Now, you know me and you know I love my scary movies and I know I say I’m excited to see a lot of films, but this is so true for The Long Walk, which is Lao-based director Mattie Do’s third feature film. Why? Let’s watch the trailer together and I’ll break it down for you:
I spent a lot of last year immersed in books. According to Goodreads, I read 91 books. Twenty of those books were for the 2021 Reading Challenge my friend and I decided to participate in since we had so much fun doing a reading challenge the previous year.
I told a friend on Saturday that I was excited to be going to the theaters to see Scream and his response was that Hollywood has run out of good ideas. While normally I would agree because by now you all know how I feel about reboots and remakes, in this case I did not feel like it was a fair judgment. This latest Scream film is not a reboot nor a direct sequel, but something called a “requel,” which is explained very well in the movie.
I was hanging out with a friend once and we were geeking out over Game of Thrones, Thundercats, and some kind of anime that I can’t remember now. Then I asked him if he wanted to join my monthly RPG game, I think my cohort was playing Vampire the Masquerade at the time. He looked me, looked intensely serious and a bit judge-y, and said something to the effect of that being “too geeky” for him. So apparently there are levels of geek and even some geeks are embarrassed by things that are “too geeky”?
“What if I told you the stories you grew up with were all true?”
I love monster movies and one of my favorite sub-categories of monster movies is shark movies. From the campy Sharknado films to the more recent ___, it is a tradition that my stepdad and I have to include shark movies in our viewing nights. And come November, thanks to Shudder, we will have a new one to watch.
Everyone has a different love language, or ways that they prefer to show and receive love. Mine is food. If I feed you, I like you and if you want to show me you care about me, feed me. Did I just make myself sound like Audrey II? I swear I don’t go around demanding for people to feed me, but you would not like me when I am hangry. Where was I? Right. Food.
“Some search for meaning in life. Climbing is the only way I feel alive.”
When it comes to horror films, there are several different subgenres including “virus horror,” which I used to be more excited about before the Covid pandemic. However, a new virus horror film was produced before the pandemic, so I’m still going to watch it and give it a chance.
It is said that at this time of year, the veil between our realm and the spiritual world thins, making it easier for spirits to contact the living. Whether or not you believe the concept, it makes for a great background for some spooky films that deal with death and the afterlife.
I am one of those people who believes that “spooky season” begins September 1st so now that we are in October, it’s basically Halloween. And what better way to celebrate Halloween than to treat yourself with the Universal Classic Monsters Icons of Horror Collection?
Creating a live-action film of anything, whether it be a beloved Disney cartoon or an anime with a cult following, can be risky. Fans get very attached to characters and styles and are not always open to changes that may need to be made in order to make the project happen. Or maybe that’s just me. I have to admit that I scrunched my nose when I heard that Netflix was turning the anime Cowboy Bebop into a live-action film. All I could think of was the mess that was Ghost in the Shell. Shudder. But, Netflix has surprised me and has actually made me smile with their release of the “Lost Session” teaser.
“Do you like scary movies?”
Since writing for this awesome website, I’ve seen many trailers. Sometimes I request to write up particular ones before other writers can claim them, sometimes they are sent to me by the editor because he thinks a film would be my cup of tea. So when he sent me the trailer for The Sadness, which all I could see from a still was that it was some kind of horror film, I eagerly clicked play. There is no other way to write about this trailer than to give you a play by play of my thoughts:
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