“There are things will happen and make you feel powerless, and make you feel insignificant, but that's it. There are just feelings. and sometimes you have to stop feeling, and start doing.”
It’s that time of year again! Spooky Season is OFFICIALLY upon us, so once again I am embarking on my annual scary cinema adventure, so starting tonight please feel free to join me as I set off on TWO WEEKS of scary horror/sci-fi/fantasty (and/or comedy) classics, guilty pleasures, new gems or some combination of any of the above. Have fun!
The Pact
PG: Psycho Goreman
The Faculty
Split Second
The Witches of Eastwick
The Last Witch Hunter
The Blob (1988)
The Witch
Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusions
Underwater
Tales From the Crypt Present Demon Knight
Zombieland
The Mignight Meat Train
Brightburn
The Hallow
The Ghost & The Darkness
Zombieland: Double Tap
The Girl With All the Gifts
Leviathan
Bram Stoker’s Dracula*
The Cured
Slither
No One Gets Out Alive
* aka the movie that turned Gary Oldman into a Sexyman ...
See, I did this whole thing about how I have this category that I've renamed a few times before deciding on "The Sea", which basically encompasses a term that I became semi-known for in grad school, which was "the maritime cultural landscape". Meaning all aspects of maritime culture, from lighthouses and fishing towns to ships and shipwrecks. I took an archeology class and he encouraged us to have a theme and that became kind of a go-to. Big maritime museum person.
Anyway, I also summarize "The Sea" in relation to film as "men being weird about the ocean". We'll find out how this summary applies here.
Underwater (2020)
The context for this is that there's some kind of drilling operation in the Mariana Trench. The score and visual design suggest that this is a bad idea.