It's day 297 of the year and of my project, this means we're on Day 23 of the 31 Days of Hallowe'en challenges. I'm starting with my own 31 Days of Hallowe'en, which I talked about back in August. The topic today is Horror Icon: Freddy/Jason/Chucky/Pinhead etc. I picked the original A Nightmare on Elm Street.
When a group of teenagers realize they are all dreaming about the same killer in their dreams, they have to figure out a way to survive the night.
Okay, I'm going to assume that everyone has seen this given it's an early 1980's iconic horror. Hence, why I picked it for today's category. This movie is pretty self explanatory. A dead dude is out for revenge on the people who killed him, and he uses nightmares to do it. The only thing I don't think has ever been explained is the timeframe from the time the parents of Elm street burned Freddy to the time the kids of Elm street become victims. Was it only a few years, as in the parents already parents, or was it decades, as in the when the parents themselves were teenagers? I know the old television series had a bit of a timeline, and I can't completely remember if parts 6 and 7 had one? I know there have been deep deep dives into the lore and meaning of this franchise, so I'm just going to leave it here for now, and down the line do a full article on it.
The 31 Days of Horror Challenge being hosted by Nightmare on Film Street. Their topic today is Christopher Lee movies. I picked Horror Express.
When an archeologist brings a fossil aboard a train, they discover it's actually alive when it begins to murder the passengers.
This wasn't what I was expecting at all. It was a little more on the sci-fi side, but for the time it was made, the horror is there. The make-up effects they did with the victims was simple, but unsettling enough. It's this interesting crossroads of religion and science, as we're given a parasitic shapeshifter alien. It survives by leeching the energy and memories from a person through their eyes, and then can become them; or inhabit them. It brings new meaning to the idea of the eyes being the windows to the soul, because that's basically what it's doing, soul-sucking.
My only real complaint about this movie, is that the picture quality wasn't the best. It is really dark, and I can only assume that's because of the age of the movie. You almost want to crank your tv set to full. It literally got so dark at times, I couldn't see a thing.
Don't forget to check out my daily Letterboxd lists, as I am doing a few movie challenges for October. One of which is the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days
Come back tomorrow to see what's on the slab.
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