Monkey Thoughts

I tried to watch Showtime's Masters of Horror last year, but got entirely too distracted. I think the only one I managed to watch was the first one, "Incident on and off a Mountain Road". That was pretty decent. Oh, I did see Joe Dante's "Homecoming", which I found kinda cheeseball and just reeking of "I'm making a statement!". I enjoy zombies, but I'm going to have to draw the line at voting zombies. Zombie suffrage. (Side note- the Wilhelm scream was featured in that one..from a zombie...) I've added Dario Argento's "Jenifer" and Takashi Miike's "Imprint" to my Netflix queue, but that sums it up for my interest in Season 1.

This season, I've been a little more diligent about watching all the episodes so far. Unfortunately, none of them are very good thus far:

-"The Damned Thing" - Tobe Hooper : I have no idea what was going on. One moment, I'm feeling bad for Sean Patrick Flannery, and the next I'm wondering why the hell he just went nuts.

-"Family"- John Landis: So far, the most entertaining one of the bunch. I call it the "Norm" episode.

-"The V Word"- Ernest Dickerson: Um. The dude directed Demon Night staring Billy Zane, and that makes him a master of horror? Actually, this wasn't bad, per se. It just seemed to go on and on. And it wasn't scary after a while.

-"Sounds Like"- Brad Anderson: WTF. Times two. (This is the same guy that directed Session 9 which, if I remember correctly, was also a whole wtf Xs 2 experience.)

-"Pro-Life"- John Carpenter: Hmm...Turns out, if you mate with a demon, your baby with have crab legs. And then there was the "let's perform an abortion on the dude" scene. Believe me, it was as disgusting as it sounds.

Mediocre so far, but I'm looking forward to tomorrow's episode, "Pelts". There may be some hope yet.