Chuck's Movie Breakdown

        Happy Halloween, everyone. Chuck here, and we've reached the end of another HallowScream . To finish out this month, I'm taking a look at something that not everyone will see as a Halloween movie, but a few do. This is my review of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie , released in 2001, and featuring the returns of Steve Blum as Spike Spiegel, Beau Billingslea as Jet Black, Wendee Lee as Faye Valentine, and Melissa Fahn as Ed.          Okay, so a few days before Halloween on Mars, Faye sees an unknown terrorist blow up a tanker truck while she's chasing another bounty. The blast unleashes a dangerous pathogen that kills many, and causes many others to fall ill. After the attack, the Martian government offers up a bounty of 300 million Woolong for the capture of the culprit. And, of course, the Bebop crew wants the bounty. Upon investigating, two things are discovered. First, the culprit may, in fact, be a man named Vincent Volaju, who was presumed to have been killed on Titan,

         Hey guys, Chuck here, and HallowScream is starting to wind down. So, today, I'd like to talk about Shrek . Launching in the year 2001, the Shrek franchise has become a staple of DreamWorks animation, spanning four films, two Puss in Boots spin-offs, and several specials, including this 2010 Halloween special titles Scared Shrekless .          The special starts off with Shrek and Fiona, along with their children Fergus, Farkle, and Felicia, scaring off a group of trick-or-treaters, and claiming their Halloween candy. Upon returning to their home in the swamp, Shrek and Fiona are greeted by their friends Donkey, Gingerbread Man, Puss in Boots, the Three Little Pigs, the Wolf, the Three Blind Mice, and Pinocchio, who are attempting to scare Shrek. However, Shrek points out that ogres don't get scared, they DO the scaring. Unconvinced, the others convince Shrek to share scary stories. Shrek agrees, but on the condition that he picks the venue. And, where does Shrek take t

        Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, I recently saw the new movie Venom: The Last Dance, written and directed by Kelly Marcel, and starring Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Clark Backo, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham, Alanna Ubach, Peggy Lu,  and Andy Serkis.           So, this movie sees Eddie Brock and the symbiote Venom both on the run after the events of Let There Be Carnage , and now having to deal with creatures known as Xenophages arriving on Earth, being sent after Venom by Knull, the creator of the symbiotes. So, it's up to Eddie, Venom, and a battalion of symbiotes to save the world.          This movie is a bit of a mixed bag for me, as I thoroughly enjoyed the action, the humor, and seeing a whole variety of symbiotes with pretty unique designs, color variations, and abilities. Throughout the Venom series, we'd only gotten to see three symbiotes: Venom, Riot, and Carnage. So, for this movie to showcase a lot more symbiotes, and for all of them to be unique in th

         Hey guys, Chuck here. And for today's HallowScream review, we're going to be looking at a 1952 Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck called Trick or Treat .          The short sees Donald Duck trying to enjoy a quiet evening on Halloween night, when his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie show up for trick-or-treating. Donald decides to mess with the boys by giving them firecrackers, which blows up their bags of candy. However, that night also sees a witch named Hazel show up, and what follows is a battle of pranks between Donald and Hazel, with Hazel using her magic to scare the daylights out of Donald. And, this includes using ghosts and a talking, flying Jack-o'-lantern to scare him. And, eventually using magic to make Donald's feet move with a will of their own. At the end of it all, Donald learns his lesson, gives the boys their trick-or-treat candy, and Hazel flies off to parts unknown.         So, Trick or Treat is a fun little short, and it's funny seeing

        Hey guys, Chuck here, and it's Stephen King time once again, as we're diving into one of my favorite recent films based on a Stephen King book for HallowScream . In this instance, we're looking at director Mike Flanagan's 2019 film adaptation of Stephen King's Doctor Sleep , starring Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Cliff Curtis, Kyleigh Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Carl Lumbly, and Henry Thomas.          Now, much like King's original novel, Doctor Sleep serves as a sequel to the Stanley Kubrick classic The Shining , while also adapting the Stephen King novel of Doctor Sleep as well. And, to that end, I give major props to director Mike Flanagan for taking on this massive juggling act of having to both adapt a Stephen King novel and return to a world designed by Stanley Kubrick. It wasn't an easy job, but he did it extraordinarily well.          So, the story of Doctor Sleep follows Dan Torrance, now an adult and still haunted by what ha

        Hey guys, Chuck here, and for  HallowScream today, it's another review of a film based on Mary Shelly's Frankenstein . But, in this case, we'll be taking a look at the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Young Frankenstein , starring Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, Cloris Leachman, Gene Hackman, and Madeline Khan.         The movie focuses on Frederick Frankenstein, who has chosen to distance himself from his grandfather Victor's legacy by insisting his name is pronounced "Fronkensteen." One day, after teaching a college class on the central nervous system, Frederick is approached by a man named Gerhardt Falkstein, who is a lawyer from Transylvania representing the will of Baron Beaufort von Frankenstein, which leaves the castle and estate to Frederick. Saying goodbye to his fiancee Elizabeth, Frederick travels to Transylvania, where he meets his new bug-eyed hunchbacked servant Igor (pronounced "Eyegore"), as his lovely