Sick in bed movies

   Oh back to school season. So many unwelcome germs have found their way into my life via my son's classmates. My wife had a sore throat for a couple of days. His baby brother had a runny nose for a couple of days. And Daddy of course gets a full blown cold bordering on sinus infection/bronchitis. Leave it to dad to "take one for the team".
   So since I'm holed up in quarantine for a couple of days, I have some time to catch up on some movies. There are just some movies I need to watch when I'm sick. Why they make me feel better I can't really say, they just do. Hopefully my children will appreciate them someday. And hopefully they will find their own feel better movies that they can pass along to their own kids.
   This is just what I watched to pass the time and pick up my spirits.

Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Mom rented it for me one day when I was sick and it's been a staple of  my collection ever since. Klowns arrive in a spaceship shaped like a circus tent and begin turning the townsfolk into large cotton candy cocoons. It's over the top and colorful. If you have a fear of clowns then you probably wouldn't find it as funny as I do.

   Saturday the 14th

     It's a weird little comedy/horror spoof I picked up on years ago.  It's worth seeing Jeffrey Tambor from Arrested Development as a vampire. It's campy,cheesy, and filled with monsters.

Misery

Sick in bed. Sick in the head. This classic has it all. Academy Award winner- Check! Stephen King- Check! Great one liners- Check! "He didn't get out of the cockadoodie car!" There are some film adaptations that get it right. Stephen King probably has more films based on his work than any other writer living today! If you don't know the tale of Paul Sheldon meeting his "Number One Fan" then what are you waiting for?

The Goonies

At some point my boys snuck their way into my room so there are a couple of movies I didn't get to finish. So I switched over to lighter stuff. Marketed towards 80's kids, the first 20 minutes have fake suicide, a couple of "shits", a poor house cleaner tricked into thinking she works in some drug/sex slave den, and a broken penis! 80's movies rule!

Wreck It Ralph

 More 80's goodness. Bringing generations together. I only wish there were more of the 80's video game characters in it.  It's a cute little tale about a video game villain who has an identity crisis. He wants to be the hero for once in his life. Who amongst us deosn't?

Hotel Transylvania

A while back McDonald's had Happy Meal toys from the movie. I, of course, was excited to get new monster toys. I was even more thrilled to see that my the mummy is still one of my son's favorite toys. Poor Dracula's little girl is growing up and he is still trying to shelter her from the world when the world fins it's way into their secluded castle/hotel. It's one of my favorite modern family films and serves as a great gateway to introducing my boys to the classic monsters.