Showing respect to SCP stories

This will be a long entry, I wanna give special thanks to my amazing wife as well as every person involved with writing these amazing horror stories.

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I looked for a proper spiritual successor to The Twilight Zone. Late one night, my wife was on Tik Tok showed me one of the SCP stories. This one was about an ice machine at hotels. Not only this was able to get under my skin in a great way but I quickly gotten into these SCP stories.

First thing I gotta mention, a lot of people came together to make this fictional universe. We go from strangely funny ones to surprisingly pleasant entities to pure nightmare fuel territory. Now this is my vision of Halloween because it plays on many types of fears as well as the possibilities. I know those not familiar with SCP stories wondering what the hell is it?

Don't worry I'm about to explain exactly what it is. The general concept is people, animals, objects, dimensions, locations or a mix of those that isn't normal. A good number of these will bag a lot of questions. SCP stories often involves the SCP Foundation. The short version is it's an organization that deals with such unusual possibilities.

It's actually mind blowing some figures you already know of are actual SCP entities. Such as Cthulhu, God, Abel & his brother Cain and a few others. Some of them affects time in weird ways. This might be difficult to believe, some of them aren't even dangerous at all. Some of those can be triggered getting unpleasant.

I am not going to lie, some of these are actually so terrifying. Even I had trouble not getting freaked out by them. There's also some amazingly awesome SCP machines out there. SCP-1386, SCP-294 and SCP-261 that can give people mostly what they requested. Don't forget to pay SCP-1386 or you won't come back home hahaha.

A good number of SCP entities are contained within the SCP Foundation. Some of them can easily escape from their cell while being at the SCP Foundation. There's even those entities or bigger that can't be contained even with such extreme actions. Some of them can even affect your mind in ways you really don't wanna know.

They even cover SCP entries that could or will end the world in some way. It actually gets even crazier in scope to that as well. I do need to bring up, a lot of entities share SCP-001. There also exists SCP-0000 which is a machine that can destroy the very universe it's activated in. Some of them won't waste anytime killing people while some prefers to torture or trick you into things like making deals.

Boundaries in some occasions is a very questionable topic here. O' Death is a parallel universe similar to our own except every living being already dead. There's also plant theme SCP entities such as SCP-867, a red tree that grows from human's bodies then devours them. I am going to talk about a handful of them that came close of getting me scared, you won't sleep well tonight hahaha.

1. SCP-3280

This one you won't even know how it enters your body. If left unchecked it could doom the world. It also can't be contained by the SCP Foundation.

2. SCP-106

This may appear as an old man at first. He can easily escape his cell at any given time. He knows he can get away with killing people because they don't have much to actual handle him properly.

3. SCP-4666

This mysterious figure stalks during the period of Yule. Even videos mentioning this guy considered him even worst than Krampus. He will do truly horrific things to families during that period. He still on the loose but The SCP Foundation is well aware of his existence.

4. SCP-3333

A lookout location seems normal until you go up a ladder. All of a sudden you are in a replicate of the same location which continues infinitely. There's a mysterious entity that replaces people with doppelgangers.

5. SCP-2852

This person manipulates people at particular events such as weddings or funerals to do truly horrific things. Which also includes having them devour his body. He too is on the loose but the SCP Foundation does know of his existence.

6. SCP-001: When Day Breaks

I had to make it clear which SCP-001 entity I'm talking about. Even the sun itself transforms victims into these creatures that connects together like blobs made of flesh. This too is one of those capable of dooming the world.

In every possible regard reality, time, universe or even your state of mind isn't safe. SCP stories can be truly capable of putting chill right up your spines. SCP also got a few video games inspired by these internet horror stories. As for the surprisingly pleasant SCP entities even those get a bit weird. Such as living Lego people, actual Lego figures that can do things just like normal people.

We even have different dimensions like a famous scientist became trapped for remainder of his days there. Some of these SCP entities is capable of warping reality to a degree. Some of them appear like normal locations but seems to go on like an eternity which does include a particular Ikea location. Not many SCP entities are even aware of their powers like a man who takes other people's luck away from them.

