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31 Days of Scary

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Pet Sematary (2019) Redbox Rating 3

I have read the book and saw the original a couple of times. This a remake and the changes made just for the sake of horror.

There is this strange detail that makes me wonder why they made this one death change. It doesn’t make any real sense to me. Pointing this out doesn’t ruin the movie because if you know anything about Pet Sematary you will wonder too.

The character Zelda’s death. It doesn’t make any sense to me in the remake of this movie. She dies in a dumb waiter but how? She has spinal meningitis so how does someone who is bed ridden get in the dumb waiter?

There are many changes they made in this film other than Zelda’s death I don’t find them terrible. I found that the main character Louis was bland. Other than that it was pretty good.

I recommend a watch but don’t expect to be blown away.

31 Days of Scary

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I guess technically 32 Days of scary since I had to start September 30th. Lol!

Rating system is 1 it’s terrible to 5 really great, a must see. I will also include where to see it.

Afflicted (2013) Amazon Prime Rating 4

Two friends who are also the makers of the movie. One friend Derek is dying and his friend Cliff want to take a trip around the world together since it may be the last time they can together. One of them gets bitten by a vampire.

I thought oh no not another vampire movie however the way they do this movie is great! I really like the idea of it. As one transform into a vampire the other friend films the transformation as they are trying to figure out what happened to him. They don’t know that he is a vampire. It doesn’t take long to set up the film either which is nice!

I would recommend a watch of this one.

The Final Wish Redbox Rating 1

Watch the trailer looks scary right?! I want to rename this film to The Final Snooze Wish. Because I wished to take a nap through this film than waste my time.

What was in the trailer with the old woman in the kitchen is what made me want to see this film. That scene didn’t even show up! Ugh! Took too long to set this film up as well.

A guy from (Twilight) comes back home because his father passed away. He comes home to attend the funeral and help his mom. His father was a collector of stuff basically. There is a strange looking item that grants wishes but has consequence (of course).

He wishes a series of things and doesn’t realize all the terrible things is his fault. Then he finds his father’s partner and he says. Don’t make 7 wishes otherwise it will have your soul. (Is it nap time yet?) There are a few jump scares but that is it. The end is lame as well.

This movie I recommend skipping.

Life

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Friday April 19 I got my hair done:

I have never in my entire life had it this straight! Lori said she went to some classes with this new product for people who have curly or frizzy hair and it makes the hair straight. I was her guinea pig. Happy to be. Lol!

I told Lori I wanted something different in terms of color without stripping my hair. She gave me this color and I love it!

Saturday April 20th we picked up April who’s birthday was that day! We rarely celebrate each other’s birthday on the day. We went for brunch and it was fun. I got her English Tea and monarchs of England book. She love it!

Since she wasn’t here for my birthday she got me sonic screwdriver earrings and necklace. Yes! Dr. Who!


Sunday April 21 was Easter!

We had Easter at my parent’s house. Not that many people there this year but that’s okay. It was the first Easter that April came with me. April has cut her family out of her life and it’s about time!

All they do is bring her down and tell her she is useless. She told them early this year she was done with them. She only has contact with her brother and sister in law which is good. It was fun to have her there.

One thing Aunt Joanne got all pissed because Jeff made a cake. It’s just food she made the comment “I wouldn’t have made two cakes if I knew.” In an angry way. It’s food. Someone will eat it. I hate that she gets this way. Guess what everyone ate all the cakes so it wasn’t that big of a deal.

Monday April 22 this was April’s last day. We always have fun together. We went out to eat then had coffee at the local coffee shop. We can always pass the time talking and it’s all random.

It was so good to see her. Tex thought so too. He LOVES April. Always wants to play with her and cuddle with her. When April is here, we don’t get Tex she does. Silly dog.

Happy Birthday!

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Today is my birthday! I am 36 years old today!

This morning I am going to have breakfast with my parents and Chrissy. I invited my brother and his family but they didn’t respond to me. Oh well missing out on a great breakfast.

Then I have been debating what I want as a treat. So I want Seroogy’s chocolate and Jeff is going to get me some coffee to take home. They have awesome coffee!

