October Horror Movie a Day 2013

[SJP]

Day 7: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Good grief, this movie's 25 years old now?  Cripes.  I can still remember when my brother and I went on a Friday the 13th binge when we were kids and picked this one up at the store, having finally seen the R-rated Part 6 (we first saw it on USA) and loved that one to death.  Then we saw this.

Our combined opinion was, "Well, the Jason makeup looks cool.  Too bad the rest sucked."

Watching it now?  Well...some opinions don't change.

In short...telekinetic girl kills Dad by accident.  Back at Crystal Lake in therapy with her doctor, she causes a second accident by yanking a sleeping Jason out of the lake.  Hijinks ensue.

As much as I know the story of this being cut down by the MPAA, and while the gore content would have made this one of the nastiest entries by far (although I suspect Part V was cut down immensely), it doesn't change the fact that except for Terry Kiser (which, with Weekend at Bernie's 2, makes him the only person in a Friday the 13th other than Jason to spend an entire film running around as an undead monster) and Susan Blu as Tina's Mom nobody can act in this...or are intentionally acting really badly (can anyone say "Star Mummy?")  Watching Jason squash a guy's head like a beer can doesn't quite make up for watching Lar Park-Lincoln sleepwalk through the movie.  And the telekinetic powers are ok most of the time...except when she throws that potted plant with the head still stuffed in it at Jason.  Everybody on set HAD to know how stupid that looked.

So, while Part Six took a silly premise and ran with it, Part Seven took a silly premise and expected us to take it seriously (most of the time).  It doesn't quite work.

A note about my movie watching experience, though: I saw this on the Blu-ray, and the picture quality was actually stunning.  However, it was also weird...at times, the picture moved more fluidly than it should have for a 24 fps film.  Some spots looked like they had been videotaped, and then converted to film, or something...almost like what a late 80s/early 90s TV show would've looked like, if it was really cleaned up and converted to HD.  I can't explain it, but it made the movie feel a lot faker than it should have...like how I assume The Hobbit looked in 48 fps.

RIFFABILITY: Give Hor-Riff-ic Productions two more movies in the way, and they'll give the world.  Need I say more?

[Compound]

...

Okay, what the hell? I watched another movie, completely at random. Once again, a psychotic Punch doll. There might be 2 or 3 movies in the entire world that have that plot element and somehow I've watched them back to back.

I'm going to go buy a lottery ticket. I seem to have that kinda luck today.

[Darth Geek]

Which movies are those? Frankly I'm surprised whenever ANY Punch and Judy show doesn't result in audience bloodshed.

[Johnny Unusual]

It's my favourite domestic abuse based puppet show.  I'm disappointed when there isn't bloodshed.

But that does sound like a bit much compound.  Why don't you take a break from movies and read a comic.



GODAMMIT!
Slumber Party Massacre

This is an interesting one.  Actually it's largely a boring one with scant few good moments (but they are there) but it has an interesting back story: the screenplay was written by feminist and gay rights activist Rita Mae Brown and was intended to be a satire of the then-trendy slasher genre (this was just about 4 or so years after Halloween and in the middle of the slasher boom), but the film makers decided to turn it into a series movie.  I really want to see the movie that she had envisioned.  I don't know if it would have been good, but it would have been more ambitious than this film.  There are a few good moments in this one, but it really can't be recommended as anything more than an also-ran slasher, only in this one the weapon is a big drill.  At least the awful sequel had the sense to use a drill-guitar.  Terrible movie, awesome weapon.  But back to this one.

The killer is also dull and generic.  He equates drilling people to love-making, which would be interesting from Rita Mae Brown's point of view, but here it seems like an afterthought.

MST3k - The Screaming Skull

One of the MST3k movies that is actually a bit fun on it's own, but a great episode!  Also, I always love William Castle-esque gimmicks!

Bug

Didn't see it, but someone brought it up.  Cool, unsettling movie, in my opinion.  It's a different kind of horror movie.

BTW, I'm hosting the current list of crap for Halloween, where the theme is top 50 ghosts and hauntings.  It's been a few days, but I haven't gotten any submissions yet.  Any participation would be greatly appreciated.

[ScottotD]

1. The Hills Have Eyes (remake)
2. VHS
3. The Descent
4. John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
5. Quarantine
6. Planet Terror
7. Lords of Salem

[Compound]

Horror Anthology Roundup!

