So I Watched This

After the success of both Halloween and Friday the 13th, a ton of slashers came out that were based around life events, be it an actual holiday or something personal. One of the most successful was this 1981 film. I had never ever seen this one, and after seeing how big of a hit it was in 1981 (made on a budget of $250,000 it grossed $23.9 million) I decided to see why it was a hit. The plot starts out immediately in the opening credits: a rising track star is pushed to the point of death at a track meet by her coach. Two months later, we cut to the day before what would have been her graduation day. Her older sister, now in the Navy, comes home from being stationed in Guam to accept a special award on her sister's behalf. As she arrives, the members of her sister's track team start to die. All in the course of the same day.  Is this sister home to actually get revenge on what happened to her sister? Maybe...or maybe it's the coach, who has been fired from his ...

Ah, COVID-19. This will be remembered as a time where a disease uncovered all sorts of facts about our society that future generations will probably shake their heads about in confusion and disappointment. A time where eating a mask tom protect yourself from a pandemic is seen as a form of communism, and that an animated film about trolls singing top 40 songs from the 80s could single handedly destroy the movie theater industry forever...or at least change it for good.  I was working at a job that honestly was not a good fit for me anymore. To put it bluntly, I was losing my sanity. I was put in a position here I either destroy my mental health or put my husband and I in a (hopefully) temporary economic tightening. I chose the tightening. So now, I am unemployed.  And Bored. So bored. The financial hardship put an indefinite damper on the podcasts I host because I could no longer pay for the web hosting. Kinda need that to be able to do podcasting these da...