SCP Foundation itself created several of it's own SCP entities. One of which is among a long list of entities sharing SCP-001. Some entities can appear anywhere they want. Not only that, some of them can be easily avoided if you know how or if members of the SCP Foundation saves your life. Some even appears as inanimate object or a form of art which isn't far from the truth here.

We have a creature disguised as graffiti of all things that stalks people. I also need to mention many SCP entities have additional ones in some way. A good example of this is The Devil's Deal despite the name no you aren't actually making deals with the devil. This includes three particular pieces of furniture arranged in a certain way then someone sits down on the chair front of the desk.

Keep in mind, prior to any of those you won't see the actual entity. Not to mention, this being can appear whatever it wants to whoever it speaks to. Most of these stories can be quite scary. I would even say some of them are quite creative as well as innovate in their respective concept. Some entities will do horrific things to you yet there's virtually nothing you can do to stop it.

SCP Foundation isn't perfect, some of these stories is clear proof of that. Even some SCP entities have methods to prevent SCP Foundation itself aware of their own existence. A lot of these SCP entities appears as either strangely similar to actual machines or an out dated variation of those machines. We have a game console that brings you inside of video games.

Sadly for one particular researcher he's trapped inside of a video game. I actually could keep talking about SCP stories all today, they're that well written as well as very inspiring stuff. I don't even have criticism because end of the day, this was meant as a group effort project. I do wanna say please keep the stories coming I always want more hahaha.

Update: I recently learned there's different line up of SCP stories from around the world. No literately several countries has their own SCP Foundations. So if you see additional parts to SCP entities like JP, RU, KO, CN, FR, PL, ES, TH, DE, IT, UA, PT-BR, CS, ZH-TR, VN or INT. You are actually looking at another SCP Foundation line up of SCP entities.

The scope of SCP entities can be either small to multiverse level. You would be mind blown of all the insane possibilities. Especially after learning about the other SCP Foundations around the world. This further implies no one in any dimension is safe. Sometimes they have to do the unthinkable to survive or get a little more time before they die.

3 Scary Games series review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, a few years ago youtuber Markiplier started a new video series. It is called 3 Scary Games, where he plays for the most part three scary games. Of course, there were mistakes but we still love these videos. I even say reviewing all of them with 3 Scary Games #93 being the most recent as the very videos you need to watch.

Especially on Halloween, it's surprising how many he puts out a year. Now I am going to review all of them together. I will not be listing every single game he plays in this video series. Trust me, it's a lengthy list. I will say there's some strange games included as well as some wtf moments you may not see coming. 3 Scary Games even inspired many youtubers doing similar videos.

This started back in 2018, it is still going strong today. All of them are played on PC, a large amount of them are essentially demos. But trust me, some of them even impressed Markiplier. You gotta love the creative editing moments within these videos too. Virtually, combined these videos do count as my vision of Halloween.

Now I should mention, there's related videos. Which may cause confuse what the video series order is. Speaking of which, 3 Scary Games #4 actually 5 Scary Games. Now you know which one is his fourth entry in the video series. Even some of these games blew my mind similar to another upcoming blog review I'm planning very soon.

Yeah no spoilers but you likely be very interested in hearing my thoughts for that when the time comes. Back to this, 3 Scary Games is like a test for Markiplier in many ways. You can tell all his reactions aren't fake, you are getting such raw emotions as he plays these games. Which is a major factor why I love this video series so much.

You can't even attempt to try imaging some of these horror games. We got even a couple that counts as nightmare fuel so you may have trouble sleeping afterwards. 3 Scary Games does have plenty of surprises making it well worth getting into. Honestly, I do really respect the work Markiplier puts into this video series as a whole.

It almost like The Simpsons with their Treehouse of Horror episodes. I don't even have much to compare to both of them making it a rather interesting unique small club filled with horror as well as creativity. 3 Scary Games is a must watch video series on all counts. Yes some are longer than others but most of them are worth the additional length.

