Well, Halloween has once again come and about gone. I decided my Halloween "night movie" would once again be Halloween III: Season of the Witch. I just won't go into details on its many flaws, but the look and sound, the genuine feel of what lies in wait for innocent children thanks to the intimidating Dan O'Herilhy, is solid Halloween entertainment. The Stonehenge (one of the stones being transported and used as a cosmic weapon that can produce bugs and snakes protruding from an insignia attached to the masks), why the killer mask maker wouldn't just kill Challis (Tom Atkins) and be rid of him instead of creating an android out of Ellie (Elkin) to later try and murder him, the time zones that would disrupt the power of the cosmic destroyer when the commercial signal was televised to all the children, and the continuance of commercials showing up on television non-stop; all of these moments that are questionable, do sort of provoke us into debating the weaknesses of the script. Still, at the end, when Challis tries unsuccessfully to halt the commercials, the impact of the horror that comes with his inability to stop the signal resonates.
When I woke up, I watched two Price films (The Tingler & House of Wax), and Christopher Lee in a rare and refreshing heroic role as the adversary of a Satanic cult (led by a formidable Charles Gray) before Halloween III. The Tingler is a film I just love and try to watch every October. But I typically watch it towards the middle of the month. It is one of those films that really works as a nice second week horror viewing while his Corman Poe films serve as the latter month entertainments regarding Price. For the first month, no Corman films made it into October probably since 2007. Pit & the Pendulum and House of Usher are October standards, but this year I just couldn't find the time. This saddens me, but night shift at my job really dynamited any desire to really get many of the movies I had in mind in this month. I still think the month went well, but no Corman or Naschy films does rather disappoint me. You can't win them all. But the creature that is born out of fear crawling around and being so strong, and the masterfully funny nightmare sequences that bring on panic death to a married couple (Castle toys with what exactly is real or brought on by guilt). Price is very subdued, only really somewhat campy during his LSD trip, the acid used to bring on fear and experience it in an experiment. Again, in a Castle film Price and his wife hate each other, their bone of contention being her sister and his colleague (a couple, they are) and inheritance money. The screaming faces at the beginning, and creature itself obviously pulled by a string just entertain me so.
I'm closing the night with Dead of Night which comes on next. I have written a rather satisfying review of it in the past, so I'll just wrap things up for this month and say that it's been swell. For sure, October 2015 was so much better than 2014. 2012, however, is still among my blog's best years ever. So to another October, I'm thankful I had a chance to once again spend time on the blog...but I'm positively exhausted and just a bit burned out.
When I woke up, I watched two Price films (The Tingler & House of Wax), and Christopher Lee in a rare and refreshing heroic role as the adversary of a Satanic cult (led by a formidable Charles Gray) before Halloween III. The Tingler is a film I just love and try to watch every October. But I typically watch it towards the middle of the month. It is one of those films that really works as a nice second week horror viewing while his Corman Poe films serve as the latter month entertainments regarding Price. For the first month, no Corman films made it into October probably since 2007. Pit & the Pendulum and House of Usher are October standards, but this year I just couldn't find the time. This saddens me, but night shift at my job really dynamited any desire to really get many of the movies I had in mind in this month. I still think the month went well, but no Corman or Naschy films does rather disappoint me. You can't win them all. But the creature that is born out of fear crawling around and being so strong, and the masterfully funny nightmare sequences that bring on panic death to a married couple (Castle toys with what exactly is real or brought on by guilt). Price is very subdued, only really somewhat campy during his LSD trip, the acid used to bring on fear and experience it in an experiment. Again, in a Castle film Price and his wife hate each other, their bone of contention being her sister and his colleague (a couple, they are) and inheritance money. The screaming faces at the beginning, and creature itself obviously pulled by a string just entertain me so.
I'm closing the night with Dead of Night which comes on next. I have written a rather satisfying review of it in the past, so I'll just wrap things up for this month and say that it's been swell. For sure, October 2015 was so much better than 2014. 2012, however, is still among my blog's best years ever. So to another October, I'm thankful I had a chance to once again spend time on the blog...but I'm positively exhausted and just a bit burned out.
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