Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

Well, I have continued to juggle around the movie I want to kick off Midnight. I certainly plan for a "werewolvery" day, and it was for a little while on my mind to do it October 1st. But the more I think about it, the more I'm settling on Phantasm as the opening film. One thing's for sure...this year Paul Naschy will be making the cut with some of his El Hombre Lobo movies. I will actually have a couple of First Time Views, with "Magic Sword" & "Yeti" movies involving Naschy's cursed lycanthropy. I would love to find a copy of Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (or, my title for it, Mark of the Wolfman), but attaining a copy has been quite elusive. I would love to also include Curse of the Devil, Night of the Werewolf, & Werewolf Shadow, but I guess it'll determine time constraints which have been burdening me the past two years. I found Cry of the Werewolf, a little-known Columbia Pictures gothic horror, directed with what seems to

Well, the blog is going October orange and black for the month in its color scheme as I can't think of any other way to celebrate the month in the style it deserves. The anticipation builds, folks, and only three days away is our annual monthly binge on horror of all kinds. Sure, by the end, exhaustion sets in but kicking it off is always a blast.

There's nothing I quite enjoy than mulling over what my first film will be for Halloween-month (I've grown to feel that Halloween isn't just a day but a month of horror-loving joy). I have about three that are duking it out for the first month. I have a rather obscure Columbia Pictures werewolf movie seemingly inspired by Val Lewton, starring Nina Foch, called Cry of the Werewolf, Murnau's Nosferatu seems just right for Midnight, the witching hour, as October begins as the clock strikes twelve, and an old mainstay, Dracula's Daughter, a film which opened the month for years prior to last year, has crept back into my heart. I decided, after a two-year absence, to rejoin the IMDB horror board for the October challenge (Christianne's banner here ), which requires me to watch 16 new movies along with the old favorites (31 is the goal, which I'm confidant to surpass rather easily), and I have a slew of new horrors I can choose from. What is always interesting is

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Well, October is soon, but FeardotCom is not a film that is on the month's multi-horror docket. Still, William Malone is the kind of director who knows his shit and a good homage never hurts when a character in his film is in passing. Dr. Gogol from Mad Love gets a little love from Malone in his extremely dark neo-noir horror film. The fact that it is Udo Kier passing by it, with a book in hand meant to hint at what is plaguing his psyche while fleeing something quite sinister, adds a nice touch. Malone, still quite inspired, decides to name Udo's character after novelist Polidori, famed for The Vampyre and often mentioned in horror stories due to his link to the genre. FeardotCom is sited as terrible and ugly, but Malone made sure to include winks to horror fans like him.   The film is rather critically reviled (bit of an understatement) and thought of with quite a list of negative comments (choose your substitute in the thesaurus for f

 *** The impact of a drug dealing plan is felt in a number of ways as grocery employees (and those that interact with them) during a night after work encounter unexpected difficulties.

Bosworth looks on as the dangerous waves crash in Blue Crush (2002) I kind of like surfing movies. Point Break is one of my favorite films of the 90s and The Endless Summer films are a pleasant pleasure of mine. While Blue Crush has a plot that isn’t all that extraordinary, I do recall my wife and I seeing it back in 2002, believe it or not. Michelle Rodriguez has been in a little bit of everything since her breakout in Girlfight. Continuing through the Hollywood wave, riding it rather successfully, genre movie after genre movie, Rodriguez has not let her star fade. In Blue Crush, she’s riding shotgun as Kate Bosworth was getting her feet wet as a lead in movies, early in her career. Basically, girlfriends live to ride the waves in Hawaii, supplementing their income with lousy resort jobs. Bosworth has the great potential of becoming a major surfing star if she can overcome the haunt of a dangerous wave that prevents her from going all the way. Rodriguez questions her freezing

* ½ Look, I for one consider abuse porn a disgusting, sickening display that revolts me to the point I want to puke. I prefer to see love-making and sex as a beautiful, sensual experience where women are pleasured, not grotesquely mistreated. I don’t know what kind of psycho-sexual bullshit director Catherine Breillat was putting me through with Anatomy of Hell , but it was certainly like sitting through hell just to get through it without wanting to turn the damn movie off. I guess there is a point regarding an object sticking way out of Amira Casar’s ass or Rocco Siffredi “encouraged” to drink a glass of water with a bloody tampon for added flavor. Maybe Rocco licking menstrual fluid of Casar’s from his fingers, or using a vegetable to bury in Casar’s vagina is a message of some sort. I imagine this is some sort of artistic expression about us scumbag men and unfortunate women who have to deal with us. I’m perfectly aware that plenty of men consider women merely sexual objec