After Dead and Buried ended, we decided to watch the "Move Your Dead Bones" video some more (a recurring motif of the night) and then popped in an Invader Zim episode I wanted to watch last year, "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom", which is all about Dib and Zim being sucked into an alternate universe based on Dib's imagination. Much amusement was had, and then we decided to watch Black Sheep.
Or, we were, and then our Night of the Lepus people came over, so that took center stage.
I can't really sum the movie up any better than I did two years ago, so here it is:
"Boy oh boy, Night of the Lepus is one stupid movie.
Don't get it twisted, I enjoyed it in some ridiculous way, because the premise is brilliant:
"Fed up with the bunnies hopping across their land, a group of ranchers attempt to stunt the rabbits growth with the aid of a cooked up hormone. But instead of shrinking the bunny population, it only makes the animals larger --- 150 pounds larger, to be exact --- with a newfound appetite for human flesh."
Yes, that's right; Giant. Killer. Bunnies.
Well, regular bunnies hopping around minature sets and guys in rabbit suits attacking people. And the kind of fake blood normally reserved for Herschell Gordon Lewis films. I could not stop laughing the first time I saw the glove fall off of one of the bunny suits, because until then the editing was so unclear that I wasn't sure what was happening.
At 88 minutes, this movie is much too long (due mostly to the half baked finale borrowed from The Giant Mantis, or is it The Beginning of the End?) but if you're in dire need of the giggle fits, pop this sucker in and watch the likes of Janet Leigh, DeForest Kelley, and Rory Cochran try to stifle laughter in this very silly movie."
further thoughts: Boy, what a difference watching this with other people makes. Yes, it's every bit as inept, but the running commentary of sleep deprived folk really kicks the unintentional comedy into high gear.
Okay, I'll be right back with some thoughts on Black Sheep.
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Friday, October 26, 2007
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Horror Fest Day One: Feast / Zim / X-Files
I just wrapped up a back to back to back freak out fest, starting with Feast, a movie I hadn't seen at all heading into this marathon.
Feast is funny, and very violent. This is the kind of movie that plays gleefully with conventions, but not in a way that's grating or obnoxious. It also knows when to pile on the humour and when to pile on the grue, which it delivers in abundance. Also, there's a certain chaotic effect to the sheer number of people killed off in the first fifteen minutes of the movie that leaves you uncertain of what the hell John Gulager is going to do. That and you get to see Jason Mewes get his face ripped off. And what a Henry Rollins battering ram would look like, but only after putting him in pink sweat pants.
The monsters are used sparingly, rarely giving you a good look until near the end, and the disgusting transformation of Judah Frielander's character really is both sickening and hilarious.
Feast is also wise not to overstay its welcome, running less than ninety minutes of actual film, and when it starts to drag, things pick up quickly. This is definitely worth checking out, and if you watched this season of Project Greenlight, you'll be amazed at how well this turned out.
After that, we watched Invader Zim episode "Dark Harvest", which accomplishes in 12 minutes what many ninety minute movies strain to do, which create, sustain, and pay off suspense. Animated suspense, no less. And it's still replete with Jhonen Vasquez humour. The basic plot is that Zim is afraid he will be discovered for not having human organs, so he reasons that the more organs he has, the more human he is. Dib tries desperately to stop Zim, and then finally to not fall victim to him, bringing about the most suspensful use of a bird since Hitchcock.
After that we watched what may be the most disturbing episode of the X-Files to ever air: "Die Hand Die Verlezt", a show from season two that was so creepy that Fox refused to air it again for almost five years. In addition to dealing with devil worship, the episode hits on teenage suicide, pedophilia, snakes eating humans, and a pig dissection that comes to life.
The episode itself is about a small town inNew Hampshire
I'm going to try to keep this going and watch The Wicker Man, because we're in the midst of the twilight hours and after that episode I'm really quite prepared to go the next step in strange and transgressive film experience, so if you don't get the review right away, I promise it'll be up tomorrow before the next batch pops up.
Feast is funny, and very violent. This is the kind of movie that plays gleefully with conventions, but not in a way that's grating or obnoxious. It also knows when to pile on the humour and when to pile on the grue, which it delivers in abundance. Also, there's a certain chaotic effect to the sheer number of people killed off in the first fifteen minutes of the movie that leaves you uncertain of what the hell John Gulager is going to do. That and you get to see Jason Mewes get his face ripped off. And what a Henry Rollins battering ram would look like, but only after putting him in pink sweat pants.
The monsters are used sparingly, rarely giving you a good look until near the end, and the disgusting transformation of Judah Frielander's character really is both sickening and hilarious.
Feast is also wise not to overstay its welcome, running less than ninety minutes of actual film, and when it starts to drag, things pick up quickly. This is definitely worth checking out, and if you watched this season of Project Greenlight, you'll be amazed at how well this turned out.
After that, we watched Invader Zim episode "Dark Harvest", which accomplishes in 12 minutes what many ninety minute movies strain to do, which create, sustain, and pay off suspense. Animated suspense, no less. And it's still replete with Jhonen Vasquez humour. The basic plot is that Zim is afraid he will be discovered for not having human organs, so he reasons that the more organs he has, the more human he is. Dib tries desperately to stop Zim, and then finally to not fall victim to him, bringing about the most suspensful use of a bird since Hitchcock.
After that we watched what may be the most disturbing episode of the X-Files to ever air: "Die Hand Die Verlezt", a show from season two that was so creepy that Fox refused to air it again for almost five years. In addition to dealing with devil worship, the episode hits on teenage suicide, pedophilia, snakes eating humans, and a pig dissection that comes to life.
The episode itself is about a small town in
I'm going to try to keep this going and watch The Wicker Man, because we're in the midst of the twilight hours and after that episode I'm really quite prepared to go the next step in strange and transgressive film experience, so if you don't get the review right away, I promise it'll be up tomorrow before the next batch pops up.
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