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House of Wax (1953)
Watched on Svengooli on Me TV.

Svengooli had plenty of movie trivia about the film and actors. One piece regarded a scene where there are three small fires. They were carefully set up around the room with wax figures, and their star, Vincent Price. The fires got out of hand, and the fire department had to be called. However, the director kept filming because the wax figures were expensive to recreate and he photographed their destruction.

Also, aside from being filmed in 3D, the film was projected in Warnerphonic sound.

On Horror Hotel
Treaters (2017)

Horror Hotel Lamia Queen of the Dark Trivia: In 2019, approximately 8.5 Billion was spent on Halloween (costumes, candy, decorations)

MaXXXine

It was a film that kept my attention. Overall I liked it. I laughed at a few spots I'm certain where not meant to be funny, but that may be just me.

Harem (1986)


A TV movie, also described as a 'mini-series', set in the last years of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th Century. An American woman who goes to Constantinople to marry her diplomat fiance is kidnapped by revolutionaries and later finds herself in the Sultan's harem. In the end she has to choose between a life of guaranteed social and material stability with the diplomat or an uncertain life of adventure with the revolutionary leader. What does she choose? That would be telling.....

Perfectly watchable, but difficult not to laugh at the clichés and stereotypes. I couldn't help thinking of Monty Python's Life of Brian at times. Stars Omar Sharif, Ava Gardner, Art Malik, Sarah Miles and Cherie Lunghi, so you can't complain on that score.

Spawn Of Slithis.

Third rate horror film in which a nuclear plant causes a carnivorous mutation.

Last night we finally watched the third movie in the [2011– ] Planet of the Apes reboot film series:

War for the Planet of the Apes [2017]
<=>"For freedom. For family. For the planet."



How'd the war go?

Show Spoiler

Well...the movies are about the Planet of the Apes...

Ghostbusters (yes, the classic from 1986, not the female-led version from 2016)

My NT sister has a fondness for supernatural stuff and we watched it the other night with our mom.

The three of us always get a good laugh out of this film.

X (2022)

This was the film the preceded MaXXXine, which I watched the other day.

I did not know what to expect from this movie. I'm sure I passed it by a couple years go purely because of the title, whereas I imagine Elon Musk saw many times just because of the title.

The premise is a group of six people rent a farm house from and elderly farm couple to make a pornography film for straight to video. One is the producer. Three are actors. One is the photographer, with a really nice film camera. The last is the photographer's girl friend. She is the boom operator. She is sweet, quiet, not 100% on board they are making, and played by Jenna Ortega (if that matters).

It had a trigger moment for me. Trigger as in EXTREAMLY uncomfortable
A guy in his bare feet, photographed from a point of view at ground level, behind a plank with a nail sticking up through it. I got squeamish and covered my eyes. It happened to me when I was around five or six. But I was wearing tennis shoes.

There is a bit of extreme graphic gore.

This was definitely a horror film. A tense horror film.
Not recommend for people younger that 18. I would not have been comfortable with the film when I was 18, or 25, for that matter.
There is nothing X-rated about the film. It is R-rated.

Woman of the Hour (2023) on Netflix

In a nutshell, an aspiring actress gets on The Dating Game.
Bachelor number one is a nervous, not mentally fast on his feet, nice guy.
Bachelor number two is a sleaze ball with a one track mind, or as he puts it, desert.
Bachelor number three is a bright, enchanting serial killer.

Based on a true story, it is about serial killer Rodney Alcala. The story cuts between events leading up to The Dating Game, and his previous victims. I knew that a serial killer was once on The Dating Game, but I did not know the full story. (Does she survive?) I only knew that Rodney Alcala died in prison.

Starring and well directed by Anna Kendrick.

Jack Ketchum's The Lost.

Based on the novel by late horror writer, Jack Ketchum, a young psychopath had murdered a woman and her friends on a camping trip, after she had rejected his advances. Under the scrutiny of the police who knew he had been the perpetrator in the following years, it was only a matter of time till he snaps again.
Pretty decent movie for the low budget, and based on the work of an accomplished author.

The Mutations.

A mad scientist in London wants to speed up and alter evolution, and has a sinister deformed man from a freak show kidnapping young college students for him to do it.
Not an exceptional movie, save that it stars Donald Pleasence and Tom Baker, my favorite Dr. Who.

The Quiet Ones.

A photographer agrees to document the experiments of a professor and two of his students when he tries to demonstrate that the paranormal phenomenon afflicting a troubled young woman is the result of her own telepathic manifestations. He's terribly wrong.
One of Hammer Films more recent movies. Very enjoyable.

Saturday Night
About the last hour and a half before the first episode of Saturday Night Live aired

Last night we watched the fourth movie in the [2011– ] Planet of the Apes reboot film series:

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes [2017]
<=>"No One Can Stop the Reign"



All four movies have high production values and are well-worth watching.

We both hope there are more movies coming in this franchise.