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I am starting to wonder if I'd have enjoyed Strange Behavior in a group watch environment. The way the chief of police never dresses in anything but a buttoned up, short sleeve shirt and meets the mayor in the grocery store they run, probably would have elicited laughter in a group.
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I am starting to wonder if I'd have enjoyed Strange Behavior in a group watch environment. The way the chief of police never dresses in anything but a buttoned up, short sleeve shirt and meets the mayor in the grocery store they run, probably would have elicited laughter in a group.
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Watching it now. This guy dresses like me lol
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Watching it now. This guy dresses like me lol
If the head of police, even in a small podunk town, dressed like I do for work, I'd be seriously concerned.
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I thought Dey Young was kinda cute. Though inconsequential for everything that happens as far as I can remember.
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I love the original Firestarter so the remake is something I'll probably avoid.
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If the head of police, even in a small podunk town, dressed like I do for work, I'd be seriously concerned.
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Road movie double feature! (sorta)
Fender Bender. This wasn’t a road movie like I initially thought, more of a below-average slasher. I think it was shot in film though, so that’s nice.
Tailgate. This Dutch film about a family being terrorized by a guy with a van full of poison because the dad has road rage was lots of fun. Both intense and funny, disturbing and absurd. Some nifty car stunts too. It does kinda peter out towards the end but otherwise a good time.
Fender Bender. This wasn’t a road movie like I initially thought, more of a below-average slasher. I think it was shot in film though, so that’s nice.
Tailgate. This Dutch film about a family being terrorized by a guy with a van full of poison because the dad has road rage was lots of fun. Both intense and funny, disturbing and absurd. Some nifty car stunts too. It does kinda peter out towards the end but otherwise a good time.
october watch a movie a day day #6
Apartment 1303 (Ataru Oikawa, 2007)
Every year for this I throw in one generic 2000's J-horror for some reason and its usually the worst thing I end up watching during the month and that will likely be the case here as well. Even though it was a bit intentional to pick a bad movie had I known who'd directed it beforehand I would have picked something else. I think I've seen five of this dude's movies now and they've all been abysmal (Tomie could use a rewatch though, it had some moments). Basically this is about a ghost that throws people off a balcony. That's it. Every kill is the same, no scares, nothing interesting. Outside of the odd hilarious effect shots and a tentacle porn scene absolutely nothing of note anywhere here.
Apartment 1303 (Ataru Oikawa, 2007)
Every year for this I throw in one generic 2000's J-horror for some reason and its usually the worst thing I end up watching during the month and that will likely be the case here as well. Even though it was a bit intentional to pick a bad movie had I known who'd directed it beforehand I would have picked something else. I think I've seen five of this dude's movies now and they've all been abysmal (Tomie could use a rewatch though, it had some moments). Basically this is about a ghost that throws people off a balcony. That's it. Every kill is the same, no scares, nothing interesting. Outside of the odd hilarious effect shots and a tentacle porn scene absolutely nothing of note anywhere here.
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Tonight's theme was supposed to be movies based on video games but Dead Space: Aftermath's animation was so bad I bailed after ten minutes.
Dead Space: Downfall. I love the first two Dead Space games and this animated prequel shows what happens on the Ishimura before the events of the first game...and it turns out nothing terribly interesting. For only an hour and fifteen minutes long it's real slow to start and once the horror gets going there's nothing much to comment on.
Extracurricular. Four teens murder people as a group. This wasn't too bad at all. Watching the teens plan not just who and where they're gonna kill but every little detail and contingency was interesting to watch. The two cops are pretty bad actors but thankfully they don't get much screen time. Worth a watch I'd say.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. As much as I love Dead Space I love the RE games exponentially more. This movie is a weird mishmash of the first two games and one scene from Code Veronica (???). I've got some conflicting opinions here. The sets, scenery, costumes, action scenes and overall visuals are exactly what I want out of an RE movie. But the characters and story are so mishandled that it balances out the good with bad (why was Leon so sleepy?). Still, I'd take this over the Paul Anderson movies any day.
