Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Music: The theme from "The Munsters."

Good news, girls! Your dates are here!

...but the bad news is they're dead.

We all have those movies that we saw as kids and were horribly scarred-slash-influenced by. They aren't always good movies. In fact, I'd say a lot of them are bad movies, which we love because hey, when you're a kid, men in rubber suits chasing girls in bikinis after inexplicable beachfront musical numbers are pure gold. These are the movies that make us the people we become as adults. For me, these movies were split just about fifty-fifty between "really bad horror movies" and "candy-colored cartoon wonderlands." This explains a great many things, if you stop and think about it for a moment. Or don't. It might be better for you.

One of my most formative films was a creepy little horror-comedy called The Night of the Creeps [Amazon]. It, along with The Monster Squad, Night of the Comet, and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, informed me on a very deep and meaningful level. And it has been totally unavailable for years now, due to rights issues and the fact that, let's face it, they needed to wait for those of us who remembered loving this movie were old enough to have disposable income.

Guess what came out on DVD today?

There is so much love.
Tags: geekiness, good things, horror movies, so the marilyn, this is halloween
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kightp

October 20 2009, 22:17:30 UTC 7 years ago

Ooh. And already available on Netflix, too!

I do so love living in the future. When I was growing up, we waited *weeks* for movies to come to the military bases where we lived, and many months before the bookmobile got hold of new titles. Now I can read a movie or book recommendation, find it on line and put it in my Netflix queue/download it to my Kindle, all in under a minute.

keristor

October 21 2009, 08:16:13 UTC 7 years ago

You watch movies on a Kindle? Oh, no, that's probably the books. The idea of watching a movie on e-ink was just bizarre, though (actually about the same as the Japanese watching porn on a 2 inch monochrome mobile phone screen, which they actually did, it was one of the things driving data on mobiles!) *g*...

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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nyxalinth

October 20 2009, 22:53:23 UTC 7 years ago

I looooooove Night of the Creeps!

tom Atkins = awesome

'The Stroll' = awesome.

slugs turning people into zombies? Awesome.

seanan_mcguire

October 22 2009, 02:23:06 UTC 7 years ago

YES.

One of the best bad movies EVER.

georgiamagnolia

October 20 2009, 23:08:07 UTC 7 years ago

I didn't even finish reading your post before hitting comment because Night of the Creeps is one of the best things EVAR!!! You are (as always) sofa king full of win. *squee*

seanan_mcguire

October 22 2009, 02:23:44 UTC 7 years ago

I love that movie so hard. I want to have a movies-with-slugs film festival and make that the centerpiece.

georgiamagnolia

7 years ago

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sysrae

October 20 2009, 23:10:28 UTC 7 years ago

One day, The Flight of Dragons will come out on DVD, and I will squeal with joy and devour it. I can remember being four years old, watching dragons and wizards and princesses and knights for the very first time in all their cartoon glory, and getting my very first taste of fantasy. Obviously, it never left, such that I can pretty much draw a line from that first viewing to the present day, having decided at four that make-believe and magic was emphatically My Bag, Baby. Given that I grew up in the 80s/90s, an era when girl-power magic cartoons were at their zenith, it's possible that I would have come to love fantasy anyway, just via a different route. But there's something wonderful about the fact that, despite only being exposed to two incomplete viewings between the ages of four and ten, I could still quote almost word-for-word the villain-dragon's speech and the hero's retaliation from the final confrontation; that I named inumerable princesses in my early stories Melisande after a barely-glimpsed sleeping beauty, and that I always held a love for female tomboy archer-characters who dressed in green and lived alone in the forest, because that's what one of the Flight of Dragons girls did. Formative, aye. And brilliant.

angel_vixen

October 21 2009, 04:49:47 UTC 7 years ago

I was so intrigued by your reply that I went to go look up "Flight of Dragons" on YouTube. I watched the first segment, and about fell out of my chair -- I've been searching for this movie for years, and couldn't remember the title! Thank you!

AngelVixen :-)

sysrae

7 years ago

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scifantasy

7 years ago

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sysrae

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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lavenderfae9

October 20 2009, 23:18:44 UTC 7 years ago

Gods, I loved Night of the Comet. I haven't thought about that flick in years. I've never heard of Night of the Creeps, but I'm intrigued. Thanks for the heads up.

archangelbeth

October 21 2009, 02:51:38 UTC 7 years ago

I loved the doomed lady scientist. Her cheekbones. *flips kinsey and swoons*

seanan_mcguire

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marsdejahthoris

October 21 2009, 16:36:55 UTC 7 years ago

"The car didn't know the difference!"

seanan_mcguire

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pyre006

October 21 2009, 00:53:42 UTC 7 years ago

omg night of the comet is AMAZING! remember tempest? i rocked that game as a kid :)

seanan_mcguire

October 22 2009, 02:26:39 UTC 7 years ago

Hee!

