Schlocktober · 10:29pm Oct 1st, 2014
Welcome to October everyone!
While some people care for summer, and others for winter, I am much more of a fall person. The depths of autumn with its cool winds and the swoosh of leaves on the ground. Love it, love it, love it! You know what I also love? Bad movies! Or at least a specific kind of bad movie. I grew up on the kind of schlocky, bad acting, bad special effects B-Grade monster movies that were the staple of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the like.
Any of my followers who hang out over at the video game website The Escapist, are probably familiar with their contributor Bob "Moviebob" Chipman, who does the two shows Escape to the Movies (a movie review show) and The Big Picture which is more a discussion of general topics in geekdom. But every October, he does four weeks of episodes where he shows off and discusses obscure science fiction and horror movies that totally fit the above mold.
I think it's a great idea, and is something I look forward too every October. So, in a show of solidarity with mister Chipman, that is totally not me ripping off his style, I will be doing my own mini-Schlocktober this year! Four articles about the kind of cheesy, B-Grade, science fiction movies that I absolutely love!
See you all in this space this Friday, where I begin this Shlocktober with the natural starting point. Ants!
Solidarity.
Solitary is when you're by yourself: I'm not sure how you might be solitary with someone else.
But then, I know you: You would find a way. You always find a way.
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Curse you spell-checker!
True, summer is just to warm and winter is too cold. I prefer the nice moderate levels of spring/fall where I can wear a t-shirt if I want or still go with a sweater.
On the topic of B-grade movies well I often don't watch them and really I'm not even sure what should be counted as horror really since nowadays it's mostly gorefests than true fear inducing flicks. Maybe I'll get every Doctor Who episode that has the Weeping Angles and watch those. Now those things are freaking creepy.
Well, if your going to rip anyone off, might as well be one of the best.
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The gorefest that is modern horror has just never clicked with me. Though horror in general is something I've always had this kind of back and forth relationship with. Really though, throwing buckets of blood on the screen has never struck me as impressive.
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Ahh! Another fan of Bob's work are we?