Happy new year! This week 2019 departs and 2020 arrives! Here on Horror Movie Weekly, One Badass Horror Podcast, your three late-night Horror hosts, Jay of the Dead, BillChete, and Lady Phantom, thank you for your support and listenership in 2019, and we’ll hope you’ll stick with us for 2020! For this final show for 2019 here in Episode 018, Jay of the Dead chooses to review a Found Footage creeper called The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)! And yes, as you might have guessed, we are sure to include the obligatory debate about the merits (or shortcomings) of the Found Footage filmmaking convention. Enjoy!
Also, in case you missed it, Jay of the Dead has released two Top 10 Horror shows that are available now: The first is Top 10 Horror Movies of 2019 with special guest Lady Phantom! And the second epic show is The Top 10 Horror Movies of the 2010s Decade, with special guests GregaMortis and Ron Martin!
On Horror Movie Weekly, your late-night Horror hosts Jay of the Dead, BillChete and Lady Phantom bring you one recent Horror movie review every Sunday. (We’re defining “recent” as any Horror movie released within the last five years.) And we always reveal next week’s pick at the end of every show, so you can watch along with us and be prepared for the following episode. Join us, and thanks for listening!
SHOW NOTES:
Introduction
— Happy New Year! Welcome to Episode 018
— Your hosts’ New Year’s Eve plans
— BillChete’s New Year’s recommendation: Darlin’ (2019), directed by Pollyanna McIntosh. This film is part three of a Horror trilogy that includes “Offspring” (2009) and “The Woman” (2011).
— Jay of the Dead’s Top 10 Horror Movies of 2019 with special guest Lady Phantom!
— Jay of the Dead’s The Top 10 Horror Movies of the 2010s Decade, with special guests GregaMortis and Ron Martin!
– Jay of the Dead’s pick for this week: The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) — Genre Classification: Horror / Found Footage / Drama / Mystery
Premise:
“The Taking of Deborah Logan” is a Found Footage-style Horror film about a medical student who’s making a documentary about Alzheimer’s disease. Her small film crew focuses on an elderly subject in Exuma, Virginia, named Deborah Logan, as she slips into the bizarre and upsetting world of Alzheimer’s disease.
[ 00:39:17 ] – The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) SPOILERS Discussion
Ratings and Recommendations: The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
Jay of the Dead = 7 ( Rental for most listeners / A “Buy” for Jay )
BillChete = 2.5 ( Avoid )
Lady Phantom = 3 ( Avoid )
Next on Episode 019: Harpoon (2019) — BillChete’s pick!
Podcast artwork: Lady Phantom
Original podcast theme music: Jay of the Dead
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Looking forward to all the comments…
Jesus Bill and Lady contradict themselves every episodes lol.
How so?
Fun episode. I actually watched Darlin’ right before seeing Black Christmas. It was okay. It didn’t make my honorable mentions list. It’s not my type of horror movie, but I rated it a 6/10 and a rental recommendation.
The Taking of Deborah Logan – I have to say I am not a big fan of found footage movies or the convention in general. I agree with Bill in that I am glad we’re seeing less and less of these. They have greenlit a new Paranormal Activity movie, so we may see it again if it proves to be profitable. I agree with Phantom with the Blair Witch Project, which also left me confused as to why people thought it was scary. The idea of someone holding a camera and recording everything, even though there are dangerous elements at play is ridiculous. No one would do this. I think the original Cloverfield is an entertaining movie and probably the best example of the convention being used.
I think the use of Alzheimer’s in this movie is pretty disrespectful to people suffering from this disease. She even says she doesn’t want to be exploited, but that is exactly what is taking place. The first half of the movie, I was feeling bad for her as they played up the medical part of it. I just feel like if a person is always getting up in the middle of the night and ends up hurting herself, you have to restrain her so that doesn’t happen. But they let it go for way too long.
By the second half of the movie, where it turns into the snake cult murders, I was taken out of the film’s context and it simply didn’t work for me at all. Though the practical effects were nice, it just kept playing up all the typical stuff you see in found footage and I was shaking my head in disappointment. This is another example of why I don’t like these types of films. The Taking of Deborah Logan is a 4/10 and an avoid.
Special thanks to the Phantom for your kind comments on Jason’s top 10 horror movies of 2019 episode on Considering The Cinema #13. You guys were able to put together a very entertaining episode. I hope you are able to guest on future episodes in the future.
I did see BillChete’s pick Harpoon in October. It is a film that did make my honorable mentions list for 2019. It should be fun to dissect the cast and story of this movie. This was a great year for horror and a great year for Horror Movie Weekly. Looking forward to 2020 and many great seasons for HMW in the future.
Happy New Year everyone!
THANK YOU. I also think this film disrespects the people who suffer from Alzheimer’s. We were listening to the episode today, and when Jay says that the scariness of this resides in the same place as vampires, zombies, etc. I just said to Bill “the difference is that those don’t exist. Alzheimer’s does, and it is serious.” I see your rating is not far from mine.
Thank you, Sean. You’re too kind. I had a lot of fun in Jay’s top ten episode. I also hope I can be there again!
I hope you have a great and very prosperous 2020. All the best!