Supernatural: Season 1 - Episode 1: 'Pilot' TV Episode Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

One of my favorite shows that I really enjoyed watching when I was a kid was, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'... Now I will admit that being apparently one of the few fans of the original movie, that I had not initially got in to the show, but, ultimately I really was glad that I did, because that show besides the awesome effects, talent and the like, also had a truly awesome story line that expanded well beyond just the basic story line of a woman that had been chosen to fight the forces of darkness on her own...

I mean don't get me wrong, all of that was there but that show also dealt with a lot complex social issues that people of that day and age had to deal with... And where as the concept behind Supernatural is inherently different then Buffy was, it was also similar in that instead of a group of people dealing with complex social issues while fighting the forces of Darkness, Supernatural, had more to deal with the issues of how 2 lone hunters of the forces of Darkness and how they survive in a world that requires people essentially to conform to survive!

And that is just one of many reasons why this show really was a lot of fun!

Now as for the Pilot episode. This episode was written by: Eric Kripke (Revolution) and Directed by: David Nutter (The X-Files). Starring: Jared Padalecki (Friday The 13th), Jensen Ackles (Dark Angel), Sarah Shahi (Life). Adrianne Palicki (Red Dawn), Samantha Smith (Transformers), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen), and Steve Railsback (The Stunt Man).

This episode starts off 22 years earlier in the small town of Lawrence Kansas...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A young, 'Winchester' family before they knew what was about to happen...[/caption]

You see during this time the Winchester family is your average every day family... A husband and wife couple with 2 sons... All of this changes in the blink of an eye during one night that none of them will ever forget!

You see after putting young Sam and Dean to sleep, their mother. 'Mary' (Samantha Smith) looks in on her baby and sees a man that she mistakes for her husband standing by the crib... Once she realizes that the man in her baby boy's room is not their father, Mary runs up to his room to confront him and screams out!

John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Mary's husband, and the kids father was fast asleep during all of this in front of the TV, but when he hears Mary scream out, he runs up stairs and notices something in Sam's room... Mary is hanging suspended from the ceiling, when all of a sudden the fire consumes the room, and the Winchester boys have to escape!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="452"] Sam (Jared Padalecki) & Dean (Jensen Ackles) as they are working on their first case together years after the fateful incident in Lawrence![/caption]

Years later, Sam (Padalecki) and Dean (Ackles) have grown up with their father giving them para-military training so that all 3 of them can go out and get the son of a bitch that killed his wife and their mother so many years ago!

The only problem is that Sam has left the  family business to pursue a legal career and is currently in college at Stanford, and Dean and their father have essentially disconnected from Sam... That is until John disappears and Dean enlists Sam's help in finding him!

In the end this series is an awful lot of fun... This episode had a lot of potential, but was not the best of the series... Don't get me wrong, it truly was a fun episode, and I thought the struggle for Sam between going after his father Vs. staying at School was quite fascinating... And the special effects when it came to the pyrotechnics in the first scene when Mary is burned up was really well made... But the truth is, is that I didn't like the way this episode ended... And I know that with the only problem I have being the ending shouldn't be a huge issue, but it is!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="624"] This episode has some truly awesome special effects![/caption]

You see I am not a fan of the cheap way of doing things... the almost, 'Jersey Shore' way of doing things... What I mean is, is that I liked the fact that ultimately Sam made the decision, but this whole change thing, I don't believe it, and I am also convinced that if it were me and my girlfriend died that I would not be one of the most happiest people in the world... Angry, Sad, whatever, in some way you would see it on my face... But Sam on the other just kind of jumped back in to his career... And all that I just am not convinced would have went down the way it did!

In the end this show is a lot of fun, and even this episode is pretty solid, and I suspect that if you keep up with the series that you might find this show to be a lot of fun... I did, and you might to!

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Ed Gein... Movies He Inspired!

Unless you are an extreme horror movie fan or some one who does research on serial killers, then I doubt you would have heard of Ed Gein...

Well first of Ed Gein is one of the worst serial killers there is, yet he is also one of the most prolific serial killers in history... Why is that? Well besides the fact that he murdered only 2 people, and besides the fact that Ed Gein was more or less obsessed with his mother, he was also known to have made furniture and what not out of human body parts, as well as also having been known to have started making a woman costume out of human skin, to arrange some strange rituals... And yet he was a nice guy that lived as a hermit out in the middle of no where... Sound familiar?

It should, you see, one of the biggest contributions that Ed Gein contributed to the world, is what he contributed to the horror movie genre!

