After finishing some thrill-a-minute tax preparation last night (as Patty noted: "this is why people don't move"), I ended up meeting up with Graham at his girlfriend's place for a Peru vs. Chile
pisco showdown.
Read: old-fashioned drunkening. With Latin music! The drinks — because this was a taste test, after all — ranged from delicious (mango) to foolhardy (lime), mainly because different juices covered up the suspiciously tequila-like aftertaste better than others.
I scurried away a little before one, I think, and ended up watching
Stay Alive until late, late at night. Did you know that ghosts can design, manufacture, and distribute high-quality multiplatform videogames? Now you do!
(I should mention that Jenna and I also recently watched
Slither, a fun, clever horror movie not for the Freudian of heart. I especially liked the way, pace
Shaun of the Dead, that the characters often acted like regular people, as surprised as we might be if we suddenly found ourselves in a zombie film.)
Horror and humor films seem to be on a slight resurgence. Granted that many good horror films have their humorous moments for tension diffusion and w/e else you'd like to ascribe, but the niche genre that builds a film around scares and laughs has a certain amount of rarity in our current climate of gritty, torture-fest films like Saw, Hostel and The Descent. Horror/humor films have always been rare and they take a special talent to execute.
Some good ones, off the top of my head:
Bad Taste
Brain Dead (Dead Alive)
Creepshow
Creepshow is an interesting little piece, since it may be the titular horror/humor film that took a lot of influence from EC comics Tales from the Crypt and other comic anthologies and no doubt had a decent amount of influence on the HBO series when it was conceived.
What are some other flicks in that genre?