HOOP-X #06 of CINEMONSTER's Hooptober X: Hooptober, Hooptober Let Satan Come Over
My Fully Weird List and Complete Set of Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 10.0 List.
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"Remind me again. Why are we going camping with that JOCK, that CHEERLEADER, and that fucking STONER?"
... yeah, I'm in the right place.
The movie opens with the following super-imposed quote:
"There is no terror in the bang,
only in the anticipation of it."
~ Alfred Hitchcock ~…
HOOP-X #15 of CINEMONSTER's Hooptober X: Hooptober, Hooptober Let Satan Come Over
My Fully Weird List and Complete Set of Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 10.0 List.
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I'm not sure if I DISLIKED this movie or if I FUCKING LOVED it. It's a bit of an enigma for me.
On one hand, I absolutely loved the conceit that the horror movie nerd kid is battling the killer alien with his knowledge of horror rules (much like…
HOOP-X #14 of CINEMONSTER's Hooptober X: Hooptober, Hooptober Let Satan Come Over
My Fully Weird List and Complete Set of Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 10.0 List.
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A 1978 made-for-TV movie starring Linda Blair and directed by Wes Craven.
It was shown on a couple of network channels "back in the day" and did pretty well. So it was released theatrically in Europe. Go figure.
Given a name change too. From "Stranger in our House" to…
HOOP-X #13 of CINEMONSTER's Hooptober X: Hooptober, Hooptober Let Satan Come Over
My Fully Weird List and Complete Set of Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 10.0 List.
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Definitely a very slow burn of a character study.
It's the PREQUEL to Ti West's wonderful film "X" and is firmly carried by the tremendous acting talents of lead actress (and co-writer) Mia Goth.
Goth gives a better performance in this than any of the lame-ass actors that were…
KILL #22 of CINEMONSTER's Hoop-tober 7.0.
My Evil Master List and other Reviews can be found here:
Slappy McGee's Hoop-tober 7.0 List.
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This film is why I'm always a bit freaked out when I'm having "tubby time" and have to dip my head (or ears) beneath the water. I go into a desperate state of fear that I will come back up transformed into an extra from the "Planet of the Apes" films.
Thanks, Ken Russell.
Hard to believe…
