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Eating Miss Campbell (2022)
Wow!
Eating Miss Campbell (2022) is a fantastic film. Despite its occasionally inconsistent tone, the strong meta-humor and the dedicated central performances in Eating Miss Campbell helped to keep viewers invested right until the end, with Craine, in particular, delivering a powerhouse portrayal of a tortured and introverted teen who initially resents but gradually comes to embrace her role as a protagonist in a horror movie. It may not be perfect, but this is still a gloriously offbeat, well-acted, and sometimes downright hilarious tale of a decidedly weird teenage girl who develops a taste for human flesh.
ShadowMarsh (2022)
Feature length pleasure
Third Three Keys Media movie of the day and it's a good old fashioned monster movie. Some aesthetically pleasing cinematography, competent cast, likable leads, nasty hooded creatures, and multiple instances of blood spraying on trees. I find that little detail cool as hell for some odd reason. Everytime I see it I dig it!!!
The cast has a few recognizable genre actors with Felissa Rose, Dave Sheridan, Mike Ferguson, and Lew Temple making appearances. We also get another appearance from Shawn C. Phillips aka Coolduder. I'm not familiar with actress Ellen Woomer but she's great in the lead role.
Clowns (2020)
Wished there was more
Saw this on YouTube and thought it was great! Wished it was a feature though as I felt the second act starts to become interesting. Excellent lighting (especially when 80% of the film takes place at night in the forest) I was thoroughly impressed by that part. I hope this gets made into a feature length film one day cause the premise was certainly interesting.
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
So depressing, but wonderful
Okay, so there's "Requiem for a dream" and my expectations were very, very high. That can be the downfall for a movie, but in this case I wasn't disappointed. Aronofsky proves not only that he can direct a "bigger" movie, he also shows how one can do so without selling out. To be more precise: "RFAD" is one of the most disturbing and depressing movies that came out of the US for a long time. From the opening scene to its final curtain it's...well, a requiem for the characters, who are all perfectly portrayed by their actors. Ellen Burstyn is unbelievable. The power of her performance can only be compared to that of Björk in "Dancer in the dark". Aronofskys direction is even more experimental than in "Pi" and some of his ideas, like his combination of sound and picture are really innovative and give his movie a musical feel -without creating a long music video. On the downside, you could say that this movie offers no hope, no solution - but then, this would've been a lousy compromise.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
A cult classic. A legend in it's own way.
I couldn't figure out if this was indeed the worst movie ever made. I was forced the watch this the other day and I didn't actually mind it. Compared to things I've seen before, this didn't stand out too bad. For something of it's time, it didn't seem that bad.
Mind you, there is good bad, and there is bad bad. Bad bad is a movie that combines all the elements listed above--bad acting, bad directing, etc.--to produce something that bores. Good bad combines the same elements in such a way that a highly entertaining movie is made, although not in the way the movie makers hope.
"Plan 9" is not just good bad, it is brilliant bad. It is unintentionally hilarious such as Birdemic or The Room, and that's as funny as it gets. "Plan 9" is nothing but bad, albeit in a wonderful way.
As an example of bad production values, there is a scene where a police car is speeding away from headquarters. As the action begins it is broad daylight. The next scene is the car racing across the city. Now, however, it is night! Next is the car arriving at its destination, a cemetery, and again it is daylight. That is either one huge city, or somebody on the Plan 9 crew was asleep at the switch.
"Plan 9" is so full of great badness that to detail all the goofs, flubs, and cheesiness would require remaking the entire movie. The cemetery is a weed-infested lot; an airline cockpit set is a shower curtain, some plywood and a couple chairs; a cop scratches his head with the business end of a gun barrel; the outside of the space ship has a ladder that goes nowhere; the plan itself, that is, plan number 9, makes no sense at all. And on and on and on...
If you love movies, and want to consider yourself conversant in all genres of film, seeing at least one bad sci-fi movie is a must. "Plan 9" is the Hamlet of that genre. See it with a couple people who get it, and have a great time.