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This is Halloween
Oct. 31st, 2005 10:14 amCurrently sitting on the floor, mutant laptop in front of me, with The Shining on the teevee box, thanks to our video collection, because the broadcast box has sunk into a repetitive track of the same horror movies that have already been playing all week - Halloween and Scream, etc., etc., yadda yadda. All of which I watched the first time around this month, for nostalgia's sake, and I probably enjoy the Scream sequels far more than they deserve - am I the only person to get a giggle out of Scream 2's horror sequel "rules," especially since the movie follows practically none of them, save for the speculations on the identity of the killer? "Body count is always bigger," which it wasn't, and "death scenes are always much more elaborate," which they weren't. Hee.
But anyway, our traditional Halloween video party this Saturday - we rolled old classics Phantasm and Re-Animator, as well as a Euro-horror track with Suspira and Return of the Blind Dead, the last chosen because we'd seen one of the other entries in the Blind Dead series, Ghost Galleon and found it great fun. RoftBD, a little less so, but Toys and I still found the classic presentation of the slow-shuffling blind Templar zombies to very satisfying, as compared to the more modern "zoom-bies," or fast zombies, which, in our humble opinion, misses the point of zombies being, you know... dead. Slow. Inexorable. Inescapable. You know. In the same way that a Godzilla who doesn't just stand there and shrug off missiles isn't really Godzilla. Zombies will get you no matter how fast you run. That's a whole different brand of scary.
Have eaten far too much candy corn this week. (And my face is breaking out to prove it.) In another half hour, I'll be going to get my hair redyed - fabulous, glowing red. (My current salon, for which I hair-model for students in a nice, cheap deal for me, was kind enough to call me and remind me that it's about time I got it done.) Tonight, for the holiday, I'll be a new me.
Halloween links for today: The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. Dark But Shining - check out also the links from this page. Lots of good stuff there.
Boo, scary. Haunt someone tonight.
But anyway, our traditional Halloween video party this Saturday - we rolled old classics Phantasm and Re-Animator, as well as a Euro-horror track with Suspira and Return of the Blind Dead, the last chosen because we'd seen one of the other entries in the Blind Dead series, Ghost Galleon and found it great fun. RoftBD, a little less so, but Toys and I still found the classic presentation of the slow-shuffling blind Templar zombies to very satisfying, as compared to the more modern "zoom-bies," or fast zombies, which, in our humble opinion, misses the point of zombies being, you know... dead. Slow. Inexorable. Inescapable. You know. In the same way that a Godzilla who doesn't just stand there and shrug off missiles isn't really Godzilla. Zombies will get you no matter how fast you run. That's a whole different brand of scary.
Have eaten far too much candy corn this week. (And my face is breaking out to prove it.) In another half hour, I'll be going to get my hair redyed - fabulous, glowing red. (My current salon, for which I hair-model for students in a nice, cheap deal for me, was kind enough to call me and remind me that it's about time I got it done.) Tonight, for the holiday, I'll be a new me.
Halloween links for today: The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. Dark But Shining - check out also the links from this page. Lots of good stuff there.
Boo, scary. Haunt someone tonight.