Goodreads has Lost All Crediblity

Ok, people, Goodread has lost all credibility. They are allowing cyberstalkers to write whatever crap they want and won't delete these troll reviews when I flag them. Ok, writers of the internet take a good look and ask yourself if you can trust an organization that allows crap like this? Goodreads fucking clean house assholes! This is supposed to be a review of Symphony of Death Part 1: Robert Diablo:

Harvey Ellison rated it did not like it
Beware author is a pervert and likes sexually harrassing 18 year old boys. I worked at McDonald's with the author. McDonald's hires mentally ill people which is great but this guy is mentally ill in a diffrent way as he pretends he's a famous author but anyway I trained Bill as he asked us to call him on dishes and he would bump into me and go excuse me but I would feel his hand on my ass. He kept telling us he worked this job only for research for his next book which was bullshit as his sister actually brought him a bag of adult diapers one day cause he forgot to bring them with him. I think he worked there for the discount. I even saw him eat burgers out of the trash. One day I went out to the dumpster for a trash run and Bill is out there well he turns around and has his penis stuffed between two buns and says hey Billamigo want to try my McPickle? I quit on the spot. I understand he has since been fired for stealing burgers.

Goodreads you have lost all your credibility as a reader and author resource. Clean up your act. 

Authors are being stupid and missing an opportunity with the Corona Virus

By William Pattison

I'm blown away by how stupid writers are being in regard to this pandemic situation. The majority of them I've conversed with are saying they are avoiding doing any writing based on the Corona Virus. They state that there is no market for fictional stories related to this subject. I think these people are idiots. Yes, they are right that there is no market currently, but there will be. Why, as a writer wouldn't you want to capture the essence of this experience? How better to capture it than when you are actually experiencing it? I'm currently working on a short story related to the lockins. It is a dark comedy piece but it is definitely using the current situation as inspiration. The fact is we as writers have a responsibility to use our skills to take a snapshot of this time, like so other writers in the past.

Cyber Stalkers are lying to the public and committing fraud...

This is William Pattison the real and only Eric Morse and author of The Camp Crystal Lake Novels. I want to make it clear that for the past two years Eric Hyde and a bunch of cyber-stalkers have been committing fraud. They created a fictional author named Dan Foxx and have gone around changing Friday the 13th wikis and websites stating that this fictional person is, in fact, Eric Morse. Don’t be fooled by their bullshit. All it takes is checking out Dan Foxx’s Facebook page to see that most of his pictures are doctored. The cyber-stalkers have taken pictures of me and pasted the person they use for Dan Foxx’s face over mine. They have also used a banner I had for Martinsville Horrorfest and doctored it to use as a fake promotional banner for a fake book signing that never happened. Also, they have used my birthday as Dan Foxx’s birthday and used my sister and my niece’s names mockingly as Dan Foxx’s daughters.

The most recent bunch of bullshit is the wiki site Fandom blocked me from correcting the information on their public access synopsis on my books. Eric Hyde and his buddies changed my name on the biography of the writer to Dan Foxx and put that he had a wife named Kathleen and used my sister and my niece’s names as his children. I corrected all this. Well, a couple of days ago I went on there and found I was blocked and that someone changed the biography to read that “there is a dispute in regard to who is author Eric Morse. Dan Foxx and William Pattison both claim to be the author.” Excuse me? Any idiot with a little research could find out that my name has been all over the internet as being Eric Morse since the 90s, whereas Dan Foxx just suddenly appeared out of nowhere two years ago claiming to write my books. I think the logical assessment should be clear, but Fandom would rather support the lie.

So, Eric Morse fans, support the real author of The Camp Crystal Lake Novels and denounce this fictional creation of the cyber stalkers and Eric Hyde.

Honestly, the human race is in grave danger of drowning in stupidity instead of Corona Virus….

The human race is in grave ­danger. Thousands of people are showing severe symptoms already and there is no known cure.

No, not coronavirus, but sheer stupidity.

Never have so many brain cells been sacrificed on the altar of toilet paper fever. Come on people, what is that about?

Why, when you’re warned you may get a (for most folk, mild) respiratory tract infection do you instantly think what you really need in your life is industrial ­supplies of toilet rolls?

On what planet does that even begin to make sense? (Okay, possibly Uranus). It’s not as if our sexy new version of flu gives you a runny nose. It’s mainly a dry cough and fever.

