John’s Horror Corner: Aberration (1997), a surprisingly fun and gooey B-movie about a mutant lizard infestation.
MY CALL: I must say, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this B-movie. It’s loaded with silly action, playful humor, and rubber lizards that violate everything you learned in biology class; zaniness abounds. If you watch only the first 10, 20 or 30 minutes of this, you’d think you’d be making the right decision to stop watching. Just please keep watching. If you’ve ever loved a B movie this will probably be a pleasant surprise for you. MORE MOVIES LIKE Aberration: Mutant infestations are loads of fun. For some of my favorites featuring slugs, cockroaches and rats, try Slugs (1989), The Nest (1988) and Of Unknown Origin (1983).
This film opens with a sluggish pace as we meet Amy (Pamela Gidley; Cherry 2000) and her cat moving into her winter vacation home (?), a secluded cabin in the woods, where something is clearly (to the audience) amiss. The cat functions very much as dogs often do in horror, hesitating to enter the cabin as if it sensed an enemy and pointing out clues to the presence of “something” else.
We encounter traces of thick, green “horror movie” monster slime in and around her cabin. What’s more is that the local elderly weirdo’s dog has disappeared and a nearby biologist is collecting samples of slimy reptilian skin sheddings in the wild. Playing the harbinger trope, the old man warns Amy to “get out while she still can” because it’s “mating season.” Evidently this guy knows something bad is coming and, for some reason, doesn’t take the time to explain. Isn’t that just always the case in horror movies, by the way? How the people who could actually save your life are too busy being vague and weird to consider explaining something.
Observing signs of some sort of infestation, she buys some bug spray and mouse traps. But after she comes home to a mutilated cat, it’s apparent this is more than a few roaches or mice. Our know-it-all biologist reveals that they’re dealing with geckoes, mutant geckoes…with teeth! In fact, it’s an iguana-gecko hybrid that spits poison! Ridiculous! But also stupid fun.
What follows are some pleasant surprises including a feasted upon human corpse, plenty of laughs, a gooey dissection, stupid nonsense science, rubber lizard monsters, idiotic logic, pulsating mutant lizard eggs, some unexpectedly random martial arts, communicating like velociraptors in Jurassic Park (1993), three explosions, lots of gory lizard splatters and slimy gooey egg squishing. There’s a surprising amount of bad humorous B-action here, and only a few seconds of it are CGI.
This B-movie plays all the strings of horror tropes. The weirdo harbinger, the pet sentinel, the secluded cabin in the woods, an incoming storm, a socially awkward scientist who seems to know everything and the uncharacteristically sensual candlelit bath scene. But all these tropes are delivered with a sort of forgivable B-movie charm. This movie is surprisingly likable. The pinnacle of the eye-rolling so-bad-it’s-good moments comes when Amy drowns a lizard, that then “evolves” (complete misuse of the word evolve, by the way) gills right in front of them! They also develop an immunity to poison in hours and develop bulletproof scales!!!! Yeah, this is surely something your biology teacher never wanted you to see.
I must say, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this B-movie. If you watch only the first 10, 20 or 30 minutes of this, you’d think you’d be making the right decision to stop watching. Just please keep watching. If you’ve ever loved a B movie this will probably be a pleasant surprise for you. There are LOADS of scenes with effects and blood and zaniness!
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I can’t wait to hear the audience reaction towards 10 Cloverfield Lane in the upcoming days and weeks. It has received a massive marketing push and the curiosity/buzz surrounding it is epic. However, sequel expectations are going to throw a lot of people for a loop. I really enjoyed the movie, and thought it was a well-put-together thriller that features some very good performances. However, if people are expecting a movie about hipsters battling a blurry monster they will be disappointed.
10 Cloverfield Lane tells the story of three people waiting out the apocalypse in a bunker. They all got to the bunker differently, and their existence underground is anything but peaceful. The movie goes to some dark places that I totally didn’t expect, and I was really happy to see it ditch the stock sequel cliches (bigger, louder, bigger). There is a link to Cloverfield, but this movie shouldn’t be looked at as a direct sequel. 10 Cloverfield Lane takes place in the same world, but on opposite poles.
