From Dr. John's very Halloween-appropriate album Gris Gris, now an annual Autumn listen for me thanks to Mr. Brown. Love this tune, and coincidentally, the posthumous release Things Happen That Way contains a pretty banging version as well. I love both, however, the original on headphones really puts you there.
31 Days of Halloween:
You know, based on my question about Michael Walsh's Frankenstein issue three last week, I found that I have no real memory of The Bride of Frankenstein. I watched so many of Universal monster movies as a kid that I'd always assumed I'd seen most of them. However, cracking James Whale's 1935 Frankenstein sequel out two nights ago, I realized I may never have actually seen it all the way through from the beginning.
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In particular, the "Little People" sequence kind of dropped my jaw. There's a definite comedic vein that runs through part of this film, and I don't love it. The recurring Minnie character, Dr. Pretorious' aforementioned little people experiments - hardly the same science as our man Henry's, perhaps closer to early IVF - and the Burgomaster shepherding the doddering villagers at the inception of the Bride all rub me the wrong way. That said, the climatic laboratory scenes just may outclass the original film's 'birthing' sequence, and the opening with Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Shelley hanging out immediately made me want to rewatch Ken Russell's 1986 Gothic, an old-school favorite I've kind of forgotten about over the last two decades.
1) The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2) The Houses October Built (2011)/Texas Chainsaw Massacre (50th-anniversary theatrical screening)
3) Loop Track
4) It's What's Inside/LONGLEGS
5) The Babysitter/Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
6) The Hitcher/Lost Highway
7) GDT's Cabinet of Curiosities: Graveyard Rats
8) V/H/S Beyond
9) Killer Klowns from Outer Space
10) Terrifier 3
11) Summer of '84
12) Rosemary's Baby/Suspiria ('77)
13) Daddy's Head
14) Undead
15) Moloch/Evil Dead 2
16) Smile
17) Laura Hasn't Slept/Smile 2
18) Terrifier
19) The House of the Devil - Last Drive-in Presentation (original air date April 26, 2019)
20) The Woods
21) Rob Zombie's 31
22) Carrie 2: The Rage
23) The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
24) Planet Terror
25) Baron Blood
26) The Blob ('88)/ The Thing/Tremors/Abigail
27) Halloween Kills
Watch:
Tom Savini on the old NBC Letterman show in the run-up to Day of the Dead's release.
I think I smiled for nearly twenty-four hours straight after watching this one. To see Savini go through some of the iconic props in a movie I love, and Letterman react in the way only Letterman can. Wow.
Playlist:
Various - My Halloween Spotify Playlist
Rodney Crowell - Eponymous
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Nico Vega - Lead To Light
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Skinny Puppy - Remission
Double Life - Indifferent Stars EP
Dr. John - Things Happen That Way
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
Dr. John - Gris Gris
Entropy - Liminal
Spotlights - Love & Decay
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto - Devil Music Vol. 1
Drug Church - Prude
Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
Entropy - Dharmakāya
YUNGBLUD - Eponymous (single)
The Streets - The Irony of It All (single)
YUNGBLUD - Eponymous
Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