I don't even think the longer ones felt like they dragged on like a lot of recent movies do. So that's already a great testament to how entertaining these videos truly are. I always wanted to give my thoughts on this particular horror video series. In the event if Markiplier says anything about my review, thank you taking time out of your day/night please keep up the amazing work you do sir.

You can tell I have a lot of respect for the man. I also wanna mention, sometimes in other videos some featured games gets further followed up on. Which isn't as often but it's still a possibility. What you can always expect is constant jump scares by him & his editor. I also liked each game has a different theme making even one video felt like a horror anthology of sorts, I really love it actually.

3 Scary Games is a video series that very quickly pulls you in. You may wanna keep watching more entries. Sometimes just watching one or two is actually more fun than you playing a horror game yourself. I am not kidding, Markiplier does make you feel like you're along for the crazy rides. You will witness many things including stuff you won't ever see coming, don't ever say you won't you will.

My darkest video game purchase ever

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, of course we are getting closer to Halloween. I decided to go in a rather dark direction. I purchased a lot of games in my life. I really can't get enough of them. However there does exist a particular massive horror games purchase on GOG back in late 2018. Ever since, I never even came close to the level of darkness this purchase brought me.

Here's the long list of that purchase down below...

1. Waxworks

2. Postal 2 (including Paradise Lost dlc)

3. Personal Nightmare

4. Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

5. Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

6. The 7th Guest (original release before it got replaced)

7. The 11th Hour

8. Clive Barker's Undying

9. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

10. Dracula 4: Shadow of the Dragon

11. Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy

12. Dracula: The Resurrection

13. Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary

14. Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon

15. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (based on a book)

16. Harverster (Very evil game)

17. Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

18. Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet

19. Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice

20. NecroVisioN: Lost Company

21. NecroVisioN

22. Zombie Night Terror (including dlc)

This purchase is the closest I ever gotten to my vision of Halloween. You have so much variety of different things trying to kill you in these games. Clive Barker was responsible for both Hellraiser as well as Candyman already enough reason to get afraid while playing Clive Barker's Undying. The most vampire games I gotten in a single purchase to this day.

Some of these games even displays a level of ugliness within people. Postal 2, Harvester, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and The 7th Guest with it's sequel The 11th Hour to name a few. Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare often considered to be the last great game in that franchise. So happens to be one of many Resident Evil clones out there.

Some of them even has difficult to watch animations or cut scenes. A great example of this is Waxworks. Where you play as a descendant that controls bodies of your ancestors in an attempt to end a curse from a witch. Each era has different factors what or who can kill you. It's actually impressive how much they don't hold back on these.

Zombies also has a notable presence as well as a few games centering on ghosts. Even fewer have a direct connection to the devil in some way. The 7th Guest with it's sequel as well as Personal Nightmare. Two of them heavily plays off of simulations that's warped reality in some way. Mostly Harvester & I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream in that regard.

You likely notice a lot of them are also horror point & click games. You can only do so much with limited controls. In Personal Nightmare's case, they give you a lot of options inside buildings that's over whelming. Some of these games are very strict. Thus making it incredibly easy to die. It's scary I gotten such a great deal scoring most of them for virtually dirt cheap prices during a sell.

There's a lot of death to be found in this purchase too. Some of these games have an interesting variety of enemies too. Mostly Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption, Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare and Clive Barker's Undying respectively. Even a smaller showcase of magic including a particular shaman in a small horror game series.

The amount of unpleasantness in some of these games is truly mind blowing. You have great horror stories that quickly pulls you right in. At the same time, you aren't even sure if you are going to survive. Nosferatu: Wrath of Malachi is one of those randomly generated map games. You can't even memorize your path to escape or rescue people within this castle.

A handful of these horror games uses technology to make it seem like actual people are in the games. Mostly The 7th Guest series & Harvester. Speaking of Harvester, it has some of the most difficult cut scenes to sit through I ever experienced. I gotta mention the famous game over cut scene. This man whose missing his lower half is the solo security guard with a device that can land all the nukes.

