It's day 296 of my One Movie a Day for 2023, and Day 23 on both 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, can not forget to mention the 100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge I joined this year.
As always, this is where I say over the last decade I've been doing a 13 Days of Hallowe'en project on my old social medias, that ran from the 19th-31st of October, where I would do movie reviews, recipes and comedy skits. But this year, I am keeping it simple doing stuff just on this new site and my Letterboxd.
For my own 31 Days of Hallowe'en project, the mini theme today is Ghosts. I picked Haunted Harmony Mysteries Murder in G Major.
A music teacher moves to Ireland to start fresh, but finds herself the center of attention when she ends up renting the house of a former murder victim. The ghost of the accused asks her to clear his name and find the real killer before the house gets sold.
Okay, so a little bit of a softer detour as this is a Hallmark style holiday movie. It is a cozy who done it with a ghost as one of the lead characters, and it works. It's a really nice change of pace from some of the other stuff I've seen in the ghost/house is haunted sub-genre. It fits with the Hallowe'en season, but still has a sensibility to it. We're given a lead character who is a natural psychic, but it's not played for shock. It's played as something more of an everyday thing, that doesn't go overboard with the intent behind it.
For the theme of the day for 31 Days of Horror hosted by Nightmare on Film Street, we had 1970's. I picked the original Black Christmas.
A group of sorority members begin receiving phone calls from an unknown man during the Christmas break. As the calls become more and more upsetting, members of the sorority begin to become targets of a serial killer.
This is one of those movies that keeps you guessing with a lot of red herrings. It's a fairly contained movie too, taking place in only about three locations, leaving you constantly in a state of claustrophobia. It doesn't explain itself either. Which, I think is one of the reasons it's considered a classic in the horror genre. You're constantly left wondering if any of the suspects are actually the stalker.
Come back tomorrow to see what other tricks and treats are on the slab.
Comments