Happy All Hallow's Day!

Yesterday, I threw a little party for my students. I must say the Jack o' Lanterns are looking a little worse for wear. 

I gave them a print to work on and then broke out a suitcase full of costumes for them to try on. Whilst that occurred, the neighbouring class of 19 students, stormed in with Trick or Treat bags! (It's almost as if it was all planned!) They each got a little Doraemon puffy treat (30 for 360 yen!), and walked away with a smile.

After guising up, we took a few pics together and then went next door to trick or treat ourselves. 

 

 

We took a massive photo (which I shan't share, because they're not all masked up) and then went down to the Secretary's office for more treats.

I asked them all to draw a Halloween scene, and though I miss the bizarre ones my Elementary School kids drew, I must say they performed admirably with the limited time they had.

I saved the best for last!

I then went home with the expectation of sitting in my room and watching Horror Movies all night. I watched the last half of Rosemary's Baby and then a Vincent Price movie that I'd never seen before, The Haunted Palace. It's based on a H. P. Lovecraft tale inspired by E. A. Poe and was pretty good.

Oooh, a Japanese poster utilizing all the spookiest parts of the movie!

Speaking of Lovecraft, I then watched a documentary on him with input by Carpenter, Gaiman, and Guillermo among others. Now you can watch it too!

It was at this point that I checked my Facebook and noticed that The Ha'penny Bridge (directions here) was open for business, so I grabbed my Mike-zilla outfit and hopped on the subway. 

 

I was finishing up my second pint of Guinness and the ballgame was ending and since there wasn't anyone else in the place in costume apart from me, was ready to head home.

Then in walks Mariko and later Motoko and Yukie and my evening was salvaged!

Now it was approaching midnight and the last subway, so I snapped a pic with the proprietor, Jack, and head home.

Let's have Betty-chan sum it up.

I'll throw in the last Yokai from my book, one of the scarier Kappa-Klones, Kenmun.

The evil Kenmun steal souls or curse you into blindness and death. The friendlier ones just prank you or steal your spoon. (Nice writeup at that link.)

 

As for Venom, I saved the Venom vs. Carnage Movie Pamphlet for last.

So much merchandise!

I've had a blast contributing to this Countdown, here's another contributor that I've been meaning to check out, My Side of Oz!

I'll throw in a Jack o' Donut and an IT Gatcha for good measure...

I've been late with this entry (blame sleeping in late plus Army of Darkness). Since it's now November, I'm going to do my version of Movember (shaving stuff off) and call it Govember and feature a whole lot of Gojira stuff in honour if his 70th Anniversary and a certain new movie that premiers on Friday!

Tsum of All Fears.

I spent all day yesterday tidying and watching movies and then when it came time to blog, I was too tired. So I'll make this quick, I have to go to work soon and throw a party for my students. I'm also going to show off some Tsum Tsum Marvel characters between movies. (Why will become apparent later.) Starting with

Large:

First up was Exte (Extensions), a hairy movie from 2007. I saw this in the theatre back then and didn't know what was going on. Now that I have English subs, I'm still not sure.

This is from where I'm choosing my movies.

Medium

Before I nodded off to sleep on Sunday, I watched The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch. Weird but fun and great makeup on the Snake Girl.

Small:

I awoke to the tail end of Audition (1999) and it wasn't pleasant.

I mixed up the order a bit, here's Medium-Large:

Ju-on, the Grudge was the first Japanese movie to give me a nightmare after a viewing in the wee hours years ago. I've since seen it a few times with subtitles, that makes it no less creepy.

Some individual Tsum Tsum with a prop. I'll leave it up to you to guess who is whom.

I missed Hiruko the Goblin in last year's marathon; some good effects, some less than so. Overall pretty good.

I didn't pay much attention to Gakidama, the Demon Within, it wasn't very good so I didn't pay much attention to it. Cronenberg would like it though. Check this out for details. Apparently there's an American remake which is why I can't find a trailer with a cursory search.

High School Ghostbusters (1995) is also a Cronenberg tribute/parody and it was a lot of fun. You can find the whole thing online if you search hard enough.

Evil Dead Trap (1988) was okay if you like the slasher genre (I don't overall).

I caught a few minutes of Lizard Baby, but I saw it recently so I didn't watch it all. I did re-watch As the Gods Will, I enjoyed it in the cinema. It makes a little bit more sense with subtitles.

And then I went to bed. And now to Tsum up why I showed these pictures:

Taadaa!

I have to get going, before I do, here's a quick Yokai.

Not a great translation for Kawa-otoko, Cute man. More apt is River Dude.

I gotta go! Happy Halloween y'all!