31 Days of Spook – Day 26

Ooohh – the thrill of ghosts my friends.  If you have not seen this 1997 Disney supernatural thriller – you must go watch it NOW.  I saw it for the first time earlier in the week when my pig sitter Hannah was out – snorts.  It was GREAT!

The movie starts out in 1939 on Halloween and revolves around 5 people (Carolyn Crosson, Gilbert London, Sally Shine, Emeline Partridge and Dewey Todd).  They are at the Hollywood Tower Hotel and have been invited to the Tip Top Party on the 12th floor.

They all get in the elevator together and suddenly it gets stuck on the 11th floor at exactly 8:05pm.  Lightening strikes the building causing the elevator to collapse and all five people disappear.  Then the movie fast forwards 60 years until present time.

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Newspaper reporter, Buzzy Crocker, is a hoot.  He makes up ‘monsters’ and such with the help of his niece Anna.  He talks Anna’s mom into letting Anna help him out with the investigation of the Hollywood Tower Hotel which is allegedly haunted.

They go to the hotel and some mysterious things happen to them.  They end up meeting Abigail Gregory who blames everything that happened back in the day on Emeline Partridge (who was Sally Shine’s nanny).  Abigail says that Emeline cast an evil spell that backfired and trapped everyone on the elevator that night.  

Abigail explains that if the elevator is fixed and Buzzy and Anna can find something that belonged to each of the trapped ghosts, she can reverse the spell and all can be good once again.

Buzzy and Anna believe her and do just that.  What they don’t know… well… I think I’m going to stop here.  I’ve told ya’ll about some really good movies this month.  But this one, you are going to have to watch.  It is THAT good.

Happy watching my friends.  Don’t be too mad at me 😉 winks

 

Weird or What?

Hello friends.  This is actually me.  I know some of you question as whether or not I’m a pig – I am 🙂  I’m up on the couch for snuggle time with mom getting ready to watch some of our regular television shows. 

I wanted to give you a heads up on a new television show that we have started watching on Tuesday nights.  It’s called Weird or What? and is hosted by William Shatner.  Now, I’m not going to lie.  It did take us a couple of weeks to get caught on to the show and now we are full fledged followers.

Here, it comes on the SyFy channel – we *love* that channel.  Each episode contains two to three stories of the bizarre and unexplained.  It balances out the supernatural vs. scientific theories of the individual cases.  It mainly features strange occurrences like ghosts, aliens, monsters, natural disasters and medical oddities.

I don’t think that this is the first time it has been on television.  I want to say that it premiered in maybe 2010 and only had three seasons on the Discovery Channel?  Someone let me know if I’m wrong. 

If you get a chance and you’re looking for something to watch tonight, bounce over to the SyFy channel and check it out.  Let me know what you think.

 

Monday Night Shivers –

WARNING – This may have spoilers about the show.  I’m caught up on it but just in case you’re not – WARNING!

Monday nights are exciting at the Hotel Thompson for television.  All housework must be completed, popcorn must be popped, bathroom breaks need to be done and you need to be in the front room for Being Human at 9:00PM.  If I’m still up, I get to watch.  I admit it’s scary but it’s the greatest show.  The down side to the show is it’s only an hour long each Monday.  It’s one of those shows that you start watching and all of a sudden the hour is up and you’re like WOW – Did that just happen!? 

Being Human started on the BBC and was a British supernatural drama.  It started in the United States as a supernatural drama in 2011 on the SyFy channel.  We’ve watched all of the seasons, have the videos and make it a regular weekly show on Mondays for our family movie night.  It is awesome!  Here’s a little breakdown to wet your interest and make you want to watch.

 

The show revolves around three of the main characters: a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire.  That’s a mix of characters already, isn’t it?  Intriguing in its ownself right there.  The ghost, Sally Malik, has been through her own little ordeal the first couple of seasons.  There’s always a reason why you stay as ghost after death, why you don’t pass over.  You know, unfinished business and all.  Well, she had a lot.  We find out that Sally got killed and that’s why she can’t find her door to cross over.  Bummer huh?  But not to fear, Sally is a lovely lady and in this season she is no longer a ghost 🙂 , she is something ‘else’.  For the details in that something else, well you’re going to have to watch the show.  She’s blossomed into a bigger character than I ever thought possibe.

The werewolf is Josh.  Since he has four legs once a month, I kind of favor him at times.  He’s also on mom’s Facebook – so yes we pick favorites – snort.  In the beginning of the show, he was camping with a friend in the woods and got attacked by a werewolf thus making him now a wolfie on the full moon.  He just really wants to be normal.  I can’t go into details about it but personally now I think he’s more normal than any of them – snort. 

His bestie is the vampire, Aidan Waite.  Aidan and Josh just want to fit in and be like everyday normal peeps.  They both work at the local hospital – I know outrageous huh?  They decide to move in together to have a kind of normalcy both knowing the others conditions.  They find a house and move in and that’s when they meet Sally.

So bottom line, we have three unique people all living together trying to have a normal life despite being a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire.  You think that’s enough?  Of course not.  Josh falls in love with Nora who also works at the hospital.  She has had a really rough time in the love department.  Unfortunately… or we might say fortunately after you’ve watched a couple of episodes… Nora also turns into a wolfie. 

I didn’t give away too much details.  It’s really an awesome show and I would give it four hooves up but I would fall on the floor so how about three hooves up?  You gotta give it a try and watch a couple of shows to see if you don’t get hooked.  I know we did! 

XOXO – Bacon