On Wednesday, the first movie was the 1991 movie Popcorn, directed by Mark Herrier. It was my first time watching it and I thought it was pretty fun. It feels like parts of things you've seen before but all mashed up, but it works! It's probably something I'll watch again in future years. I followed it with The Sorcerers, a movie released in 1967 from director Michael Reeves. It was my first time watching this too. Probably not necessarily the best thing for a Halloween marathon, but the scenario that plays out is pretty horrific in its own way. The character who ends up the main villain quickly ratcheted up from...well, I'd say 0-100, but probably higher than 0, on the psychopathy meter. It's kinda wild how quickly and easily they went to the extremes they did. Entertaining though.
Last night I watched the 1969 movie Blind Beast from director Yasuzô Masumura. It's pretty adult in some regards, so viewer discretion is advised. I thought it was a pretty interesting watch and a good movie. I also watched the 1965 movie Fanatic (otherwise known as Die! Die! My Darling!) from director Silvio Narizzano. Not bad!
My English teacher showed us part of "The Princess Bride" today; he said it was based on "true events" that occurred in ancient times. He's funny, I like him. (BTW, when the NES baseball game appeared in the beginning he was like, "See, it's ancient! That's a Nintendo 64 right here!" Umm...what. XD)
I’m currently watching Deadpool & Wolverine at home with my brother & his family. It’s not a movie that’s my cup of tea, so I’m collecting spores as I’m watching.
On Friday night, I started by revisiting director Stan Winston's 1988 movie Pumpkinhead. I decided to follow it up with director Damian McCarthy's movie Oddity that came out this year. I've seen Pumpkinhead a number of times through the years and enjoy it, not much new to say about it. As for Oddity, eh, it was all right I guess. I like some of it, but I feel like it had potential that was left on the table and, while the ending makes sense, it didn't feel satisfying to me.
Tonight I revisited director Fred Dekker's 1986 movie Night of the Creeps and followed it with director Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Both movies tend to be in my yearly October horror movie marathons, so yeah, quite fond of them both.
Monster House! My mom and I have a tradition of watching it together every spooky season. We normally watch it within the first few days of October, but we were a little late this year. Monster House was one of my favourite movies when I was a kid, and I still really enjoy it now! The art style isn't my favourite, but I still think it adds to the movie's charm! It's so special to me that I appreciate Monster House more and notice new details every time I watch it!
We also watched Alice Through the Looking Glass since yesterday was apparently National Mad Hatter Day. It's crazy that there's a national day for like.. everything LOL
On Sunday night I had a double feature. First I watched director Kaneto Shindō's 1968 movie Kuroneko, then followed it with director Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 movie The Black Cat. I've previously seen The Black Cat a few times and I like it. It was my first time watching Kuroneko and I thought it was great.
Tonight I did my yearly rewatch of the 1994 movie In the Mouth of Madness and the 1987 movie Prince of Darkness, both of which were directed by John Carpenter.
On Tuesday night I decided to go for a pair of movies that released last year. First I watched director Sébastien Vaniček's movie Infested, then followed it up with director Samuel Bodin's movie Cobweb. Anyone who is scared of spiders might want to steer clear of Infested because it's probably like your worst nightmare, but as someone who is fine with spiders, I thought it was a fun enough movie. Cobweb, meanwhile, started strong but fell off for me. I liked where I thought the movie was going at first, and I was even on board for a bit when they swerved, but eh. There are a bunch of cool aspects to it but there are as many aspects that kind of drag it down. It feels a bit like squandered potential. I don't regret checking it out for the parts that I did ultimately like, but probably not something I'll watch again.
Tonight, I checked out director Jem Garrard's movie Slay which came out this year on Tubi. I'd heard about it and figured why not. It's essentially like Quentin Tarantino's movie From Dusk till Dawn but starring four drag queens from RuPaul's Drag Race: Trinity the Tuck, Heidi N Closet, Crystal Methyd and Cara Melle. It was fun. I followed it with a movie I saw years ago but hadn't revisited in some time, director Lambert Hillyer's 1936 movie Dracula's Daughter.
I just saw The Wild Robot! It was really cute. Most of the movies I've been seeing in theaters lately have been horror or thrillers so it was nice to watch something that just had me bawling through most of it
The last movie I saw in the movie theater was Joker 2 and I have to say that I did not like the movie at all. I'm all for films that make you think but honestly this movie was just... bad. I think if anyone is interested in seeing it they should wait until its on a streaming service or playing on TV. I feel like I wasted a free movie ticket for it.
I'm currently watching Halloween Kills on the Peacock streaming service, I've seen this movie a couple times already. I like watching Halloween movies during spooky season. I think this one is my favorite one out of the three new ones that came out these last few years.
