David Peach

  • Watched The Fog

    Watched The Fog

    I do love a John Carpenter film.

    Last night (and today, as I was too tired to watch the whole thing late last night) I watch The Fog for the first time.

    At least I don’t remember watching it in my youth.

    I enjoyed it thoroughly.

    It actually made me jump in two separate parts, which was nice.

    And it was more violent than I was expecting. It’s not actually that graphically violent, but there were a couple of moments I did wince.

    And that’s a good thing in horror.

    I loved how quick and to the point it was too. As with many of Carpenter’s films I’ve seen, it gets straight into the meat of the film and then as soon as it’s resolved it gets out quickly.

    I do enjoy a slow-burn character story from time to time. But when it comes to most horror, I do enjoy it when it stays concise and gets to the point fast.

    There’s still a couple of Carpenter’s films I’m yet to watch, and “The Thing” that I desperately want to re-watch.

    It’s been a while since I was fourteen.

    Till then, Tata.

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  • Watched Alien Romulus

    Watched Alien Romulus

    I’ll just start by saying that I really enjoyed Alien Romulus.

    After the atrocity that was Disney’s How to train your alien (Alien Earth) I have been in need of a good Alien fix.

    This started with me finally playing through Alien Isolation and absolutely loving it.

    I then thought I’d give Romulus a chance, on the advice of a friend. And I’m so glad I did.

    What I thought worked really well

    The general vibes of the film. It felt somewhere between the first and second Alien films. And that sat great with me.

    The storyline is nice and simple.

    The Alien itself was actually scary again. None of that running around in bright daylight rubbish.

    Some nods to previous films were okay (more on this shortly).

    The face-hugger scenes were incredible. Instead of being a means to get the Alien born, they actually featured in two of my favourite scenes in the film. Creepy AF.

    And the ending, although I was warned that it was a bit iffy, I actually didn’t mind. Gory as hell and went to a place I didn’t think it would.

    What made me cringe

    The CGI Ian Holm. This was not needed in the slightest. Pure uncanny valley that just didn’t need to be.

    All the bloody fan service. Whilst a couple of scenes that seemed to nod back to previous films were ok, most were just pure cheese.

    The re-saying of certain iconic lines were just out of place. They sounded like a film student had won a competition to write some lines of dialogue for the film.

    We don’t need fan service dialogue.

    The film would have been a strong 8 out of 10, if it weren’t for those bits. I think it sits at about 6.5 for me after all is said and done.

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  • Watched The Innocents (1961)

    Watched The Innocents (1961)

    We decided to watch The Innocents (1961) for halloween evening film watch last night.

    A bit of a left field one, but is considered one of the top horror films.

    I thought it was okay. Good creepy vibes throughout and lots of abiguity.

    I was surprised when the ending kicked in.

    I guess I was expecting more of a gut punch ending or something.

    All in all glad I watched it. Its another classic to tick off the list.

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  • Watched The Wicker Man

    Watched The Wicker Man

    Last night I finally got round to watching one of the classic horror films that has somehow been evading me for all this time — The Wicker Man (1973)

    Not the apparently-dreadful remake. Oh not the bees.

    I loved it.

    Despite knowing the ending already, probably through some kind of film osmosis over the years, I still enjoyed it all the way through.

    It was wonderfully creepy, occasionally inappropriate and all with a glorious feeling of a creeping dread.

    Now thinking back to the film Midsommar, that now feels like The Wicker Man on acid in retrospect.

    I should probably rewatch that soon.

    Im not going to attempt any kind of analysis, only to log for myself that i saw it.

    How that copper got any sleep in that pub bed and breakfast I dont know.

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  • The Space Jockey

    Never thought I’d get to visit this location from the original Alien Film.

    Incredible vibes and a scene almost identical to that of said film.

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    Started playing Alien: Isolation in the spirit of Halloween.

    Already scared the crap out of me with Alien’s first appearance -skewered me, it did.

    Something tells me I’ll be back to this airlock at some point.

  • Hellraiser: revival announcement trailer

    Hellraiser: revival announcement trailer

    Completely did not expect to see anything like this. But this is a happy and welcome surprise.

    This is gonna have me screaming for sure.

  • Starting on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon series 2. Would have loved more episodes per series, but the first one was nice and focused. 🗼🧟🧟‍♀️🧟🏹

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    Finally got round to starting on watching The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Loving it so far.

    Anything that delves into this world further is a win for me.

    That added new location of France gives it a new interesting twist too.

  • Lockers in Midwich

    Lockers in Midwich

  • Halloween Kills poster

  • AHS : Double Feature poster