Jeff got me a couple of gifts and I got them early. One I wanted he got me a new phone case. The second one that I didn’t know about this skull! It’s awesome!

Valentine’s Day

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In the beginning the week I didn’t forget about Valentine’s Day. I thought of a romantic comedy to watch Love Actually. I have seen it already but Jeff wanted to see it. Then Valentine’s Day came and I forgot about it. Lol! That’s how much I care about Valentine’s Day.

Anyways we watched Love Actually. I forgot a lot about that movie so it was good to watch again. Jeff said he liked it. I forgot how much nudity is in that movie. Lol!

Helen sent me a great birthday presents! She is always so thoughtful.

Happy New Year

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Happy New Year now I am in 2019. So crazy! I am hoping for good things this year.

We are going to start the process of adopting this January. I have to say I am nervous. I have always wanted a child but the more I think the more nervous I get. But I think it will be a great experience and plus we will have a child.

I entered my first contest for writing. It was for a Sci-fi story. I had 23 pages and a little over twelve thousands words. I completed in less than a month. It was so crazy! April really helped me out on the grammar and she proof read it a lot for me. With her help I was able to complete it on time. I will continue to do that and we are going to do a fundraiser later this year. Just keep plugging along on that. April liked the story so much she has encouraged me to make that story into a book. Yeah I can see that.

After we took Tex to see my Aunt’s dogs. Well he took revenge on us because he hated being there. He ate one of my slippers, peed in the house and caused mayhem all day. The day after that he was back to himself. It’s funny how animals can get back at us even though he was being a demon that day.


Merry Christmas

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Christmas actually was fun this year! I was dreading Christmas this year and probably every year. I was happy how it went and I think it is because the kids are older. Bree got a lot of adult presents this year. It was funny how excited she was to get such presents. We got her a sewing kit and funny later my mom told me she got her a sewing machine so it was fitting.

I made beard hats for everyone, just for fun! It was really long process to get them all done on time and I even was doing them in the last minutes before we left to go to my parent’s house but I made it.

The pics turned out great!

We all look so silly and I love it! I made them all packer colors expect Andy as he likes the Bangles.

Christmas Day Jeff made chicken dumpling soup and my parents and Adam came over for some time. Mom, Adam and I played games while Jeff and dad visited. It was a great time. Adam stayed the night.

We watched Die Hard. Have to every year. We think it’s a badass Christmas movie. Then Adam and I watched the new Halloween together. Something funny on Wednesday I woke up super early and went to Walmart at six a.m. Best after Christmas sales. It was crazy Walmart opened up at six and it was packed! I was surprised but I got some good deals and things for Christmas next year.

Later on Wednesday we all went to my Aunt Kathy’s house. Jeff made chili and it was yummy like always. We brought Tex and it wasn’t a good time. Tex peed in their house and I felt really bad about it even though they said it happens and weren’t mad. But I still felt bad that it happened.

My Aunt has a black lab who didn’t like Tex too much. Which she said was strange he was acting that way because her dog is a submissive to other dogs. I could tell Tex didn’t want to be there as he kept hiding underneath my chair. We stayed for a couple of hours and was relieved to leave. Usually visiting isn’t bad but with Tex, I kept worrying about him going potty in their house and how much he didn’t like being there. On the way home he was so tired!

This next picture is so funny! Every time I look at it, I can’t stop laughing. It’s like he is trying to tell me to leave him alone so he can sleep. ROFL!

All in all it was a good Christmas fun. Tomorrow Adam goes back home but first we all are having breakfast together.

Happy Thanksgiving

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Yesterday was Thanksgiving and it was good. I think every year Thanksgiving is getting smaller and smaller.

I remember Thanksgiving as a kid and it was a ton of people. We also use to play family football together but that hasn’t happened in years. Now everyone is older and grown up.  Also most of the women would get out ads from the paper to look at deals for today Black Friday. Now no one does that anymore together.

I was a little sad that we couldn’t play poker this year because we had to get home to Tex. Next year we can stay to play.

It’s always good to see the family even though not that many show up now.

Happy Halloween!

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Whoooo! You know what that means?! A whole month of scary movies!

The rating I set is 5 out of 5. Of course 1 being terrible and 5 being amazing.

