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Pop in a Movie; You’ll Feel Better

Posted on September 10, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

The movie is not nearly as lurid as the poster.

Yes, it is another Cheesy Movie Sunday. I guess I never declared that as a category, but I do often watch movies on Sunday and my favorites are the cheesy ones, so… My only regret is the lack of alliteration, but I can’t worry about that now. My husband, Steven, and I began our day with a couple of Mohawk Valley adventures, which may form the subject of articles for Mohawk Valley Living magazine or future blog posts. Now we are comfortably home, in sweats, and watching movies. We began with The Screaming Skull (1958), which I believe I wrote a blog post about at some point.

The movie is on our DVD collection of 50 Horror Classics. Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) was on the same disc, so we continued with that.

They don’t even show the Victor Buono-looking guy.

I thought one character in the movie looked like Victor Buono, who played Bette Davis’ father in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). I might have liked to go on to that one, but I was more into shorter movies today. That is one virtue of your really cheesy features: they are in general short. We did want something that moved a little faster, and Steven suggested Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). Say what you will about this movie, it is NOT the worst ever made. It holds your interest and moves right along. I say, go, Ed Wood Jr.!

What’s not to like?

As you may have guessed, I am into Halloween movies. Well, the Halloween season does begin after Labor Day, does it not? It does in my house.

What’s a big ugly ape gotta do to get a date in this town?

We are continuing our viewing adventures with King Kong (1933). What will come next? Who cares! Tomorrow’s Monday; I’m having fun today!

Full disclosure: I do not feel THIS bad about it.

More Halloween, Please!

Posted on August 27, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

I have a LOT of stuff I need to be getting done, but, you know, I have always had the damnedest time getting anything done on a Sunday. I went to church and got a prayer shawl blessed for the mother of a friend. I went grocery shopping with my husband. I made spaghetti sauce for dinner, chopped vegetables and made salad for tomorrow’s lunch, and… OK, that was it. And I am watching Halloween movies, so I can at least make a blog post with fun pictures. We started cheesy with Horror Hotel (1960), featuring a young, fairly hot Christopher Lee.

Not the best shot of him, but a pretty creepy pic, I thought.

The movie was in one of our DVD horror collections. House on Haunted Hill was also on that disc. Of course we have House on Haunted Hill (1959) on a disc all by itself, seeing as it is one of our all time favorites, but I suggested we go ahead and watch it on that disc, since it was already in the machine.

I loves me some Vincent Price.

Next Steven suggested Carnival of Souls (1962), a really trippy, well made, low budget, high suspense horror film.

It’s scary! And far from cheesy.

I got the picture from a cool Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalofsouls1962/.

And I have missed a bit of the movie while I made this post. It hardly matters. I will certainly watch this movie again. I have declared it Halloween season in my household. I figure if my fall allergies can kick in so early (and they certainly have!), I can enjoy the fun parts of fall as well. It makes an excellent way to get through a Wrist to Forehead Sunday.

I can’t see where the poster resembles the movie, but you know I never pay much attention to these things.

Carnival of Souls ended before I hit publish, so I moved on to Night Tide (1961), which is on the same disc.

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Scattered Halloween Movies?

Posted on August 26, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

It is that dreadful moment on a Saturday when you know you must make a post but you have already started drinking and are not at all sure you have anything to say.

So what else is new? At least I have had a fun Saturday, so I will attempt a Scattered Saturday post and hope it does not sound too foolish.

I got up at a sort of normal hour (for normal people, which we all know I am NOT one of) and went running. After a shower, some food,and an attempt to return to normalcy, I wrote a few postcards and walked to the post office to mail them. Steven nicely walked with me. It was lovely weather and a lovely walk with my husband.

Much later, I got together with my friend Kim. Our original plan was to go to Ilion Little Theatre to look for costumes for Shattered Angel, the play being presented by Herkimer County Historical Society in cooperation with Ilion Little Theatre. Instead we went to New 2 You Consignment Shop in Ilion where we each found some great things for ourselves. It was fun.

