Summer Fest Day One: Wrap Up featuring Teeth and Shark Attack 3: Megalodon!

Sorry, no Tominator again until at least tomorrow night. Despite what the Myspace clock says, it's very much a quarter to six here at the Apartment of Spooky Doom. Neil and Cranpire are passed out in the living room and I am off to sleep shortly.

Before I go, I do need to say a thing or two about the last half of our late night Quadruple Bill (consisting of Plan 9 from Outer Space, Blood Car, Teeth, and Shark Attack 3: Megalodon). Pretty much everyone stayed through Teeth, and Neil and I stuck it out for Megalodon, with occasional waking up from the Cranpire.

Teeth is pretty good, although it's not really a horror movie in any way. In my own sick way of seeing things, it's a Superhero origin story told in a comedic fashion, albeit one with social commentary that makes Blood Car seem subtle. There's plenty to enjoy in the film and every possible joke about someone with teeth in her lady business was made, so it's a definite check it out. Unless of course you have a serious aversion to seeing the end product of castration, however amusing it is.

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon was one of the two "surprise" movies of the fest, even more of a surprise to us since it stars John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness of Doctor Who and Torchwood fame) many years before he became an immortal omnisexual Time Agent. The movie has some howler moments, but it really kicks into high gear in the third act when the shark attacks become MEGA-sized, and then it goes into truly amazing mode. It's not just the sleep deprivation talking either; check out Final Girl's write up. All of it is true, especially the most direct pick up line you're likely to hear outside of porn.

We'll be back tomorrow when it's time to watch Uncle Sam, The Orphanage, C.H.U.D., Night of the Lepus, Frogs, Fido, Black Sheep, Feast, Night of the Living Dead, and the other "surprise" movie. See you then...