For my birthday I've received:
Speed Racer DVD Vol. 2
Picnic at Hanging Rock (DeAnne)
Godzilla box set
Spider-man '67-72 cartoon DVD (52 episodes!) (Beth!)
Thunderbirds Vol. 2 (Mom)
Suicide Girls book -- better than I thought (DeAnne)
Ginger Snaps Back (Mom)
All I need now is the Munsters Season 1 and the Dawn of the Dead remake and life will be complete. The meaning of life = getting stuff.
Reviews for the database:
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965)
This is arguably Russ Meyers best. It has everything you want from
60s exploitation: Bad girls, drag races, cat fights, go-go dancing and
if that werent enough its oozing with sexuality. Three real bad eggs
kidnap the girlfriend of an unfortunately dressed teen whos running time
trials in the desert. Rumors of a stashed fortune deliver the four girls to
the farmhouse of an invalid letch and his two sons. One son is like
Steinbecks Lenny if he were beefcake. Theres shady double-crossing and
deadly sarcasm in nearly every line of dialogue. For all the dismissal he
receives for his T&A inclinations, Meyer knows how to push buttons and FPKK
functions as a delicious desert noir and is probably as entertaining as
anything else made in 1965. Its also beautifully shot in black and white.
Theres a surprising lack of nudity, but the presence of Tura Santana makes
up for it. Shes so tough and sexy that she seems more comic book character
than human - but in a really good way. ***
KISS MEET THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK
Essentially an over-long Hannah Barbara cartoon from the 70s (you expect the
Banana Splits to show up at any minute), this waste of 90 minutes originally aired on network television. Its not nearly as fun as it sounds though. In fact you can tell that beneath the make-up KISS is collectively embarrassed. But they arent even really around for the first half hour and by then the movie has already lost you. Not that KISS really contributes anything when they show up anyway. In whatever warped dimension this film exists the members of KISS are like a band of superheroeslike ydo. They have inexplicable powers that manifest themselves as bargain basement special effects. Theyre trying to stop an evil theme park attraction designer (actually Magic Mountain) from turning people
into mindless, errobots I guess. Theres a band of evil KISS doppleganger-bots who threaten to steal their big, erMagic Mountain gig. Believe it or not, Ive just made it sound much better than it actually is. It's from a time when KISS had pretty much taken over the world with an image so watered down that they were even being marketed to small children with TV movies and Colorforms (Oh yes! I had KISS Colorforms.). Useless except as an historical relic.
*
DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004)
The first twenty minutes of this Presents us with Sarah Polley who wakes up to find that overnight the world has gone bat-shit crazy She's just barely able to
escape from her infected husband and a neighborhood where neighbors eat
neighbors and children eat parents. In fact, the rest of the movie has a difficult time topping what it gives us in the first course - but a few scenes with a pregnant woman come damn close. These are fast-moving zombies
in the 28 Days mold (running zombies = tres chic in the early 00s) and yes,
all other zombie rules apply. A group of survivors hole up in a mall like in
the original George Romero classic. Ving Rhames is a tough stoic cop.
Polley is great and brings an air of dignity to the proceedings - sexy too.
Stick around for credits which include someimportant post scripts. The
movies music cues are great and include Johnny Cash(!) Pretty scary and
lots of fun. ***
Speed Racer DVD Vol. 2
Picnic at Hanging Rock (DeAnne)
Godzilla box set
Spider-man '67-72 cartoon DVD (52 episodes!) (Beth!)
Thunderbirds Vol. 2 (Mom)
Suicide Girls book -- better than I thought (DeAnne)
Ginger Snaps Back (Mom)
All I need now is the Munsters Season 1 and the Dawn of the Dead remake and life will be complete. The meaning of life = getting stuff.
Reviews for the database:
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965)
This is arguably Russ Meyers best. It has everything you want from
60s exploitation: Bad girls, drag races, cat fights, go-go dancing and
if that werent enough its oozing with sexuality. Three real bad eggs
kidnap the girlfriend of an unfortunately dressed teen whos running time
trials in the desert. Rumors of a stashed fortune deliver the four girls to
the farmhouse of an invalid letch and his two sons. One son is like
Steinbecks Lenny if he were beefcake. Theres shady double-crossing and
deadly sarcasm in nearly every line of dialogue. For all the dismissal he
receives for his T&A inclinations, Meyer knows how to push buttons and FPKK
functions as a delicious desert noir and is probably as entertaining as
anything else made in 1965. Its also beautifully shot in black and white.
Theres a surprising lack of nudity, but the presence of Tura Santana makes
up for it. Shes so tough and sexy that she seems more comic book character
than human - but in a really good way. ***
KISS MEET THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK
Essentially an over-long Hannah Barbara cartoon from the 70s (you expect the
Banana Splits to show up at any minute), this waste of 90 minutes originally aired on network television. Its not nearly as fun as it sounds though. In fact you can tell that beneath the make-up KISS is collectively embarrassed. But they arent even really around for the first half hour and by then the movie has already lost you. Not that KISS really contributes anything when they show up anyway. In whatever warped dimension this film exists the members of KISS are like a band of superheroeslike ydo. They have inexplicable powers that manifest themselves as bargain basement special effects. Theyre trying to stop an evil theme park attraction designer (actually Magic Mountain) from turning people
into mindless, errobots I guess. Theres a band of evil KISS doppleganger-bots who threaten to steal their big, erMagic Mountain gig. Believe it or not, Ive just made it sound much better than it actually is. It's from a time when KISS had pretty much taken over the world with an image so watered down that they were even being marketed to small children with TV movies and Colorforms (Oh yes! I had KISS Colorforms.). Useless except as an historical relic.
*
DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004)
The first twenty minutes of this Presents us with Sarah Polley who wakes up to find that overnight the world has gone bat-shit crazy She's just barely able to
escape from her infected husband and a neighborhood where neighbors eat
neighbors and children eat parents. In fact, the rest of the movie has a difficult time topping what it gives us in the first course - but a few scenes with a pregnant woman come damn close. These are fast-moving zombies
in the 28 Days mold (running zombies = tres chic in the early 00s) and yes,
all other zombie rules apply. A group of survivors hole up in a mall like in
the original George Romero classic. Ving Rhames is a tough stoic cop.
Polley is great and brings an air of dignity to the proceedings - sexy too.
Stick around for credits which include someimportant post scripts. The
movies music cues are great and include Johnny Cash(!) Pretty scary and
lots of fun. ***