predator 2: last week i was in chicago for an archaeology conference, which was pretty awesome. the first night i was in town, i sat down at a random table of archaeologists and found one to be familiar. turns out we had a latin class together like five years ago, and i'm still impressed that i remembered him because that 8 am course, taken during my final semester of college, was embarrassingly punctuated by many a trip to the bathroom to puke as i was kind of in a party zone. anyway, this former classmate of mine reminded me of a sight that i rather enjoyed while i was an undergdrad. there was this girl, i never spoke to her, never knew her name, but she was awesome becuase her hairstyle can only be described as predator dreads.
so, yeah, yesterday i saw this was coming on so i watched it. for little more than the above association. i really don't have anything new to add to predator thought, i guess. danny glover danny glover danny glover.
squirm: this 1976 flick is AMAZING. big-city dude goes to visit his girlfriend in her sleep southern town, only to find that the whole place is infested with carniverous worms. this movie was clearly a huge influence for the decade-later bigger budget kevin bacon vehicle TREMORS; and i love me some tremors. anything that helped that movie get born is deserving of my love. it also lent quite a bit to arachnaphobia; lots of foul shower scenes. and a classic 'hick' who the worms cannot take down, but they do gnaw through his face, and when he rises up to 'get' people like a still-living zombie, the only thing he'd say is 'now YOU gonna be a worm-face!' i mean this had potential to be at least mildly, mildly disturbing but someone decided that, nope, that was not to be the tone of squirm. kudos. like, for real.
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