{"id":986,"date":"2011-11-18T21:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=986"},"modified":"2011-11-18T21:16:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:16:15","slug":"the-blood-people-on-horror-creeping-in-netflix-with-nods-to-night-of-the-demons-primal-and-the-awful-the-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/18\/the-blood-people-on-horror-creeping-in-netflix-with-nods-to-night-of-the-demons-primal-and-the-awful-the-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":""The Blood People": On Horror Creeping in Netflix, With Nods to "Night of the Demons," "Primal," and the Awful "The Awakening""},"content":{"rendered":"

So the other morning my five-year-old daughter wakes up and the first thing she says to me is, “People are made of blood.” She’s right, actually. And I kind of like the poetry of the line, although the way her eyeballs glowed an iridescent yellow was a bit disconcerting. I encapsulated her sentence into “The Blood People,” good title for a bad horror movie. Which is what Netflix has become for me: A zone where I creep around (a la Facebook ‘creeping’) and search for the worst horror movies (or close to worst) I can find, in the hopes of finding one in the So-Bad-It’s-Good category. Primal<\/em>, Night of the Demons<\/em>, and The Awakening<\/em> come to mind, while Pelt<\/em> doesn’t make the cut, in the category of So Bad It’s Just Bad. Primal <\/em>and\u00a0Night of the Demons <\/em>play on the tried-and-true plot setup of horny college students turning into monsters and\/or getting their just desserts by being ripped apart by said monsters\/demons, and The Awakening<\/em> (which, I must confess in the interests of “transparency,” I could not finish) is so goofy it’s likable: too-old (thirtysomething?) deadbeat slackers get invited to a rave by a sexy girl (read: demon) and end up battling a flurry of demons, awakened by the discovery of (you guessed it) an ancient Aztec amulet (alliterative, too), or perhaps an ancient omelette, I forget which. (Omelette horror? Now that would be different. “Those aren’t eggs you’re beating! They’re eyeballs!”)
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