Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • 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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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)!