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Director Jae-hyun and company delivered a horror movie here that is intelligent, bound to get under your skin and that deserves to be called epic.
I also really liked it.



The Wolf of Snow Hollow. I got the Blu so I hadda rewatch it. I noticed this time a few scenes where characters stare down the barrel of the lens, usually to indicate they are being watched. Still a great movie, no notes.


Alien Romulus. How can a movie that looks so good be so bad? Stunningly gorgeous visuals that lovingly recreate the dystopian future of the world, yet populated with annoying underdeveloped characters leaving me disinterested in their plight for most of the time. There were still some little moments I enjoyed, like the synthetic reboot process looked freaky and cool, and the weird cocoon thing adding an important puzzle piece to the lore of the creatures.


Well that’s it for this season. And now my watch has ended. Happy Halloween!



How I am every November 1st:




ETA: Bah, image not working. Just imagine the day after scene in Nightmare Before Christmas



How I am every November 1st:




ETA: Bah, image not working. Just imagine the day after scene in Nightmare Before Christmas
“There’s only 364 more days until the next Halloween.”



I thought Hellbender (2021) was a fun little indie horror film that punches above its weight. Written and directed by a mother/father/daughter trio who also play together in an alternative rock band, this follows a mother/daughter pair of vegan hippie witches living in the woods. Storytelling felt fresh and interesting to me, lots of ideas about parents and children hiding things from each other and intergenerational trauma. Cool soundtrack if you’re into 90s rock.



I thought Hellbender (2021) was a fun little indie horror film that punches above its weight. Written and directed by a mother/father/daughter trio who also play together in an alternative rock band, this follows a mother/daughter pair of vegan hippie witches living in the woods. Storytelling felt fresh and interesting to me, lots of ideas about parents and children hiding things from each other and intergenerational trauma. Cool soundtrack if you’re into 90s rock.
I have yet to watch Hellbender, but I quite enjoyed The Deeper You Dig from the same family.



I have yet to watch Hellbender, but I quite enjoyed The Deeper You Dig from the same family.
Yeah I’m definitely going to check out all of their projects. Love to see what this horror/rock family is getting up to.



‘The House of the Dead’- Paul W.S. Anderson Directing Video Game Horror Movie
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/...-horror-movie/

Milla Jovovich and Betty Gabriel Set to Battle Zombies in ‘Twilight of the Dead’
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/...t-of-the-dead/
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Last Movie Watched: Terrifier 2 (2022).
Last TV Show Watched: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (S2:E10).



Caught*Rabid (1977)*on Criterion, a lesser-known Cronenberg zombie movie. A motorcycle accident takes place outside an experimental plastic surgery facility and your boy David Cronenberg is off to the races. Felt to me like there just wasn’t a whole lot to this movie beyond zombies eating people’s faces, but it’s not terrible if you’re in the mood for a gorey zombie movie.



It may have taken me a few weeks, but finally finished Immaculate. A little heavy on the jump scares, but they were effective. Sydney Sweeney can act and director Michael Mohan is able to create the spooky atmosphere while ratcheting things up in the third act and not skimping on gore when necessary.

A solid recommendation!



Victim of The Night
I think the article kinda sucks. It seems to be more concerned with cleverness and snark than with being right about anything. It's description of Halloween couldn't be much further off. And Annie is hardly the worst friend ever, she clearly really cares about Laurie, she's just an obnoxious teenager. But sex doesn't drive the plot of Halloween, it occurs but is usually incidental and has more to do with what Nancy Allen talked about in Terror In The Aisles that you're more vulnerable when you're naked or having sex. And it isn't all they talk about, they mostly are talking about Laurie getting or not getting a date to prom.
And that movie's writeup is not the only offender.



Victim of The Night
Kicked off my post-Horrorthon viewing with this little British comedy from 1945...


Charles (Rex Harrison, smooth as ever), is living a good life with his second wife Ruth, working on his novel in a sort-of well to do bucolic British way, and seeming quite content. But when Charles sets up a seance at his house as a sort of research for his novel, something comes back from the other side... and stays. And that something is his late wife, Elvira, who was obviously more than a handful when alive and hardly a picnic in the afterlife either. Elvira doesn't like being replaced and sets about trying to break up Charles and Ruth's marriage and generally be a pain in the ass.
The film is based on the play by Noel Coward, who apparently wasn't a tremendous fan of how the film came out. Reviews in general seemed to have been mixed but mostly because everyone in the British press or possibly in Britain, period, knew and loved the play. Ultimately, the movie's an amusing little diversion even if some of its attitudes are a bit old fashioned. I have to admit, having been romantically involved with a woman not unlike Elvira, I found her character very amusing despite the fact that she's obviously supposed to be awful (as was my old flame and in very much the same ways). On the other hand I couldn't understand what was supposed to be bad about Ruth. Harrison plays gamely through the whole thing in a very English way.
But the star of the movie is Margaret Rutherford, who pretty much steals every scene she's in as the only somewhat whacky medium. You may know from her Miss Marple movies a little later in her career. She was in the stage version of Blithe Spirit as well so she's had some time to practice and she just does a wonderful job and was rewarded with an Oscar for her trouble.
As I've said, this is an amusing diversion so go in with those kinds of expectations and you can have a charming little afternoon or evening with Blithe Spirit.



But the star of the movie is Margaret Rutherford, who pretty much steals every scene she's in as the only somewhat whacky medium. You may know from her Miss Marple movies a little later in her career. She was in the stage version of Blithe Spirit as well so she's had some time to practice and she just does a wonderful job and was rewarded with an Oscar for her trouble.
As I've said, this is an amusing diversion so go in with those kinds of expectations and you can have a charming little afternoon or evening with Blithe Spirit.
I was somewhat tepid on Blithe Spirit overall, but Rutherford is absolutely fantastic in it.



Victim of The Night
I was somewhat tepid on Blithe Spirit overall, but Rutherford is absolutely fantastic in it.
I would also describe my reaction as tepid though it had some amusing moments. Most of them Rutherford's. I think it had been a favorite of my mother's and I'm sure I saw it as a child but I actually expected this to be much better, particularly being a Noel Coward play. I was probably kinder to it than I might have been.
But it had ghosts in it.



I would also describe my reaction as tepid though it had some amusing moments. Most of them Rutherford's. I think it had been a favorite of my mother's and I'm sure I saw it as a child but I actually expected this to be much better, particularly being a Noel Coward play. I was probably kinder to it than I might have been.
But it had ghosts in it.
Same. In my review that I wrote I called it a "miss," yet still gave it a
. Credit to Rutherford, I guess!

For me, the relationship dynamics just didn't work, even in a superficial way.