Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-10-21 (Monday)

On 10/22/2024 6:41 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 10/22/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 I caught up on soaps (basically), and watched a Hulu flick about a murderous mutant pumpkin!!
 soaps: GH - Fri's and Mon's ep's. These ep's were mostly concerned with Lulu stuff, and Sasha/Holly stuff - Lulu develops YA complication for her transplant surgery, which forces Lucky to get his doctor friend from Africa, Isaiah, to agree to do the surgery. Isaiah, NuLucas and Lizzie puzzle over Lulu's respirator "failure". Meanwhile, Sam informs NuDrew and Jason about the transplant surgery. Molly and Kristina continue to appallingly bicker, which puts off Sam (and Alexis) - once again, if Sam's death ends their feud, I may be off this show a while... Meanwhile, Sasha hashes out her past with Holly, with Holly insisting that Robert Scorpio is her father. Sasha does the smart thing, and goes to Robert, informing him and insisting upon a secret paternity test. Later Robert confronts Holly, and I think Robert thinks that Holly is telling the truth this time.
    Y&R - Fri's ep. Just as they did a couple of weeks back for Sharon Case, this episode was Michelle Stafford's "30th anniversary episode", so Phyllis tells Lucy - who was unable to run away! - and Summer and Daniel, a bunch of stories from Filis'[sic] colorful past. Disappointingly, but not unexpectedly, the clips didn't include anything from the Filis-Drusilla feud, which was one of the best parts about Filis' old storylines. But they did have some good old clips of Filis with Danny Romaloti (and Daniel), Nick and Jack. In fact, while I remembered Filis getting together with Nick (at the time, I believe I was rooting Filis 'cos I had already turned on the Sharon character), I had completely forgotten the whole Filis-Jack romance (in my defense, it feels like the show has memory-holed it, as Jack and Filis never interact now).
    DOOL - Mon's ep. Brady and Sarah talk, and Brady gets his explanation from Sarah. Unsurprisingly, Kristen reneges on their deal and refuses to "give" the serum to cure Sarah's paralysis to Xander. But Brady finds out about it from Sarah, and goes to confront Kristen, so I bet she's forced to give Sarah the serum... Meanwhile, while it takes the whole episode, Chad finally gets out of FakeAbby (her real name is... Katerina! this can't be a coincidence!) that she and brother Mark did all of this because they were coerced by EVOL! Clyde Weston to pull this scam or he would kill her and Mark's mom. But Chad is too emotionally devastated for that to register. Steve fills JJ in on the fraud.
 Carved (Hulu) - In glorious 4k! Because all murderous mutant sentient pumpkins should be in 4k!!
    Ah, BTR of little faith! The mutant sentient pumpkin can "move" because it's a *mutant* pumpkin and it can sprout hard tentacles that it uses to walk, and to brutally murder humans!!
    To be clear, this was a "horror-*comedy*" Hulu flick.

This almost sounds watchable.  Maybe I'll loop back to this once I get Hulu.

    Gist: In the wake of an earlier disastrous train derailment and chemical spill, a town in Maine tries to throw a combination Halloween party and colonial reenactment festival (I don't see how these two things go together!!). But a stoner (Matty Cardarople) finds a mutant pumpkin in a field, and insists upon bringing it to the festival's pumpkin carving contest. But once the mutant sentient pumpkin sees the wanton pumpkin *murder*!! at the pumpkin carving festival, it goes berserk, killing all there except for most of the film's leads (e.g. Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Corey Fogelmanis, Carla Jimenez, and DJ Qualls

I just listened to DJ Qualls tell his life story on a podcast the other day.  It was interesting.

(who plays the town's mayor?)) who are forced to hide out from the murderous mutant sentient pumpkin.
    So, the rest of the flick is our dwindling band of survivors trying to get out from the festival grounds before the mutant sentient pumpkin brutally slaughters them!
    Also worth noting is that Chris Elliot is also in this, chewing the scenery with reckless abandon as a local weirdo.
    Everyone in this cast must be tiny, because DJ Qualls seems to tower over everyone else, and he's not that tall (IMDb does claim Qualls is 6' tall, but I am thinking that is a stretch...).
    I did really like relative newcomer Sasha Mason in this - hopefully she gets more work.
    Anyway, this was an amusing diversion, and I love the wanton baby mutant pumpkin murder towards the film's end!
  What did you watch?