The only reason you may need that much TP is because you’ve stockpiled baked beans and canned prunes too. Which is probably highly likely.

A vaccine for Covid-19 is already being tested and, like every other flu before it, we will soon have this particular bug under control. But, alas, being a sheep-minded moron is terminal.

Those efficient German types actually have a word for panic buying – hamsterkauf. It says what it does on the tin (probably tomatoes because they’re being stockpiled too). Hamsters hoard stuff in their cheeks. They also have very small brains. Go figure.

On International Women’s Day footage of females fighting over loo rolls in an Australian supermarket went viral.

Each of them had shopping carts full of the stuff. More than they’ll ever need in a month of Sundays, let alone the one or two weeks we’re all supposed to be now sofa surfing in front of Netflix.

Curiously not one of them had any food. Which means they’ll starve to death surrounded by a fortress of pulped trees and cardboard tubes.

If toilet roll is plain bonkers, shall we add dried pasta to the mix? Supermarkets have also seen their shelves stripped of one of the most disgusting foodstuffs known to mankind. Even if you do cook it properly it’s still a glutinous mess of beige stuff.

Plus it’s from Italy. You know the country were EVERYONE is dying!! (They’re not, but trying to keep up the tradition of reacting like this is a zombie apocalypse).

So if you do have cupboards groaning with penne and fusilli you might want to give every piece a wipe down with the buckets of hand sanitiser you’ve also hoarded.

Which is where it really does get idiotic. Because if you’re one of those idiots who have cleared the shelves of stuff to decontaminate your hands with you’re depriving everyone else.

Which means they’ll be wandering around happily infecting us all. Yay, congratulations on that one, you utter pile of pathetic shit (Damn! No toilet paper!)

Even worse are those who have purchased every painkiller they can get their freshly scrubbed paws on. Look, people are ill with other stuff, especially little kids. Depriving them of things really does make you a grade-A selfish wazzock.

There is absolutely no defense for bulk buying. If we all kept our heads and just went about our everyday shopping business we’d all be perfectly able to purchase what we need.

But this applies to almost every aspect of this latest panic pandemic. Rather than all the deliberately scaremongering headlines and ­reports I’d love to see a story telling me how many people who have contracted coronavirus survive. Thousands.

The situation will get worse, as any outbreak of winter flu does. It always hits a peak.

BUT it is down to every single one of us to keep calm and carry on. Nine out of 10 people recover.

Respiratory diseases are responsible for killing thousands of people every year. Yet did that send you into a tailspin of toilet rolls and pasta? No. So can we all stop being hysterical halfwits and get a grip. Just wash your hands first, okay?

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Review Rabid (2019)

Rabid (2019) Review

By William Pattison

  

Gore and Scare everyone! It is now my pleasure to once again review a film done by The Twisted Twins, Jen and Sylvia Soska. The film in question is the remake of David Cronenberg masterpiece Rabid, a very challenging thing to do.

Rabid tells the story of Rose (played excellently by Laura Vandervoort) who is a meek introverted and rather plain aspiring fashion designer who is working under the iron hand of fashion mogul Gunter (played by Mackenzie Gray). Rose’s adopted sister and best friend Chelsea (played by Hanneke Talbot) tries to help Rose get out of her shell by getting her a date with fashion photographer Brad (played by Benjamin Hollingsworth). While at the party Rose goes to the restroom to quell her anxiety caused by being with Brad and being at the party. While sitting in a bathroom stall she hears two shallow model twins (played perfectly by Jen and Sylvia Soska) talking shit about her and laughing about how her sister had to talk Brad into going out with her. This is enough for Rose. Upset she tries to leave riding her scooter. She doesn’t watch where she’s going and gets hit by a car. After she wakes in the hospital to find the lower part of her face disfigured and her intestine damaged so she would never eat normally again. Luckily an experimental surgeon who was obsessed with transhumanism offers Rose a chance to be healed through a unique stem cell procedure. The result is that Rose’s face and body are completely healed, though the doctor has her drinking special nutrient drinks as part of her recovery. Unfortunately, for Rose she doesn’t realize she is the carrier of a new strain of rabies that has a shorter incubation period. Also, she finds she has strange dreams and a hunger for blood. Oh, and not to mention the worm-like appendage with a needle-like point that comes out through her mouth and armpit. Now the city is in danger of being overcome with the new rabies plague and Rose is the cause.

