As much as I love this film and this story, I should say that this is not an accurate tale of what really happened. David Helfgott performed this concerto brilliantly and perfectly as many would say. In the following months (or years if you prefer) he became mentally disturbed at a clinical level. He resorted to a mental hospital and they administered shock therapy as one of their options to help him. "Shine" is a great film and well describes his life after his therapy, but it seems to blame the therapy for his odd life. This is a foolish assumption. The brain is the most curious device in the world, but we have some idea how it works and how to fix a serious problem.

aren't 18 year olds starring in porno with their hair in pigtails enough GODDAMIT!

but seriously...these people need to have their own jail-esque mental hospital. sex offenders have the lowest rehabilitation rate among all criminals.

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Someone should really take this guy to a mental hospital for a check up. If he is fine I will think his INTEGRITY will be in question.

All the cops had to do, was to grapple the guy, not beating him senseless with a stick when he's already on the ground. Such primitive cops... don't they learn to handle guys like this, without causing injuries? There are plenty of ways to put a guy down on the ground, specially when there are two cops! They should take a trip to a mental hospital, and see how a couple of nurses handles a crazy guy.

From his website:

The Autism Controversy

My comments about autism were meant to boldly awaken parents and children to the medical community's attempt to label too many children or adults as "autistic."

Just as some drug companies have overdiagnosed "ADD" and "ADHD" to peddle dangerous speed-like drugs to children as young as 4 years of age, this cartel of doctors and drug companies is now creating a national panic by overdiagnosing "autism, for which there is no definitive medical diagnosis!

Many children are being victimized by being diagnosed with an "illness" which may not exist, in all cases. Just a few weeks ago doctors recommended dangerous anti-cholesterol drugs for children as young as 2 years of age! Without any scientific studies on the possible dangers of such drugs on children, corrupt doctors made this controversial, unscientific recommendation.

Increasingly, our children are being used as profit centers by a greedy, corrupt medical/pharmaceutical establishment. As the brother of a severely disabled person who suffered and died in a New York "snake-pit" of a "mental hospital," I know first-hand what true disability is.

To permit greedy doctors to include children in medical categories which may not be appropriate is a crime against that child and their family. Let the truly autistic be treated. Let the falsely diagnosed be free.





Eh...

nice, but he needs some Ritalin

I kid, I kid, its does remind me of a music room in a mental hospital though...

They're obviously escapees from a mental hospital...the white robes give it away.

That's what she gets...it was from from dick withdrawal. You must carry a mighty weapon, my friend.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Just look her up at any of Omaha's mental hospitals. She went crazy, last I heard. Also 100% true.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
hahaha niiiiiiice. so *ahem* you wouldn't happen to *cough* *cough* have this...uh...lady's number would you?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
She gave REALLY good hummers, so probably yes.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I think it's precious that she shared it with you. People making a living off of that. The real question is, had you known, would you make/let her do it again?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
^Actually an old ex-girlfriend of mine cheated on me by giving a dude a blowjob in return for a dimebag. I didn't know about it until after we broke up, of course. To be fair, she DID share it with me, and it WAS good weed.

I make up a lot of shit here, but this time isn't one of them. It's 100% true.

Sharing that was oddly non-cathartic.

Just look her up at any of Omaha's mental hospitals. She went crazy, last I heard. Also 100% true.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
hahaha niiiiiiice. so *ahem* you wouldn't happen to *cough* *cough* have this...uh...lady's number would you?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
She gave REALLY good hummers, so probably yes.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I think it's precious that she shared it with you. People making a living off of that. The real question is, had you known, would you make/let her do it again?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
^Actually an old ex-girlfriend of mine cheated on me by giving a dude a blowjob in return for a dimebag. I didn't know about it until after we broke up, of course. To be fair, she DID share it with me, and it WAS good weed.

I make up a lot of shit here, but this time isn't one of them. It's 100% true.

Sharing that was oddly non-cathartic.

Live at Napa State Mental Hospital, 1984

From YouTube:

The Cramps, punks, Californian mental patients.
The concert of a nembutol delirium.
The lines blur, everyone dances.

It’s a good thing I checked the paper besides looking at MovieTickets.com. Instead of Sunday, the last movie on the list was shown Saturday night. I called the theater confirm the schedule just to be sure.

Before I review the Horrorfest, I wanted to mention the theater where I viewed the films – Hollywood 9. It used to be part of a chain called General Cinema. Some older folks will remember the music that used brushes on a snare drum with an electric guitar to announce “Coming Soon” and “Feature Presentation.” Then stadium-seating theaters were introduced ten years ago. They managed to kill a majority of movie theaters in this area. A local family bought this theater from the chain. It continues to run first-run films. We used to have a network of second-run film-theaters. They were good for when a film left the first-run-theaters. Plus they were cheaper.

Audiences have been small for the Horrorfest – maybe four to twelve people at most. Horror films are more fun with a full theater of raucous younger folks.

And now for my rankings . . . . I organized them from most favorite to least favorite. The films included for 2007 cover certain standard genres:

The Deaths of Ian Stone (R)
Ian Stone keeps dying and jumping to another life. Each time he interacts with the same girl. Before each death a clock suddenly stops. I like this one best because the film takes time to reveal the context of events and characters.

