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By Anne Zahran
Staff Writer
You know a movie is bad
when, fifteen minutes in, several
people watching it exclaim loudly,
“This sucks!” Also, when laughter is
heard throughout what is supposed to
be a horrifically terrifying film about
Satan, this is not a good sign.
Such is the case with Lost
Souls, a silly little flick about
exorcisms, religion, and the classic
struggle between good and evil. The
movie stars Winona Ryder as Maya
Larkin, who has spent her time
assisting a priest in performing
exorcisms ever since she was
successfully “cleansed” of the Dark
One himself Everything is just swell
in Maya’s world of new-found
religiosity until one of the exorcisms
doesn’t take with a particular serial
killer and Maya is forced to do some
“research” to find out who this guy
thinks the Anti-Christ is. This
involves breaking what appears to be
a code so simple a small child could
probably figure it out, but I digress.
The Anti-Christ turns out
to be a well-known author named
Peter Kelson, who writes books
about serial killers. Now it’s
Maya’s job to find Peter and tell
him that he is indeed Satan himself,
which really doesn’t take a whole
lot of doing. She simply convinces
Peter that he possesses a few
devilish characteristics, which I
won’t reveal here for those of you
who still wish to subject yourself to
this movie. The bottom line is that
if Peter isn’t exorcised by his 33rd
birthday, it’s over for everybody.
Lost Souls unravels all too
quickly and is never at any point
truly scary, though it does have
some highly quotable and cheesy
lines, namely, “They’ve had their
2,000 years. Now it’s our turn.” If
you want to know what signs to
look for in a potential Lord of
Darkness, this could very well be
your movie. But my advice is, save
your money and go see something
truly scary, like The Exorcist.
By Carrie Adcox
Editor-in-Chief
Green pea soup never looked
so appetizing!
The Exorcist was first
released in 1973, where it thrilled
audiences with its visual illusions.
Technology has evolved and with
it, theatrical effects that were once
incomprehensible are common
place.
Yet sadly enough where
effects are masterful, the plot
usually is thin and shallow. The
Exorcist demonstrates that movie’s
can tell a story and scare audiences
in one sitting.
The plot consist of two main
threads. Chris MacNeil (Ellen
Burstyn) is an actress living in the
D.C. suburbs with her 12 year old
daughter, Regan (Linda Blair).
Regan begins acting mysteriously.
As Chris runs from doctor to
doctor, Regan continues to decrease
in manners, attitude, and expand her
vocabulary with creative, sacrile
gious vulgarities. After all the
physicians money can buy produce
no promising effects on her
mentally decomposing daughter,
Chris races to Father Damien
Karras (Jason Miller) in hopes that
an exorcism may drive away the
demons, either mental or physical.
Father Karras is dealing with
a few problems of his own. Doubt
ing his faith, he contemplates life
the life he left behind before
seminary school. Father Karras
journeys to his mother’s home, only
to find her sad and alone in a
decrepid neighborhood. His mother
dies somewhere in the middle of the
movie in an insane asylum over
whelming Father Karras with guilt
and sadness. He struggles to
understand his relationship with
God, which he feels separated him
from his mother causing her to die
alone. All this happens before he
meets the mysterious actress and her
psychotic daughter.
What happens after the two
stories meet can only be described
as heart-stopping! Toss in another
priest, some really cool makeup and
theatrics, and heart-stopping lines
that cannot be printed in this
publication and the results are
nerve-racking.
The terror factor until this
point is low to medium; but it is
enough to maintain the interest of
the audience, such as demonic
shadows in rooms and the shilling
words, “Help me” etched into
Regan’s stomach. After this, the
movie soars and never comes down
to earth again.
Spinning heads, vibrating
beds, spider-walking down stairs,
and childish giggles over a dead
body heighten the unnerving factors
of this masterpiece.
Should you go see it?
Yes. The added eleven
minutes of footage are a wonderful
addition to this classic. The new
soundtrack was specifically rere
corded for surround sound theaters.
Besides, on Halloween what
could be more perfect than watch
ing the original horror movie on the
big screen?
Maybe, some green pea soup
with your popcorn and soda.
