This past Wednesday, I brought back an old feature- "What Movie Wednesday".  It went well in my opinion, and I had fun doing the tweet along. So, here's the review! Billy the Kid has "retired" and gotten engaged to the daughter of a wealthy rancher.  Soon, however, Billy finds himself in for the fight of his life against the Lord of the Undead... Master of the Children of the Night... DRACULA!  Billy is his fiance's only chance of avoiding a fate worse than death. .. This is truly a B-Movie of epic proportions.  As Vance Kotrla (@SciFi_Romance) aptly put it: The story, the characters, the acting, the camera work... all of it.  Just ALL of it.  The best part was John Carradine (David Carradine's father)... especially his skill at giving us "crazy eyes" like the example below: See what I mean?  Just fantastic! Despite it being a highly flawed movie (aka- "HOW did this movie ever get made?" flawed), it was good fo

You wouldn't normally expect to see a movie that combines feral kids and ghosts, right?  Well, 2013's " Mama " is unexpected that way... Years after their disappearance, Lily and Victoria are discovered living in a supposedly haunted forest.  They are taken to live with their Uncle Lucas and their Aunt Annabel (no relation to the doll). But something has followed them from the forest... something that wants the girls back ... Guillermo Del Toro's " Mama " is not, unfortunately, one of his better movies.  The story idea is great, but the execution is a little flat in my opinion.  The plot progression is steady and moves towards an interesting- though predictable climax. The main flaw is the characters.  The two girls- Victoria and Lily felt like they were more or less a MacGuffin, rather than fully realized characters in themselves.  Victoria gets a bit more growth and development than Lily... but not much.  Lucas doesn't get much developme