No OHMRAT this year, in case you were wondering. The skeleton out front should have told you. Sadly, my mother is in ill health, and since i have become her only 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week caregiver, i barely have time to sleep, let alone watch and review horror films. I am enjoying what I can when I can, and hopefully next year will be better. Tomorrow is promised to no one, as the saying goes. There's a joke in there but i am too tired to find it right now.
Quick review, just because I have a few minutes. Watched Midnight Mass, on Netflix. Spoiler alert, it's a vampire story, not that it's any big surprise. There's 7 hours of episodes about a sleepy little town on an island that has cell phone service and an islamic sherriff, but has never heard of vampires. They get a new Priest, who spend about 6 of those hours preaching from the pulpit about how glorious his meeting was with this "angel of the Lord," who, yeah, looks exactly like what you think an old cave-dwelling vampire might look like, and yes, the guy tells the same story about meeting this vampire maybe 4-5 different times in 4-5 different episodes. I had to fast-forward through the preachy parts, msotly because I have a tendency to fall asleep in church, which means i probably skipped about 6.5 hours of the entire netflix series, but that last half-hour isn't half-bad, I guess. I mean, it pretty much goes as expected, so if that's the twist ending, that everything went as expected, then sure, okay, you surprised me. Good one. If you can't stand the 6 hours of preachiness, basically sitting through entire hour-long sermons where nothing happens but some guy is preaching to a church full of townsfolk, and I mean literally every word of his sermon is in multiple episodes, then maybe skip that one.
Megan Fox's latest on netflix, "Till Death," wasn't absolutely disgusting. Suuuch a slow starter, I did turn it off early on, but it was right before the good parts started. I honestly had a tough time watching two people walking around like zombies, pretending they were alive, and that was even before anyone died. Think Gerald's Game, only with Megan Fox. Once the killing starts, the action keeps going til the end, so at least the rest of the movie was not as boring as the first part. That's about all i can say about that one, that it was mostly action, once you get past the boring parts. Sadly, no monsters, unless you count the human kind.
I also watched the Chestnut Man, also on netflix, another series. I can't recall how many episodes there were but it wasn't bad. I was kind of hoping for a more supernatural ending but I was again disappointed. Seems like we humans can't really conceive of anything more horrifying than our fellow humans. Having left my house once or twice in the last few months, I can see where that comes from. it's a scary world out there, mainly because we are in it.
That's all i got for now. Can't promise anything else before the month ends. Too damned busy. Hopefully I will find some more time to post in the future. Until then, Happy Halloween!
