Remote viewing, psychometry, can require sensory deprivation. What might you be able to see?
Thursday, 27 October 2022
Vamptober 2022 27: Something To Unlive For
Vamptober 2022 27: Something To Unlive For
“When the Symphony Orchestra returns for the autumn season, and I always hope for some Brahms in the year’s programme.”
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Huntober 2022 26: Light In The Darkness
Huntober 2022 26: Light In The Darkness
“Always good to get a coffee before heading home.”
“Yeah. And it’s a nice sunrise.”
Vamptober 2022 26: Fight Until The Last Drop
Vamptober 2022 26: Fight Until The Last Drop
“You killed me! I’m gonna return the favour.”
Star Wars: Andor 1.08: Narkina 5
Star Wars: Andor
1.08: Narkina 5
Are we doing a prison break episode? I hope soon, this is making me antsy.
Is the prison a bit THX 1138? A bit.
(And why is the music a bit Vangelis?)
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Neil Gaiman, Bloody Sunrise
Neil Gaiman and FourPlay String Quartet, featuring Lara Goodridge, Bloody Sunrise. A first single from their debut album Signs Of Life, about an amusingly forlorn vampire.
Huntober 2022 25: The Reason I Hunt
Huntober 2022 25: The Reason I Hunt
“It’s not safe to carry photos of your loved ones if they’re still around.”
Vamptober 2022 25: Faith(less)
Vamptober 2022 25: Faith(less)
“May the light of Caine guide you through the night.”
Monday, 24 October 2022
Vamptober 2022 24: The Masquerade
Vamptober 2022 24: The Masquerade
“Jane Doe, about the right age and size. Once we crash and burn your car someone will take care of the paperwork and your family can have a closed casket service.”
Sunday, 23 October 2022
Huntober 2022 23: Forbidden Artefact
Huntober 2022 23: Forbidden Artefact
A driftwood cross with a figure made of bent old nails. Someone went to a lot of work on this to ward something...
Vamptober 2022 23: Can Vampires Feel Love?
Vamptober 2022 23: Can Vampires Feel Love?
“I just wish I could have met you before. You could have heard my heart beat too.”
Comedy Wildlife Photography Award finalists
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Award finalists, more of them cute than embarrassing this year.
Saturday, 22 October 2022
Huntober 2022 22: Weapon Of Choice
Huntober 2022 22: Weapon Of Choice
“A short sword like a gladius doesn’t have the hacking power of something longer and heavier, but you can wield it one-handed easily and it fits in a laptop bag.”
Vamptober 2022 22: Fashion Never Dies
Vamptober 2022 22: Fashion Never Dies
“The Little Black Dress is a timeless classic going back nearly a century. Ditto.”
Freaky
Freaky
2020
Trailer with narration not featured in the film
The release date was part of the high concept. Freaky Friday The 13th.
Because it’s a body-swap comedy between a masked slasher and a Final Girl.
(Although due to delays we finally got it in cinemas here on a non-13th Friday. By that point they could have just waited six weeks for the next one.)
So I watched the DVD on Friday the 14th, but we work with what we have.
You know how in movie posters they put the star names on top with the biggest star on the left and then a bunch of character pictures with them in the middle so some of the names and faces don’t line up? That always bugs me. But for this poster the mismatching names are on purpose...
(It’s a bit of a spoiler because we don't get to the chainsaw till the end.)
From Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon, making a career out of Buffyish horror-comedy spins on modern fantasy plots, it’s brisk and funny and silly-gory. (And has a bit of the “establish a normal day” bit that HDD required, to show how different our hero’s days before and after are.)
It takes almost half an hour to get to the swap, which surprised me because it’s the central concept you know about going in.
I was expecting it to stick to TV or movie type teen dialogue but it has some more realistically rough language in there.
Tagged for The Watch House because Milli and Ziggy did a body swap episode, and I threatened a Milli and Victoria one as well.
Wreck
Wreck
BBC Three, 2022
BBC Three, the “youth” channel, was home to the original Being Human so after a few years online-only it came back to broadcast with a couple of horror shows in its 2022 schedule. Red Rose was about a group of school leavers under attack on and offline from a lifestyle app that knew far too much, and Wreck, running now for spooky month and all online here, is a comedy slasher set around the young staff of a cruise ship. Our hero is the brother of the girl we see jump rather than be killed by the slasher disguised in the ship’s mascot costume, who signs on to find out what happened to her. On the way we get mysteries, conspiracies, romances, and danger in unexpected places. (It’s not the only genre-adjacent series where I’ve seen a fight in a ball pit due to Psychoville, but it’s still unusual.) It’s tonally very swingy but the setting adds a lot.
(And of course I’m thinking how it could work as a game setting.)
The Twilight Zone (2019)
The Twilight Zone
2019-20
Previous TV revivals of The Twilight Zone used the name and the approximate format for anthologies of short SF/F/H stories, but this one, produced and hosted by Jordan Peele, is expressly about The Twilight Zone as a source of ideas and images. Every episode has visual references and quotes in the press kit, Peele plays the on-screen narrator like Rod Serling, and one of the episodes in the opening double bill is Nightmare At Thirty Thousand Feet. There are a couple of great episodes here but it doesn't always work. Though that was always true of The Twilight Zone.
One advantage this version had is that streaming meant episodes could vary wildly in length, especially in season two, so only a couple overstay their welcome. (Although 8 manages it for me despite being one of the shortest.) My favourite here is A Small Town, a light-hearted take on sympathetic magic.
No Exit
No Exit
2022
Trailer
Getting caught up on my 31 Days, 31 Horror Movies reviews.
No Exit came out in February to basically no fanfare at all. Adapted from a novel I’d never heard of, and not the Sartre play of the same name - although it does have a tiny cast of strangers in an isolated location so could probably be a play too.
It centres on Darby, an addict in rehab to avoid jail time when she receives a call that her mother’s in hospital and leaves without permission, and then gets stuck in a snowstorm with a handful of other people in a park visitors’ centre. And then discovers one of the vehicles in the parking lot has a child bound and gagged inside.
Directed by Damien Power, maker of the Australian kidnap horror-thriller Killing Ground, this is also a kidnap gone wrong in a dangerous isolated environment. It plays like a mystery to begin with before shifting into a thriller that plays like a mostly serious take on the Coen Brothers or Fiasco RPG “desperate people making things worse” crime subgenre, and like them it includes some really nasty violence once it ramps up, some wince-inducing and some gallows humour, and it has some “oh really?” twists, but it’s a much more humane film than Killing Ground (which I found pretty unpleasant) and I liked it overall.
Disney+ Star here, Hulu in the US. In the Halloween section rather than the Horror section, which seems wrong.
Friday, 21 October 2022
Huntober 2022 21: If I Was The Monster
Huntober 2022 21: If I Was The Monster
“Did they know their neighbour was a demon? They should have. Doesn’t matter now.”
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