Slightly OT, but...

biguglymandoll

October 21 2009, 01:04:10 UTC 7 years ago

Saw this: http://www.snorgtees.com/incaseofzombies-p-869.html - thought of you.

Wait a minute, zombies are never off-topic in a Seanan post! ;-)

Re: Slightly OT, but...

seanan_mcguire

October 22 2009, 02:27:18 UTC 7 years ago

Sadly, that shirt does not look good on my body. But I will totally crack a man's chest to get the weapons out, if necessary.

manwe_iluvendil

October 21 2009, 01:24:33 UTC 7 years ago

I own Monster Squad on DVD, and My Boyfriend's Back is the movie from which I, at the tender age of thirteen, learned the meaning of true love: love means never having to say you're sorry...

...for eating people.

seanan_mcguire

October 22 2009, 02:27:47 UTC 7 years ago

My Boyfriend's Back is a truly awesome film.

supersniffles

October 21 2009, 02:02:43 UTC 7 years ago

OMG!!!! Must buy!! Love that movie!!! Will put it on my shelf right next to Slither!! (Ok, no I won't, because I alphabetize my DVDs by title.)

seanan_mcguire

October 22 2009, 02:28:04 UTC 7 years ago

But won't they make a fantastic double-feature?

mokatiki

October 21 2009, 07:48:54 UTC 7 years ago

Zombie Pin-Ups for you:
http://io9.com/5385509/zombie-pin+up-girls-want-you-for-your-brains/gallery/

The universe obviously thinks you need more awesome today :)

seanan_mcguire

October 22 2009, 02:28:17 UTC 7 years ago

SQUEE!

OT: giant spiders!

keristor

October 21 2009, 09:10:02 UTC 7 years ago

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/sci/tech/8316720.stm

Re: OT: giant spiders!

seanan_mcguire

October 22 2009, 02:28:45 UTC 7 years ago

Giant spiders = win.

valdary

October 21 2009, 10:03:08 UTC 7 years ago

I remember sneaking downstairs on a Friday night after a couple of hours sleep to watch the Hammer House of Horror films at 11pm.

My Mom was amazed that horror films did not faze me but that I would cry heartbrokenly when the comedian Harry Worth lost his umbrella in a sketch, or when Frank Spencer got his slipper stuck in the toilet bowl. It was the comedy shows that really, really, scarred me.

I guess as a child I was more scared of being embaressed than of being bit by vampires.

keristor

October 21 2009, 15:45:27 UTC 7 years ago

Ah, someone else. I really disliked Chaplin and Laurel and Hard, as well as Harry Worth and Frank Spencer and other 'slapstick' comedians, I found their 'comedy' to be depressing (and often cruel). L&H made my sister cry every time.

Whereas most of the 'horror' films of the time were sufficiently unrealistic that a child would mostly know that this was "pretend scary" (like in books) rather than "real scary" (like real people doing nasty things). A man who turns into a zombie and eats people's brains is scary but doesn't usually trigger the panic reflex, because we don't generally know anyone like that, whereas a man who beats up his wife is scary because that really does happen (and could easily be imagined to be someone we know).

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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markbernstein

October 21 2009, 13:36:41 UTC 7 years ago

Another little day-brightener: The first issue of Sugarshock, a new comic book miniseries written by Joss Whedon, hits the shops today. Here's a three page preview.

"Dude, GWAR fell on your car."

seanan_mcguire

October 22 2009, 02:29:23 UTC 7 years ago

Hee!

laughingfalcon

October 23 2009, 06:22:20 UTC 7 years ago

But did you ever see "Piranha Women from the Avacado Jungle of Death"? So popular Christine Lavin did a filk song for it. But one thing stayed with me from that show, a bit of wisdom as perhaps Buffy gave unto you. Scene: Piranha Women Leader: You may join us, but to do so you will have to cut out this man's heart!
Bubbly Girl: No problem, I've done wilder things at frat parties!

seanan_mcguire

October 27 2009, 21:46:29 UTC 7 years ago

I think you mean Amazon Women In the Avocado Jungle of Death, unless there's a sequel that I don't know about. But I've definitely seen the first one in that series (if it is a series)!