Escapes (with Vincent Price)
A young man receives a video tape in the mail and watches it. On it are a number of horror stories. Most of which are rather "blah."

*A fisherman is out fishing and bites into an apple. Surprise! It's got a hook in it and something in the lake reels him in.
*Ever see Rat Race?  Remember Kathy Bates' character who if you bought a squirrel directed you back to the highway and if you didn't, you were given directions that lead to a cliff? Pretty much the same deal here, minus the squirrels.
*Some monsters escape from the lab and stalk a jogger. But they only want to play tag. 
*A reclusive old gold miner is visited by aliens who accidentally reveal a huge gold vein.
*And something about a homeless guy and a magic crystal.

And at the end, we get all the characters from the various stories show up when the youth tries to shut off the tape. And Mr. Price (the best part of the film) shows up.

Eh, the stories in this basically are bland and unappealing. Skip it.

The Willies
Three youths in a tent are telling each other campfire stories to scare each other. There's Sean "Rudy" Astin and his two cousins. It starts off very badly with a number of urban legends. Kentucky Fried Rat. Microwave Poodle. Etc. But thankfully, after a few minutes they move on to stories that I hadn't heard 100 times before.

*First one, told by Rudy, is about a school his Dad used to work at. A young bullied kid befriends the janitor and then later that day enters the bathroom to discover that the janitor is actually a monster, who proceeds to eat a teacher and the 3 bullies. (Hey! Kid deaths! Not a modern era film!) The janitor then wanders off to another town...

*The second story is about their classmate Gunther. Gunther is rather obsessed with flies. He collects them, raises them and then tears off their wings and legs and places him in dioramas. Joy. I saw this part while I was eating lunch. Anyway, his folks are concerned but Gunther doesn't care. He breaks into a local manure farm to steal some manure for his pets. After 20 more minutes of following Gunther around, and it feels longer, the manure farmer, who has been making special extra grow manure, gives some to Gunther. Around this time, Gunther manages to feed a girl in his class a cookie with dead flies in it and is sent home. His mom has destroyed the dioramas and his fly collection, but he finds a few more on his windowsill and feeds them some manure. That night, he has a nightmare where his bed is full of maggots followed by another nightmare where his inhaler is full of dead flies. Oh, and at some point in the earlier dream Mike and Carol Seaver show up. Yes, from Growing Pains. No, I have no idea why. And then the flies who were fed manure show up, humansized, and tear off his limbs.

The Gunther bit is probably about two thirds of the runtime. Back at the tent, Rudy's dad appears and hey, it's the janitor. He promptly eats the cousins.
Yeah, this is okay at best. The Gunther bit does have some very creepy shots, but it goes on waaay too long and Gunther is completely lacking in any sympathy. (Fun fact. The actor later also appeared in Dude, Where's My Car?) The janitor story is "meh." I will give props to one bit though. Rudy is about to tell his story and his older cousin asks, "This isn't that stupid story about the pirate ship you and your friends found in a cave is it?" Heh.

Screamtime
Okay, Screamtime is a bunch of New Yorkers watching videotapes about English horror stories. Got that?

A pair of guys go into a video store and then grab a few VHS tapes and then dash out the door. They then head over to a girl's house to watch them. We have 3 stories:
*A children's entertainer who runs a Punch and Judy show is disrespected by his wife and step son, who is a 80s British hooligan. One day, the step son gets fed up with Dad and sets fire to the puppet booth. He is then killed walking along the beach. The wife and doctor are then seemingly killed by Punch who nearly kills the son's girlfriend but she dispatches Punch in a manner like the dragon thing in the shows. (I'm skipping a plot point here, BTW.)
*A woman moves into a new home with her husband, but she keeps seeing figures who aren't there. As the time progresses, the images become more and more common and the people keep getting slain quite violently. Eventually, she snaps and is committed. Her
husband then sells the house to a new family and the viewer realizes that the wife wasn't seeing the past, but instead the future as the new family are the ones who are about to be slain.
*A motocross racer needs some extra cash, so he gets hired by an eccentric pair of ladies to maintain their estate, which is protected by faeries. The Noble Folk, not Oscar Wilde. Later that night, he returns to rob them but discovers that the legends were true and the Fair Folk take their revenge.