Well if you use the wrong phase, he guns you down. By accident he presses the button with an explosion being viewed in Steve's eyes. I also do need to mention something a little more serious as in real life. The guy who played Steve in that game did get arrested years later. Which kinda helped made the game even darker than it already was.

Some of these games have twisted endings. Zombie Night Terror even brings zombies to the moon. No where is safe from these horror games. You get to experience such fear you may never experience before. You could even say the very thought of it may be too much to accept. Regardless, this remains as my single darkest video game purchase I ever done.

We covered so much dark things, I don't think I could ever surpass the amount of horror this brought. Even my very soul wasn't fully sure what I was in for at the time of buying these games. I still want more horror games in my collection. In all honestly, I do recommend a fair amount of these classic horror games.

I should say Harvester may not look like it. It's essentially nightmare fuel game incarnate. I already fully reviewed the game previously. But I will say this there's virtually no way a game like this could exist in today's gaming market. This felt like a rather unusual game in it's genre that maybe went a little too far.

Harvester is in all seriousness a truly horrific experience. We have so much ground to cover but we aren't trapped in Hell for an eternity you got time. This very purchase is still mind blowing to me. I never realized how truly dark it actually is. On the surface, it doesn't appear to be that bad. Until you play a handful of certain games within that purchase.

All of a sudden, you are freaking out wondering what you just played. Which is becoming more common from indie developers today. Speaking of that, I seen more originality with them than from major game companies. On a side note, horror games has a different aspect from everything else horror that forever sticks with you as if you had to experience it too.

Why I like Silent Hill 3 more than Resident Evil 3?

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, usually I'm known as a huge Resident Evil fan. In most cases, I would choose Resident Evil over Silent Hill. One of a very few cases, in this particular case the battle of the 3s. Well I always preferred SH3 over either version of RE3. Don't worry I'm going to fully explain it here. First I wanna do a quick comparison, just the games I did play either a little or through in SH's case.

The Battle of 1s: Resident Evil vs Silent Hill

I do respect the original Silent Hill, easily one of the best entries in the franchise ever. I just felt in a few ways RE1 has more direct reasons to replay in comparison. On one hand, RE1 endings in most versions are strikingly similar with a little or just enough changes to make it count as another ending. Which isn't even an issue for SH1 here.

For example, the hidden weapons are simply better. The enemy variety was more interesting. Now SH1 does have more locations since it takes place within the town of Silent Hill. Most of RE1 takes place within the Spencer Mansion. Both have rememberable puzzles in their own right. I just felt having alternate outfits which does differ depending on versions is a nice touch.

The Battle of 2s: Resident Evil 2 vs Silent Hill 2

I do wanna say all three of these games I absolutely loved with a passion. This was a difficult decision for me in every possible way. In terms of story, SH2 has a slight edge in a most constant overall story while RE2 does have more confirmed endings. Konami wanted the fans to decide which ending they felt was the true ending, in my case it's In Water ending.

Resident Evil 2 had some surprisingly decent animations. Especially in earlier PS1 versions but SH2 does have some rememberable animations itself. Both do have rememberable puzzles as well with SH2 having a slight edge to puzzle level difficulty factor. In terms of enemies, RE2 has slightly more interesting enemies you'll face. Replay value is very high in most versions of RE2.

I will say this I do find SH2 hands down the scarier game. I even felt that's the best told SH story. Both have a rememberable cast of characters as well. This really came down to the little things truthfully. RE2 is not as much horror as the original Resident Evil but it still has some scary cut scenes. In the long run, I felt RE2 as a whole is a more satisfying game.

I hope you don't mine I skip The Battle of 3s for now since it is the main focus here. So I am going to do The Battle of 4s instead.

The Battle of 4s

It is here where I strongly went RE over SH truthfully. To be fair, I did play through SH4 before in the past. This was Team Silent's last entry before they disbanded. To me, it felt incredibly different from the previous entries. I do kinda get why people enjoy this game. Let's be honest here, it technically is scarier than RE4 but it sadly doesn't have anything else here.

