I have to admit that I love to bargain bin hunt. You never know what might turn up. Sure, mainly the mainstream stuff is in there but $5 dollars for a dvd is well worth it if the movie suits my fancy. Some horror movies have yet to make my dvd library, and it isn't really until I see them in the bargain bin that I realize they're no there. Like Shaun of the Dead. It was funny, I noticed Shaun of the Dead in the bin, and my face lit up as I realized this movie has yet to make my collection. While SotD has an incredible reputation (perhaps why the awesome Hot Fuzz gets the shaft in comparison), I thoroughly enjoyed it but after a movie stays on the horror board taking up page after page, some of its magic starts to wane. I think that is why some great horror movies suffer because the tendency for us (and I am definitely not excluding myself) is to overexpose our heartfelt sentiment towards a film we adore. Someone comes along and says, "Really, this movie is overrated." Or, "Seriously, _________ isn't that good." Daybreakers was a film I also noticed in the bin and was ecstatic to see it there. But this is another film that was receiving positive reviews from the likes of me who had took a chance on it at a theater and were pleasantly surprised. When the movie had some buzz on the horror board, certain horror fans began to chime in with, "Really, this movie isn't all that." I am happy to have gotten it for $5 dollars regardless, and I will sure, at some point, drop a review for Daybreakers on here I hope. Drag Me to Hell was one of those that has a poster on the front of the bin, a well recognized "return to form" for Raimi (I enjoyed it, but this is an Evil Dead guy that felt it was just a nice foray into the horror genre, not the kind of movie that should have confetti fall upon its premier.). Still, its a film with some significance, and I love Alison Lohman, a ridiculously underrated actress who seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. I couldn't pass it up; this will probably get a re-evaluation in the future. I just remember thinking, when seeing the ending, how close it resembles Craven's Deadly Blessing..
4th of July 2025 Marathoning
McDowell and Comi prepare to leave for Mars. Aliens visiting the UN, dropping off their cook book, providing goodies for humans on Earth, easing them into trusting them, spiriting them away to be food for them on their home planet. To Serve Man is nearly 60 years ago. I've been watching Twilight Zone since I was a teenager in the mid 90s thanks to Sci Fi Channel. Many of my family have passed since (for instance, my mother's siblings are all about gone except one last sister), and it wouldn't be right to avoid a marathon during the 4th if just for nostalgic reasons. Syfy didn't see the value of TZ on Independence Day, except last year, so even though I cannot watch episodes like I do during New Year's Eve and Day, it is nice to try and sneak in a block of episodes whenever possible. I started with Death Ship from the fourth season, continuing with Stopover in a Quiet Town and The Gift . To Serve Man would feel like a later afternoon watch but SYFY showed it at 3:...
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