Let the season of Christmas specials begin!
Category: Legacy
Jamaica Inn is a fairly early Hitchcock about an English ship-looting criminal conspiracy.
It’s Ray Harryhausen’s last hurrah, featuring one of the coolest looking monsters ever (Medusa) and about a dozen other nifty effects. Big production values, dramatic score, epic adventure. It’s a slam dunk, right?
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Born to Be Wild (2011)
We recently decided to try and start watching documentaries on Sunday mornings (mostly while Mommy and Daddy take turns catching up on sleep).
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Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Mighty Joe Young is Ray Harryhausen’s first proper movie, and goddamn does the stop motion animation look amazing. Big ol’ Joe the gorilla is expressive and nimble, interacting with props and sets and actors through lots of impressive camera trickery.
While I am not exactly the target audience for this movie, I still dug the hell out of it. John Cameron Mitchell is mind-blowingly incandescent as Hedwig in all her petulance but also strength and beauty.
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Repo Man (1984)
I must confess I spent a significant portion of this movie’s runtime bewildered.
Happy Dia de Muertos!
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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 (2020)
The second Zombies movie sadly discards the original’s relentless worship of its color palette by bringing in werewolves, whose aesthetic seems to be “cheap Twilight knock-off via low budget Syfy special.” I mean, the colors were half the draw of the first… why abandon that?
It’s tough for me to articulate how important this movie was for me: