Tag: horror movies

With a Twist

Watched Oddity last night. Now THAT’S my kind of horror movie! It was mostly suspense with a handful of ghoulish jump-scares. It had been a long time since I watched a movie by peeking out over a throw pillow held up to my face, ready to stifle a scream at any moment. I’m just glad it was only an hour and 38 minutes long. I was starting to wonder if I was putting my ticker at risk, heh.

Not much more to say today, kids. After work I emptied and moved my home office furniture, put down my new rug, and moved everything back in. Now my back feels like today’s twisty-turny licorice candy, Twizzlers, so I’m going to call it a day. Anyone else use the big ones as straws when you were a kid?

No Home Runs Here

Ended up watching The First Omen last night. Or, I should say “watching,” because my laundry was more interesting and a far less ridiculous. The soundtrack clobbered everything. Too much old-school warbling, like a 90-year-old woman doing her best impression of a theremin, “oooooOOOOOoooooo.”

It was clownish, although not as clownish as all the heavy breathing, as though Nell Tiger Free spent half the movie running uphill with a vibrator in her underwear.

The whole thing was too much cliche, not enough suspense and build-up. I don’t know why so many people on Reddit thought it was great. Does Reddit skew young these days? I do feel that Gen Z and Alphas are more easily frightened than I was at that age, so if Reddit has passed to the younger generations, it would make sense if they found The First Omen scary.

Tonight’s flick, Late Night with the Devil was much better, although that wouldn’t have been too difficult. Great concept: A talk show host brings on a psychic, a possessed 13-year-old girl and her parapsychologist, and a skeptic. Demonic mayhem ensues. There were some good moments, but the ending jumped around a bit too much for me and the whole thing left too many questions unanswered.

However, they did mention Reggie Jackson and the Reggie candy bar, so here’s tonight’s candy, named after the famous baseball player after he hit three home runs in three swings and had five home runs in the 1977 World Series. These were pretty good, like a softer version of a basic turtle candy.

It’s not even 10:00 p.m. yet. Maybe I can still find something that will creep me out. I’m off tomorrow for Indigenous People’s Day, formerly known as Columbus Day. I keep telling everyone that if we still want to celebrate Italian heritage and Italian-Americans, October 21st would be a good day. Nothing to do with me wantind a parade on my birthday. Nope. No siree.

Bad horror fan! BAD!

Would you believe I have not seen one horror movie this month yet? Sacrilege! My excuse is that I finally got around to watching Mayans and that was five seasons so I didn’t have time.

But now I’m ready and I have a few on my list based on what I’ve read around the internet. In no particular order:

Late Night With the Devil: A talk-show host releases evil into the world through his viewers’ living rooms.

Oddity: A psychic tackles the mystery of her sister’s murder.

The First Omen: The prequel to the 1971 classic.

Abigail: A kid held for ransom turns out to be evil. Not sure I’ll get to this one. I’ve heard it’s good, but after the Sinister series, very few “evil kid” movies impress me.

Longlegs: An FBI agent chases a serial killer with ties to the dark arts. I’ve read some critical reviews saying that it didn’t live up to the hype, but I don’t watch much TV with commercials so I never saw the hype.

Beau Is Afraid: I am so torn on this one. I love pretty much everything Joaquin Phoenix does, but man oh man, I cannot stand Ari Aster’s penchant for idiotic climaxes. (Midsommar and Heredity, I’m looking at you.)

I did happen to catch a couple of horror flicks in September, though. First was The Black Phone. It was short and ye gods, were the kids in the film violent and foul-mouthed, but the plot was pretty interesting and I appreciated the 80s vibe. The second was Nope, about two ranch owners, a brother and sister, who try to capture video evidence of a UFO after things start falling out of the sky. Somehow Jordan Peele manages to make what looks like a mutant weather balloon unnerving, while also imparting a bit of social commentary.

And now for today’s candy, which is often found at movie theaters but also comes in small, “fun size” boxes for Halloween: Junior Mints! I loved their ooey, gooey minty freshness, except for that one time I got them at the movies and apparently the candy had been exposed to a good bit of heat because all of the pieces had melted and rehardened into one giant Junior Mint. That didn’t keep me from eating it, though.

If you have a movie recommendation, kindly do drop it in the comments. Much obliged!