Adrian Woland

As promised, my Halloween series ranking. Only 6 days late...
John Carpenter's Halloween
Halloween
Halloween Ends
Halloween Kills
Halloween 4
H2O
Halloween III
RZ's Halloween II
Halloween 6 Producer's Cut
Halloween III
RZ's Halloween
Halloween 5
Halloween 6
Halloween Resurrection

A really interesting end to the David Gordon Green trilogy and the Laurie Strode saga.
I know this one gets a lot of hate (I wAnTeD mOrE mIcHaEl THE MOVIE'S NIT ABOUT HIM DEAL WITH IT!), but I enjoy it appreciated the wild left turns the crew took in making it. Not the best but better than most.

And that's exactly what you get.
Kinda dumb, and clumsy with its message, but mean as all hell. A throwback to when slashers were real nasty. I'm here for it.

I know the David Gordon Green trilogy gets hated and dumped on, but I think it's the best timeline. When the bar is that low, it's easy to clear. But I like what was done with these three movies, and the through line of trauma and what that looks like/does to others.

Forgot to post this yesterday...
Book 3 of Chronicles. I'm kinda surprised that it's getting better the farther along it goes. Not much, but better all the same.

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

EVIL DEAD II: DEAD BY DAWN
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
ROSEMARY'S BABY
ALIEN

And with that, the Zombie timeline is over.
There's what I consider to be a few really interesting ideas in this one, and I like it more than RZ's Halloween I. The choice to make Laurie unlikable and violent with her PTSD (especially considering her birth family history) took some guts.

Rob Zombie's version. Hellbilly-oween, if you will.
Saw this one in theaters on release day, far superior to the director's cut that is the only home video version available in the states. That escape scene in DC is unnecessary.

Bringing the weirdness with this one...
And none of it makes a damn lick of sense. Just vibin' as the kids say.

We knew it'd come to this, but...
*sigh*
Man, fuck this movie.

And so begins the second half of the Laurie Strode timeline, what I would call the worst. That said, I was surprised how much you enjoyed this rewatch. Steve Miner directed the hell out of this flick, despite not getting the mask wrong. All three of them.

In addition to undertaking a movie series convoluted marathon, I have three books going at once. *sigh*
Why do I do this to myself?

Now that I'm done with the Thorn timeline, on to the Sibling timeline, beginning with a rewatch of the first two. This one gets bad pretty quick, luckily it's only 4 flicks.

Let's do this again, Producer's cut this time.

Gonna do this and the Producer's cut, because they're two different movies, essentially.
Ugh, why do I do this to myself.

*sigh*
Here we go...
No one had any idea what they were doing in regards to story, and it shows.
Cool title sequence, though. Kinda. Look I'm trying to find positives, okay?

Skipped 3 while I watch the Family/Thorn timeline.
Liked this one more than II, surprisingly, since this one is a retread of the original, but some great set pieces and tension.

The unenviable task of following a killer.

The classics never go out of style.

Gonna do something a little crazy this year for Oct. I've decided to watch the Halloween series by order of timeline: 1,2,4,5,6; 1,2,7,8;3;RZ1,RZ2;1,2,H18,Kills,Ends.
I'll post a ranking when I'm done on the 17th. Spoiler alert, John Carpenter's Halloween is gonna take the top spot.
Happy Halloween!

Working on a fucked up tale as we speak! Hopefully I can get it finished by the submission deadline...

I never do this, but I've got two book club titles to read by next week so I'm breaking tradition: two for the price of one!
Dragonlance Chronicles Vol. 2 by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
Wish me luck, y'all.

There's a theater showing The Long Walk with subtitles. No thanks, I've already read the fuckin book.

I'm taking my time with and enjoying House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias. Never disappoints.

House of Bone and Rain is dark, violent, honest, uncomfortable, discusses loyalty and its negative effects, shows me a world outside my own, and reminds me why I love reading. Read @gabino.bsky.social and be changed by dark means for the better.

My thoughts as well, amen (or something to that effect). Am I happy? No. Do I have sympathy? Also no. He was vocal about his belief that non-straight/cis/christian/white people have no place in society and fomented violence and vitriol at every chance. Still another preventable gun death

Obligatory prologue of: if you need AI to write or do art, you're not a writer or artist, you're a fuckin plagiarist hack.
That said, I maintain the worst thing AI has done is require every page to use a Cloudflare check box to verify if you're human.

I'm gonna be picking this up tonight. Tired of the string of heavy fantasy, I ready for a nauseating gutpunch barrio noir reality, dammit!

Oh! Old Gold. Not a speakeasy, but possibly the best stocked whiskey bar in the whole city.