The Strangers: Prey at Night

I love advance screenings simply because I feel that I can give all of you an advance notice of where to spend your money on the weekends and this week was no exception and I decided to check out Lewisville’s newest Movie Place The Coyote Drive-In over on Hwy 121 for an Early showing of The Strangers:Prey at Night.

First off these advance screenings have tight security and I unfortunately understand why. With advances in technology the movie can be on the file share sites before you know it and…that ruins it for everyone. As a result the studios didn’t want us in our cars for this show and had us all placed in chairs in front of the screen on a lawn. Well you had to bring your own chair and blanket.

I did not receive this memo from the boys at GoFobo.

Thank You to the folks at The Coyote who not only gave me a lawn chair that you would reserve they even carried it to the lawn for me, and when I told them that I was going to my car to get a warmer coat they saw that I was walking with a cane and had quite a way to go across the field, even had one of their guys give me a lift in a golf cart! Needless to say It was appreciated.

That is service as well as quite an experience as well. With it being a Drive-In Theatre there is a nice retro vibe from a era many thought was gone and never to return while also giving a modern approach.

The popcorn was excellent! They also have a Pepsi mix fountain and a full bar. I will have to try the rest of the offerings in the restaurant at a later time.

Now on to the Flick!

The Terror Trio of Sadistic Psychos are back! This time with 47 Meters Down director Johannes Roberts taking the helm from Bryan Bertino who remained on as writer with Ben Ketai.

After their horrific attack in the original 2008 film they have a new set of targets, including Mad Men star Christina Hendricks, and The Ring’s Martin Henderson as their intended victims.

Following a distinctions family that is in the process of taking the daughter to a boarding school, which this is against her wishes as well as a brother that is forced to come along, our set of parents plan to stay the night at an empty trailer park managed by their Aunt. Well you can assume what happens next. It however does not go the way you will expect.

Like it’s decade old predecessor focuses more on it’s Darkness and suspense than it does on jump scares and gore…That being said it does follow the basic sequel rules being that there is more gore and a bigger body count.

Also like the previous flick…Someone went to “The John Carpenter Film School”. From the music that made me think of The Fog to a scene that made me reminisce about Christine. Not to mention a part that made me think of the late Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

All that aside this flick is your Basic Slice and Dice and does not break any real ground but is still a great time to be had and I will recommend watching in a full Theatre.

7 Dead Bodies
0 Breasts
3 Beasts
2 car chases with multiple Crashes
Throat Slashing
Multiple Stabbings
Beatings
Shootings
Burnings
Impaleings

Gratuitous 80s Soundtrack
Trailer Park Fu
Stranger Fu

Netflix and Chills: Jeepers Creepers 3

Okay Kiddies The Creeper is back!!!

Now you ask why am I so excited well it’s been too long and I didn’t think that there was going to be a sequel since the last time we saw The flying People Eater he had gone back into his slumber for 23 years, which left us wondering will we have to wait until then till we see him.

In the new millennium we had a severe lack of a good Boogeyman. While we still had the remakes and the Devil’s Rejects films the classics did rear their heads around occasionally.

The truth is that I liked the flicks. Jeepers Creepers became a staple of AMC Fear Fest in October but it was noticeably absent this year because they were airing on SyFy’s “31 Days of Halloween”. Which I was surprised about and then I saw that the flick had debuted part 3.

I have to admit that I was not too happy about this development as that sometimes means that the movie is not too good but that has changed in recent years. Well you know what they say don’t judge a book by it’s cover and this flick is no exception.

Here is the cool part. 3 takes place between 1 and 2 and follows another group in a different area terrorized by The Creeper during his time awake, Not to mention that it picks up where the first flick leaves off.

Jonathan Breck also returns as The Creeper.

Now what makes this flick different is the fact that we follow a group of survivors from the Creepers rampage 23 Years earlier especially Gaylen Brandon, played by genre favorite Meg Foster, as she struggles to keep her grand daughter from meeting the same fate as her own father during The Creepers previous rampage years earlier. Gaylen also shares a physic link to both The Creeper and her dead son.

While this storyline is going on we also see the authorities in pursuit of The Creepers truck that we discover is laced with various boobytraps seeking to both keep The Creepers meals safe…I feel the need to mention also that the Damned thing moves by itself.

This flick was not bad though I have to admit that I expected more after the 12 years since part 2 but I was still not disappointed and I do look forward to another entry in the near future.

A good Pizza and Beer flick!

11 Dead Bodies
0 Breasts
1 Creeper
1 Ghost
1 Demonic Truck
1 Psychic Severed Hand
1 Car Chase with 2 Crashes
Severed Arms
Double Body Impaling
Head impaling
Axe to the Face

3 Stars

Check it out and have a round for me.