Feel Good Movies And Werewolf Sex? What? List of feel good movies, top 10 slasher films of all time, and how werewolf sex defined an entire sub-genre of horror movies…
(previously pub. June 2019, Oct 2019, Nov 2019)
What makes a feel good or comfort food movie?
Thanksgiving is around the corner. It's the perfect time to visit family and gather around the table for some good food with some feel good movies.
Or if you’re like me you need some goodness to take your mind off of being around the family and what better way to do that then curl up with a good comfort food movie.
Recently on the Binge-Watchers Podcast, John and I revisited some classic examples of what we like to call ‘feel good movies’ or ‘comfort food movies.’
Take your pick.
What makes a feel good or comfort food movie?
Well it’s really in the eye of the beholder. You can go with some famous examples like The Shawshank Redemption or The Princess Bride and you wouldn’t be wrong, but it can really be anything that makes you feel, well good.
Mean Girls for example may not be everyone’s cup of tea but it certainly puts me in a good mood.
John’s picks of Son in Law and Uncle Buck certainly fit the basic mold of what makes a feel good movie with a character unlike the others in the movie that shakes things up but ultimately brings everyone together.
They are by definition feel good movies
In that--- by the end all the characters feel good and by extension, we the audience do too.
My other pick of Dazed and Confused may not be everyone’s idea of a feel good movie, but I’d make the argument that it too is one of the ultimate feel good movies.
In fact, that’s the only thing the characters are in search of a good time.
Whether it’s drinking some beers at the Moon Tower, smoking a joint at the fifty yard line or scoring tickets to the Aerosmith concert: all the characters are after is an excuse to feel good.
In turn, it makes me feel good as well like talking to a friend you haven’t heard from in a long time or eating a really good meal.
So pop in your favorite disc or stream to your pleasure’s delight anything that makes you feel good this holiday season.
- Written by Dangerous Dave
Pauly Shore "Crawls" As My Hero
Catalysts are rare characters in movies. They're essentially main characters that are fully formed at the start of the movie. And then they don't go through a change at all, but they change everybody else around them. And he affects all the family members. Right. So also if you're talking about classical mythology, like the Joseph Campbell book and everything like that and Chris Vogler and all that, and like the heroes journey, essentially Pauly's character, this movie would be called the trickster. He would, I think you would fall in line with that archetype. But again, it was a catalyst hero.
Pauly Shore shines as Crawl, the catalyst hero in this often overlooked feel good comedy called Son in Law that serves up a slice of Americana while also redeeming its characters during the Thanksgiving season.
We feel like it is more than just a run-of-the-mill over-angst-ed '90s comedy and more in the like of being a classic.
Or it could be one of our guilty pleasures.
Here is the story:
"Country girl Rebecca (Carla Gugino) has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl (Pauly Shore), who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé."
Pauly's interview with Joe Rogan as mentioned in this episode
Our previous Pauly Shore-related Encino Man discussion
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5 Fetching Facts About Mean Girls
Here's 5 facts about Mean Girls.
MEAN GIRLS WAS INSPIRED BY A SELF-HELP BOOK FOR PARENTS.
Tina Fey was inspired to write Mean Girls, her very first screenplay, after reading Rosalind Wiseman’s bestselling book Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence.
LINDSAY LOHAN’S CHARACTER IS NAMED AFTER TINA FEY’S COLLEGE ROOMMATE .
Tina Fey and her college buddy Cady Garey shared what sounds like a rather squalid apartment in Charlottesville: “We really didn’t have any furniture,” Garey told UVA's alumni magazine in 2013. “... just mattresses on the floor and a bean bag in the living room.”
THERE'S A REAL JANIS IAN.
Janis Ian was the first musical guest on SNL. Ian won a Grammy for her song “At Seventeen,” which is all about Mean Girls’s main theme: the insecurities that go along with being a teenager.
AMANDA SEYFRIED LOVED HER ROLE AS "SIMPLE KAREN."
“I was so innocent. I was so green,“ she says. “I look back and I’m like, ‘Really, I thought I was doing a terrible job.’ But it was written so well and so wonderfully directed. Mark Waters made me look good; he made me funny. And Tina Fey wrote the coolest script of all time.”
MASTURBATING WITH HOT DOGS or THE CENSORS STEP IN.
In the scene where Cady was asked if her "muffin was buttered," the line was originally going to be, "Is your cherry popped?" The same went for the girl who "made out with a hot dog;" this was going to be "masturbated with a hot dog." These were omitted in order for the film to gain a PG-13 rating instead of an R.
Watch Mean Girls Now
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10 Slasher Films That'll Make You Scream
'Tis the season to Scream. Halloween is only 25 days away. Here is a list of slasher films pulled from top 10 lists all across the internet as well as some recently featured in a deep dive mini-series on the Binge-Watchers Podcast.
10. The Burning (1981)
If you Google it, this slasher falls on many top 10 lists of all-time slasher movie favorites. It also has Jason Alexander.
Here is a brief about the movie itself: "At summer camp, some teenagers pull a prank on the camp's caretaker, Cropsy (Lou David). But the joke goes terribly wrong, and the teens leave Cropsy for dead after setting him on fire. But no one keeps Cropsy down. A few years later, the burned and disfigured caretaker returns to camp equipped with his trusty shears, ready to unleash his particular brand of vengeance on a whole new group of teens. The murderous Cropsy stalks the campers in the woods, one by one."
