Halloweentober Day 23

Freaky. Or dark Freaky Friday.

I just watched this on Peacock tonight for the first time. This is a cool little gem to find for Halloween viewing. Vince Vaughn was really good in this role too, as were most of the characters. I was surprised at how despicable the one gay character was. Isaac was outed as a bigot and quite rapey in the first five minutes the character was on screen. And I think Vince Vaughn's Blissfield Butcher was actually a vampire. Or maybe in another draft this serial killer was supposed to be a vampire? There is a lot of vampire lore going on in the plot of the film.

First clue: when Booker, Millie's crush and football star, cuts his finger in shop class, the killer in Millie's body sucks the blood from his finger.

Clue two: the killer, now back in his Vince Vaughn body, takes five gunshots to the chest during the film's climax. He supposedly dies in the ambulance but the camera pans to his heart monitor fallen off his finger. But, we see that...

Clue three: only minutes after taking those five to the chest the killer is seemingly fine, not a wince of pain as he stalks Millies and takes on the family in the post-climax. It's only after he takes a sharp wooden stake to the chest, right in the heart, that he finally dies. Things that make you go Hmm.

My verdict: the killer was a vampire, and that's why the knife spoke to him, to his darkness, and the whole switcheroo was able to work. Or I've just wasted your time with false assumptions that has nothing to do with this movie. Freaky is a fun horror comedy without the vampire stuff, and I think I'll add it to the collection. This was one of the more fun and entertaining horror comedies I've watched in a while...

I pulled The Halloween Store by Ronald Kelly off the shelf and read a few chapters today. I also started reading Torments, by Lisa W Cantrell, her sequel to haunted house novel The Manse. The Manse was a surprise find. I found the whole novel online and read it just before October in about a week. I was captivated. And this sequel takes place in the aftermath of that story. Hidden gem novel, absolutely. It's been a great Halloweentober few days, to be sure. I highly recommend The Manse if you can find a copy! But excuse me, I have a bag of Reese's pumpkins to gorge myself on... #slothisgoodwhenitstherightfood

Diagnosis Vampire!

Diagnosis Murder is one of my favorite snuggle beside the fire nostalgia trips to enjoy once in a while, like Murder, She Wrote or Matlock . It has that cozy mystery vibe and it's set at the perfect era - i.e., late 1980s through the 1990s. Actually I think DM ended in the early 2000s... But, anyway. The episode (S2 E13) The Bela Lugosi Blues (1995) was one of the first episodes I watched that turned me on to the show, and that's purely for the vampire story. Plus, Julie Carmen plays the vampire antagonist! Yes, Jerry Dandridge's sister, Regina! Julie plays the undead Moriah Thomas, who is killing most of LA's eligible bachelor's, and Jack could be next! Usually Diagnosis Murder plays things fair and straight, dispelling any notions of fantasy before the shows climax, but with this episode the show leans into the supernatural and doesn't fix it with a bend towards reality. Is Mark hallucinating, high with fever, or dreaming?? None of the above! Th...

White Out!

Right now, it's a white-out; snow has covered everything. And lightning is lighting the earth up in blinding white brilliance - I'm in awe. Thunder now, rattling windows and echoing into oblivion. Candles are lit and I'm reading a ghost story and I'm feeling euphoric now. Diet Pepsi and Op, what a feeling.

Halloweentober Day 22

Murder, She Wrote I could go over the more Halloween-adjacent episodes, such as The Witch's Curse (S8 E12), or Night of the Headless Horseman (S3 E11), or one of my favorites, the obligatory vampire episode The Legacy of the Borbey House (S10 E3), but I thought it more appropriate to discuss the overarching plot of the show in its entirety, and that is that Jessica Fletcher is in Hell!!! She has to be in her own private hell. How else do you explain that nearly every single person or acquaintance Jessica knows, every family member or movie star or who the hell ever she knows gets involved in a murder or is murdered? Every place Jess visits whether for vacation or to help a friend in need invariably turns into a whodunit. I get it, the show wouldn't be very entertaining without the murder in Murder, She Wrote. But, if one human must entertain all that death, then surely you would be in hell, either mental or literal. She is either A., killing people and ingeniously setting up ot...

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