adventures in horror films

[sadcypress]

Tonight, I headed over to the Js' apartment for good company and lazy hanging out. Because JFo is a CRAZY HOLIDAY LOVING CRAZY PERSON*, she decreed that we needed to watch a horror film in honor of Halloween

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[poisoninjest]

Oh, man. I've seen that. A couple of times, actually, 'cause I have to have a horror movie playing constantly this time of year. It's so very delightfully bad. I do like it for two reasons: 1) I like Joel Moore, uber-geek of movies like Dodgeball and Grandma's Boy, as a geeky hero, 'cause I like geekboys and they usually get killed off fairly quickly. And 2) Tony Todd's glorious cameo at the beginning. He's like the De Niro of horror movies, and the way he builds up the ridiculous spookiness only to end with "...AND THEN HE SUED ME FOR NEGLIGENCE!" is a thing of beauty.

[sadcypress]

I'd only ever seen Joel Moore in a random episode of Bones, so I was mostly disoriented by seeing the Goth Intern as the hero of a slasher film.

Tony Todd! We were SO CONFUSED! I mostly know him from being in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, so again, I was confused. (Clearly, I have to build up my references- I had no idea he'd been working the horror circuit) It was such an AMAZING scene- and then he disappeared! I was half convinced that the whole thing was an elaborate revenge plot wherein he was in a Crowley costume and attacking people because he'd been denied the chance to do the tours himself. He was too awesome to have had so little to do, surely!

[poisoninjest]

Yeah, it was one of those shout-out to horror buffs things. He's mostly known as the Candyman, and he played the lead in the Night of the Living Dead remake, and he's turned up in a billion other things. I like your version better--that would have been awesome. *g*