Happy Halloween!

And OHMRAT 2023 ends just as it began.  With a quiet whimper.  Sadly, I had no time this month.  Too busy trying to stay alive.  But, I did watch some horror movies.  So let's review a couple more (one of which was on Tubi, and the other i watched over the internet with a friend), and call it a night!

Fright Night, the remake with Anton Yelchin, I can't readily recall the year right now, and I'm too busy watching another horror with a friend online to go look up the date right now.  I much prefer the original Fright Night with Roddy Mcdowell (RIP) as Peter Vincent, but david tennant doesn't do a horrible job.  The remake is at least entertaining.  Same story, a guy named Jerry moves in next door to a teenager who's about to get lucky with his new gf, and wouldn't you know it?  The new guy is a vampire, who seduces the gf, and poor Charlie has to go and kill the vampire just to get her back.  Ugh.  so high school, amirite?  It's practically a rite of passage these days.

In the remake, Anton Yelchin (RIP) plays Charlie this time around, and as discussed, David tenant plays Peter Vincent, self-proclaimed Fearless Vampire Killer.  Of course, he's never fearless, and only kills vampires on TV.  I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say, they're running from the vampire on a lonely desert road at night, and someone plows into them from the rear, and wouldn't you know it, but who gets out of the car?  The actor from the original Fright Night!  Yes, the vampire dude!  Michael Nouri I think his name was.  Well, anyway, it was a cool part, and my eyes went like 0.0 when i saw it.  It was awesome.  Watch on Tubi because it's all I can afford this year.  Anyways, moving on.

Trick r Treat, with Anna paquin.  It's an interconnected tale of 4 stories, weaving in and out of each other, all happening on halloween night.  There's the tale of little red riding hood (Anna paquin), the story of the school principal gone wrong, the story of the aged bus driver, and the interconnected story of the long-lost kids on the bus he used to drive.  Through it all walks Sam, the weird little kid who just enjoys candy, and will kill you if you don't give him some.  Since I saw this movie, i always keep a spare piece of candy at my house, just in case.  You never know when Sam is going to come calling on halloween night.  Don't say I didn't warn you.

I typically don't like anthologies, regular readers of my blog here know this, though anyone who still reads my blog is pretty dedicated since i hadn't posted since last year until this month.  heh.   yeah, i am irregular, that is for sure.  Once my schedule settles down, i will try and post more often.  Life is chaotic right now.  May you live in interesting times, indeed.  Anyways.  Anthologies.  Don't like them. But this one has so many cool things and interconnected stories, it's like watching the airplane movie over and over.  you always find something new.  same thing with the vacation movies, at least for me.  just packed with things you don't notice until repeat viewing.

Well, that's it for tonight, it's getting late and I have horror movies to watch.  Hope you have a nice Halloween!  Stay safe.  Until next time, if there is a next time.  And just an unsubtle reminder, in case you have any spare cash you want to donate to keep me alive until I can settle my life down...

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Happy Halloween!  :-)

OHMRAT 2023 Begins

October Horror Movie Review-A-Thon (OHMRAT) 2023 is under way!  Yeah, I know, I'm a late starter.  It's friday the 13th and I tried to find a friday the 13th movie to watch.  Sadly, all I had was tubi and youtube to work with (given my terrible financial situation this year), so what I ended up with was Saturday the 14th.  But first!  Maniac Cop.

Maniac Cop (1988) is about, of all things a Maniac Cop.  I know, who would ever believe such nonsense, right?  Exacty what people thought back in 1988, I guess.  So I think it's important to note that the origin story pretty much happens before the original movie (there were several sequels) even starts.  Poor Mett Cordell was supposedly a good cop who was maybe a little too violent for the streets (or at least this is how the other cops in the movie characterized him) and was then sent to prison for violating someone's rights.  Of course, the prisoners murdered him in prison, but now, Officer Cordell has returned.

I'm surprised Maniac Cop wasn't a bigger movie than it was.  Sure, it spawned several sequels, but I barely recall this movie coming out back then.  Sure, I had seen it once or twice, but let's face it, I've seen just about every horror movie ever made.  You got Tom Atkins as grizzled Detective Mcrae (pretty sure tom atkins plays a grizzled detective in every single movie ever, because he's just the best grizzled detective ever), Richard Roundtree as the Mayor and of course, Robert Z'Dar as the title character, the Maniac Cop.  There's even Bruce Campbell as the young hero who gets framed for the murders.  The movie wasn't as long as some of the other horror films of the time, and there wasn't a ton of nudity, and maybe the subject matter didn't sit well with audiences?  I got nothing.  It's a good movie, and you can watch it on Tubi for free.

Saturday the 14th (1981) is about a family who inherits an old house with an even older book in it.  The young boy finds a book, and of course opens it to read it, because he's the smart one in the family.  But opening the book begins a sequence of events that lead inexorably to FRIDAY THE THIRTEE-  wait what?  No?  Sorry, my bad...  to SATURDAY THE 14TH!  Which, of coruse, comes immediately after friday the 13th.  Bad things happen on that day, apparently.

I loved this movie as a kid.  It's basically a spoof of horror movie, not quite ont he level of airplane, and it never takes itself very seriously.  It was a staple on HBO for years back in the 80s, but you just don't see it anymore.  So of course Tubi has it.  Fun movie, lots of sight gags and early-80s humor.

In other news, this may be my last OHMRAT.  Financial difficulties continue to plague me, and finding a job seems to be an impossible task at this point, though I am trying every day.  If you feel like contributing to my survival, I will post a link at the bottom of this post, and at every post this month.  In the meantime, happy friday the 13th!  Hope it brings you some luck.

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