What makes 10 Cloverfield Lane work so well are the performances. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is fantastic as the imprisoned Michelle. When we first meet her, she is driving away from a bad relationship and her vehicle gets unexpectedly smashed. She wakes up chained to a wall, still bloody and totally confused. She is imprisoned in a doomsday haven, and we soon learn there is another “trapped” fellow named Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.). The two form an unlikely bond as they get used to their life under the rule of the bonkers Howard (John Goodman).
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What I love about Michelle is she is industrious, intelligent and believable. I’ve always been a fan of Winstead’s work and I was really happy to see her get a showcase role. She adds a maturity and toughness that doesn’t feel forced and you actually like her as a character. She is always looking to escape, but, also realizes just how insane the outside world has become. She is stuck between a rock and a hard place, so she spends her time figuring out how to survive.
You definitely won’t find a signal in a doomsday bunker.
John Goodman is terrifying in his role of bunker builder and bully. He uses every inch and ounce of his body to create a multilayered monster of a man. His character Howard Stambler is a doomsday preparation specialist who has quirks aplenty and an always simmering temper. He was supposedly in the Navy for many years and he thinks the world is under attack by something alien (not wrong). Howard is the the living embodiment of a nightmare, and his interactions with Michelle and Emmett are spine-tingling. I really hope Goodman is remembered come awards time because he is awesome in this film.
I won’t go into what happens next. This movie should be enjoyed with a blank slate and wide open expectations. Don’t expect too much monster mayhem and instead prepare yourself for a neat little chamber thriller. Kudos to Director Dan Trachenberg for creating a claustrophobic atmosphere and delivering a taut peice of work.
Sit back, relax, and appreciate a tiny film that is making giant waves.
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John’s Horror Corner: Indigenous (2014), pretty much The Descent with Chupacabras in a Panamanian jungle.
MY CALL: Director Alastair Orr may not amaze us with this Descent knock-off, but he demonstrates that he is highly capable of entertaining us with an unoriginal story and a slim budget. This was totally watchable. I’m looking forward to seeing what he does next. MORE MOVIES LIKE Indigenous: Forget this flick. Just go watch The Descent (2005).
This starts out feeling vaguely reminiscent of The Ruins (2008). A bunch of 20-somthings go on a Central American vacation and a side-trek goes horribly wrong as they discover the local fauna. It takes place in the extremely remote Panamanian forest Darien Gap, which is allegedly the reason we can’t drive from North America to South America. They go on a jungle hiking adventure to find a nearby “secret” waterfall that the locals warn not to visit. It’s too dangerous. Why? It just is. The real answer: chupacabras.
I have no complaints about the acting or general production value, it all seems up to snuff–decent, in fact. It seems that this film was trying to make an above-ground version of The Descent (2005) with chupacabras. The result is moderately entertaining, but it doesn’t come close to its predecessor.
From here on, we observe a series of Descent knock-off gimmicks rehashed in lower quality as our 20-somethings are picked off by hairless, albino, blind flesh-eating bat people that squeal like stuck velociraptors whenever they move. The gore includes a chewed off face, a grotesque leg wound, and various other bloody messes. It’s generally not a very gory movie, but it has its moments. Eventually our victims wander into a deep network of bat caves complete with offal pits of slimy human bones. The budget limitations are most apparent when you realize you never see more than one monster at a time. But they look alright.
They did a pretty good job with the characters. I wasn’t really rooting for any of them, but they did a great job making the tough guy jock into a scared-shitless mumbling survivor and I wouldn’t exactly say I didn’t care about them at all…just not as much as I should have.
Director Alastair Orr may not amaze us with this flick, but he demonstrates that he is highly capable of assembling something entertaining even with a highly unoriginal knock-off story, no major actors and a slim budget. I’m looking forward to seeing what he does next.
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MY CALL: Parts 1 and 2 were great for direct-to-DVD, and part 3 lost some inertia but remained a fun franchise installment. However, with no cool effects and a messy story, part 4 felt just plain lazy. I wish they never made it. And that’s hard for me to say as an otherwise huge fan of the franchise. <<apathetic shrug>> MORE MOVIES LIKE Subspecies 4: Hopefully you saw Subspecies (1991), Subspecies II (1993), and perhaps Subspecies III: Bloodlust (1994). ALTERNATE TITLE: Subspecies 4: Awakening.
Is he…reaching for her boob???
