So, I've had a few days of holidays on my own. I decided to go on a bit of a movie and TV binge, catch up with a pile of stuff I've been meaning to watch.

( Under a cut, though no real spoilers for Saw V, Midnight Meat Train, Feast 2 and 3, Dollhouse and Torchwood: Children of Earth... )

Not bad for less than a week, huh? Now, of course, my sweety is on holidays with me, so we won't be watching quite as much, I suspect. But it was nice while it lasted. ;)

So, I watched the entire series of Phantasm (known in Australia as "The Never Dead") movies last week. When Izz asked me what they were about, I told her they were about an alien from another dimension pretending to be an undertaker who was killing people and stealing corpses from graves in order to crush them down to half-size, put them in Jawa costumes and send them to their own dimension to work as slaves, by means of a gigantic tuning fork. Oh, and metal balls fly through the air and kill people too.

She thought I was kidding.

You have to admire a series of four films that, for twenty years, used the same actors, writer, director and, let's face it, plot. They're demented, illogical, random, silly, terribly acted, ineptly directed... and rather a lot of fun. Extra points for Reggie Bannister, an ugly, bald aging hippy, getting to make out with or at least share a bed with a different beautiful young woman in every single one of the sequels.

I give them three flying metal balls of death. :)

The Happening

Utterly, utterly, utterly, utterly crap.

So, on the recommendation of chuckmck at Horrorscope, we got out and watched Fido, a zombie comedy starring Billy Connolly and Carrie Ann Moss. Chuck said it was brilliant, and I generally listen to my man Chuck.

And...

Uh...

( Below cut for possible spoilerage... )

Pan's Labyrinth
Guillermo Del Toro

Gorgeous. Traumatic. Breathtaking. Violent. Masterful.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070206k.php

Out doing "The Number 23" promotions, director Joel Schumacher ("The Lost Boys", "Batman & Robin") told IESB he would like a go at directing an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman".

*runs away screaming*