Mulberry Street (R)
This could have easily been called “Rat People.” The film is set in New York City in a rundown apartment building. Rats across Manhattan bite people spreading a contagious “rat virus.” Once bitten, people morph into rat-faced-like-humans. This flick has a style similar to “28 Days Later.” These carnivorous rat-people move fast and gnaw at their human prey. The newscast vaguely covers events as the infection becomes widespread. Other than the rats spreading the virus, there’s not much of an explanation for the virus’s existence.

Crazy Eights (NR)
Six young adults gather together after the death of someone they all knew. Twenty years earlier their parents left them at mental institution as guinea pigs for human experiments. The name given to their group was “Crazy Eights.” Prior to the group reuniting, they started having nightmares. A last request by the deceased takes them on an odyssey to locate a time capsule they made years ago. OK, that’s seven people; so what about the eighth one?

Borderland (NR)
Of the eight films this is the only one based on a true story. It is more consistent than some of the others. Three American guys in their early twenties cross the border into Mexico. In the course of seeking young women, they cross paths with drug dealers who perform Santeria human sacrifices. In this area near the border, the drug dealers have police intimidated. There is one cop, however, who helps two of the guys when the third one goes missing. He’s been investigating the drug dealers for a while. Also, They killed his partner.

The murders in this film are brutal. Sean Astin plays a bad guy – I was expecting him to yell for Frodo. He has a beard that helps a little with his baby face.

Tooth and Nail (R)
Set in the year 2012 (how Mayan ), civilization has collapsed because there is no more gas. People are forced to survive without technology. Two guys and a girl are exploring when they rescue a girl from an armed man. They bring her back to their group. Right away the group does not trust her. Then one night the group’s leader is murdered. Soon group learns that cannibals are intent on feeding on them. Considering the beginning of the film I expected more cleverness in the lines and the battles to survive. I would have thought the hospital, where they are living, would have some neat props and/or rooms to do battle in – I felt like more could have been done. The cannibals dress like medieval warriors. Axes, knives, swords, spears all make for a bloodbath. There are some later twists in the plot that redeem this movie a little. Otherwise, the film just has a body count.

Mike Madsen and Vinnie Jones ham it up a bit.

Unearthed (R)
Unless I missed it, I’m not sure what group of Native Americans the characters are descended from in this movie. Anyway a young male Native American is digging in a cave where a sacred burial ground is located. Unfortunately his efforts release a monster that his ancestors managed to knock out for many centuries.

A female Native American is sheriff. She’s still trying to live down a circumstance in which she was not able to prevent a young girl from being shot. She investigates a vehicle crash site involving a truck. She locates a piece of something that was caught in a truck’s grill. When a biologist analyzes this something, she determines that it is not of this earth and it has been collecting samples of living things.

As the body count adds up, the sheriff does her best to protect those left. In the course of things she becomes covered in some black liquid in the cave. This stuff ends up protecting her in a close encounter with the creature. She and the guy, who unleashed the creature in the first place, figure out that uranium is what they need to make the protective liquid. Someone else will have to comment on the science or lack of science involved here.

The creature behaves a bit like the ones from “Alien.” It is scarier when you don’t see it. However, it does move fast.

Nightmare Man (R)
A woman orders her husband a primitive mask with horns. She gets more than she bargained for in this tale. Although this one starts off hokey, filmed with video, it does improve with some plot twists. This couple runs out of gas on the way to a mental hospital. He leaves her alone while he goes for gas.

She becomes scared by a demon in the darkness. After a bit of cat ‘n’ mouse, she manages to run to a house in the woods. Two couples are enjoying each other’s company until this woman arrives frantic about what is chasing her and the pills she dropped in the forest in the dark. Listen when someone tells you that pills help control a demon inside. : )

Lake Dead (NR)
A grandfather to an incestuous family is killed. Three granddaughters want travel to see the property they inherited. Their father warns them not to go. The kids are mad at him because saying their grandfather was dead long before he actually was dead.

One of the girls skips the funeral and goes to Lake Dead by herself – bad news. Lake is the family’s last name. Anyway the two girls arrive with a couple and another guy. There is a shallow manmade pond on the property. Characters in the story refer to it as a lake.

So then the body count starts. The gene pool in this town is a bit shallow too.


OK, there are the “8 Films to Die for.” When I’ve seen the eight from 2006, I’ll do a synopsis and ranking of them as well.

Why treat religoin with respect ??

i think if you put it like this if you go into a mental hospital with very deluded people you should still treat them with respect evan if thay are compleatly doolally however you probably wouldent act on things thay say and certanly wouldent let them form govemernt policies. this is simular with manny people who are religouse treat them with humanly respect but at the same time its probably safer not to act on things thay say.

i personaly dont understand how if you are ratonal you would belive in religoin in the sence of one religouse text over another. you could be ratoinal and say god could exsist ore maby dosenot exsist. but having an abject faith in a certain descriptoin of god ore a book full of rules suposedly set by god seems quite mad to me.

things are father complicated by the fact that religouse aspect of sumone is more often than not, not the entire person so u could have sumone who was a compleat nazi actualy sajesting something that was quite logical and ratoinal when it comes to something there religoin dosenot tuch on.