MediaLifeCrisis

Fighting my own cultural illiteracy.

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober horror movie marathon is put to bed. 44 movies in 31 days. Best new discovery was #Deathgasm. Including last year, also #Frankenhooker & #UnclePeckerhead. https://t.co/u7zjvknLaS

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 44 is #HauntedWeen (1991), d. #DougRobertson. 3/10. Witless slasher about a Halloween attraction on the site of a decade-old child murder. Inane dialog & behavior all around & very little filmmaking talent. https://t.co/Emojb4q8dW

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 43 is #ScaryMovie (1991), d. #DanielErickson. 3/10. Hopeless nerd panics when serial killer escapes near Halloween attraction. Low-budget charm castrated by poor John Hawkes as useless bug-eyed nerd. Worst character ever. https://t.co/tpWijFZozO

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 42 is #Studio666 (2022), d. #BJMcDonnell. 6/10. Fun #FooFighters horror as band records in haunted mansion. The gore is creative & the band is game for self-parody, but the filmmaking is otherwise bland. https://t.co/guGHgcmz0I

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 41 is #SuicideClub (2001), d. #SionSono. 8/10. Prescient & harrowing warning of an incipient and disassociating technological meme culture from the most distinctive director to come out of the 1990s J-Horror wave. https://t.co/GtCUfqSxOx

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 40 is #Strangeland (1998), d. #JohnPieplow. 3/10. Notably written by & co-stars #TwistedSister frontman Dee Snider, who stars as freaky internet predator. Watchable for fans of horror & weird vanity projects; lacks quality.
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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 39 is #TheLordsofSalem (2013), d. #RobZombie. 7/10. Surprisingly mature & relatively quiet directorial effort w/solid “serious” acting from Sherri Moon Zombie & cast. When climax goes nuts, it has impact. https://t.co/xJvu73yVA5

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 38 is #TheDevil'sRejects (2005), d. #RobZombie. 2/10. Mean and ugly, Zombie drops the pretense and gradually celebrates his monstrous psychopaths as if they’re cool outlaw anti-heroes, which is pretty sick and not fun. https://t.co/9g6X7NsCf4

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 37 is #KingKong (1933), d. #MerianCCooper & #ErnestBSchoedsack. 9/10. The first great giant monster movie remains a thrilling spectacle thanks to charming special effects and relentless adventure. https://t.co/9PNMQdPwFi

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 36 is #PaterNosterandtheMissionofLight (2024), d. #ChristopherBickel. 7/10. Threadbare DIY horror comedy about musical hippie cult is full of charm & ambition w/a gonzo climax. https://t.co/g5G2fZaY6t

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie #35 is #Lurker (2025), d. #AlexRussell. 4/10. Fashionable but lifeless semi-thriller about goonish acolyte of a pop star is so low-key it barely exists. It’s like Tim Robinson’s Friendship without the humor or weirdness. https://t.co/WOUM1f0qFP

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 34 is #Houseof1000Corpses (2003), d. #RobZombie. 6/10. Zombie’s directorial debut is suffocatingly showy, but also fun, confident & talented moviemaking -- mixed w/some gnarly nightmares. Not my style, but respect its quality. https://t.co/F1B79OrJLZ

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 33 is #Verotika (2019), d. #GlennDanzig. 3/10. Technically awful anthology of weird Danzig sex fetishes is still fascinating even if its 3 chapters barely qualify as stories. Some strong images, but no idea how to use them. https://t.co/q2zi8Ij0uC

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 32 is #TheBloodstainedLawn (1973), d. #RiccardoGhione. 4/10. Some OK visuals and music, but the promising plot fizzles and the tension is undermined by a dumb & slow robot. https://t.co/laxDAhEv97

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 31 is #SlaughterhouseRock (1988), d. #DimitriLogothetis. 1/10. A complete mess of noisy characters in a convoluted plot that makes no sense. Toni Basil is in it. https://t.co/IruGQJBKRe

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 30 is #BubbaHo-tep (2002), d. #DonCoscarelli. 6/10. Funereal treatment of wild concept – elderly Elvis & JFK fight a Mummy in a Texas nursing home – is a fascinating tonal experiment, but never as fun as you want it to be. https://t.co/P89L735B7l

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 29 is #GhouliesIV (1994), d. #JimWynorski. 2/10. Confounding sequel with no fun puppets but an unwanted continuation of a storyline from the original. Funny at times, but utterly without purpose. https://t.co/VH0H3YxXwv

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#Octoblur25 movie 28 is #TheMummy (1932), d. #KarlFreund. 5/10. Universal Monsters entry is dry & too similar to Dracula, but Karloff makes for an ominous creep, and moments of iconography are completely on-point. https://t.co/ljEkhho53b

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 27 is #ScaredStiff (1987), d. #RichardFriedman. 3/10. Convoluted thriller about gothic mansion haunted by a cursed slaveowner is quirky but confusing & its twist ending is inexplicable. https://t.co/eP7TicJqsw

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#Octoblur25 #Rocktober movie 26 is #DeathtoMetal (2018), d. #TimConnery. 3/10. Some funny bits and one outrageous gore effect aren’t enough for this otherwise slight low-budget effort that has little else going on. https://t.co/LwxHOeQ1HI