These last few crazy days have reminded me how rubbish lurking without being able to post is. Glad I'm in here now!
I've pretty much kept up with my 31DoH viewings. I'll do a recap later.
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Film #26
Rec 4: Apocalypse
Enjoyable conclusion to the series. The first film remains my absolute favourite found footage horror, the second a competent but uninspiring continuation, and the third a loopy, non-found footage diversion that I hated to start with before coming round to it a bit more on a subsequent viewing. The fourth, though still not a found footage movie, feels like a much more appropriate next step for the overall story. It's not without its faults, and its attempts to retain a little of the comedy from the third film fall flat, but its a solid enough film, despite its extremely misleading subtitle.
Film #27
V/H/S Viral
Much more enjoyable than I was expecting. The over-arching link story was crap, but the three main tales were all pretty good, with Parallel Monsters being the stand out segment. I found that actually quite un-nerving, despite it being pretty funny. I really like anthologies it must be said. I might do all anthologies for next year's marathon.
Film #28
The Velvet Vampire
Near the start of The Velvet Vampire there is an art exhibition held at The Stoker Gallery, a name used to try and lend the film a certain classic vampiric authenticity presumably. The attempt fails. While the acting is slightly better and there's less full on belly laughs to be had than in Blood Feast, the only other pre-80s movie I watched this month, this is still pretty damn accidentally funny. I especially liked the scenes when the male lead was 'nude' but poor camerawork meant you could still clearly see that he was wearing some extra-funky swimwear(?) he hadn't pulled down quite far enough.
Also a bonus for this early 70s movie is the groovy score and the even groovier dune buggy, that made me want to go and play Motorstorm. Everything else about it is pretty rubbish, but strangely appealing nonetheless. Also worth noting is that the IQ on the version Shudder are streaming is atrocious.