And then, back in New Jersey, Punch, the killer and the faeries appear and kill the viewer and his friend.

These stories aren't badly done, but they are very, very British. It's okay, but not great.


Hood of Horror
Snoop Lion (back in his Dogg days) strikes a deal with the devil to collect souls in exchange for returning his sister back to life after he slayed her in a drive by.

*A graffiti artist is given a magic tattoo by Danny Trejo to help clean up the streets. She instead uses it to eliminate other graffiti artists, prompted Trejo to take the tattoo back. She's then promptly slain by her grim victims. Billie Dee Williams appears as a preacher in this one.
*After the not very accidental death of his father, a stereotypical redneck Texan and his fiance are required to stay with the members of Dad's former unit for a year if sonny wants to see any of Dad's fortune. Kid and sweety then make the vets' lives horrible until, after two people are killed, they strike back and deal with the pair.

I'll note that a) after they found the first corpse, call the frigging cops. Your landlord has a corpse in a freezer. That pretty much gets him and his fiance out of the damn picture. And I'm fairly certain that prison is not going to be fun for him. And b) every damn stereotype of redneck Texans is used in this. Enough so that I suspect that the writers have never been in the same time zone as Texas.

*And finally, a rapper is called in to account after his rise to fame and the death of his former partner.

Eh. These aren't bad, but they're not good either. And in two of the three stories there aren't any sympathetic characters. (The middle segment does in the form of the vets and their caretaker, but the villain in that one is so overblown he might as well be tying damsels to railroad tracks. ) If you want a better "urban" horror experience, I'd go with Tales from the Hood instead. It's not great, but it was more watchable than this.

[SJP]

For the record, The Willies is the ONLY movie I have ever seen that made me throw up.  It was after the dog in the microwave scene.  For the record, I was also 10 when that came out.  I have since watched stuff that makes OTHER people sick while I'm just fine.  The Cinema Snob's review of Gross Out barely made me bat an eye, to the point where I had to stop myself showing it to other people because I remembered they might not care for it.

Day 8: I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Ever since I found out about him, I try to sneak in a Val Lewton film every October.  I mentioned this last year when I watched another of his movies, but for those who don't know, Lewton was a producer/screenwriter who made a number of films in the 1940s and who died far too young of complications following a heart attack.  His business model?  Take a crappy, exploitative drive-in name for a movie and turn it into a gripping, psychological thriller with heart, soul, and mind.  I took a chance when we got in a box set of all of his films, including the original Cat People, and fell in love with them.  They are all black & white, but all a joy to watch.

This one was supposed to be based on a newspaper article, but it is instead more based off of the story of Jane Eyre, when a nurse comes to a Caribbean island to take care of the catatonic wife of an upper crust landowner.  Of course, not is all as it seems, and things take a turn for the weird when the nurse begins to seek help from the local Voudoun worshippers.

While it sounds massively exploitative, this is a great little film that leaves whether things are supernatural or not ambiguous, and oddly enough there is no real 'villain' in the movie.  Antagonist yes, villain no.  If you haven't seen one yet, do yourself a favor and check one out.  But not "Curse of the Cat People" for October.  That one's not a horror film.

[Compound]

Curse of Chucky

Good grief. Does Brad Dourif not age? He's got a 30 year old daughter, but he doesn't look any different than he did in the 1994 film I watched a week ago.

Anyway, it's recent so I'll skip the plot. I'll just note that it was nice to see that film played seriously with the concept rather than the slightly tongue in cheek nature of some of the other Chucky films.  It wasn't bad.

Superstition
A family moves into a haunted house, which then kills a small town's worth of people.

Wow. Seriously high body count in this. Otherwise, fairly effective even if the main plot is "A bunch of people get killed for reasons that aren't explained until late in the movie." But a fairly effective film otherwise. One issue though- late in the movie during a suspenseful scene, suddenly banjo music begins playing. That kinda kills the scene a bit.

[Johnny Unusual]

Curse of Chucky

Good grief. Does Brad Dourif not age?

He still looks three years old in this movie.

Tales from the Crypt

I've seen this in snippets, but I never sat down and watched the whole thing.  As a big fan of the EC comics, I must say that this largely doesn't work.  Part of the problem is that EC comics are VERY, VERY American and it loses something in becoming British.  This version of the cryptkeeper is boring and humourless (say what you will about the puns, at least the TV Cryptkeeper is in the spirit of the thing).

