Archive for March, 2022

This was SUPPOSED to have been the January Update…

…but it turns out that post-COVID brainfog I’d been hearing about is a very real thing, which you don’t even have to get all that sick to experience. I think I’ve got it all blown away now, but I couldn’t concentrate on a damned thing for a while there. Sadly, that also means that the little something special I had meant to do here in March will need to get pushed forward a few months. Anyway, we’ll start with the purely new stuff:

 

Angel Heart (1987), in which obviously nothing good will come of doing any kind of contract work for Satan…

Cat People (1982), in which getting rejected by Nastassja Kinski is rough on were-leopards and film directors alike…

No Escape (1994), in which 1994’s dystopian idea of 2022 is in some ways preferable to the real thing..

and…

Southern Comfort (1981), in which colonialist arrogance doesn’t go over any better in the bayou than it does in the jungles of Indochina.

 

I’ve got a few rewritten reviews, too, but only one of them got the kind of up-from-the-studs rebuild that’s characterized the series so far:

 

The Crimson Cult (1968), which started life as an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House,” although you’d never know it from watching the film…

Dinosaur Island (1994), in which I perform some much-needed reconstructive surgery on one of the first reviews I ever wrote…

and…

Gigantis the Fire Monster (1955), in which the goad to rewriting action was finally getting to see the Japanese cut.

 

 

 

Give it plenty of space

Space WarriorsIs Space Warriors as exciting and spectacular as that poster art makes it out to be? No.

Uninteresting

The UnholyIt’s quite amazing that the horror movie The Unholy takes a potent subject like Satan and uses it to make a mostly boring movie.

Funny money

The Great Bank HoaxWhat makes the comedy The Great Bank Hoax a delight to watch is how it finds an identifiable and funny viewpoint of various human weaknesses.