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REVIEWS October 24, Ml 4 Beach cont. from pg. 3 monstrous sand dunes. My friends and I spent a lot of our time watching the antics of the group of school children who invaded the park while we were there. A couple of my guy friends actually raced each other and then raced the kids down the dunes; it was pretty hilarious to watch them go tumbling head over heel down the slope. The only real problem I had with Jockey's Ridge is that my favorite part, the huge sand dimes, are not really handicap accessible. My grandpa is in a wheelchair, so I tend to notice places that he would not be able to go. However, there is a ramp leading out to a part of the dimes so that handi capped people can at least see the dunes. Also, the website says that transportation to the top of the dunes may or may not be available depend ing on the availability of a vehicle. Another fun thing to do at Nags Head is making a bonfire on the beach. It's really easy to get a permit from one of the fire stations. You'll need a driver's license and the address of the beach house you're stay ing at when you go to get one, but the permits themselves are free. You can get supplies such as fire wood and charcoal from the local Food Lion, We roasted marshmal lows over our bonfire; I think all of my marsh mallows caught on fire. In some ways, bon fires on the beach are more fun than regular campfires. It's really relaxing to hear the waves crashing on the shore, and also you don't have to worry so much about catching the forest on fire. If you do have a beach bonfire, make sure to put out the fire entire ly and clean up your burnt logs before you leave the beach. The fire permit expires at 12:00 midnight, so you have to finish your fire by then. If you don't like the outdoorsy activities. Nags Head has multiple places where people can shop. As in every other beach town, there are Wings and Waves stores Beach cont. on pg. 7 Amber and fnends on Jockey's Ridge-Photo taken by NC State student Corban Prim Halloween or Holloween? Kristen Certo Contributing Writer After recently view ing Rob Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic Halloween, I had the familiar, unset tled feeling accompany ing a horror film, yet something was slighdy different. Rob Zombie took his unique style of vulgarity and excessive, in your face gore to the next level, leaving me feeling more sick than scared. The movie keeps the basic story line of Halloween (witti a pres ent day setting), and even adds to it, but at the end you may feel almost too overwhelmed with the brutal style of the movie to appreciate the overall storyline and the new added development of Michael's character throughout the movie; it was a bloody massa cre. This style used by Zombie lacks the horrific buildup and suspense which create a sense of fear in the viewer and attracts most to the hor ror film realm. As the movie progressed I found myself no longer won dering in suspense about whether the characters would escape or when Michael would pop out, but rather how bloody and gross they would find the surely soon to happen deatii. Anotiier negative in my opinion was Zombie's dioice of cast. Some of the main characters in his previous films. House of a 1000 Corpses and The Devils Rejects, who could be described as the anti-heroes of the films, were used once again. Examples include Sheri Moon, (Zombie's wife, who played the role of Midiael's mother, Deborah Myers), William Forsytiie (Deborah's abusive boyfriend), and Sid Haig (who played the role of a cemetery caretaker). Though they are good actors for this demented style of Zombie film, the type casting gives the viewer a predisposed opiruon of them regardless of their new character identity. Moving in to the pro gression of the film itself ... It starts out with a bit of background informa tion about the cmce mys terious childhood of the main character Michael Myers (played as a child in the film by Daeg Faerch and as an adult by Tyler Mane). His mottier was a stripper, her boy friend the drunken, dis respectful, foul mouthed, abusive type, and he and his sister Judith (Hanna Hall) are the stereotypical results of such parental units. This gives the viewer a more humanistic view of the once almost considered demonic Michael Myers. Michael soon gets into trouble at his school, and his mother is called in for a meeting during which a counselor warns her ttiat some of Michael's problems maybe be ear lier warning signs of larger problems to come; the scene foreshadows what is to follow. At this point Zombie has cre ated a sei\se of sympathy for young Michael, who must endure growing up in surroundings such as these, and it is this sympathetic feeling that almost seems to justify Michael's potential men tal psychopathic condi tion. S(X)n after the blood bath begins. During the duration of ttie blood bath, or massacre, of a rest of a movie. Zombie seemed to follow previous Halloweens and count less other horror movies. The new Michael, who he has spent the whole beginning developing, reverts back to his former silent, mysterious, un human, self. If you expect to see originality or something unique from Zombie you are in for a disappointment - no new horror tricks or clever deaths here. Michael sticks with his tradi tional weapon of choice and metitod of killing: the large kitchen knife and usual slit and stab. Zombie does deserve some credit for taking this widely overused horror method of deatii and adding a degree of senseless brutality and gore unseen before in tiie typical slasher flick. Also following suit, no horror film seems to be complete without sev eral instances of certain death to the villain that instead leave him seem ingly unscathed to attack and attack again. The storyline continues on to mainly parallel that of the original, with Michael locating and going after his baby sister (played by Halloween cont. on pg. 6
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