Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear proves the null hypothesis that a lengthy run time can tarnish a finished product. That’s especially true in comedy, a shining example (if you will), being the otherwise great The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which could’ve used a considerable trim (albeit not from the monkey in this poster). It’s the same for horror.Continue reading “Monkey Shines”
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Scanners
Scanners is horror turned inside out. And outside in. Thought crimes are reified, as a subculture of”telephatic curiosities” (aka, “scanners”) are able to use their brains to kill. Scanners are social outcasts, unable to quell the voices in their heads and it’s this “loss of self” that is explored in what can be described asContinue reading “Scanners”
Really Awful Movies 