Month of Horror 8: The Hellworld Gospel Resurrection Legacy
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Nice. I was thinking about renting Car People (1942) last night, but my wife and I opted for the original horror anthology, Dead of Night (1945), instead. It was excellent, and while some of the stories were much spookier than others, it really set the standard for the sub-genre. (The famous ventriloquist sequence and circular framing device did not disappoint either.). I highly recommend the movie, and you can rent it on Amazon Prime for only $1.
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Two movies today:
My Boyfriend's Back - What a hidden gem this is! I gave it a chance because it was directed by Bob Balaban, who previously made Parents, a nutzoid movie I have a deep love for. This one isn't as brain-warping as Parents, but has a lot of similarities, including seemingly 1950s-esque parents who harbor a sick & twisted side. This movie's about a teen boy who is killed and his final words were asking a girl he has a crush on to the prom, she says yes, and after his funeral he crawls out of the grave to keep his date. A description can't really do this movie justice without ruining a lot of the comedy. But I thought it was pretty great! It's dumb, but it's a good dumb. Also featuring art by Neal Adams and an early performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman!
The Curse of the Werewolf - another Hammer classic! This one doesn't seem to get the attention that the Dracula and Frankenstein movies get, presumably because it doesn't have Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing in it. But it's a great one, right up there with The Curse of Frankenstein. It focuses a lot on werewolf-lore and successfully mixes gothic horror with a werewolf story.
My Boyfriend's Back - What a hidden gem this is! I gave it a chance because it was directed by Bob Balaban, who previously made Parents, a nutzoid movie I have a deep love for. This one isn't as brain-warping as Parents, but has a lot of similarities, including seemingly 1950s-esque parents who harbor a sick & twisted side. This movie's about a teen boy who is killed and his final words were asking a girl he has a crush on to the prom, she says yes, and after his funeral he crawls out of the grave to keep his date. A description can't really do this movie justice without ruining a lot of the comedy. But I thought it was pretty great! It's dumb, but it's a good dumb. Also featuring art by Neal Adams and an early performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman!
The Curse of the Werewolf - another Hammer classic! This one doesn't seem to get the attention that the Dracula and Frankenstein movies get, presumably because it doesn't have Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing in it. But it's a great one, right up there with The Curse of Frankenstein. It focuses a lot on werewolf-lore and successfully mixes gothic horror with a werewolf story.
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I played through all of Zombie Shooter and just did a write up in this year's Games Beaten thread. If you like top-down shooters with hordes of enemies and you just want to shoot zombies, it's not a bad choice. Plus it's going for cheap right now on GOG.
Anyway, movies..
The Last Winter
Concerns over climate change have brought us an interesting return to the eco-horror of the 1970s, and The Last Winter is one of those indie productions to attempt to tackle the subject. Here, a group of employees for the oil company North, Inc. are paired with a couple of researchers from a Greenpeace knock off to study the viability of drilling for oil in the Alaskan tundra. North plans to do it anyway, so they send their top dog, Ron Perlman, to make sure the Greenpeace guys go their way. Unfortunately, James LeGros happens to have ethics...and might be crazy too, as his studies have found the arctic is unseasonably warm. From there, everything goes crazy, and nature rebels.
Yep, it's got some of the isolation and paranoia of The Thing combined with the likes of films like Prophecy. Pretty much everybody is going crazy, but much of the worst of it isn't really shown. People disappear, and sometimes their corpses show back up. Or they die horribly, only for their corpses to vanish. Nobody can be trusted, because everyone is insane, and the planet is making sure to wipe out everyone else. This is one of those movies that ends on a cliffhanger, with a survive waking up in "civilization" only to discover nobody's still alive and the outside world has gone to hell. I liked it. It's cheap, but the folks in it were good, and as much as it does like to point out "Hey, climate change is bad," the heavy-handedness of the message is only a part of the point; the rest is that we're every bit as good at destroying ourselves all for the sake of pride.
The Exorcist III
The second Exorcist movie was a bizarre acid trip that just doesn't work. But The Exorcist III brings in George C. Scott as a homicide detective to investigate the possible ghost of a serial killer, and along the way he learns that possession can be used for disturbing effect. Exorcist III is so much better than Exorcist II. Hell, I liked it more than the original.
