MY CALL: This film continues to impress me even today. The entire cast really went for it, the writing and direction were on point, and the effects and gore are so memorable. Can’t recommend this enough! MORE MOVIES LIKE Re-Animator: Looking for more funny yet still gory zombie movies (i.e., zombedies)? Try Night of the Comet (1984), Return of the Living Dead (1985), Night of the Creeps (1986) and Dead Alive (1992).
MORE LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR MOVIES: For more Lovecraftian adaptations, try Screamers (1979; aka Island of the Fishmen, Something Waits in the Dark and L’isola degli uomini pesce), From Beyond (1986), The Unnamable (1988), The Unnamable 2: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992), The Resurrected (1991), Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993), Lurking Fear (1994), Dagon (2001), Dreams in the Witch-House (2005), Color Out of Space (2019) and The Dunwich Horror (1970). And although not specifically of Lovecraftian origins, his influence is most palpable in Prince of Darkness (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Void (2016), The Shrine (2010), Baskin (2015), Cold Skin (2017)—most of which are on the more gruesome side to varying degrees.
Based on H. P. Lovecraft’s story “Herbert West, Re-Animator,” director Stuart Gordon (Dolls, The Pit and the Pendulum, Dagon, King of the Ants) and producer Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator, Society, Necronomicon: Book of the Dead) form a perfect team for this gory yet often sickly funny delight. The fleshy effects are full-tilt from scene one as a screaming man’s pulsating eyes burst blood as he is clearly dying the worst of possible deaths. Then the opening credits grace us with impishly energetic scoring by Richard Band (Parasite, Mutant, Ghoulies, Puppet Master) (very much Danny Elfman meets Beetlejuice) with all the wonderful mood-setting hand-drawn anatomical illustrations of a crudely barbaric medical era. Even the colors of the credit imagery breathe animated life into a normally limp stage of a film.
And about as Lovecraftian as it gets, our story takes place at the Miskatonic Medical School is Arkham, Massachusetts. Medical student Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs; Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, Would You Rather, The Frighteners, Lurking Fear, Cellar Dweller) transfers from Zurich and brings with him some radical research ideas that will change modern medicine forever. West recruits the interest of his classmate Dan (Bruce Abbott; Bride of Re-Animator) to assist him in his bizarre Frankensteinian medical experiments to bring life to dead tissue. Dan’s girlfriend Megan (Barbara Crampton; Beyond the Gates, You’re Next, Lords of Salem, Chopping Mall, We Are Still Here) wisely doesn’t trust West one bit.
Most disapproving (and disbelieving) of West’s position on tissue re-animation, Dr. Hill (David Gale; Bride of Re-Animator, The Brain, The Guyver) and the Dean (Robert Sampson; The Dark Side of the Moon, Netherworld, City of the Living Dead) are instant adversaries to his work.
Every use of the reagent finds messier and messier results. The first re-animations of the cat are brutal and gory and mean (and kind of funny), followed by the first human trial of a very large man who is animated into a feral veiny murderous rage until West bone-saws a hole through his back and out his chest. We eventually graduate to the iconic severed head reanimation (which actually predates that of Bishop in Aliens), and of course the bloody murder that led to it, along with a lot of headless body shenanigans, squishy juicy head smushing, mass ugly zombie hysteria, zombie sexual assault, naked spastic zombie antics, and all sorts of bloody chunky drooling. But my favorite was when the intestines erupted from a body and attacked West, constricting and suffocating him like a ridiculous monster all its own.
Dare I suggest that this devastatingly young Jeffrey Combs may have given the greatest performance of his career with his focused, idiosyncratic intensity that typified Herbert West. And this excellent zombie-ish movie is the first thing that comes to mind when I see a green glowing fluid in subsequent films.
There are lessons to be learned from Herbert West. If a would-be tenant is overjoyed by the fact that you have a dusty basement you clearly never use, don’t rent to them; you shouldn’t expect that your roommates will respect your stuff… or your cat’s life; and definitely watch out pervy medical professors and their murderous intestines. Of course, the movie ends with one final use of the reagent… roll credits.
I love this film and find it strikingly well-made for a horror movie which occasionally lets itself be so zany (i.e., very dark but frequent humor). It never reaches Dead Alive (1992) or Return of the Living Dead (1985) levels of silliness—but make no mistake, there are funny parts. Yet the story itself is also interesting and well-staged by the cast, and it doesn’t get lost in its own reanimated hysteria. I’d go so far as to call this the best “film” but most humorously subdued of the zombedy forefathers (e.g., Night of the Comet, Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps).
