Day 162

I had my follow-up dentist appointment this morning to have an inlay fitted, which meant the rest of the morning and afternoon was written off, mostly because the anaesthetic lasted for six hours and by the time it had worn off I was starving and too hungry to do anything 😊

Except to listen to the new Miranda Lee Richards LP, Existential Beast (a great psyche folk rock album) and Crooklyn Clan’s Shoot Tha Pump mix (laid back hip hop, perfect for a summers day) and watched The Odessa File (a nice little thriller/revenge flick), The Holcroft Covenant (an odd film about Nazi money and a new Reich) and the remake of Prom Night.

Prom Night is a bad remake which feels like it needs to go through script editing again, e.g. the police discover that the killer has hidden a body in the ceiling air vent, although the ceiling is 10 feet high and there are no ladders around to help you hide the body and near the end the heroine discovers her dead boyfriend in her bed, but although his throat has been cut there is no blood in the bed. 

I know it’s just a slasher flick, but when you can’t get basic stuff right, it takes you out of the film and they are easy things to fix, e.g. the heroine climbs into bed, feels the dampness of the blood and then discovers that her boyfriend is dead, rather than her climbing into bed, taking to her boyfriend, who doesn’t respond, which prompts her to throw the covers off to discover that his throat has been cut.