Dead Space: Downfall. I love the first two Dead Space games and this animated prequel shows what happens on the Ishimura before the events of the first game...and it turns out nothing terribly interesting. For only an hour and fifteen minutes long it's real slow to start and once the horror gets going there's nothing much to comment on.
Extracurricular. Four teens murder people as a group. This wasn't too bad at all. Watching the teens plan not just who and where they're gonna kill but every little detail and contingency was interesting to watch. The two cops are pretty bad actors but thankfully they don't get much screen time. Worth a watch I'd say.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. As much as I love Dead Space I love the RE games exponentially more. This movie is a weird mishmash of the first two games and one scene from Code Veronica (???). I've got some conflicting opinions here. The sets, scenery, costumes, action scenes and overall visuals are exactly what I want out of an RE movie. But the characters and story are so mishandled that it balances out the good with bad (why was Leon so sleepy?). Still, I'd take this over the Paul Anderson movies any day.
Dead Space: Downfall. I love the first two Dead Space games and this animated prequel shows what happens on the Ishimura before the events of the first game...and it turns out nothing terribly interesting. For only an hour and fifteen minutes long it's real slow to start and once the horror gets going there's nothing much to comment on.
Some short takes on what I watched in the first week of October:
The Amusement Park - A bad dream of a movie from George A. Romero that he filmed in the '70s, but was lost until recently. It follows an old man as he makes his way through the titular carnival with surreal "amusements" like having no help with carrying groceries, getting subpar restaurant service, not getting to spend enough time with his grandkids, being dumped at a nursing home; in short, not so subtle proof that our senior citizens are unappreciated. It's a movie that proves that Romero never gets enough credit for how well he directed actors, and it will make you wish he did more movies that are surreal and that have dream logic. Nextdoor and the kind of political signs they have on their front lawns make it hard these days, but it is still bound to make you want to spend more time with the elderly.
The Legend of Boggy Creek - I'm not sure if anyone else grew up watching nature documentaries on public television - the one with Okefenokee Joe is a personal favorite - but this one takes me back to them in the best way. I like the shots of the swamp's natural beauty, which add atmosphere and give it a strong sense of place, and the songs like the Travis Crabtree one made me teary-eyed for their sweetness and nostalgia. As for the Fouke monster, I like that he's scary and misunderstood in equal measure like Frankenstein. In short, it's a movie that will take you back to your childhood experiences of exploring places in the backwoods of your neighborhood your parents warned you not to venture too far into, with the monster approximating what you might have run into.
Evil Dead II - The best horror comedy ever made? It is to me, anyway. I'm more than fine with how Bruce Campbell's career played out, but I'm surprised it didn't make him a bigger star because he demonstrates expert physicality and comedic timing in this. There's also Peter Deming's camera acrobatics - those rushes through the woods in particular - that make it feel like a ride more than a movie sometimes. It's one I easily give five stars to because I wouldn't change a thing about it.
The Amusement Park - A bad dream of a movie from George A. Romero that he filmed in the '70s, but was lost until recently. It follows an old man as he makes his way through the titular carnival with surreal "amusements" like having no help with carrying groceries, getting subpar restaurant service, not getting to spend enough time with his grandkids, being dumped at a nursing home; in short, not so subtle proof that our senior citizens are unappreciated. It's a movie that proves that Romero never gets enough credit for how well he directed actors, and it will make you wish he did more movies that are surreal and that have dream logic. Nextdoor and the kind of political signs they have on their front lawns make it hard these days, but it is still bound to make you want to spend more time with the elderly.
The Legend of Boggy Creek - I'm not sure if anyone else grew up watching nature documentaries on public television - the one with Okefenokee Joe is a personal favorite - but this one takes me back to them in the best way. I like the shots of the swamp's natural beauty, which add atmosphere and give it a strong sense of place, and the songs like the Travis Crabtree one made me teary-eyed for their sweetness and nostalgia. As for the Fouke monster, I like that he's scary and misunderstood in equal measure like Frankenstein. In short, it's a movie that will take you back to your childhood experiences of exploring places in the backwoods of your neighborhood your parents warned you not to venture too far into, with the monster approximating what you might have run into.
