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Catch The Road Virus!
Catch The Road Virus!
Its been a while since I’ve promoted something, but goddamn did this catch my attention. I’ve been an avid reader my entire life (my first introduction to Horror was Stephen King) so when I heard a couple of awesome folks were fixing to set up a “Mobile bookstore specializing in fringe literature” that also aims to do some community outreach, I was hooked! (also, doesn’t hurt that Em’s favorite…
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Uncle Frank's "31-For-31: Horrorpalooza 2016" Part 4...The Final Chapter!!
Uncle Frank’s “31-For-31: Horrorpalooza 2016” Part 4…The Final Chapter!!
Hello Meat Sacks. It’s all over now, baby blue. We’re on to the seasons of gluttony and tinsel, capitalism and commercially sponsored good-will. Luckily we’ve had a helluva run in the month of ghouls and gore, with loads of wonderfully horrific memories to look back on and dwell upon as people wish us “Merry” this, or “Happy” that. Ol’ Uncle Frank pulled off his 31-For-31 marathon, and even…
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Uncle Frank's "31-For-31: Horrorpalooza 2016" Part 3!!
Uncle Frank’s “31-For-31: Horrorpalooza 2016” Part 3!!
Hello Meat Sacks. Once again we find ourselves on the slippery slope of the second half of the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: October. This is the time of the month where we try to pack in as much Halloween-y goodness as we can, whether that be pumpkin beers, haunted houses, costume parties, clown orgies, or, of course, horror movies. Ol’ Uncle Frank has been stuffing himself on the latter, as…
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Papa Bacchus' 31 for 31 - one horror a day in October! (Part 1)
Papa Bacchus’ 31 for 31 – one horror a day in October! (Part 1)
Fellow Bacchanalians! I hope you find this glorious month in good humor – god knows its been a rough one for ole Papa B (actually having a job and real life, who’d a thunk it?) but I’ve been keeping up with Uncle Frank on the 31 for 31 challenge. For those of you not familiar, the idea is that we watch one horror a day, every day, for the month of October – preferably movies we’ve not seen…
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Uncle Frank's "31-For-31: Horrorpalooza 2016" Part 2!!
Uncle Frank’s “31-For-31: Horrorpalooza 2016” Part 2!!
Hello Meat Sacks. Another week of fright features has come and gone, with some surprises, some let-downs, and some seriously fucked up shit. Just the way we like it! While it’s tragic that October is already half over, hopefully the second half will be even more devilish and demonic than the first. Cheers to that! Now let’s tally up ol’ Uncle Frank’s challenge totals from the first week: 31 films…
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Uncle Frank's "31-For-31: Horrorpalooza 2016"
Uncle Frank’s “31-For-31: Horrorpalooza 2016”
Hello Meat Sacks. Ol’ Uncle Frank is back, and once again ready to imbibe the Halloween Season in all its glory, mainly through the consumption of copious amounts of blood, boobs, and booze. Some of which might be actually be taken in through the viewings of this year’s entries into the Horrorpalooza, 2016 edition. As always, this marathon of horror movies comes with a set of self-imposed rules:…
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True love, torn apart...#milkshakes #nephewkitty #bromance #catsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram
Top 10 Netflix Horror Comedies to drink to!
Top 10 Netflix Horror Comedies to drink to!
Its no news that the Horribly Hooched crew enjoys a few brews with friends and some choice comedic horror, so Papa Bacchus decided to whip together this list of his top 10 faves that are currently on Netflix US Instant! He’s also got some choice recommendations for a few simple drinking games. We try to keep the drinking games to 3 solid rules so they’re easy to remember. Also, we’ve put this…
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I’ve been debating this article for a long, long time now. There’s a lot of hype bouncing around the horrorsphere surrounding these two films, The Babadook and It Follows, and for good reason – we don’t see a lot of unique ideas well executed with enough budget and studio support to properly pull them off.
Initially, I absolutely loved The Babadook and despised It Follows. Over time, and numerous viewings of each, I find my opinions shifting, that I enjoy and appreciate The Babadook less, and It Follows more…so what follows is my dissection of my love/hate relationship with two of the most critically acclaimed horror films of 2015.
If you haven’t seen both, stop reading now. THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD
Lets talk briefly about what makes these films stand out from the substantial bevy of horror offerings last year, whether you liked them or not.
