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31 Days of horror Day 19 Halloween 4

Title-Halloween 4 The Return of Michael Myers
Source-Anchor Bay DVD

After the bad box office performance of Halloween 3 it was years before we got a sequel. Michael survived being burnt,and is back. He is after Laurie's daughter.

While not as stylish as the first film,this is a decent sequel. Danielle Harris is great as Laurie's daughter. Ellis Cornell is good as the sister.  And the late Donald Pleasense is as great as always.

Overall this is a fun sequel. With a fun cast and a well done ending.

Halloween 4 The Return of Michael Myers gets a B-.

Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: The Directors: Alfred Hitchcock. The Birds (1963)

Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: The Directors: Alfred Hitchcock. The Birds (1963): Although I kind of knew who he was before, mainly because of his association with Psycho and the notoriety of that film, this was my true ...

31 Days of horror Day 18 Alien Covenant

Title-Alien  Covenant
Source-Blu Ray

After seeing the trailers I was excited to see 8th film in the Alien franchise. Ended up missing it in theaters. So waited for it to hit Blu ray and rented it from Netflix.

Going into the film all I knew was it was a prequel to the original film and Covenant was going to explain the origins of the xenomorphs.

I have seen the film 2 times now and still am not sure what the xenomorphs origins are. I think they might be nanobots,but I am not sure.

Outside of Danny McBride nothing in the film is worth a shit. Instead of answering all our questions all the film does is raise even more questions.

Alien Covenant gets a F+.

Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: Hammer Time/Werewolf Flicks: The Curse of the Were...

Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: Hammer Time/Werewolf Flicks: The Curse of the Were...: This, in all likelihood, was the first Hammer movie I ever learned of, as it was talked about in the Crestwood House monster book about th...

31 Days of Horror Day 17 The Fear

TITLE-The Fear
SOURCE-Source One DVD

Back in the mid 90s most of my weekends were spent drinking with a group of friends while we watched piles of DTV horror movies. We had a mutual friend that managed the local Blockbuster video. So we got free rentals. One of those times we rented The Fear. Which is a movie,like Witchouse,that I forgot about until I got the DVD release.

Richard is training to be a shrink. So he sets up a weekend of fear therapy. Which is meant to help a bunch of friends learn how to handle their phobias.All is good until Morty,a wooden mannequin,comes alive and starts killing people.

Now this is a low budget DTV horror,so don't go in expecting amazing FX work. The acting is pretty decent. The FX work is decent. And I guess this movie did pretty good. Since a sequel was made.

I liked the idea of a mannequin being the killer. And the work put into the mannequin costume is pretty damn good.What I didn't notice until this watching of the film is horror rap group Gravediggas has a song on the soundtrack. Back when this came out I had no idea who Gravediggas were. But now I do.

The Fear gets a C+.

Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: Children of the Damned (1964)

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31 Days of Horror Day 16 Scream Blacula Scream

TITLE-Scream Blacula Scream
FORMAT-Orion VHS

A sequel to Blacula starring Pam Grier sounds great. Too bad it is a boring mess of a film.

Pam is the chosen one of a voodoo cult. But another member thinks they should be the chosen one. So they bring Blacula back to life.

And voodoo vs vampires is a neat idea that hasn't been used much.  This film has a decent cast.  All the blame for how boring it is has to be laid on the script.

Scream Blacula Scream gets a D-.

Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: Village of the Damned (1960)

Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: Village of the Damned (1960): I'm drawing a complete blank in remembering when I first heard of this film. I can remember seeing a trailer for what I think was the ...

31 Days of Horror Day 15 The Visit

TITLE-The Visit
FORMAT-Universal Blu Ray

Months back a buddy gave me a milk crate of Blu Rays. Lots of comedies I will never watch. But a few decent films in the crate. I had never heard of M Night's The Visit before getting the Blu Ray. And so far I have liked one M Night film.

A lady sends her young teen children off to her parents' home. All so she can go off on a cruise with her new boyfriend. The kicker is the lady hasn't seen her parents in 15 years since she married the childrens' father.

The kids get there and decide to film the entire visit. Shit starts to get "creepy". And then whammo at the end we get a stupid as fuck twist. Now the kids have never seen their grandparents. And the mother never sees them,she just sends the kids off. The twist is the people pretending to be the grandparents are killers. Meh.

It has taken me 4 viewings to make it all the way thru this shitty film.The pacing is horrible. The twist isn't bad,but it doesn't make up for how crappy the rest of the movie had been.

The Visit gets a F+