Evil Dead II - The best horror comedy ever made? It is to me, anyway. I'm more than fine with how Bruce Campbell's career played out, but I'm surprised it didn't make him a bigger star because he demonstrates expert physicality and comedic timing in this. There's also Peter Deming's camera acrobatics - those rushes through the woods in particular - that make it feel like a ride more than a movie sometimes. It's one I easily give five stars to because I wouldn't change a thing about it.
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That's a shame. I loved Dead Space so much (except for the damned turret, obviously) and have wished for a few years I could play it again. I'm sure there's an interesting story to what happened on the Ishimura before Dead Space, shame this movie didn't capture it.
I still have my 360 discs of the games and pop them in once in a while and man do those games hold up.
Evil Dead II - The best horror comedy ever made? It is to me, anyway. I'm more than fine with how Bruce Campbell's career played out, but I'm surprised it didn't make him a bigger star because he demonstrates expert physicality and comedic timing in this. There's also Peter Deming's camera acrobatics - those rushes through the woods in particular - that make it feel like a ride more than a movie sometimes. It's one I easily give five stars to because I wouldn't change a thing about it.
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Well you are in luck sir because there’s a Dead Space remake coming in January for modern consoles.
I still have my 360 discs of the games and pop them in once in a while and man do those games hold up.
I still have my 360 discs of the games and pop them in once in a while and man do those games hold up.
Unless they managed to pull a Doom. That would also be ok, I guess.
watch a spooky thing every day once a day in october thing day #7
The Boxer's Omen (Kuei Chih-Hung, 1983)
Wow what a film. Even though this kind of falls into the same genre as The Manitou, which I watched earlier and talked about how there's a limit to how much I can enjoy a film of that ilk, this is definitely its own beast and is totally unafraid to be climax-of-one-of-these-films crazy the whole way through. This simply goes hard. The whole time. I love it. Lots of body horror that I think hits harder because of the less than stellar effects, like there's an uncanny valley kind of feel sometimes that make these scenes pretty legitimately unpleasant. A lot of the other practical effects are, well, quaint but idk I think its cool that they just take a big swing on a lot of wild ideas and tbh I think the film is better for it even if there's some really silly looking things and despite mostly being either very silly or bizarre nightmare fuel there's a couple moments of like, profound beauty here?? Lots of over-the-top giallo-like lighting and expressive camerawork too. The only thing that I roll my eyes at is that every scene that features a woman they're naked and its definitely in a grimy way. I'm not surprised that that would happen in a horror movie or anything but it feels a little weird in a good vs. evil type story. But yeah, a banger for sure.
The Boxer's Omen (Kuei Chih-Hung, 1983)
Wow what a film. Even though this kind of falls into the same genre as The Manitou, which I watched earlier and talked about how there's a limit to how much I can enjoy a film of that ilk, this is definitely its own beast and is totally unafraid to be climax-of-one-of-these-films crazy the whole way through. This simply goes hard. The whole time. I love it. Lots of body horror that I think hits harder because of the less than stellar effects, like there's an uncanny valley kind of feel sometimes that make these scenes pretty legitimately unpleasant. A lot of the other practical effects are, well, quaint but idk I think its cool that they just take a big swing on a lot of wild ideas and tbh I think the film is better for it even if there's some really silly looking things and despite mostly being either very silly or bizarre nightmare fuel there's a couple moments of like, profound beauty here?? Lots of over-the-top giallo-like lighting and expressive camerawork too. The only thing that I roll my eyes at is that every scene that features a woman they're naked and its definitely in a grimy way. I'm not surprised that that would happen in a horror movie or anything but it feels a little weird in a good vs. evil type story. But yeah, a banger for sure.
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The Boxer's Omen is great. I also enjoyed Hex, Killer Constable and The Iron Dragon Strikes Back AKA The Gold Connection from Kuei Chih-Hung. Only Hex is Halloween-appropriate viewing, but all three share a pretty mean, downbeat worldview that meshes interestingly with their genres.
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