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The MFF podcast is back, and this week we’re joined by David Cross (of the Award Wieners Movie Review Podcast) to discuss the 1984 cult classic Night of the Comet. Directed by Thom Eberhardt (Captain Ron), and starring Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney and Robert Beltran, this scrappy post-apocalyptic film focuses on two sisters dealing with zombies, evil scientists and machine guns. Night of the Comet is an absolute delight that influenced Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and ages well because of the likable characters and smart direction (on a very tiny budget). In this episode, we discuss red dust, scrappy teenagers, and talking zombies.
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John’s Horror Corner: Return of the Living Dead (1985), a zombedy forefather and an unforgettable 80s B-movie-turned classic.
MY CALL: A delightfully goofy zombie movie and among the very first zombedy films, this is a classic that should be in every horrorhounds collection. It also holds up rather well. MORE MOVIES LIKE Return of the Living Dead: Looking for more gory 70s-80s zombie fare? Try Dawn of the Dead (1978), Zombie (1979), City of the Living Dead (1980), The Beyond (1981), Day of the Dead (1985), Re-Animator (1985), Return of the Living Dead II (1988) and Flesh Eating Mothers (1988).
You’ve gotta’ love the comedic chutzpah to put on the screen: “The events portrayed in this film are all true. The names are real names of real people and real organizations.” Then, early in the film a character refers to the events of Night of the Living Dead (1968) as being based on a true case. It’s so cheeky. I love it. These bodies evidencing the events of 1969 reside in the basement of a medical supply company warehouse manned by two nincompoops Freddy (Thom Mathews; Friday the 13th part VI, Return of the Living Dead II) and Frank (James Karen; Poltergeist, The Unborn, The Willies, Girlfriend from Hell).
Unfortunately, the cadaver storage barrels aren’t very secure and one releases a toxic gas which (in a roundabout way) makes its way into the atmosphere animating the dead, including the cadavers in the warehouse. With the necrotic gas in the atmosphere, a little rain over the nearby cemetery brings a taste of Armageddon as corpses animate and rise from their graves. Meanwhile Freddy and Frank are freaking out, call in their boss Burt (Clu Gulager; The Willies, The Initiation, A Nightmare on Elm Street part 2, Piranha 3DD, From a Whisper to a Scream) and the three of them wander into some shenanigans to cover up this undead mess.
The cult icon among the zombies is the tar man. He shambles towards Tina (Beverly Randolph; Death House) like the jangly man and speaks what he wants to eat: “brains!” Yup, these zombies are more cognitive than Romero’s. They speak, run, use tools, solve problems and are incredibly self-aware even as to why they want to eat brains.
In other news, long after their exposure to the toxic gas, Freddy and Frank are very sick, and lack a pulse! So following Dawn of the Dead (1978), we have a slow zombification/transformation process as their bodies slowly die and they comically whimper.
The budget is clearly limited—e.g., when Trash is surrounded by zombies that are basically just a bunch of extras covered in mud, or a totally undecayed healthy human arm reaching out from the grave soil. As it turns out, most of the zombies are mud-covered extras. It’s just that the zombies that matter are getting all the effects budget. The gore is decent, but most deaths are reduced to seeing someone swarmed by zombies before cutting the scene. Still, there’s gore to be enjoyed in several scenes. There’s skullcap-piercing brain bites spurting blood or chunks, thick oozing brain matter, and the more showcased zombies (e.g., tarman and the female torso) exhibit awesomely grotesque detail.
Among the more memorable characters are the punks Trash (Linnea Quigley; Night of the Demons, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Creepazoids, Pumpkinhead II) and Spider (Miguel A. Núñez Jr.; Friday the 13th part V, Leprechaun 4: In Space). Linnea Quigley has her famous (and provocative) grave-dancing scene and Núñez provides most of the amusing lines.
Director Dan O’Bannon (The Resurrected) proved successful with his more humorous unofficial follow-up/sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1968). This film really embraces its own hysteria. From their realization of zombies to their own degeneration from the infection, Frank and Freddy are an emotionally riotous mess, often whining or moaning or crying in pain.
The movie ends with a moment of social commentary as the military firebombs the zombie outbreak, unknowingly creating the atmospheric effect that would create an even more widespread outbreak! See you at the sequel…
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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast #283: Alien vs. Predator, Fake Snow and Laser Cannons
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The MFF podcast is back, and this week we’re discussing the Paul W.S. Anderson directed Alien vs. Predator. Released in 2004, this $180 million grossing film created a lot of excitement, made the franchises relevant again, and features a super fun scrap between a xenomorph and a Predator. (it’s fun!). We here at MFF love Paul W.S. Anderson, and we had a blast discussing how AvP was made. In this episode, we discuss potato snow, practical effects and Lance Henriksen.
