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October 13th Dawn of the Dead Zombies in a shopping mall. The original version, not the remake. First saw it in the theater when it came out. Didn’t get it. More fun, now that I know the soundtrack music by Dario Argento was reused in Shaun of the Dead. Am also a lot more amused, […]

Oct. 8th Diabolique The original in French with subtitles. My first foreign scare of the season. I’ve known the plot of this movie forever, but have never watched it. Not supernatural, but still creepy as hell, with a murder going horribly wrong and a vanishing corpse. A slow growing tension to an excellent climax. Oct. […]

The second crop of movies… Oct. 5th Sweeny Todd After some puzzling about how an American musical with an American star ended up on BBC America I jumped on board (There are some Brits in it. And they count anything with an accent on that channel, even if it’s fake). Grand Guignol. Plenty of blood […]

Things have been hectic lately. September was spent on a series of family emergencies that kept me away from the Casa and away from the blog. But Halloween is coming, and I am hoping to spend as much of October as possible celebrating the season. The bins of decorations are down from the attic, the […]

Just to keep you all updated on recent doings at Casa de dos quesos: #2 son survived the triathlon. By an act of God. About an hour before the event– After we had gone out and bought a new bike helmet, because we were convinced we’d sent the old ones to Goodwill (Because why the […]