Whereas I laughed at The Exorcist, the investigative aspect of Exorcist III made it a much more compelling watch; I wasn't here for the religion, I was here for the police procedural with a supernatural twist. And what a crazy twist. For a movie that often sticks with static shots and a minimalist soundtrack, Exorcist III uses sound effects, lighting, and cramped angles along with the occasional hallucinatory image to really make an effective horror film. I love it. It leaves a lot of the worst up to imagination but still shows enough to tell you that something is truly frightening here. Yes, there are allusions to demons, but its the ghost of a man that's the worst thing here. There are jump scares, but they're well handled and never feel hamfisted. When gore is shown, its minimal, and quite possibly the most shocking kill is only implied.
I loved this. Seriously, this made my day.
Ring 0
This is a prequel to the Japanese Ring films, and it's basically a Japanese take on Carrie with enough thrown in to serve as a jumping off point for where the series went. Does it work? Well, it's actually pretty dull, and I found myself more bored with it than anything. If I had to use a single word to describe it, I'd say...."unnecessary." There are also problems, such as one journalist character who seeks to kill Sadako yet never has her reasons explained, as well as a troupe of actors that go full murderous lynch mob in about two seconds. I just...no.
31
Rob Zombie likes gore, vulgarity, and violence as spectacle, and 31 is pretty much exactly that. Also it's set in the 1970s, which is something else he loves. Basically a group of carnies get kidnapped and forced to try and survive 12 hours in a factory where people dressed as clowns all known as "-Head" hunt them down and try to murder them while a group of rich people dressed with all the excess of French nobility watch.
This is pretty much Rob Zombie preaching to the choir. If you like his brand of brutality and redneck weirdness, you'll probably enjoy 31. Much of it feel like violence for violence's sake, and it will please eager gore fans. Will it bring in new fans? Mmm...probably not. It's not quite as brutal as, say, his Halloween remake, and I never felt it quite reached the level of nightmarish perversity that was Lords of Salem.
For me, the real stand out here is Richard Brake as the ultimate killer clown, Doom-Head. He's sinister, malevolent, and sadistic, but with both an intelligence about him, a pride, and a strange sense of what might be considered honor. He's pure crazy, but in a more sophisticated way than all of the other, trashier -Heads. It's worth watching just for his bizarre antics and behavior. Beyond that...eh, it's a Rob Zombie movie. That's pretty much all one can say about it.
Anyway, movies..
The Last Winter
Concerns over climate change have brought us an interesting return to the eco-horror of the 1970s, and The Last Winter is one of those indie productions to attempt to tackle the subject. Here, a group of employees for the oil company North, Inc. are paired with a couple of researchers from a Greenpeace knock off to study the viability of drilling for oil in the Alaskan tundra. North plans to do it anyway, so they send their top dog, Ron Perlman, to make sure the Greenpeace guys go their way. Unfortunately, James LeGros happens to have ethics...and might be crazy too, as his studies have found the arctic is unseasonably warm. From there, everything goes crazy, and nature rebels.
Yep, it's got some of the isolation and paranoia of The Thing combined with the likes of films like Prophecy. Pretty much everybody is going crazy, but much of the worst of it isn't really shown. People disappear, and sometimes their corpses show back up. Or they die horribly, only for their corpses to vanish. Nobody can be trusted, because everyone is insane, and the planet is making sure to wipe out everyone else. This is one of those movies that ends on a cliffhanger, with a survive waking up in "civilization" only to discover nobody's still alive and the outside world has gone to hell. I liked it. It's cheap, but the folks in it were good, and as much as it does like to point out "Hey, climate change is bad," the heavy-handedness of the message is only a part of the point; the rest is that we're every bit as good at destroying ourselves all for the sake of pride.
The Exorcist III
The second Exorcist movie was a bizarre acid trip that just doesn't work. But The Exorcist III brings in George C. Scott as a homicide detective to investigate the possible ghost of a serial killer, and along the way he learns that possession can be used for disturbing effect. Exorcist III is so much better than Exorcist II. Hell, I liked it more than the original.
