Halloween
Last night I was listening to an episode of the Doctor Who radio series called "Sisters of the Flame". In this episode The Doctor (played by Paul McGann) and his companion Lucie (Sheridan Smith), avoiding an urgent summons from the Doctor's people, the Time Lords, find themselves on a space freighter where The Doctor is immediately kidnapped by aliens and Lucie is arrested by the ship's security as a stowaway. However the Doctor soon discovers that suomeone is illegally using Time Lord technology and encounters an old enemy. It was pretty good. After that I listened to the first of a new radio series of The Man in Black, in which each week the sinister "Man in Black" (played by Mark Gatiss) introduces a one-off horror story. In this week's story, "Phish Food", a retired man gets his first computer and sets out to explore the internet, only to be plagued by on-line scams which he soon discover want much more from him than just his money.
I watched the 2008 movie Choke, directed by Clark Gregg and based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, on DVD. The film tells the story of Victor Mancini (played by Sam Rockwell), a sex addict who works as an actor in a historical recreation park themed around Colonial America, and operates a complex scam based around choking in restaurants on the theory that the people who save him will for ever afterwards feel responsible for him and send him money. He also visit his delusional, dying mother (Anjelica Huston) in a nursing home, and discovers a surprising secret about his origins. It is a pretty funny movie but it is neither as dark nor as funny as the book.
Later I was watching the original version of Halloween, directed by John Carpenter, in which a group of babysitters are stalked by masked psychopath Michael Myers, who has escaped from the institution where he has been confined since killing his sister when he was six. It is still a really powerful and often pretty scary film. It has inspired countless sequels, remakes and imitations and pretty much set the template for the whole slasher movie genre.
Today is really, really cold and very wet and so dark that when I woke up this morning I had a moment where I honestly felt that it was night and that I had slept through the day. I'm going to be making a start on my NaNoWriMo story today.
I watched the 2008 movie Choke, directed by Clark Gregg and based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, on DVD. The film tells the story of Victor Mancini (played by Sam Rockwell), a sex addict who works as an actor in a historical recreation park themed around Colonial America, and operates a complex scam based around choking in restaurants on the theory that the people who save him will for ever afterwards feel responsible for him and send him money. He also visit his delusional, dying mother (Anjelica Huston) in a nursing home, and discovers a surprising secret about his origins. It is a pretty funny movie but it is neither as dark nor as funny as the book.
Later I was watching the original version of Halloween, directed by John Carpenter, in which a group of babysitters are stalked by masked psychopath Michael Myers, who has escaped from the institution where he has been confined since killing his sister when he was six. It is still a really powerful and often pretty scary film. It has inspired countless sequels, remakes and imitations and pretty much set the template for the whole slasher movie genre.
Today is really, really cold and very wet and so dark that when I woke up this morning I had a moment where I honestly felt that it was night and that I had slept through the day. I'm going to be making a start on my NaNoWriMo story today.
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