Unique concept
Whether its a sexually transmitted murderous demon or a haunted childrens book, you have to admit the writers of both The Babadook and It Follows really hit on some intensely interesting ideas
Brilliant direction and storytelling
Both films follow a ‘slow burn’ in the sense that tension and fear builds throughout the first act (though It Follows is much faster in this regard) but the viewer is never left bored or wanting
Stunning cinematography and composition
Gorgeous and spectacularly haunting, both films paint such a terrifically terrifying picture I found them staying with me for days and weeks after. Even It Follows, angry as it left me, still had me thinking back to specific scenes and marvelling at their ability to captivate me.
Spot on performances
I don’t mean to say here that any of the actors in either The Babadook or It Follows were particularly GOOD, but rather that they fit the roles they were playing perfectly. Sure, the son in The Babadook started as the most absolutely obnoxious little cunt, but he was SUPPOSED to. By contrast, I wouldn’t dare use the word ‘cunt’ with ANYONE in It Follows as they all lack both the warmth and the depth…but they were SUPPOSED to, so in that, they succeeded.
Solid conclusions
I’ve said this multiple times in multiple articles and it bears repeating here – solid and satisfying endings are damn difficult to pull off in horror. DAMN difficult. So when two films with all the above qualities also manage to nail a solid ending, it makes you stand up and pay attention. AGAIN, I’m not speaking yet to interpretation of the endings, or whether or not I even ENJOYED them, but they are solid.
Assuming these above points are valid (and while obviously opinion, its my damn opinion so of course they are) lets get in to the nitty gritty.
Why I love ‘The Babadook’ and ‘It Follows’
On first viewing, both films are starkly haunting. For different reasons, but of all the adjectives my pickled brain rattles off this one stands out as the most apt. The mood is tense and foreboding, unsettling, with little room for hope on all sides, creating the perfect Horror environment, one that I am continually searching for and one that makes me such a huge fan of the genre. The viewer finds themselves in a bleak world, with little hope of reprieve.
Another key element to any decent horror movie is quality scoring, whether it be the actual soundtrack, ambient tracks or SFX – and in both The Babadook and It Follows the sound design is absolutely perfect, nearly whimsical. I’m actually listening to the soundtrack to It Follows as I write this, its that fucking good, with a perfect mix of retro and staccato arrhythmic noise that keeps ones interest while perched on the edge of the seat.
While the first act of The Babadook is just a little unnerving, and the character development exhausting, the first act of It Follows is wonderful. Damn near a perfect exposition. In the second act things pick up for both films, with the conflict finally developing and real fear building. Its honestly difficult to watch either of these films by yourself late at night with the lights off, something that is again sorely lacking in so many predictable pieces of shit churned out by the major studios.
Why I hate both
For The Babadook, its a pretty simple reason that’s matured in the back of my mind over time. As I said earlier, I completely adored The Babadook the first time I saw it. I recommended it to friends, even rated it a solid 8/10 here. I’ve seen it in varying degrees of sobriety as well, to confirm my feelings…but something’s been bugging me.
At first I took the film at face value (serious spoilers ahead here) and just sort of accepted that the spirit of her dead husband had come to haunt them, attempting to claim them for the afterlife that they might spend time together in undeath, and that by triumphing together Mother and Son had overcome his evil intentions, and now lived with him relatively harmoniously in the basement. And I was OK with this ending! I accepted the shitty antics of the bratty snot nosed little fucker, the increasingly bedraggled and frustratingly unkempt mom, because it seemed like a cool supernatural flick.
Unfortunately, its pretty obvious this ISNT the case. Really, The Babadook is a story of a broken and increasingly abusive woman overcoming her personal demons and depression with the help of her child and finally coping with the reality of their lives together. Why does that suck? It betrays the basic concept and appealing nature of the film. Makes it almost basic, and that cool unique hook taunts me. I know for some people that’s fine, and they enjoy that, but it really makes the rest of the movie not WORTH it to me. It kills the payoff, and has made me resent the movie over time.
