The Labyrinth

Nx. 1:41 fantasy. Adventure Musical David bowie Jennifer connelly

Never watched before not sure why tho

JC plays Sarah who has to sit her baby bro for her father and step mother. the baby just cries and she wishes the goblins would take him.

Pic of labyrinth (path?) Through door to right, right and through wall at the worm.

Things are not always what they seem in there
Some effects have aged badly but I still like the part with those fire creatures

Very Alice in wonder land + wizard of oz..Snow white
and I think 2 harry Potter places Hogwarts and hogshead come from the dwarf in this.

there’s A little action

Bowies voice in the beginning of a number reminds me of
??? From the worst witch movie

Maybe I would have liked better as a kid but I think Bowie sort of freaked me out back then (just in the ads for this???) for some reason.

Though in a sense it was like watching the muppet show. (Wonder if that’s streaming anywhere)

The Matrix (Resurrections)

This is not only a review of the new movie but of the franchise as They came out well before I had a blog.

Being as The new Movie was going to be on HBO Max for a limited time, I was lucky enough that they had the first 3 movies as well. So I wanted to rewatch them as I don’t remember much. With the re-watch I know why.  Honestly the first movie was great back then but on the re-watch of them… Some of the visual effects are starting to get dated.  Some worse than others. 

Matrix

trinity gets Caught for hacking and does she get arrested….
I still don’t get how they travel through (?) The phones.

Neo sells programs or something illegally

Billy the Kid vs Dracula

1966    Horror, Comedy, Western  John Carradine  (as Dracula/James underhill)    Chuck Courtney, Melinda Plowman

This was on MEtv’s Svengoolie show on Saturday night @ 8 est (u.s.)

Just the title gives me a bit of a laugh cause it just sounds so silly

Billy the Kid has given up his lawless quick-draw life to marry Betty. He’s working on her family’s ranch and has a tendency to put himself into police business.

Betty’s Aunt (or was it her mother) was coming with her uncle James who Betty never met. Dracula is in the coach with them, but it looks like day time WTF!?

Universal Legacy Classics

I love to watch the old black and white horror movies, even if its just mysteries. I think the black & white adds to the creepy & suspenseful ambiance of the movies, and 2. I almost could not decide which to review!

I looked through the movies that were and being as I’ve seen (I think) all of the Universal Studios Legacy collection (more or less): Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, The Wolfman’s Lon Chaney Jr. & Boris Karloff in The Mummy as well as Frankenstein and I forget who played the Creature from the Black Lagoon.   I thought maybe one of those then I also saw Carnival of Souls, Nosferatu (though may have been the new one), House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price, The Raven Starring Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi and I may have seen the Bride of Frankenstein long ago But I’m not sure at all if I’ve seen The Hunchback of Notre Dame and (however if a  Silent film… I think I’ve only been able to watch one of those in my life.

Ultimately I came to the conclusion to review Dracula,  as best I can (being it’s been awhile) and that I love Dracula, Vampires and Bela Lugosi

 

 

 

 

Halloween Horror Movies for your marathon

There are just some things that Halloween (the holiday) is synonymous for. Comfortable temperatures (at least usually for lower New York) Colorful Trees ablaze with a fiery rainbow of leaves, and HORROR!

This is the time of year that the people who don’t normally watch horror movies, likely do. (My mom won’t ever watch a horror movie again! She saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) in the theater and something happened after she saw it so I can barely ever get her to watch even a chick movie or children’s movie that seems worth the watch! Yep I’m a lady and call them chick movies. (Frankly they are just a small step up from Lifetime and hallmark movies. Same crap but MAYBE in the theater you get better acting)

Frankly in October I like Horror and Gore. Sadly I don’t get scared by horror movies, (rare if ever something might creep me out or something to that effect same with a gross out) frankly when you live off of an Elm Street in the height of the movies’ popularity and End up having a basement that reminds you of parts of the movies, Yeah I’m just jaded, desensitized and whatever other words I can ‘t think of at the moment to describe it.

So here I give you some staples to watch including my favorites, what I plan to watch this year and an assortment of those I thought fit best

If I watch anything that impresses me,  I’ll add it (same with  anything else I think of)

Daily Dead’s Class of 1989: Let’s Celebrate The Year When Robert Englund Was EVERYWHERE

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Class of Nuke’em High

1986      R              B-movies    Troma Studios    Horror, Schlock,

 

Menu Options: 

“Creature Presentation”

Scenes we thought we lost

Nuke’em High Fearbook

Extracurricular activities

Troma interactivities

coming DVD distractions

Credits

 

Troma High is around a mile away (give or take) from the new nuclear power plant, which suffers a malfunction that turns the students from honor society Nerds to drug dealing bikers that look like they belong in a mad max film. The lazy manager (owner?) of the plant has his head up his ass or maybe that’s actually his head he sits on while thinking with the opposite. Looks like he ate part of the plant and ‘atomic pot’.

One of the things I like about Troma movies is they are so out there. The acting ight not be the greatest among other things but you know what to expect, sort of like Marvel studios movies they’re either great or may be a bit average (which for them is better than the regular average movie) It’s nice to take a B-movie breather from the Hollywood horde every now and then.

Quite a bit goes on in the movie and I’ll be honest it’s been a few months since I’ve watched it as I’m trying to get caught up on writing my movie reviews (since September or October)

I’d recommend giving a watch as this one is normally well known not to mention a classic of Troma. Find the movies but I’d advise if you are going to watch more than one, please do not watch more than 2 in one sitting as I swear I’ve done it before your brain will melt watching more than that.

here’s a line up of their other films

 

 

Beauty and the Beast

2017       PG        Live Action Musical Adaptation  Family Fantasy  2:09  Blu-ray     Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Dan Stevens

Some may know the story since they were kids, but I was never interested in reading or hearing it. I liked Sleeping Beauty, there’s a dragon in it! Maybe that should have been a warning what I’d turn out like.

Emma Watson made a bit of a character update for her Belle. Who is thankfully a slight update to Disney’s princesses.

Cat and the Canary

1927   unrated   Classic  Silent B/W    Comedy, Horror , Mystery   Laura La Plante

 

The heirs of Cyrus West must spend a night in his creepy manse 20 years After his passing to claim their inheritance.

Annabelle West (Laura LePlante) is first in line but must be of sound mind to do so, as all of them claimed Cyrus to not be in his right mind plus she also must find the West diamonds. Of course where there are heirs, like in the middle ages, there is of course one that tries to take it into their own hands by scheming.

Murder on the Orient Express

A retelling of the classic by Agatha Christie set on the Orient Express train we ride through Europe when a passenger

is slain which makes everyone aboard a suspect.

I can see the mustachioed chap is going to be amusing. He steps in shit then says “its just an imbalance”   then steps in it with the other foot!!