Scary Stories (from a Dark Allie)

It’s Mother’s Day in the USA (unintentional rhyme, sorry?), so this is…well, it’s not really “appropriate” but it’s…fitting?

I thought this movie was nominally thematically appropriate following the last two movies. And at least it’s better than The Happening?

I wish this movie were better. I think it might be the oldest remake I’ve watched yet? It’s old enough to be a Throwback Thursday pick itself!

This is partially a nostalgia-driven rating, but also this is truly just a classic horror movie. Made on a shoestring budget with minimal special effects, this movie is apparently a pretty faithful adaptation of John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos, which I admittedly still have yet to read.

First, I want to make a (much smaller) content warning about discussions of suicide in this movie.

I liked this one more than I expected, but still not a lot. I’m sure it didn’t hurt that it was quite short and action-packed.

Can you tell I’m on a movie name theme? This is the last one for now.

This is such a frustrating movie. By all accounts, it SHOULD be good! There’s some interesting stuff there, and the performances are excellent!

I feel this is going to be a polarizing movie. It’s definitely…weird, and absurd, and over-the-top, and campy. I’d seen it before, but watching it again it really reminded me of Sissy, which isn’t a bad thing!

I like this movie. I’ll admit that it’s a bit less compelling on a second viewing, but it’s still interesting and so well acted.

Here’s a sequel I don’t think needed to be made, at all. It was so boring! I didn’t care about any of the characters, except MAYBE Peter McNeil and his raven.

Am I a bad horror movie fan? I thought this was just okay. On thinking a bit, I guess the remake was one of the earlier/earliest Hollywood horror remakes, so there were probably more critical eyes on it than for some of the later ones? But honestly, I liked them both about the same.

Hello and happy May Day! I wanted to keep on theme, so my movie ordering is a bit off this week. I don’t know that I’d ever seen this movie before, OR its original…so we’ll see how watching this version first fares for tomorrow’s?

This is a pretty standard “backwoods horror” story that I don’t have too much to say about.