#1.. Finally.. 32 days later, I finally can finish this damn list.. And by damn I mean like hell.. Like Halloween.. October.. Even though its now November and 62 degrees.. I wrote up this beautiful eulogy in picking the top film for the month, only to forget what I said the next day.. So, we do have a tie. I didnt want to do this, but I couldnt separate the pure giddiness I feel watching both of them, all year. On one hand we have a soulless, maniacal killer.. On the other we have a maniacal, obscene killer.. Both have beautiful attributes and created characters that will always have a special place in my heart, and on my skin. Well, one of them. In 1978, Michael Myers was introduced to the world of cinema. He defined what a slasher movie was. A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, he escapes and stalks a hippie teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets. Pretty much its a guy in a sanded down painted white William Shatner mask who has more cutlery skills than Gorden Ramsey.. An AMAZING movie that scared the bejesus out of a lot of people, and still does to this day. Killer score and the finest movie ever directed by John Carpenter. As long as I can remember, I cant carve pumpkins unless Im watching this. And to actually get my wife to watch it too is a bonus. Except for the constant questions.. Pure classic piece of film, in any genre.. Now, comes its mantle piece.. Released in 1987, IMDB gives this as its summary of the movie. The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack. I almost want to slap the writer for such a boring review.. Were not talking about glittery vampires here, or werewolves that wax their chests.. No idiot in a ghost mask, no twit wearing a raincoat with a hook in his hand, no Japanese possessed hand,eye,car,pair of pants,Sanyo tv,VCR, or a Toyota Corolla.. God I hate the Japanese horror movie invasion.. What we have is a genius actor who carries out a fantastic slapstick acting clinic, much in the vein of the Three Stooges. Bruce Campbell, and Evil Dead 2.. In a nutshell, literally, this movie is a demonically brilliant sequel to Evil Dead. Itself a really great creepy film. But its pretty much a carbon copy with more laughs and more gore. Demons are unleashed when a passage is repeated out loud from the Necronomicon, or Book of the Dead. Stuffed animal heads, chairs, even lamps come to life as the lead man Ash loses his mind defending himself. At one point his hand becomes possessed (hmmmm..), and he goes mano on mano with it.. The scene with the kitchen plates is priceless.. Concluding with the ending, I decided I loved chainsaws and hated cabins in the woods. But Id still stay in one.. If I had a chainsaw.. All time favorite, period.. Thanks for reading and check out some of these artistic masterpieces.. Ha..
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 02:11:44 +0000
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