Moviephile

Something tells me we’re not going to be able to watch all of those Hammer movies by Halloween. Maybe it’s the fact that we’re simply out of time at this point: we’d have to watch at least one a day and Netflix just isn’t that obliging.

However, I would like to take this chance to plug Netflix (and I don’t even get paid for this: I just think it’s that good). As far as movie rental websites go, they’re the tops. Really, if you have an internet connection, it makes no sense for you to rent movies the old-fashioned way. The last time I actually went to a video rental place and rented a couple movies, it was inconvenient and very expensive (TEN BUCKS for just two movies! Only for like three days, as well!) and was actually what convinced me to try Netflix, because I realized that if I bought the ten dollar a month membership, as long as I watched more than two movies a month I was actually saving money and time. Well, now we’ve upgraded our membership, and we generally watch somewhere in the region of eight to twelve rented DVDs a month, so we’re doing good, we’re saving money, and we never have to make inconvenient trips downtown (usually a round trip of two hours, counting walking and transfers) to return DVDs. As I said, I did NOT (and probably will not) get paid for plugging Netflix, but I just admire the service so much that I have to sing its praises. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

We did manage to do a bit more Halloween viewing last night - but, once again, we passed on that Frankenstein movie. The problem is, we also have all of these “standard” halloween movies that we have to watch before the big day, such as Ernest Goes Stupid, The Haunting, Arsenic and Old Lace and so on. We watched The Night Stalker last night, and it was good, as I said.

We also watched The Labyrinth, which only by a stretch of the imagination is a Halloween movie. I guess it kind of counts… I mean, some of those puppets really are frightening.

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