Welcome to day 66 of October. I have decided not to move into December until I finish this project. After today though I only have 4 letters left. This may be the longest October ever, but that isn’t a bad thing. Jack Skellington would approve.
I have a very interesting history with this movie. When I picked up this movie I had a lot going on. I tried watching it for several weeks but fell asleep every time.
Falling asleep wasn’t the weird part. This dvd has a loading screen with a song playing. Lights in the Sky by Les Claypool. A 30 second snippet of the song played in the background while I slept. On repeat. I don’t know how many times I tried to play the movie. But the song was burned into my brain much like the keyboard after image is burned into my phone screen. I knew when I started this that The Violent Kind would be on the list. Not denigrating the quality of the movie in any way, but I wanted to watch the loading screen again.
Getting past my weirdness though…. This is a weird movie.
And we all know how much that tickles my fancy.
It starts as a motor cycle gang movie. There is a group getting together at a remote cabin for a party. As the party wraps up though, strange things start happening.
Tiffany Shepis does a great job in this as always. The strangeness infects her and she becomes feral. But more. She is part of the gang group, but after getting messed up she attacks guys in the group.
As tensions rise in the cabin, weirdness takes an extra turn. A group shows up. Three guys and two girls. All seemingly ripped out of the 50’s. They are incredible. The quirky nature of their characters is perhaps the best part of the whole movie.
Worth watching just for the part where they show up. I’d actually love to see a follow up movie with them, or a prequel movie with them. I want more of them! But it’s been like 15 years, so I doubt I will get my wish.
I found out about this movie late. Sister Death was released on Netflix and looked fascinatingly creepy. But then I read about it being a prequel to Veronica. So I couldn’t really watch Sister Death without watching the first….err, second (?) movie first.
Veronica is the story of a high school girl who has had her life upended. With her father dead, her mom has to work nonstop to make ends meet. That leaves Veronica with the task of making sure her two younger sisters and her younger brother get to school, and eat, and get to sleep. She has become mom to them.
On the day of an eclipse, she arranges with a friend to use a Ouija board so Veronica can talk to her dad. But someone else answers the call of the Ouija board.
At this point, we all know the basic story that is going to be unfolding. Demonic entity has been summoned and terrorizes the family. But the devil is in the details as they say. And this particular Ouija story plays out in a fascinating way.
The entity terrorizes the kids in the form of a shadow. Most of the time.
Veronica tries to figure out how to get the entity to go away. Sister Death is a blind nun at her school, and she can sense the presence of the entity that has attached itself to Veronica. Sister Death tells Veronica that she needs to finish the seance the high school girls failed to do properly.
In spite of the cliched nature of a Ouija board movie, this was really good. The rising tension of the kids trying to deal with the entity kept me on edge throughout the movie. And the resolution at the end was well done. As soon as October ends I plan to watch Sister Death. Very interested to see how it adds to the story.
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