Chris Byrd

Chris Byrd vs Andrew Golota 11"x17" Framed Poster
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This 11"x17" framed poster is from "Chris Byrd vs Andrew Golota" (2004)

Horror Collector's Set: Four Film Collection
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BLOODY MARY
When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary - a supposed urban myth - the slaughter begins. First, a young nursing assistant disappears, her body never found. Now, patients are turning up dead - battered beyond recognition, soaked in blood, their eyes ripped out. Mary's wrath has begun. Freed from her eternal prison behind the mirror's reflection, she unleashes a murderous, maniacal fury upon the asylum. Moving at will through mirrors, she strikes when her victims are unsuspecting, defenseless, and alone. Bloody Mary's legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.

MORTUARY
In the small town of Santa Loraina, California, the decrepit, long-abandoned Fowler Funeral Home has become a local legend. As the story has it, Zeb Fowler bought the land to start up a ranching business, but something killed off all the cattle. To make ends meet, Zeb became the town mortician, and the Fowler house was turned into a funeral home - complete with a cemetery for a yard. But the strangest part of the story is the Fowler's son Bobby, whose face was so hideously disfigured it was hidden beneath a burial shroud. At age eight, Bobby mysteriously vanished, and ten years later his parents were found murdered - their faces smashed in. Locals believe that Bobby is still alive. Today, the Fowler Funeral Home is the stuff nightmares are made of - backed-up sewage pooling in the yard, a house of filth, decay, coffins, embalming equipment, and a strange black fungus growing on everything - and now the Doyle family is moving in. Having recently lost her husband, Leslie Doyle (Denise Crosby) is relocating her two children, Jonathan (Dan Byrd) and Jamie (Stephanie Patton), to Santa Loraina so she can become the town's new mortician. But the Doyles have no idea of the horror that they're in for. Soon they'll uncover what happened to the Fowlers - what evil inhabits the grounds of their estate and what happens to anyone who steps foot there...

MEMORY
Imagine accidentally ingesting a strange powder and being haunted by nightmarish visions - memories of a shadowy predator who abducts young girls. That's what happens to Dr. Taylor Briggs (Billy Zane BloodRayne, Titanic) when he is exposed to a mysterious drug while lecturing in Brazil. Forced to relive the dark, twisted memories of a killer, Dr. Briggs embarks upon a lone journey to unlock the mystery of a past that is not his own - and find a killer whose horrifying work may not be over... A mind-bending, psychological thrill-ride, Memory will make you question everything you experience - right up to a surprise twist ending that will rock the very core of your reality. Co-starring Tricia Helfer, Ann-Margret, and Dennis Hopper.

SALVAGE
Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginably brutal death - and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work - where it all began - untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...

All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: A to Z, Vol. 5
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Every volume of this hardcover series of Official Handbooks has been great. This volume is especially informative because it has profiles on Iron Man and the Hulk, the stars of their own blockbuser movies this past summer. Highly recommended for Marvelites and those looking to increase their knowledge of everything Marvel.

The Journeyman
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As a fan of Westerns for over 60 years,I never tire of them.As a kid,every Saturday afternoon we watched Westerns in the local Cinema; though we called it the theatre. That was the era of Roy Rogers,Gene Autry and my favorite,The Durango Kid.In those days the local theatre had a different Western every Friday and Saturday.Most of them were in B&W,but color was just starting.
These Westerns were always straight forward,you always knew who the good guys and the bad guys were,and the good guys always won. There were no hidden messages or weirdness to these yarns at all.Lots of man to man fistfights,lots of gunfights,stagecoach and railroad chases and ,crashes and robberies.The Army often arrived in the nick of time to the accompanyment of bugles and the Injuns always got the worst of it. Settlers got hit pretty hard ;but in the end,Good always won out over Bad,and the ending was happy.The hero always lived to fight another day .The soundtracks were excellent.
The comparison with this movie,and what we got during the times of "High Noon","Shootout at the OK Corral","Big Valley" John Wayne, an later with the "Spaghetti Westerns" couldn't be greater.
In this Western you are going to meet actors and characters you've never heard of ;that is except for Willie Nelson and if you blink your eye,you might miss him all together.If you didn't see his name in the credits;you might even say to yourself,"Gee,that old guy looked like Willie"
Apparently Willie drove 10 hours to get to the location where the movie was shot.That had to be 9 hours longer than he spent ther during the filming. doubt if he even stayed overnite.IIt would have made no difference to the movie if Willie or anyone else had played the role.He must have owed them a favor to get his name on the credits.
To say the movie was low budget ,is an understatement. One could believe that the cost of renting and feeding the horses and travel to the site must have been the major expenses involved.oh yeah,then there was the cost of the film.
The storyline is about as simple as one can imagine,the soundtrack is even simpler;,any historical connection is absent,but the scenery and and quality of the color and images is pretty good.
When watching the film,the viewer has to pay pretty close attention to what is going on or else he'll lose the train of thought in the story.The movie is a mental exercise as much as anything else and ,though I haven't done it ;one should really watch it a few times to really figure what it is really all about.
As for this fan of Westerns,give me the" old stuff" like Wyatt Earp and ,Tombstone" "Lonesome Dove"," Pale Rider","The Good,the Bad and the Ugly",and actors like Lee Van Clef,and Eastwood;or eventhe kind of thing we got in the great "Deadwood" series. This movie would be more suitable to what I might describe as a "Mental Western".