As usual October is passing me by and I feel like I’ve barely started with the horror movies. But also as usual I’m gonna watch them year ‘round anyway so what am I worried about? Stay tuned for many more, but today I’m dipping into two new releases on Shudder.
I wanted to watch HALLOWARRIOR since, as the title implies, it is season. It’s about a young woman who calls herself Pumpkin (Milly Shapiro, Tony winner from Matilda who had a memorable fate in HEREDITARY). She lives in the house she grew up in, all alone now because four years ago a virus killed much of the population and all of the crops.
But somehow she’s still hanging in there, it’s October 31st, she loves Halloween, and she’s damn sure gonna celebrate. She explains this over a radio, begging for someone to come trick or treat, or see the haunted house she made. She found a candy store to loot so she has more than enough to fill a bowl, and she carved jack o’lanterns out of a basketball and a gas can and some other stuff. (read the rest of this shit…)
THE LEGEND OF OCHI is a beautiful and imaginative PG-rated fantasy from A24. Since the number of friends I recommended it to this week that had never heard of it is higher than the number of people at the Saturday matinee I went to, I’m thinking there are limits to that company’s marketing powers. But future adults who remember seeing it in a theater will know they had cool parents. This one is special.
