We fight a lot of battles in life. Sometimes, you gotta fight Ghostface. Sometimes, you gotta fight Michael Myers. Then, once you think you\u2019re peacefully asleep? Well, you gotta fight who the actual movies refer to as \u201cFred Kruger.\u201d Lotta battles. <\/p>
The battle I\u2019m fighting is against the sedentary lifestyle of contemporary capitalism. It seems that when you\u2019re an \u201cunskilled\u201d laborer\u2014say, a deckhand or bartender or server or warehouse worker\u2014the bosses demand physicality until you\u2019re completely spent. All of those jobs gave me some sort of injury not serious enough for worker\u2019s comp, but nagging enough that I had to either find a new job or get better educated about how to take care of my body. Then, every office job I\u2019ve had\u2014office assistant, copywriter\u2014led to weight gain because I\u2019d be sitting all day. <\/p>
What I\u2019m saying is that now, as a stay-at-home dad and full-time unpaid writer, I spend a lot of my day on my feet. I work out while writing, I chase my very energetic<\/em> kid around, I\u2019m in the kitchen and cleaning house from five to seven. By nine o\u2019clock, kid burrito-wrapped in bed? <\/p> Time to watch a MOVIE. <\/p> NEW HORROR MOVIES<\/strong><\/p> Last year, when I did this movie roundup column<\/a>, I\u2019d seen a ton of 2020s movies\/shows. Brandon Cronenberg, Fall Of The House Of Usher<\/em>, Totally Killer<\/em>, The Cursed<\/em>, The Clovehitch Killer<\/em>, etc. This year was a little more about looking backward, mostly inspired by Stephen<\/a> Graham<\/a> Jones<\/a> and the Indian Lake Trilogy. We\u2019ll talk about those in a minute. The new horror movie I watched, well this plus a Ready Or Not<\/em> rewatch to prepare for the upcoming class war, was HAUNT SEASON<\/em>.<\/p>