So the story.  A bunch of folks take a tour of a crypt and meet a strange monk looking dude who tells them what "they are planning", all of which are adaptations of EC stories.

* "And All Through the House" Joan Collins kills her husband for insurance, but finds that there's a homicidal Santa trying to get into her house.  I loved the TV version (though that version has a couple problems) which had a sense of humour and juxtaposes the murder and a warm home and hearth on Christmas really well, while this feels cold and not to rushed.  There's a murderer outside your house, lady, act with some urgency!  The Santa is also disappointing too.  In the TV version, he's a cartoonish monster (one problem I had was that he was a little TOO cartoonish at some points.  I swear I heard a Hannah Barbera bonk when he's knocked unconscious and he mugs a big when hurt) but in the film, he's just some generic Santa.  At first, I thought they were going to play him up as a murderer with a gentle, santa-ly way, which would have been cool, but largely, it doesn' t work.  Clever use of a bell, though.

* Reflection of Death - A man plans on leaving his wife and kids for his mistress.  He gets in a car accident, and from then on the story is his POV.  Not TOO bad, but a fairly predictable.

* Poetic Justice - The second worst story, but one with the best performance.  Peter Cushing is VERY vulnerable as Grimsdyke (or as much as you can be in such a paper thing story), a sweet old man who is the victim of a smear campaign by a spiteful neighbor, who ends up sending him cruel valentine's day cards that Grimsdyke believes are from other people in the community.  I think I would love this one a lot more if the villain of the story has his punishment drawn out more, rather than a brief super-natural comeuppance in the last two minutes.  You know, really give him time to regret his decisions, especially after seeing how much pain Cushing was caused (apparently Cushing's actual wife had died some time before the filming started and he used that in his performance.

* Wish You Were Here - The worst one.  Actually a clever story that is undone by it's stupidity.  Basically a war profiteer is having financial trouble finds an old artifact that supposedly grants wishes.  She wishes to be rich and her husband dies in a car accident, leaving her lots of money due to his double indemnity for accidents.  So she plans on wishing him back, but a friend warns her of the story of the monkey's paw and how that ends with someone wishing a loved one back, but they screwed up the wish so that they are still mangled.  So, smartly, she wishes for him to be brought back just as he was before the accident.  Apparently, however, he died from a heart attack before the accident (by being scared of a motorcycle skeleton.  No, really).  So he's back in the room, but still dead.  So she wishes for him to be alive and never die.  OK, but now he is suffering because he was embalmed!  Oh, no!  And she tries to chop him up to spare him the pain, but now he can't die.  Nooooo!  Oh, wait a fucking second.  They wished him back to how he was before the accident!  Was he embalmed BEFORE he got in a car accident?  Did the skeleton guy do that BEFORE the guy had a heart attack!  You took what could have been a clever premise and messed it up, stupids.  Also, unlike the other characters, he isn't reprehensible enough to care to see him get a comeuppance.  Yes, he's a war profiteer, but we are basically told that, otherwise he's barely a character at all.

* Blind Alleys - Easily the best story and the most appropriate for the British film style.  The story is positively Dickensian until the final part.  The new manager of a home for the blind is a hard-nosed military man who lets the blind suffer to save some money.  After his callous ways allow one of their friends to die, the blind people trap him and his dog in closets in the basement and set up a nasty little plot for the two of them.  This is very well done and it works well with the source material.  What's more, of all the characters, this one is by far the most satisfying to see him receive his comeuppance.

Anyway, it turns out that all of the people who are told stories are in Hell and... WAIT!  EVEN THE IMMORTAL GUY!?  HOW DOES THAT WORK!?!

Anyway, it doesn't quite work mixing the Hammer Horror style with the EC style (which I always feel is positively drenched in Americana) except for the last story.  If they were all closer to being like those, I think I would have enjoyed them more.

[ScottotD]

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[RoninFox]

Curse of Chucky

Good grief. Does Brad Dourif not age?

He still looks three years old in this movie.

