Whoosh and bedazzle! Brucey made a couple bad movies recently. Hint: Catch .44 was one of them.
It’s not that Catch .44 is incompetent in presentation, it just lacks it’s own soul…
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Top of the Heap – Erle Stanley Gardner ♦♦♦ [three out of five]
“Top of the Heap” is one of the more misleading HCC books, where the inability to pitch it directly means you gotta’ drum up a tag line and cover to match the genre. … But it’s still an enjoyable romp, one of the more lighthearted HCC books that doesn’t feel like you’re reading a dirty dimestore pulp, but rather something that, fifty years ago, would’ve flown into your collection as a sweet escape.
sometimes i am not happy with life, and i click here to feel fulfilled
Wake Wood •• [two out of five]
Wake Wood sets off okay, but as is common with *movies*, some elements present from our first few scenes creep up to cripple chunks of the movie later on. But what really kills it is that age old horror movie problem of “let’s ditch the logic as soon as the killin’ starts.”
Eden Lake ••••• [five out of five]
The success of (Eden Lake) is to prevent the movie from seeming like it exists just to terrorize you. It’s rarely exploitative in its violence, and the affair proceeds as though the film wants to be about a leisurely vacation but cannot avoid getting entangled in the horrible sequence of events it presents…
Re-Animator ••••• [five out of five]
Re-Animator is my first true love. I had my years with Rushmore and Eyes Wide Shut, but those were fleeting relations, before I truly understood the range of emotions available for film. While director Stuart Gordon would somewhat suffer from Tobe Hooper-esque one-hit-wonderness, Re-Animator nonetheless remains an amazing film, unique in its dedication to its tone and style, still capable of eliciting “holy crap” moments from a post Dead Alive-over-gored horror viewer…
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