Do Not Come In.

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URBAND LEGEND: Annora Petrova

Annora Petrova was a girl who professionally ice-skated. One day she looked up her name on Google and found a creepy wikipedia page that set forth a motion of events which destroyed her life. This is what was found on her computer. 

My appologies

Ladies and gentlemen, I know that I have been lacking in what I set out for this blog to be about. I had a few things in my life that I had to sort through and make right with myself. The good news is that I am back to bring you more things to look over your shoulder in the middle of the night and wonder if you really are home alone...

a few phone snaps of the abandoned Renaissance Faire in NoVA

Series of photos taken of the first atomic bomb.

This has been a scare-crow appreciation post.

Movie Review: Paranormal Asylum: The Revenge of Typhoid Mary (2013)

Title: Paranormal Asylum: The Revenge of Typhoid Mary

Release Date: September 17,2013

Director: Nimrod Zalmanowitz

Run Time: 88 Minutes

Quick Hits: Two former college roommates, turned best friends, reconnect after sometime to put together a documentary about a local psychiatric hospital which is the supposed last resting place of the infamous Typhoid Mary.  

Review: Before we get into what the movie was about let's look at some facts about the actual "Typhoid Mary."  Mary Mallon (aka Typhoid Mary) was an immigrant to the United States from Northern Ireland in 1884.  Mary worked as a cook for families for the majority of her life, unfortunately wherever she would find work several members of the family would come down with typhoid fever and she would move onto the next household.  Upon her first quarantine Mary was found to be an asymptomatic carrier of the disease, which in lay man's terms means that she had the disease but never showed any sign nor did she suffer from it.  She was released from quarantine only to be brought back in permanently after she was found to be cooking again at a hospital.  It was during this second quarantine that she suffered a stroke which paralyzed her.  Mary died at the age of 69 in November 1938.

  We open with one of the main characters, Mark, heading back to New York to meet up with his former college roommate Dan to shoot a documentary that he believes can put them on the fast track to Hollywood.  Dan gives Mark more information on the hospital that they are planning on shooting in by telling about the legend that Typhoid Mary was secretly moved to.  Over the course of the next four days or so we see, through their cameras, a couple of ghostly silhouettes and some odd happenings within the hospital.  Michelle, Dan's Fiance, holds a seance to try and evoke a greater reaction from the spirits still roaming the halls and gets herself possessed by Mary herself.  Fast forward to the end we find out that the one person that seemed like she wanted to help the gang actually led them into the whole thing just to perpetuate her own youth.  

    Right from the get go you can tell that this is a low budget movie which works against itself the entire way.   I am not saying that all low budget films are bad, but this one is awful from start to finish.  As I said this movie works against itself from start to finish between the acting that is not one bit believable nor relate-able to the lighting throughout.  talking more on the lighting, it honestly looks as if the director thought it would be cool to put a gray filter for every shot.  However there are some shots where the gray filter has been taken off only to have pitch black shadows put into shots and around characters.  Getting away from the production flaws in this movie we can try and grab onto something positive in the story right? Wrong.  The back story given for Mary alone is awful, twisting what happened to her and her final days to try and make it conducive to the idea that the movie is trying, so desperately, to portray is atrocious.  One of the tags on this movie is that it is "inspired by true events," well the only true event that is shown is that Mary existed and she had typhoid.  The rest of it is a complete fabrication. Normally I could think of some reason that a movie could be watched, whether for enjoyment or a time kill, but I just have to advise against this one entirely.

Rating: 0/5

Abandoned church.