HALLOWEEN VIEWING

At this time of year my wife and I break out the old DVD’s and VCR’s of our favorite spooky movies.   We watch various versions of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – including animated Disney version and the Johnny Depp.   We watch The Witches with Anjelica Huston and Hocus Pocus with Beete Midler. 

My favorite is Fearless Vampire Killers or Pardon Me but Your Teeth Are In My Neck.   This movie has so many subtle aping of the genera that I feel it should be a classic.   

 One of my favorite scenes is the Jewish Inn keeper that has been turned into a vampire comes back to the Inn to attack the serving girl.   She holds up a cross and he replys, Boy do you have the wrong vampire.  

There are numerous vampire movies with lesbian vampires, but this is the first with a gay male vampire.

The fearless hunters.

The scenery is authentic. 

The vampire ball

I know there is a stigma attached to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate; but that aside this is well worth seeing. 

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BUZZARD EGG OMELET # 29

BUZZARD BARF

Why is it that in all the vampire stories the vampire hunters always arrive at the crypt just as the sun is going down; and no one ever says, ‘It’s getting dark. I've got an idea: let’s come back tomorrow morning?’

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VAMPIRE FICTION REVISITED

I recently read the book LET THE RIGHT ONE In by John Ajvide Lindovist, now released as the movie LET ME IN.

It is a good read and a fair movie; but in order to appreciate the movie it is best to have read the book first.  

Unlike the normal vampire story Lindovist presents a young girl vampire that is of undetermined age but is physically twelve years old for eternity; and a relationship she forms with a young boy living in her apartment building, who is the target of school bullies.  

This is a fascinating premise.   A twelve year old cannot control wealth or own property; she is restricted by all the laws and norms a society places on children; and yet she must survive in an adult world. 

A provocative book and movie.    If you like this genre….

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