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The MFF podcast is back, and this week Chris Kelly (of the Classic American Movies podcast) joined us to discuss the cult classic film Liquid Sky. Released in 1982, and directed by Slava Tsukerman, this funky science fiction film tells the story of a model named Margaret (Anne Carlisle) dealing with aliens, terrible people, and drugs. In this episode, we discuss massive shrimp dinners, fun dancing, and cheeky dialogue. Also, make sure to listen to the interview Chris had with writer/star Anne Carlisle, it’s a lot of fun.
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MFF Special: Analyzing Adam Sandler’s Films to Create a Perfectly Terrible Sandler Film
Quick note: I recently put this up on Reddit and it got a huge response so I decided to share it here too.
Last year, Adam Sandler was a guest on Howard Stern’s show to discuss his starring role in the excellent Uncut Gems. During the interview, Sandler made a joke about what would happen if he didn’t win the Best Actor Academy Award. He told Howard:
“If I don’t get it, I’m going to f–king come back and do one again that is so bad on purpose just to make you all pay. That’s how I get them.”
In a bad news, bad news situation, Sandler wasn’t nominated, and he’s promised to make a terrible film (I’ll still watch it a few times regardless). In an effort to assist the Sandman with his terrible film, I dug through all of his films and analyzed their posters to come up with the objectively worst Sandler picture that could be made. Here it is:
- Jacked Up
- Directed by Dennis Dugan
- Written By – Tim Herlihy
- PG-13
- Running Time: 135 minutes
- Released on Netflix
- Predicted Tomatometer score – 6%
- Predicted IMDb score – 3.75
Adam Sandler plays a personal trainer/shoe salesman named Jack Goodheart who is married to Janet Goodheart (Also, Sandler, using a very off-putting voice). They travel to an exclusive resort in Costa Rica to attend his 30th high school anniversary during the fourth of July weekend. During the event, Rob Schneider (playing a terrorist) and his team of henchmen, hijack the event and take everyone hostage, including State Senator Chuck Finley (Terry Crews) and presidential candidate Casey Fitzpatrick (Maya Rudolph). During the melee, Jack and Janet escape, and the two use their past military experience and buff physiques to save the day. This PG-13 action-comedy is entitled “Jacked Up” and ends with a jet ski chase at the hotel’s lazy river pool that circles the hotel. The film is directed by Dennis Dugan, and co-stars Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Terry Crews, Steve Buscemi, Taylor Lautner, Luke Wilson, Peter Dinklage, Maya Rudolph, and Al Pacino.
This is how I came up with the storyline. I pulled together his best and worst films to find patterns that appear. Here are Sandler’s lowest rated films on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb. I drew a lot of inspiration from them. Also, I tried to make this as objective as possible.
- The Ridiculous 6 (0% TM) – Action Comedy – Action hero
- Jack and Jill (3% – 3.3 IMDb) – Two Sandler’s – Jet Ski scene – Married – Holiday
- Grown Ups 2 (7%) – Reunited with old friends – Married
- Bulletproof (8%) – Action comedy
- The Cobbler (9%) – Shoe repairman
- The Do-Over (10%) – Action Comedy – Reunited with old friend – Married
- Grown Ups (10%) – Reunited with old friends – Holiday – Married
- Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights (12%)– Takes place during a holiday
- Blended (14%) – He’s a dad who travels to Africa
- Going Overboard (1.8 IMDb) – Lots of terrible boat action
- The Week Of (5.1 IMDb) families get together for a wedding
- Sandy Wexler (5.1 IMDb) – Sandler pulls a unique voice (which isn’t statistically a good thing
Here’s all I research I compiled to create Jacked Up
- A trademark of Sandler’s latest movies is that he likes to travel to beautiful locations to film (which is brilliant, and why not?). The Do-Over, Just Go With It, Blended, Grown Ups 1 & 2 and Murder Mystery are examples of his penchant for travel. The problem is, the films have a lower Tomatometer average (21.2%) than the films where he didn’t travel to nice locations (37.4%). This is why he travels in Jacked Up.
- Sandler has several directors that he enjoys working with. Those Directors are Steven Brill, Dennis Dugan and Frank Coraci. Steven Brill (20%) has a lower Tomatometer average than Dennis Dugan (24%) and Frank Coraci (30%). However, Dugan is responsible for Jack & Jill, so I’m giving him the director’s chair. He did direct Happy Gilmore, so this could backfire on me. Frank Coraci directed The Ridiculous 6, but, I love the baseball scene and he also directed The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer.
