What movies have you seen recently?

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Last night we watched:

Bubba Ho-Tep [2002]
<=>"The King vs. The King of the Dead"



Takes place at a rest home for elderly patients. Mostly the movie is about two of them. The primary character, no matter what he thinks, is not Elvis Presley; and the other is not former U.S. President John Kennedy. But the evil ancient spirit they're fighting that sucks the souls out of people...well, he's real!

DEFINITELY\o/E N T E R T A I N I N G * M O V I E !\o/

The Reflecting Skin.

A boy in rural 1950's America believes a young English widow is a vampire, and then children turn up dead. His father, a closeted homosexual, is driven to suicide when he is made the chief suspect (as people then rarely saw a difference between gays and pedophiles). And then the boy's brother, returning home from the service, falls in love with the widow. He believes she wants to drain his brother of his life as he thinks she had done to the dead boys, even though he had seen the actual killers carry off one of his friends.
Very good, very dark movie.

Watched TerrorVision last night before bed.

It's a hella schlocky so-bad-it's-good comedy horror film from 1986 about an alien creature accidentally sent to Earth that can be set off without warning and become ravenously hungry and three kids (or well a kid, his teenage sister, and her boyfriend) have to try to take care of it (all while the creature has already eaten the kid and his sister's grandpa, their parents, the couple their parents were swinging with, and the satellite TV repair man but they don't know this - or well...the youngest kid is sure that he saw the creature eat grandpa but well...his grandpa's alive and well...and their parents and the swingers are fine too?) and make sure it doesn't get set off and start eating people.

Honestly it was a 10/10 film for me, but I legitimately love these kinds of films.

Last night we watched a Christmas movie that, as I've said before, we both like:

Anna and the Apocalypse [2017]
<=>"To survive it takes killer moves and killer tunes.."



A Scottish Christmas-Horror Rom-Zom-Com Musical.
About "Scottish": It's in English but was filmed in Scotland.

My favorite Christmas movie. And one of my favorite zombie movies. And we both like the movie a lot!

No doubt...RUN! RUN! DEFINITELY RECOMMENDED!RUN! RUN!

Getting ready to watch Sonic 3 in the theater.

Jason Bourne (2016)

The Founder

Hangman (Al Pacino)

Dune (part 2)
I've always been a fan of the book series, and thought the 1984 treatment too melodramatic.
Dune (part 1) was more faithful to some aspects but took liberties with others as was part 2
I don't think anyone has portrayed Fremen eyes properly, which are supposed to have bright blue whites. Part one chose an awkward place to end and part 2 had to skip to where it started.
I'm curious how they will subdivide the remaining novels and look forward to seeing Dune Messiah
I enjoyed parts 1&2 despite how much they simply omitted and was well impressed with their treatment of Shai Hulud, although scales that opened forward was an odd concept for a subterranean traveller.

I recently rewatched "The Day After" made in 1983. The movie is a made for TV movie but depicted a nuclear war between the United States and the former Soviet Union. I usually only watch half of it because the latter half of the movie is really rough with how it depicts the aftermath but I've seen the whole movie a couple times. I usually watch it because I find the buildup to the war interesting as it's something that could have happened. The Cold War is one of my special interests.

I also just rewatched the 1983 movie "A Christmas Story" today. Loved watching this movie growing up! Love the 1940's setting.

Smile 2.

The smiling monster demon now torments a world famous singer who had barely survived a car accident and drug addiction.
Pretty decent horror movie.

The Junky's Christmas.

Claymation short, narration by William Burroughs of his short story of the same name. A heroin addict is released from jail on Christmas, and suffering from withdrawal, needs to score. After an eventful day of finding junk, he's ready to shoot up in a flophouse, when he finds a teen ager suffering from agonizing kidney stones. He lets the kid have his shot, and earns relief through his Christmas kindness.
Enjoyable little tale of how even those who we least expect to display the Christmas spirit do.