Creativity, Cats & Moving Pictures
Movies, culture, and everything in between
Happy Halloween! It's day 31 and the last October review for 2018. Thanks for sticking with me this long. In 1963 on Halloween night, 6-year-old Michael Myers murders his older sister, Judith, with a kitchen knife. Jump forward 15 years. Michael has escaped the asylum he was being kept in, before he was due to... Continue Reading →
Day 30 is another Tim Burton where the tagline reads “There’s been a grave misunderstanding”. Victor is being pressured into an arranged marriage by his parents. His betrothed, Victoria, is going through the same thing. Victor’s parents want to be in with high society, which will come with their son’s marriage to Victoria, while Victoria’s... Continue Reading →
Day 29 is a 90s family movie, which I love. It was based on the popular comics (1939) and cartoon series (1945), both titled Casper the Friendly Ghost. Dr James Harvey and his daughter Kat move into an old house named Whipstaff Manor in Friendship, Maine. Dr Harvey has been brought there to rid the... Continue Reading →
Day 28 is a great teen werewolf movie from Canada. Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald are social outcasts. Everyone at their school thinks they’re weird. Their unhealthy interest in death and lack of social skills make them easy targets for the school bullies. One night, the sisters decide to kidnap the dog of one of their... Continue Reading →
Day 27 is NOT The Sixth Sense, it's ParaNorman. A haunting for the kiddies. 11-year-old Norman Babcock can speak to the dead. Everyone in the small town of Blithe Hollow think he’s a weird kid, including his family. He is bullied and made fun of regularly. His only friend is an overweight kid named Neil.... Continue Reading →
Day 26 is an American remake of a Japanese horror movie. Karen, is an American careworker living in Tokyo. She is placed at the home of another American family to look after their mother who suffers from dementia. Their previous careworker, Yoko, has disappeared. I really don’t want to say anymore because it would be... Continue Reading →
Day 25 is another movie that claims to be based on fact. The idea was inspired by two incidents (according to the director himself) : When director and scriptwriter Bryan Bertino was a child, his parents where at a party, leaving him and his sister alone at their house in a remote neighbourhood. Some people knocked... Continue Reading →
Day 24 is a tricky one for me. I've always viewed it as a Christmas movie, seeing as Halloween only takes up the first 5 minutes. There's too much of a festive feeling for me to enjoy this at Halloween. Everything Wrong With & Honest Trailer Jack Skellington is getting tired with every Halloween being... Continue Reading →
Day 23 is a Roald Dahl classic which terrified the hell out of any kid that watched it. When a young American boy, Luke, goes to stay with his grandmother in Norway with his parents, she tells him stories about witches who kidnap and kill children. After his parents are killed in a car accident,... Continue Reading →
Day 22. Director and writer Wes Craven said he based the story on a series of articles he read in the L.A. Times about a group of young Cambodian men who had died in their sleep after having nightmares. Apparently, Freddy was originally written as a child molester, rather than just a child killer, but... Continue Reading →
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