Let Hooptober begin! This year I decided to start with the Tobe Hooper selection rather than end with it. Good choice! Sets the tone right away.
“Dinnertime, damn it, let’s go!”
This movie is twisted. Lots of humor, absurd at times, but with a(n) (un)healthy level of sadism and gore. It doesn’t have the same low-fi, voyeuristic feel of the original, but it does have the same sick sense of peering at depravity. It practically oozes out of the screen—much…
I did not like this and I can’t figure out why. It is off-putting in many ways, but that’s not a bad thing in and of itself… in fact, that can be a good thing. I got a lot of the same feelings from this that I got from Don’t Worry Darling. It shows its hand too soon and doesn’t sufficiently build on its premise. I don’t have a lot of care or concern for the protagonist, nor do the…
I love every moment of this. Every character is so delightful. In terms of story, it just glides with ease across any and all concepts. A truly great animated film that uses the medium to its utmost potential. The bad guys are hilarious, but so is the pig. Gleeful stuff.
“Look at them! Three naked murdering bitches.”
Two stars for the curiosity of it, but there’s really not much of value here. It appears to be a fun sex romp, but in reality it’s a dark drug-fueled dilemma. The surroundings are admittedly quite nice.
Perfect. I love every shot, every choice—this goes places I didn’t expect and then veers off from those to even darker realms. The characters are really well developed and the crisis is allowed to develop with significant tension that builds to a dramatic climax. There is ample symbolism and plenty of really cool shots. There is a thoroughly gruesome eye-stabbing sequence—that eye stuff gets me every time, I should make a list.
This film (as were several of my previously…
This film started off alright, but after the initial trial scene everything about the film goes downhill at a terrific pace. Everyone involved had to have known that this sucked. It’s absolutely fascinating how bad this film is. The jokes are as stale as a seven-year-old jar of urine.
They try nobly to save things towards the end with a comical musical montage that gave me my only real laugh, but it’s a late hail mary pass with no hope of averting the loss. The actual climax is painful to watch and I want it destroyed.
