My Week in Movies: October 4 - 10
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jetpack_monkeyLots of movies this week, as sol_se and I were able to pull ahead of our 31 horror movies in October goal.
Movies I've seen before are in italics.
The Wicker Man (1973)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Brides of Dracula (1960)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Grizzly (1976)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Scars of Dracula (1970)
Dracula AD 1972 (1972)
Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
I love The Wicker Man (I vidded it after all) and it was a joy to show it to sol_se for the first time.
Let's Scare Jessica to Death is... not what I expected. I think I expected teenagers from the title, not vaguely hippie adults. The movie is about the effect of supernatural happenings on the mind of someone who recently experienced a breakdown. It's very weird and I'm not sure how much I liked it.
I've been running around singing "Twenty days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Twenty days to Halloween, Silver Shamrock!" I eventually had to let sol_se in on the reference. As a movie, it's Fine. It's really not game changing enough to justify the temporary shift in the Halloween series.
We started on Dracula: Prince of Darkness because it's my favorite in the Hammer Dracula series, but then we just fell down the rabbit hole. The films generally decline in quality after Prince of Darkness. You can also sum up Dracula's motivations thusly:
Horror: Lust
Prince: Lust
Risen: Revenge
Taste: Revenge
Scars: Sadism
1972: Revenge
Rites: Megalomania?
I buy lust, but revenge became a really tired touchstone to come back to over and over again. Also, Dracula should never be driven by base sadism, what the hell is that crap?
Grizzly is Jaws with a bear, but it doesn't hew as closely to Jaws as my memory of it indicated. Still, it's a fun little animals attack movie with some funky bear effects.
sol_se and I were able to pull ahead of our 31 horror movies in October goal.Movies I've seen before are in italics.
The Wicker Man (1973)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Brides of Dracula (1960)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Grizzly (1976)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Scars of Dracula (1970)
Dracula AD 1972 (1972)
Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
I love The Wicker Man (I vidded it after all) and it was a joy to show it to sol_se for the first time.
Let's Scare Jessica to Death is... not what I expected. I think I expected teenagers from the title, not vaguely hippie adults. The movie is about the effect of supernatural happenings on the mind of someone who recently experienced a breakdown. It's very weird and I'm not sure how much I liked it.
I've been running around singing "Twenty days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Twenty days to Halloween, Silver Shamrock!" I eventually had to let sol_se in on the reference. As a movie, it's Fine. It's really not game changing enough to justify the temporary shift in the Halloween series.
We started on Dracula: Prince of Darkness because it's my favorite in the Hammer Dracula series, but then we just fell down the rabbit hole. The films generally decline in quality after Prince of Darkness. You can also sum up Dracula's motivations thusly:
Horror: Lust
Prince: Lust
Risen: Revenge
Taste: Revenge
Scars: Sadism
1972: Revenge
Rites: Megalomania?
I buy lust, but revenge became a really tired touchstone to come back to over and over again. Also, Dracula should never be driven by base sadism, what the hell is that crap?
Grizzly is Jaws with a bear, but it doesn't hew as closely to Jaws as my memory of it indicated. Still, it's a fun little animals attack movie with some funky bear effects.
