Musings of an Inkd Geek

 I caught this flick on YouTube last night. A young boy is plagued by migraines and seizures, and is now wheelchair bound. His Grandmother is taking him for treatment, when the doctor refers them to another M.D. who also specializes in psychiatry. This new doctor sets about to find the cause of the boy’s ailment, and learns that his condition is the latest in a string of bad luck for the family. His mother had a mental breakdown, his Grandfather had a heart attack, and now little  Mark is plagued by illness. The doctor starts reading his mother’s notes (she was some kind of researcher) and hypnotically regresses Mark and his Grandmother in an attempt to piece together what exactly is going on. In doing this, she discovers shocking secrets that lead her to the true nature of Mark’s mystery illness. If laughter is the best medicine, then this flick would surely cure me of all my ailments, as I found it hilarious and couldn’t stop laughing. This is the type of film that could’ve ...

  October is about 1 week away, and it’s around this time that I start watching a lot of horror movies (though I usually watch them all year round anyway). I always try to catch old, obscure, lesser known flicks I’ve never heard of or seen, and a bunch of them are available on YouTube, so tonight I watched a double feature. First up was 1979’s The Meateater. This movie was hilariously bad. It begins with a frustrated shoe salesman who gets an offer on an old movie theatre he wants to buy. His wife is hesitant, but since it’s always been his dream to run his own cinema, she agrees, and so they pack their 2 kids and move to open and operate the theatre. They get it up and running, but there ends up being a mysterious person who wants to sabotage it, and sets about to terrorize them and ruin their opening night. I’m not sure why the movie is titled The Meateater, other than an early scene that shows someone eating a rat. Then again, the dialogue is filled with a bunch of random, bizar...