Eddie’s 31 Days Of Halloween 2019: Day 1: Critters Attack! (2019)

For eight years, I have been covering horror films on my blog for something I have called Eddie’s 31 Days Of Halloween and it has been a blast. I have seen films for this blog that were some of my favorites as well as I have seen films that I never thought I would watch. So we have decided to kick off our eighth year with a film franchise I have loved since the first time I watched them. The name of the film is Critters Attack! and it was directed by Bobby Miller (The Cleanse) and the film follows 20 year old Drea (Tashiana Washington). You see Drea hasn’t had it easy in life lately with her mother dying in a car accident which left her and her brother Phillip (Jaeden Noel) to live with their alcoholic sheriff Uncle (Stephen Jennings). All Drea wants to do is go to the same college that her mom went to, but one day is given an opportunity to babysit the dean of the history departments kids. Sounds like an easy job and you get a good word, but that is not the case as the famous alien Critters are a bump in the road she needs to avoid. The film also stars Ava Preston (Shazam!) as Trissy Lacy, Jack Fulton (12 Monkeys) as Jake Lacy, Dee Wallace (Critters) as Dee, Ho Chow (Filth City) as Chef Loong, and introducing Alex Jeaven as Mandy.

Overall, is it the greatest horror film of the year? Maybe to someone out there, but no it’s not, but that is not the point of this film. Was it a fun film to watch? Sure, it had a lot of cool moments that were nods to some of the original films like the rolling boulder of Critters among other things like Dee Wallace returning to play a bounty hunter. You have to think that most everything in the series has been done so writer Scott Lobdell (Happy Death Day) had to do something to revitalize the series so he added the element of a different looking type of Critter that was more girly and a heck of a lot cuter than her counterparts. Of course, the kids have no idea what she is, but all they know is that she is on their side and they are running with it. It was a nice element to add to the series whether you thought it was necessary or not, but she definitely has a reason to be here and you’ll have to find out for yourselves. With any TV Horror film, you are going to get some awkward moments and this film definitely had quite a few and they all dealt with Alex Jeaven’s character and our main character. Our director is known for adding a comedic twist to everything and he definitely did that in various moments like when Ho Chow’s character was around and it was definitely funny. I have to be honest in saying that I didn’t think this film sucked at all, it’s definitely a Cheeseball Cinema worthy film and that is because of how it can be very fun at times. That is why I am going to give the film an B- for a final gradecause it’s just above a C+.

Warner Brothers Confirms Every DC Comics Film For The Future

If you’re a fan of Comic Book movies and DC Comics then you are about to get really excited as Warner Brothers announce their plans for the future and the unveiling every DC Comics based film they will make. Warner Brothers had to do something to compete with the Marvel take over in the news especially after they announced that Robert Downey Jr. would be starring in the third Captain America film bringing on the civil war in the Marvel Universe. So at the annual shareholders meeting they announced that they will start with the proposed Suicide Squad film in 2016, two films with Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in her own film and the Justice League film in 2017, and then they announced new follow ups to Batman and Superman, plus a Green Lantern reboot, and the proposed Aquaman with Jason Momoa. Ezra Miller from The Perks Of Being Wallflower will play The Flash in 2018, and they announced Shazam with The Rock as Black Adam, and a Cyborg film.  There is no timeline for th efollow up Batman and Superman films, but the company announced they would love to do them in the future. Below is the timeline:

Aug. 5, 2016: Suicide Squad
June 23, 2017: Wonder Woman
Nov. 17, 2017: Justice League
March 23, 2018: The Flash
July 27, 2018: Aquaman
April 5, 2019: Shazam
June 14, 2019: Justice League 2
April 3, 2020: Cyborg
June 19, 2020: Green Lantern

Supergirl, Suicide Squad Get Green Light + More

This arms race which Is what I am calling the battle for supremacy between DC Comics and Marvel Comics when it comes to the cinema is heating up. We all remember that for a very long time in the 80’s that DC was the serious hitter in the theaters with the Christopher Reeves Superman films and the Batman films of the early 90’s. For the most part all Marvel had going for them in the 80’s was The Incredible Hulk TV series with Lou Ferrigno. It wasn’t until Fox started doing the X-Men films and Sony doing the Spider-Man films that Marvel was taken serious in the Box Office. Yeah, they had some mishaps with the Hulk film, Daredevil (which was actually pretty decent), and the Elektra film, but right when Iron Man hit the theaters after that God awful Superman Returns film, Marvel started to take over and DC slowly fell behind. The only thing that was keeping DC afloat was the brilliant Christopher Nolan Dark Knight Trilogy while The Green Lantern was just God awful. Marvel kept it coming with both Thor films, both Captain America films, the first Avengers film, and now Guardians Of The Galaxy which has Marvel at the 7 Billion dollar mark. I will admit that DC started to get back into the game with The Man Of Steel film, but it seems now that the two prominent comic book companies are taking the battle to the tube. Marvel first stepped up to the plate with Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D while Arrow from DC was a smash hit for fans and it made sense. The show was definitely perfect as a television series rather than a film. In October, The CW will debut the brand new Flash series while fox debuts Gotham. Well, now we have more news for the battle of supremacy.

The other day, Fox had announced that they were indeed going to do the Deadpool film which had a lot of us comic book and Marvel fans excited. How did DC respond to that? Well, first they announced that they had green lighted a series for the only channel (CBS) without a superhero show as CBS will carry Supergirl. Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash) is going to be producing the show for Warner Brothers Television along with Ali Adler who is best known for her work with Glee, The New Normal, and No Ordinary Family (which was a short lived TV Series). It is said that they are going to be producing a pilot in hopes the network will order more episodes or else the network will face a hefty penalty as DC is not messing around when it comes to developing this TV Series. So, now at this point, we know that ABC has The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. show, Arrow and The Flash are on CW, Fox has Gotham, and NBC has Constantine. We also know that next year ABC will place Agent Carter as a fill in for The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (which the second season opens next week). The battle for supremacy is heating up, but there is more news to report.

DC has also announced that they are going to green light the production of a Suicide Squad film. Do you not know who the Suicide Squad is? They are a team of super-villains that are given an opportunity at a lesser sentence if they go on suicide missions for the government. The team features lesser known super villains like Harley Quinn (The Joker’s girlfriend), Deathshot, and Deathstroke. The film is going to be made by David Ayer who recently directed the new Brad Pitt film that looks amazing in Fury. Even though nothing has been signed, sealed, and delivered on that, you have to think that this film could be an interesting watch with David Ayer at the helm. The man is best know for films like Suicide Kings, End Of Watch, and Sabotage which gives you a little bit of insight into how the film may look. The future of DC is looking bright as the company has already announced that Jason Momoa will star as Aquaman in a solo pic, Joesph Gordon-Levitt as Sandman, and Shazam which will feature Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Black Adam. I wanted to add one thing to this is that I would love to see some other comic book companies get films made like The Invisibles and many others.