Spooked

Bad weekend. Bad day. Quick post. Pray for my dreams to come true tomorrow.

OK. So I really blew it on updating my Neewalloh Film Fest. I did watch a lot of horror movies, just didn't do a very good job of keeping track of what I was watching and when. Ultimately I watched a lot of crap and only a few decent flix I had never seen before, so I also had to throw in some classics to help wash the palate. Of course there was this major distraction of Texas Longhorn football and the gauntlet they went through in the month of October, which ended on a sad note this past Saturday night with a loss to Texas Tech in Lubbock. But anyway, here goes a quick recap of the film fest.

The Good: The Deaths of Ian Stone, Dog Soldiers; (re-watched all of the following) - Silver Bullet, Hello Marylou: Prom Night II, Dawn of the Dead (1978 & 2004), The Mist, Evil Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973), Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

The Bad: Quarantine, Crazy Eights, Dance of the Dead, Student Bodies, Shutter, The Strangers, Dead and Buried, The Hand, Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming, Saw IV & V, The Ring Two, The Eye

The Ugly: The Pit, Hellgate, Diary of the Dead, Darkness, Drive-Thru, Troll/Troll 2, Lifeforce, Cheerleader Camp, Prom Night (2008)

So next year, I know that I'm going to start programming far earlier and with far more discretion. But luckily we are in my favorite movie season, the fall and winter, where we get to catch-up on or re-watch the best from the past summer as they arrive on DVD; and we start getting a chance to check out all of the awards contenders as well as the holiday popcorn flix.