Why can’t Halloween last all weekend?

November 5th, 2008 • chatter
Tags: halloween, movies

So the weekend has come and gone, full of fun events. We did not make it to the haunted house in Miami that we had planned go to go but we did make it to Wicked Manors on Friday. It was pretty fun even though I had a fairly bad migraine all day, partly because of a sleep issue, partly because my cowboy hat didn’t fit at all and squeezed my head. There were some amazing costumes there and some fairly bad ones too. It looked like some of the guys there simply found whatever they had in their closets and put it on and called it a costume, others actually put a lot of work into their costumes and it really showed.

The whole weekend was a blast but I didn’t really want to come back to work. I wanted to hang out in costumes all day and act like Wyatt Earp, minus pistol whipping people. My girlfriend simply looked amazing but I know her costume was quite a production, the hair alone took 4 hours. I’m now beardless and I’m pretty saddened at the fact . I’ve still got a handlebar mustache but the rest of my face feels very cold and naked.

We also saw Zach & Miri Make a Porno and it was quite entertaining. It does well to lampoon some of the absurdities of porn, such as “story lines” or “plots” but was also very well written and pretty hilarious. Jason Mewes was excellent in his role. He really got into his role, if you’ve seen it, you’ll understand what I mean. I’m interested in what Kevin Smith will put in the director’s cut to make it even more raunchy than it already was. I would love to see the porno they were actually making, it has to be hilarious to watch.

So Horrorfest’s over for us

November 11th, 2007 • chatter, movies
Tags: horrorfest, movies

And today wasn’t a total disappointment. We saw the last two movies we had on the list: Tooth & NailNightmare Man. Boy, was Tooth & Nail a let down. It had a somewhat star-laden of Robert Carradine, Michael Madsen, Vinny Jones, and Rider Strong (who died, again). It was a post apocalyptic movie set in Philadelphia and there are two kinds of people: foragers and rovers. Rovers are cannibals — and looked like any actor from a medieval movie — and foragers who were everyone else. It was 94 minutes of slow moving story and very little interest in the characters. all of whom except one had no back story. The only character with a back story was Neon (all the foragers are named after car models) and even then, hers was not terribly interesting. I want my $9.25 back for the movie.

Nightmare Man was, much to our surprise, the campy cheesy horror movie that I thought was missing from the line-up (Horrorfest 2006 didn’t have any) and it delivered on all levels. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing, start to finish. It was very campy and cheesy and even had Tiffany Shepis of Troma fame as a somewhat major role in the movie. I’ll be buying this on DVD because it was that enjoyable. The story is a possession/revenge story that has a good twist at the end (and a cameo from Richard Moll!).

Top 3 favorite movies:

Borderland

Nightmare Man

Mulberry Street

Last day of Horrorfest

November 11th, 2007 • chatter
Tags: horrorfest, movies

Today is our last day of movies for Horrorfest and we’re only seeing two movies: Nightmare Man and Tooth & Nails.

We saw Mulberry Street and Lake Dead. The latter was just a boring incest/slasher flick that I’ve seen before and it was MUCH better the last time I saw it, and it was called Blood Ranch (yes a different movie). Lake Dead was a nice attempt but frankly was very predictable and boring. Mulberry Street was the night favorite for both of us. It was a virus outbreak/infection movie with a psycho twist. The story wasn’t very thcik but given that the movie takes place over 2 days, there’s not a lot of time for plot development and deep character interaction. It was a more sci-fi movie than a real horror movie but it was much better than the other two we saw.

Mulberry Street did everything right for me from the homemade/hi-8 look down to the bad camera angles and a good twist on the outbreak genre. A number of people in the theatre said they didn’t like the movie and wanted a refund but these are the same people that walked in 45 minutes after the movie started and missed the entire set up. These same people walked right out and walked into IMAX Transformers and walked right out because they’re looking for movies they don’t want to pay for.

I’m looking forward to the last two movies and this year we’ll have seen 7 of the 8, with Unearthed being the only one we haven’t seen. That’s better than last year when we only saw 4 of the original 8 movies.

Can’t wait till we go to the theatre in an hour or so.

just saw Crazy Eights

November 10th, 2007 • chatter
Tags: horrorfest, movies

3 movies down, 5 more to go. Crazy Eights is one of the psychological terror movies at Horrorfest and it was a let down. 85 or so minutes of Traci Lords shouldn’t be this boring!

Given the budget of this movie, I think they spent most of it on their cast and not on competent writers who can write a “ghost gets revenge” movie without a ton of plot holes or ended up leaving most of the important parts on the director’s cut.

Next up is Lake Dead, starts in 7 minutes!