Year Gap on
Wallflowers’ Releases
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By Anne Zahran
Staff Writer
It has been four years since
the release of The Wallflowers’
multi-platinum smash Bringing
Down the Wild Horses. During that
time, the band underwent many
changes, both in their lineup and in
the attitude of their frontman, Jakob
Dylan. The notoriously aloof Dylan
has finally begun to speak more
candidly about his legendary father,
singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
All of Dylan’s spectacular
personal growth is showcased on
the band’s third album, Breach. In
it, Dylan sounds more relaxed and
less nasal, though only slightly less
cynical. He is at his brooding best
on the band’s first single, “Sleep
walker,” as he addresses a tale of
love gone bad. However, the
album’s most talked-about track
will inevitably be the masterful
“Hand Me Down,” in which Dylan
fine-tunes his biting wit as he sings
of the industry’s constant compari
sons of him to his father.
Practically every song on
Breach is decent enough, lyrically
and musically, to put most of
today’s three-chord wonder bands
to shame. Other stand out tracks on
the album include “Letters from
the Wasteland,” “I’ve Been
Delivered,” and the beautiful “Up
from Under,” a masterpiece worthy
of comparisons of Dylan to
working-class hero Bruce
Springsteen, whom he sounds an
awful lot like on this track.
Breach closes with the
childlike, sweet “Baby Bird,”
which is not noted anywhere on the
album but is a treasure just the
same. It can be found only by
listening to the album in its
entirety, but wraps everything up
nicely and, like this fine effort by
The Wallflowers, is well worth the
wait.
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Rage No More
By Carrie Adcox
Editor-in-Chief
Nine years of political and
musical accomplishments become
history as Rage Against the Ma
chine calls it quits.
Zack de la Rocha, singer,
lyricist, and co-songwnter of the
band released a statement to press
stating that he was leaving the band
because their “decision making
process has completely failed.”
Tim Commerford, Tom
Morello, and Brad Wilk, also
members of Rage, released a similar
statement containing the notion that
although the band was no more,
they would continue their political
and social actions and protests.
Rage Against the Machine
was more than many of the preten
tious, looking for a quick buck and a
fan club bands. They were severely
motivated both politically and
socially. They held benefit concerts
for many different causes. The
lyrics to many of their songs held
references to many of these causes.
Rage was heavily involved
with the movement to free death
row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal who
was accused and convicted of
murder in 1981. Jamal held fast to
the notion that he was innocent and
several witnesses to the murder
pointed the murder to a third party
Rock for Choice was
another cause in which Rage was
heavily involved. This organization
was founded to protect the rights of
pro-choice citizens. It was ex
panded to include registering to
vote, political education, and
actively encourage the freedoms of
women.
Several other organizations
include FAIR, International Office
of the Leonard Peltier Defense
Committee. Refuse & Resist,
NCDM (The National Commission
for Democracy in Mexico, USA),
Regeneration TV, and Voices in the
Wilderness.
Rage not only sparked the
interest in their listeners to educate
themselves about the truths and
realities in society. They combined
hard lyrics with hard base and
created and unreproducable
combination of rock.
Several of their compact
disks can be found in music stores
across the nation. Several are
included for you to view.
For more information
about Rage Against the Machine,
check out their websight at
www.ratm. com. It contains all
information about their political
involvement and the latest news.
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Evil Empire Track Listing
1. People Of The Sun
2. Bulls On Parade
3. Viewnow
4. Revolver
5. Snakecharmer
6. Tire Me
7. Down Rodeo
8. Without A Face
Wind Below
10. Roll Right
11. Year Of tha’ Boomerang
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The Battle Of Los Angeles Track
Listing
1. Testify
2. Guerrilla Radio
3. Calm Like A Bomb
4. Mic Check (Once Hunting, Now
Hunted)
5. Sleep Now In The Fire
6. Bom Like A Broken Man
7. Bom As Ghosts
8. Maria
9. Voice Of The Voiceless
10. New Millennium Homes
11. Ashes In The Fall
12. War Within A Breath
Photo taken by Christophe Rihet
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