Is This Something? Halloween Reccomendations Edition

A commenter mentioned the Ballerina trailer. It's Ana d'Armas as an assassin from that Russian House of Assassins which, I guess, trained John Wick?

A different trailer makes it look like John Wick will be a major part of the movie, but I imagine that's Dangerous Disinformation and Trailer Fuckery. I bet he's in one six minute training montage, and then a quick "I'm still here" at the end.

I dunno. I have nothing against Ana d'Armas and I don't even care that much that they're doing a female spin-off. I don't like when they replace male characters with a female one, but we know there are literally fifty million assassins in the John Wick world -- as Pitch Meeting guy said, this conspiracy has enough members to swing an election, not by assassination but just by voting -- so sure, why not join in the new Conservative Trend of promoting hot chicks?

But it's a bad time for the girlboss hero, innit it? Dat race been run.

I don't like promoting Netflix but this could be a movie that women like that I could actually watch. Women sure do love their women-in-danger and true crime stuff.

Supposedly a true life story -- by Hollywood standards -- it's about a woman who goes on the Dating Game and winds up being stalked by a bizarro suitor who turns out to be a serial killer.

I think I've heard of this. Based on the timeframe and location, I'm going to guess it's the Night Stalker, right? Richard Ramirez? Nope: Bonhomme says it's Rodney Alcala, who has no serial killer nickname except "The Dating Game Killer." He had a nasty MO: He would repeatedly strangle women to the point of death, then let them revive a little, then strangle them again.

I'm so sick of superhero bullshit that I actually thought this "dark romance" thriller looks not entirely unwatchable. Though I find "Hollywood Sex" to be the cringeiest, silliest, most embarrassing, most preposterous kind of sex, and I'm even including my own in that.

Speaking of, enjoy this compilation of scenes of Jennifer Connelly set to "Space Age Love" song, which is the truly immortal song from the one-hit wonders Flock of Seagulls. (Who actually had a second hit in Photograph and a third in this one, but they weren't very big hits.)

The scenes are from The Hot Spot, which I only saw two minutes of, to fast forward to her nude scene. It seemed kind of boring, apart from that.

I just thought I should throw something in for the guys, to balance out the two other movies.

Kermit the Frog in The Dark Knight. And the interrogation scene.

Movieguik linked this review of four scary movies from 2022, including Smile and Barbarian.

Werewolves. It's a Die Hard type movie where the terrorists are werewolves. Meh.

I saw some trailers on the the Flick Connection YouTube channel. He said these are good.

Cuckoo looks very scary and I'll probably watch it. Watch the trailer through the bike scene.

He says this movie, Abigail, is good too. The gimmick is that six kidnappers are paid to abduct a six-year-old girl and bring her to an isolated house. The twist is the little girl is not a little girl and in fact arranged the "kidnapping" herself -- the kidnappers are the intended victims. The trailer said the people behind Ready or Not are involved in this, and that was good, funny horror.

Speak No Evil and Longlegs look good too. In the latter, a woman finds she's up against a true cosmic horror: Nicholas Cage.

Now that's scary.

posted by Ace at 04:20 PM

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