tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46301510935041439542024-11-01T03:31:52.985-07:00•Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.comBlogger345125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-45251151793539227132013-04-23T14:02:00.000-07:002013-04-23T14:02:17.992-07:00Self Inflicted - Premieres May 6th!
Over at XRATS Productions I've become way too busy to write a full review for every film I watch. (Keep up to date with what I'm watching with my Twitter reviews.) But we have continued making a constant stream of short films, documentaries, commercials, etc. On May 6th, we're set to release our biggest film to date.
Self Inflicted was two years in the making.&Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-21005988283289941452011-04-10T15:29:00.000-07:002011-04-10T16:12:16.938-07:00Can a sports fan change teams?Bill Simmons aka The Sports Guy wrote The Rules For Being a True Fan in them he lies out his rules for all the why's and how's you should root for your respected sports teams. For example, if you grow up in a city with a major sports team, you must root for that team. When you pick out a team, you have to stick with that team through thick and thin, you can't change teams willy-nilly based on Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-42899785134641224242010-11-08T12:55:00.000-08:002010-11-08T13:01:52.268-08:00Help me win $10,000!I made a cheesy Rocky spoof for the Crunch Bunny "Shoot Me" contest. We got into the semi-finals and now it's time to drum up as many votes as possible. Please take 30 seconds out of your day, watch my commercial and vote! I think you'll get a good laugh out of it as well.View and vote here! http://www.thecrunchbunny.com/#/featured-videos/view/21753841Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-3358638449357522512010-10-31T19:10:00.000-07:002010-10-31T19:18:40.589-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #1. Ring1. Ring - I really didn't know anything about this film going into it, which is the best way to see a horror film. All I'd heard was it was a scary Japanese film, which seemed extremely exotic at that time, when DVDs were just starting to leak out from other countries. I had to seek out the DVD at Scarecrow Video (one of the best video stores in the world), because at that time, nobody else Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-23942080722822776712010-10-31T19:03:00.000-07:002010-10-31T19:10:15.726-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap Out of Me: #2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre#2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - As a kid, just the title alone freaked me out. That title haunted me, it just sounded like an awful film. My friends, who I don't think had seen it for themselves, kept telling me that it was a true story, which made it that much worse. I didn't get to see it for a few more years, probably when I was about 12-13. I hardly wanted to press play on our VCR, Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-86088498974902531302010-10-31T18:56:00.000-07:002010-10-31T19:03:23.324-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap Out of Me: #3. Blair Witch Project#3. Blair Witch Project - I saw this at a sneak-peak screening before all the hype began. It was still in that phase where people weren't sure if it was real or not. After that it got a bit too hyped-up and had the inevitable backlash against it. But it was still an incredibly powerful film.I've always been a firm believer in that what's not seen is scary than what is. Once I actually see Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-9133949859203632022010-10-31T13:38:00.000-07:002010-10-31T14:34:31.696-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #4. Squirm#4. Squirm - I believe this is the first horror movie I ever saw. I must have been around 5-6 years old when I caught it on TV. I didn't even see the whole thing, but what I saw was enough to terrify me for years. There's a scene where some worms drop out of a tree on somebody... I couldn't walk under a tree for months. At one point a guy's face gets infested by worms and he goes Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-23201318961871368532010-10-31T13:35:00.000-07:002010-10-31T19:16:07.566-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #5. Return of the Living Dead#5. - Return of the Living Dead - This is the movie that began my zombie obsession. Another movie that my mom let me watch way too young. I think what freaked me out most was that there was absolutely no way to kill them. You could chop them up into the tiniest little pieces and they'd still come after you. I had a recurring nightmare about a zombie with no legs crawling into my room andRoss Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-50490365484382973742010-10-31T13:34:00.000-07:002010-10-31T13:38:06.884-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #6. Aliens#6. Aliens - I really can't believe my mom let me watch this when I was about 11 years old. I hadn't seen Alien yet, so this was my first exposure. The first time I saw the chest-burster scene, that absolutely freaked me out of my mind. When Ripley is trapped in the room with the baby alien, that scared me so much that I couldn't be in a room alone for a while. The whole movie really got Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-69460203113211364922010-10-31T13:30:00.000-07:002010-10-31T13:34:34.596-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #7. Pet Sematary#8. Pet Sematary - Another movie that I saw way too young thanks to my mom. I couldn't even make it all the way through the first time. The guy who dies in the car accident and actually ends up being kind of a good guy, his bloody face freaked me out and I couldn't make it to the end. But I became obsessed with knowing had happened and a few days later I watched the rest and was terrified Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-62563228472091007922010-10-30T15:22:00.000-07:002010-10-31T14:21:39.699-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #8. Alone in the Dark#8. Alone in the Dark - This is how funny parents can be about violence and nudity. There are quite a few gruesome kills in this film, somebody gets cut in half by a cleaver while hanging upside down at the very opening of the film. An image which haunted me for years, but my friends parents, who's house I was spending the night at, had no problem with us kids watching that part. But when Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-46004506392043353242010-10-30T15:12:00.000-07:002010-10-30T15:15:41.153-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #9. The Thing#9. The Thing - I remember seeing the trailer on TV when I was really young. I don't remember exactly what I saw, but just that alone gave me nightmares for days. I probably didn't see the film till years later, but it freaked me out pretty good at that time too, although I think the real damage had already been done by the trailer.Today, it's still one of my personal favorites. I love the Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-16405964685197639032010-10-30T15:07:00.000-07:002010-10-30T15:09:58.883-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #10. Poltergeist#10. Poltergeist - I don't really remember seeing this movie for the first time. It didn't haunt me for years like many of the others on this list. I mostly remember it for the imagery. Toy clowns scared me for years after this. The guy ripping his face off in the mirror freaked me out, every time I looked in the mirror, that came to mind. The maggots on the chicken grossed me out, I Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-39748843279016399792010-10-30T15:03:00.000-07:002010-10-30T15:06:44.059-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #11. Nightmare on Elm Street#11. Nightmare on Elm Street - This is another film that my friends told me about a few years before I actually saw it. The idea of a monster being able to attack you and kill you in your dreams was an awful one. I already had enough trouble falling asleep as a kid, but the idea of falling asleep being what could kill me was destructive. I remember many nights where not even knowing, just Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-27652009057680414512010-10-30T15:00:00.000-07:002010-10-30T15:07:17.603-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #12. Invasion of the Body Snatchers12. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - This is an absolute classic! There weren't really many scary scenes, nothing that made me jump. But the overall idea of it all really got under my skin. That I could wake up and my mom and dad, wouldn't really be my mom and dad anymore, that scared me. I think it was also the first movie I ever saw that didn't have a happy ending, that the characters Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-58704060418511238372010-10-30T14:55:00.000-07:002010-10-30T15:07:43.791-07:0013 Movies that Scared the Crap out of Me - #13 Friday the 1th13. Friday the 13th - Here's one of my examples where just the poster of the film scared me. This one hung in my neighbor's house and I just had to know what happened at that summer camp! Why was that knife so bloody?! The neighbor kids told me about some of the death scenes in the film, which made me want to see it all that much more.When I finally saw the film, it didn't disappoint in Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-25135334172369556782010-06-06T20:20:00.000-07:002010-06-06T20:40:36.493-07:00George A. Romero's Survival of the DeadOn the night that Survival of the Dead opened in theaters, I watched the film on DVR, thanks to the sneak preview on HDNet Movies, (My favorite movie channel.) and live Tweeted my review of the film. Here is what I posted.• As far as I'm concerned, George Romero can make zombie movies forever. He was born to do it & by now the films feel like a cozy blanket.• First zombie head explosion Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-62522463954928727642010-04-11T17:10:00.000-07:002010-04-13T19:53:05.783-07:00Calvin Marshall ReviewI'll admit that I was very biased for this film going in, I was rooting for it to be great. They shot the film in my home town of Ashland, Oregon. I know many people that worked on it behind the scenes. The director and I both had films in a block of shorts in the Ashland Independent Film Festival about five years ago. His film, Wow & Flutter was by far the best of the bunch. I could tell Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-53039573243378696112009-12-12T11:49:00.000-08:002009-12-12T12:43:08.497-08:00Heavy Metal Parking LotHeavy Metal Parking Lot is a delicious slice of 1980's life. Filmed in the parking lot of a 1986 Judas Priest/Dokken concert. A collection of misfits and burnouts that has never been matched on film. There are so many classic lines. How many other 20-year-old, 16 minute documentaries do you and your friends still quote? None. Only this one. This film is a piece of history and belongs in the Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-32775049989289375902009-08-15T23:16:00.000-07:002009-08-16T14:25:14.331-07:00Breeders (Live Review)I'm watching this film, because I vaguely remember the cheesy video cover from when I was a kid, but never got to see the film. Now it's playing on MGM-HD, with the film's descripition reading - A detective and doctor tie rapes to bug-eyed aliens who are posing as humans in order to multiply. Sounds too hilarious to pass up. Opening few minutes - A prostitute leaves a taxi cab in a bad part of Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-74703830510045921782009-08-12T14:26:00.000-07:002009-08-12T15:30:06.924-07:00An open letter to those that oppose Obama's health plan(Way off the topic of movies, but I'm sick of being quiet about this.)Proverbs 14:31 “He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.”What is wrong with you America? You propose to be a Christian country, but you care nothing about the poor who can't afford insurance. I believe if Jesus actually came back, you wouldn't listen to what he hadRoss Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-71314945531745236402009-08-10T19:51:00.000-07:002009-08-10T19:57:10.852-07:00The Wolf Man Mash-up TrailerI'm getting pretty sick of the all the recent vampire love... I always thought they were a bunch of pussies compared to werewolves. So I'm really looking forward to the latest film of the genre The Wolf Man, starring Benicio Del Toro. With no trailer out, I thought I'd have a crack at creating my first trailer mash-up. I cut clips from a ton of werewolf flicks, like The Howling, American Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-15405732547921499792009-08-09T22:01:00.000-07:002009-08-09T22:13:25.042-07:00The state of What I WatchedIf you've been following this blog, you've obviously noticed the serious lack of movie reviews this summer. That mostly has to do with my new job. I haven't had the time to write, that I did in the not too distant past. I miss writing, but the few spare moments I have, I don't feel like taxing my brain any further. My 140 word Twitter reviews are about all I can handle. I've had some thoughts Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-13126504070917432852009-05-21T08:28:00.000-07:002009-05-21T14:23:38.557-07:00McG, Charlie's Angels & Terminator SalvationWhen it was first announced the internet fanboys went balistic that McG was directing a film in this beloved series. With everybody getting a chance to see Terminator Salvation today, I believe that everybody will be singing McG's praises tomorrow. He got written off early because of his goofy name and the cheesiness of his first film Charlie's Angels. But I'd like to be on the record to say Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630151093504143954.post-15743295588174444632009-04-20T15:03:00.000-07:002009-04-20T20:27:59.790-07:00SlaughterAs a huge horror fan, I've been really underwhelmed by the 8 Films to Die For series. When I first heard about it, I thought it was a wonderful idea. Then when I got a chance to actually watch the films themselves, I was very disappointed. I think that The Abandoned was the only film that was really worthwhile out of the first set of 8. When the second set of films came out, the first film I Ross Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695960005732475663noreply@blogger.com2