So you’re telling me, after I finally got the laundry in the washer, I also have to wash the dishes? But that’s it, right? They’re clean forever after that, right? No more laundry, no more dishes ever again? Okay I’ll be all right then I can do that much.
Poe is great at just stepping you through someone’s thoughts as they experience some horrifying stuff. And this one’s plot is scant because it really is just meant to force you to sit there with this man’s pain.
I haven’t watched any Frankenstein and Wolf Man crossover movies, but this one appears to be a direct adaptation of the first movie that combines the characters. But it’s also rote and so invested in being faithful that it can’t be as good.
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“You mean that this little pebble has been out there hot roddin’ around the universe?”
It’s a neat monster, though certainly looks like the contents of a can of cranberry sauce. And of course the theme here is how adults don’t believe teens when they try and tell them that there’s some fucked up shit going on. I can see where a lot of alien horror dealing in amorphous threats and digestion/melting would have come from this. Now I look forward to catching that eighties version that gets a lot more gnarly with the visual effects.
New Horror 2023 – Day 16
“There was something in me that was—was simply gibbering with delight.”
Thrills indeed. This guy was down to get familiar, but it turns out that’s not such a great idea. Lots of great detail in describing their liaison, too.
I didn’t realize it until I sat down to try and watch this, but there’s a released version of this movie from the eighties which ended up on VHS and is one of those so bad ya gotta see it sorta movies, evidently caused by numerous production woes and years of editing. The original 1979 version was lost to time until it was rediscovered on a VHS tape and uploaded to YouTube in 2018 as you see it here. I watched the first few minutes of the original release and it’s such a different movie that they need to be categorized separately. This lost version is… fine. Low budget and jumpy editing, but it feels like a much more coherent slasher movie than what I was seeing in the original release.
October Next Fest is over, but your favorite Octosim lives on! The demo’s still up for grabs on itchio, GOG and Steam, so check it out if you haven’t already!
Thanks to everyone who played, wishlisted, spread the word, or shared their thoughts on the demo. It was a huge success!
Real estate horror is some prime and extremely relevant storytelling (also see Dream Home). This one hits in a certain way that ya gotta have the experience to understand.
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“Ahhh! Why did you tell me that?”
“The Fisherman” by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)
Oh man, this is fun but too short! I need a part 2.
I loved this. It’s unsettling and choices are made that leave you questioning just where the story’s going to go, and it’s always nice to find something that twists and turns that way. Beyond that, it just lands for anyone who was glad to get the fuck away from childhood horrors.
New Horror 2023 – Day 14
“Under my fingers, an unambiguous growth.”
“Menopause” by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)
A subject I should learn more about and yet have no idea how to ask. As always, a bit of fiction helps expand things in a limited but critical way.
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“The crowd is hushed in a moment of pre-climactic reflection…”
This is… just torture? Just torture to torture. There’s no comeuppance for a character who’s done wrong nor a twist reveal about the character’s secret dark past. It’s just a torture maze at an amusement park.
The supernatural bent makes it appropriate to the season, so it fits. But like the other recent Poirot movies, it’s a big heap of comfort watching. Perhaps that’s just all detective fiction. You know some horrible things will happen to someone(s), but the detective will get the culprit(s) in the end.
