Got carried away in iTunes again
From the unwatched tab:
movies/tv
Best of 2017
For the first time ever, I kept a running tab of the best of every month: for January February March April May June July August September October November December It’s not everything I read/watch/listened to. Just the stuff I dug. And? I had this big idea that I’d peel back through all those, dither and
Favorite Horror Movies of 2017
Feel like I’m posting this too early, as I might get blown away by some movie X over the next five days. But I’ve got ten minutes right now, can get these down and in order, I think—with the caveat that I’ve yet to see Hounds of Love or Raw or Prevenge or Super Dark
The Last Jedi
I mean, first, yeah, loved it, clapped at the end, c’mon: of course. Â Best part? All the younguns in the audience laughing and talking to the screen. New hope indeed. Second, couple of good links: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/12/18/the-last-jedi-a-mirror-slowly-cracking/ https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-list-of-some-of-the-times-the-last-jedi-told-the-olde-1821396631?
Process
This is what writing is: you throw a lot of stupid stuff at a wall, then see what sticks. And you never really understand it enough to do it like that again, and, meanwhile, people say it means this and that, and for reasons you can’t figure out, the story lasts, even though it was
File under: Costumes I Need
This is probably only funny if you grew up watching Perfect Strangers—”Perfect Stranger Things” feels like a Jeopardy! question to a mashup answer—but never mind all that. What matters here? This costume. I wonder how that face petals opens like that? Animatronic? Air? I mean, the spindly fingers are useless, but so what. And I
So cool
This shot of Bruce the shark about to eat little Alex Kintner in #JAWS was cut from the film. pic.twitter.com/TpFXQAsn7Y — Stan Winston School (@SWinstonSchool) November 7, 2017
The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders
Home invasion done the Wes Anderson way. I’d somehow missed this, until the SNL Halloween special. Can’t embed the video, but I can link it, anyway.
The Elvis Room at Bloody Disgusting
Thanks to Andrew Schwarz for taking the story, making a short film from it. WORLD OF DEATH Ep. 126.5 – The Elvis Room
Halloweenie Flicks
Say it’s four days before Halloween, and you want to cue up some Halloween happiness, kind of sample across the subgenres, try out two or three different tones. Here’s what I rec: Murder Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_DqgxNR7U My favorite horror is always closed-door horror, And Then There Were None style. This isn’t quite as twisty as Agatha
Slasher season 2
I never even reviewed the first season, did I, from when this was a Chiller show? It was fun. It was kind of a ‘grown-up’ slasher. Well, it wasn’t teens-at-camp, anyway. The victim pool’s problems weren’t “what about curfew?” or “where’s the party,” but real, mortgage-paying actual-life kind of problems. There was a wicked knife,
Skiffy & Fanty (longer interview)
That one from a few days ago was a spotlight/author kind of thing. This is a conversation about horror, with other hosts, other horror writers: https://skiffyandfanty.com/2017/10/23/338indigenoushorror/
The Spoilers & the Spoiled
Nightmare On Elm Street TV ad with spoilers! @ShockWavesPod @LangenkampH #horror #FreddyKrueger pic.twitter.com/1B7P9rsrrB — Scott Plissken (@scottplissken) October 21, 2017
New Elvis Room trailer
whipped up special for Another Hole in the Head film fest: The Elvis Room | official trailer from Andrew Schwarz on Vimeo.
Up at the Stanley again
And this time, CU put together the coolest little trailer ever: Click here for more info.
The Films of October
Cannot cannot cannot WAIT for these two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPh0ZM4_eOc [ here‘s Adam Cesare talking about Tragedy Girls ] As for stuff I’ll likely rewatch this month, just because they’re great and I’m in the mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHSbUMVDE0 But there’ll be a lot more midst and among these, of course. Which very likely includes It again.
Sci-fi Horror
So cool. Thanks to Josh Viola for the headsup. This has a Clive Barker monster and some John Carpenter tension.
Two great tastes
that go great together. Who knew:Â [ also, I guess I don’t understand what “MoneyMarket” is. Is this a commercial? I don’t know/care. Which, yeah, means they’ve probably got me . . .]