Halloween Hauntings Cafe

Want a good spook? Check that photo's name.

I was looking for a bat picture and snapped that one. The name was randomly assigned; I didn't pick it.

It just so happens that that is the 666th screenshot I've taken.

For a bat picture, for Halloween.

oooOOOOOHooooohhhh, scary!

creeeeepyyyyy....!

Back in time for some recut horror movie trailers.

The original one, I think: The Shining recut into a romantic comedy.

Really good one: Happy Gilmore recut into a horror-thriller.

One of the first ones: Mary Poppins recut into a very scary trailer.

Halloween recut as a romantic comedy.

Mrs. Doubtfire recut as a horror movie.

Silence of the Lambs recut as a romantic comedy.

Dumb and Dumber as a stalker thriller. This one's kind of easy, because it's a stalker comedy already.

Here's a cat with his own Deathmobile.

Inman: This guy chose the wrong purse to steal.

Biden is going as a Fighter Pilot for Halloween.

These classic dopes are dressing up as skilled gun owners for Halloween.

Embrace of disgrace.

Dog helps himself to a Soy Snack.

Exit question: What scary movies are you watching this weekend? Which would you recommend? Or which are you thinking about watching, and want to know if they're any good?

I'd suggest two fun games-oriented movies: "Escape Room," about, well, lethal escape rooms that kill players one by one, and "Ready or Not," a movie about a creepy family with a strange tradition of requiring any new family member (like a new bride) to play a random game from their game room.

The whole family prays that this time the game won't be "Hide 'n Seek," but that's what it turns out to be.

Escape Room is actually PG-13 and doesn't feature any cursing or any gore. The violence is all suggested -- they cut away at the moment of gruesomeness.

Ready or Not is R-rated and they don't cut away. The heroine also curses. A lot. But it's kinda justified. The game of Hide 'n Seek they play is all kinds of fucked up.

Both are surprisingly fun and competently made. Escape Room is kind of a thriller with some horrific tones, and Ready or Not is a horror/black comedy, where some parts are actually chuckleworthy.

Neither is great, obviously. They're horror movies.

One more semi-recent one, from like 2012, that's pretty decent is "You're Next." The basic set-up is a family in an isolated location, beset upon by psychopathic killers similar to those in The Strangers. There's a twist, which of course I can't tell you about. I'll just say this about the twist: It's something I've wondered about in almost every single slasher movie, so I enjoyed seeing a movie explore that idea.

Oh, and The Strangers I liked too.

posted by Ace at 07:46 PM

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