RE4 did change genres to sell out to save the franchise. Keep in mind, later on keeping the games true to horror did score a lot of money for Capcom. At the time, they felt it wasn't going to do well if it were a survival horror game. With that being said, RE4 was mind blowing awesomeness. This game really broke new ground, still inspiring a lot of people to this day.

Replay value wise, it's not even a debate RE4 easily wins. I felt in every possible regard except scaring people RE4 knocks it out the park. I strongly felt it's a very decent entry. Sure it may not feel like an actual RE game which more recently could be a problem. Not to mention, a few major entries following suit led Capcom to go back to it's roots.

The Battle of 5s

This will be very short, Silent Hill: Homecoming had a different team. They attempted in some form to rip off RE4's game play style to some degree. However in most regards, this game falls hard. Now I am aware some SH fans actually enjoyed this game. RE5 truly knocks it out the park in every possible way. Yes it's more of an action game than a horror one but at least it's actually fun to play.

The Battle of 0s

The prequel battle well this is more of the same as The Battle of 5s. Silent Hill: Origins felt like a massively wrong direction. I know some RE fans aren't crazy about RE0, I always enjoyed that game. I strongly felt in every regard including scaring people RE0 wins. Silent Hill: Origins doesn't even feel like an Silent Hill game.

Now I can actually do The Battle of 3s here down below...

The Battle of 3s

Truthfully, I never was crazy about either version of RE3 myself. The original game it was difficult to counter Nemesis at times. There is only two boss monsters as well. Sure it does have some good puzzles. Not to mention, some decisions alter placements of key items. Which was strangely missing in RE3 Remake.

Speaking of that, it felt cut short almost as if it was going to be an expansion to RE2 Remake than a full game. I will say the original version has better overall audio to it's remake. Sadly, in both regards I do prefer SH3's. Replay value was even better in SH3's case. For example, you do get a lot of outfits including Regina from Dino Crisis outfit.

You had to go to a particular location with a hidden key to change outfits. Now let's look at SH3, you can enter in codes to give you outfits. Keep in mind, a good number of them are licensed. Thus due to lack of copy rights as well as meant to be exclusive to the original PS2 version. Which is why they were removed from later versions including Silent Hill HD Collection coughs.

Also you have your outfits within your surprisingly big inventory. You can quickly change at any given time between outfits. If you unlock Heather Beam, Princess Heart a parody of Sailor Moon outfit upgrades that to Sexy Beam. Speaking of hidden weapons, there's more of than in even RE3 Remake. Yeah no joke you can find gold & silver pipes through throwing your steel pipe in the water.

This mysterious lady will ask you a few questions if you answered correctly you'll get those pipes. You also unlock Beam Saber, a reference to Star Wars. Also beating Resident Evil to the punch literately, they recently done it in Resident Evil Village. You also get Unlimited Sub Machine Gun as well as Unlimited Flame Thrower too.

Even if I considered RE3 Remake's newer hidden weapons, it doesn't compare. You also get the option to skip the beginning nightmare portion of the game. There's three endings in comparison to 1 or 2 endings depending on which version of RE3 you're playing. Not to mention, Revenge Ending ends the game half way through without even facing Missionary boss.

Also you have to work for those endings rather than just one decision determines which ending you'll get in classic RE3's case. SH3 also has more difficulty levels as well as a few puzzle difficulty levels. Yes they can be mix match as well for more interesting future playthroughs. There's more interesting bosses here as well.

We have Split Worm, well it's the first boss not much to say. Missionary can be tricky unless you know a method to kill it easily. Leonardy is a little trickier due to the location you face him in. Memory of Alessa ends up being the most interesting boss fight being a few phases. She uses some weapons against you during the fight.

The final boss is God don't worry not that God. Claudia's vision of God whose not that hard of a final boss. Although as stated earlier with the extreme difficulty levels, anything will get notably tougher. I should mention, there does exist two different English dubs of the game. There's a weird Douglas code to make him show up not fully dressed lol.

