31 Days of Hallowe'en Challenge: Day 9

It's day 282 of the year and main project, and we are on Day 9 of the 31 Days of Hallowe'en challenge as well as the #31DayHorrorChallenge being hosted by Nightmare on Film Street.

As always, I'm starting off with my own 31 Days of Hallowe'en challenge, and my theme today is Must have the word Slayer or Hunter in the Title. I picked Jack Brooks Monster Slayer

Jack has anger issues. His therapist traces it back to when he was a kid and saw his family devoured by a wendigo type monster. Now, as an adult, Jack is just trying to get through his day to day life without punching people. When his night school professor asks him to take a look at his sewer pump, Jack unknowingly cracks the basement floor. After he leaves, a strange mist fills the house and possesses his professor. In a zombie like trance, the professor digs up the backyard and revives a demon. Soon, Jack and the rest of his classmates find themselves the main course for his professor's new hunger.

This has moments when it feels a little goofy with the slime demon the professor eventually turns into. The scene reminded me of the one scene in Weird Science when the older brother gets turned into a pile of sludge-like creature. It was the same design. This is more gross than gore, which oddly works well for this movie. The students who get turned into demons themselves, had a very Evil Dead look to them, clearly lending to some of the inspiration behind it.

The prompt today from the 31 Days of Horror Challenge being hosted by Nightmare on Film Street, is A David Lynch Movie. I decided on Blue Velvet.

While home from college, a young man finds a severed ear and takes it to the police. While talking to the lead detective, he meets the detective's teenaged daughter. The two then begin to investigate on their own. The investigation leads them to a lounge singer's apartment, where the young man is caught having snuck into. He ends up witnessing the lounge singer being attacked by a local mobster. Over the course of the investigation, the young man begins an affair with the singer, promising to help her find her son. He learns that the severed ear belongs to the singer's husband. Unsure who he can trust, he finds himself getting more and more involved with the singer and mobster.

I didn't really care for this movie. Which is odd, given it's clearly the blueprint for what would become the Twin Peaks franchise, and I loved the original tv show (season 1 and 2) and movie Fire Walk With Me. I honestly did not care for the 2017 continuation (season 3). I found Blue Velvet felt rushed, and for me the characters were a little under developed.

I'll be posting all month for the 31 Days challenges, so come back tomorrow and see what's on the slab. If you want to follow along with my daily Letterboxd lists you can do so here and here.