Scaretober 2020 is coming

Hello everyone,

I hope that the world is finally fine by the time I’m writing this or that we are semi close to fine. Would you actually believe that I have actually been plotting the comeback of Scaretober for over a year? I’ve been hoping that I’ve actually have the time and given at the time I am prepping these posts I currently have a lot of time on my hands.

If you haven’t been here before, here are a few things to know for a long time I was not a fan of scary movies I would actually pay for the movie and when it got too scary walk out. That’s pretty ridiculous considering the price of movie tickets, don’t you think. I was determined to cure myself of this habit and decided to take on scary movies for the month of October several years ago. You can read some of the back catalog here. This year like last year I am hoping to incorporate some books as well. If you want to see what else I have up my sleeve feel free to follow along from now until the end of October, or just come back in October for the real good stuff. You can also look forward to a blogpost from me every day in October. So stay tuned for more.

Let it Snow movie

12 / 27 / 1912 / 27 / 19

Hello!
I’m back again with yet another review, but this time it’s a movie review. Netflix recently released Let it Snow a movie loosely based on a compilation of stories by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle. I did a review on the book which you can read here.

In this movie though the storyline is basically the same. A group of friends work at the Waffle Town and over the course of 2 days get into various hi jinks as well as throwing a raging party of the year. This is where the similarities of the book and the movie mainly end. Julie meets rising pop star Stuart on the train and when the train stalls out near the Waffle Town runs in there to get out of the cold. Julie then ends up taking Stuart to meet her family to get him away from the paparazzi and into her normal boring life. Meanwhile into the Waffle Town walks a group of cheerleaders which causes one of the employees to struggle to create a balance between her crush and her best friend.

I really enjoyed the book that lead to the screenplay for this movie. I felt that each of the stories had a deeper depth on its own as well as together. In the movie, there seem to be disjointed parts that weren’t explained well in the movie such as the appearance of the pig, why there was a need for a party at the Waffle Town and why everyone was obsessed with Waffle Town. I would still recommend that you see the movie since I thought it was a charmingly cute holiday movie worth watching during this season.

I hope to see you in another post very soon!

It: Chapter 2

10 / 2 / 1910 / 29 / 19

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 of It: 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 🙂

Scaretober is back!

9 / 30 / 199 / 19 / 19

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. 🙂

Movie Review:Love, Simon

4 / 2 / 1810 / 14 / 18

Hey!
So I thought that I would come back here with yet another review. This time it is a movie review for Love, Simon. This movie is based on the book Simon vs the homosapiens agenda by Becky Allbertali. Since, the movie has been out only a week I thought this would be fairly timely, I’ll first off have to admit that I haven’t read the book yet, so a review on the book will be coming later this year. The book had gotten so many rave reviews that I was expecting no less from the movie.

I almost had to talk my boyfriend into going this movie, although he says that he didn’t need that much arm twisting since the trailers for this movie looked so good. Seriously, you should go watch a few if you haven’t already. We saw this movie the Wednesday after it opened and the theater was still packed even for a week night!

In the movie, you follow the story of Simon narrated by Simon, but from his letters to a guy named Blue. Well at least the first part of the movie is narrated through a letter, but you won’t find this out until later. In the movie the school Simon goes to uses a message board to communicate messages anonymously and one day Simon is alerted to a post by his friends about a boy on a Ferris wheel. Simon is intrigued and feels that he can relate to this person that he starts to communicate anonymously with him at first and then he accidentally signs one of his letters revealing his identity. Blue doesn’t feel so inclined to reveal his identity in the same manner. In a fluke of strange luck, Simon one day is interrupted writing an email to Blue on the school’s computer by the school’s principal and doesn’t think to close his email. The computer is then used by the school’s clown who decides to use the information Simon has tried to keep private for so long against him. Simon ends up making some bad decisions affecting his friends and then the school’s clown decides to out him on the public forum. Simon isn’t ready to be outed and feels his world come crashing down.

I won’t spoil the ending, but in case you haven’t figured it out everything turns out relatively ok in the end. As the boyfriend would say, the whole movie had a very John Hughes vibe to it. I loved it from the very start to the very end. It deserves all the praise it is getting by everyone. The cast was great and it was good to see Katherine Langford, of 13 reasons why fame, play someone who isn’t dead. Also in case I haven’t sold you on seeing the movie yet, Jack Antonoff of Bleachers and his own fame does the musical score for the film, so even if you hate the acting at least get lost in the music.

Let me know if you have seen this film and what you thought of it. Does it live up to the hype? Is it super different from the book if you have read that? More posts and reviews coming soon!