[caption id="attachment_1415" align="aligncenter" width="520"] Ed Gein, after the truth about hos gruesome life came to be known![/caption]

The first of these movies is, Psycho (1960), you see this movie was based on the book by author Robert Bloch who based his story mostly on Ed Gein's case, in that Psycho told the story of a reclusive young man by the name of, 'Norman Bates', who lived out at his mostly empty Motel, and who was obsessed with his overly possessive mother, and how after he kills a woman one night, the world that he had created for himself, had started spiraling out of control!

[caption id="attachment_1416" align="aligncenter" width="597"] Anthony Perkins as, 'Norman Bates' in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece, 'Psycho' (1960)[/caption]

The next one that I thought that I would mention here is, Three On A Meathook (1974). Now this is another movie that is loosely based on the story of Ed Gein, with the exception that it appears that the mother is no longer in the picture, and the father appears to become obsessed with the son, when the son starts pulling away!

[caption id="attachment_1417" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A scene from, Three On A Meat Hook (1974)![/caption]

And another one that I thought that I would mention here (One of the first movies that maybe the first most closest adaptions of the old Ed Gein story), a movie that I found to be a lot of fun, (and if you are huge B Horror fan I think you might to), that movie is, Deranged: Confessions Of A Necrophile (1974). This movie tells the story about how after the death of the mother that he loved so dearly, that this old hermit farmer, becomes a grave robber and murderer, and even goes so far to try and keep and preserve his mother's corpse!

[caption id="attachment_1418" align="aligncenter" width="600"] This guy is taking the term, 'getting a new look,' a little to far!'[/caption]

The next movie that I thought that I would say is more closely based on the story of Ed Gein is not so much a movie as it is a character in a movie, and that is the character of, 'Jame (Buffalo Bill) Gumb' (Played by: Ted Levine) from the award winning movie, Silence Of The Lambs (1991), a movie which has FBI trainee, 'Clarice Starling' (Played by: Jodie Foster) and how she enlisted the help of a captured serial killer in an effort to capture a serial killer by the name of, 'Buffalo Bill' a loner, that is kidnapping women in an effort to make a woman suit out of the women that he has murdered... And has gotten the FBI's attention when his latest kidnapping victim is the daughter of U.S. Senator!

[caption id="attachment_1419" align="aligncenter" width="604"] Ted Levine as, 'Jame (Buffalo Bill) Gumb' in, 'Silence Of The Lambs' (1991)![/caption]

The last one that I wanted to mention here is, Ed Gein: D.D.S. (2013). Now this movie hasn't been released yet, but this movie will tell the story of how a witches coven will resurrect Ed Gein using an old haunted dental chair that had been taken from the Hospital that he spent the last years of his life at.

[caption id="attachment_1421" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Ed Gein will be resurescted later this year to have some more fun in, 'Ed Gein: D.D.S.' (2013)[/caption]

And then of course there are the movies that are actually bio-pics of Ed Gein and his story, included in this is:

1. Ed Gein (2000), a movie which stars, Steve Railsback (Disturbing Behavior) as Gein.

2. Ed Gein: The Ghoul Of Plainfield (2004) a documentary on Gein himself.

3. Ed Gein: The Butcher Of Plainfield (2007) a horror movie that stars, Kane Hodder (Jason X)

4. Ed Gein: The Musical (2010) a movie which stars Dan Davies (West Of The Thunder)

The last area that I thought that I would mention here are just a few movies that took some element of Ed Gein and what he did for their film:

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) used Gein as the inspiration for, 'Leatherface', as well as the fact that Leatherface and his creepy family are on a creepy out of the way farm that is decorated with furniture that was made from Human remains.

2. Motel Hell (1980), used the whole creepy killer farmer element that lives almost entirely out in the middle of no where, and kills people!

3. Maniac (1980) a movie that used the fact that the killer in this movie had an abusive mother, and that is why he kills women he deemed, 'un-clean'.

4. Ed And His Dead Mother (1993) in this movie the lead character who is mourning the loss of his mother that he has lived his entire life with, dies and ultimately he has brought back to life!

5. Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin (1994) tells the story of a crazy meat carver who lives on a farm by himself and goes out and kills people with car trouble for food... He also has an ornamental dead head.

6. House Of 1,000 Corpse (2003), now I suspect that when Rob Zombie was making this film, that he utilized the fact that Ed Gein would dress up in a woman suit and would dance in bizarre rituals at night as inspiration in this movie for the moment in the movie when the family dresses up (in real costumes) to sacrifice the remaining people that they had captured to, 'Doctor Satan'!

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