I'm Not There

  Shut up Baby  Two Evil Eyes   is the second entrant into this year’s festival.  I first saw a picture of this movie on a cone head friend’s story and did not recognize the film.  When I asked about it, it turns out it was a directorial duet between Dario Argento and George Romero. I was shocked, SHOCKED that I had not heard of this movie with these fine directors.  I excitedly decided to include it in this year’s festival and to my surprise, it was the second strike in the IFFF.  I did not enjoy this movie despite the directors and Harvey Keitel.  The first section,  The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar reminded me too much of Romero’s other mini- story on the film  Creepshow  with Ted Danson, titled  Something to Tide You Over  , a man is murdered and comes back to life as a bluish zombie creature seeking revenge.  Also, Adrienne Barbeaou starred in this story, much like how she starred in another story in...

  My guts are out Coop!   I’ve been wanting to watch Dog Soldiers for years but I’ve never been able to rent it or see it streaming.  What mane me want to initially watch it was the design of the werewolves and  hearing it was one of the better werewolf films.   After watching this fine film I can agree that the designs are cool although like in Jaws, we don't see them much up close.  As far as the story, if I’m being honest, I lost track of what was going on, there were several expository talking scenes and I tried my best to keep up but as outlined in the previous post, it’s been a challenge. I did notice however, that the pacing is good and Alfred from Gotham plays a major role. And that made me happy.  I don’t recall why there are werewolves in the first place but they look cool and there is blood.  Overall, I would recommend this movie to someone who can pay attention to the many talking scenes.   Welcome to the Halloween season and I...

  This year’s Images of Fright Film Festival has gotten a late start judging by last year’s standards. Interestingly, I’ve been watching several horror movies within the last couple of weeks.  None of them, however, cool enough to write about, several overhyped and underwhelming pieces until tonight when I found the first entry of this year’s festival, a movie which I always wanted to watch and should have watched a long time ago.  Here’s the rub, as they say, it is currently playing on my screen now as I write this and while I am paying attention, something feels off. Not with the film itself but in general.  I steel like I’ve had spiders crawl on me on three separate times today but when I look, I either slapped it away or there was nothing there.  I killed a spider last night and another one about an hour ago so maybe it’s only my brain or their cousins coming to seek revenge.  Also, yesterday I had a beetle fly into a car and land on the steering wheel ...