Is this late? Listen, bud: he’s got radioactive bl — wait, what I mean it, “Yes, it is; basically, the combination of being in Seattle for PAX West 2024 and then having a down day after returning yesterday kicked my scheduling ass and I only got to this four hours or so after posts normally go live.” What can I say, besides sorry?
Anyway; I watched a lot of movies in August, and that includes some genuinely bad ones — I’m looking at you, Slumber Party Massacre and Hospital Massacre (which, notably, I watched under its alternate title, X-Ray) — however, there were also some new favorite mixed into things, too: Wicked Little Letters, The Apple, and Omen are all destined to be rewatched multiple times, I suspect, for entirely different reasons. Notably, perhaps, only one of the movies on this list was seen in the theater, and maybe that’s something I’d like to change for September… but we’ll see how that works out with everything else that’s coming up over the next few weeks. Intention doesn’t always equal planning, after all…
Anyway, here’s what I watched in August 2024:
