Movies I've Seen

In the Mouth of Madness - in which Sam Neil is, yet again, the most sensible person in every room he's in. I think he plays an editor for a publisher that is waiting for their next novel from their biggest name author, but the author has holed up in a tiny town and has been refusing to communicate for some time. But, as soon as Neil gets to the tiny town, it is apparent that the place is weird and spooky and obviously the reason for the blackout. So, everyone keeps telling Neil that he should talk to the Wizard of Oz of the movie, who has a terrifying monster trapped behind a stretchy wooden door. Also, everyone keeps telling Sam Neil that he is the author he is looking for. It is confusing at first, but then it seems like they are right. When he finally gets to the castle, I don't remember how it ends.

The Boogens - in which some jerks try to reopen a haunted mine, but it wasn't haunted by the ghosts of the men who died in there. I don't know why not. So, some rando and his buddy are about to take the weekend off from reopening a mine with these old dudes, as soon as they blow these charges, they're gonna leave the old guys and go meet their hot girlfriends. The mine was caved in, and should be haunted by the spirits of old Prospectors, and I was looking forward to that, but instead it is haunted by some awful monsters that look like carved shit. Like, literal shit, and they just spy on the showering girlfriends and there are no ghost prospectors at all, as I was promised by the Netflix envelope! It was a silver mine, I think. If that helps.

The Hitcher (1986) - in which some nice guy, trying to do the right thing, pays the price for trusting literally anyone. So, C. Thomas Howell is this really normal, friendly guy, and he is driving home from college or something normal, and on a long, desert highway he picks up a middle aged white guy who is hitchhiking. This turns out to be a terrible mistake, as he begins to see what a creepy weirdo Rutger Hauer is, and he politely asks him to leave and tries to be on his way. Nope, Rutger Hauer murders literally the first family he meets who pick him up, and spends the next 24 hours framing nice C Thomas Howell for several murders and arsons, and making his life a terrifying nightmare. He's not being too careful, so he gets caught eventually, but he's done so much fucking damage, he seems pretty proud of himself and like he has fulfilled his mission. Its really rough.