Day 1- Don't Make Me Do It!

As I've stated many times in the past, I'm a cheap ass when it comes to buying things for myself. Mainly because I have to be (read = graduate student) and also because, well, I'm just a cheap ass. I don't buy DVDs when they're first released, and I hardly ever buy them when they're not on sale. I learned my lesson paying 14.99 for too many movies only to find them for sale for less than ten bucks in a few months. My philosophy is, if you just wait long enough, everything is five bucks. Well kind of. You know what I mean.

I'm a total stinge when it comes to buying movies, and I'm even more so when it comes to other things (read = anything that is NOT a horror movie). And when it comes to Halloween, I wait till after the holiday and then go to Target so I can buy a skeleton blanket and say Hey! I NEEDED a skeleton blanket and this one is only FIVE bucks. Because, in my cheap ass mind, everything should be five bucks.

Anyway- I was in Madison last weekend, and there are all kinds of cool and funky stores, and I look at lots of cool things and then don't buy them because I just can't bring myself to spend the money on them for myself. But then I ran into this thing, and as over priced as I thought it was, Mother F had to bring it home and hang it on the wall.

Or put it on my coffee table, as it is in this picture. (which is just about its real life size)


I think it speaks for its own tiny self.

And uh - don't make me do it. Because I WILL.

And your little dog too,
Mother Firefly

Day 1- House of the Devil!

I'm soooooooooooooooooo excited to start the Halloween blogging! I'm going to attempt to watch a movie every day - and post a favorite Halloween themed 'thing'. At the very least, I'd like to do better than last year. I'm hoping to - and I'm hoping to be able to just enjoy this October more than the last two - which were earlier in my program and much, much more hectic and stressful. But there's still enough to do this semester - so forgive me if life and school get in the way and I'm not able to get to this every day.

With that said.....on with the MOVIES!!!

I had the thrill of seeing this little gem last Friday as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival.
We didn't have a film festival in Milwaukee last year - which was a disappointment. The Milwaukee International Film Festival was still pretty young, but apparently there were internal issues and the whole thing was dismantled, took a year off, and reborn again as the Milwaukee Film Festival. Luckily many of the same people are still running it and choosing films. Unfortunately for people like me, they don't show many horror movies - we usually get only get one that falls under the category of true horror. Fortunately, their choices are usually pretty stellar. In past years I've seen great films like Severance and The Signal.

This year they didn't let me down. It initially looked like I wasn't going to get to see this film - but then we changed our plans and ended up at the Oriental at midnight to see this fun film.

The story is pretty simple and the cast is small. We have a young woman who needs to make 300 bucks in just a few days so she can move in to her new apartment. She answers an ad for a babysitter job and then the weirdness begins.

When she arrives at the house (in the middle of nowhere, of course) she finds that there's actually no children to sit for at all. What the couple wants from her is just to be in the house in case the woman's elderly mother has some kind of accident or there's an emergency - you see, her daughter just can't bear to leave her alone. The situation is weird and the people creepy, but eventually the young woman is convinced to stay when the gentleman offers her 400 hundred dollars! For just a few hours! Hell, he'll even give her 20 bucks to have pizza delivered. And the best part of all, she doesn't even have to talk to the old lady or do anything for her. You see, she's kind of a private person and she really is pretty independent.

I'm going to stop with the plot synopsis there - because to tell you any more would really kind of ruin things. I don't know how other people will review this film, but I absolutely loved it. The house in the film is really a character in the movie. It's noisy and creaky and it seems like there's an endless array of closets, rooms, hallways, and dark corners.

One warning - if you're an action junkie or you really need a lot of energy on the screen, you may find yourself bored or wanting the movie to just get on with it already. But the movie unfolds slowly, building tension after tension till you just want to explode. At one point I really thought there was no way the movie could live up to all the suspense it was building. But suddenly, boom, it's here, everything we've been waiting on, and for me, it wasn't a letdown.

I also loved the way the film captured the early 80's from the hairstyles to the clothes to the portable cassette player the heroine carries around. And it was great to see Dee Wallace and Mary Woronov - their parts were small but memorable, especially Mary's. And I REALLY appreciated that when the final climax came, we weren't treated to 'the big speech' from the bad guys explaining their evil plan in great detail. No, you pretty much have to put it together for yourselves. Not that it's extremely difficult - it's pretty simple - but the elegance is in its simplicity. Hint : The title may give you some indication.

I'm happy to see a film that genuinely creeped me out and had me wanting to cover my eyes and didn't use tons of CGI or a huge budget to do it. Sometimes just going back to the basics is a good thing.

Web site HERE - with trailers and play dates.

Here's to 30 more days of Halloween!
Mother Firefly

It's Here, It's Here!!!!!!!

October is on its way......and sometime tomorrow I'll be starting my 31 Days of Halloween posts, along with all these wonderful blogs listed here:

Countdown to Halloween

Even if I didn't have a calendar or was completely unaware of the weather outside, I'd still know October was near because I wake up to this on one side of me:


and this:
on the other.

One day they're stretched out on the stone tables and sleeping under the ceiling fans, and then suddenly they're sacked out next to me stealing the warm and pretending they've been there all year long.

Fall is officially here.

See you tomorrow.......
Mother F.

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did want:

Did WIN!!!!!!


From HERE.


Thank you,
Stacie!!!!

Now go read her AWESOME blog.

This Is Why I Loved This Man

Because when he read this scene, he didn't say, 'You want me to skate around and take off my belt and do what?"
No, he said 'Give me that belt. I'ma hit this out of the park.'



I know Dirty Dancing and Ghost are probably his best known movies, but Roadhouse is one of my most favorite guiltiest pleasure movies EVER



And if you haven't watched this at least once today, now's your chance. I only wish this didn't have the ending removed where they give it to Swayze and he tells Farley that he thought that Farley was going to win....

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and I think one of the most fun roles he ever did was the informercial king in Donnie Darko.



In fact, I'm going to go watch it right now........
Rest in Peace Patrick. Thanks for all the fun.

Sooooooooooooooooo Excited

DO FREAKING WANT

From Amazon:
"Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee in Dracula, Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely restrained cleavage in glorious colour, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous.

Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer’s archive and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, Hammer Glamour is a lavish, full colour celebration of Hammer’s female stars, including Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Joanna Lumley, Nastassja Kinski, and of course Raquel Welch (who can forget her fur bikini in One Million Years B. C.?) "

Did I ever tell ya that Ingrid Pitt emailed me once? Oh yeah baby, yes she did.

Order it for me here.