#the brood
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I forgot the other thing I did in 2021! Finally a full-fledged return to my Spooky Movie Marathon shennanigans. There are some TV shows and video games thrown in, cause this is all for my entertainment really. First 10 here:
1- Community, s2 ep6
2- Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
3- Train to Busan
4- The Fog
5- The Empty Man
6- Kwaidan
7- Prince of Darkness
8- The Brood
9- Phasmaphobia
10- Brotherhood of the Wolf
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the brood (1979, david cronenberg)
the law believes in motherhood
horror | oliver reed, samantha eggar, art hindle
Day 2
Reflections on: Village of the Damned(1995)
- This might be the last good thing made by John Carpenter.
- I really liked the original Village of the Damned (1960) but this one is so unlike it that it was enjoyable in different ways.
- The effects are about as good an episode of The X Files. Even though it’s from 1995 it feels more like a late 70′s horror movie - in a good way!
- Kirstie Alley plays an epidemiologist who quotes Sherlock Holmes and smokes constantly - both in clinics and around dozens of pregnant women.
- Stars Superman (Christopher Reeve), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and some cows.
- I think Mark Hamill had fun playing a melodramatic priest. His first line in the movie is “Weneed finger paints!”
- This falls under the genre of pregnancy horror movies such as Rosemary’s Baby(1968)It’s Alive (1974), and The Brood(1979).
- It was nice to see a scene featuring a very straight forward discussion about abortion :)
- This has lots of elements of other good John Carpenter films: hokey premise yet shot in beautiful widescreen cinematography, set in a coastal California town, spooky synth soundtrack, and pumpkins.
- One of the white-haired children looks like Jay Leno.
- If a bunch of weird kids want to live in a barn maybe you shouldn’t interfere?
- I watched this while wearing a fleece. This feels important to note.
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