This time around, most of the creative teams just focused on figuring out how to get a first person perspective and then forgot to give us an interesting story.
In an alternate universe very much like our own, few people have ever heard of Jason Voorhees but everybody knows horribly burned summer camp killer Cropsy!
On paper, it sounds like any number of such films that flourished in the late 70’s-early-80’s slasher boom. In execution, there’s a reason why it’s still remembered today.
Yes, there is some eye rolling dialogue, a scattering of plot holes, and the effects are a bit tired, but my advice is to just sit back, relax, and let yourself be a kid again.
This is exactly what I was hoping for with Gimple in charge. Quiet stories of madness and desperation, with horrible things happening for a reason, rather than just lurching out of the darkness.
I’ve always considered Lifeforce to be a genre-fan’s slam dunk: written by Dan O’Bannon (Alien, The Return of the Living Dead) and directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist).
There's a lot to like here just in the concept alone, but the combination of Levine's clever script and Hoult's heartfelt performance that really brings Warm Bodies home.
Season Six may also be the filthiest season yet, and I cannot urge you enough to seek it out in its unedited, uncensored format so that you can enjoy all the raunchy fun.
It all goes a bit off the rails as it steamrolls towards an action-packed conclusion involving more Nazi killing, a race against time, an impending nuclear strike, and some weird pseudo-science and occult madness.
I also found it refreshing that in a zombie film landscape that thrives on an atheistic nihilism, [REC] 3: Genesis expands on the idea of the previous films that the zombies are a demonic infestation.
Film and TV are the ultimate collaborative projects, an anthill of various experts uniting for a single cause.If one or two cogs fail to operate it can make the entire endeavor seem like crap.
I've been known to complain about the lack of good science fiction cinema these days, but I suppose there's rarely been a time when there were consistently good sci-fi films filling the theaters.
