Movie Review: The Haunted Airman

Well, it's a bit late, and I'm just now getting a chance to blog today! When I was originally going to blog I got sidelined by my mother calling to inquire why my dad came home from our house last night recounting a list of health issues I'm having that she heard nothing about. That was a long conversation, especially once the subject inevitably turned to discussing her classes in nursing school. However, to make a long story short, I did not get to blog before the kids got home from school this afternoon.

Scarlett had Academic Team practice tonight till 4:30 so I watched the movie The Haunted Airman (it has Rob Pattinson in it!) between the little ones getting off the bus and Scarlett being due to get picked up. I thought this would give me a little something to blog about. I love movies and enjoy doing movie reviews. This wasn't a big movie out in the theaters or anything, at least not in the United States. It may have been bigger over in Britain since it's a BBC movie. The movie is based on the novel by the name of The Haunting of Toby Jugg by Dennis Wheatley.

Most of you probably know by now that I'm a huge Twilight fan. I own the Twilight Saga books, Twilght on DVD, the soundtracks and scores to both Twilight and New Moon, and have seen New Moon in the theater five times already. I'm also becoming a fan of Rob Pattinson's acting. Despite his huge popularity in the Twilight Saga, I'm a larger fan of his British works since I prefer to hear his native accent. (I love foreign accents which likely accounts for one of my characters in Awakening of a Guardian being Australian and one being British, my two favorite accents.) I have to agree with my sister's assessment of Rob Pattinson's acting. He does dark and brooding very well. He truly does in Twilight and does it well (with his native British accent) in The Haunted Airman.

This was a short movie, only about seventy minutes long, but it was intense for the most part. To quote my sister it's "kind of trippy". I was not sure what she meant by that until I watched it, but after seeing it myself I would have to agree with her. It's just a kind of trippy movie with Rob Pattinson and his hot British accent and a lot of spiders (which I had great difficulty dealing with). This movie was by no means a blockbuster type movie, but it was an enjoyable movie that I was glad I found at my local library. I recommend it to anyone who likes "trippy" movies, it's a bit freaky or to anyone who likes Rob Pattinson. There are really only a handful of characters in the movie, and he's the one you see the most of and get to know better so be prepared to watch a lot of him.

The music of the moment is from my iTunes playlist "Mel's Mix 2010" with a lot of new songs I downloaded from the iTunes store. The currently playing song is "Hey, Soul Sister" by Train. I have enjoyed Train's music for a long time and was thrilled that they came out with a new single when I first heard it on the radio. I love the voice of the lead singer Pat Monohan. The band's sound is a particular favorite of mine in all the eclectic variety of music that I enjoy listening to. The playlist just moved on to the next song, "Drops of Jupiter" also by Train. I downloaded this song when I found "Hey, Soul Sister". I used to listen to it on the radio all the time, and then it hardly got any radio play anymore. I heard it the other day and decided to download it too. I really want to buy a couple of their CDs to add to my collection since I think I would enjoy more of their music than what is just on the radio. "Drops of Jupiter" is one of my favorite songs that I've ever heard on the radio. It's beyond me why I've never downloaded it online before now. Sometimes I'm a little slow on things. :-)