Thursday, September 24, 2020

Halloween 2020: Icons of Darkness Opens, Screamfest Still Scaring, Haunted Haddonfield & The Babysitter: Killer Queen

 

Icons of Darkness, the horror memorabilia exhibit opens up today. It features a gigantic collection of props and costumes from horror and sci-fi films.

Screamfest is going drive-thru this year and it already has it's first movie up to order tickets for. Honestly, we're amazed it didn't get sold out as most drive-ins are playing re-hashed movie hits from decades ago. Oh, and it's free!



Tue, October 6, 2020 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM 
Calamigos Ranch
327 Latigo Canyon Road Malibu, CA 90265 
 
Based on Clive Barker’s acclaimed and influential horror anthology BOOKS OF BLOOD, this feature takes audiences on a journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three uncanny tales tangled in space and time.
 
For those who love the Halloween movie franchise, you've got this art gallery in the house from the original movie.
 

SUGARMYNT'S 6TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN EXHIBIT BEHIND THE MYERS HOUSE IN SOUTH PASADENA, CA AKA THE FICTIONAL TOWN OF HADDONFIELD FROM JOHN CARPENTER;S 1978 HORROR CLASSIC HALLOWEEN. HAUNTED HADDONFIELD IS OUR HALLOWEEN MOVIE TRIBUTE MERGED WITH AN EXHIBIT OF HAUNTED AND PARANOMAL PLACES.
 
Is McG okay? The answer is no. In what I considered a fun foray back to form for the poorly named director, the original, The Babysitter was a fun horror movie about a killer babysitter with a Satanic cult on Netflix. He straight up blew the first movie away like the scene in Robocop where the shotgun popped off poor Murphy's hand.

It's a true mess of him ruining his own work and retreading jokes that might be used in a Not Another Teen Movie, not the ones that were clever, the ones with references that wouldn't make sense after a year.
 
The Babysitter: Killer Queen is done by someone whose once made blockbusters, who now can't. His sense of humor on par with Micheal Bay's; it's funny because someone got hurt or is being treated like garbage. Which is not funny, it just comes off as weird.

I still like the cast, great actors who I'd love to see just having fun in a comedy or dumb college movie.

If you've seen the first film and liked it, I highly recommend never seeing the sequel that adds real supernatural elements to it and the strangest, shortest editing of people's backstories I've ever seen.

McG lay off the caffeine and trying to keep the Fortnite generation interested.