Day 245 : 3618534 steps

Again, it's more apologies for not doing what I promised to do. It's just that since my October Zombiethon, I've not stopped watching films long enough to actually get around to reviewing them properly. For example, the last three days I've taken in three French 'horror' flicks, all very different. The most recent was 'Les Diaboliques' from 1954. In brief it was a stunning film but it did let slip the twist a little too early. How brief was that!!?
Before that, I watched 'High Tension'/'Switchblade Romance'. Now, there's a film to cause a rumpus due to it's final twist that completely undermines all that went before. I've read a few reviews online that try to tidy it up but I'm not sure if I'm convinced. I think I need to go back and rewatch it again and see if these theories make any sense.
Luckily, the third French flick doesn't need re-visiting soon. I will admit that 'Inside' was very close to turning me at the end. Okay, so the characters don't always act in a logical way (one criticism that reoccurs is that why didn't the heroine try to escape from the house...maybe the clue is in the title, duhhhh?! Who's to say how we'd act in these circumstances?!), but it definately delivers as far as the gore content is concerned. It was one of those films that, love it or hate it, most assuredly left an impression and that, in my book, is a good thing.....even if it was for all the wrong reasons!

On a lighter note, 'Turkish Superman' is class!!!! :p

Day 236 : Where does the time go?!

Well, I know exactly where it went last month anyway. It started as a little Halloween fun on Facebook. I decided to change my profile pic to that of a different zombie every day for the month of October. On the 1st of that month, a close friend of mine and fellow horror fan came a-calling so we ended up watching 'Zombie Creeping Flesh' again!!! It was afterwards that I decided to set myself a further Halloween challenge, a different zombie movie for every day in October. At first, I wasn't sure if it was feasable but I soon came to realise that there were plenty to choose from and that there was no way I could fit them all in. I did cram in a couple of double-bills so by the end of the month I had managed to view 41 undead flicks!!! Out of those, I had only seen nine and a half of them before (the half being 'Night of the Comet' which I know I had seen some of during the 80's....). The rest were a mixed bag of meatbags, some great, some not so great. Here is the complete list and I will be adding more about some of the stand-out titles very soon. I will just say that out of the whole bunch, it's the 80's Italian movies that I've enjoyed the most. I know I didn't squeeze in the famous Fulci ones (mainly due to me seeing both 'The Beyond' and 'City of the Living Dead' in late September), which are my favourite zombie films (yes, even over Romero! Put that in your crack-pipe!) but even the low budget ones were so daft as to keep me entertained more than any Hollywood Summer blockbuster. Anyway, that said, I'm off to watch something else now which I will hopefully get around to writing about.........soon!

1. Zombie Creeping Flesh (aka 'Hell of the Living Dead') (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082559/)

2. Zombie 4 : After Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094620/)
3. Flight of the Living Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780583/)
4. Sars Wars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470402/)
5. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (aka 'The Living Dead at manchester Morgue') (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071431/)
6. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068370/)
7. It Came from the West (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117542/)
8. Zombie Lake (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081027/)
9. Oasis of the Zombies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0474531/)
10. Poultrygeist : Night of the Chicken Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462485/)
11. Return of the Living Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089907/)
12. Night of the Living Dead (1969) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/)
13. Nightmare City (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080931/)
14. Sexy Killer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1056416/)
15. Night of the Creeps (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091630/)
16. Dellamorte Dellamore (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109592/)
17. Zombie Strippers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960890/)
18. Fido (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/)
19. Mangue Negro (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1329396/)
20. La Horde (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183276/)
21. Dawn of the Dead - Extended Mall Hours version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/)
22. Redneck Zombies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093833/)
23. Tokyo Zombie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451954/)
24. The Dead Next Door (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094962/)
25. Outpost (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892899/)
26. Dead Snow (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/)
27. Stacy : Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368296/)
28. Revolt of the Zombies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028174/)
29. Shockwaves (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076704/)
30. REC 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245112/)
31. Junk (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273302/)
32. Burial Ground (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081248/)
33. Last of the Living (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351177/)
34. Choking Hazard (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401320/)
35. Wild Zero (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267116/)
36. The Dead Pit (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122037/)
37. 28 Weeks Later (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463854/)
38. Zombie Wars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0897444/)
39. The Midnight Hour (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089593/)
40. I Sell the Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0902290/)
41. Night of the Comet (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087799/)

BRAAAAAAIIIIIIINSSSS!!!!

Day 189 : A new beginning!!!

So, to cut a long story short, I lost my record breaking pedometer!!!! I was absolutley gutted. I have a new Pokewalker though but it's just not the same as my ol' Pikachu. It happened when I was hungover and I went to pick my son up from school. I am not blaming it's loss for the hiatus that this blog has been experiencing but it is partly invovled. The other part has been that I've just had lots of things to do.
Anyways...back to the main reason I started this blog and that is horror, zombies and other things that go bumping in the night (oo-er!).
Since last I wrote, I've enjoyed and endured many things and it's hard to know where to begin. So much so that rather than try and recall all that I've been witness to I would rather begin anew. So, I'm gonna cut this short and watch the end of a rather dubious Italian effort known as 'Zombi 4 : After Death' which I began watching the other night. So far, some of the FX looked pretty good for the budget but the plot and characters are insane!!!! I'll let you know more tomorrow when I'm good and done with the flick.
I know what you're thinking...'why watch that shite?!!'. Well, I've been working my way through the Italian zombie movies lately. I started with 'Zombie Creeping Flesh' and have since viewed 'Zombi 3' (which Fulci's name is somehow still attached to but there's little evidence of his style on show as Bruno Mattei took over at some point), both of which I enjoyed more than I expected. This is espescially so of the former as I only ever saw that years ago in a brutalised version. Okay, so it's pretty rubbish but good, fun trash!!!