Musings of an Inkd Geek

 Halloween is finally upon us. I’ve been watching horror movies, making treats, carving my pumpkin, and enjoying myself. Here is a video showing the creation of my Jack-O-Lantern. Here are some fun Halloween photos. Here are some yummy Halloween treats. And here is another stop motion short. Trick R Treat!

The new thriller from director Edgar Wright opened earlier today, just in time for Halloween. It was an entertaining, crazy film. Thomasin McKenzie plays Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer who goes to study in London. Upon arriving there, she finds herself struggling to adjust to life in a big city, especially with her new, bitchy roommate. After putting up with loud parties, rudeness and hearing her roommate trash talking her behind her back, Eloise rents a room from an older woman named Miss Collins (Diana Rigg). Settled into her new place, she begins to have strange dreams where she’s transported into the past (the 60’s) and finds herself attached mentally to a young aspiring singer named Sandy (Anya Taylor-Joy), who came to London to chase her dream of being a performer. At first Eloise is thrilled to be back in the 60’s, having always loved that era and it’s music. She even dyes her hair blonde and starts dressing like Sandy, whom she follows in her dreams / visions and becomes ...

Every Halloween season, I try to make some All Hallow’s Eve inspired stop motion shorts. Here are a few.  

  My latest Halloween double feature began with 1963’s The Crawling Hand. An astronaut goes to the moon and encounters trouble on the way back to Earth. The science team that sent him are baffled, as this is the 3rd time such an incident has happened. The anxious astronaut begs the scientists on Earth to destroy the ship. They do so, but unknown to them, the astronaut’s arm has landed on Earth, and is infected with alien bacteria, causing it to still be alive. It gets found by a teenage couple on the beach, and the boy soon becomes infected with the same bacteria, slowly turning him into a killer. The movie is a lot of fun, with Alan Hale as a sheriff who’s investigating a murder caused by the killer arm, and the young boy who becomes infected and starts to randomly attack various people. His infection is portrayed by dark circles under his eyes, and really bad acting. The scenes of the arm stalking victims are pretty silly but fun. The entire affair plays like a classic 50’s sci-f...