THE MOVING BLUES

Since all of my free time has recently been spent on moving to a new apartment, I decided to dedicate this blog to just that.  The spring smell is in the air, and new beginnings are blooming.  Movies revolved around moving attempt an assortment of approaches with the hopes of scaring you, making you laugh, or planting a seed of paranoia in your mind.

House is a cheesy eighties horror movie.  Although it never succeeds at giving you chills, it is sentimental to me because I grew up watching it.  A recently divorced guy inherits his aunt's house after her suicide.  As he settles in, he is tormented by disturbing hauntings from his past.  The optimum scene is when a pretty neighbor transforms into a pudgy, whiny monster.  This film will scare even YOU out of the closet.

The Amityville Horror movie originated in 1979 and was modernized in 2005.  The allegedly true story is based on a family moving into a house that holds a traumatic future for them.  Similar to The Shining, the father becomes a slave to evil under his own roof.  As always, it's not an enjoyable ride for the surrounding family members.

On the brighter side of things, 1988 delighted us with a comedic approach to this topic.  Moving stars Richard Pryor and Randy Quaid.  Quaid plays a crazed neighbor whose heckling drives Pryor and his family out of the neighborhood.  Aside from the obvious torture, Pryor also must jump over the obstacles left by his kids, the movers, and the previous home owners of his new, hollow house.  This is one of those DVDs that makes you say "we're taking it with us!"