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I’VE seen this trailer several times when having TV inflicted on my by Ev, and I have to admit to wanting to see The Devil Inside. It looks pretty good: “found footage” of a woman’s attempt to find out what happened to her possessed mother, lots of exorcisms, odd contortions, a priest trying to drown a baby (makes a change from trying to molest it, I suppose) and plenty of screaming/demonic laughter/ubiquitous shaky camera work. Even the obviously fake “The Vactican Does Not Endorse This Film” disclaimer didn’t initially put me off. As Ev said, “You’re going […]
I FINALLY got to see The Thing tonight last Sunday, the prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 movie. It wasn’t a complete letdown, but then again it wasn’t quite what I was expecting - or wanted. It starts off well enough with a group of Norwegians crashing through a crevasse and discovering the alien ship; a paleontologist, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead (who, it must be said, is dead cute) is recruited to fly to Antarctica to help check out the organism found on board; the creature escapes; shit hits the fan in many horrible and highly organic ways.
The biggest problem with 2011’s The Thing is that […]
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ALTHOUGH I’m a huge fan of both Portal games I hadn’t got around to seeing Dan Trachtenberg’s short movie Portal: No Escape til about 10 minutes ago. And holy shit, it is superb. Looking more like the pre-credit sequence to a big-budget movie than a seven-minute short filmed by a commercial director, it gets just about everything right: the dystopian setting, the sense of bewilderment, the portal gun and the portals. They, in particular, a realised brilliantly; in the game they’re glowing holes, but Trachtenberg’s made them look as if they really are tearing through space and time. Danielle Rayne’s […]
[Puts on anorak]
TO BE HONEST, I’m cautiously optimistic about the prequel to The Thing (then again, I was cautiously optimistic about this). Getting a look at what happened at the Norwegian base would answer questions raised by the 1982 film — how did the creature escape? How did they find the spaceship in the first place? Did the guy with the slit wrists and throat kill himself or did The Thing take him out? Where are the rest of the bodies? Who was infected first? Which poor sod became Splitface?
Good luck to this guy if he […]
WELL, there were some good bits. Like, um, the, er… shit, I can’t think of any off the top of my head. I guess the lightcycles were OK, the Recognizers weren’t too bad, the Ducati was nice, the 3D worked pretty well and Olivia Wilde is dead cute.
As for the plot of Tron Legacy… Kevin Flynn, the software genius who was sucked into the computer world in the original movie, went missing 20 years ago. His son Sam is now a moody loner (yawn) who spends his time hacking into Encom, the company his dad ran and which is now under the […]
LESLIE NIELSEN died tonight aged 84. An actor who started off in drama and then discovered he could deliver the funniest lines in the most deadpan way, his roles in Airplane! and the Naked Gun movies are classics. But it was as Frank Drebin on the TV show Police Squad!, which formed the basis for the Naked Gun films, where Nielsen delivered cracking lines such as:
Frank: “Is there a ransom note?“
Ed: “Yes, the butler found it; it was tied to this window and thrown into the rock garden. I sent the note to the lab; they’re demanding one million dollars.“
Frank: […]
WE HERE at Planet Mut (and by “we” I mean “me”) aren’t averse to leaping on bandwagons when the chance of an easy update presents itself. So as it’s Halloween, here’s the Planet Mut guide to my favourite horror movies — in no particular order:
1. John Carpenter’s The Thing
When I was a young Mut, back in the days of the early 80s, one of my cousins — who shall remain nameless — occasionally got hold of pirate videos. One of these was a double-bill of Tron and The Thing. Left alone one day, I was told to watch Tron as much as I […]
TRON was another one of those early-80s movies my dad took me to. Along with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Condorman*, The Black Hole and others, I was as confused as hell as to what was actually going on, but hey — lightcycles!
As much as it kills me I have to give credit to Disney for putting up the cash to make Tron, especially after their debut sci-fi movie The Black Hole did so crappily in 1979. The whole story of how Tron came to be, from the first sketches of the Tron character, […]
I SAW Back To The Future in the cinema at Builth Wells when it was released in 1985. I was 13. Thirteen! And it was probably the coolest movie I’d ever seen at that time. The DeLorean, the California setting, Doc Brown’s inventions, the fact Marty McFly had a phone in his bedroom — all of it was just fantastic. But I was puzzled by the whole high-school dance thing. They have those in America?
So after seeing it again this afternoon with Shelly, Duane and Jarrod on its 25th anniversary re-release (and getting a free movie poster to boot) I […]
HOLLYWOOD just bent it over and shoved Anna Faris, Justin Timberlake, Dan Aykroyd, some other guy and the shittiest CGI this side of Garfield up […]
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