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Friday, September 17, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
The Trip - Roger Corman - USA - (1967)
Plot by Imdb: Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John (Bruce Dern), a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his first "trip". John takes Paul to a "freak-out" at his friend Max's (Dennis Hopper) pad. Splitting the scene, they score some acid from Max and return to John's split-level pad with an indoor pool. Paul experiences visions of sex, death, strobe lights, flowers, dancing girls, witches, hooded riders, a torture chamber, and a dwarf. He panics but John tells him to "go with it, man." Would you trust John?
Roger Corman is my MAN ! Peter Fonda in the main role and a script by Jack Nicholson (you can laugh), it's written you'll end up with a weird movie for sure. Did I mentioned Dennis Hooper as an Acid Freak Master (this guy is a republican, now ? Come on !) ? The plot is really funny because it's very cliché, everything is what you'd expect to see from a movie about the "LSD experience", a very incommunicable experience indeed. The hallucinations sequences are hilarious, specially the "middle-age" part (as the dwarf say in "Living in Oblivion": Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! "Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!". Everyone will go "Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!".) And there is a dwarf in it. And hooded riders. Year I know. Hallucinations are not what they used to be.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
A Bucket of Blood - Roger Corman- USA - (1959)
Plot from Imdb: Walter Paisley, nerdy busboy at a Bohemian café, is jealous of the talent (and popularity) of its various artistic regulars. But after accidentally killing his landlady's cat and covering the body in plaster to hide the evidence, he is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor - but his new-found friends want to see more of his work.
Very nice Roger Corman horror movie from the 60's. Short and to the point. As usual, Corman knows how to mix intelligently old school horror (it feels more like a "Twilight Zone" or a "Alfred hitchcock presents" episode) and social comment about his time. In this movie, it's all about the Beatnik way of life. Intro is a loooooong beatnik poetry, sort of Slam. The characters in the "café" are very caricatural but I guess that must be close from the reality of that time. This is also a very harsh comentary about talent: glorified if you got some, dispised by the majority if you lack it. Excellent interpretation by Dick Miller as a mentally disturbed busboy, who desperately wants recognition.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Not of this Earth (1957) vs Not of this Earth (1988) - Corman - USA
Plot from Imdb: An alien agent (Paul Birch) from the distant planet Davana is sent to earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.
Really nice atmosphere in this old school black & white Sci-Fi / Horror classic. Interpretation is good and the fx are kept at minimum or are out of frame. All together, it's a good ol' classic. Nice touch: a small part from the always enjoyable Dick Miller.
How to tell you, this is a piece of crap. The plot is identical to the original and all the new stuff, fx and cast, are awful. A very very strange "Giallo" sequence in the middle of the picture, when the "alien" woman attacks a girl in the streets at night, with a costume, a cape and a butcher knife (??!!??!)...Nothing to save in this flick, not even the nudity, except, of course, Tracy Lord's amazing hot looks. But this doesn't make a movie...well, it doesn't make a "regular movie" anyway.
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