the toothbrush piece is called Junlego. Take a look at their Brickshelf page. It's a mix of battleships and cuddly animals. But this piece really is cool.

 

What seems to be two oddly colored toothbrushes turns into a zebra. Nice. Here's something else that's nice. A page with a collection of LEGO color samples. Handy. Also check out the cool black and red temple. Especially the inside.

Friday Night Movies 161

Spider-Man 3 was kind of boring. There was too much of that romantic angst stuff spread out over it's 139 minutes. One bad thing after another happens to Peter Parker and everybody around him. I guess that must be why I don't care for Marvel comics. Soap Opera for boys, indeed. We were bored during the long dramatic scenes and Mike couldn't fall asleep during the film. It's sad when your body lets you down. Nice to see Bruce Campbell get a bigger part than his usual Spider-Man cameo. My favorite character was the Sandman, played by Thomas Hayden Church. Chuch is an actor I have come to appreciate in recent years. He played a sad damaged man who's actions destroy him. Mind you that's what Spider-Man is all about, and we are constantly reminded that it's your choices that make or break you. The story that fleshed out the rest of the story was pretty much a soap opera. The action scenes were pretty good. The CGI was mostly good, mostly failing on the animated Spidey used in wide shots. The Sandman effects, on the other hand, were great. The movie sure didn't hold our attention, we were yakkin'. Joe, the only one who had seen it in the theater, thought it was better on the big screen for $2. He was kind of sad after seeing it again. I know that feeling. I'm not sad that I bought a copy myself. I'm glad that I waited until it was a sawbuck at Target. To bad I didn't wait until it was $7.50, I could have wasted that $2.50 on LEGO.

Laserblast turned up from Netflix. I hadn't seen it for a while and the version that I saw was the cut version that ran on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Some aliens land on earth hunting a guy with a blaster. They blast him, leaving the blaster. Some blonde guy finds it and starts blasting things. Bushes first, cars and people next. Our guy gets taken over by the blaster. The aliens return and blast him. Their boss told them to go back and get that weapon. He was pissed. The acting is fair to poor in this 1978 film from Charles Band productions. The laserblasting guy, Kim Milford, was pretty annoying. His girlfriend, Cheryl Smith, looked poorer than she did 5 years before in Lemora A Child's Tale of the Supernatural. Heroin will do that to you. There's some government guy with quite the hair do and Keean Wynn plays an old military guy who is wasted pretty much. There are some stupid cops, who get blown up, and this is the first role for Eddie Deezen. He gets blown up too. Lots of stuff blows up with huge flamey explosions but the rest of the story is kind of slow and not so interesting. Not many of the characters were very interesting or likeable. The movie is really about as good as that poster. It gets a 2.5 on the IMDb and that's about right. Worth seeing but not buying. Maybe not even stealin', dvdr's cost about a quarter. That quarter could be used to buy some LEGO. Oddly, both these movies had a person being taken over by some alien evil. Glad that doesn't happen all the time.

In The Hall Of The Mountain King

Back after I finished The Bat Out Of Hell Express I was thinking on making a throne room for Death. I wound up making his kitchen instead. Last week I was back to thinking about thrones and this what I wound up with. I wanted it to be dark and it sure is.

   

The King is from the current Fantasy Era series. The witch is from the late 90's Fright Knights series. Both are under the Castle umbrella.

   

I only have one witch with a cape. I love that spider cape.

Friday Night Movies 160

The Alligator People was up first. This 1959 black and white horror yarn is out in a nice widescreen dvd. First time it's been on video in the Cinemascope aspect ratio. It looks pretty darn good. I hadn't seen the movie in a long time. Two doctors are interviewing Beverly Garland under hypnosis. She tells her strange story, which starts with her husband leaving her the night they were wed. He'd gotten a telegram while on the train and at the next stop he did not reboard. Beverly looks for him and finally winds up in a swamp in Louisiana. Her husband had listed The Cypresses as his home while in college. She's greeted coldly and told no one knows her husband. She is asked to stay the night, so she can catch the train out of town the next day. Next day things start to unravel at the plantation home. Lon Chaney Jr plays the hulking, drunken chauffer and handy man at The Cypresses. He hates alligators. They bite off his hand and now he has a hook for a hand! I tell you I don't know what he's got to complain about, it's the only attractive thing about his character. There aren't too many other characters. There's the woman who lives at The Cypresses, her obedient black servants, and some alligator wrestlers. There's a doctor and the three beefy hunks at the research clinic. It's all his fault that there are alligator people. His remarkable cure had a side effect, and that rough skin can't be cured with hand lotion. Not even the good stuff. They need some Cobolt-6o. The doc has a fancy delivery system with a great static beam to blast the patient with. It goes wrong as everything must in these 50's films. Then it's a sad day for Beverly and an even sadder day for her doomed husband. It's a bit slow and talky. Nothing much happens for a while and most of the drama is the human kind. Or alligators. They nearly bite someone pretty often and occasionally someone wrestles one. It's more moody and atmospheric than scary. A good solid slightly below average B-movie on a double feature. It was paired with Return of the Fly, another science gone wrong movie, which just goes to show you that marrying a science guy is fraught with problems.

The people in Bruiser have problems and many of them are related to marriage. There's no science here, more metaphysical, with punching. A walked over type of guy works for Peter Stormare at Bruiser Magazine. His wife treats him like a cash machine that isn't filled up often enough and, adding insult to injury, she's screwing around on him. He thinks his investment guy is stealing from him and it's true. He likes his boss's wife, and she likes him, but he's too much of a pussy to do anything about it. He wakes up one day with a white face and starts killin'. Simple as that. Jason Flemyng plays the guy who looses his face. He does a good job, as does Tom Atkins who's playing the cop trying to unravel the mystery of the murderer in the mask. There a good cast to help them out. It's a good looking film, well made, by George Romero in 2000. A simpler time when gas was only $1.15 a gallon. And on the surface this is a simple film with a guy getting his own back. Below, there's some other crap goin' on. I'll let you figure it out yourselves. I feel some assholes need a good boot, now and again. Nuff Said.