Lighting the beacons of Minas Tirith just for the fuck of it.

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

A nice early delivery today from HMV. The @signatureuk.bsky.social Blu-ray release of one of my favourite films this year, the insanely fun "The Toxic Avenger".

Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries. We're looking into the last known sighting of the band on the run, who remain at large. Someone somewhere knows the answer, perhaps that person is watching tonight & perhaps it's you.

Osgood Perkins' "Keeper" felt like a slow descent into a Grimm's tale that's grasping for air in discomfort. I found myself drawn into the claustrophobia of Perkins' style & imagery, while Tatiana Maslany goes full on embracing her role.

Political news is wild.

If I were an immortal in the Highlander universe, I'd be seeking another immortal to decapitate me because living 43 years has been far too long.

Decapitation?

Thia in Predator: Badlands.

How it felt waking up this morning.

It's rare for me to say a film got under my skin, yet Lynne Ramsay's "Die My Love" did. It’s as chaotic as it is haunting & it's up there with the best of the year. Jennifer Lawrence's performance is raw & terrific.

I'm conflicted with "Predator: Badlands" it lacked the thrill of the hunt, yet there's some entertainment. I liked Dek's journey & some of the action. While I liked Elle Fanning's dual roles, her heel turn as Tessa & Thia who came off like Joan Cusack in Toys, got too much.

Predator: Badlands

There's nothing wrong with "Shelby Oaks" being inspired by better films, but it needed to use that inspiration to stand out for itself & it doesn't. Narratively disjointed to the point that the climax doesn’t deliver, but Camille Sullivan's performance carried the film.

Up till 2AM helping a friend out who needed someone to talk to. Now I must go back to becoming Saturn devouring his son.

A Weekend Getaway to Silent Hill.

After watching "Hell House LLC: Lineage" I'm convinced this franchise got lucky to have two decent entries. Who would've thought moving away from the mockumentary narrative would be so lifeless in a horror that struggled to make its way to a comical nothing ending.

John Wilkes Booth was the first celebrity to be cancelled by the woke mob. We should be talking about his contributions to the stage.

How it feels when I finally move the washing off my exercise bike.

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns... I ran off because I'm not staying around that wild shit.

My spooky Halloween costume.

#LastFourWatched And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder & one of the four beasts saying, 'Come and see horrors you won't enjoy'

Somehow I just remembered that stupid line about the patriarchy in The Exorcist: Believer.

Not really sold on the trailer. I hope Stu Macher isn't alive when there hasn't been any meaningful comment to that or it will just seem like fan fiction.

Stranger Things has missed its chance to take a risk which is probably why the trailer comes off as nothing to me & trying to be overly emotional.

Them Chernobyl dogs are blue Da ba dee da ba di, Da ba dee da ba di.

A retelling of White Dog (1982) called White Cat. The cat is trained to get its white fur all over dark clothing.

Pennywise the Dancing Clown should've been made to knock on neighbourhood doors to warn the locals that IT has a thing for children.

"The Ritual", I guess it tried with the old priest with a past & a young priest questioning his faith routine. It's a nauseating watch with the camera work being controlled by a drunk puppeteer.

When the Blade soundtrack plays, glow sticks magically appear in my hands.

My reaction to not being overly keen this month on horror films with a 2025 release date.

"Shadow of God", an exorcism film that tried to be different in a tiresome subgenre, yet the tone is at odds with itself & the poor Raiders of the Lost Ark final act didn't help despite the good payoff. Mark O'Brien's priest is like a beat cop who's seen it all before retirement.

Fucking HELL

The other new 4k + Blu-ray I got today from HMV is the Criterion Collection release of the 1980 Sci-fi Horror "Altered States" by Ken Russell.

Well, October continues to be good for horror physical media releases as I picked up from HMV the Blu-ray of "Weapons" by Zach Cregger.

The Ewoks are Star Wars' Viet Cong.

If I ever say "It's the movie we need in 2025" acting like it can bring political parties together & fix society, you can take me down to the river, talk to me about tending to rabbits & shoot me like how Lennie shot George.

Horror movie idea: the alien from "Altered" vs E.T. & his dumb finger.

Halloween is sorted as I already own the suit, I'm going to be Everett McGill in The People Under The Stairs.

"Push" is another home invasion horror that does an okay job early on showing the scope of the location & the uneasiness from its near faceless antagonist, but it becomes a tensionless slog with a schlocky final act. Alicia Sanz saved it from being worse than borderline fine.

Dr Frankenstein says he's innocent after being accused of being the real monster & rumours of grave robbing is fake news. His interview is coming up at 10:00 PM.

Stronger than ever by dispatching more minor support characters.

Today from HMV, the new Blu-ray release from Arrow Video of one of favourite horror anthology series, Three (2002) & Three... Extremes (2004) with stories directed by Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike, Kim Jee-woon & Peter Ho-sun Chan.