Happy Birthday...I'm 43.

I gotta say it again — I freakin' love Netflix. They seriously have EVERYTHING. It seems I have nothing else to talk about lately besides movies. It's probably not a good thing to have so much free time on my hands but eh.....screw it.

So anyway, I rented and just got done watching "100 Years Of Horror" hosted by Christopher Lee of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and has also been in several of the old Hammer Horror films such as Blood Of Dracula, Dracula A.D. and The Mummy. Over 2 hours, they covered a ton of various horror icons, films and actors. Everything from Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi to Robert Englund and Jaime Lee Curtis. Everything from the silent films to giallo to sci-fi and old monster movies. Overall, I thought it covered a lot of ground but then when it ended, it dawned on me that they missed A TON of material. In 2 hours, not ONE single mention of George A. Romero or any of his movies. Only one mention of the word "zombie", a short snippet of a mention of Mario Bava and Dario Argento. No Lucio Fulci, Takashi Miike, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, etc. As I realized this, I noticed that they spent most of the time covering the old Universal horror films and the Hammer horror films to follow. There was a brief mention of Suspiria and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but not much else. I was surprised that they even mentioned Mario Bava. I guess I was disappointed that they completely missed out on really digging into certain movies that completely changed cinema like "Night Of The Living Dead", "Suspiria", anything from Lucio Fulci or Joe D'amato or Jess Franco. They completely missed the boat on Italian horror, Japanese horror, film noir, zombies, Troma Team movies and even some of the blaxploitation entries like "Blacula" and "Blackenstein". Ehh....disppointed, I am. Still, it's worth seeing if you are at all interested in the origins of some of the most famous movie monsters in history. For example, the Werewolf myth came from some crazy European guy from the 1500's who killed, raped and ate his victims for almost 25 years. When he was arrested and charged, he confessed saying the he couldn't control himself because he was given a magic belt by Satan himself that turned him into a crazed animal who ate and molested people. Pretty funny.