31 Spooky Movies in October: 2012 Edition, Part 13 – The Final Chapter
by kdlough
- The Forbidden Photos of a Woman Above Suspicion 6/10
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space 8/10
- The Omen 7/10
- The Curse of Frankenstein 8/10
- I Walked with a Zombie 10/10
- Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages 7/10
- House of Dracula 5/10
- The Shining 10/10
- The Body Beneath 7/10
- At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul 9/10
- This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse 9/10
- The Howling 7/10
- Braindead 4/10
- The Raven 8/10
- The Ghost 8/10
- A Bay of Blood 8/10
- The Crazies 6/10
- Teen Witch 1/10
- Cat People 8/10
- Lisa and the Devil 7/10
- Frankenstein 9/10
- Bride of Frankenstein 10/10
- The Gorgan 8/10
- The Revenge of Frankenstein 5/10
- Frankenstein Created Woman 3/10
- X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes 8/10
- The House of the Devil 9/10
- A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge 3/10
- Let’s Scare Jessica to Death 10/10
- The Case of the Bloody Iris 7/10
- Friday the 13th 7/10
I thought it might be interesting to have all my scores for this month in one place. The average score was about 7.5; pretty much what I expected, since I tried to watch movies I expected to enjoy at least a little. Looking back, I can see that there was some definite horror movie fatigue setting in around week 2, starting with The Howling, and it didn’t really let up until I watched the Universal Frankenstein movies. Then there was another dip in interest at the very end, when I was just glad to be finished. That said, things never really got low enough to become torturous.
HIGHLIGHT OF THE MONTH: At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul – This is taking the ranks of required scary movie viewing for me. A really pleasant surprise that hits a lot of sweet spots: low budget grunginess, wild monologues, silly special effects, and some genuinely spooky derangement.
LOWLIGHT OF THE MONTH: Frankenstein Created Woman – Boring and visually dull. Plus it squanders some great ideas with its generally half-assed execution. I watched a couple movies that were “worse,” but this one left me feeling the most let down.
REGRET OF THE MONTH: I never got around to watching any more Andy Milligan movies. I had been saving The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! for just this occasion, but couldn’t find the time… I also never found a working DVD of the third Coffin Joe movie, The Awakening of the Beast. Hopefully a write-up on that will be coming soon.
So what’s next for this blog? Well, I have a couple projects in the works: I plan on making my way through every commercially available Alfred Hitchcock movie for a major retrospective; an essay on Mac & Me; and a huge Christmas movie marathon. Will I keep my sanity?? Watch this space…