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Halloween Movie Night

We're watching two Halloween movies making this the theme-iest theme night until Friday, January 13th.



Wait, I forgot about Christmas:



And Bubble Bath Day (January 8th):

 

Halloween III: Season of the Witch is Tom Atkins' 6th BMN movie.



After part 2, John Carpenter's idea for the Halloween series was to have each movie be an unique story that occurs on Halloween. I think that was the right idea. Unfortunately Michael Myers was brought back for part 4 but at least it led to a kid in a Mask costume being featured in a major motion picture:




Why are all my favorite childhood cartoons/toys obscure? Mask, Tranzor Z, Battle Beasts, GUTS, M.U.S.C.L.E. men. Was I a hipster child?



A major plot point in Halloween III involves a mask manufacturer named Silver Shamrock and it looks like a make-up company wisely chose that name.

Once in college for a course called Sex on the Brain we spent a whole class watching True Lies just to determine if the rumor that Jamie Lee Curtis is an androgen-insensitive male is true. I lobbied hard for Halloween instead but failed when the instructor claimed he would be too scared. Wiener.

This will be John Carpenter's 7th movie at BMN that he directed (he only produced Halloween III). Godfrey Ho is the next closest with 5. How about we keep this rivalry alive with some Godfrey Ho movies next week?

The AV Club has a nice write up today on Carpenter's career. 

Here's what happened last week (NSFW):

Eight More Days

Today's Movies

Baseball Horror Movie Night

Baseball is boring. Let's face it. That's how they sell all that beer. Imagine, however, if the baseball players were murdered in the stadium. It wouldn't even have to be by an opposing player. It could be lions. And why limit it to baseball players. How about, say, Christians? That I would go see.

Well, it's not lions killing baseball players in Blood Games, it's hillbillies. It's not even baseball, they're softball players. So they throw underhand and the ball is bigger. It's not like it's cricket. Imagine if the Rockford Peaches started killing the Kenosha Comets in A League of Their Own, it's kind of like that.

One of those hillbillies is George "Buck" Flower making this his fifth BMN movie.


Massacre Mafia Style
Escape From New York
Mac and Me
They Live
Blood Games

He's always a hillbilly or homeless person, like in Back to the Future.

Blood Games is a good looking movie. I thought for sure that the cinematographer went on to better things but the last thing he did was some Lorenzo Lamas movie from 1994. But hold on! That movie also stars Cole S McKay. The last time I hoped a non-actor in a BMN movie went on to better things it was for the stunt coordinator for Skyscraper, Mr. Cole Mckay!



That's interesting to nobody but me.

So we're back on my planned horror movie trope/movie set at Halloween scheduling. Pick your horror movie trope for Blood Games: slasher, hicksploitation, sexploitation, revenge.

That must mean Murder Party is set at Halloween. The main bad guy is dressed like this:

Baseball. Catch it!

Here's what happened last week:

Today's Movies

Halloweenapaloozaploitation Movie Night

Scarecrow werewolf. An unlikely pairing that sounds like an Andy Dwyer band. I don't think the two have ever appeared in a movie together. They don't really hang in the same circles. I've never seen a werewolf in a cornfield.



I was all excited that Alice Nunn was in Trick or Treat last week. Well, here she is again in Dark Night of the Scarecrow. If you don't know who that is maybe this Etsy painting that you should totally buy will clue you in:



Or this:


The movie was originally a CBS Saturday Night Movie so imagine this before you watch it:



It's not as famous as the ABC Movie of the Week which showed BMN movie Duel, recently remade Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Home for the Holidays, Go Ask Alice, Satan's School for Girls, Bad Ronald, Killdozer and Trilogy of Terror:



A made-for-TV movie theme is one of my oldest theme ideas that hasn't happened yet.  

Howling II:...Your Sister Is a Werewolf is the kind of movie where I just want to list the people in it. Horror legend Christopher Lee (Wicker Man), BMN legend Reb Brown (Strike Commando and Space Mutiny)



and Sybil Danning (Airport '79: The Concorde). No one stayed for Airport '79 so I'll remind you that Sybil Danning was that woman on TV when you turned on Cinemax after 10 p.m. when you were a kid.

Here's what happened last week:

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Halloween Heavy Metal Movies

 
 

There's a lot of heavy metal/horror movie hybrids from the 80's. We've seen Hard Rock Zombies and Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare. Uh oh, I mentioned Hard Rock Zombies. Time to watch this:


Heavy metal was an important part of The Gate. Yet there's still more metal horror to be had, now with added Halloween! Rocktober Blood will be our 333rd movie. Get it? 33 and 1/3? Well, I was excited.



It's written and directed by Beverly and Ferd Sebastian, who sound like they're that old couple in your neighborhood that sit on their porch all the time. "Say Ferd, remember when we directed that throat ripping scene with the doll with the chassis. Heavens to Betsy, was that before or after Gatorbait II: Cajun Justice?"

Incredibly, Trick or Treat will be the third appearance of Gene Simmons. In fact, it was a year ago tomorrow that we had Gene Simmons Night. It's the first appearance of Ozzy Osbourne but you probably don't care about that.



It should be the last time too unless we want to watch The Jerky Boys. Guys, we live in a world where prank phone callers got a movie deal. The actor who plays the killer died in 1995 (the same year The Jerky Boys came out, hmm) so we're going to try and bring him back by playing a record backwards and spilling soda on it. Yes, that's what happens in the movie. Spilling soda is what makes time travel possible in the original draft of Back to the Future. Why was everyone spilling soda in the mid-80's? Was there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull? You know the director of Trick or Treat, Charles Martin Smith. He's this guy:


Both these movies are out of print!

Here's what happened last week:

Chalk Walk

Summer's over and the kids disappointed me a bit with their sidewalk chalk art. Kids these days. But I thought you should all know that Beanie is no longer with Conor.