Hello! I’m back with yet another book review. I know that I should be doing more real life posts, but this is what we got. You may have noticed that I read this book a bit ago, but didn’t post the review and I was saving it for right now.
I saw Neil Gaiman’s Coraline a while ago and watched it again recently, but had never read the book and I knew that this year I wanted to make it appoint to read the book. I also used this book for Rachel Dawson‘s reading challenge, if you haven’t checked it out yet you still have time to participate.
In case you haven’t read Coraline or seen the movie I will try not to spoil the plot for you entirely. I recommend that you give this book a try and I hope to read a few more Neil Gaiman books in the future. Let me know if you have ever read this book or any of Neil Gaiman’s other books. See you soon!
Hey! I’m back with yet another post for Scaretober. I apologize that there aren’t as many posts this year, but I am still determined to get up as many posts as I can for you. I just wish that I could be watching more scary movies and doing more reviews for you, but this is what it is.
Today I’m reviewing Coraline the movie. Not to give anything away, but there will also be a review on Coraline the book by Neil Gaiman. I found the movie fascinating and weird. It was done in a claymation style similar to that of Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, and other such movies.
If you haven’t seen the movie, the basic storyline of the movie is that Coraline Jones recently moves from Michigan to a new town and since she has no one to play with she has a very active imagination. In addition to that she discovers a door in her house that appears to go nowhere during the day, but at night appears to go to an alternate universe in which she is treated to everything she wants and everything she hopes for in her life. Soon, Coraline is visiting the universe regularly until one day the Other Mother demands that she stay for good and Coraline decides that she doesn’t want to stay and makes a deal with the Other Mother in order to leave.
If you haven’t watched Coraline I highly recommend it, I found it a fascinating movie and the animation is well done. Matt had never seen the movie before and he really enjoyed it. He is also a fan of Neil Gaiman in general, but had not read Coraline. Stay tuned for more posts during Scaretober and hopefully they will be equally fun. See you soon.
Hello! Welcome back to another day of posting during Scaretober. As I probably mentioned yesterday this year will not only include scary movies, but also some scary books or Halloween type books to get you in the mood for the holiday.
This year I decided that since It: Chapter 2 was hitting theaters, it seemed like a good as ever time to review and revisit the movie. If you haven’t read my review ofIt: Chapter 1 feel free to read that one before you read this one.
The story picks up 27 years later when Pennywise, the dancing clown has come back to terrorize the people of Derry, Maine once more. The main trigger of the story happens during the Autumn of 2016 in which Pennywise attacks a boy that is thrown into the river after being beaten by the town bullies. Mike Hanlon hears about the incident over his police scanner and decides to investigate. Upon arrival Mike finds a message written in blood specifically dedicated to the Losers Club and decides that is time to bring the rest of the Losers Club back to Derry, Maine to end It once and for all. From there you see each member of the Losers Club react to Mike’s phone call and prepare for the journey back to their hometown. After arriving back in their hometown and having a reunion dinner at a Chinese restaurant that ends relatively badly the Losers Club almost decide to leave town, but are convinced by Mike and Bill that they need to save the children of Derry and each other.
The final showdown with IT is prompted when Bill goes to the town fair and sees Pennywise take a boy right in front of him prompting Bill to confront the memories he has of not being able to save his brother Georgie.
I won’t give away the ending completely since I recommend that you see the movie, but know that all the rumors and deaths are true. This second chapter of the movie is filled with lots of jump scares, cliff hangers, and dark moments which left me hanging on the edge of my seat and almost wanting to leave the theater. I made it through and was glad that I did. I thought the casting for the adult version of the Losers Club was amazing and the flashback scenes to the summer they first defeated Pennywise was incredible.
I hope that you’ll see this movie and let me know what you think! Have you seen It: Chapter one? Did you like it? I hope to see you for more exciting posts over this month 🙂
Hello! I know that I have been hinting around this for a while, but I didn’t want to give it away since in years past I have started strong and failed in the end. I wanted to bring back Scaretober for this year. If you were reading along with the blog before you will have heard of Scarteober in 2017 and a bit in 2015.
I also wanted to do something different this year, since I have been reading so many books and books have played such an important part of Fall in every day life and an even bigger part of instagram life, so I wanted to read a few of the classic books and include them as part of this year’s Scaretober. Also there were so many classic books that have been turned into movies and even more movies that have been getting remade for the newer generations of audiences.
I hope that you’ll enjoy each and every moment of Scaretober and give me suggestions for what to include in next year’s Scaretober. Look forward to posts every day from here until the end of October. 🙂
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For the month of October I’ve dubbed it Scaretober in which I will be blogging every day in October. No, it’s not just random blogs in October but specifically scary movies movies. I’m definitely not one of those girls that enjoys scary movies by any means in fact this is a HUGE challenge for me since I’m such a wimp when it comes down to it. Some of the movies reviewed will be super scary and others will just be 90’s cheesy scary compared to today’s standards. There will be a few days during this month that I will be putting up more than one posts, because sometimes you can’t hold any awesome back when it comes to the blog.
Today’s movie is Saw.
I had about this movie so much before, but had never seen it so I thought that I would give it a shot. Oh yeah, I know I’m behind on post regularly so some days you may see more than one post as I’m trying to catch up. Back to the real reason you are here.
Here’s a quick run down of this 2004 movie. The opening scene of the movie a man awakens in a dilapidated darkened bathroom very confused as to what happened. When the lights in the room turn on suddenly he sees another man in the room along with what appears to be a corpse in the middle. Both of the men are chained to pipes on the sides of the room. The men tell each other their names and then they find a tapes in their pockets and one man finds a bullet and a key. After both men try the key in their locks they then notice the rape recorder and gun in the corpses hands. The first man’s tape tells him to escape and the other man’s tape tells him to kill the other man in order to save his family. Upon listening to the tape again the find 2 saws in the toilet tank and one of the realizes they might know who the killer might be. The movie flashes back to a crime scene where the media and the police first discovers the Jigsaw killer. The police find one victim that actually survived her capture. Meanwhile, the one man’s family is being held hostage by another person. After that the movie flashes back to present day and after that the movie moves rather quickly toward an ending.
I will keep to my promise and not spoil the entire movie for you. Why do all the horror movies end in what feels like an incomplete way? I have so many questions about this movie that I can’t seem to find anyone to answer, so let me know if you have seen this movie and can answer my questions. Definitely recommend this movie, I would definitely say I understand why people revolve their Halloweens around Saw movies.
I hope that you enjoyed this selection of the Scaretober series and that you will keep coming back throughout the month to see what other movies I watch. Also if you would like to see what movies that I have watched in the past you can find them here. Also feel free to leave suggestions on videos or movies that you think I should watch. See you soon!
