Watched an American Werewolf in London for the first time in a very long time. I honestly had a much better recollection of the Paris sequel. The first one, I really only remembered the transformation scene and the conversations with his decomposing friend a bit. Now in retrospect, it's a way different experience than I recalled. The werewolf aspect is left in doubt for almost the entire first hour. That really makes the transformation scene a nice payoff and the dream sequences a lot more open to interpretation than I'd come in expecting. The convos with his dead friend and his nurse hit heavy on the survivor's guilt tip. It's WAAAAAY more psychological than I had figured it for and just an entirely different movie from the sequel (which I have a personal bias for anyway but it's entirely different).
Also finally got my Re-Animator watch in...absolute madness...loved it! Bride of Re-animator is now on my must see list. Re-Animator is fukkery to the max, Herbert West hams it up in the best way possible and the gore is over the top fun. The plot is...ridiculous...but the entertaining kind.
Next up, I caught an interest possession film concept on HBO and hit the DVR button. It's a movie called Incarnate from 2016, starring the guy who played Harvey Dent/2 Face in the Dark Knight trilogy. The play here is that he's a wheel chair bound scientist who doesn't treat possession as a religion based problem; he uses cutting edge science and worldly connections to bring people back. The opening exorcism had an Inception vibe, where he's trying to convince the possessed person that he's in a dream to set the man free. I'll hop back in with more thoughts, but even just the opening concept seemed cool enough to warrant a shout out for me.
