pumpktoberfest #29 - every time i turn around.

film: invitation to hell
beer: sixpoint pumpkin brewster

wow. how time flies when you're spending your days drinking copious amounts of pumpkin beer & watching horror films. with this here entry, we've come to the end of another pumpktoberfest season. frowny face. to close out the season, we're bringing you a film from a genre that i like to describe as "suburban horror," wes craven's invitation to hell. it's a 1984 made-for-tv movie that came out a few months before he hit the jackpot with a nightmare on elm street & stars robert urich as matt winslow & susan lucci as jessica jones, the head of a mysterious country club in a matt's housing development. when matt moves there for a job with his wife (joanna cassidy), son (barret oliver, bastian from the neverending story) & daughter (soleil moon-frye/punky brewster), he discovers that something's not quite right about the place.

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pumpktoberfest #28 - jolly.

film: santa's slay
beer: jolly pumpkin la parcela no 1 pumpkin ale

are you ready for more pumpktoberfest? you better be, cause it's coming at you fast & furious, this time with a heaping helping of holiday horror in the form of the kinda-hilarious 2005 film santa's slay. former professional wrestler bill goldberg plays santa claus with a twist--he's actually a child of satan who's decided to "spread some christmas fear" during the holiday season. it turns out that back in the day, christmas was the time of year when santa would wreak havoc on the world. then, a thousand years ago an angel challenged him to a game of curling that he lost. as a result, he had to be nice for the next thousand years. OBVIOUSLY. 2005 is when that agreement finally came to an end.

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pumpktoberfest #27 - the pursuit of hoppiness.

film: frogs
beer: hoppin' frog frog's hollow double pumpkin ale

please note: due to thorny life circumstances that came my way this week, over the past few days i haven't been in a frame of mind that'd make me pay much attention to this here blog. sorry bout that. the good news? today, on the final day of the pumpktoberfest season, we've got a monumental THREE PAIRINGS OF HORROR FILMS & PUMPKIN BEERS lined up for you. can you feel the pumpktoberfest excitement coursing through your veins? i sure as hell feel it in mine...at least i hope that's what it is. i'd hate to discover i had a tapeworm or something.

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pumpktoberfest #26 - the body's the point.

film: jennifer's body
beer: blue point pumpkin ale

while this year's pumpktoberfest season has definitely been horrorific enough & pumpktastic enough, i was getting kind of worried that it hasn't been sexy enough. with that in mind, the other night i decided to up that sexiness with a viewing of jennifer's body, diablo cody's 2009 follow-up to her debut screenplay, the indie darling juno. her career thus far: juno, showtime's united states of tara & jennifer's body, which stars megan fox as jennifer & amanda seyfried (the daughter in big love) as her friend needy. yep, that's her name..."needy." the film's a first for me, as up until watching it, i'd never seen megan fox "act." why's that word in quotes? i think you know why.

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pumpktoberfest #25 - you so crazy.

film: the crazies
beer: chelsea brewing co. pumpkin pie ale

for the next film of the pumpktoberfest season, after an evening out last friday, i sat down & watched a zombie-esque picture that came out this past february called the crazies, a remake of the 1973 film with the same name by horror legend george romero. while the original didn't do too well at the box office, it eventually became a cult classic & people are going nuts for zombie-esque creatures these days, so a remake was in order. it's directed by breck eisner, who's best known for directing one of the worst flops in hollywood history, sahara. at the moment, he's on board to direct the 3D version of flash gordon, so maybe things are turning around for him. it stars timothy olyphant (justified, deadwood) as sheriff david dutton, radha mitchell (the non-ally sheedy star of high art) as his wife judy & joe anderson as deputy russell clank.

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