Obviously "Shock Treatment" isn't as great or as culturally significant as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". Any comparison between the two films is going to cause the later film to suffer. However, I've always had a soft spot for "Shock Treatment", perhaps because it's underseen and looked down upon by the few who have. I think most RHPS fans know the story behind "Shock Treatment" already: Richard O'Brien worked on a direct sequel to RHPS after the earlier film became…
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The Alto Knights 2025
I spent a lot of “The Alto Knights” wondering what went wrong during the making of it. The finished project has signs that it was compromised or tampered with, but I don’t recall any major news stories about the production being troubled. Still, there are just weird things about the way the film is constructed. There is a haphazard mixture of flashbacks, flashforwards, voice over, a character directly addressing the camera, titles cards on the screen that sometimes but don’t…
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My Year of Dicks 2022
It was just nominated for an Oscar this morning, and was readily available to watch on Vimeo, so gave it a whirl. The animation is rotoscoped, but it has an MTV's Liquid Television sort of look and vibe, which is appropriate seeing as how this takes place in 1991.
The short is a charming, funny, and sometimes painfully awkward but true story of a 15-year-old girl wanting to lose her virginity, but then boys who present themselves as potential candidates…
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Gray Matter 2023
Earlier today I binged the entire new season of "Project Greenlight", and decided to follow it up by watching the finished product. Oh boy, this is pretty terrible, and it's mostly because of the screenplay. This season, it seems like the producers commissioned a script first, as opposed to looking for spec submissions, as they wanted a genre piece that might have more commercial appeal. This makes sense, since arguably the most successful "Project Greenlight" film was the horror-comedy "Feast",…
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