Spooky Season Starts NOW!

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

Yes, I know most of you have started spooky season back on the 5th of July or something but OctoBEAR is here!!! So here are a few movies that I was able to squeeze in...

September 27 – Prom Night (1980)
 
Okay so… a masked killer is going around & killing teenagers involved with a deadly event from six years earlier… and… it’s during the days leading up to the prom… let’s face it, you kind of know who the killer is from the start… but there’s Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis doing her thing, the bitchy blonde (who apparently wrote Twisters?), feathery-haired guys because disco is still going… and a few okay kills. If you’re looking for a slasher, you’ve probably already seen it… but if not, might be worth checking out for the strange characters that pop up in it, like Slick with the van… or a woman I’m sure is Michelle Trachtenberg’s mom…
 
Rating – 8/10 – You know what you’re getting into… and Leslie Nielsen is the dad/principal too… just TRY to not quote Naked Gun
 
September 29 – Ladyhawke (1985)
 
Okay, this was a movie that I know I had a VHS growing up… but I don’t remember watching it then… just watching the second movie on the tape “Romancing the Stone” a bunch. Basically there’s a young thief (Matthew Broderick) who escape prison but is saved by the exiled former captain of the guard (Rutger Hauer) who has a hawk friend… but then we find out that at night, the hawk turns into a beautiful woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) while the captain turns into a wolf. They’ve been cursed… and hijinx ensue when they decide that they’re going to try to break the curse… or kill the evil bishop oligarch who rules the kingdom… whichever comes first. Look, it’s your typical medieval fantasy flick… and the performances are okay… even Broderick isn’t TOO annoying (though he’s definitely bordering). The one thing that I always remember standing out about this movie… is the soundtrack by Alan Parsons & its over the top synth techno whatever that just does not fit the story, the plot elements, the setting, anything like that. Normally I don’t even pay attention to that stuff, but it’s JARRING with this movie. Overall though?
 
Rating – 7/10 – It’s okay… the plot is meh… Pfeiffer is hot… everybody does okay… just not much to it overall
 
October 1 – High Spirits (1988)
 
Okay, so an old Scottish castle hotel has fallen into disrepair a bit… so the hotelier (Peter O’Toole) has an idea to sell it as a haunted castle to tourists… so they show up… and one couple having marital problems (Steve Guttenberg & Beverly D’Angelo) meet another couple who happen to be ghosts (Liam Neeson & Daryl Hannah) and hijinx ensue when they start falling for each other… even though half of them are dead… man, this movie was… a weird one. Now, it had funny moments of course but… I don’t know… a lot of the jokes just didn’t hit for me? Maybe I’m not British enough or something, though THIS IS FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE CRYING GAME, MONA LISA & INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE!!!
 
Rating – 7/10 – Not my bag but… had a few laughs… and Peter O’Toole is great at being over-the-top

Until next time, stay spooky my friends...

​Steve