Halloween Weekend: What’s Playing
Every year I look forward to all the monsterfests and creepshows on t.v. for Halloween weekend. I’m curious what horror picks the networks think the general public might be interested in. Unfortunately, I’m disappointed just about every year. This year isn’t much better. Let’s take tonight for instance. John Carpenter’s Vampires is on. This movie is just horrible. No, not horrible, but really bad - and really boring. I can forgive a horror movie that is bad due to acting, effects, whatever, as long as there is something remotely interesting or different. That’s not the case with this movie. First of all, James Woods is NOT cool in this movie. Washed up Daniel Baldwin just looks like a mean-tempered drunk. Yet, these vampire hunters are supposed to be cool. Nope. And I’ve seen episodes of Buffy that were much scarier. Way better done was From Dusk Til Dawn. Watch that instead.
Among the other flicks on this weekend are Friday the 13th (and all the ones after that), Scream (AGAIN), Scream 3, Scary Movie and Urban Legend. Two bright spots were The Omen and The Shining. I did catch most of the special about “The Curse of The Exorcist”. A lot of misfortunate things happened on the set and to the people involved in the movie including fires, deaths and accidents. Mostly though, it just makes the case that director William Friedkin was a total asshole who mistreated his cast and crew.
Since I don’t want to sound crabby about the Halloween horror picks, let me toss out a few movies that I just love and I highly recommend. Watch Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow”. It’s really one of his best. Since we’re on the subject of Tim Burton, also give “The Nightmare Before Christmas” a viewing. Make it a Timmy night! A couple other fairly recent movies I like are “Cabin Fever” (grab the barf bag during the shaving scene) and the new “Dawn of the Dead”. For many more recommendations, visit Socreepy’s must-have horror movies!
