It’s the first day of summer.  Happy Father’s Day!  Now that we’ve got that out of the way, how is everyone?  Good, happy to hear it.

Anyway, it’s officially summer.  And what better way to start the summer than to pack the kids off to summer camp and then watch some movies about camp counselors and such getting chopped and impaled and otherwise savagely violated with sharp and/or blunt instruments at summer camp.


Okay, maybe that was wrong, but there are some horror movies/monster movies/whatever movies that were made to perfectly go hand in hand with summer.  Such as Jurassic Park, which I think may be the most perfect summer movie of all time.  It could be a fact, I’m not sure, I’ll have to look it up, but as soon as I see the documentation I’ll pass it along to you.  I don’t know what isn’t to love about this movie.  When summer rears its heated head, I watch it.  Sometimes multiple times throughout the sweaty season.  Dinosaurs run amok, it doesn’t get any better than that.  And Laura Dern in her prime.

And it’s not summer without The Thing.  Beat the heat with the world’s best science fiction/horror movie.  Halloween may have crowned John Carpenter the king of horror, but The Thing is every gooey jewel in that crown.  This film still gets under my skin to this day.   I think it’s the wet look to everything, just so slick and glistening and dripping.  Or maybe it’s all a turn-on…

Naturally, the Friday the 13th series is an obvious choice for summer viewing, or Sleepaway Camp.  Obviously.  If you make it through all of these and think you may want a break and a couple of laughs, try Club Dread, from the Broken Lizard guys.  Bill Paxton is a riot.  If you want more than a couple of laughs, then catch Wet Hot American Summer . It’s a shame that a lot of people I know had never heard of it.  Please tell me you have.  Please.

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