- Aside from You Don’t Mess With the Zohan (which is brilliant, and has a fun jet ski action scene), His action comedies are lackluster. Bulletproof (8%) and The Do-Over (9%) didn’t win him many points. That’s why Jacked Up features an action-centered plot.
- His films featuring him as a married man have a 29% Tomatometer average. Movies featuring him as a single man have a 38% Average. Thus, the marriage to himself (think Jack & Jill) is included. It’s a double whammy
- I picked Tim Herlihy to write because he wrote The Ridiculous Six, Grown Ups 2 and Pixels (8% average). I do love his Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy scripts though
- His PG-13 (29%) rated films have a lower Tomatometer average than his R (51%) and PG-rated (45%) films. For Netflix, M rating = R and TV-14 = PG-13
- I included a pool because in Airheads he is a pool cleaner who thinks about swimming pools. Also, Grown Ups, The Do-Over, Jack and Jill feature swimming pools. They have low scores.
- Movies that feature Sandler doing a voice have a lower Tomatometer score (24.8%) than his regular voiced roles (36%).
- None of his Fresh films feature a jet ski – 50 first Dates (45%), Jack & Jill (3%) and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan (37%) are all Rotten
- In The Ridiculous Six, Grown Ups, The Do-Over, and Bulletproof he plays a totally capable man who isn’t an underdog like he is in Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. So, he can’t be a doofus during the action scenes.
- Randomly enough, Rob Schneider shouldn’t adopt some kind of stereotyped character because his makeup-less roles have a lower Tomatometer average (27.6%) than his stereotyped roles (32%).
- His lowest rated movies on IMDb are Going Overboard (1.5), Jack & Jill (3.3), The Ridiculous 6 (4.8), Sandy Wexler (5.1) and The Week Of (5.1) – These movies feature water exploits, gun fights, weird voices, two Sandlers, and large gatherings. These things are all in Jacked Up.
- *Bulletproof (*$25 million), Little Nicky ($39 million) and Blended ($46 million) are a few of his lowest grossing comedies. In these films, he uses a wild voice, goes on vacations and engages in action shenanigans. I left out movies like Spanglish and Reign Over Me because they aren’t traditional Sandler comedies. Also, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore weren’t huge earners. However, they established him as a force of nature.
- His first or last name couldn’t begin with an “R” – Howard Ratner (Uncut Gems), Henry Roth (50 First Dates), Robbie Hart (The Wedding Singer).
WHAT DOES THE POSTER NEED TO LOOK LIKE?
- He cannot be centered on the poster. His best films Punch Drunk Love, Happy Gilmore, Funny People and Uncut Gems feature him centered on the poster. The Wedding Singer, Reign Over Me and The Meyerowitz Stories don’t have him centered. However, the movie posters that have centered have a 48% Tomatometer Average. The Posters that have him on the left have a 30% Tomatometer average. I’m going with that.
He is rarely centered in his worst movies.
- There needs to be multiple people on the poster. When Sandler is alone on a poster, his movies have a 42% Tomatometer average. The movie posters with 4+ people have a 20% Tomatometer average. More is good.
- In this poster he needs to be holding something random. In The Cobbler poster he is holding a coffee cup (this is important) and the movie has an 8% Tomatometer score. In The Wedding Singer (microphone) and Happy Gilmore (golf club) and The Waterboy (bucket, helmet) he is holding items related to his character. He needs to be holding something weird (like a can of sponsored coca-cola). Also, the posters that feature him holding an item (31%) have a lower Tomatometer score than the posters featuring him not holding anything (42%).
- It’s best if his entire body is on the poster. The movie posters featuring a full-bodied Adam Sandler have a lower Tomatometer average (31%) than his partial body posters (43%).
- Ideally, the title would be in the center, because Jack & Jill and The Ridiculous Six have somewhat centered titles.
Poster
- Title centered
- Sandler(s) on left side – Full body
- At least six other characters on the poster
- He needs to be holding something that has nothing to do with his charcter
There you have it! I can’t wait to watch Jacked Up.
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The Jim Jarmusch directed The Dead Don’t Die is an underappreciated zombie comedy that features coffee zombies, a samurai sword yielding Tilda Swinton, and copious mentions of Night of the Living Dead. The film was met with mixed reactions when it was released in 2019, so, we wanted to record this episode to promote its excellence and hopefully get more eyes on it. This small scale zombie film focuses on the “chaotic” events that unfold in a small town named Centerville (it’s in the center of a map we see later) that is overrun by zombies who crave material goods and flesh. In this episode we discuss dust zombies, tiny cars, and Adam Driver saying “ghouls.” Enjoy!
