I’m sick of always mispelling “loses”. Lose should be spelt loos. It’s not pronounced “L-oh-s”. Loose can stay loose, but when somebody “loses” something, they should “looses” it. I don’t think “looses” is even currently taken by a definition. You can loosen something, or have it loosed, but not looses. So let me spell it the way I hear it. Christ.

October’s got me in the mood for feature lengths. Fistfuls of feature lengths. I had watched Scaredy Cats summary of the new Fear Street trilogy a month ago, and apparently I had already forgotten it, because upon re-watching I see that they had completly spoiled Fear Street 1666. Maybe that’s why spoilers don’t affect me, I never pay enough attention for it to matter. More than that, I thought Scaredy Cats had a more negative opinion of the movies, maybe it was subliminal from the critical tone. I knew it was still a recommendation, but I thought they had given some more conflicting opinions, and I was going to give my take here. Upon rewatching to actually identify these conflicts, I found myself in staunch aggreement for nearly every point.

So quit wasting time reading my words. Watch both trilogies.

I thoroughly enjoyed Fear Street. I loved that the plot misdirection actually worked for me. It’s very fun, if nothing else. I didn’t find the start of the first movie to be off putting, abeit the fact that I do hate asshole characters, but I actually think that I preferred it to the second half when the plot set in hard and everybody just straight played their roles. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I put the show on while doing the dishes. Chores might be the secret ingredient to being a modern film lover. The relationship of the main couple struck me as a bit toxic in the first movie, but yah, the multi-generational love story won me over that. It didn’t however win me over the use of Calibri and comments about SSDs. Were those bait? lol.

SHARE Society currently uses some really generic clip art as its logo. Here’s my redesign for some shirts they wanted to get printed up. It was rejected, but I’m still happy with it.

This is the most important video I’ve seen all week. Right up there with I Did A Thing.

This is the vibe I’m craving this October. It’s ridiculous how versatile Jim Hension effects were.

This was actually my first time watching the movie. I have vague memories of seeing bits of it as a very young child. Young enough that I’m not sure if I haven’t actually not seen the movie, or just repressed most of the nightmare fuel bits. So much screaming and fish eye. Either way, the scenes I remembered have stuck with me for over a quarter century and today I was in the perfect mood to witness the full thing.

Half way through I decided to check in to trak.tv and I learned that there’s a 2020 of this movie. Often I’m interested in the modern camp flare of remakes, but the screen shots I saw just made me sad. So much of what makes this movie is its textures and visual distortions. It doesn’t look like they even tried to capture that in the new version.