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August 16, 2008
Movie Trailer: Big Trouble in Little China
This thing is cheesier than the Wisconsin State Fair. You've probably heard the phrase "Its so bad it's good". Depending on your tastes, this may be one of those movies. C'mon, you have Kurt Russell running around with a mullet and his pants tucked into his boots, how bad can it be?

"Finally, we're going to bring order out of chaos." Uh, I don't think so, not here you're not.

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Screenwriter: Gary Goldman (Next), and David Z. Weinstein
Director: John Carpenter (The Thing)
Actors: Kurt Russell (Miracle), Kim Cattrall (Porky's), and James Hong (Kung Fu Panda)


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July 9, 2008
The Thing (1982)
Should I see it?
Yes.



Now, this is how you "re-envision" a movie. I consider John Carpenter's reworking of the 1951 classic monster movie The Thing from Another World one of the best horror movies ever made. He remolds the story into something believable and haunting.

A group of scientists working in an outpost in the South Pole are attacked by an alien that acts as a doppelgänger. The shape-shifting alien forces the scientists to fall into paranoid, survival mode since they don't know who's real and who's been replaced by the creature. Carpenter plays the paranoia perfectly to the very end and his alien is just plain creepy.

Kurt Russell anchors the film with a variation on his Snake Plissken persona.

The film has maintained itself well over the years and still can give a shock or two. If you haven't seen it, and you can handle the sight of blood - lots of blood - you should give it a chance.


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January 24, 2008
Movie Review Link: Prince of Darkness
One of the great things about being online are those times when you find someone who just nails a subject.

It's even better when that subject is completely obscure and relatively irrelevant to more than a few dozen people worldwide.

I love LOVE a review for John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness written by EegahInc over at one of brand new favorite sites The B-Movie Catechism.

I have to respect anyone who has the tagline "One man's desperate attempt to reconcile his love of his Catholic faith with his passion for really, really bad movies." We're doing the same thing over here brother. Different denomination however - I'm one of those pesky evangelicals (I have the ugly sweaters and big hair to prove it.)

Click on the group of bad actors if you want to suffer through the trailer
I watched this film in my youth many times. It is an unmitigated piece of crap but there was always something about the film that intrigued me. The nearly incoherent plot combined with the striking visuals always drew me in. It's always been one of those films I've known better than to consider but did anyway.

Head on over to read the review and check what else he has going on. Looks like I have a new link for my blogroll.

Please note that my support of this review and my positive tone about the film DOES NOT translate to me recommending this film to anyone. Just because I'm stupid enough to sit through this doesn't mean you are. This is a horrible movie. One of the reasons I think this film is named Prince of Darkness is because this is the kind of movie you'll find playing down in Hell.

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May 1, 2007
Movie Trailer: The Prince of Darkness

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