George A. Romero's "Martin"

For today’s Martin you will need to concentrate very hard, rack you brains for a while as the entry today does not have an immediately obvious connection to the Martin fraternity. In fact I  would recommend getting a reliable pen and a pad of paper to see if you can figure out the connection. It is a horror film, directed by George Romero, and it goes by the name of “Martin”. “EH LAD, just ‘Martin’” I hear you say, “Surely we’ve had that before”. I think not however as I trawled every book, magazine, journal and scrap of paper at the Martin County Library (http://www.martincountylibrary.org/) to see if it has been mentioned before. I expect someone will point out its previous existence and make me look stupid, but don’t worry, I’m used to it. I therefore propose that this film takes over from Sam Martin as the Forgotten Martin (sorry you only had this title for 90mins). Apparently in the film http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93547 , our brother Martin is a young man who goes to live with his cousin who just so happens to be a religious fanatic who thinks that that Martin is one in a long line of vampires that have somehow merged into his family line and he considers them to be "the shame of the family". Martin himself believes he is a vampire, but  “doesnt have fangs, sunlight doesnt kill him and crosses and garlic have absolutely no effect. He also doesnt have any of the powers of a vampire wich makes it extremely difficult for him to feed.”  Errrrrrrr mate – you ain’t a vampire, and even if you are one you’re a bit crap, seriously give it up now.  

The reviewer of the film apparently things that “Romero puts his usual stamp on this film by giving some social commentary” ..by asking the eternal questions such as “Is Martin really a vampire?”   Anyway it also has a IMDB entry and a wiki page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077914/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_(film)

As mentioned in the wikipedia page the film was rereleased to purely to conicide with the middle of “between Martinmass” in June 2010. To remind all great Martins about the Martin Fraternity, the re-release contained two special features while weren’t in anyway connected to the film:- of the LCM in various poses. I think the idea is that we all stick these on our walls and desks. sure I would recommend watching the conception of the LCM, and certainly not from a work computer.
 * 1) “Martin Photo Album” – this contains loads of pictures
 * 1) A documentary “Making Martin” .  However I am not