After a major refresher montage of pretty much every scene and special effect of the franchise, we pick up right where Subspecies III: Bloodlust (1994) ended with a barbequed Radu not dead because Michelle (Denice Duff; Subspecies II–IV, Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation) and her rescuers had left the bloodstone behind. So Radu (Anders Hove; Subspecies I-IV, Critters 4) scrambles away to regenerate as Michelle, now a fully initiated vampire, is taken to a hospital where a vampire-knowledgeable doctor (Mihai Dinvale; Blood and Chocolate, Dark Angel: The Ascent) claims he can cure her ancient malady!
He looks as confused and disappointed as I was with this movie.
I’m sorry to say that this fourth installment is far less interesting than its predecessors. Lt. Marin (Ion Haiduc; Subspecies II-IV, Dark Angel: The Ascent, Mimic: Sentinel), my least favorite character from part 3, returns and contributes nothing of value as one of Radu’s recent weak creations. Adding to the needlessly complex plot, the doctors are more interested in researching the bloodstone than helping Michelle, another of Radu’s fledglings and his protégé conspire against Radu, the doctor is himself a vampire, Michelle suddenly has a soft spot for Radu…it’s just too much and it keeps us from getting into any one plot element. There’s too much going on for it to develop into anything. This is all on top of the base storyline of Radu trying to reclaim Michelle under his wing. Haven’t we had enough of that yet with the last two films??? <<sigh>>
Behold, the most farcical moment in the franchise thus far.
BARF! We get it. The sun doesn’t hurt you, but you’ll ironically put on sunglasses.
The special effects seem a less frequent (than parts I-III) as well. We see lots of shadow walking (which is no longer interesting or impressive really), I still have a love-hate relationship with Radu’s gangly fingers and there are a few blood feedings, but outside of the introductory footage from part 3 and a couple of beheadings there are no cool effects. What the Hell? Nothing comes even remotely close to the neat claymation of Radu’s minions or Radu’s head reattaching itself a la The Thing (1982) with arterial tendrils whipping from his detached head and affixing themselves to his body to drag his head into place as his spinal cord extends outward to receive it…AWESOME EFFECT from Subspecies II. Where was all that? It seems that both the writing and special effects were left behind on this one.
Yes, by all means. Cut off the head of this wretched film!
And…doesn’t he look a tad like Willem Dafoe?
Parts 1 and 2 were pretty damn good–great, in fact, for direct-to-DVD releases. Then with Subspecies III: Bloodlust (1994) director Ted Nicolaou (Subspecies I-III, Terror Vision, Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys) lost the inertia that started this franchise so powerfully–but part 3 was still a fun franchise installment. However, part 4 felt just plain lazy. No cool effects and a messy story. I wish they never made it. And that’s hard for me to say as an otherwise huge fan of the franchise. <<apathetic shrug>>
Another look of disappointment.
She looks like Helena Bonham Carter from Fight Club…
But Fight Club came out a year LATER!
Mind = BLOWN!
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John’s Horror Corner: Last Shift (2015), the story of a rookie cop in a haunted police station.
MY CALL: I was generally unimpressed and disappointed with this satanic haunting film. MORE MOVIES LIKE Last Shift: I’ve read many people comparing this drivel to Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and I honestly don’t see it, outside of the setting being the last night at a police precinct. I consider this comparison to be an insult to the late John Carpenter.
The set up isn’t exactly promising. A rookie police officer (Juliana Harkavy; The Walking Dead) shows up to a near abandoned police station for her first shift on the job. Young, attractive and seemingly too meek for conflict, she strikes me as no more than tenderized final girl victim bait for whatever evils herein lurk. Unfortunately for us, the greatest evil here is in the poor filmmaking.
Without easing us into a false sense of security, our cadet encounters all manner of flickering lights, strange noises, objects moving on their own, a disturbed hobo (J. LaRose; Insidious Chapter 2, The Devil’s Carnival) who keeps “appearing” in the building, slamming doors and mysterious phone calls. Among the disordered melee of distractions, very little seems nearly as effective as intended and most of it is just plain annoying.
With all this going on she doesn’t seem to acknowledge how weird this all is until she’s in too deep. She doesn’t call for back-up…perhaps for fear of being embarrassed on her first day. But before we know it we learn our rookie is not alone in the station and that she is somehow connected to its haunting.
Writer/director Anthony DiBlasi (Dread, The Profane Exhibit, Cassadaga) stencils the film’s contours with strong supernatural influences. For example, the film “borrows” the iconic chair stacking scene from Poltergeist (1982; podcast discussion) and subsequently Dark Skies (2013). Other scenes (e.g., the locker room scene) likewise echo the Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) kitchen cabinet scene, the spectral corpse drag from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) or the fast-twitching face-shaking of The House on Haunted Hill (1999).
