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Oct. 4th, 2010 09:19 pmI am back from Portland. I had a lovely time and saw some ridiculously fun movies.
- There was a really great preview of the HPLHS's Whisperer in Darkness which I am so stoked about I can't even tell you. Seriously, that movie looks awesome. I can't wait till it comes out. (I also can't wait till they get back to Dark Adventure Radio Theater because I love me some radio drama and they do really great work. And they said there may some day be a DART version of Herbert West: Reanimator, which would be pretty rockin'.)
- They showed The Whole Wide World which is not a horror movie at all, but a rather touching movie about Robert E Howard. Which mostly reminded me that I should read more Howard because I've only ever read a couple of Conan stories, but they were awesome. Gloriously awesome. And I hear really good things about Solomon Kane. I should get on that.
- There was this little Australian movie called Primal which I don't think was actually very good but was an amazing amount of fun. Not overly scary but it had some nice jumper moments and some very nicely done gore (the kind of gore I like, where everything is over the top). And there were leeches and a couple of nice body horror moments. You can't help but like a movie that gives you all that and a creepy girl turned into a monster in pink pajamas pants tearing a kangaroo in half. And ( somewhat icky spoilers, I guess? ) And I'm not going to say that that sort of thing is pleasant or anything but it's kinda nice when a film so completely fulfills your expectations that way. 8) ( More spoilers: ) This may have been the most fun movie I saw all weekend.
- And there was Stuart Gordon, so we watched Dagon and a filmed staged reading of Re-Animator: the Musical which, um...so, okay, the music is really quite dreadful but I'm not going to lie. If there ever actually is a stage show and it ever comes to Seattle, I will be there with bells on, because you really have to support your fandom when it does completely ridiculous things, don't you? Of course you do.
And this morning I went to Powells and bought horror novels and Richard Siken's Crush. All in all, an excellent weekend.
- There was a really great preview of the HPLHS's Whisperer in Darkness which I am so stoked about I can't even tell you. Seriously, that movie looks awesome. I can't wait till it comes out. (I also can't wait till they get back to Dark Adventure Radio Theater because I love me some radio drama and they do really great work. And they said there may some day be a DART version of Herbert West: Reanimator, which would be pretty rockin'.)
- They showed The Whole Wide World which is not a horror movie at all, but a rather touching movie about Robert E Howard. Which mostly reminded me that I should read more Howard because I've only ever read a couple of Conan stories, but they were awesome. Gloriously awesome. And I hear really good things about Solomon Kane. I should get on that.
- There was this little Australian movie called Primal which I don't think was actually very good but was an amazing amount of fun. Not overly scary but it had some nice jumper moments and some very nicely done gore (the kind of gore I like, where everything is over the top). And there were leeches and a couple of nice body horror moments. You can't help but like a movie that gives you all that and a creepy girl turned into a monster in pink pajamas pants tearing a kangaroo in half. And ( somewhat icky spoilers, I guess? ) And I'm not going to say that that sort of thing is pleasant or anything but it's kinda nice when a film so completely fulfills your expectations that way. 8) ( More spoilers: ) This may have been the most fun movie I saw all weekend.
- And there was Stuart Gordon, so we watched Dagon and a filmed staged reading of Re-Animator: the Musical which, um...so, okay, the music is really quite dreadful but I'm not going to lie. If there ever actually is a stage show and it ever comes to Seattle, I will be there with bells on, because you really have to support your fandom when it does completely ridiculous things, don't you? Of course you do.
And this morning I went to Powells and bought horror novels and Richard Siken's Crush. All in all, an excellent weekend.
