It's that time of year again! 

Costumes and candy have been in stores for over a month.

So, I thought I'd ask ....



There's a new Halloween installment due out next Thursday:  Halloween Kills

Micheal just refuses to die!!




I've been watching horror and thriller movies the past week or so to get in the mood. 

One thing I never noticed before when watching The Silence of the Lambs was all the revolvers!!  Clarice Starling carried a revolver as an FBI trainee, all the state cops who were at the funeral home where they autopsied a victim carried revolvers, and in the building where Hannibal Lecter escaped, all the local cops looking for him were holding revolvers.  Even the villain of the movie had a big honking revolver!

The one guy I noticed with a semi was the SWAT guy who shot "Hannibal" in the leg inside the elevator shaft.

Doing some checking, the movie was made in 1991 and set in 1990.  The book was published in 1988.  I guess when you look at the cars, touch-tone phones and revolvers, that would be about the right timeframe before semiautos were issued.

However, I found a great article on the NRA website that says only SWAT carried semiautos in the early to late 80s, and that the regular field agents were issued semis in 1988:

Recognizing the need for more firepower, the FBI adopted the SIG P226 in 9 mm Luger around
1988, mostly for the field SWAT teams, to replace the aging 459s. The SIG P228, also in 9 mm
Luger, was then selected for general agent use. It was an extremely popular choice, both for the
agents and the FBI gunsmiths who maintained them. Compact, lightweight and reliable, they
served the FBI well for many years. In 1988, I acquired one of the first 228s to be “Bureau approved”
for carry and carried it during my last five years in the FBI.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/a-history-of-fbi-handguns/

Seems like there could have been a little overlap between the 1988 book writing and 1990 movie setting.

Not that any of that has much to do with scary movies.  I just happened to take notice of the lone semiauto tonight.

You know what's really scary?  I remember seeing The Silence of the Lambs alone when it first hit theaters.  I came home and had to make sure all the doors and windows were locked!  The really scary part is that was 30 years ago this year!      

Movies that can portray upon the big screen the evilness that lurks in the minds of man is what scares me the most.

Crazies popping out of closets and running around with chainsaws, not so much.  Some are pretty good at it but no matter how realistic and good the special effects are, for some reason I don't get terrified to the bone.

It's the movies that show the deterioration of normalcy in one's mind, or the take-over of evil thoughts and actions and the justification of these actions that take over the spirit of human behavior.

With that in mind I present the two movies in my life that scared the f**kn crap out of me to this day and still does where I cannot watch it alone at home:

The Exorcist (Original version)

The Shining (With Jack Nicholeson)  The book by Stephen King also scared the shit out of me.

That big rig turbo diesel sound is scary

1984.

It is real, happening here and now.
 

When I was a small kid, I saw "The Day the Earth Stood Still". -1951
That movie made an impression on me.
Other favorites include:

The Thing -1982 version
Aliens --1986
Predator -1987

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Gort
Klaatu barada  nikto

The Thing with Kurt Russell. When the head grows spider legs and scampers across the floor. Can’t forget that scene.
Alien (original) had me on the edge of my seat all the way.
It’s Alive (1974) was my first experience with a horror movie. We were only young and walked into it just based on the title. Messed us all up.
It’s Alive is nuts. Think Alien but the Alien is a baby.
The Exorcist and The Omen. Those stuck with you after the movie was over.

The Exorcist (1973)

The movie is supposed to be based on a true story.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/roland-doe-the-exorcist-true-story

The book below has nothing to do with the movie but is related and a good read.

“Glimpses of the Devil” by M Scott Peck, MD
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1439167265/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1439167265

There is a showing of Chick'n Skin tonight at 8pm on K5.
Features some classic local stories like:
Morgan's Corner
Pele hitchhiking
The faceless lady
The pressing ghost

One of the my favorite genres were the 80s tongue in cheek horror comedy movies. Gruesome and light hearted, criticizing consumerism, and in some cases really well done compared with what’s coming out these days.

I liked the first Tremors movie a lot.

I liked the first Tremors movie a lot.

I loved Michael Gross and Reba McIntire and their wall of guns!

and I really hated / scared of those Oompah Loompahs

This one is for Ren

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Gort
Klaatu barada  nikto

"Klaatu verada necktie."

written by Stephen King, directed by John Carpenter.  ever since I watched this in high school on Halloween its been a tradition watching this movie.  plus i love car movies

written by Stephen King, directed by John Carpenter.  ever since I watched this in high school on Halloween its been a tradition watching this movie.  plus i love car movies

Christine is one of my favorites. 

"Bad to the bone!"

She may still be for sale, if you can afford it!

https://barnfinds.com/the-real-christine-1958-plymouth-fury/

When I was a small kid, I saw "The Day the Earth Stood Still". -1951
That movie made an impression on me.
Other favorites include:

The Thing -1982 version
Aliens --1986
Predator -1987

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Gort
Klaatu barada  nikto

I love that movie. But it didn’t scare me. But it did make an impression.

I like old school scary movies like:

Trilogy of Terror
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073820/

Wait Until Dark
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073820/

Not my "Favorite" but From Dusk Till Dawn was good . . . Santanico Pandemonium

Best worst scary movies ever.  Bruce Campbell
The evil dead          https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083907/
Army of darkness    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/