I'm Not There

You know, this is L.A. We should be learning Mexican or something.   "Tell me you're from 1996 without telling me you're from 1996."   The Craft  is one of those movies where I am constantly being reminded that this take place is the late 1900's. For some cool reason, a lot of American films from the 1990's realllly scream they are from the 1990's.  The fashion, vernacular, music and the budding cinematic obsession with sex.  My guess is that since the target audience for these movies was teenagers, they had to bat them over the head with ideas to remind them that these characters are "just like you."  Unlike today, teenagers in the 90's  were selfish, dumb and liked seeing themselves on screen.  (Rimshot)  Anyway, as someone who grew up in that era, there are times when all these nintety isms stand out more than the actual movie. Just look at the image above, it looks like it was straight out of a grungy music video and I can...

No man can stand against it alone. Something is out there... waiting. Since this weekend was Midsummer Scream: Awaken The Spirits AND I was able to find my Pumpkin Spice scented candles at the store, I thought it would be a good idea to commence Images of Fright Film Festival XII.  We've been doing this thing for over a decade now and it's kind of hard to believe my baby is turning twelve.   For the first screening of this pre-teen year, I originally wanted to exhibit a different movie but it was not available so instead, I chose something a little more low-key; Man-Thing. Man-Thing is a Marvel character and this is technically a Marvel film, although you have probably not heard of it and more than likely have not seen it.  This is one of the last Marvel films to come out in partnership with another studio (like  Blade   and  Daredevil)  before Marvel Studios collected the infinity stones and gained immense power and success with  ...

 What if...? I just got done watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1987) again and among the many humorous and logical thoughts floating through my spooky skull, I came up with a theory.  What if this film was the first in a trio of a horror movie franchise?  Let's just pretend that the studio system does not exist for a moment and hear me out. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1976) An outer space plant viral life form comes down and takes over unsuspecting victim's bodies on Earth and replicates itself into clones of the original hosts  Only those who are aware of the phenomenon can see what is happening and try to prevent themselves from succumbing to this new virus/threat. One of the people who knew something was fishy pretty early on was Jack Bellicec played by Jeff Goldblum. In an early scene at a bath house, he notices a comatose man that has been taken over by the virus.  The man is covered in material akin to webbing or fascia that moves, this material...