By contrast, It Follows is pants-tenting-ly stuffed with potential. The hard to place time period, wonderful color scheme, costuming and location (Detroit? Sure as shit feels like Detroit) set a perfect stage. The timelessness alone forces the viewer to just focus on the content of the movie itself, rather than identifying time periods or location, so your undivided attention is on the story about to be told. The characters are just uninteresting enough to be anyone of us growing up, or even us, and the monster, a sexually transmitted unstoppable demon that can take the face of anyone, familiar or strange, is absolutely terrifying. It had me thinking almost immediately ‘What would I do? How long does it take to walk across the US? How often would I have to move to evade it?’, which is the strange sort of appeal that makes post-apocalyptic films so enjoyable.
The stage was perfectly set for an amazing and enduring horror film, one I’d be talking about with friends and fans for years. In the theater by the second act I was literally quivering with anticipation, whispering ‘oh shit oh shit’ under my breath.
And then, they started fucking up. Breaking their own rules and mythology they’d JUST created – with the dude who passes on the demon somehow not spotting it at the beginning, with said monster sometimes stopping or seemingly waiting, then suddenly gaining logic. The climactic confrontation scene is comical, the ‘fight’ anything but climactic, and the minutes afterward full of, frankly, bullshit. There’s some hinted logic that the two heroes passed on the demon by fucking prostitutes and strangers, but beyond that, it all just sort of falls apart.
Bottom line, It Follows is absolute shit because it comes so close, and to be perfectly trite, burns its wings on the sun, and comes crashing down. It could have been SO MUCH better that it angers me to no end that it wasn’t.
CONCLUSION
Both The Babadook and It Follows are ‘good’, ‘decent’, and ‘above average’ films for their own reasons.. They’re solid 7’s in a massive pool of 3’s and 4’s. The Babadook went for the safe story, and It Follows shot for the moon and ended up floating in the void of space. What’s worse, is that they could have been 10’s, and that breaks my blackened heart.
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Flirting with Brilliance – ‘The Babadook’ and ‘It Follows’, an editorial I've been debating this article for a long, long time now. There's a lot of hype bouncing around the horrorsphere surrounding these two films, The Babadook and It Follows, and for good reason - we don't see a lot of unique ideas well executed with enough budget and studio support to properly pull them off.
Happy Horrordays: Papa Bacchus' Seasonal Recommendations
Happy Horrordays: Papa Bacchus’ Seasonal Recommendations
‘Tis the season to get ta-anked, falalalala la fall down drunk! Seriously though…between the extravagant spending on loved ones, and the family reunions that some of us love and most of us dread, its the perfect season to sit down with a festive cocktail and a ridiculous Christmas Horror to relax and de-stress. Uncle Frank already clued us in to his favorites in this article, so I (Papa Bacchus)…
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Krampus (2015) - You don't want to be on his list!
Krampus (2015) – You don’t want to be on his list!
As much as Halloween is certainly the favorite holiday round the Papa Bacchus household, Christmas is a close second – especially for themed Christmas Horror films! While there are a TON of offerings in that genre, there hasn’t really been anything substantial recently – until, of course, Krampus dropped. These days I tend to stay away from the theaters, having been burned by so many recent…
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Happy Horrordays: Uncle Frank's Seasonal Recommendations
Happy Horrordays: Uncle Frank’s Seasonal Recommendations
Hello, Meat Sacks. November 1st is ol’ Uncle Frank’s least favorite day of the year. It means the Halloween season is over, and all that seasonal trash that they put out in late summer (the Christmas lights, the tree stands, the fake snow cotton shit) is no longer fodder for derision. It’s a hard turn from “things that go bump in the night” to “peace on earth, goodwill to men.” While…
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Post #starwars digestif at #PublicSchool #drunk
Bantha Milk and Whistle Pig as @ibouchi and I digest #starwars
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Thankskilling (2009)
Oh yes, dear friends, its that wonderful time of year again. Time to get together with our blood relations and consume copious amounts of food under the guise of holiday celebration. Time to watch a football game, drink heavily, then pass out early on the couch with your belt torn asunder and an errant hand down your pants. So while we give thanks, my horror hound friends, you will find…
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The Unkindness of Ravens (2015) - Kickstarter!
The Unkindness of Ravens (2015) – Kickstarter!
From the dark mind of Lawrie Brewster, the man behind Lord of Tears and the Owl Man prank (heres a link for awesomeness) comes a new voyage into madness, in the form of ‘The Unkindness of Ravens’. Tagline: “In the bleak highlands of Scotland, an army veteran must battle his demons in a last desperate bid to reclaim his life and his sanity.” This project is currently on Kickstarter, check them out…
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