It's day 286 of my One Movie a Day for 2023. And it's Day 13 for my own 31 Days of Hallowe'en project, as well as the 31 Days of Horror Challenge being hosted by Nightmare on Film Street. Plus, I can't forget to mention the 100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge I joined this year.
This is the part where I tell you that for the last decade I've been doing a 13 Days of Hallowe'en project on my various old social medias that ran from the 19th-31st of October, where I would do movie reviews, recipes and comedy skits. I decided to just make it simple this year and just do the movie challenges here on this site and my Letterboxd.
For the theme of my 31 Days of Hallowe'en, today is the last day of Vampire week. Even I have found myself having overdosed on fangs and coffins this past week.
I picked Dance of the Damned. The story follows a vampire as he is hunting for someone who wants to die. He finds a woman tricking her into coming home with him, with the intentions of feeding off her just before sunrise. She has less than five hours to convince him otherwise.
This feels more like a stage play than a movie. It takes place in about five locations, returning over and over again to a strip club and the vampire's house. It's a very heavy emotional drama, that leaves you feeling nothing to be honest. There is actually a remake that was made only about five years later, entitled To Sleep With A Vampire; which I think is the better offering of the two.
The mini theme for today for the 31 Days of Horror Challenge being hosted by Nightmare on Film Street, was Jason Voorhees. I picked Jason Goes To Hell.
Jason is captured and killed, only to have his spirit possess the people around him, as he hunts down the only female relatives in his family, in order to be reborn.
I don't know what to tell you. This is my least favourite horror icon franchise. But, I do happen to like this movie. It's a bit different from the rest of the movies, and it confirms that the Friday the 13th franchise and the Evil Dead Franchise are spin offs of each other. The irony of this is, nothing in it is actually fresh at this point. The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise did the same thing at the same time, having Freddy trying to be reborn and I think they did it a hundred times better. The Halloween franchise as well handled the same plot with more style.
I was thinking about just using it for my vampire pick, cause technically, all the Friday the 13th movies are vampire movies, but I decided today to split the difference.
Come back tomorrow and see what's on the slab.
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