The MacGuffin

Re-Cycle is a Japanese horror/suspense film about a writer who normally writes love stories, but decides to write a book about supernatural ghosts and such. While she’s working on it, she begins to see monsters and figures in the corners of her house and there are weird long strands of hair left when she sees the figure.

Spencer and John Portanova, of Adler and Zenith, share the MacGuffin Podcast’s Top 25 Sequels. The list was inspired when Spencer and John discussed Empire magazine’s list of the top 50 sequels in Episode 13.

Here is the final List:
25. Gremlins 2, Kill Bill 2, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
24. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
23. Breakin 2
22. The Road Warrior
21. Bourne Supremacy
20. Rocky 3
19. Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter
18. Die Hard With A Vengence
17. Star Trek
16. Clerks 2
15. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
14. Casino Royale
13. Toy Story 2
12. Spiderman 2
11. X2
10. Back To The Future 2
9. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
8. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
7. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
6. Silence of the Lambs
5. Godfather 2
4. The Dark Knight
3. Aliens
2. Terminator 2
1. The Empire Strikes Back

Halloween II (2009): Rob Zombie seems to want to destroy everything we like in a Halloween film. Some decent moments, but not many. 4/10

In episode 15, Kevin from the Backroom Podcast and I spoke about the remake of the Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.  We spoke about our love for the original movies (the ones that starred Ralph Macchio at least) and then joked a little bit about Ralph Macchio not doing much lately beyond Artie Lange’s Beer League.

Halloween (2007): Half hillbilly origin story for Michael Myers, half remake. Not terrible, but unnecessary. Why redo a classic? 5/10

Halloween Resurrection: Great opening, but it’s the Blair Witch version of Halloween and Busta Rhymes kung-fu fights Michael Myers. 3/10

Halloween H20: Jamie Lee Curtis is back (good), but all plot threads from the last 3 movies are ignored (bad). A decent entry. 5/10

Halloween 6: So it turns out Michael Myers was cursed by the druids and has to kill his family to save the harvest or some shit. 3/10

Monster Camp is a documentary about people who LARP (Live Action Role Playing). These are people who don’t find Dungeons & Dragons engaging enough and feel the need to go into the woods, act out scenarios, and fight each other with padded swords until they knock each others’ glasses off. Sounds cool, right? If it does, then quit reading here, because I’m about to go off.

The Signal is a zombie-ish film that is kind of a combination of 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead and maybe a little bit of Pulse. There are parts of this film that I cracked up about and other parts that were pretty suspenseful and twisted. I’m still not sure what I thought I saw was really what happened, but I think that’s the whole point of the film.