Our Review of the Sleepy Hollow Tv Series for the Horror Congress

Greetings Faithful Followers ,

This is your old pal Brother Jack Angry, I wanted to take a moment to give props to a really great organization that I am proud to be a part of The Horror Congress this group of people are based all across the country and they deal with everything horror, classic horror, scream queen, zombie etc the list goes on and on. Periodicly the "reps" which I am one of two from nebraska are supposed to write a review on a subject horror related I have done several reviews on new release horror movies.
 So without further ado I present my review on Sleepy Hollow the Tv series

Ichabod Crane returns to life after 220 years in the grave to stop his nemesis The Headless Horseman. He is  aided by sherrifs deputy and would be FBI agent  Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie ) who is assisting Crane to avenge the death of town sherrif August Corbin (Clancy Brown) who was beheaded by the Headless Horseman.

The cast includes Orlando Jones as Capt Frank Irving who initially does believe the supernatural turn of events that are taking place with the series of beheading in little town of Sleepy Hollow. The series also costars Harold and Kumar  star John Cho as deputy Andy Ross who as it turns out is in leauge with the dark forces at work in Sleepy Hollow, he later meets a grisly end at the hands of the mysterious puppet master  who seems to be working behind the scenes .

This episode does an excellent job of setting the scenes for the coming supernatural battles that  Ichabod and Abbie will face, the flavor of the series is reminiscent of SUPERNATURAL before we got into all the angelic stuff monsters witches and demons aplenty here. I'm expecting the series to go for more than the customary 7 seasons that many series seem to be programed for. The interactions between the main characters of Mison, Beharie, and Jones is solid.

The Headless Horseman is sufficiently bad ass and unstoppable to make this well worth watching and to help kill the boredom of a Monday night. I just hope that he does no become an indestructable  Jason Vorehees or Freddy Krueger . The only real downside is that these episondes were only an hour long and that will fly by very quickly leaving you wondering what your going to do for the rest of the weeik until the show is back on again.

My only issue was with the abrupt departures of 2 very character actors Clancy Brown and John Cho a sad development but they did set the stage for future events in a very excellent fashion  so no disappointments here.

The Characters of Ichabod, Abbie and Capt Irving were well done and the interactions between them progressed as you might imagine in this story. The wonder and terror felt by Crane at being thrust into the modern world gives the character a sympathy you cant help rooting for even when he outfoxes the police.

I will give this episode a tentative 4 out of 5 Reggies with a potential of 5 Reggies if it continues along these lines, a really great effort

I hope you enjoy this review faithful followers

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Brother Jack Angry

Remake of the Evil Dead -Movie Review

Greetings Faithful Followers,

After a delay of  3 weeks I am finally sitting down and putting my stubby little digits to the keyboard to bring you my review of the 2013 remake of the 1981 classic Sam Rami film The Evil Dead. The Film opens to show a young girl chained to a pillar in a dirt floor basement/cellar, the bodies of numerous small animals are suspended on hooks and chains and a ceremony is being conducted by a snaggletoothed hillbilly voodoo/hoodoo priestess and her equally toothless assistants. The girl chained to the post begins to cry for her mother and is informed by a participating member (her father) that the mother is dead, then shit gets weird what ever demon/spirit/entity that is possessing her decides to chime in with its 2 cents worth (very disconcerting demon voice ala Exorcist). The voodoo mountain woman tells daddy that the only way to save his daughters soul it to light her up, daddy does this by throwing a jar of gasoline on her and flicking his zippo   the effect is not what he hoped for as this only elicits a pissy tirade from the demon. Finally in exasperation daddy proceeds to vaporize pumpkins head in a point blank shotgun blast ( very excellent special effects here ). 

This opening scene is a departure from the original, from that point on the movie unfolds introducing us to the character of dana (Jane Levy) the failed rehab goer giving it another try at being clean and sober. Her brother Daniel (Shilo Fernandez) and friends eric olivia and natalie ( I guess cubby, corky and annette were busy..LOL) finally rounding out our little group is grandpa the dog (Inca). 

The Drama of Dana and her fall from rehab and the strains it places on her relationship with daniel and their unresolved issues with their mother who also died of a long terminal illness dominate the 1st third of of the film then they discover the root cellar and the Book of the dead. The Bookworm of the group Eric begins reading from the book (dumbass move yes but we wouldn't have much of a movie without it). This awakens the kandarian demon who begins to posses and destroy the group one by one. The Film continues thru some memorable amputations and envicerations and vomit scenes with members of the group falling one by one until it is eric, daniel and the dana. Daniel sacrifices himself batteling the possessed eric by firebombing the cabin so dana can make her escape, however she must face the demon before being truly free.

All in all I found this to be a very well done homage to rami's 1981 The Evil Dead. I especially liked the touches of having bruce campbell appear in the end credits along with a audio excerpt from the  original film.

The plot and storyline of this remake flowed along very nicely and covered all the main points necessary to provide sufficeint comparison to the original. In closing I would highly recommend it to the uninitiated as well as hardcore rami fans and deadites everywhere.

Brother Jack Angry

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