The Shining  (Netflix) 5/5 I saw that Netflix finally had this available. So of course I started October with a classic. Still scary!

Pizza (Netflix) 3/5 This is a foreign movie from India. The acting is actually pretty good. It’s worth a watch with the subtitles. The premise of this movie is Kunal is a pizza delivery man. He finds out his wife is pregnant. That’s important has to do a lot with pregnant women. His wife is also obsessed with scary. She tells him everyone has a moment. Well, Kunal finds his moment when he delivers pizza to a house and gets trapped in it. It’s not the scariest movie but has good jump scares. The twist is good.

House of Bones (Amazon Prime) 3/5 This movie is about a TV show that is about ghost hunters. (I don’t know why but I like those movies.) It’s not the most amazing movie. The reasoning for the rating. This movie wasn’t terrible and kept my interest. The acting isn’t the greatest but not the worst I have seen.

Villmark Asylum (Amazon Prime) 2/5  This movie is from Norway. Ever watch a movie and get that feeling you watch it already? Yeah I had a feeling I saw this movie already. Anyway it wasn’t that good so that is probably why I didn’t remember watching it, towards the end. I thought it was going to be a lot scarier as the acting is good in this movie. This movie is about a team that goes in an Asylum to prepare it for demolition. The caretaker is creepy, of course. The team finds a person that shouldn’t be there and in the background you see things move. You can tell this movie had money. Unfortunately it doesn’t hit the scary for me. I think the problem with this movie is they were trying too hard. Anyway I would skip this movie in the future. Now if I can remember watching it. Lol!

I had a bloody good time at House Harker (Amazon Prime) 4/5 This is a horror comedy. The acting was good and it was cheesy at the same time. I got some good laughs out of this movie. It’s a family of siblings and a best friend that are about to lose their childhood house. They live in a small town and known to be weirdos and losers. Their family ancestors are vampire killers and they have a vampire skull. When the siblings accidentally bring back a vampire, all hell breaks loose.

Crush the skull (Amazon Prime) 2/5 I thought about giving this movie a one but it made me laugh so two. This is NOT a horror comedy but it’s so bad that it was funny. A group of thieves brother, sister, husband and another guy go and try to rob this house only to get stuck in it with psychos. The beginning of the movie didn’t make sense till end which felt like they had to somehow tie in it. It was horrible tie in.

Stephanie (Netflix) 5/5 Wow this movie was great! I totally didn’t see the twist in this one. It had some jump scares in it and it’s worth the watch. This is about a little girl Stephanie is left alone in a house and her dead brother’s body in his room. You don’t see anything but you can hear a monster come into the house and out. You don’t know where the little girl’s parents are. So you follow her around for some time till her parents return.

The Haunting of Hill house TV show (Netflix) 5/5 This is the scariest thing I have seen in the longest time! Episode 5 I thought was the scariest out of the whole show. I like all the movies so I had to watch the show. This took me a while to watch because it scared me so badly! A must see!

Rocky Horror Picture Show 4/5 I used to watch this with my mom when I was younger. Seeing it as an adult is SO much different. I still love the music from the movie. However I think I am good for ever really watching it again. I know it’s a cult classic but I didn’t really realize how sexual it is. Not that is a bad thing but…not really a Halloween movie to watch.

Terrifier (Netflix) 1/5 This was the stupidest gory movie. It’s about a silent clown that kills people on Halloween. It wasn’t even fun gory it was just the sake for gory. Didn’t tell why he killed. No character building. Just death, gore and tons of blood.

Ghoul (Netflix) 4/5  This is a mini series from from Indiana but on Netflix it’s dubbed in English. This is a mini series of three episodes. It doesn’t get good till about half through the second episode. This takes place in the future at a military prison, integration facility. Someone releases a ghoul which brings out each person’s dark secrets. It has some pretty good jump scares and the ghoul is scary enough. The ending is good as well.

 

Independence Day

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Today is America’s birthday! America is 242 years old. Happy birthday USA!

Today I see my cousin Alice and her family for lunch. I think it will be fun! We will be celebrating America’s bday on July 7th with family. I don’t know if we will see fireworks or not. Either way it still be a fun day.