The story comes to include a satanic cult of murderous devil worshipping fanatics. I found most of the scenes, ploys and acting to be vastly underwhelming. However, a few scenes were creepy and quite effective. Again, “a few.” In fact, the bulk of the movie felt random and in desperate need of synthesis and direction…and talent. There, I said it.
Among the film’s successes were scenes of ghosts, disturbing imagery involving corpses, and unexpected gore. The gore is neither frequent nor abundant, but its presentation represents the best execution of the film. Otherwise, this chaotic fever dream is nothing I would ever recommend.
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The 10 Best Moments of the 1992-2002 MTV Movie Awards
Remember back in the 1990’s when you didn’t have access to the internet, and you learned about movies via Premiere, Empire or the MTV Movie Awards? From 1992-2002 I thought the MTV Movie Awards were the coolest thing on the planet. I knew it wasn’t highbrow, but I learned about some great movies because of the MTV First Time Filmmaker Award and the various spoofs. MTV honored some great first-time filmmakers, and because of this I was introduced to Doug Liman, Guy Ritchie, Christopher Nolan and most importantly Wes Anderson. I also fell in love with the band Foghat because of Jim Carrey’s acceptance speech for The Truman Show (amazing moment) in 1999.
In honor of the fantastic 1992-2002 run of the MTV Movie Awards here are the 10 best moments!
10. The Kahuna burger gets shot (1995)
I love when the Kahuna burger blows up in the Welcome Back Kotter/Pulp Fiction spoof. I appreciate the idea of replacing a head explosion for a burger explosion. The video felt cool because I watched Pulp Fiction when I was 12 and I felt in on the joke.
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9. I think there are too many kicks in the movie (2000)
“I’m not his stunt double, I’m his “oneble.” Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise nailed this video for Mission Impossible II.
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8. Lisa Kudrow meets Yoda and Andy Dick (1999)
Remember when Andy Dick was funny? I love this video that involves Lisa Kudrow and Andy Dick dealing with a really old Yoda.
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7. Titanic Sequel (1998)
“You put Buddy Hackett on that boat you got a billion dollars.” Watching Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller trying to sell James Cameron on a Titanic sequel is pure gold. I couldn’t find a Youtube clip but you can head over to MTV to watch the video.
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6. Chewbacca gets a Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)
The big guy finally got his medal! What I loved about the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award was how random it was. The recipients were Jason Voorhees, The Three Stooges, Richard Roundtree, Jackie Chan, Godzilla, Chewbacca and Clint Howard.
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5. Clint Howard wins the Lifetime Achievement Award (1998)
This is the most earnest speech that nobody saw coming. MTV actually retired the award after Howard, because his speech was so endearing and well-thought-out.
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4. The Mummy and Rob Schneider (2001)
A lot of time and money went into the Mummy spoof and I love every second of it. I also really like that Jimmy Fallon and Kirsten Dunst battle Rob Schneider. In our 2016 world that sounds really weird.
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3. Max Fischer and his players recreate all the best picture nominations (1999)
MTV let Max Fischer take over the awards. What?!?! How cool is that?
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2. Jim Carrey promotes Foghat (1999)
This is the greatest speech ever.
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- Wes Anderson accepts his Best New Filmmaker award (1996)
Wes Anderson is my favorite director and I love Bottle Rocket. After listening to Anderson’s speech I hunted down the Bottle Rocket VHS (thanks Blockbuster) and it changed my cinematic world.
I had to include this. Here are the winners of the Best New Filmmaker Award from 1992-2002.
1992 – John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood
1993- Carl Franklin – One False Move
1994 – Steven Zaillian – Searching for Bobby Fischer
1995- Steve James – Hoop Dreams
1996 – Wes Anderson – Bottle Rocket
1997 – Doug Liman – Swingers
1998 – Peter Cattaneo – The Full Monty
1999 – Guy Ritchie – Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
2000 – Spike Jonze – Being John Malkovich
2001 – Sofia Coppola – The Virgin Suicides
2002 – Christopher Nolan – Memento
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MY CALL: Quite a terrible movie, but terrible in all the right ways if you’re in the mood for gory, silly, deliciously bad horror. It’s moderately smutty and often disgusting. You’ve been warned. MORE MOVIES LIKE Faust: So you want smutty movies horror? Try Night of the Tentacles (2013), Bioslime (2010), Blood Gnome (2004), The Haunting of Morella (1990), Killer Workout (1987), Death Spa (1989), Evils of the Night (1985), Head of the Family (1996) and Piranha 3DD (2012). Throw in Barbarian Queen (1985), Conquest (1983), Deathstalker (1983), Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans (1987) and The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984) for some campy fantasy, sword and sorcery flicks.
