October 22nd, 2009
Not a great day for horror - you might be better off reading a good book, like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or World War Z or something else zombie-related.
11:00 AM [USA]
The Skeleton Key
You could do worse than seeing Kate Hudson get terrorized in a eerie New Orleans plantation house. She's a hospice caregiver in charge of taking care of John Hurt. Gena Rowlands is his wife and Peter Sarsgaard is the family lawyer who Kate strikes up a romance with. It's not a great horror movie, but there are some mildly decent twists to keep it at least worth a basic cable watch.
11:10 PM [Encore Mystery]
Psycho III
Anthony Perkins is back as Norman Bates, but I still feel Jeff Fahey's role in the movie is the creepier one. Anyhow, you know the drill by now. Mother obsession, people get killed, and a random ex-nun falls in love with Norman.
Sort of touching story if you discount the constant near-deaths and gruesome maimings, it's the story of a man who ate mermaid flesh (long story short: makes you immortal if it doesn't kill or mutilate you first) and a young woman he encounters a few centuries later, who has also eaten mermaid flesh, due to some twisted mermaid plot. They decide to travel together, encountering others who have eaten mermaids, or want to eat mermaids, and stopping them from committing horrible acts.
It's all about mermaids, in other words, and immortality - the main hero, Yuta, just wants to grow old and die, and Mana comes to realize she just wants to be with Yuta (and possibly not get kidnapped so much).
As I said, sweet if you ignore the deformed monsters they encounter along the way which remind them of the atrocities committed in search of the immortality they achieved.
Cherly KaCherly - Underwater sleep while trying not to breathe
Willits + Sakamoto - Umi
My Brightest Diamond - Like A Sieve