Tales from the Crypt

I've seen this in snippets, but I never sat down and watched the whole thing.  As a big fan of the EC comics, I must say that this largely doesn't work.  Part of the problem is that EC comics are VERY, VERY American and it loses something in becoming British.  This version of the cryptkeeper is boring and humourless (say what you will about the puns, at least the TV Cryptkeeper is in the spirit of the thing).

So the story.  A bunch of folks take a tour of a crypt and meet a strange monk looking dude who tells them what "they are planning", all of which are adaptations of EC stories.

* "And All Through the House" Joan Collins kills her husband for insurance, but finds that there's a homicidal Santa trying to get into her house.  I loved the TV version (though that version has a couple problems) which had a sense of humour and juxtaposes the murder and a warm home and hearth on Christmas really well, while this feels cold and not to rushed.  There's a murderer outside your house, lady, act with some urgency!  The Santa is also disappointing too.  In the TV version, he's a cartoonish monster (one problem I had was that he was a little TOO cartoonish at some points.  I swear I heard a Hannah Barbera bonk when he's knocked unconscious and he mugs a big when hurt) but in the film, he's just some generic Santa.  At first, I thought they were going to play him up as a murderer with a gentle, santa-ly way, which would have been cool, but largely, it doesn' t work.  Clever use of a bell, though.

* Reflection of Death - A man plans on leaving his wife and kids for his mistress.  He gets in a car accident, and from then on the story is his POV.  Not TOO bad, but a fairly predictable.

* Poetic Justice - The second worst story, but one with the best performance.  Peter Cushing is VERY vulnerable as Grimsdyke (or as much as you can be in such a paper thing story), a sweet old man who is the victim of a smear campaign by a spiteful neighbor, who ends up sending him cruel valentine's day cards that Grimsdyke believes are from other people in the community.  I think I would love this one a lot more if the villain of the story has his punishment drawn out more, rather than a brief super-natural comeuppance in the last two minutes.  You know, really give him time to regret his decisions, especially after seeing how much pain Cushing was caused (apparently Cushing's actual wife had died some time before the filming started and he used that in his performance.

* Wish You Were Here - The worst one.  Actually a clever story that is undone by it's stupidity.  Basically a war profiteer is having financial trouble finds an old artifact that supposedly grants wishes.  She wishes to be rich and her husband dies in a car accident, leaving her lots of money due to his double indemnity for accidents.  So she plans on wishing him back, but a friend warns her of the story of the monkey's paw and how that ends with someone wishing a loved one back, but they screwed up the wish so that they are still mangled.  So, smartly, she wishes for him to be brought back just as he was before the accident.  Apparently, however, he died from a heart attack before the accident (by being scared of a motorcycle skeleton.  No, really).  So he's back in the room, but still dead.  So she wishes for him to be alive and never die.  OK, but now he is suffering because he was embalmed!  Oh, no!  And she tries to chop him up to spare him the pain, but now he can't die.  Nooooo!  Oh, wait a fucking second.  They wished him back to how he was before the accident!  Was he embalmed BEFORE he got in a car accident?  Did the skeleton guy do that BEFORE the guy had a heart attack!  You took what could have been a clever premise and messed it up, stupids.  Also, unlike the other characters, he isn't reprehensible enough to care to see him get a comeuppance.  Yes, he's a war profiteer, but we are basically told that, otherwise he's barely a character at all.

* Blind Alleys - Easily the best story and the most appropriate for the British film style.  The story is positively Dickensian until the final part.  The new manager of a home for the blind is a hard-nosed military man who lets the blind suffer to save some money.  After his callous ways allow one of their friends to die, the blind people trap him and his dog in closets in the basement and set up a nasty little plot for the two of them.  This is very well done and it works well with the source material.  What's more, of all the characters, this one is by far the most satisfying to see him receive his comeuppance.

Anyway, it turns out that all of the people who are told stories are in Hell and... WAIT!  EVEN THE IMMORTAL GUY!?  HOW DOES THAT WORK!?!

Anyway, it doesn't quite work mixing the Hammer Horror style with the EC style (which I always feel is positively drenched in Americana) except for the last story.  If they were all closer to being like those, I think I would have enjoyed them more.

This is a blast from the past.  I saw that movie once when I was a kid, and forgot entirely that the Wish You Were Here story was part of it.  I remember being dispointed in the movie in general, and I remember that segment, I just forgot that they were the same thing.  That really doesn't make any sense that immortal guy is there at the end.  I wonder if that bothered me at the time.