I also liked you do get to explore Silent Hill later. It's just much lesser than the first two entries. To me, this was the last decent SH game I played. SH3 does have rememberable characters as well. You also get safer save points than those in RE3. The inventory is so massive in SH3, it's insane. Then again, I also could say that about the inventory in the first two entries as well.

SH3 is a surprisingly decent survival horror game. I would say in terms of replay value this is the most replayable entry. Also points are taken away from the last two difficulty levels in RE3 Remake during the very ending portion cheap garbage!!! SH3 does a great job scaring people especially during a first run.

RE3 in most versions felt more like an action game. I know people criticize RE4 for popularizing it. But technically speaking RE3 did start moving the franchise that direction. I still respect Code: Veronica being more of a horror game. Not to mention, there's more interesting default weapons in SH3 as well.

Now I also know a lot of people love getting stalked by Nemesis. To me, I felt I had to rush often. When I suppose try to stock up on supplies. Which likely leads to not surviving the more critical sections of the game. But you never get that forced feeling when playing SH3. Unless, you count trying to get off the tracks before a train arrives that is.

Heather or should I say Cheryl ends up being a great main character in SH3. I also liked how it ties in to the original Silent Hill as well. I really enjoyed the Amusement Park a lot. I even loved all of a sudden, whoever running the haunted house tries to kill you twist. The final area is much smaller than expected but still fitting to the game.

I do like some of the stuff you have to do in order to process in the game. Like putting a few things into a bucket then lit it on fire to reveal doors behind a particular painting. I also liked how they make even walking back to your home unnerving as possible. I will be honest, I couldn't necessary relate much to any version of RE3.

Sure you can't make your own ammo like in most versions of RE3. But in the hidden options, one of the choices does increase the amount of ammo you'll find. Which also was presented in the first two entries as well. After beating the game a few times you can unlock the highest that multiplier goes. Don't worry it's not entirely game breaking but considering how scarce ammo is in RE3.

Well I rather have that then taking the time to make more ammo when I can't find more ammo. Thus you are wasting time rather than just picking up one thing of ammo with the multiplier easily saves your life in SH3's case. Keep in mind, most versions of RE3 has a much smaller, limited inventory. There doesn't appear to be a limit how much you actually can hold in SH3.

This also prevents having to make stops to remove stuff to do certain puzzles or bring up better weapons to kill bosses.  Not only that, I also was more directly interested in SH3's story as well. The decisions in RE3 does make trying to follow what's going on more confusing. Yet I rather have that than no matter what I do it always ends the game such as RE3 Remake's case.

It also has melee weapons which isn't in any version of RE3 that does help save ammo too. SH3 does have an easier to find maps too. I also like the story twists more in comparison. It felt more like a true sequel to the original Silent Hill than RE3 did to the original RE game. In all honestly, if I really had the chance I would replay SH3 again.

Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I did hint I was going to review a vampire movie. I do have a particular vampire movie in mind. Bloodsucking Bastards, this was virtually what Shaun of the Dead was to zombie movies. It also is a comedy horror movie with twisted sense of humor. I would say this is one of the better comical vampire movies I seen.

Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)

This is about people working in an office building. It plays heavily off of a dead end job concept. They ended up with a new boss whose later revealed to be a vampire. Some unlikely people teams up to hunt vampires. This movie doesn't take itself seriously, you can tell the cast had a lot of fun here. Like Shaun of the Dead, Evan is fighting to save the woman he loves.

Yes this also plays like you need to kill the head vampire. In this particular case, he has to kill his boss. Indirectly, it kinda reminds me of another vampire movie called Fright Night. You know the movie where Charley notices his new neighbor is a vampire. He later kidnaps his girl friend, this movie does that as well.

I'm not calling this a rip off of Fright Night. Fright Night itself was a tribute to many things vampire. I was simply explaining a few similar story plot points both movies so happens to share. Bloodsucking Bastards doesn't hold back on the blood & gore either. In a great vampire movie, show or game you really wanna see blood everywhere.