Now comes the part you’ve been waiting for…what I thought about this film. Well, first off obviously this film is nowhere near the masterpiece that the original Rabid is. There just was no way that Jen and Sylvia Soska could outdo Cronenberg. Cronenberg is a horror master and he has far more education, skill, and pure artistic genius than The Twisted Twins could ever muster. But I will say that as a remake and homage to David Cronenberg’s work the Soskas film is not bad. I honestly have to say this the best film they’ve done in the horror genre. This film is solid. The ladies' use of pace, shock, and gore value were matured, unlike their earlier attempts. I was glad they stuck to classic practical makeup FX rather than CGI, like they did in See No Evil 2. Also, as much as the red doctors' gowns and gloves gave me a red light in the trailer, but when I saw it in the context of the film itself it worked excellently and really pushed the fact that the doctor was like a cultist. Also, the ending is royally Cronenberg and kind of reminded me of The Brood.

Since I was first introduced to the twins years ago, when they were promoting their film Dead Hooker in a Trunk, a film I loved, I’ve been royally disappointed in the films they’ve done since. I felt the films for the most point felt shallow and lacking the spark I saw in Dead Hooker. With Rabid I see that the girls have matured as filmmakers and in the case of this film took the time to really craft a film that shows the potential I saw in those fresh film students I knew who were running around in bars showing their first film. This was the work I was waiting to see come from them. I hope they take these words to heart and continue to craft their film rather than just throwing things out quick and not putting the love into the work. That is the lesson you should get from David Cronenberg. He puts everything into his art and never compromises. One little suggestion for Jen and Sylvia…if you could please go back to your roots in a future project. Leave the shallow world of social circles and give the fans a well-crafted grindhouse horror film, like of like your own From Dusk Till Dawn. I’d like to see a bit of grit and humor again. Congratulations on your achievement ladies.

If I was to rate this film from a 1 to 5 rating I would give Rabid a hard 4.

Hey Internet, It’s William and here is what Eric Hyde and my haters wanted suppressed….

Ok, so, as you all know the new episode of my podcast An Awakening of Horror was pulled by both Facebook and Youtube because a certain person named Eric Hyde complained about it and said it was harassment focused on him. But here is the truth, horror fans. The truth is that Eric wanted to mute the fact that I proved him and his buddies wrong on a supposed wrong they accused me of. That being that I stole the idea for my short story Robert Diablo from a treatment the Soskas sisters wrote for a screenplay they had intended to do after American Mary. Well, the Soskas didn’t do their story, which was simply called Bob, after American Mary. Nope. They sold out to Vince McMann and all thoughts of Bob disappeared. Yep, They had See No Evil 2 that they were doing and they had bigger projects in their heads than the quirky tale of a morose person and their friend who was a demon from hell.

Honestly, I think they made a mistake doing American Mary over Bob. American Mary is humorless and negative, where Bob would have been a nice multi-layered dark comedy.

So, honestly when I thought about throwing together and writing a bunch of my old horror treatments I thought I’d take that idea I thought had merit and shouldn’t be wasted. So, I decided to develop it myself.

But here is the point, people. I did nothing wrong. In fact stuff like this happens all the time in the entertainment industry.

What Eric and his buddies want to ignore is that treatments and ideas can’t be copyrighted. Scripts and completed movies can, but not ideas.

Here is a prime example that you people may remember. It is the case of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5. Creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, went to Paramount Studios to try and sell them the idea for Babylon 5. Paramount wasn’t interested, but a couple years later Paramount used Stracznski’s idea for Babylon 5 to create Deep Space Nine. Of course, just after Paramount launched Deep Space Nine Straczynski got the backing to develop and put Babylon 5 on TV. Well, there you have it. You have two TV series based on the same idea and no one is suing anybody. Also, we have two unique and individual series.

It is the same with Robert Diablo. I took the Soskas idea and developed it. I added a lot to it. In Bob the morose was not the heir to a billion dollar business. Also the morose character wasn’t being held in jail having been accused of a murder. Also, and more importantly my story is told from the perspective of the psychiatrist the family lawyer hires to evaluate the morose character and prove his friend Robert is a figment of his imagination. My story is only on the most basic level like the Soskas’ Bob and that’s it. I breathed life into it. I gave it substance.

