Movie Night! 'New Zealand Dead & Zombie Scouting' Edition

I did it, I finally did it... I made it through a hellish 'one more day of work' and now I've got four days of leave to do pretty much whatever I want with. Which will be mostly reading but also a little 'making sure the cat doesn't loose it and kill the rabbit'. Yep, I'm pet sitting and I'll be counting it as a win if I can get through the week without calling out the emergency vet again.

I'm really looking forward to just lying on the sofa and reading though; the plan is to finish off a couple of books (that I really should have finished off by now...) and fill in the gaps with some short stories and comic books. In the meantime, work had a couple of surprises for me yesterday so all I was good for last night was re-watching a couple of movies. One that's still worth a watch, the other... Maybe not as much.

'Deathgasm' (2015)

Two teenage heavy metal fans seek to escape mundanity through music but get a lot more than they bargained for when the music they steal turns out to be the much sought after Black Hymn and playing it summons the demonic 'Blind One'. Can they stop him...?

Well, you probably know the answer (even if you haven't seen the film) but the fun is in watching a small New Zealand town be possessed and our heroes have to fight their way through it. I'd forgotten just how much fun 'Deathgasm' was (it's been years since I watched it last). It's literally like 'Evil Dead' went on a world tour and this is what all the Deadites got up to in New Zealand. I mean yeah, there is a sweet 'rites of passage' sub-plot but I'm just here for the carnage and the killer soundtrack. I am never going to leave 'Deathgasm' unwatched for so long again. It was just what I needed.

'Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse' (2015)

Three scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak.

I was in the mood for something daft last night (well, if you'd had the day that I had...) so 'Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse' it was and... It's not bad but some of the jokes are starting to wear a little thin now. To be blunt, there's only so many times that I can watch 'zombie penis stretch' before it loses it's ability to shock, let alone make me laugh. And there are a few other moments that I watch and think 'I'd have loved that when I was a teenager, damn I'm old now...' 

Having said that though, I will never not laugh at 'zombie on a trampoline' and Augie singing 'Hit Me Baby' to a zombie Britney Spears fan is just a classic moment (RIP Joey Morgan). So not all bad then but I'll be re-watching 'Deathgasm' a lot sooner than I re-watch 'Scouts Guide'. Not a bad way to kill an hour and a half though, just the right movie for my poor tired brain last night (even if the humour is starting to fade).

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