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ARROW’S HALLOWEEN PARTY PICKS

When it comes to movies that get genre aficionado/actor/writer John Fallon in the spirit of Halloween, he’s all about the two B’s – blood and boobs.“Tits, gore, tits, gore, laugh, tits, more gore and a bit more tits,” said Fallon of what he considers a great party movie to watch in the month of October. And what perfectly fits the bill? Kevin Tenney’s 1988 film “Night of the Demons.”

“It’s a good movie to bring over a bunch of friends, crack open some beers and watch,” said Fallon, who is best known for his website ArrowInTheHead.com. “It is the perfect party movie.”

The film is about a bash being thrown on Halloween night in an abandoned mortuary. A séance is held and soon all hell breaks loose. Originally named “Halloween Party,” “Night of the Demons” is like “The Evil Dead,” meets “Night of the Living Dead” with eye gouging, tongue biting and gore galore. A bit of raunchiness is thrown in for good measure with nudity from Scream Queen Linnea Quigley, Amelia Kinkade and more.

Other must watches from Fallon include the lone feature helmed by Stephen King, a movie starring Skippy from “Family Ties,” Fred Dekker’s directorial debut and a movie based on a true story about a woman tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon.

Fallon calls King’s “Maximum Overdrive” one of his personal favorite guilty pleasures. The 1986 picture was based on the short story “Trucks” from King’s “Night Shift” and starred Emilio Estevez and Yeardley Smith (aka Lisa Simpson). In the movie, machines come to life and become homicidal. An alternate name to the film could have been “Monster Trucks Attack.” “Can you really go wrong with alien possessed trucks running over people?” Fallon asked. “In my book, no. It’s a definite recommend.”

Skippy (aka Marc Price) plays a metal maniac that resurrects his favorite deceased head banger with some satanic rock’n’roll antics in the 1986 Arrow recommended “Trick or Treat.” Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne pop up to join the party, which producer Dino DeLaurentis has admitted as an attempt at creating a franchise in the vein of Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” “The film is flawed, it’s cheesy, but it’s all part of its fun,” Fallon said.

For more humor, Fallon says you can’t go wrong with Dekker’s 1986 production “Night of the Creeps.” The film about alien slugs entering through people’s mouths and nesting in their brains is a horror fan’s paradise.

“It has a lot of references,” Fallon said. “All the characters are named after famous horror directors – Carpenter, Hooper, Romero, Cronenberg, Landis, Raimi. It’s a horror film made by a horror fan for horror fans. It’s really a fun ride.”

For his fear factor fix, Arrow goes with “The Entity.” In it Barbara Hershey is sexual assaulted by a ghost. “Not many films have scared me and that one really gives me the fucking creeps,” Fallon said. “I recommend it to get the shit scared out of you. I don’t know why, but it gets to me. Maybe it’s the way it was shot or the subject matter. The score is also really efficient. With this one, shut off the lights, slap it in and have a blast.” On his site, Fallon reviewed the 1981 film a few years back and said, “Hershey shows it all but trust me it’s not ‘fun’ nudity… she’s getting raped for god’s sakes.”

FRANCHISE FRENZY

In the land of the classic franchise films, Fallon’s picks are as follows:

“A Nightmare on Elm Street”

“I pretty much love all of them, even the shitty ones,” Fallon said. “The first ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ is definitely a good one if you are going for scares. Part two and three are good if you are going for scares and laughs. ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2’ gets a lot of flack, but I think it is a very enjoyable film. Sometimes for the wrong reasons, but at the end of the day does it really matter as long as it’s enjoyable. Freddy is pretty creepy and the film serves as a metaphor for a kid coming out of the closet.”

“Friday the 13th”

“Part III I really like,” Fallon said. “It’s so seventies and kitschy. The fashions, the hairdos, the dialogue, the score with that little disco thing; it all reeks of seventies. It’s a lot of fun. Part 5 I would recommend just for this chick in the film that gets butt naked. This girl has like the most beautiful pair of breasts I have ever seen. I saw that at a fairly young age and those breasts stayed with me to this day. Watch it for those tits and thank me later. That’s a pair of tits. When people ask me, ‘So John, what kind of woman do you like physically?’ I just go freeze frame the DVD and say, ‘You see those tits? There you go. Find that for me.’ Part 6 is also one of my favorites. It’s not as gory as the other ones, but it’s actually a good film. It’s well written, has good dialogue, good acting and a good story. That’s when Jason became a zombie, so he’s unstoppable and that always equals good times for me.”

“Halloween”

“‘Psycho’ was the real first slasher,” Fallon said. “‘Black Christmas’ did what ‘Halloween’ did before it, but it didn’t pick up. It went under the radar. So ‘Halloween’ in my opinion is what really started the slasher subgenre. It was shot on no budget and made a lot of money, but personally what I like about it is there is an artistry there. That was Carpenter at his prime. The whole less is more rule is applied throughout and I love that about the film. There isn’t that much gore and it is more suspense oriented, but it still carries quite a punch. The original is easily my favorite and Part 4 would be my second favorite. The second half of Part 2 is good and I also like the producers cut of Part 6. In a nutshell, I would say 1, 2 and 4 are my favorites. I hated H20 and I definitely didn’t care for Resurrection. I also hated Part 3. I tried not to. I gave it a couple of chances. I know there are people out that who really love it, so I have tried to understand. But I think it was that song (“Silver Shamrock”). Whatever good there was in that film was neutralized out of my head by that fucking song. That song drove me insane. I think I ended up killing my pets and didn’t even know it while I was watching that movie.”

- - CCF, October 2007

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