Stake Land

Buy It or Rent It

A few years ago I tried to read twilight and well I did it read them all in one god awful sitting. I did it because the world well to be honest I work in sales and need to talk about things to my customers. So yeah it finished off my love for vampires for awhile. I swear to not care about vampires again till the hype died down and that's when Stake Land came out rich when I need to revitalized my lovers for vampires. Well it did just that and I'am now going to explain what makes this one of the best vampire films I have seen in a very very long time.  

To start with I truly love the way the camera moves in this flick and the cuts are quick but annoyingly so.  Giving you the feel of paranoia and fear making it as jarring to you as the people on the run. Now that is not normally something we discuss on here so that is he last I shall mention it. I want to let the world know I love the style and editing and the script of this film. Now the reasons it's on this blog is of course about the content of said script. GOD DAMN this movie has a lot of really nasty bits in it that truly show the desperation of the human soul in pain and without hope. The world is truly over in this film and so far up shit creek that even a paddle and a boat engine can't save you. 

Also I love the fact they get into how vampires work in this world with a a lot of talk from Mister. Such as calling kid vampires Scamps. That is a very powerful word for a evil vampire child that just wants to feast on your blood.

 Side characters are a Nun they call Sister.  Who is sexually assaulted  in her first scene in this movie and they save her and she has to live with the guilt that the men claimed to be upstanding pious believers. 

The Crow Skinning the wolves

The Crow Skinning the wolves is going to be today's comic discussion. Well I picked this up at random being an old school crow fan. I grow up on the first graphic and even read it before the movie. So yeah I was shocked to see James O'Barr's name on this comic and pumped like a mad man. I figured it would let me down and not be fitting in the style of the crow. I was right and then I was impressed with the content of this comic.

To start with the shock first was the art more traditional comic book then the first crow which felt like a painting. But that went away after a few pages of this great graphic novel. The next thing that hit me was truly the lack of love or care just that this man throw himself into his work with great zeal. Now that would normally bother me given that the crow is almost a love song normally. But this is Nazi Germany and well that calls for a different style of crow. I LOVED the way they handle this matter with gusto and balls and touching on the horrors of this time period in a way that was still fun to read. Now I'am not saying that this was not a horrible and great awful thing but if I wanted that feel I would re-watch Schindler's List or read Night or Maus. There is enough story that tells us the horror this is the story with hope in a weird kinda of way. It was a victim striking back at one of the truly most horrible events in human kind and well it made me do a sick chuckle at times. I truly think this is a great comic. Only three issues meaning it fits nicely into one trade paper back and a great intro by James O'Barr leading into this comic. GO BUY IT if you like over the time action and a great time!