Halloweenfest 2005 Wrap-Up

Well, another Halloween has come and gone. Lot's of movies were watched, lots of junk food was eaten, little sleep was had. Here's the final line-up. starting Friday night;

• Godzilla Vs Gigan: Godzilla defends Japan from giant space roaches. Gigan and King Gidorah star as mercenary monsters from space. Lots of clips from Gidorah, the Three Headed monster. Not great, but fun.
  
• Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla: Godzilla fights his mechanical alter-ego as more aliens invade the Earth. Gust starring King Ceasar (a pissed off Chinese New Year float) and Anguillas (mainly around to get his ass kicked).
  
• Demons: An evil movie theater kills off bad actors in Berlin. A very, very gooey movie. The gore and monster effects are only okay, but they are plentiful.
  
• Demons 2: More demons, this time in a high-rise apartment building. Even worse effects than Demons (the highlight being a tiny demon that is obviously a marionette), but it does have its moments...if you're all messed up on Milk Duds.
  
• Tales of Terror: Classic Price horrorfest.
  
• The Omega Man: Chuck Heston is the last man on a post-bio war Earth...except for some other survivors. The first 20 odd minutes (with Heston alone) are great. After the other survivors are brought in, the movie drags.
  
• Halloween: Mike Meyers plus horndog baby sitters equals slasheriffic fun.
  
• Halloween 2: All I can say is never go into the Haddonfield Hospital. However, there are some very nice gratuitous boobies.
  
• Halloween H2O: More gore, no boobs. Why is it that modern horror movies are becoming progressively more violent, but are showing less skin? I kind of like the way 70s horror movies tossed the odd breast or two into the mix...which, in the context of the genre, could be taken in a number of ways.
  
• House of Wax 2005: Paris Hilton is speared through the head. She doesn't notice. The movie has a slow first 15 - 20 mminutes, but picks up once the hacking begins.
  
• Land of the Dead: Romero does zombies better than anyone. Very graphic (the GOP Baby was heard to utter an "eww" and she's pretty hearty) but also better acted than any of the other Romero Dead movies.
  
• Demon Seed: Proteus IV wants a baby and Julie Christie gives it to him! This is a pretty good horror/Sci-Fi flick. Even the effects hold up pretty well (the movie is from 1977, I think), although there is a bad "psychedelic" sequence why the computer is making Ms. Christie large with child.
  
• Burnt Offerings: Pretty good haunted house movie, with an utterly predicatable ending. However, it gets points for starring Oliver Reed and for killing off the little kid at the end of the movie.
  
• Land That Time Forgot: Hi, I'm Doug McClure. You may remember me from such movies as At The Earths Core and People The Time Forgot...and from this movie full of German submariners, dinosaurs, cavemen...and Doug, of course. The effects are pretty sad, but the movie is carried by a lot of energy from the cast and crew. Great Saturday morning type fun.
  
• The Relic: The GOP Baby loves this movie about a giant monster eating brains in a Chicago museum. Mmmmm....brains.
  
• Godzilla All Out Monster Attack: From the new series of Godzilla films, this is just non-stop monster action. Lots of top-notch man-in-suit carnage.
  
• Devil Girl From Mars: Alien babe lands in English countryside, realizes people are dumber than turtles, yet doesn't think that wearing a cape makes her look like a dork.
  
• Isle of the Dead: Karloff as a wigging out Greek officer on a remote island where a plague has hit...and, possbily, a creature of the night...atmospheric, although probably too slow for most modern viewers.
  
• Dawn of the Dead (1978): Heh, it's a classic.
  
• Bride of Frankenstein: And finally, another Karloff flick, this one probably the best of the 1930s horror movies.