Whereas I laughed at The Exorcist, the investigative aspect of Exorcist III made it a much more compelling watch; I wasn't here for the religion, I was here for the police procedural with a supernatural twist. And what a crazy twist. For a movie that often sticks with static shots and a minimalist soundtrack, Exorcist III uses sound effects, lighting, and cramped angles along with the occasional hallucinatory image to really make an effective horror film. I love it. It leaves a lot of the worst up to imagination but still shows enough to tell you that something is truly frightening here. Yes, there are allusions to demons, but its the ghost of a man that's the worst thing here. There are jump scares, but they're well handled and never feel hamfisted. When gore is shown, its minimal, and quite possibly the most shocking kill is only implied.
I loved this. Seriously, this made my day.
Ring 0
This is a prequel to the Japanese Ring films, and it's basically a Japanese take on Carrie with enough thrown in to serve as a jumping off point for where the series went. Does it work? Well, it's actually pretty dull, and I found myself more bored with it than anything. If I had to use a single word to describe it, I'd say...."unnecessary." There are also problems, such as one journalist character who seeks to kill Sadako yet never has her reasons explained, as well as a troupe of actors that go full murderous lynch mob in about two seconds. I just...no.
31
Rob Zombie likes gore, vulgarity, and violence as spectacle, and 31 is pretty much exactly that. Also it's set in the 1970s, which is something else he loves. Basically a group of carnies get kidnapped and forced to try and survive 12 hours in a factory where people dressed as clowns all known as "-Head" hunt them down and try to murder them while a group of rich people dressed with all the excess of French nobility watch.
This is pretty much Rob Zombie preaching to the choir. If you like his brand of brutality and redneck weirdness, you'll probably enjoy 31. Much of it feel like violence for violence's sake, and it will please eager gore fans. Will it bring in new fans? Mmm...probably not. It's not quite as brutal as, say, his Halloween remake, and I never felt it quite reached the level of nightmarish perversity that was Lords of Salem.
For me, the real stand out here is Richard Brake as the ultimate killer clown, Doom-Head. He's sinister, malevolent, and sadistic, but with both an intelligence about him, a pride, and a strange sense of what might be considered honor. He's pure crazy, but in a more sophisticated way than all of the other, trashier -Heads. It's worth watching just for his bizarre antics and behavior. Beyond that...eh, it's a Rob Zombie movie. That's pretty much all one can say about it.
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Another two movies today:
The Devil's Candy - I didn't entirely know what this movie was about, I was expecting a heavy metal haunted-house movie. But really it's closer to a home-invasion/slasher type film? I've heard a lot of praise for it, and while it's a pretty decent movie, it's not that great. It took too long for the antagonist's menace to really be felt. I was assuming that there would be some sort of supernatural element and while there kind of is, it's way more subtle than what I'm used to. That's fine and all, but the overall feeling was a dampening of the horror effect.
Def by Temptation - A horror film with an all-black cast about a succubus (or a demon called "Temptation") killing men in NYC. This was a VHS I've owned since high school, watched once and long thought "I should revisit this" but was lukewarm enough for years to go by before I did. I used to be a Troma-fanatic and was under the impression that this was one has the reputation of being one of their better non-Lloyd-Kaufman-movies, but it left me cold when I first saw it. My expectations this time were rock-bottom but I was impressed! For what's obviously an actor's vanity project (written, directed, produced, and starring James Bond III) made with an absolute shoestring budget, distributed by one of the trashiest video companies out there, it shows some surprising restraint. The movie doesn't try to get too epic, the whole movie is fairly low-key without too much in the way of monster-effects or gore. Plus there's cinematography by Ernest Dickerson, who helped this movie look better than most Troma releases. It has it's problems, IMO mostly the "fornication is a sin" sex-negative attitude inherent in the story. And the presence of Samuel L. Jackson prominently featured on the video's box art shouldn't be taken too seriously, he's only in the movie for a few minutes. But this one impressed me. If it gets a blu-ray, I'll gladly upgrade from my old tape!
If I watched another horror movie tonight and doubled up tomorrow night, I'd have reached 31 horror films for the month. But I don't want to bog myself down with an arbitrary obligation! So I played more Resident Evil Zero. I'm playing on easy mode and I'm still scared because I'm a *total wuss* when it comes to survival horror games. But I still like them!
