11/4/16 - The Wailing (2016)

Hey! It's The Wailing! And I'm on vacation, and have come down with a little case of vacation brain. And I've also get a pretty nasty case of Election Brain. So forgive me if things are short, bad(der), or more random. Like Bruce Hornsby says, that's just the way it is...

I remember The Wailing getting really good press when it was released earlier this year... and now I'm kicking myself for not having seen it in the theaters. It's an engrossing film, but it's also kind of long (about two-and-a-half hours). Having the distraction-free environment of a movie theater would have been nice. Plus, it's got some shots that would have looked gorgeous on the big screen, and a couple of intense scenes I would have loved to see with a proper sound system.

10/23/16 - Prince of Darkness (1987)

Personally, I was expecting a little more Prince of Darkness in Prince of Darkness. If you told me "here's a movie about Satan, except instead of Satan it's a big green vial of crap," I would expect the worst. But leave it to John Carpenter to take that concept and make a pretty darn good movie about it. Misleading? Maybe. But it's still a pretty decent watch.

I'm not overly familiar with the horror maestro's work. (Shake your finger at me - "Thats a BAD horror movie blogger.") But he seems to excel at taking a group of people and trapping them in an isolated location - this time, it's at an abandoned church surrounded by crazy homeless people (including Alice Cooper!), where a ancient (and evil!) artifact has recently been unearthed. According to an old text, the green goo will be instrumental in bringing Old Scratch back our plane of existence. The big vial of green stuff made me wonder what kind of film John Carpenter's Secret of the Ooze would have been - probably no Vanilla Ice. And a lot more vomit.