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Seasons Of Change: 2022 Halloween Flicks



Hello my Ghoulish fiends! Halloween is just around the corner and whether you are excited for trick-or-treaters, plan to get dressed up in your favourite costumes, or intend to spend quiet time honouring  our spirited souls, it's always good to include a movie or two in the mix!  

I'm excited to share a few new ones that have popped up this year, as well as some old favourites. You can always transport back to my other blog posting that has even more movies and nostalgic series that bring me joy especially during the Halloween season.



With only a run time of 53 minutes, Werewolf By Night was a lovely little homage to many Universal Classic monster flicks, combined with some Twilight Zone eeriness. The monster hunter characters were great, in particular Jack (played by Gael Garcรญa Bernal) who has an interesting role as a lycanthrope superhero of sorts. This short tale had such fantastic cinematography and black and white effects. It is definitely worth a watch.  I hope Marvel comes out with more of these, in particular something extra vampy.



Halloween Ends...or has it?  If you're not familiar with this horror-ific franchise, I would suggest to watch the other films to just delve more into the saga of Michael Myers. Although in this one, they do a rewind of some pivotal kill scenes, plus a rehashing of the tragedies in the town of Haddonfield,  so you are not going in totally blind. 

There was plenty of suspense throughout the film, a few irritants tossed in, but definitely a lot of brutal scenes that might have you squirm in your seat if you're more of the squeamish type, so stay alert, my friends. 

Was it the best out of all the others? Not in the least, but I think we're all here for Jamie Lee Curtis. She was amazing, reprising her role as Laurie and letting us know that when it comes to her masked-murderous foe, Michael Myers, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!



Teen Wolf is an 80's comedy and coming-of-age werewolf tale, starring the beloved Michael J. Fox, as Scott Howard, just your ordinary geeky guy who is trying to figure out who he is, with and without the all extra fur. Who doesn't love a werewolf who can play basketball? 



The wonderfully grotesque and pun-worthy Crypt Keeper is back to tell a tale in Bordello of Blood. Although rated poorly by many, I fondly recall this film with its heavy metal and glam soundtrack. It's a terribly corny flick, with raunchy humour, groan-worthy acting, but it's a great one to just sit back and have fun watching. 


Finally, we have The Hunger tv series, created by Jeff Fazio and presented b Tony and Ridley Scott. No one gave me chills down my spine like Terence Stamp, and in this horror anthology; The Hunger, he hosted each short story in a way that would surely tingle all your senses, like The Secret Shih-Than. 

This provocative British/Canadian series opened up quite a new world for me that I never knew existed before, but was incredibly liberating, even though subject matter was rather taboo at the time, and still might be today for certain types of people.   

If anyone remembers, it was aired here in Canada on a tv channel called Showtime - with its tagline Television Without Borders.  Every late Friday evening, they would have "Friday's Without Borders" which had content that pushed the limits for a more mature and rather open-minded audience. Taking over the series was the late, David Bowie, who in my opinion did a good job, but I'm still partial to the British charm of Mr. Stamp.  



๐Ÿ’œLet me know what you'll be watching this Halloween or what plans you may have! I love hearing  from you, so drop a comment below, or feel free to privately e-mail me using my web form!

Short Mini-Spoiler Movie Review: Bill and Ted Face the Music

Photo from IMDB

I am caught in nostalgia from the time-travelling movies of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and even Bogus Journey, so I was a little scared yet excited to see what they would do with the newly released Bill and Ted Face the Music. Of course, seeing this on the big screen at Cineplex was the plan, but then came the pandemic. With so many opting out for theatre outings right now, the next best is renting from a lot of video-on-demand services, such as Cineplex Store - plus earn Scene points!

No major spoilers, but i'll just say it was an enjoyable journey through the quantum realm of weirdness that is Bill S. Preston Esq played by Alex Winter. and Theodore Ted Logan played by Keanu Reeves! They sure make us laugh and now married to their bodacious babes, they're dads' to two bodacious babies who are all grown up now *cue iconic air guitar riff*

With the other cast members, I also thought Brigette Lundy-Pain did a phenomenal job as Ted's daughter, Billie, and really emulated his mannerisms. They both have that awkward walk and hair swish going on!  "Death" who was played again by William Sadler had his moments, but in general, underwhelming for me this time around and had me really missing Rufus, played by the late, George Carlin. The robot got on my nerves from the get-go and I was going to say I didn't get the connection with casting Kid Kudi, but I guess he is a superfan of Bill and Ted movies according to several sites I read, so they added him into the mix. 

*Mini spoiler* During the end credits, I immediately said "That sounds like Mumford & Sons!" Well, after a bit of Google searching,  it's actually a cool band called Blame My Youth. Now it will never replace in any way "In Time" by Robbi Rob, but I don't think that was the thought in mind. It definitely has that anthemic musical feel, which you either loved when that sound first came out, or you'll loathe it like you did back then. The lyrics definitely spoke to me though. 


Right Where You Belong - Blame My Youth


So, was this the most excellent adventure of all? It wasn't, but had its merits and was still fun to watch. I'm just happy that they didn't destroy another classic, like the train wreck of 2016's Ghostbusters.  

You may shed a tear depending on your level of sentimentality and remember that sometimes things don't make sense until the end of the story.  

Have you watched it yet? What did you think? Always curious!

๐Ÿ’—☯️ Be excellent to each other.☯️๐Ÿ’—


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You can also check out my review at 519 Magazine


Happy holidays!

It was a wonderful Christmas Eve with my love, seeing Saving Mr. Banks and enjoying dinner at Caesar's: The Artist Cafe. Coming home, we stopped by for a little visit with Bill's mom and watched the end of A Christmas Carol and Gremlins. We came home, snuggled up into bed, and fell asleep to Christmas Vacation. :)

It's now Christmas morning.

I gave Bill his present a few weeks ago. So now to add to his diversely growing book collection, 700 Sundays, written by Billy Crystal. Witty, heart-warming, and inspirational. This book was beyond difficult to find in-store, but thanks to Amazon, it all worked out.



In other news...someday, I will visit Duke Lemur Center and play with the lemurs.

Until that time, I am surrounded this early morning, by my ring-tail lovelies (including two more from my beau; a lemur puppet, and a cute lemur figurine). Oh and yes, I even grew a little tail as well. ;)

Happy holidays!