Well, here we are again. October's coming up fast and, like always, I have a month full of reviews planned for you. So, what can you expect this year? It's bested summed up in my not so original title for this year's October Fest: Screams of Laughter. This time, horror-comedies are the name of the game, be they flat out parodies, movies that have fun with the elements of the horror genre, or otherwise straight horror movies that also manage to have a sense of humor about them. Not all of the movies featured will be laugh riots or even good, but each one will fit this interesting criteria. What you have to include forward to includes an old dark house comedy starring Lon Chaney, some silly fun with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, and Vincent Price, the spookier adventures of Abbott and Costello, the experiments of one Frederick Fronkensteen, the misadventures of a group of ghost hunters, and the funny, and often quite gory, early films of a certain New Zealand filmmaker who's now best known for making movies about hobbits and walking trees. Yeah, this will be quite the wild ride, and you'll also see two reviews from my blog's very first year, re-uploaded with a new coat of paint that includes images, more detail, and better grammar. View that as a prelude to what I plan to make a habit on future October Fests. But don't worry. That doesn't mean I'm running out of stuff to work with. Trust me, if you saw my movie collection and the place where I keep the stuff I intend to get rid of, you'd know I'm good for years to come.
In any case, see you on October 1st.
