I watched another movie, so sue me!

[wednes]

FYI, Midnight Meat Train was quite good. Much, much better than you'd think a movie with such a title would be. It's based on a Clive Barker short story, so that explains the goodness.
Here: clicken to embiggen this desktop photo of the evil Mohogany.



Brooke Sheilds is in it, which is kinda cool. Blink and you'll miss Ted Raimi, which you should not do. Ted Raimi is so cute. I love him in Skinner. The movie is very gory and pretty scary with some good suspense and one of those smarty pants endings that horror fans (myself included) love. The script has sort of a Rod Serlingish sense of mystery and irony, but with contemporary violence and terror.

If you likee the horror, you'd do well to check this one out.
Now I need to read the story, which I won't do right away. I'm on moratorium from reading until I finish editing my serial killer novel.

Also, while I have you here:

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Speaking of horror, within 24 hours I will likely have downloaded all seven seasons of HBO's Tales from the Crypt. I know, right? I'm totally stoked, as that is one of my favorite shows of all time.

Comments

[eroslane.livejournal.com]

I was quite cheesed with how Lionsgate ("Horror has a home at Lionsgate!", their trade ads used to exclaim) handled the release of MMT.

I'm a h-u-g-e Barker fan from back in the day. HUGE. Great story. I guess I'll rent this on dvd someday.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Did it even have a theatrical run? I don't remember hearing about it at all until it was on FearNet.

[eroslane.livejournal.com]

A very limited, one week, contractual run.

Here in the Cincinnati market, it played at Danberry Cinemas. Not Showcase. Not AMC. That's the equivilent to running it in a sewer.

Homie don't do Danberry.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

LOL

That's too bad. It was certainly better than a lot of what passes for horror in theatres today.

[eroslane.livejournal.com]

Lesson #1: PG13 is not, nor never will be, horror.

THE END

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Amen to that!