Maggie Never Sleeps

Best Overall Movie of the Day:
Return of the Living Dead: funny, meta, with smart, fast zombies that cannot be stopped

Worst/Most Boring:
The Quick and the Undead: Everyone in the room fell asleep during it

Movie That Really Wasn't What We Expected:
Zombies Anonymous: NOT A COMEDY, more of a heavy-handed parable about racism and drug abuse (although there were one or two funny parts, and out of all the low-budget ones, this was the best)

Weirdest:
Cemetary Man: you'll have to see it to get how weird this was

Honorable Mention:
Boy Eats Girl: Cute little Irish Zombie movie.

Side Note:
Zombie movies seem to be only 30%ish percent about zombies. Mostly they're about people interacting with other people, often violently.

Halloween in July - July 4th - Be There

Where: My House, Highland Park
What: Zombies Zombies Zombies
When: From about 10am to 1am

Mark your calendars.

We'll be watching a days worth of Zombie movies to honor the Halloween spirit in the middle of the summer. The exact list of movies (painstakingly picked by myself and ktkid) will be posted this week, along with approximate times.

(If you need directions to my house or any other info: applesticker at gmail dot com)

I was going to post a poll about this, but since I don't have a paid account anymore, you'll all just have to leave comments.

I have a number of ideas for Halloween in July this year. For the past several years I've been trying to do themes rather than just renting whatever I wanted. Last year was Holiday Horror, two years ago was International HiJ, three years ago was Haunted Houses.

So I want to present to you all some ideas and see what you think. You can vote even if you don't plan on coming.

* Classic Movie Monsters - This would mean possibly showing original black and whites mixed with modern versions. By the classics I mean, Dracula, Werewolf, Frankenstein, etc.

* Remakes - I'd show remakes of modern horror movies, like the new Amittyville Horror, the new Dawn of the Dead, the new Halloween. This option was inspired by my recent viewing of original Psycho and new Psycho.

* Zombies! - Completely different than the others. I'd get together a collection of some of the best zombie movies. Something about zombies fascinates me.

* Other - Suggest your own theme.

So please comment with your opinion. Let me know what you think even if you won't be coming to the party.

(Quick Recap for those who don't know: Every year on the fourth of july I have a Halloween in July party. We eat junk food and watch horror movies all day long.)

The Films
We'll be watching the following great cinema:

Memorial Day
All Soul's Day
April Fool's Day
Santa's Slay
Jack Frost
Uncle Sam
Nightmare Before Christmas *

[*I'm being blackmailed into showing this one.]

The Spread
We'll be eating the following great food:

Thanksgiving pie (well, ok, I'm making a berry pie from scratch, but its sorta like Thanksgiving)
Christmas cookies (but in halloween shapes)
Fourth of July Brownies (made from scratch, people, SCRATCH)
Jelly Beans
Candy Corn
Popcorn with a variety of popcorn salt
chips
soda
candy
Fresh Lemonade with frozen blueberries

(If you were not officially invited and you'd like to come, drop me a line and we'll work something out.)

This year's Hallowen in July theme was thought up by the lovely ktkid: International Halloween-In-July. For the kick-off party we'll be watching horror (and horror-related) movies from around the world. Any suggestions?

(I'm trying to think about it early this year -- even though I am constantly reminded that there are many other things I should be doing. *cough*Like the wedding*cough*