Thursday, October 25, 2018

Thursday Movie Picks #224: Halloween/Television Edition: The Weird

 


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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - The Weird

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 4 - Halloween Edition: Home Invasion
October 11 - Halloween Edition: The Dark/Night
October 18 - Halloween Edition: Technology
October 25 - Halloween/Television Edition: The Weird


So we've come to the final Halloween edition and as it is the last Thursday it is also the TV edition. This week I'm picking TV series that mixes all sorts of genre making them all weird messy messes that also have a lot of weird stuff happening too.
 
Hemlock Grove (2013 - 2015)
I like vampire/werewolf shows and this one had a very striking poster so I gave it a try. I did end up watching all three seasons, only because the Netflix library was very limited then. I would say only the first season which had a stronger mystery element to it was decent. The other seasons added more science fiction to the show which just didn't make it as good.

Legion (2017 - )
Legion is about David Haller the son of Professor X of the X-Men, who has multiple personalities and each of his personality has its own superpower. That does sound awesome doesn't it? To an extent it is. Weird and crazy stuff happens and the series has this really interesting look that is both retro trippy but also a little futuristic which I do like. However the series is just so inconsistent. To get one brilliant episode, you'd have to sit through like two to three episodes that were just misses. I watched the entire season one, but after seeing the first episode of season two, I gave up. The season seemed it was going to be plagued by the same unevenness.

Fortitude (2015 - )
The setting, a town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, attracted me to the series. It sort of reminds me of White Out, 30 Days of Night and other horror/thrillers set in a similar sort of setting that has a small local police force who have to battle the harsh weather and solve a crime. Fortitude is a mix of crime thriller, science fiction and the supernatural and like my other picks today it has so much weird crazy stuff: man-eating polar bears, weird insects, mastodon remains, witch doctors and that is just what I remember. I would say I enjoyed season one better. I thought season two overstretched itself with all the different stuff that was going on. 

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Thursday, October 18, 2018

Thursday Movie Picks #223: Halloween Edition - Technology

 


Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share your movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple: based on the theme of the week pick three to five movies and tell us why you picked them. For further details and the schedule visit the series main page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - Technology

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 4 - Halloween Edition: Home Invasion
October 11 - Halloween Edition: The Dark/Night
October 18 - Halloween Edition: Technology
October 25 - Halloween/Television Edition: The Weird


This one was quite tough as I've tried to not pick ones that I've picked too many times before.
 
The Ring (2002)
A journalist investigates a mysterious videotape that causes the person viewing it to die. Technology - video tape, old technology, even by 2002, but I suppose that is why it works here; an almost obsolete technology showing a grainy mysterious footage makes it more scary. Anyway that scene when the girl reaches out was just the freakiest. I know there was a sequel recently, was it still a videotape?

Shutter (2004) 
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. Technology - photography. It was remade in 2008 but skip that and just watch this. Shutter is one of my favourite ghost stories and I can't believe I've only picked this only once before. It has some really good scary scenes and like most good ghost stories it has at its center a tragedy and is so incredibly sad.

Chatroom (2010)
5 teens meet in a chatroom and one of them has a dark side. Technology - internet. The only one of my picks today that I dislike. This movie is just like 10 years too late. By 2010 social media had taken over chatrooms, even popular chatrooms like MSN chat had already been shut down a couple of years before.

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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Thursday Movie Picks #222: Halloween Edition - The Dark/Night



Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share your movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple: based on the theme of the week pick three to five movies and tell us why you picked them. For further details and the schedule visit the series main page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - The Dark/Night

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 4 - Halloween Edition: Home Invasion
October 11 - Halloween Edition: The Dark/Night
October 18 - Halloween Edition: Technology
October 25 - Halloween/Television Edition: The Weird




I'm picking movies that I recently watched that had key dark/nighttime scenes.
 
The Others (2001)
Near the end of World War 2, a woman and her two children who are sensitive to light start to believe their isolated mansion is haunted. I re-watch this again recently, still love it and it is perfect for this theme. Memorable scene is the one with the old lady in the veil in a darkened room

The Blackcoat's Daughter a.k.a February (2015)
When their parents fail to pick them up for winter break, two school girls remain alone at their boarding school with the only staff around being two nuns living in a small house a little off the main buildings. This one was real creepy and it starts on the first night when the senior girl hears strange noises coming from downstairs.

The Visit (2015)
Two children visit their grandparents whom they have not met before as their mother is estranged from her parents. The grandparents are just weird weird weird, but it gets weirder at night and the children are basically told to stay in their rooms past a certain time.
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Friday, October 5, 2018

Thursday Movie Picks #221: Halloween Edition - Home Invasion



Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share your movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple: based on the theme of the week pick three to five movies and tell us why you picked them. For further details and the schedule visit the series main page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - Home Invasion

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 4 - Halloween Edition: Home Invasion
October 11 - Halloween Edition: The Dark/Night
October 18 - Halloween Edition: Technology
October 25 - Halloween/Television Edition: The Weird

 
You're Next (2011)
I've picked this movie at least once before. It is really good, cleverly flips the home invasion plot. Also that's a great poster right?

Hush (2016)
I first heard about Hush from one of you fellow TMPickers, I think it may have been Wendell. It is very good and having a main character that is deaf does allow the movie to have a fresh take on the old home invasion plot. Plus the main character was both smart and resourceful and the actress playing her was great and with such expressive eyes.

The Purge (2013)
This is the only one of The Purge movies that I've seen and I like it. I thought it had an interesting idea.
 
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