I’ve watched 5 horror movies in the past 2 weeks. For Halloween night I’m watching Halloween Kills
and Halloween Ends with Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her famous role.
Last 2 weeks I watched, Scream, Fright Night, Halloween, Halloween 4 and Night of the Comet
I watched, “Christmas Horror Story,” over the weekend and, “From Beyond,” today while my wife was busy elsewhere in the house. Last week, I caught several episodes of Shudder TV’s, “Creepshow.”
Wife found something called Tales of Halloween on TV. Which is on right now.
It’s basically a series of sketches where everybody is dressed silly then dies horribly. lots of murderous 12yos. Doesn’t seem to be any real connection between one sketch and the next; stuff just happens then the scene shifts. Very, very stupid / corny, but not played for laughs.
I watched The creature from Black lagoon. The Wolfman, Dracula the old one. Today.
Yesterday I watched Frankenstein and the other day the Frankenstein with DeNiro as the monster. Scary!!
My all-time favorite, Arsenic & Old Lace. I found a version starring Tony Randall, Boris Karloff, Mildred Natwick…and Tom Bosley as Teddy. I do prefer the Cary Grant version, but I’ll take what I can get in this case.
Halloween night so far has featured Suitable Flesh (eh, OK I guess, and appropriately supernatural) and Wrath of Becky (extremely well done, if you’re into that genre). I might just re-watch *The Devil’s Candy", which is one of those rare low-budget indies that really delivers a wallop especially because your expectations are low, and boy does it deliver!
Do you have lots of wrath, Becky? This particular Becky was great with the jagged edges of broken dinner plates, scalding hot coffee, knives, grenades, and rocket launchers! She was officially referred to as “Rebecca” by the CIA when they felt compelled to recruit this deadly woman!
Watched Renfield. Nick Cage was vicious and entertaining Dracula and the fights were good, but the relationship between Dracula and Renfield was a little too realistic as an abusive one.
Halloween Ends actually took some real risks and did something a lot different than people expected. It looked like the director wanted to go even further, but was forced to deal with the “Michael Myers situation” or whatever.
Halloween Ends was divisive when it came out, but will be remembered as one of the best sequels/entries in the series. Halloween Kills? It literally was just a middle movie with Michael killing and it served zero purpose other than ensuring there were three movies.