Name that Film: Halloween Edition!

Exorciiiiiiize the demons! Ken you afford the space of just 3 days grace? Now any disembodied spirit understands Halloween has most certainly passed and been filed under the neat heading of another “All Saints Day” past…so gone is the luck of the black, mangy cat and endless gossip stories of Ozzy and his plastic bat BUT…the Film Edition's simultaneous combustion and computer issues smells of insubordination from deep outside the system. This is both scary and shocking. Let us speak of the supernatural and the state of the soul in the very mouth of madness. This does not have to take place at an ominous chateau that may reside at the Overlook Hotel in or beside any subsequent maze.
A cleaning crew working an abandoned mental hospital is an obvious recipe for scares and getting the craze, but then again so isn’t William Hurt playing a scientist who woofs down hallucinogenic drugs and floats in an isolation chamber for days just for the sake of science.

Silence! Whose out there pray tell? There’s something in the mist! Shut the doors! This is like a dark rainy night at the Bates hotel. Hey hey whattaya say? There’s visual profanity here on display. Nestles. Snickers, M& M’s….o my! The Mothman prophecies did aim to please and didn’t have to try. I came as soon as I heard there were disturbing hallucinations and a strong propensity for speaking in tongues. Am I over-qualified? What’s next….castigating evolution and praying for George W. Bush? Religious zealotry and brainwashing has never been more frightening. Ba-dum ba-dum…ba-dum ba-dum…redrum...trick or treat! Anyone disappointed the world has failed to stem efforts for an invasion from Mars? This may involve a tale of two sisters in 2 separate cities or something akin to Lecter versus Starling or Leatherface displaying the grace of an off Broadway ballet dancer with his signature shriek.

Take spinning heads, add some vile expletives and buckets of green vomit then mix one skinless escapee from Hell, a sexy heroine and an evil Rubik’s cube and whattaya get? Certainly not a group of demons clad in bondage gear who literally tear their victim’s limb from limb like defiant adolescents smashing pumpkins! Think of the societal implications of a country torn wide open by biological warfare. Have we just had a conversation without opening our mouths? The devil didn’t go down to Georgia, his form skyrocketed at the box office, filling a menacing void, as the world continues to be overrun with the undead...again and again.

Beware! Arachnophobia is not 4 pair of 8 hairy legs creepy crawling, coming your way on a Mediterranean beach today. You’d think the people would’ve had enough of ghoulish word games. I look around me and I see it isn’t so…o no! If you could spare any extra imagery to create a deeply unsettling tone…wait until black goo comes out of the toilet you’ve just scrubbed with magic bubbles and the buzzing flies appear out of nowhere. Then a creepy voice will tell an ordained priest to “get out” and a specter with glowing red eyes will peer through the newly installed Anderson windows, which are still in the process of being financed, much to your chagrin.

Turns out vampires are a lot like cockroaches and Oompa Loompas may be construed as freaky but attaining a place of honor at a druidic ceremony inside the wicker man can not benefit anyone but the aforementioned. Scream now, while there’s still room to breathe. I think I must have one of those faces you can’t help but believe. If only I could think…all these people dying in the desert…of thirst? Gawd, I’d give my soul for a drink!

There’s always the darker side of human nature to contend with like mutant teletubbies covered in mucus, visceral, gritty and more than a bit graphic. A turn of the screw leads the Film Edition back to you. Imagine Johnny Deppgetting swallowed by his own bed and spit out again in a giant spray of blood. This could lead a lonely widower to make some bad choices when it comes to affairs of the heart. I could start with Jamie Lee Curtis in the closet in conjunction with another hapless hero defending themselves from hordes of oncoming demons and no-one would immediately think of change.

Why is this family so strange? Why do they keep insisting I sleep? What are these strange plants suddenly sprouting up? These may all be good questions to ask when standing at the Gates of Hell with human morality as your one and only subject.

Dead ant! Dead ant! Think twice before stepping on that helpless insect…next thing ya know they’ll be feeding on the locals.

Now, do you want to be buried…in a pet cemetery? Where on Earth could one find a bloody creature birthed from a human surrogate? All work and no play makes Jack more than a dull boy, just ask Bleed. Cue the Michael Myers music and the necessary quota of heavy breathing, black blood and phantasmagoric preschoolers. There is also a crew stationed at an Antarctic base being stalked by a shape shifting alien with more than your standard fare of stomach churning spiritual transformations.

The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is there….inside my mind! So isn’t Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The birds are coming. Ghost writer to Ground Control, do you copy? Imagine the horror of sending the wrong copy! A conspiracy theory brews and gains speed and is said to be at the races, but prey on corpses? Who has the time? I have a good mind to make or honor this as Holy; of the people, by the people, for the people wandering, wanting, haunting a particular U.S. poet who wrote a song about a large black bird with a harsh call that happens to be related to the crow. Never-mind! Who has neither the time nor the mind of inclination for a chill that runs the length of a finely structured spine or to pursue prey as if they held the
title to Camp Crystal Lake? It would take a lot more hours in the day. Any evil demon knows that! How fitting that a guy named "Blood" would write the intro to the Halloween Edition of Name that Film!!! Another excellent job by my Bostonian Pahtna, I must say.
Now, since we are already a few days late for Halloween, let's get back into the spirit by trying to figure out what Halloween time movie the following quotes came from. Just leave your answers in the comment section and let's see if we can get all 10 this week!

Blood-N-Bolts Productions would like to wish you luck and thank you for playing Name that Film!!
1. "I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply evil."

2. "Maybe we're gonna have a big earthquake. They say things get really weird just before."

3. "You killed your mother! You left her alone to die!"

4. "OOOHHH! You didn't tell me you were gonna kill it!"

5. "Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in."

6. "Oh brother! You're something! You put me in a spin."

7. "Your mother's murder was last year's hottest court case. Somebody had to write a book about it."

8. "The old way...with a sledge. See that was better, they died better that way."

9. "Will you murder and mother and her child, to save yourself?"

10. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."

Alright everyone, let's see those answers! By the way, if you know storkjrc, or TheUclan, please remind them about our game. They were always fine competitors and they have been missed.
Thanks again to bloodredsox for this weeks amazing intro and to all the players who help us stay motivated to keep knocking this thing out. Remember to check out The Blood Blog for more of blood's unique style.

Happy Belated Halloween!

(My youngest son on his first Halloween)