Then we picked up my husband Steven for a wine tasting at Ilion Wine and Spirits. After some sipping and buying we went to downtown Herkimer. We got a couple slices at Papaleo’s Wise Guys Pizzeria and took them to End Zone Pub across the street. We had a delightful time eating, drinking, and chatting with folks.

Now we are home, watching Halloween movies while I make my blog post. The best thing about that was a Freudian typo of “Scatterday” instead of “Scattered Saturday.” I may use that next week. In the meantime, Happy Saturday, everyone, and I hope you are all enjoying Halloween movies soon.

With a Laptop on my Knee

Posted on October 2, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

OK, I’m sitting here with the laptop on my lap (I know, where else would it be? Well, it MIGHT be somewhere else; I’m not here to discuss the possible whereabouts of computers), and once again, I got nuthin’ (or is it “nuttin'”? I like “nuthin'”) (which is not the same thing as not liking anything, but close).

Where was I? Ah yes, Wrist to Forehead Sunday. I tell you, I am down. I’m not a writer. I write a silly blog, and, as Truman Capote once said, “That’s not writing, that’s typing.” Yes, yes, I must stop with the existential crisis, people will think I am merely fishing for encouragement. I am only being honest, in this case. Oh, sometimes I fish for encouragement or even compliments, never fear. Hell, I’m not perfect. I’m a factory worker who takes pen in hand or keyboard under fingers occasionally and words come out. Good words? Useful words? Entertaining words? One can only hope.

I have been trying to take another step towards reaching my writing goals, and I have had little to no success. I know, lift your feet a little higher, push them forward a little more, these things are under our own control if only we would accept responsibility. Very well then, I shall accept responsibility. Tomorrow, or possibly later tonight, I will work on the novel I found earlier today. Ooh, that’s right, I did do one thing today: I found the notebook I’ve been looking for where I had started a novel I thought I would like to finish. It’s a baby step, but it is a step. I shall make further updates as events warrant.

In the meantime, it is Wrist to Forehead Sunday, the day I try to enjoy myself with my husband and not think about returning to work tomorrow (I’ll work on curing the Monday to Friday Malaise another time, did I mention I’m not perfect?). We were watching Halloween movies earlier. I wonder if we could watch another one now. No, I can’t work on that novel now, time with husband, remember? I may or may not ever become a successful novelist, but if I take care to spend time with my husband I WILL have a good marriage. Priorities, people.

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Halloween Bonafides on Wrist to Forehead Sunday

Posted on September 26, 2016 by mohawkvalleygirl

I let another movie run while I make my Wrist to Forehead Sunday post. We usually watch True Crime television on Sunday, notably episode after episode of Snapped, but it is autumn, and that means it is time for Halloween movies! Of course, I like horror movies all year long, particularly the cheesy variety, but there is an especial feeling of comfort in watching them as the weather begins to turn cool, as it did today.

We began our movie watching with Return of the Body Snatchers, which is not cheesy but something of a classic. Mostly I like the classic cars. It is a selling point to me in an old movie when the characters do a lot of driving. I like to have a connection between the movies I watch, so we are now looking at House of Wax. The connection is that both movies feature Carolyn Jones, most famous for portraying Morticia Adams.

Our other potential choice was The Birds, because of bit parts in both movies played by that guy that was on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Steven had to look up his name for this blog post: Richard Deacon. I never would have remembered that, if I ever knew it to begin with (I am not at all sure I did). I felt Wax was a better movie to go with, because an actor famous for Morticia clearly has better Halloween bonafides than one who played some random guy opposite Dick Van Dyke (YES, I love Dick Van Dyke, no he is not a Halloween guy, shut up).

I would really like to write some more posts about cheesy horror movies. We have watched a couple, but I just can’t seem to put pen to paper about them. I’ll have to work on that. In the meantime, I sit here, poised with one wrist to my forehead, watching what we’re watching and lamenting my lack of a better blog post. You would think I would be used to it by now. Never mind. The largest room in the world is the room for improvement. That gives me plenty of space to maneuver.

Mohawk Valley Girl