Rent or Buy The Burning 1981 now on AMAZON
9. Terror Train
If you like Jamie Lee Curtis and slasher movies (besides Halloween), then climb aboard the Terror Train for a killer that uses misdirection during a costume party. Also, haven't you noticed how often Jamie Lee ends up on trains during a costume party? At least twice. This movie is usually on everyone's Top 10 slasher lists; if you want 80 odd mins of a grindhouse entry in slasher cinema, take a look.
Here is a review the Binge-Watchers recently did. --- LISTEN NOW ---
8. The Prowler (1981)
Deputy Haircut and Vicki try to solve a murder mystery in this "Gelato" thriller.
It's The Prowler 1981
“A crazed World War II veteran gets revenge on his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend, then stalks teens 35 years later.”
Watch on Amazon Prime
7. The House On Sorority Row
These sorority sisters should have vacated the crazy house when they had the chance!!!
The House On Sorority Row
Seven sorority sisters throw a graduation party and play a prank that goes horribly wrong. Ending up with a dead body, they panic and try to hide it. But someone witnessed the crime and begins to murder them, one by one, in this cult classic.
Watch now on Amazon
6. Hell Night
Two mutant brothers get bothered by a bunch of pledges that invade their quiet castle-mansion, but they might kill them out of boredom
“Fraternity and sorority pledges (Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton) spend the night in a mansion haunted by victims of a family massacre.”
--- WATCH IT NOW ON AMAZON PRIME WITH SHUDDER ---
5. Pieces
This one is great, disturbing, and has red herrings galore. If you stick it out, it has a major shock...
“Young co-eds are being cut up by a chainsaw killer on a college campus and the killer is attempting to put together a human jigsaw puzzle made from their body parts.”
4. Don't Go Into The House
“After the death of his abusive mother, a deranged man (Dan Grimaldi) starts to lure women back to his house to burn them alive.”
Watch this horror movie if you dare.
3. Maniac (1981)
A slasher movie that elevates the violence to an ultra level being one of the first ultra violent cinema attractions.
This film is nuts. It’s called Maniac.
"A traumatic childhood leads a deranged `mama's boy' on a gruesome killing spree on the streets of New York City."
2. The Slumber Party Massacre
This film takes the concept of the Final Girl to the next level; it should on everyone's playlist this season.
1. Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter
I know what you're gonna say, where's the Freddy's, The Child's Play? The Halloweens? Yes, I also love "The Shape."
But there's just something about a movie that starts out with an exploding hockey mask and is so bold to call itself the Final Chapter when the series plans for 13, which is in the name as well, holy hell.
Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter.
“A carefree lakeside vacation is interrupted by the re-emergence of killer Jason Voorhees (Ted White). After he escapes from a morgue, leaving bodies in his wake, Jason travels to Camp Crystal Lake where a group of friends is staying. The teens meet some locals: Tommy (Corey Feldman) and Trish (Kimberly Beck), as well as secretive hiker Rob (Erich Anderson). As the group of teenagers engages in drunken debauchery, their numbers begin to dwindle, and pieces of the past resurface.”
Watch the movie now
Just Google Werewolf Sex.
It's Night. You're lonely. Your Special Somebody Netflixed, but fell asleep long before you could chill. So, you are cruising the wonderful avenues of Google...Google Werewolf Sex?
You're top hit is some old chat archive called
Werewolf Sex - Works | Archive of Our Own
...this Binge Watcher is afraid to open in fear of a getting some I-T-D, or an Internet Transmitted Disease --- In other words, a virus.
Next up is Steamy Werewolf Sex - Valentine4411 - Wattpad
So, a wattpad story written by someone named Valentine4411, the said story is described as:
This book is another werewolf story. The pov is of Elizabeth, Alpha Josh's mate. Elizabeth goes through hell in many ways but Josh will always be there to help her through it.
Then you come across werewolf erotica | The Mary Sue the Mary Sue is respectable, you could cruise there and see if it satisfies your cravings.
However, scroll down and this is what caught my eye...
If I had sex with a werewolf, would that count as half bestiality ...
A Reddit thread dedicated to the people wondering if their fantasies constituted being labeled as bestiality. They should only worry if they get caught fucking a sheepdog.
Anyway, there is show called Bitten notorious for having werewolf sex, described in some other blog as "lots, and lots of werewolf sex."
This is all very disappointing and rightly so.
The originators of werewolf sex in cinema ( don't quote us ) is a series called Howling. Shame, this series is not the top result on Google for werewolf sex.
And if you're watching a Howling movie to get your jollies or curb some deep, dark shameful and sad sense of loneliness --- You're not sick or depraved, you are human.
You're not really watching werewolves get down. Well, we don't think any werewolves were moonlighting as extras in the movie. You're watching some pasty actors get down and pasty. Humans on human. So, it is not likely that you are a pervert, at least, no more then the rest of us.
The original has a werewolf lovemaking scene next to a romantic campfire.
The sequel has a werewolf orgy and it desperately wants you to know it involves someone's sister BECAUSE YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF. ((( not really intended to be your sister, so relax, she is the sister of some wizard. )))
The third, oh, yes, the third ... HMMM.
Google Howling 3. I 'll wait.
Listen to this podcast about it, I'll laugh with you.
Were those a bunch of werewolf teats and little werewolf babies bursting out of the womb??? Yes.
Should you feel guilty now? Maybe.
But who is judging? Even the werewolf hunter in Part 3 falls in love and makes a litter of his own little marsupials.
