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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 15, 2014 0:43:59 GMT -5
After about a three month hiatus our film competitions are back. This month the theme will be something I lost to LOB once before (I started out strong ,but LOB both outlasted and outpaced me) and want to avenge... anthology films. The rules are as follows:
1 point for any horror anthology show an hour in length or two shorter 30 minutes episodes 2 points for any non-horror anthology film (for example Pulp Fiction or Amores Perros) 3 points for any anthology horror film (hour or more in length, which is standard)
I will beat you and continue riding my wave of momentum into the big competition next month!
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 15, 2014 19:15:12 GMT -5
Good to start these up again. It bummed me out not to be competitive.
I think you will win this month, but I am planning for many single point viewings and a smattering of three pointers. I will be rewatching the previous shorts and anthologies from our last go around. I just have to find the DVDs as I have them boxed up.
I start tomorrow and will have a few points to report on Wednesday, my next day off.
Cheers to these competitions!
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 26, 2014 14:11:21 GMT -5
Last night at four in the morning I finished an eleven hour work day without a break, and a sixty hour work week bartending at FantasticFest, the second largest Horror and Sci-fi genre film festival in the world. I saw zero movies while working but bought a copy of the Horror anthology The ABC's of Death and the damned DVD didn't play so I will exchange it tonight. Oh yeah, I had a "cloping" scenario. I closed Sunday night and opened Monday morning, I "clopened" and slept thirty minutes because I had to do the post-work dog stuff, the pre-work dog stuff, and I was on my third wind which requires three hours for me to fall asleep, so roughly thirty minutes before I woke up I managed to doze off. Aaaargh! And many of my co-workers and my self caught a bug, the "Fantastic Flu" What a looooong and horrid week.
The good news is I am cutting back my shifts at this job and starting an easier and better paying job on weekends next week, still bartending, but I dig bartending when I can BANK which I believe I will. So a Cheers! to next week and an easier life for this old bastard that I have become.....
I have watched five episodes of The Twilight Zone's first season from 1959. They were all beautifully shot and the acting was top-notch. Only three episodes had what I felt to be any elements of Horror and I am stretching a bit. One was about Death personified, one had creepy-ass music and a terrified and screechy maid and a film agent of an aging actress, and one was about the monsters we humans can become and an alien invasion's preparatory steps. In that order, they were "One for the Angels", "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine", and "The Monsters are due on Maple Street". The last one is a classic must watch episode to me. I also watched but won't count "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" and the premier episode of the show, "Where is Everybody?". "Where is Everybody" also is a must watch for Twilight Zone fans.
Time for a two hour nap, and back to work.
LOB-1.5
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 1, 2014 2:14:56 GMT -5
First I watched one more episode of The Twilight Zone, one that I first enjoyed as a little kid during an annual Twilight Zone Marathon. "The Hitchhiker" is like all episodes of Rod Serling's classic teevee series absolutely beautifully shot. This is the tale of a young woman driving from New York City to California who keeps seeing the same mousy little man in a grey suit hitchhiking. State after state. A big recommend. Half a point.
Then I watched three Horror anthologies three-pointers for nine more points.
The first movie was low budget poop. I have watched it before but I am a glutton for punishment. Tales from the Grave (2005) was terrible including the close-ups of a rat portraying a giant rat monster. Poop, poop, poop.
Next I re-watched Chillerama (2011)by Adam Green of Hatchet fame and his pals which I always consider perverse but fun freakin' times. And Kane Hodder plays Meshuganeh. I recommend it to some people especially those with a pervert's sense of humor.
Last I watched Campfire Stories (2003) which is low-budget Horror at it's best. It had a cameo by The Misfits at the ending. An effective flick especially the last story.
LOB-11
Now I wait to see what JAS pulled off, and knowing him, he will pull off twelve points. But since it is now October across America, I will start two new threads, because it is time. Happy Halloween month Jake. Let's do this thing! Cheers! of a mediocre Texas beer from Spoetzl, Texas, but a special beer in the annals of macabre film.
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