September Movies - Week 4

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

Have you ever been so busy that you're wondering how you're able to keep it all together? Yeah, just insanely busy with things all over... but Izzy & MIL are on a family reunion road trip so... BOYS WEEKEND!!! Of course that means just me... and the pets... and half the time I'll be doing a show... and the other half I'll be at work as its basically the busiest few months... so yeah, here are a few movies I saw...

September 21 – Creature of Black Lake (1978)
 
Two guys check out the town of Oil City in search of the elusive creature of Black Lake (where I’d question whether the water is livable being Oil City adjacent) and hijinx ensue when they get information from some of the locals… okay, standard Sasquatch movie… with DEAN CUNDEY AS THE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY (Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, just look him up if you don’t know) but I guess we all have to start somewhere. This movie seemed on the gore level of a TV movie… but more fun than most. The two guys were at least weird & having a little fun…
 
Rating – 8/10 – If you’re going to show somebody a Sasquatch movie without gore… this may be the one
 
September 23 – The Wickedest Witch (1989)
 
So apparently this 30-minute TV special aired once & was instantly forgotten… until Izzy was reminded about it. Basically Golden Girl Rue McClanahan plays a witch that has been banished to an underground world that’s like a spoopy version of Fraggle Rock… with these puppet demon creature the Greevils… and after 600 years or whatever, she realizes that to escape all she needs to do is convince an innocent child to do one despicable deed… and hijinx ens… okay, not really, it’s only 30 minutes & spoilers, she ends up still trapped playing bingo with cloth demons. This one was… somehow even kinda boring in a 30-minute format… but hey, I like just about anything with puppets & Burgess Meredith recorded his narration in about 7 minutes I assume…
 
Rating – 5/10 – It’s on YouTube if you want to check it out… but please don’t spend any money on it
 
September 25 – Snowbeast (1977)
 
Jaws but at a ski resort… that’s basically the movie. It’s the Winter Festival… but random blondes are being killed in the woods by a mysterious creature (definitely not a sasquatch) & hijinx ensue when a fearsome foursome of heroes featuring a former Olympic skier (Bo Svenson), his reporter wife, the sheriff & the resort’s GM are sent out after the snowy beast. So… this was a TV movie in the late 70’s and you can tell watching it… but is it the worst thing ever?
 
Rating – 6/10 – Not really… it’s just kind of meh… and there’s no violence so horror fans will be mad… and no plot so movie purists will be too

That's about all I got this week... so until next time, true believers!!!

​Steve