Oh and I finished season 2 of Tales from the Crypt! Some great episodes in this season, I think my favorite was The Ventriloquist's Dummy. I'll have to see the third season next October.
The Devil's Candy - I didn't entirely know what this movie was about, I was expecting a heavy metal haunted-house movie. But really it's closer to a home-invasion/slasher type film? I've heard a lot of praise for it, and while it's a pretty decent movie, it's not that great. It took too long for the antagonist's menace to really be felt. I was assuming that there would be some sort of supernatural element and while there kind of is, it's way more subtle than what I'm used to. That's fine and all, but the overall feeling was a dampening of the horror effect.
Def by Temptation - A horror film with an all-black cast about a succubus (or a demon called "Temptation") killing men in NYC. This was a VHS I've owned since high school, watched once and long thought "I should revisit this" but was lukewarm enough for years to go by before I did. I used to be a Troma-fanatic and was under the impression that this was one has the reputation of being one of their better non-Lloyd-Kaufman-movies, but it left me cold when I first saw it. My expectations this time were rock-bottom but I was impressed! For what's obviously an actor's vanity project (written, directed, produced, and starring James Bond III) made with an absolute shoestring budget, distributed by one of the trashiest video companies out there, it shows some surprising restraint. The movie doesn't try to get too epic, the whole movie is fairly low-key without too much in the way of monster-effects or gore. Plus there's cinematography by Ernest Dickerson, who helped this movie look better than most Troma releases. It has it's problems, IMO mostly the "fornication is a sin" sex-negative attitude inherent in the story. And the presence of Samuel L. Jackson prominently featured on the video's box art shouldn't be taken too seriously, he's only in the movie for a few minutes. But this one impressed me. If it gets a blu-ray, I'll gladly upgrade from my old tape!
If I watched another horror movie tonight and doubled up tomorrow night, I'd have reached 31 horror films for the month. But I don't want to bog myself down with an arbitrary obligation! So I played more Resident Evil Zero. I'm playing on easy mode and I'm still scared because I'm a *total wuss* when it comes to survival horror games. But I still like them!
Oh and I finished season 2 of Tales from the Crypt! Some great episodes in this season, I think my favorite was The Ventriloquist's Dummy. I'll have to see the third season next October.
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The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
Unnamable II picks up immediately after the events of the first movie. The police and paramedics take off with what remains of the Miskatonic students who were unfortunate enough to get trapped in the abandoned house. The only one left to their own devices is Randolph Carter, the student who managed to trap the demon creature below the earth. Carter wants to learn more about the incident and explore the underground tunnels surrounding the cursed house.
Carter coaxes one of the school’s professors to crawl around in the dirt with him and pretty soon they discover the monster is still alive. Using a contrived plot device, they manage to separate the demon from the woman it has possessed, but unfortunately for them, all that does it bring up a hell of a lot more problems than it solves.
It also throws in a ghost, because a murderous demon wasn’t enough, I guess.
So the first Unnamable ended up being a little silly. Unnamable II ends up being silly too, but it’s more silly in a way that the viewer can tell that the creators realized what they were doing was silly and just decided to go for it. The situation is hokey-er, the effects are hokey-er, the scientific pseudo-science is hokey-er...It’s a movie that’s clearly not taking itself 100% seriously. As a result, the dialogue ends up reflecting this.
For instance, when Carter and the professor (the wonderful John Rhys-Davies) find the demon trapped in the tunnels below the cemetery, the professor comes up with an idea. The demon is surely self preservational. So maybe if they do something to convince it that the host’s body is in danger, the demon will leave. Decent theory, doc. How do you plan on doing this? Why, let’s put the demon into insulin shock! And, oh look, I just happen to have a vial of insulin and a syringe in my pocket. Is he diabetic, who knows! Lets just stick the demon and hope the two entities separate. It’s only after they do this that Carter finally brings up the obvious: “Is that a good idea?” To which Gimli replies, “Uh, actually...no.”
Good job, dwarf. No wonder the elves don’t like you.