A rule-breaking police officer (Jeffrey Combs; Lurking Fear, Doctor Mordrid, Would You Rather) crosses paths with some sort of music therapist after our Faustian protagonist makes a deal with a white-haired euro-trashy fiend and is granted Street Fighter II Vega wrist blades to avenge the death of his murdered immigrant girlfriend. Sounds like somebody got snubbed at the 2001 Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, doesn’t it?
Clearly, this was in no way imaginable ripped off of Wolverine.
Look at all those claw poses!
As the mysterious near-albino Mephistopheles figure, Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster, Lost) is deliciously ridiculous and I struggle to rationalize his hair. But trumping the lunacy of his hair is the rampaging melodrama and varying sound quality. More Oscar near-misses, no doubt.
Faust breaks the Devil’s rules and is sent to Hell, which he promptly escapes by defeating an animated skeleton. I know, the scene wasn’t very inspired and I’d imagine evading damnation would have posed a greater challenge. Moreover when he emerges he is like a demonic superhero complete with cape, latex muscles, and silly CGI transformations. This is, after all, based on a comicbook. It’s tone yo-yos between clearly deliberately silly at times, and somewhat serious at others. The finale pits our Faustian inverse-hero against a ritually summoned Hell beast.
There’s a good amount of action, all being of awful cheesy execution. But that’s to be expected when you have topless women slitting throats mid-coitus and women in bras beating men up. With that, there’s also a fair amount of graphic sex scenes and nudity accompanied by a hefty dose of low budget gore like rooms filled with severed limbs and heads, flesh-tearing, face-ripping, face-melting and dismemberment. And to top off the special effects, there’s a deeply perverted slimy transformation scene that is too gross, smutty and tasteless for me to explain…but a quick GoogleImage search for “Faust love of the damned boob” should explain things.
This is the worst film I’ve seen by director by Brian Yuzna (Society, Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead 3). This cheesy comic book adaptation is utterly terrible, but if you’re in the mood for a specifically really bad horror movie, then this might be right up your alley. So maybe it’s terrible in all the right ways. If you know what I mean by that, watch and enjoy this gory, silly flick. If you don’t, then skip it.
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MY CALL: Highlander (1986) meets Constantine (2005) as our favorite immortal genre star slays his way through witches, monsters and magical spell effects using arcane tricks, potions and a FLAMING SWORD. YES!!!! This movie is for Dungeons and Dragons dorks who love Vin Diesel. MORE MOVIES LIKE The Last Witch Hunter: Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters (2013), Constantine (2005), Highlander (1986), Blade (1998) and Underworld (2003).
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Following the Blade (1998)/Underworld (2003) playbook, Highlander (1986) meets Constantine (2005) as our hero Kaulder (Vin Diesel; Furious 7, Guardians of the Galaxy, Riddick) suffers the Van Helsing curse to hunt criminal witches across the centuries. Vin Diesel’s immortal has gained no more wisdom or savoir-faire in his centuries of experience than Dominic Torreto has in his seemingly unending supply of heist movies. They’re basically the same coarse unkillable character, only one of them is a several hundred-year-old, flaming sword swinging hunter of the Dark Arts afflicted with a curse (eye roll!) of eternal life whereas Dom graduated from living life a quarter-mile at a time to $100 million dollar jobs across the globe.
They say Vin made this movie to erect a world around his love for Dungeons and Dragons and I’d say, as a major D&D enthusiast, he succeeded. The world-building may not be as refined as the program-infested The Matrix (1999), the enchanted academia of Harry Potter (2001), Avatar‘s (2009) xenoscape or John Wick‘s (2014) underground assassin society, but he laid down an ambitiously solid franchise foundation. Now I could write thousands of words making fun of this movie–poking holes in the story and pointing out things I think are silly or bit dumb…or very dumb. But at the end of the day, I really enjoyed it! Hell, I think I want more of these. Let the academics be critical and scoff, but I love Vin’s franchises (Fast and Furious, Guardians of the Galaxy, Riddick and maaaaybe even xXx, which is getting another sequel).
