Halloween Movies

Another grab-bag as work hours, family commitments, and just a bone-deep tiredness have taken up my time this week.

For all that I love Halloween, I haven't had time to do anything for it this year. That sucks.

Ordinarily, there are at least three films I try and watch during this most joyous time of year. What are they, no one asks? Let me tell ya....

PREDATORY MOON

PREDATORY MOON (2017)

Directed by Shiva Rodriguez 

Written by Shiva Rodriguez

Starring Chris Morrissey, Jonathan Foster, D. Duckie Rodriguez, Jeffrey Crisp, Lowrie Fawley, Mel Heflin

From IMDb:

"Kyle Reading is a zoologist who has been studying wild animal attacks across the country in hopes of finding ways to prevent them. When a young boy is allegedly killed by a bear in Florida, Kyle launches his own investigation. He quickly turns his attention to Dean Clout, the child's uncle, who somehow survived the vicious attack. Dean, infamous for being the town drunk, remembers very little about his brush with the bear. Found unconscious in the woods, he only recalls that he and the boy were left there by a friend who went to run an errand and never came back. But in the weeks following the attack, Dean begins to drop some of his bad habits and pick up some strange new ones. Kyle is convinced that Dean was actually attacked by a werewolf and wants to help him deal with his new condition while keeping the rest of his family safe. He knows that the lycanthropic disease runs in a twenty-eight day cycle and that Dean is running out of time. Unfortunately for Kyle, there is someone who has been keeping a close eye on him. Someone who sees an advantage to having a stranger in town who cries "werewolf"."

A few years back I must've been going thru a period where I had a little extra cash. I contributed a few bucks to an Indiegogo campaign for a werewolf movie because, well...werewolves.

A few weeks back I was browsing new titles available to stream with Amazon Prime when this movie caught my eye because, well...werewolves.

Lo and behold, the reason it sounded familiar is because this is the movie I ponied up some of my hard-earned cash for so they could do some practical werewolf effects.

What did my $15 get me?

LYCAN

LYCAN (2017)

Directed by Bev Land 

Written by Bev Land and Michael Mordler

Starring Dania Ramirez, Jake Lockett, Parker Croft, Rebekah Graf, and Kalia Prescott, with Vanessa Angel and Gail O'Grady

"When six college kids in a sleepy southern town are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history, one of them sets in motion a horrific fate when he proposes they head into the Georgia backwoods to tackle the legend of Emily Burt, the Talbot County werewolf. "Lycan" is a Hitchcockian tale of horror set in 1986 that delves into a hundred-year-old fable where our students are met with very real consequences that go beyond any classroom lessons."

Or so says the back cover of the DVD, at least.

I don't do too many 'blind buys' in this age of Netflix, but for the first time in a couple of weeks (thanks to the nutty work schedule I'm still dealing with) I went somewhere other than the grocery store and saw this. It tripped a couple of my interest triggers so I snagged it.

So how did that turn out for me?

Movie Time!

So here's the thing; I'm still doing a lot of overtime, including weekends. So I've not had the time to watch/read much worth talking about here and even if I had...I'm tired.

But darn it! I'm going to keep trying to put something in this space every week, so if you want you can watch a movie I made while playing around with The Movies PC game several years ago....

Happy First Day of Halloween!!

Greetings!

Yes, big surprise that I'm into the Halloween season I suppose. The weather might start cooling off, cheap horror movie DVDs start showing up everywhere, etc....

Unfortunately, it's also when we start getting busy over in the "real world" so this is another round-up of random bits and bobs.