Something Spooky This Way Comes

It’s September, finally!  Pumpkin flavored goodies are making their yearly voyage to menus.  I love pumpkin flavored goodies, but that’s irrelevant at this moment.  Halloween is coming!  Just under two months till my favorite of the holidays comes.  Horror flicks will soon be dominating my home entertainment system.  Over the past few years I’ve tried to cast a wide net in my viewings.  Stephen King adaptations, Argento/Fulci classics, and selections from the career of the master of suspense.  Regardless of how wide a net I try to spread I find myself watching a few of the same titles every year.

First up seems like an obvious choice.  It’s Halloween.  Brilliantly directed by John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis’ claim to fame is always a great watch no matter what time of year it is.

Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick are two of my favorite directors.  Psycho and The Shining tend to be must watches as well.

Halloween needs a good zombie flick and none are better then the granddaddy of them all Night of the Living Dead.

Finally The Haunting rounds out the list.  I love a good haunted house film and this one (as well as The Shining) set the standard for me for haunted house movies.  

I do have a feeling that The Conjuring will be added to circulation each Halloween.  I thought very highly of that film when I first saw it in the theater and subsequent viewings of my blu ray have only strengthened my thoughts on the film.  I eagerly look forward to the release of Annabelle, the spinoff from The Conjuring.

With all that said happy hauntings!

Looking to the Future.

Happy September Blog Readers!

The summer movie season has come to a close while the long days are slowly becoming long nights.  Ahh fall, my favorite time of year for movies.  I do enjoy the fireworks known as summer blockbusters but I prefer the more thought provoking award contenders released in the fall.  The fact that Halloween is coming up doesn’t hurt either.  So as I have done every year since the inception of this blog I put out my thoughts on the fall release season.

There are three movies that excite me more then any other this fall and year.  First is Gone Girl starring Ben Affleck.  He’s been on a streak the past few years with films like Argo.  He even has been cast as Batman (before you ask I’m in a wait and see holding pattern with that casting decision).  David Fincher directs this one and his work I routinely enjoy. Recent titles such as The Social Network & The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo were good and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a favorite.  The guy even made Se7en.  With Gone Girl I’m willing to overlook the fact that Tyler Perry is in the movie.

Annabelle is next on my trio of fall films I’m eager to see.  I loved The Conjuring and it looks like its going for the similar scares.  These come more from the shadows and whats behind you less then blood and guts.  That I prefer.  

Rounding out the trilogy is Interstellar.  Christopher Nolan is my favorite director working in film right now and I love a strong science fiction film.  This looks like just that.  Also an incredible cast rounds out an incredible looking movie.

Other releases I’m looking forward to see include The Drop (The final James Gandolfini film), A Walk Among Tombstones, The Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1, Inherent Vice, The Judge, Big Hero 6, and the indy darling The Trip to Italy.  I am a huge fan of the first movie The Trip and am patiently awaiting the sequel.  Also American Sniper appeals to me.  I love a good war film and will see movies solely based on the name CLINT EASTWOOD.

I’ll see, ugh, the third Hobbit movie.  I’ll see it to say I’ve seen it and to conclude the trilogy. I won’t be happy about it because the first two were giant wastes of time.  I’ve lost a lot of appreciation for Peter Jackson with these films.  I’ve enjoyed most of his other works.  The latter two Lord of the Rings films, parts of the first one, his King Kong, and Heavenly Creatures are all good films.  Anyways I could go on about how much I am not a fan of these three films but I won’t.  

Anyways happy fall!