Wow. A whole month, with only one sick day and one skipped day. More importantly, a review every day, plus extra.
A Welltun Cares Presents first!
The final feature of the month was Trick or Treat, which tells you absolutely nothing as there’s a bunch by this title. This particular one is a sort of Carrie clone, as a picked upon teenager uses the evil spirit of his Heavy Metal hero to get revenge upon those who wronged him. Very Eighties, very fun. One of my favorites and frankly the best way to end this series.
And now an overview of what I’ve watched. The dates are when the movies pop up as Sister Site reviews. The asterisks (*) are the ones with Long Reviews. This might change without notice.
Here’s the list:
Week One
- As Above, So Below (10/13/23)
- Demons (10/27/23)
- Demons 2 (11/10/23)
- Man Made Monster* (11/24/23)
- The Comedy of Terror (12/1/23)
- The Church (12/8/23)
- The Curse of the Doll People (12/15/23)
Week Two
- Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes [12-22-23]
- V/H/S/99 [12-29-23]
- V/H/S/85 [01-05-24]
- The House of Seven Corpses [01-12-24]
- Evil Dead Trap [01-19-24]
- One Dark Night [01-26-24]
- The Other Side of the Box [Short Film]
- The Chair [Short Film]
- Stalled [Short Film]
- Friday the 13th* [02-09-24]
- The Conference [02-02-24]
Week Three
- Killdozer! [02/16/24]
- Phantasm [02/23/24]
- The Bridge Curse [02/29/24]
- Ghoulies II [03/08/24]
- The Cat and the Canary [03/15/24]
- Kiss of the Vampire [03/22/24]
Week Four
- The Breach [03/29/24]
- Schlock [04/05/24]
- Noroi: The Curse [04/12/24]
- Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell [04/19/24]
- Hospital [04/26/24]
- Prince of Darkness [05/03/24]
- When Evil Lurks [05/10/24]
- The Barn [05/17/24]
Week 5
- V/H/S Viral [05/24/24]
- Dementia 13 [05/31/24]
- Trick or Treat [06/07/24]
Next is the obligatory pointless Awards for the week. I’m going to mix it up a little and do top 5 lists instead of the usual way of doing things.
Favored Five
These are the five films I liked the most this month:
- Prince of Darkness – This classic John Carpenter flick is always a welcome view.
- Dementia 13 – A nice surprise, especially because I’ve been avoiding watching it for decades.
- Demons 2 – Pizza Schlock at its finest!
- Comedy of Terror – Vincent Price and the gang have a blast running a funeral home that seeks out clients.
- Trick or Treat – Never meet your heroes. Especially if they’ve become evil spirits.
Scariest I’ve Seen This Month
While not Favored, these flicks put the fear in me and should be commended/list for it.
- When Evil Lurks – Too bleak for my blood, but I can’t deny its power.
- Noroi: The Curse – A great Found Footage flick with Lovecraftian overtones.
- V/H/S Viral – The whole series seldom misses a step, but so far this is the best of the bunch.
- The Conference – Probably the best Slasher flick I’ve seen in years.
- Phantasm – Don’t ask me why, but as familiar as I am with this flick, it still gets me in places.
Worst of the Lot
This goes in order of very worst to pretty damn bad:
- Schlock – Hands down the worst movie I watched this month. Not so much bottom of the barrel but in a subterranean cave beneath the barrel. A cave that has toxic waste leaking in. Gah.
- Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes – Artsy fartsy bull crap.
- Man Made Monster – Lon Chaney Jr. deserves better. And if rumor is true this movie helped him get it. So it has that going for it.
- Ghoulies II – Bad puppets couldn’t save this flick
- Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell – This is a terrible movie, but in an entertaining way.
And that’s the month! Has some fun, got my Sister Site running right on into June. I might add some Golden Oldies to that mix (pushing some of the dates back), I might do fuller reviews to replace the brief ones I’ve done, I might even get so more fresh content in there. Sky’s the limit. No pressure to perform for a change.
Next week is NaNoWriMo. Fingers cross it goes as well as this month.
WELLTUN CARES PRESENTS 