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Posted by Tim on March 6, 2008Gross Movie Reviews #117
Running With Scissors (DVD) – An independent film based on a man’s childhood that wasn’t exactly your typical childhood. His father was a drunk, his mother was an insanely average writer with high expectations and wanted her husband to die, the kid didn’t believe into going to school. As the film progresses it shows his parents eventually get a divorce and his mother is completely drugged up while she let’s her shrink adopt her son. From there her son learns of other kids staying at the shrink’s house and decides eventually he needs to get away in order to do what he wants to do with his life which is writing. The movie is witty and an excellent star-filled independent film, its non-horror so be warned but I give the film 3 stars.
In the Line of Fire (DVD) – Clint F’N Eastwood plays a FBI agent who stumbles upon a man who has his sights on killing the president. Clint F’N Eastwood not only convinces the right people he should be part of the Secret Service to guard the president he gets to bang Rene Russo in her prime who is also part of the Secret Service. Once again, another classic Eastwood movie as I give it 3 ½ stars.
Awake (DVD) – Jessica Alba and Darth Vader from the new episodes of “Star Wars” star in this movie about being awake during surgery but not physically awake. Apparently this happens quite often according to the credits at the beginning of the film. But anyhow Darth Vader has heart problems and needs a transplant but instead of going with his mother’s choice of doctor since they are rich fuckers he goes with someone who was there during his first heart attack and has become his friend. Well, Vader goes under and can feel and hear everything going on but can’t do anything about it as he was set up. The movie struggles to make it to the 80 minute mark which is a sign it should have been shorter to begin with but forces you the viewer to endure a lengthy film that shouldn’t have been with annoying but hot Jessica Alba playing a villain, which she sucks at! Unless she is playing a stripper or a dumb ditz in some teenager horror flick she should move over for the professional actresses. I give the film that also has Fisher (My Science Project) Stevens 1 star.
Pink Flamingos (DVD) – One of the classic
Female Trouble (DVD) – “Divine” is back this time as a teenager coping with being a teenager in 1960 and trying to get kicked out of school because ‘its cool’ and hoping she gets her “cha-cha heels” for X-mas! When this doesn’t happen, she runs away and gets knocked up by some fat drunk and eventually decides to be a thief instead of getting a job. Being a thief eventually leads to being a famous model because a couple looking for someone breaking the law and they can take pictures of it. Again, John Waters let the trash fly in this film as it gets completely crazy by the end of the film when “Divine” is shooting everyone! John Waters casted most of the character actors from his “Pink Flamingos” more than likely because of no budget and all of them being his friends! The DVD has lots of extras and I give it 2 ½ stars.
The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine (DVD) – German filmmaker and Make-up FX guru Olaf Ittenbach is back with his latest project about a woman who suffered a trauma as a young child and only recently in her adult years is reliving the nightmare. Rebecca as a young child is sleeping in bed when her father and friends are slaughtered by a masked killer in some vicious ways with a meat clever among other accessories! Rebecca finds out from her aunt and uncle who happened to be her adopted parents that she fell into a coma after the events and would have no memory of what took place until later in life. Now, Rebecca is hellbent on knowing what happened the night of the murders and why it did by visiting the home it happened in. Then it gets interesting when she meets the ghost of her father that explain to her that she needs to bring the people who murdered them to the house. The film is a good ghost story taken to the extreme with it’s over the top violence and beautiful gore that make the film an excellent choice for all gorehounds to buy! I give the film 3 ½ stars and is available at www.mtivideo.com .
The Silence of the Lambs (DVD/Theater) – Based on the Thomas Harris novel and actually a sequel to 1987’s “Manhunter” (sort of, long story) is the film that introduced the world to one of the scariest and coolest characters in horror movie history, “Hannibal Lector”, played perfectly by Anthony Hopkins. Jodie Foster plays a FBI agent (Clarice Sterling) in training who gets the chance to go to an institution where Lector resides in order to extract information out of him about a serial killer they can’t catch called, “Buffalo Bill” played perfectly also by Ted Levine and fucking scary in his own right also. Soon, Clarice forms a bond with Lector during her interviews and creeps closer to catching the serial killer “Buffalo Bill”. The film is scary, thrilling, and sucks you in for two hours like no other! I remember seeing the film when it first came out in 1991 when it was being debated in “Fangoria” magazine and other horror rags if it was truly a horror film or just an over the top thriller? The debate sort of still goes on between movie geeks but has been accepted as a true horror film for the most part. The movie not only made Anthony Hopkins an icon, but took Jodie Foster best known for her role in “Taxi Driver” into a whole new level of fame where actresses could only dream about. For
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