This movie has some surprisingly funny scenes at times. I do love one of the security guard characters as well. Like the scene he explains he knew about the vampires. Just imagine, the very place you are working suddenly became a nest for vampires. Now that sounds exactly like a crazy possibility for a show like Supernatural.

Bloodsucking Bastards isn't going to be what you expected going in. I would say this movie does throw in some suspense early on when people started to go missing for a while. This went from a man who really wanted a promotion to virtually killed his career, see what I did there lol. Here's a movie I'm glad got pointed out during searching up vampire movies.

I'm one of those people who constantly wants more anything vampires. Video game wise, it's a little tricky process. Movie wise, there's plenty of great examples. But how many actual funny ones can you name? No we aren't counting Vampire's Kiss with Nicolas Cage. Bloodsucking Bastards is a big surprise in a few ways as you watch it.

I would see if you wanna see something a little unexpected vampire wise. Then by all means you need to go check this movie out. Bloodsucking Bastards is a surprisingly refreshing take on the genre. It doesn't suck at least not in a bad way. This movie I rather watch over Twilight movies, seriously that's not how vampires were meant to be used.

At least in Bloodsucking Bastards, they do follow the rules as well as weaknesses of vampires more closely. Look I'm not going to turn this into a suddenly full on rant towards Twilight. I simply dislike their usage of vampires let's move on. I will say this, the movie itself does have some surprises you won't see coming during a first time watching, please go check it out.

Hocus Pocus 1 & 2 review no spoilers

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I'm not done reviewing movies just yet. Which is fitting for what I'm about to review. In my long blog history, there's a particular Halloween classic I haven't reviewed. It isn't technically a horror movie but often became a stable of a movie you should watch close to or on Halloween.

I am talking about Hocus Pocus but wait there's a surprise. I recently seen Hocus Pocus 2 as well, so why not review both of them here together? Personally I'm not crazy for witches. Although my amazing wife absolutely loves witches so I'll do it for her. Obviously, it makes perfect sense to start at the beginning with the original Hocus Pocus.

Hocus Pocus (1993)

There was a legend about sisters who were witches that died long ago. If a black candle ever got lit under a full moon by a virgin, the sisters returns to life for one night. Hey I don't write these rules, you know witch stuff. This movie actually got moved up in release because they wanted to fair better outside of October.

You know the very month you wanna marathon anything horror. Which was risky in it's own right but this quickly became a cult classic. I do like the twists through out the story. We get to see normal people facing off against witches. We got an immortal cat as well as a zombie. There's some scenes that surprisingly made it into the movie, this was Disney after all.

I strongly felt since the movie does take place on Halloween. It does carry that vibe you'll want for that. A great cast with everything considered. I would say this movie also funny enough among one of my brother's favorite Halloween classics that isn't a horror movie. Then again, magic as well as other similar theme things was more of his thing.

I was more into vampires myself, I do plan to review a vampire classic very soon. Back to this, Hocus Pocus was a movie that surprisingly worked. It had the perfect balance that helped made the movie a timeless classic. There's plenty reasons to love this movie even if you aren't into witches like myself. Hocus Pocus is a shining example of doing something different with witches people enjoyed.

Indirectly, Hocus Pocus helped Harry Potter franchise because witches are also present within that. Which quickly became one of the biggest franchises in the world. Clearly a lot of people love witches as well as magical stuff on those lines. I am more into The Lord of the Rings, that's just me in a nut shell. Honestly, I do recommend this movie especially to introduce it to your kids.

Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)

Considering this movie is still very recently released. I will try to be spoiler free as possible. Hocus Pocus 2 does feel more like it's own movie. Kinda like Goosebumps 2 movie did to the original Goosebumps movie. Yes the sisters returns with all three original actresses reprising their roles. Of course, you can see how Disney modernize the concept to make the movie fresh rather than dated.