Surprisingly, their ridiculous experiment works and the demon flees the body, revealing a young Alyda Winthrop, the daughter of the fool who summoned the demon in the first place. This is the part of the film were the skin fans take notice, because Alyda spends a good chunk of the movie walking around stark naked, with strategically placed hair covering most of the important bits. I was actually really impressed with how long they pulled it off.
Anyway, Carter runs off with Alyda back to the school, because he’s interested in finding out what he can learn from a 300-year old woman, culminating in what I believe is the first and only time that I have watched two men in a movie try to sneak a naked woman into their dorm for purely innocent, scientific reasons.
Science!
From there, the movie turns into your typical monster flick, because, of course, the demon's still around and mad as all hell. There’s people running, witty commentary, an unnecessarily long chase scene, an amusing scene where one of Carter's friends tries to put clothes on Alyda, blood, guts
More guts than I thought there’d be, quite honestly.
It’s pretty much what you would expect from a movie like this, incompetent cops and all. What makes it a bit more fun is that it’s just campy enough to be amusing without being too much. Some of the dialogue is corny, but it’s balanced out by sincerity. There’s some overacting, but it’s also mixed in with some straight arrows. There’s a conveniently covered, naked woman running around, but half of the characters are so pretentiously proper that they do their best to try to ignore it. The movie walks a fine line, but it does it well.
I think what helped it, was that it moved the focus a bit away from the monster and its mystery (which had already been solved) and focused more on the characters. Most of them fit into tropes, but at least they were amusing tropes. I think my favorite was Debbie, who spent the first half of the movie as the quiet unassuming deputy, and then immediately went into Rambo mode when shit hit the fan. I liked Debbie. Debbie should have gotten more screen time. Had she not been up against an unkillable demon, she might have done alright for herself.
I’ll always remember you, Debbie, and your lack of anger management skills.
There’s was also this other guy I was fascinated by, but for completely different reasons. He looked like some sort of cross between Corey Feldman and Fabio’s little brother and every time he turned his head I couldn’t tell which one he resembled more. It was strangely hypnotic trying to figure it out.
I called him Not-So-Fabio
So Unnamable II ended up being a fun little romp. It’s intentionally ridiculous, mixing stuffy prep-school students with an unapologetically nude woman and a vengeful demon. None of the science it uses to explain what’s going on makes any sense, and they know it. But the practical effects are good and the monster’s design is still pretty tight. While the first movie was trying to more seriously pull of Lovecraft, this sequel just sort of goes off to do it’s own thing. It’s not the least bit frightening, but I don’t think it’s trying to be and since it’s related to Lovecraft I know that’s going to bug some people. It does have some other notable flaws as well. The soundtrack’s not the best, the editing could have used some more finesse and it suffers from early 90’s era special effects. The she-demon in question is also a little different than the first film. Her original portrayal was not only more sinister, but also more graceful, a surprising feat when considering the hooves. Here she just comes across as more of an unstoppable serial killer.
But even considering all that, I still found the movie pretty fun, flaws and all. It’s too bad it doesn’t look like it was received well. I may have enjoyed more adventures with Mr. Randolph Carter.
Unnamable II picks up immediately after the events of the first movie. The police and paramedics take off with what remains of the Miskatonic students who were unfortunate enough to get trapped in the abandoned house. The only one left to their own devices is Randolph Carter, the student who managed to trap the demon creature below the earth. Carter wants to learn more about the incident and explore the underground tunnels surrounding the cursed house.
Carter coaxes one of the school’s professors to crawl around in the dirt with him and pretty soon they discover the monster is still alive. Using a contrived plot device, they manage to separate the demon from the woman it has possessed, but unfortunately for them, all that does it bring up a hell of a lot more problems than it solves.
It also throws in a ghost, because a murderous demon wasn’t enough, I guess.
So the first Unnamable ended up being a little silly. Unnamable II ends up being silly too, but it’s more silly in a way that the viewer can tell that the creators realized what they were doing was silly and just decided to go for it. The situation is hokey-er, the effects are hokey-er, the scientific pseudo-science is hokey-er...It’s a movie that’s clearly not taking itself 100% seriously. As a result, the dialogue ends up reflecting this.
