12/28/2023 0 Comments Wakey wakey hands off snakey movieNow I’m struggling for something else to say and I’m just drawing a blank. The Troma flick had a much bigger WTF?!? ending, but was horribly hobbled together whereas THE PIT is a more competent film without anything as attention-grabbing happening as the ending of Beware! This one feels like a slightly better assembled BEWARE! CHILDREN AT PLAY. The Pit actually has some entertainment value to it, but it wasn’t enough to keep me interested. Could be a really fun, dark crazy early ‘80s horror movie, but for all the promise the film feels relatively toothless, playing more like an after school special that dips into weirdness. Like all kids in these kinds of movies he has to have no friends so that he’ll listen when his teddy bear starts talking to him (in a voice that sounds strangely like his own), urging him to push these bastard kids into a hole he found in the woods filled with trapped carnivorous mutants. THE PIT focuses on a bullied kid who is, I think, autistic… or maybe just a weirdo. It’s the kind of flick you see with an interesting premise and flawed execution… It’s the kind of movie they should be remaking, in other words. Hell, I kinda glossed over myself while watching it. It’s very possible I’m going to gloss over this movie. I watched this film before I boarded my plane to Ireland and now I write this up from my hotel room before venturing out into Belfast to find my adorably accented Irish wife. Hrmm… Yeah, so this one didn’t quite work out. We’ll just have to take it as AMAD: Halloween Edition! Horror Movie A Day seemed fitting, but Collins’ blog did start first, so I’m just going to revert it back to my A Movie A Day title. I initially titled this column HMAD as the horror diversion of my A Movie A Day column last year. So, I’m dropping the title “Horror Movie A Day” out of respect for Brian Collins’ blog with with same title which he has been running 365 for a few years now. Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the first 2009 Horror Movie A Day.
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