I would say there's more actual funny moments here than in the original movie. You get some more decent story telling as well. For a sequel most of us waited a few decades to see it. This is one of those often rumored to come out movies that kept not happening until it finally did this past Friday. Now where the hell is Beetlejuice 2 movie?

Hocus Pocus 2 does things differently which I do respect a lot. This isn't a sequel that simply reharshing the story of the original. Also anyone spoiling the beginning neither the ending shame on you for ruining the movie. Considering we waited so long some of us expected this to not be good. Truthfully, this turned out to be a surprisingly decent follow up.

You felt you are getting more of many things. I can't say which without spoiling sorry. Also considering this was Disney+ exclusive film, it's quite good. You can tell everyone involved with this movie had a lot of fun. Always a good sign for stuff like this. This felt like a movie well worth the long wait. At the same time, it is delivering in ways we didn't even consider or seen coming in the first place.

Hocus Pocus 2 to me is funnier than the original. The cast turned out to be mostly decent as well. I still have slightly more reasons to prefer the original movie. I know some people close to me likely going to choose this one instead. I will say this movie ended up being more interesting than I expected as well. The story may not be perfect but I do like the surprises on the way.

To clarify, I'm not saying the story was terrible. It just kinda felt one or two changes would've went a little longer way. The witches do not disappoint here as well. Hocus Pocus 2 does give respect to the original while doing many things it's own way. It's not what people would call a reboot of sorts but an option to continue things in a rather unexpected way.

I know some people close to me are going to absolutely love this movie with a passion. It won't surprise me this ends up with a similar reception to the original movie. I wouldn't change much myself other than what was previously stated. In all honestly, this was a good follow up that's surprisingly refreshing that you could easily rewatch a lot.

The Munsters (2022) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, earlier today I finally got to watch The Munsters on Netflix. No not the classic black & white sitcom show. A newer movie based on that show done by musician Rob Zombie. Yes the same guy who made his own horror movies as well as made his own Halloween movies. Halloween remake with it's sequel to clarify.

The Munsters acts like a prequel that answers many questions. Now for those who haven't seen the show or haven't seen this movie yet. I will try to keep spoilers away as I review the movie. I will say some praise I gotta mention here. The main cast done an amazing job doing those classic characters. The movie felt somewhat like The Three Stooges movie.

Let me rephase that since The Three Stooges are in a lot of movies. A more recent movie based on the characters under the same name. So the movie from the 2012 movie which is perfect to reference here. They nailed those characters incredibly well. I actually enjoyed the movie a lot more than expected. I don't even have much criticism except I simply wish there was slightly more Herman in the beginning.

I'm not going to lie, Herman Munster is one of my absolute favorite TV dads of all time. He comes off like this menacing figure to normal people yet turns out to be incredibly kind. This movie almost felt like the 90s Addams Family movies, I love those except for Addams Family Reunion. Let's just say we don't talk about that one lol.

The original show itself was inspired by The Addams Family show a few years prior. I should get the elephant out of the room here. Yes, both shows centers on an unusual family that's virtually outcasts to the community. Every little thing they do freaks people out. Of course, there's plenty of differences as well. I would say this is one of the better Munsters movies you can find.

I also felt despite this not being R rated which is a rating on most of Zombie's movies. He done a great job recreating the show. His wife, Sherri Moon Zombie plays Lily Monster. She starts in all of his movies, now that's something special. The Munsters is a movie that does a decent attempt recreating parts of why we love the original show.

In all honestly, being a Netflix movie may limit how to view the movie by other means. At the same time with Netflix becoming more automatically on technology, you have plenty of time to watch their works. The Munsters felt like a movie I waited a long time for. I also loved Zombie took some risks with the visuals in some scenes.

I hope this is as spoiler free as inhumanly possible. Considering stuff like newer Addams Family movies as well as Hotel Transylvania movies. I felt it was a good time for The Munsters to get the much needed reboot they deserved. Then again, my vision of Halloween is virtually throwing everything at people all suddenly, of course I support this movie.