My favorite movies that I love to watch at Christmastime. Love Actually (2003) This is the perfect movie to watch in the run up to Christmas. It takes place in the 6 weeks before Christmas, It follows 8 couples or separate stories which kind of converge at the end and they are somehow connected. People …
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Walking dead 304 “The Killer Within”.
Please do not read this blog entry if you haven’t yet watched this weeks episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead. First I need to saw just , wow! This episode was so intense, emotional and stressful. This is truly the best season of the show. No one is safe on The Walking Dead. Tonight’s episode …
Horror Series: Halloween
Horror Series Halloween I could never appreciate this series of films until I got married and my husband got me to watch this set of films. Now I love them. We recently completed our series by buying Halloween 4 and 5 on Blu-ray. Halloween (1978) This is the movie which started the …
Remember When we rented from Video Stores??
Remember when we used to go to a store to rent videos?? I find it difficult to wrap my head around the fact that the phenomenon of the video store began and ended in my lifetime. When I was a kid we patronized mom and pop video stores. There was a video store on Route …
Horror Series: April Fools Day (1986)
April Fools Day is one of my all time favorite “horror” movies. I used to have this poster that I poached from a video store (remember those? Another relic of the past gone forever thanks to Netflix and Red box) hung proudly on my purple bedroom walls next to my poster of my beloved two …
Horror Series: Suspiria
Suspiria Suspiria is an old 1977 horror film by Dario Argento, that I saw for the first time at a cast party for a one act play I was in college. Suspiria weaves a menacing tale of witchcraft as a fairy tale gone horribly awry Plot: (from Wikipedia only because I haven’t seen it in …
Horror Series: Final Destination series.
Today I popped in the next to last of the Final Destination series The Final Destination just for fun. This prompted my retrospective of the Final Destination series. These movies are just plain fun. At the time this series of movies came out they were unique in that they had a killer that was unseen …
Horror Series: Further thoughts on Nightmare on Elm Street
I never saw A Nightmare on Elm Street on the big screen when I was a kid. I was just too young (I was 13 years old). So I ended up seeing it a few years later with my friend Sheryl in her TV room. When the original A Nightmare on Elm Street was re …
Paranormal Activity 4
The hubby and I went to see Paranormal Activity 4 this evening. Paranormal Activity 4 was a total stinker. I had some hopes for it but the saga of Katie has overextended itself one too many films. And I’m a person who will give a horror film many chances to redeem itself. The movie recaps …
Horror Series: Friday the 13th
The Friday the 13th franchise was started, produced and directed by Sean Cunningham and was meant to capitalize on the success of Halloween, the mother of all modern slasher films. The series consists of 12 films (if you count the 2009 remake); each progressively increasing in production value and cinematography aesthetic. Friday the 13th. (1980) …