And, to make a long explanation short (right) another thing that blows away the haters is that Robert Diablo is a book, not a screenplay. If eventually it does it won’t matter either because it will be a screenplay based on the story I developed, not the Soskas.

So, there you have it. This is the real truth that Eric Hyde didn’t want put out, but now it is.

It is the same with my work on the treatments for Star Trek II and III. The treatments don’t really matter. They are the beginning. It is the finished script and who writes that that matters. But Eric and the haters want to make mountains out of mole hills. No one really cares, except them so they can paint me in a negative light. Don’t believe the bullshit. These people lie so much they wouldn’t know the truth if it fell on them like a tone of bricks. Enough said on this….

Review: Land of Smiles, aka Thai-Sanity

Review: Land of Smiles, aka Thai-Sanity

By William Pattison

For my review this time a have a new film by Australian director Bradley Stryker, Land of Smiles.

The film centers on a girl named Abby (played by Alexandra Turshen). Abby has just gotten out of college and is ready to start her life. Her best friend, Jen (played by Jen L. Burry), wants to take Abby on vacation to purge her inhibitions, since Abby is a bit of the good girl type. Abby tells Jen she doesn’t want to go. This starts an argument. Abby tells Jen it has nothing to do with Abby’s boyfriend Brad. Jen walks off in a huff. Abby ends up going home to find Brad having sex with another girl. Abby shoots them both in the face with pepper spray. Then we see Abby on a plane alone to Thailand, not a good idea. Once she gets to Thailand Abby meets documentary filmmaker Ben (played by Keenan Henson) and his girl Jewel (played by Caitlin Cromwell, aka Caitlin Stryker). The threesome decide to travel around Thailand together because Ben has been all over the island and knows the best places. Then they add an Australian, Dale (played by Bradley Stryker) and Penny (played by Krista Donargo) It is around this time that Abby receives a video that is handed to her by a stranger. The video shows her friend Jen tied up and painted up in clown makeup. There is a man with her in a yellow jumpsuit and a disturbing clown mask. The man tells Abby that if she doesn’t play his game and do as he says that he will cut Jen to pieces with an electric saw. He tells Abby not to tell Ben or Jewel as well. Abby immediately goes to Ben and Jewel and shows them the video. Ben tells her not to worry because he figures it is Jen pulling a trick on Abby to help get her out of her shell. He backs this up by showing her a couple of videos of people pulling a similar trick. Abby doesn’t believe him and wants to get the police involved. Ben reminds Abby that the Thailand police are corrupt will only help if they are paid enough. He suggest she just go along with the game and that he is sure it’s all a big joke. The next day Abby is given another not from the clown masked man. He tells her that now that she has told Ben and Jewel they must play the game too and if any of them fail to go by the rules Jen will suffer. They decide not to tell Dale or Penny what’s going on, since they don’t want them involved. It is a little bit later that they find out this is all no joke when they find Penny, painted up in clown makeup, murdered in a motel covered in sheets with clown scrawl over them with blinking green, red, and blue Christmas lights as well. It is also soon after that they receive a finger in a package and a pendent Abby gave Jen. Now the game has become serious and the tension builds to the twist at the end.

I have to say that this is a very well done psychological horror film that also exploits the setting very well. You have an American tourist in a strange country where she can’t even count on the police for help. Bradley counters the incredible beauty if Thailand with it’s darker underbelly.

The actors give excellent performance, especially Alexandra Turshen and Keenan Henson as Ben. Bradley Stryker adds a lot to the film as Dale as well.

Of course, now we got the downside of the film. I honestly did not think the clown motif worked well with the setting. I know clowns have been the big thing the last few years with the clown sightings and attacks all over the globe. Also I understand that clown masks are the easiest thing to find, but I just don’t see clowns and Thailand as a good match. It all looked cheap to me and thrown in. The backgrounds in the videos of the clown who was supposedly keeping Jen in a secret place in Thailand didn’t match up with the rest of the film. Also, the big twist and reveal could have been done far better. I was less than impressed with the execution and it brought down a really good build up. Though I doubt Bradley Stryker is going to read this review, I hope he does a better job ending his next film.