#timothy bond

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Sherilyn Fenn, The Shadow Men, Timothy Bond, 1997

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Psychoc (1982)

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TREKMATCH! # 525 - TNG's "The Most Toys" vs 2019's In Fabric

IN FABRIC

A dress a lady buys from a creeped out department store winds up being super haunted and brings her nothing but suffering and misery. And then a washer repairman wears it on his bachelor party night and he becomes a hypnotic weird. The movie's second half is more fun and bizarre or whatever but the first half is fine and sad.

GRADE: C+

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - "The Most Toys"

Data is seemingly exploded, but it's all a ruse from an unscrupulous collector so he could kidnap Data and add him to his collection of knick knacks. Meanwhile everyone on the Enterprise is sad and Worf gets a promotion (he only gets promoted when somebody dies).

GRADE: B-

Victory to Trek, so Trek is up 266-259!

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"Le Parapluie" Une courte animation à base de peintures à l'huile ☔👌🎨🎶

Bel après-midi 🙋‍♀️

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Huumekuninkaat / TekWar: TekLab (1994) Europa Vision https://www.videospace.fi/release/huumekuninkaat_vhs_europa_vision_finland

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TREKMATCH! # 509 - TNG's "The Vengeance Factor" vs 1990's Tales From the Darkside: The Movie

TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE

In this anthology, based on George Romero's TV show I've always wanted to see but it's never available to stream or rent, there are three little tales of horror/irony, including a mummy one, an evil cat one, and a gargoyle one. There's also a cannibal Debbie Harry wraparound one. The best one (and the one Stephen King and George Romero wrote) is "The Cat From Hell," in which an unscrupulous pharmaceutical dude hires a hit man to kill a cat he's convinced is trying to kill him. The one they clearly spent all their FX budget on though is the last one, which is also the most boring. Anyway, it's an ok if very 90s anthology if you want to see an extremely young Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, and Christian Slater.

GRADE: C

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - "The Vengeance Factor"

The Enterprise is negotiating between some pirates and their former home world, when Riker starts falling in love with an ambassadorial intern. People start showing up dead, there's some vengeance, and Riker has to vaporize his new lover before the day is done. Woah, therapy city! I never understand how in Star Trek world some beings can resist a phaser set to disintegrate - shouldn't that setting just function on a molecular level no matter how stubborn the person being shot is?

GRADE: C+

Victory to Trek, so Trek is up 258-251!

Stephen King movies are up 9-8!

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"The Haunted Mask" (1995) : Movietalk # 02

“The Haunted Mask” is the story of a girl so tormented by her peers she neglects the true loves of her life and kills herself. She parades her severed head out on the streets as she allows herself to become a different beast – a being of malicious mischief with a greater urge for destruction from within and without – only to then renounce that creature persona from reality, embracing instead the one who could ever love back. It’s a suburban gothic survivor story with an ending you can expect from good ol’ Jovial Bob, that finest trick-meister of the horror trade (besides, it’s Halloween – what could go wrong with a hearty laugh?).

Kathryn Long is a force to be reckoned with. Where else could one find a performance so involved at such a young age that not only goes for long stretches of time waging havoc with throat-crushing gremlin voices and latex running deep in the eyelids but who also suggests (no, insists!) on eating live worm sandwiches not once, nor twice, but on eight-to-twelve takes? (Not even How to Eat Fried Worms could claim that!!) But what Long was able to achieve was not made solely on high theatrics: it’s like she really lived Carly Beth, pushing Stine’s original tale further towards its truth-inside-the-lie that as you want to reach through the screen and hold her and comfort her and reassure her that this too shall pass, you can’t help but get the feeling that you could also be her in those moments of vulnerability – that perhaps you were once Carly Beth… or that you are still very much the seemingly lonesome little girl lost in that hallway house of mirrors – that you can’t help but cringe and squirm whenever the monster takes full control because if experience has taught us anything it’s that it really is all too easy to make the inversion of the self and turn vile from the hurt and/or the fear of being hurt. It’s all too close, all too familiar… and it’s all the more reason she should be inducted to the Child Horror Star Hall of Fame pronto if such a thing is christened.

Every now and then it’s imperative that a Goosebumps story (or anything adjacent to that) must include in some form or another a creepy shopkeeper and/or salesman, and while the “Tall Thin Man” definitely matches the head on the bill it is not with the touch of the usual; the role as written by José Rivera and delivered by Colin Fox give this character a menace all the more heightened by the fact that it is ultimately a tragic one (he is a man doomed by admission to repetitively shred himself down to the marrows of his darkened soul), yet that isn’t to say director Timothy Bond didn’t manage to invoke any of that unbearable weight on his behalf; even with the occasionally shaky production levels the series offered as its norm, it’s quite impressive he still managed to bring his A game to TV movie cinematic heights as it is surprising he only did like, what, three two-parters(!?) – you gotta love that slow pan to the face in the mirror, that inspection of the abnormous skin devoid of music: “Very soon it will join the other failures on the shelf!” – and with much lighter affairs such as the “Monster Blood” special (which had compromised the series’ inability to adapt the other Bert I. Gordon-esque escapades of that green viscous substance with a mini-Airport movie on the fly), I can’t help but find it possible that Bond and crew may’ve also single-handedly spoiled the lot of us just by how (dare I say it) elevated their efforts seem in comparison. Episodes like “The Girl Who Cried Monster” or “The Haunted House Game” or even some of the other two-or-three-parters still hold up to this day on their own merits, of course… but damn. Damn.

Most Goosebumps stories are pure three-pages-a-thrill adventures where the monsters are either some big bad and hungry goop monster, a mummy, or “hey what if lawn gnomes were kinda bastards you know”, but when they getcha like this they getcha good. Viewer, listener, reader beware, you’re in for more than a scare.