For instance, when Carter and the professor (the wonderful John Rhys-Davies) find the demon trapped in the tunnels below the cemetery, the professor comes up with an idea. The demon is surely self preservational. So maybe if they do something to convince it that the host’s body is in danger, the demon will leave. Decent theory, doc. How do you plan on doing this? Why, let’s put the demon into insulin shock! And, oh look, I just happen to have a vial of insulin and a syringe in my pocket. Is he diabetic, who knows! Lets just stick the demon and hope the two entities separate. It’s only after they do this that Carter finally brings up the obvious: “Is that a good idea?” To which Gimli replies, “Uh, actually...no.”
Good job, dwarf. No wonder the elves don’t like you.
Surprisingly, their ridiculous experiment works and the demon flees the body, revealing a young Alyda Winthrop, the daughter of the fool who summoned the demon in the first place. This is the part of the film were the skin fans take notice, because Alyda spends a good chunk of the movie walking around stark naked, with strategically placed hair covering most of the important bits. I was actually really impressed with how long they pulled it off.
Anyway, Carter runs off with Alyda back to the school, because he’s interested in finding out what he can learn from a 300-year old woman, culminating in what I believe is the first and only time that I have watched two men in a movie try to sneak a naked woman into their dorm for purely innocent, scientific reasons.
Science!
From there, the movie turns into your typical monster flick, because, of course, the demon's still around and mad as all hell. There’s people running, witty commentary, an unnecessarily long chase scene, an amusing scene where one of Carter's friends tries to put clothes on Alyda, blood, guts
More guts than I thought there’d be, quite honestly.
It’s pretty much what you would expect from a movie like this, incompetent cops and all. What makes it a bit more fun is that it’s just campy enough to be amusing without being too much. Some of the dialogue is corny, but it’s balanced out by sincerity. There’s some overacting, but it’s also mixed in with some straight arrows. There’s a conveniently covered, naked woman running around, but half of the characters are so pretentiously proper that they do their best to try to ignore it. The movie walks a fine line, but it does it well.
I think what helped it, was that it moved the focus a bit away from the monster and its mystery (which had already been solved) and focused more on the characters. Most of them fit into tropes, but at least they were amusing tropes. I think my favorite was Debbie, who spent the first half of the movie as the quiet unassuming deputy, and then immediately went into Rambo mode when shit hit the fan. I liked Debbie. Debbie should have gotten more screen time. Had she not been up against an unkillable demon, she might have done alright for herself.
I’ll always remember you, Debbie, and your lack of anger management skills.
There’s was also this other guy I was fascinated by, but for completely different reasons. He looked like some sort of cross between Corey Feldman and Fabio’s little brother and every time he turned his head I couldn’t tell which one he resembled more. It was strangely hypnotic trying to figure it out.
I called him Not-So-Fabio
So Unnamable II ended up being a fun little romp. It’s intentionally ridiculous, mixing stuffy prep-school students with an unapologetically nude woman and a vengeful demon. None of the science it uses to explain what’s going on makes any sense, and they know it. But the practical effects are good and the monster’s design is still pretty tight. While the first movie was trying to more seriously pull of Lovecraft, this sequel just sort of goes off to do it’s own thing. It’s not the least bit frightening, but I don’t think it’s trying to be and since it’s related to Lovecraft I know that’s going to bug some people. It does have some other notable flaws as well. The soundtrack’s not the best, the editing could have used some more finesse and it suffers from early 90’s era special effects. The she-demon in question is also a little different than the first film. Her original portrayal was not only more sinister, but also more graceful, a surprising feat when considering the hooves. Here she just comes across as more of an unstoppable serial killer.
But even considering all that, I still found the movie pretty fun, flaws and all. It’s too bad it doesn’t look like it was received well. I may have enjoyed more adventures with Mr. Randolph Carter.
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Faculty
This was actually pretty decent teen movie that makes fun of things like the "the thing" and body snatchers. CGI was bad but luckily there's wasn't too much of that and at least some of the monster effects were practical. The characters were likeable enough and the movie didn't take itself seriously which was a good thing. Not great but worth checking out.
