july 7, 2025
there is very little i enjoy in this world more than an action/horror creature feature, so i was overjoyed when i stumbled on this movie:
a bluray rip is available on archive.org!
Deep Rising feels like National Treasure with a monster & some gore. There's even a goofy tech guy! A proto-Riley! The visual effects were done by ILM, it looks shockingly great for 1998 and the monster design is fucking SO COOL!!!
Do be warned tho--while most of this movie keeps it light with Indiana Jones levels of gunfights and banter, there are a few sequences that are pretty gorey. If acid based deaths is something you're especially squickey about, you might wanna skip this one. without spoiling anything, there's one death that's so incredibly gruesome i'm shocked i hadn't heard of this movie before on a watchMojo "top 10 yucky deaths in horror movies" lists because yes--that is how i picked movies to watch when i was sick as a teenager.
it's an incredibly fun watch, with LOTS of bad guys to evelate that bodycount. it's goofy, gorey, and the vfx are awesome.
july 1, 2025
this week's interesting find wasn't a new find for me--it's one of my favorite museums of all time!
The Dinosaur Journey Museum in Fruita, Colorado was a genuine childhood OBSESSION of mine. Every time we were visiting family out west i'd beg my parents to make the 7 hour drive to go to this museum.
And i just had the pleasure of revisiting it with my boyfriend as an adult--it still RULES HARD!!!
It's small, but has a LOT of fossils. And, IMO, does the best job of any museum i've ever been in making you realize just how big and deadly dinos were!! From epic gorey animatronics:
(which weren't working while we visited, but are sick as fuck as statues too)
to how the skeletons are displayed at floor level so you can really appreciate just how big these guys are. Including an incredibly haunting life-size recreation of a t-rex leg that had me sweating.
tickets are only 10$ for adults! If you're ever in the area, i absolutely recommend making the trip!