Oooh, Neil Marshall directed the Blackwater episode for Game of Thrones! <3
Sunday night’s dinner: a slab of spice-rubbed ribs, buttered corn, and ice-cold pitcher of Kool-Aid. That glorious baby was in the oven for six hours. Meat is so tender, it’s falling off the bones. Slow and low is always the way to go.
I finally sat down and watched the movie adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door. I’ve avoided it for the longest time despite good reviews, because I knew it was going to agitate the hell out of me. Movies like this always do. Even more so when it’s based on a true story.
Ugh. I needs me some Adventure Time or Chowder or Gumball. Or I dunno, some happy Disney shit.
Currently playing The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. It’s supposed to be a Game Boy port for Link to the Past (SNES), but eventually became a story of its own.
I gots a GBA/GBC emulator on my DS (LameBoy) and it’s filled with old school games. Now to figure out how to activate the save state option, i.e. resuming exactly where I left off.
Day 11 - The Most Underrated Film You’ve Seen
Underrated in the sense that I only found out about this recently. I’m always looking for campy ’80s horror flicks and I don’t know why this never came up in any of my searches before. I must have been looking in the wrong places. For shame.
I’d post an image of this really awesome/horrifying/what-the-fuck scene, but it’s spoiler-y. Oh, who am I kidding. I don’t care.
GRAAAAAAHWTFAAAAH. XD
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Damn it, I was doing so well with this challenge. I should be on Day 23 by now. Bah.
Day 10 - The Most Overrated Film You’ve Seen
I don’t know about being the most overrated, but I certainly don’t get the hype about this one. It’s supposed to be this really great tribute to the slasher genre, with numerous horror references (Robert Englund as “Dr. Loomis”), familiar cameos (Kane Hodder who played Jason several times in the Friday the 13th movies), openly discussing famous slashers (Jason, Freddy, Michael), and typical horror tropes (final girls).
I must be stupid because every fricken horror website has a positive review. I dunno, maybe I didn’t like it because I found Leslie Vernon annoying. Or that they took the mysticism out of the genre and grounded it in reality. Kinda like what Kevin Tanchawhatshisface did to Mortal Kombat. Whatevs.
Day 9 - A Film with Your Favorite Actress
I love scream queens and Angela Bettis is one of my favorites. She plays the title character in May, a painfully shy woman with a lazy eye. She’s lonely and her only friend is Suzie, a glass-encased doll from her mother.
There’s something curiously endearing about May that I can’t help but fall in love with her. It’s a dark, sad story with a horrifying ending—undoubtedly one of the best horror movies that came out in the last decade.
Day 8 - A Film with Your Favorite Actor
Not many people take me seriously when I say I love Van Damme, which is fine because clearly, they have no appreciation of movies with proper action and shit.
In Hard Target, Van Damme saves a young woman from thugs and ends up helping her look for her missing father. Lance Henriksen (I swear, he’s everywhere) plays the bad guy, with Arnold Vosloo as his right-hand man.
Trivia! Hard Target was John Woo’s first American film and Sam Raimi was one of the producers.
Day 7 - A Film by Your Least Favorite Director
Lars von Trier’s Melancholia starts with a slow freaking ass motion of nothing (ahem, I mean, *artsy* nothing) that went on for six minutes, maybe more. In a nutshell, the movie is about depression and the end of the world.
Ugh. I am too insipid to understand art films or appreciate von Trier. I was hoping to see Alexander Skarsgard’s ass. No dice. Kirsten Dunst showed her tits, though. Okay, that, I can appreciate.
Day 6 - A Film By Your Favorite Director
I have a number of favorite directors (Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Alexandre Aja, to name a few) but Park Chan-wook is my latest. His movies (Oldboy, the Vengeance trilogy, Thirst) are some of the most beautiful I’ve seen—exquisite shots, heartfelt stories, and tragic endings.
Simpan (Judgement) is a short film from 1999, shot mostly in black and white. Set in a morgue, the film shows humanity’s greed and the lengths they go to for money.