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MY CALL: If you’re looking for a lot of dumb cheesy fun with gore and evil flying go-for-the-throat fish violence, then you have found your Eden. And if that was somehow not specific enough for you to know if you want to see this movie, then it’s probably not for you. MORE MOVIES LIKE Piranha II: The Spawning: Piranha 3D (2010) or Piranha 3DD (2012) continue to amplify the campy, raunchy, extra cheesy and chunky gory spirit of this sequel.
NATURAL HORROR SIDEBAR: Looking for more natural horror? Check out Night of the Lepus (1972), Frogs (1972), Bug (1975), Jaws (1975), Food of the Gods (1976), Grizzly (1976), Squirm (1976), Empire of the Ants (1977), Day of the Animals (1977), Orca (1977), Piranha (1978), Alligator (1980), Of Unknown Origin (1983), Cujo (1983), Razorback (1984), Monkey Shines (1988), Slugs (1988), Food of the Gods II (1989), Shakma (1990), Arachnophobia (1990), Ticks (1993), Mosquito (1994), The Ghost in the Darkness (1996), Anaconda (1997), Lake Placid (1999), Rogue (2007), Pig Hunt (2008), Chaw (2009), The Grey (2011), The Bay (2012), The Shallows (2016), 47 Meters Down (2017), Boar (2017) and Crawl (2019).
In terms of overall production value, this is a big step up from Piranha (1978). The opening scenes depict a pair of scuba divers investigating sunken ship wreckage and engaging in an underwater sex scene before discovering saltwater piranhas! The shots of the attacking piranhas show much more of the creatures than part 1, and much more of the results of their swarming flesh-gauging attacks.
Our first glimpse of a flesh-stripped corpse looks great, but it’s even better (although super cheesy) when a flying fish piranha emerges from the corpse’s gaping guts to kill yet its next victim.
Working for a beachside Caribbean island resort, Anne (Tricia O’Neil) is the scuba tour instructor for the tourists. When a mangled body is found in the water with no good explanation of the cause of death, she teams up with a biochemist (pretending to be a tourist) to investigate what’s going on. But it turns out this biochemist is linked to the experiments of the first movie! Adding more conflict, Anne’s ex-husband is the police chief (Lance Henriksen; Pumpkinhead, Harbinger Down, Aliens, AVP, The Pit and the Pendulum) and he suspects she is somehow involved in the killings.
The frequency of flying piranha attacks increases yet somehow there is never any evidence of their existence as bizarrely mutilated bodies stack up. Meanwhile, these fish seriously look evil. Like, I think they inspired the Gates to Hell spectral fish in Freddy’s Dead (1991).
As mentioned before, director James Cameron (The Terminator, The Abyss, Aliens, True Lies) brought this sequel a serious bump in production value… but also a major increase in shredded gory cheese. The gory grand finale comes as the island resort vacationers approach the beach after midnight for the grunion run. But now genetically crossed with flying fish, the piranhas aerially assault the resort patrons. And these flying piranhas (like attack dogs) always seem to go for the throat for the most gruesome bloody death possible!
If you’re looking for a lot of dumb cheesy fun with gore and evil flying go-for-the-throat fish violence, then you have found your Eden.
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The final fight between Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) and Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper) in Speed takes place atop a speeding train and ends with a gnarly decapitation due to a very sturdy light. Not many people remember this fight, because when thinking about Speed, the majority of the attention is focused on the beautiful bus stunts and chemistry between Reeves and Sandra Bullock. This underappreciated brawl features decapitations, excessive screaming and a one-liner that requires too much thinking (I love it though). In this episode, we discuss sturdy lights, excessive action and the speed of Dennis Hopper. Enjoy!
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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast #280: Ford v Ferrari, Wrench Fights, and Racing Movies
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The MFF podcast is back, and this week we’re talking a movie that is perfect in every way. Ford v Ferrari is a beautiful film that focuses on the rivalry between Ford and Ferrari that took place in the 1960s. Directed by James Mangold (Logan, 3:10 to Yuma) and starring Matt Damon (who is so good people don’t know how good he is) and Christian Bale (same) , this Oscar nominated movie made $225 million worldwide, and has a 92% Tomatometer score and an 8.1 IMDb score (and I think it’s still underrated). In this episode, we discuss racing movies (listen to our Rush, Days of Thunder and Driven episodes), throwing wrenches, and the sliminess of Josh Lucas. Enjoy!
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