Happy New Year!
I feel like I was a little "short" on movies this month. I usually try to cram
in a few more holiday horrors but honestly, there's so many terrible ones out
there I had a hard time bringing myself to try more than what I did. I've
been playing a lot of Star Wars Outlaws (love it!) and watching a few series.
I also found myself just not feeling like watching movies when I was looking
for something to watch.
Series
The Creep Tapes (Shudder)
Did we need a prequel anthology series to 2014's wonderfully weird found
footage, serial killer movie Creep? Not really but I'm glad we got it!
Each of the short episodes give Mark Duplass another chance to show his talent
as this socially awkward murderer. You don't need to see the movies prior to
the series, but if you're a horror fan and haven't seen Creep, you're missing
out.
Hysteria (Peacock)
I don't usually do trailers for series but I really liked this and wanted to
make sure more people are aware of it. As someone that enjoys heavy metal and
was around during the 80s Satanic Panic, this was a must see. I was expecting it
to be more poking fun at things but it surprised me by being low-key horror
with an intriguing mystery. It seems like they left it open for a sequel which
I wouldn't mind so they could explain a somewhat major thing that was just
left out there.
Game Changers (Max)
An 8 part series looking at the history of popular video games like Minecraft,
Madden, and Call of Duty and the companies like Nintendo, Sega, and Atari,
that made them. I'm not the biggest fan of these franchises but from a gamer
history angle, they were still interesting. There's also an episode about
Monopoly, Operation, and Scrabble.
