I'll go to bat for some of these. For instance, I'm a fan of THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, EQUALIZER 1&3, and MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.
SHOOTER and EQUALIZER 2 are decent.
But he does miss as often as he hits. INFINITE in particular is godawful.
Add me to the list. It's the second best MAGNIFICENT SEVEN movie!
He's also essentially an audience insert who can be all "space wizards??! That sounds silly, just gimme my walking dog alien and my laser gun OH SHIT, SPACE WIZARDS ARE REAL!?" to give the audience more buy-in.
Basically, if STAR WARS released now, people would call Han Solo out for "MCU humor."
It's funny because it's true.
The films from the classic monster cycle of the '90s - such as Coppola's DRACULA, Branagh's FRANKENSTEIN, Nichols' WOLF, Sommers' THE MUMMY - are now as old as the Hammer ones were back in the '90s.
Which means if you watched those when they came out.....ya old!
That's a bummer.
Is the Universal Monsters channel actually back to primarily showing Universal Monsters (and Hammer) films again then?
Last time I bothered to check it, it was just showing a bunch of 2000s horror flicks.
I was next-level obsessed with ZOMBIES ATE MY NEIGHBORS as a kid.
Wampler: the gift that keeps on giving.
Hey, we don't know what they're up to when we're not looking...
Well, Mothra is his #1 love.
Honestly, Anguirus is probably the side chick.
You don't know much about a tale that is over 2,700 years old? Seriously?
Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.
Seconded.
Mads Mikkelsen alone should be enough to entice anyone, let alone the fact that Sigourney Weaver is in it and it feels like a gateway horror movie that Miyazaki would appreciate.
Lots of blood and guts, shoot em ups, one terrible comedy and more at the movies this week:
I really dig this movie. Never been watched the follow-up show though.
Call out? Pffft. I scheduled the day off.
I'm not kidding.
For all of you evening peeps!
A picture of a man becoming a werewolf MONSTROUSMUSINGS Let Them Cook By Phil Nobile Jr. I had two utterly singular experiences at this year's Overlook Film Festival: I interviewed the great Rick Baker about An American Werewolf in London for a Future Fango Thing; and | moderated a Q&A for Larry Fessenden's "Monster Quadrilogy," which screened his films Habit, Depraved and Blackout before his new one, Trauma or, Monsters All, which ties the aforementioned three films together in an audacious and surprising way. In my interview with Mr. Baker, he talked about a frustration with the industry that led to his retirement a decade ago. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something along the lines of how, when you're at the point where you're getting notes from meddling producers about the shape of a monster's eyebrow, or the placement of its nose, you realize you're in a system where art and passion and creativity cannot exist, much less thrive. Mr. Baker decided that's not where he wanted to be, and promptly dipped. Now, he's still happily creating and blowing fans minds on Instagram, but he's following his bliss instead of dopey producer feedback, and the beautiful work on his account emanates pure joy. "I retired from the business, I didn't retire from being me," he told us. Thank goodness for that.
In today’s Terror Teletype: when producers hire artists and second-guess their every move, everyone loses.
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BREAKING: The sequel that has been promised is "on the way" for years is indeed on the way.
Seriously, this really isn't news, especially since Miles Teller and Glen Powell get asked about its progress in every interview they give.
- King Kong (1933)
- Mighty Joe Young (1949)
- Rodan (1956)
- 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
- Mothra (1964)
- The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
- Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)
- King Kong (1976)
- Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
- Deep Rising (1998)
- Kong: Skull Island (2017)
It feels weird if you look at it strictly as a horror film, but when you look at it as a noir, he's really just nothing more than a pathetic pawn in the femme fatale's scheme. It might be titled SON OF DRACULA, but Katherine is the true villain, not Alucard.
My fondness for it continues to grow.
Demon I am and face I peel
To see your skin turned inside out, 'cause
Gotta have you my wall
Gotta have you on my wall, 'cause
I want your skull
I need your skull
It was about Jason Statham as a one man army-turned-bee farmer who utterly wrecks techbros, scam callers, private security, and corrupt politicians after they fuck up his living situation. And then he returns to the sea at the end, like goddamn Godzilla.
Watch it!
Always happy to see a new Bruckner film on the horizon.
