Halloween Movie Marathon

This last Saturday I got together with some friends from my gaming group and had a Halloween Movie Marathon.  (And yes, we know that Halloween is a week away, but some have family they’d rather be with on the actual day).

The movie list was as follows:

• Bubba Ho-Tep (imdb)
• Watcher in the Woods (imdb)
• Quarantine (imdb)
• 28 Days Later (imdb)

One of my friends posted something on our group mailing list listing things he learned watching the horror movies. Some excerpts:

• Watcher in the Woods – Young kids are possession bait. If you have a kid sister, chances are that sooner or later she will start talking in wierd voices and revealing plot points (see also The Shining).
• Watcher in the Woods – Early ’80s British dirt bikes ran on explodium, and would burst into huge fireballs at the drop of a hat. Try to aviod messing with one, and avoid motorcross rallies.
• Quarantine – The best way to deal with someone infected with super rabies is apparently not to put them in a chair in the corner and forget about them until they start tearing people’s faces off.
• Quarantine – You can use a camera to beat someone to death with the lens, and it will still work perfectly, aside from having to wipe the lens off before you continue filming.
• 28 Days Later – Pepsi finally won the cola wars – there is no sign of Coca-Cola inpost-zombie-apocolypse England, but plenty of Pepsi.
• 28 Days Later – Animal activists will be the cause of the zombie apocolypse.

In that vein I’ve also added my own list of thngs I’ve learned watching Bubba Ho-tep:

1. Has been celebrities and political figures never die in the manner they are portrayed to the public.
   
2. Supernatural evil beings can find a great setup at a nursing home. If they need to suck souls, drink blood, or what have you on a regular basis, what better place than somewhere that routine visits from the undertaker are expected?
   
3. The line “What do I care? I got a growth on my pecker.” is now on my personal list of all time great movie lines.
4. Mummys apparently emit some kind of Electro-Magnetic field capable of causing a buildings electrical system to go wonky.
   
5. If you manage to defeat the advance scout of an ancient evil (in this case a big frikin bug) the corpse and all evidence of the encounter will mysteriously disappear or be ignored, and any attempts to warn others will be met with disbelief.
6. Mummys can apparently curse with great fluency and have no compunctions about writing on bathroom walls. This could lead one to deduce that the majority of the hieroglyphics in Ancient Egypt are in fact very rude graffiti left by unruly Egyptian teenagers.