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The week long movie bonanza starts off easy with a half day,
only three movies instead of five, but the first punch packs a wallop. The fest starts off with HALLOWEEN, the
sequel to HALLOWEEN, the original, not HALLOWEEN the remake, but also not
HALLOWEEN II, or HALLOWEEN 2. If any
movie series epitomizes my “pick and choose, don’t give a shit about the
number” approach to franchises, it’s HALLOWEEN.
It’s not my favorite franchise on a whole, but I admire how it
aggressively pounds the fuck out of continuity.
We start off with The Shape terrorizing Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee
Curtis), then terrorizing her some more in a hospital, and she’s his
sister. Then, bam, he’s dead we’re on to
the next story. Except no, turns out
Michael Myers is still alive and Laurie is dead and he’s after Laurie’s orphaned
daughter, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), for two movies. Latter, off screen, Michael and Jamie have a
baby (eewe, and what the fuck?), Jamie gets killed (boo), and there is
something about a cult and the guy from ANTMAN.
I didn’t see that one, so I’m a little sketchy on the details. Except, none of that shit happened, except
for the hospital part, and Laurie Strode (still Jamie Lee Curtis) is alive and
has a son, and Michael Myers chases them through the campus of Scream Academy
until Laurie lobs his head off with an axe.
The en… nope. Michael, the
criminal genius, staged his death and kills Laurie (BOO) before being kickboxed
by Busta Rhymes. Now rewind back to
Michael’s terrible childhood with Rob Zombie’s wife, which eventually leads him
to go after sister Laurie Strode (now Scout Taylor-Compton) and her friend (Danielle
Harris, but not as Jamie Lloyd, because that would be weird). Then…there is something about a horse? It doesn’t matter, because fuck everything
that happened after the first night.
Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis again) is still alive, has a different daughter
(Judy Greer) and a different granddaughter (Andi Matichak). She is not Michael Myers’ sister anymore, but
he still wants to kill her anyway. And
her family. And everybody, really.
That is a series that gives fuck all about canon. I admire that boldness. Anyway, this latest tweak is the best since
the original.
Moving on, and more briefly, movie number two: AN EVENING
WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN. This is a romantic
comedy from Jim Hosking, the director of THE GREASY STRANGLER, which isn’t that
weird, since you could consider GREASY STRANGLER to be a romantic comedy, if
you had mental problems. I see it as
more of a very odd noir. BEVERLY LUFF
LINN lacks the mindboggling grossness of GREASY STRANGLER, but maintains all of
the supremely awkward humor. It has a
great cast, including Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, and Craig Robinson, who
all know a little something about being weird.
Movie three: IN
FABRIC. Thoroughly bizarre giallo
inspired mix of CHRISTEN and PHANTOM THREAD, the PHANTOM DRESS, if you will,
bought at the Susperia department store, run by evil manikins and managed by Nosferatu.
One day down, seven to go.
C Chaka
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