This is halloween...well ok day after but close enough

Yes another Halloween has come and gone and now we are on the highway of the christmas blitz with a slight pit stop at Thanksgiving for a food break. The holiday season is a hectic time of year and this year will be even more so with the elections just around the corner.
Every year I watch Nightmare before christmas with my boys after trick or treating ...this year we had to cut it short because of a party they were invited to but none the less we watched most of it.
ON the whole it was a good Halloween. Thinking of the now classic Nightmare before Christmas I realized it could be used as a statement on what has been happening in retails stores for quite some time now. The fact that they put christmas decoration displays up next to Halloween displays. Just this last September I was thinking oh cool look they got the Halloween stuff out for sale and in the adjoining isle I was like Wow they have the Christmas stuff out for sale. Staring at the two isle next to each other I immediately thought of Nightmare before Christmas. I really think they need to hold off on the selling of christmas decorations until at least the last week in october if not until after Halloween. Its not like people aren't going to buy the shit still. Its christmas the grand holiday of consumerism. Many company make over half of thier YEARLY profit during this time of year. Its the time of year where people don't pay quite as much attention to their pocket book, lets face it people enjoy giving gifts. So its not like people will not buy, so why do the store feel so compelled to put this stuff out so early. Let the Holidays have their Day in the retail market and don't overlap them. Theres something just un natural about it. Now I am looking forward to the end of the month for that turkey dinner with all the fixins and then going out afterward to buy my Valentines day decorations.

But before we go....

Bay of Blood

This movie was quite impressive. The story is actually very complex for a movie that most people deemed as a Slasher movie. It doesn't have the normal feel of a slasher movie. It is more like a suspense thriller, now granted the deaths are very graphically portrayed in the film which is probably why this has earned the slasher label. The direction is very well done and the editing is very good too. The director keeps the movie moving and there are very few slow spots in the film. The director also does an excellent job of keeping you guessing until the third act who is the killer. There is also a mixture of techniques used in this film. In one section, instead of hard cuts the director went between scenes by going out of focus and then in focus. Giving a more fluid feel to the transitions than your normal hard cut or wipe. Also there is excellent use of POV to help build suspense and mystery in this "slasher" movie. The body count also does not dissapoint and the twists in the plot make you have to pay attention to what actually is going on or you risk getting lost. Lets just say that the neighbor hood around the Bay of Blood is very fatal to the residents there.
I LOVED the ending of this picture. It was an out of nowhere ended that was not seen coming by a long shot, pardon the pun. Lets just say the ending was not a Hollywood one. Now on to the run down, as always in honor of that fantastic critic Joe Bob Briggs:

1 Hanging
1 death by Knife stabbing,
1 completely naked female swimmer
1 Slash to the throat death
1 two for one death of a love making couple by spear
1 Machete to the Face.
1 Strangulation with a phone cord
1 Beheading
1 barehanded strangulation
1 death by spearing against the wall
1 death by scissors

Highly recommended. Not only because its an excellent movie but also to see where many of todays slasher movies got their influence. And an awesome ending.