Tremors for the first time. It’s pretty much the best giant monster movie made since the 1950s. The cast is terrific and every scene is just right. I’m glad I finally watched it. The rest of my new-to-me viewings have been mostly underwhelming, but I’ve really enjoyed many of my rewatches this month including Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Joy Ride and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. These all went from movies I like to movies I love. That’s a feeling just as satisfying as finding a great new discovery.
Non-movie related, the best is still yet to come (I’ll get into that later), but I’m having fun watching a bunch of videos on this YouTube channel called Dead Meat. It’s a guy who does theatrical vs director’s cut comparisons for horror movies and franchise rankings. He also has a “kill count” series for certain movies, which are good as a map through a movie if I’m going back and forth on whether I want to watch a particular franchise entry this month or not. Also, Corpse Club, Shock Waves, Post Mortem, and (of course) non-me episodes of F This Movie have been great to listen to this month, too.
Rob: My Scary Movie Month is going pretty well! I’m not feeling burned out at all, and I’m actually dreading the month ending.
Adam: Yep, me too. I had a day or two of burnout early last week but that was just a temporary lull.
Rob: As I mentioned on the Silent Hill show, this year I’ve had a much easier time choosing movies to watch and not feeling like I have to stick to a schedule or use valuable October time exclusively on new-to-me stuff. I’m not watching anything that feels like homework, which is nice. I’m at thirty movie viewings (as of this writing), nineteen of which were new to me. I think my favorites so far have been Nina Forever, Vampire’s Kiss, and Murder Party. I’m definitely going to be writing something about Nina Forever after I’ve digested it a bit (probably next Scary Movie Month). It’s one of those movies that feels like it was made just for me. I don’t know who Vampire’s Kiss was made for, but you and I were talking about how much we enjoyed it as a savage, American Psycho-esque takedown of ‘80s yuppie culture. I think the Nic Cage performance, memed to death though it may have been, really works in that context. Murder Party was an unexpected tonal shift from Jeremy Saulnier’s other films, but it’s a great low-budget idea executed with a lot of charm.
Non-movie related, the best is still yet to come (I’ll get into that later), but I’m having fun watching a bunch of videos on this YouTube channel called Dead Meat. It’s a guy who does theatrical vs director’s cut comparisons for horror movies and franchise rankings. He also has a “kill count” series for certain movies, which are good as a map through a movie if I’m going back and forth on whether I want to watch a particular franchise entry this month or not. Also, Corpse Club, Shock Waves, Post Mortem, and (of course) non-me episodes of F This Movie have been great to listen to this month, too.
Rob: My Scary Movie Month is going pretty well! I’m not feeling burned out at all, and I’m actually dreading the month ending.
Adam: Yep, me too. I had a day or two of burnout early last week but that was just a temporary lull.
Rob: As I mentioned on the Silent Hill show, this year I’ve had a much easier time choosing movies to watch and not feeling like I have to stick to a schedule or use valuable October time exclusively on new-to-me stuff. I’m not watching anything that feels like homework, which is nice. I’m at thirty movie viewings (as of this writing), nineteen of which were new to me. I think my favorites so far have been Nina Forever, Vampire’s Kiss, and Murder Party. I’m definitely going to be writing something about Nina Forever after I’ve digested it a bit (probably next Scary Movie Month). It’s one of those movies that feels like it was made just for me. I don’t know who Vampire’s Kiss was made for, but you and I were talking about how much we enjoyed it as a savage, American Psycho-esque takedown of ‘80s yuppie culture. I think the Nic Cage performance, memed to death though it may have been, really works in that context. Murder Party was an unexpected tonal shift from Jeremy Saulnier’s other films, but it’s a great low-budget idea executed with a lot of charm.
Re-Animator and Candyman has been really gratifying. I’ve also got things set up where we’ll start our unit on genre this week and cover horror first, just in time for Halloween. I’ve shown Scream the last two years, I think (I really only have time to show one full movie every few weeks), but I’m considering switching it up this year. Maybe Get Out?
The Exorcist in a theater for the first time, so I’ll be doing that next weekend. I’m going to try my hardest to make it out to Six Flags to go through the mazes based on the movie Hell Fest (if I don’t do it, that seems like a gigantic miss).
Rob: You must do those mazes. The whole spirit of Halloween depends on it.
Adam: I still need to see Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, bad reviews and all. Of course, the Bromleys are hosting Scary Movie Night, which is one of the best nights of the year. Lastly, there’s Halloween itself, which I plan on working from home for so I can also watch some of TCM’s lineup including Cat People, Carnival of Souls and a bunch of Vincent Price films.
Other things I want to watch before the month’s out: Hocus Pocus (it’s tradition), more of Eli Roth’s History of Horror, Decorating Disney: Halloween (Freeform owns me), the episode of The Goldbergs with Robert Englund playing Freddy, Warlock, Prison, Frailty, Lost Highway, Scream, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Needful Things and Salem’s Lot. I also need to finish drinking all of my cider.
Rob: You must do those mazes. The whole spirit of Halloween depends on it.
Adam: I still need to see Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, bad reviews and all. Of course, the Bromleys are hosting Scary Movie Night, which is one of the best nights of the year. Lastly, there’s Halloween itself, which I plan on working from home for so I can also watch some of TCM’s lineup including Cat People, Carnival of Souls and a bunch of Vincent Price films.
Other things I want to watch before the month’s out: Hocus Pocus (it’s tradition), more of Eli Roth’s History of Horror, Decorating Disney: Halloween (Freeform owns me), the episode of The Goldbergs with Robert Englund playing Freddy, Warlock, Prison, Frailty, Lost Highway, Scream, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Needful Things and Salem’s Lot. I also need to finish drinking all of my cider.
Halloween is on my list, for sure. Although, hang on. Are we going to end up calling this one H40? No one really says “H-Twenty,” so would that work? We wouldn’t say “H-Four-Oh,” would we? Whatever. Moving on. I got in one Hammer movie this month so far (the excellent Horror of Dracula), but I’m feeling like that deep dive into Hammer horror isn’t going to happen. On the other hand, I’ve been saving Pet Sematary, The Mangler, and The Night Flier for the last few days of Scary Movie Month, and I probably will follow through with those. I also want to listen to that Halloween Unmasked podcast. I subscribed today but didn’t get a chance to hear any of it yet. Other stuff still on my list: Mandy, the Hatchet sequels, a Possession rewatch (I still haven’t watched the “complete” version since buying the import Blu), and whatever’s left from our beginning of the month entry.
What are we reviewing for the last week of Scary Movie Month? Should we do Deadly Blessing?
Adam: Sure, that works. Until next time…
Rob: These seats are reserved.
Note to the reader: Leave a comment with what you have planned for the end of the month!
What are we reviewing for the last week of Scary Movie Month? Should we do Deadly Blessing?
Adam: Sure, that works. Until next time…
Rob: These seats are reserved.
Note to the reader: Leave a comment with what you have planned for the end of the month!
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