Meedyah Morsels #241.
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This was/is the rainy day I was collecting all this stuff for, so here we go, let's spin those discs....
Little Shop Of Horrors (1986)
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Old reviews-
Little Shop- here and here.
Killer Klowns- here.
Sleepaway- here and here.
These just felt right to go together.
Can't explain why.
Little Shop gets better every single time I see it.
Ditto Sleepaway.
Sleepaway might even be my new favorite horror movie.
It's definitely climbing the charts.
Klowns is just goofy fun.
Creepshow (1982)
Return Of The Living Dead (1985)
Old reviews-
Creepshow- here.
ROTLD- here.
Now, I think ROTLD makes a better pairing with "Class Of Nuke 'Em High", cuz of the punk-rocker kids in both, but damned if this combo didn't work too.
Oh! I did the commentary track on "Sleepaway", and the actors mentioned the same crew from "Creepshow", went right to work on "Sleepaway".
That was a neat little bit of trivia.
Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon (2006)
The Final Girls (2015)
Old reviews-
Leslie Vernon- here.
Final Girls- here, and here.
Glorious.
Both the films, and the combo.
Most perfect pairing of all of these.
Now, I just need "AHS: 1984", on disc to go with them.
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
30 Years Of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story (2018)
TGPKM- here, and here.
30 Years- here.
Yeah, you really have to watch the movie first, then use the documentary as the antidote.
I said it in the second review, TGPKM has aged into a cult classic.
Even as a movie intending to be weird, it's weird.
It's Troma for kids.
If you want to mutate your kid into a Troma freak, start him/her out with GPK.
Even with all that said, the documentary is the better of the two things.
Hands down.
The Serpent And The Rainbow (1988)
Shocker (1989)
The People Under The Stairs (1991)
Old reviews of all three here.
Serpent and Shocker are okay, but Stairs is the whole reason to watch this collection.
Total brutal satire of Reagan.
It only even works seen through that lens.
And it gets better the more it ages.
You can transplant so much of it right over to Trump.
Trump is Reagan 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Conservatism is racist, dead stop.
Even in its purest most innocent form, it's classist, but the classes were arranged by race by our racist ancestors centuries ago, and the only way to wash the racism off conservatism now is to reboot it, but they'll never reboot it.
They'll literally shoot at you to keep from rebooting it.
So, conservatives can go ahead and whine and cry forever about being called racist, but tough shit.
Cry harder.
I'm sure Stairs more than anything set Craven's career trajectory back because of the blatant and brutal satire against "the American way".
It sure as Hell got Lloyd Kaufman punished.
So, anyway, that was my 80's mix.
Next time, superhero trilogies.
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2 comments:
Wasn't Craven responsible for Vampire In Brooklyn a little while later? Scream two years after that. So "career trajectory"...unsure.
He floated around in the neutral zone between Nightmare and Scream.
Maybe it was his politics, maybe it was Hollywood looking down its nose at horror (unless/until it made them rich), maybe it was people like Ebert getting on their moral high-horse about the slasher genre, maybe it was a perfect storm of all of them.
One thing that can't be denied, Stephen Speilberg was able to do "Duel" and "Jaws", and then break free into every other genre, and Craven wasn't allowed that.
Seems pretty random.
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