[SJP]

Day 9: The House of the Devil (2009)

Last year, I watched The Innkeepers.  I wasn't expecting much from it, and was pleasantly surprised.  I wasn't familiar with Ti West as a director, and thought it was a fun, eerie, low budget creeper.  Having since heard Ti West hasn't done anything better, I took a chance to see if his older stuff was good.

Samantha has just bought a new apartment to get away from her slob of a roommate (she can't stand mess), but realizes she can't afford the place she's just bought.  Looking around campus, she finds an ad for a babysitter, and receives a call from a strange man (Tom Noonan, aka President of Strange Man Industries (TM)), who informs her he needs a babysitter urgently.  Getting a lift to the guy's house from her friend, the guy tells her she won't be keeping an eye on a child, but his mother.  The rest of the movie is Sam housekeeping and slowly realizing things aren't as they seem.

I will admit...much of this movie is things not happening.  But in the way I don't like Paranormal Activity's nothing happening, all the nothing happening builds sequentially as Sam pieces things together.  This isn't random crap happening in the background when no one's looking...she's digging around where she isn't supposed to and finding things are getting weirder and weirder.  In other words, I enjoyed it.  Also, despite that fact that I knew what was going to happen from spoilers...
Her friend's death STILL got me.  That was very well done.

Not sure if Ti West has a good career ahead of him or he's taking an M. Night nose dive, but there's at least four good films between the two of them.  I recommend this one to anyone who likes a good slow burn, like the original Fright Night.  And Tom Noonan is AWESOME in this.  Never has the kindest, gentlest sounding man been so terrifyingly eerie.

RIFFABILITY: Low.  Whether one thinks its stupid or good, there's a lot of time in this movie spent without dialogue.  A LOT.  The sketch gags would be running pretty thin.

[d00hickey]

I really enjoy House of the Devil and recommend it to anyone who likes horror. The first time I watched it was on Netflix streaming a year or two ago and it might still be there.

[Compound]

Sometimes They Come Back
Based on a Stephen King story.  Years after A group of punks were killed by a train while menacing a young boy and his brother, they return to take revenge.

Eh. Not bad. Probably not even in the bottom half of Stephen King adaptions. About the only issue that I have with it is the way that the police immediately rush to the conclusion that the now grown up little kid must have committed the crimes, instead of the mysterious teens who just appeared in town with parents or a paper trail of any kind. And how did they even get enrolled in school anyway?

Sometimes They Come Back Again
Burt Gummer and the Million Dollar Baby move to Burt's mom's house after she passes away and hey! The dead teens who killed his sister return from the grave!

Yeah, it's the same thing. This one's a bit more gorey (the first film was a TV movie) and it suffers a bit from the lead returned teen looking scarily like Jerry Seinfeld.

Sometimes They Don't Come Back at All
A prequel to the first film, this one is highly disappointing.  In it, an abusive jock is crushed by a falling goalpost and vows vengeance on the girl he assumes killed him. She then graduated from high school, goes to college and then later starts a talk show with her best friend. And the jock never returns. Kinda boring really.

[RoninFox]

Sometimes They Come Back
Based on a Stephen King story.  Years after A group of punks were killed by a train while menacing a young boy and his brother, they return to take revenge.

Eh. Not bad. Probably not even in the bottom half of Stephen King adaptions. About the only issue that I have with it is the way that the police immediately rush to the conclusion that the now grown up little kid must have committed the crimes, instead of the mysterious teens who just appeared in town with parents or a paper trail of any kind. And how did they even get enrolled in school anyway?

Sometimes They Come Back Again
Burt Gummer and the Million Dollar Baby move to Burt's mom's house after she passes away and hey! The dead teens who killed his sister return from the grave!

Yeah, it's the same thing. This one's a bit more gorey (the first film was a TV movie) and it suffers a bit from the lead returned teen looking scarily like Jerry Seinfeld.

Sometimes They Don't Come Back at All
A prequel to the first film, this one is highly disappointing.  In it, an abusive jock is crushed by a falling goalpost and vows vengeance on the girl he assumes killed him. She then graduated from high school, goes to college and then later starts a talk show with her best friend. And the jock never returns. Kinda boring really.

I prefer Sometimes They Accidentally Go to the Wrong House