Sep 27 2008
FEEDING MY ADDICTION
Every year I look forward to October, for obvious reasons of course. Part of what I love is that being a horror movie fan is no longer a dirty thing. People suddenly come forward to admit that they love horror movies and they may even go to the local theater for whatever piece of garbage Hollywood has released or they’ll pick up a few movies from the video store. It fills the Horror Queen with joy.
Tonight I made the mistake of heading to my local Wal-Mart. Towards the beginning of September the mega store suddenly realizes it’s almost Halloween and sticks a bunch of horror movies out for sale. Usually the movies are tremendously bad, but that doesn’t stop me from jumping up and down with glee…or at least calmly adding 2-3 to my basket.
Tonight’s trip to Wal-Mart was meant for one sole purpose: to locate a copy of “Friday the 13th the Series” Season 1 DVD set. Unfortunately my area apparently hates this television show, that’s the only explanation I can find for why no store in the area has this set. One worker was so confused by my question that he tracked down another worker. Luckily I found my horror movie soul mate right in the aisle at Wal-Mart. Well, at least another fan and someone who actually knows who Jim Van Bebber is and owns one of his movies. It was also an excuse for the Horror Queen to pimp out a friend who makes horror movies.
Wal-Mart has devoted one end cap of their store to horror movies that would otherwise never be found in one of their stores. Better yet, most of those movies were cheap. Will they be any good? Probably not. Cutting Edge Films had two movie sets where you get 2 horror movies for $8. I look forward to poking fun at Kristy Swanson, Lukas Haas and Michael Masden in the near future as well as David Carradine. I also picked up the special edition of Return of the Living Dead, a twofer with Shocker and People Under the Stairs and I managed to leave without grabbing that set of Psycho movies. Very soon you’ll be getting reviews on all of these movies.
Though I despise Wal-Mart, they are helpful in feeding my addiction to bad horror movies. If you haven’t been there yet, make the trip. After Halloween these movies will go back in some forgotten bin where they’ll sit until next year…
It might have been Mulberry Street? That was one of the 8 Films to Die For movies last year. I thought it was pretty good, except for the ending. Read online that this year’s Horror Fest is being pushed back to January (at least) so we’ll have to wait a couple of months to get our fix lol.