Monster's Ball is a 2001 American romantic drama film directed by German-Swiss director Marc Forster and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, and Heath Ledger. The film tells the story of a poor Southern woman who falls for a widowed prison-guard after the execution of her husband.
Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her leading performance, and, as of 2015, is the only African-American woman to do so.
Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton), a widower, and his son, Sonny (Heath Ledger), are corrections officers in a local state prison. They reside in Georgia with Hank's ailing father, Buck (Peter Boyle), a racist whose wife committed suicide.
Hank as a deputy warden oversees the execution of convicted murderer Lawrence Musgrove (Sean Combs). As explained to Sonny by Hank, at the diner bar the night before, the movie title is what the execution team calls that night's get-together. The proceedings prove too intense for Sonny, who begins to vomit and then collapses as he is leading Lawrence to the electric chair. Hank confronts Sonny in the jail's bathroom afterwards and slaps him for being so "soft" and ruining a man's last walk. At home, Hank attacks Sonny in his bed and tells him to get out of the house. Sonny grabs a gun, and threatens his father, who backs off. The confrontation ends in their living room with Hank at gunpoint, lying on the carpet, and Sonny in Buck's customary chair. Sonny asks his father if he hates him. After his father calmly confirms that he does and always has, Sonny responds, "Well I always loved you," and then shoots himself in the heart. Hank subsequently buries Sonny in the back garden with no real funeral because, as Buck observes, "He was weak." Hank subsequently quits his job, burns his uniform in the backyard, and locks the door of Sonny's room.
"Monster's Ball" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the American series The Vampire Diaries and the series' 94th episode overall. "Monster’s Ball" was originally aired on October 31, 2013, on The CW. The episode was written by Sonny Postiglione and directed by Kellie Cyrus.
After Professor Wes Maxfield (Rick Cosnett) killed Jesse (Kendrick Sampson) at the end of the last episode, this episode starts with him performing experiments on Jesse for unknown reasons and it seems that this is not the first one.
Meanwhile, Elena (Nina Dobrev) attempts to deal with Bonnie's (Kat Graham) death by distracting herself with her research about Megan's death and why Professor Maxfield covered the reason she died. While she ponders how to get the information she needs, she sees someone at Megan's grave. She approaches the stranger and asks him his name and if he knew Megan, but the man seems reluctant to answer her questions. It is later revealed that the man's name is Aaron (Shaun Sipos) and Professor Wes is his guardian. Wes asks Aaron to stay away from Elena and then, on an encounter with Elena at the Whitmore Historical Ball, he tells her to leave college and go back to Mystic Falls with her friends as there are people at Whitmore who are watching her.
A Monster's Ball match is a professional wrestling, hardcore match staged by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The key premise of the match was that all contenders are sequestered alone in a locked room without light, food or water for twenty-four hours before the match. This stipulation is intended to induce extreme feelings of aggression in the competitors. Once released, the wrestlers fight one another in a no disqualification match, with the usage of weapons encouraged. Victory can be achieved by pinfall or submission, with the match ending as soon as one wrestler is pinned or submits (there is no elimination format). The locked away stipulation was simply forgotten about, however, and not mentioned since the sixth one. It is now simply a Street Fight, as the match has to end inside the Ring. Many signature weapons include: Thumb tacks, "Janice" (Abyss' friend: A board filled with nails) and a bed of barbed wires.
Due to the hardcore nature of the match, the Monster's Ball typically features numerous high spots. There has been a total of fourteen official matches, plus eleven occurring on TNA non-televised "house shows" and one match dubbed "Monster's Ball" by a non-affiliated company, although it featured TNA wrestler Abyss. There is apparently no set number of wrestlers although it is generally four. The smallest official match was a one-on-one match at Bound for Glory (2009) and Slammiversary VIII.
Showed up in a red stretch hearse full of vampires
Blood red rims straight rollin' on flat tires
Screachin to a halt sparks spittin at tha paparazzi
Reload ya flash bulbs for the dead bodies
Severed bitches and human abominations
Lined up behind the velvet rope wavin they invitations
One by one they all pile in
Find they seats and wait for the ceremony to begin
When the lights fall its just like nightfall
Unable to see a single thing in front of ya eyeballs
All you can hear is screach from the audience
As the victims up in the pits gettin robbed of they innocence
Shit i love the terror in up in V.I.P
With these vampire bitches takin hits of mutant extasy
Spilt the blood the torch is lit
Compared to the monster's ball yo bash aint shit
Now who wanna go to the ball (I do)
The wicked ass monster's ball (thats who)
Tell me who wanna go to the ball (I do)
I bet you'll never see the door
Now who wanna go to the ball (I do)
The wicked ass monster's ball (thats who)
Tell me who wanna go to the ball (I do)
The horrors been here waiting just for you
Its all ready, my suit of skin is made of dead hooker hoes
With the tattoos still in tact, bitch take a look at those
I showed up, the dead woke when i pulled up
Walked a bloody red carpet, behind me it rolled up
Check my name at the gate bitch I'm V D peezy
I died for these tickets, it wasnt easy
They cost me my soul
Somebody said the reapers the DJ
Pitch dark is the dance floor and deadly the seeway
Creatures and hotties hot steppin over dead bodies
Demons above pissin fire on the party
Gimme a triple shot of snake blood 2 times
A ceremony of creeps and freaks and blew minds
Somebodies eyeball landed in my drink i chugged it
Cuz at this place we all up to kid
Spill the blood cuz the torch is lit
Compared to monster's ball yo bash aint shit
I pull up in a pickup truck with werewolves
Step out leanin on a cane made of deer hoves
Im covered in blood and holdin a grudge
Against these motherfuckers from who I am constantly judged
But down here homies tonights the night
We all come together and celebrate the end of ya life
Awarded for the evil and spite
Enogurated for the demonic insanity portrayed when i write
How can i say it, I'm just so elated to be here
Paparazzi flashin for pictuers, wish they would leave here
Carpet covered in carnage and red like liquorice
And every step you take your hearin the blood squish
I just saw a chick who was missin half of her cheek, chin, and her lip
Handin out free drinks and cigarettes
It must be startin, the torches are being lit
The monster's ball is the shit
And yo ass aint invited biyatch
My arm extended, elbow bent, hoes cant ignore
Clutchin to the past on pimp ridin across the floor
Floating er'where in sheer elegence
5 years expired still scrubbin still laborin
Make a hole in the dance floor its time for work
My bitch started booty up and MC walkin
Secret handshakin straight teen wolfin
Grabbin titties that feel like drips of puddin
But you gotta love it, its invite only
Checkin my neck for vampire bites on me
Can't get the fuckin hustle started though
Come on man less limbs missin on Vietnam veterins
I seen Dr.Jeckle spiking the punch with formaldahyde
Backing down got smacked by Mr. Hyde
Without an invite mother fucka, don't come
Monsterous balls in your mouth, get the fuck on bitch
Come on come on
Monster's Ball
{All the people dead all the people bloody