October 23rd, 2009
4:30 PM [Independent Film Channel]
Pumpkinhead
Keep away from Pumpkinhead,
Unless you're tired of living,
His enemies are mostly dead,
He's mean and unforgiving,
Laugh at him and you're undone,
But in some dreadful fashion,
Vengeance, he considers fun,
And plans it with a passion,
Time will not erase or blot,
A plot that he has brewing,
It's when you think that he's forgot,
He'll conjure your undoing,
Bolted doors and windows barred,
Guard dogs prowling in the yard,
Won't protect you in your bed,
Nothing will, from Pumpkinhead.
5:00 PM [Turner Classic Movies]
Night of the Hunter
Rev. Harry Powell: I can hear you whisperin' children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience children. I'm coming to find you now.
8:00 PM [American Movie Classics]
Alien
Ash: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.
Lambert: You admire it.
Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.
Parker: Look, I am - I've heard enough of this, and I'm asking you to pull the plug.
Ash: [Ripley goes to disconnect Ash, who interrupts] Last word.
Ripley: What?
Ash: I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies.
10:30 PM [American Movie Classics]
Aliens
Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.
Ripley: Yes, there are, aren't there?
Newt: Why do they tell little kids that?
Ripley: Most of the time it's true.
11:15 PM [Turner Classic Movies]
Pretty Poison
Dennis: Boy. What a week. I met you on Monday, fell in love with you on Tuesday, Wednesday I was unfaithful, Thursday we killed a guy together. How about that for a crazy week, Sue Ann?
Another fine entry in the grand tradition of supernaturally plagued alternate history Japan. This time, it's an odd one set in 1912, where the government is modernizing Tokyo to make it competitive with the rest of the world. Oh, yeah, and there's a sorcered named Kato who wants to destroy it all, using first the powers of a girl named Yukari, and when that doesn't work, her (and his) daughter Yukiko. Meanwhile, some onmyoji named Hisai is fairly ineffective at stopping it all, so it's up to a shrine maiden named Keiko to save the day.
This is another one of those films where there's a bit of squickiness to it - let's just say there's a brother that loves his sister a bit too much and leave it at that. But hey, you also get an underground dragon, the Great Kanto Earthquake, the spirit of a samurai named Taira no Masakado who'd actually rather not destroy the world if it's all the same, and a final plan to destroy Tokyo by using the moon's gravity in true supervillain style. It certainly makes more sense than the live-action version, and if you like alternate histories, it's a well-plotted one.
Garmarna - Klevabergselden (Kleveberg's Fire)
Inkubus Sukkubus - Paint It Black