And i think that wraps up the halloween season for me. I didn't manage to actually play any horror games (unless Prey counts) but i did manage to watch a satisfactory amount of horror movies and eventhough the season of horror is over i will keep up watching more because i'been really getting into old school horror movies again. There was a very long gap when i barely watched any but now my old love is resurrected again and i feel bad for ignoring the genre for so long.
This was actually pretty decent teen movie that makes fun of things like the "the thing" and body snatchers. CGI was bad but luckily there's wasn't too much of that and at least some of the monster effects were practical. The characters were likeable enough and the movie didn't take itself seriously which was a good thing. Not great but worth checking out.
And i think that wraps up the halloween season for me. I didn't manage to actually play any horror games (unless Prey counts) but i did manage to watch a satisfactory amount of horror movies and eventhough the season of horror is over i will keep up watching more because i'been really getting into old school horror movies again. There was a very long gap when i barely watched any but now my old love is resurrected again and i feel bad for ignoring the genre for so long.
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I'll add my final three to the list, but let it be known, as of 10:22pm, October 31, I once again finished my 31 horror movies marathon for the fifth year in a row.
Now to decompress.
Now to decompress.
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Halloween night I watched the next movie in the Hammer Horror 8-movie blu-ray set, Night Creatures. Unfortunately, Night Creatures is only a horror movie in the absolute loosest possible definition. If that counts, then so does Dial M for Murder which I saw in 3D in the beginning of the month, which brings total spooky-movie count up to 30 (but I'd count it as 28).
Night Creatures was originally released in the UK as Captain Clegg and is mostly about smugglers. There is a minimal ghostly element, but really, even Hamlet is more of a horror movie.
I also read the comic book version of Creepshow by Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson. It's a fun alternative to rewatching the movie, but I don't think it stands on its own as well as the movie does.
In terms of ACTUALLY celebrating Halloween on Halloween, I did go to work at my public library dressed as an Aquabat (my coworkers are Halloween-people) and carved two Jack O'Lanterns. I had a bunch of full-sized candy bars for trick or treaters, but alas, there were none.
Night Creatures was originally released in the UK as Captain Clegg and is mostly about smugglers. There is a minimal ghostly element, but really, even Hamlet is more of a horror movie.
I also read the comic book version of Creepshow by Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson. It's a fun alternative to rewatching the movie, but I don't think it stands on its own as well as the movie does.
In terms of ACTUALLY celebrating Halloween on Halloween, I did go to work at my public library dressed as an Aquabat (my coworkers are Halloween-people) and carved two Jack O'Lanterns. I had a bunch of full-sized candy bars for trick or treaters, but alas, there were none.
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Well, it was a good month. Unfortunately, I had to work late on Halloween, so I didn't get a chance to watch anything. But as always, I did enjoy reading about everyone's movie and game watching experiences, so thanks for sharing 
Before I forget, here's a couple pictures of my Halloween pumpkin. I went for a Pokemon theme this year.
Decided to to the Gastly family. Gengar turned out pretty great.
Haunter looks good, but I'm thinking next year I won't do something quite so small again. It's a pain to carve...
...as evidenced here by Gastly's cross eyes. Poor Gastly.
Before I forget, here's a couple pictures of my Halloween pumpkin. I went for a Pokemon theme this year.
Decided to to the Gastly family. Gengar turned out pretty great.
Haunter looks good, but I'm thinking next year I won't do something quite so small again. It's a pain to carve...
...as evidenced here by Gastly's cross eyes. Poor Gastly.
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Re: Month of Horror 8: The Hellworld Gospel Resurrection Leg
Awesome posts, Michi. You rule this thread.
My wife and I finished up our horror movie spree with Gerald's Game (2017). It is a critically acclaimed, Netflix adaptation of a Stephen King novel. It is also pretty bad, and its ending is laughable. I do not recommend it.
Halloween was fun. My children had a blast and brought home their weight in candy, as they should. Until next year!
My wife and I finished up our horror movie spree with Gerald's Game (2017). It is a critically acclaimed, Netflix adaptation of a Stephen King novel. It is also pretty bad, and its ending is laughable. I do not recommend it.
Halloween was fun. My children had a blast and brought home their weight in candy, as they should. Until next year!