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Monday, October 30, 2017
31 Days of Horror Day 30 Dead and Rotting
Source-DVD
3 idiots,one played by Trent Haaga, end up killing a local witch's cat. Turns out the cat is the witch's son. So she cast a spell that turns her into Debbie Rochon and gets her revenge on the 3 idiots.
IIRC this is from the era when JR Bookwalter was working with Full Moon. And while the film is low budget,Bookwalter knows how to make a decent entertaining movie with a low budget.
The acting is pretty good,with Rochon and Haaga being the stand outs. The FX work is well done.
This is worth at least a rental for any horror fan looking for a fun way to kill 1 1/2 hours.
Dead and Rotting gets a B.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: Disney: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: Disney: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993): You're probably surprised that this isn't an installment of Stuff I Grew Up With and, when I think about it, it is amazing that I ...
31 Days of Horror Day 29 The Children
Source-Troma YouTube channel
A bus load of young children drive thru a toxic cloud while on a field trip. This causes their fingernails to turn black and their touch burns.
So you get lots of scenes of kids hugging their parents. Then the parents burning up and huge yellow clouds.
Our heroes discover that the only way to kill the children is to chop off both hands.
Our lead's wife is pregant. She gives birth and the final scene we see the baby's fingernails are black.
Sadly the print used looks rough. But is watchable.
The Children gets a C+
Saturday, October 28, 2017
31 Days of Horror Day 28 Black Magic (1944)
Source-DVD rip on YouTube
Before this film I had never seen an entire Charlie Chan film. Sure I knew of the Chinese detective and had seen his ups Hanna Barbara cartoon. Thanks to a few parodies I even knew some of the tropes in the Chan film series.
Black Magic was from after the series went from Fox to Monogram. Going in I knew since it was a Monogram film it would be low budget. There is a reason Monogram was considered one of the Poverty Row Studios. Black Magic is also the only Chan film with a decent amount of spooky/horror elements.
At a seance, attended by Chan's daughter Francis, a ghost appears and someone is shot and killed. Charlie is called in to help solve the murder.
Normally in the Chan films Charlie is assisted by one of his many sons,IIRC Charlie mentions having 14 kids,but in Black Magic we get the one film in the series that his daughter is his assistant.
We get a ghost,2 spooky seance, a skeleton,hypnosis and a disappearing bullet. Oh and someone jumping to their death off a skyscraper,while hypnotized.
Running a bit over an hour this was a fun way to pass the time. And I was surprised how much was packed into a short time.
Black Magic gets a B+
Friday, October 27, 2017
31 Days of Horror Day 27 The langoliers
Source-YouTube
I am pretty sure the last time I saw this was when it first aired back in 95. Found the almost 3 hour,looks like a DVD rip,cut on Youtube. And thought hell I need to rewatch this.
When it first aired I had read the novella it is based on. And wondered why a novella need right at 3 hours to tell the story.
The cast is a decent mix of tv vets that are average actors and one horrible misstep. The actress playing the King trope of somewhat psychic pre-teen,who is also blind,is almost as bad as the kid from House by the cemetery.
But the real stand out in this bloated,slightly hampered by a TV budget,film is Bronson Pinchot. He chews the scenes as the crazy real villain.
From what I can remember the movie follows the novella fairly close. With stuff added to the movie ,unneeded padding.
The Langoliers gets a C+
Thursday, October 26, 2017
31 Days of Horror Day 26 Gingerdead Man 2 Passion of the crust
Source-Echo Bridge DVD
I assume the first Gingerdead Man made a decent profit cause Full Moon has made 2 sequels and a crossover film with the Evil Bong franchise.
Set on the set of a low budget film. Our evil cookie shows up and starts killing people. So not that different from the first film.
Gary Busey didn't come back to play the Gingerdead Man. And with the film happening on the set of a low budget horror film we get bombarded with lots of inside movie nerd jokes.
The acting is kind of crap. But thankfully the FX work is decent.
Gingerdead Man 2 gets a C.
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: Stephen King Cinema: Cujo (1983)
Cody's Film, TV, and Video Game Blog: Stephen King Cinema: Cujo (1983): As cheesy and over-the-top as that old DVD cover is, I had to put it here rather than the theatrical poster, as I normally do, because it ...
31 Days of Horror Day 25 Horror Hall of Fame
Source-VHS rip on Youtube
While I saw and loved the early 90s Horror Hall of Fame TV specials, until a few weeks ago I didn't know that in 1974 a one hour special with the same title was broadcast.
Hosted by horror legend, not long after his long run with AIP,Vincent Price. This hour long special isn't bad. We get clips from various horror films. And a decent line up of horror genre vets. People like John Astin,Frank Gorshin and John Carridine.
The special feels like a tv version of Famous Monsters of Filmland. Lots of cheesy jokes and puns. Overall it is entertaining. But I doubt most people under the age of 30 would enjoy this.
Anyways if you want to see this search YouTube. There is a few uploads of it on the site.
Horror Hall of Fame gets a C.
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