Monday, December 20, 9:00 am
NOTE: Continued from Part 3.
Obviously, I'm finally getting around to writing this in December, but I had the idea for it back in October, maybe as early as when I was still off from work healing from my October 1st triple-hernia operation.
The initial idea of "Herniadrome" came to me the day of my operation when I thought about doing a surreal, personal but totally absurd comic story inspired by my operation, and I thought of it as a demented take or spoof of VIDEODROME and also just whatever other crap I decided to throw in. Of course, that comic story idea never came to fruition (although, I ain't dead, yet!), but at least that's how I came up with this stupid name. Well, it amuses me!
Anyway, after my operation I was off from work for two weeks and in that time I hoped to watch a bunch of movies. I did - well, for me - and then I decided to try and keep watching more movies than I usually do and see how many more I could watch before the end of the year. Hence, this supposed Herniadrome "Film Festival".
What's annoying me is that the way I usually kept track of, or at least managed, my ongoing film count through the year was via one of the marginal list gadgets on this blog, but I swear Blogger has monkeyed with how this particular list gadget works and now it's a pain trying to accomplish what I want to do. I'm pretty certain I could get away with what I wanted to do with my film list a lot more simply in previous years.
Before, I could number each film I added, and I had the latest film I watched at the top of the list. But, I also add the months as part of the list so that I can keep track of when during the year I watched the films, and that item - the month - doesn't have a number. For instance, I just add "MARCH" to the list so it sits above those films I watched in March. But then, "MARCH" seems to be alphabetized rather than being organized by number, so it gets organized at the top of the list. Ugh! I know! This is a stupid, obsessive, distracting issue!
Oh, crap. I just occurred to me as I write this all out that maybe my adding months to the list is something I only recently decided to try doing, so maybe that's why things are being complicated and un-cooperative for the first time. Heh. It's not YOU, it's ME.
Well, whatever... I'm attempting to do this movie list through a monthly-ish blog post now. Also, I guess this Herniadrome non-concept "concept" is simply taking over the remaining three months of my ongoing movie count. Does that sort of explain what I'm doing..? Maybe? No? You don't really care and have actually left the building..? DING! DING! DING!
Also, prior to October and my operation I watched 68 movies (which includes whole seasons of TV shows and assorted short films) over the course of nine months. So, roughly 7-8 films a month. But, October signals a big change in my movie-watching: I watched 26 films in that 17 day period alone, thus the additional significance of the Herniadrome Film Festival. Well... "significant" to ME. YESSSSS!!!
OCTOBER 1 - 17
94. THE NIGHT STALKER (1972, DVD)
93. IN THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984, Amazon Prime)
92. PLAYING WITH DOLLS: HAVOC (2017, Amazon Prime)
91. PLAYING WITH DOLLS: BLOODLUST (2016, Amazon Prime)
90. METALFACE (aka PLAYING WITH DOLLS)(2015, Amazon Prime)
89. TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985, TCM)
88. SHE KILLS (2016, DVD)
- GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE (second time I watched it)(2021, Netflix)
87. BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935, DVD)
86. HELLS (2008, Anime, Amazon Prime)
85. ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (1973, Amazon Prime)
84. WITCHING & BITCHING (2013, Shudder)
83. MS. 45 (1981, Shudder)
82. P.G.: PSYCHO GOREMAN (2020, Shudder)
81. HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB (1972, DVD, Uncut Version, Crash Cinema Media)
80. LA MUJER MURCIELAGO (THE BATWOMAN - Spanish language)(1968, DVD)
79. BAY OF BLOOD (aka TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE)(1971, Shudder)
78. THE UNTAMED (La region salvage)(2016, Shudder)
77. MAN ON A TIGHTROPE (1953, TCM)
76. GUN CRAZY (1950, TCM Noir Alley)
75. THE DAY OF THE BEAST (1995, Shudder)
74. SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949, TCM)
73. PERDITA DURANGO (1997, Shudder)
72. REVENGE OF THE PONTIANAK (2019, Singapore, Netflix)
71. MARS ATTACKS (1996, Netflix)
70. THE NINTH CONFIGURATION (1980, Shudder)
69. NEIL GAIMAN: DREAMING DANGEROUSLY (2016, Documentary, Shout Factory)
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