This last week has been the balls! Firstly, The Sox won the world series in a stunning show that was as dramatic as the ’04 post-season minus Schilling’s bloody sock. The only way it could have been any better is if I managed to make it down to Boston for the parade but I’ll settle for Theo re-signing Mike Lowell.
Secondly, tonight is Halloween, bitches! Last night our town did trick or treating and since I live in a densely populated area otherwise located out in the sticks, they truck the kids in on wagons and they run wild on our neighborhood for a couple of hours. To my dismay, the level of creativity in costuming is on the decline again. I can’t count how many kids just showed up in whatever they wore to school and held out their bags like I was supposed to get it:
“Oh, I see, you’re supposed to be an underachieving tween who is going to grow up and be a pro skater. Good luck with that. You get pretzels. The kids behind you in the costumes get the candy. Egg my house and die. I know where you live.”
But who gives a shit, right? Fuck candy. This time of year is like Christmas to me. Crisp autumn air, early sundown and the spooky je ne sais pas about New England in October. I settled down last night to sample this years Monsterfest on AMC which has been a dogshit film fest for the last few years but at least they’re showing the Friday the 13th sequels this year instead of Halloween 6 five times a day. Sure, those sequels are Friday 3 and Friday 7 but I’ll take it however I can get it. In spite of what you may think about Friday 8, Friday 3 with or without 3D glasses is the most useless sequel of the bunch and Friday 7 is just fucking ridiculous when the guy leaps out of the lake at the end and pulls Jason down. Seriously, Frank Mancuso, Jr., what the hell? I see where they’re going, though. Friday 3 finally introduces the famous Red Wings mask and Friday 7 introduces Kane Hodder as Jason.
The true question, however, is what to watch tonight? I have a growing stack of flicks to take in, some Halloween appropriate, like Fulci’s House By The Cemetery and Deodato’s House On The Edge Of The Park for a house themed double feature or the requisite Carpenter classic, Halloween and some not-so-horror themed flicks like Golgo 13, the Lonewolf and Cub movies and Shinya Tsukamoto’s recent Nightmare Detective.
I guess we’ll see.
November 1, 2007 7:45 pm
I watched Halloween. Going to make it a regular halloween ritual to watch the John Carpenter classic. I just didn’t get a chance to get to the video store or get in Netflix of any other horror film for last night. Oh well. at least I got a review written for From Beyond. Definitely check out the director cut. Lots of goriness that was cut out from the theaterical release.