Parts of this movie feel like they’re straight out of an old adventure module.
This flick features an awesome diversity of witches, spells and magical items…down to flaming swords, the witch queen’s (Julie Engelbrecht) lair in a giant Game of Thrones tree, and even a Gummi Bear illusion reminding me of Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters (2013).
For real, it’s like the Game of Thrones tree got infested with bark beetles and died.
But what keeps us from slipping off into the deep end is Michael Caine (The Dark Knight Rises). He plays his 36th Dolan, a watcher, confession receiver, advisor and record keeper to Kaulder. He is the humanity and soul of the film whereas Vin is more of the film’s flexed, sweat-glistening bicep. He is replaced by an eager-to-please Elijah Wood (Cooties), who is the Shia LeBouf to Keanu’s Constantine.
Caine dies but his apparently natural death was concealed by the darkest magic imaginable–“darker than evil.” Cue more eye-rolling. Phrases like “darker than evil” and constantly hearing Vin Diesel use the word “magic” verge on comical. Vin travels the world using pick-up lines honed over centuries on dim-witted flight attendants between Dungeons and Dragons missions to recover ancient artifacts. He even keeps a treasure horde in a secret vault like a high-level character in his chic NYC penthouse, afforded from centuries of saving up (I guess). It’s all very silly, even stupid, but there’s just something about this urban fantasy that appeals to me.
The witch queen resurrection!
In this world witches live among us in secret and, according to “the truce,” they cannot use magic on humans. Kaulder is the peace keeper, the Judge Dredd. And like John Constantine (2005), he keeps the balance and employs arcane boy scout tricks to detect magic. Oh, and his new girlfriend Chloe’s (Rose Leslie; Game of Thrones) bar is akin to Midnight’s hangout.
He also explains things a lot, simple things and obscure notions alike. I would have preferred more subtlety, but every time I roll my eyes it’s accompanied by a smile. Is all this blunt exposition perhaps deliberate? Well, let’s just say he actually makes reference to “a 14th level Warlock.” A classic D&D bazinga!
Have I compared this to Constantine enough yet? Probably not. Well Balthazar (aka Belial, a devil in the Monster Manual) is the bad guy, as was Balthazar (Gavin Rossdale) the baddie in Constantine.
No reason to be annoyed, though. Fun diversions come in all form of plague trees, magic potions, high councils, plague flies (crawling under the skin–yes, like Constantine), a monstrous sentinel (like a Bone Golem)…everything a Dungeons and Dragons dork could want. Except for maybe a dragon–they’ll save that for the sequel. And boy did they set us up for a guaranteed sequel.
This film does not deliver an original story–not even close. But the magical and monstrous visuals are a popcorn spectacle to be celebrated and our new gruff hero is familiar in all the ways we seem to enjoy seeing over and over again. Even if we’re not going to dole out Oscars at it, this flick is worth seeing, renting, even owning if you’re a Vin Diesel fan. And if you’re not, then you should’ve known better than to watch this.
If you decide not to be critical, then this will happily bring out the nostalgic geek in you.
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SUMMARY: This week we discuss, spoil, analyze and review Vin Diesel’s Dungeons and Dragons lovechild The Last Witch Hunter (2015) and Jane Austin’s contemporary adaptation Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016).
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“Why does The Last Witch Hunter keep reminding me of Constantine (2005)?”
“In out cold is it really possible to open beer bottles by hitting the cap with your snowboard?”
“Was Mr. Darcy in the right, or could we have lived peacefully with the zombies?”
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The MFF Podcast #50: Kurtchella, the Kurt Russell Special
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SUMMARY: This week we discuss our favorite movie icon, KURT RUSSELL. We review our favorite Kurt Russell trivia, review six degrees from Kurt Russell to Elvis, the best DVD commentaries on the market, and our favorite moments from his earlier career with special emphasis on Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, Used Cars, Escape from LA, his countless links to Elvis and other actors.
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“What movies role would have been much better if Kurt Russell had gotten the part instead?”
“Why is Kurt Russell the worst loser ever and the best loser at the same time?”
“Did Kurt Russell really make that full court basketball free throw?”
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