What more could possibly be said about this movie?!
I first watched this movie when I was about 15, and it stuck with me in all the wrong ways. So much so that it took me about 20 years to finally sit down with it again, and when I did I was as blown away as I was all those years before.
There is such an unrelenting, all-pervasive dread throughout TCM. It is truly the embodiment of the word 'horror'…
Why have we got 37 Cars movies and zero sequels to this?!
For a movie whose concept has little-to-nothing to do with the original Garfield strips, they crammed a surprising amount of references in here. The opening shots, the early montage of clips straight from the panels, they touched on the weird noir movie (Babes and Bullets. No seriously, that's what it was called) and I'm pretty sure they even referenced Garfield Alone for a minute there.
Still, they were all cursory at best, and overall the bad outweighed the good. Chris…
So much more impressive knowing that this was made almost entirely by a family of four on a very limited budget, but either way a solid folk (ish) horror.
Despite the creepy tone, ponderous pacing and genuinely scary scenes, there's so much fun sneaking in through the edges of this movie! The rocking soundtrack, the natural enjoyment the cast are clearly having, it all makes you realise that this was as much of a hoot to make as it is…
How do I begin to describe this movie?
Part coming of age drama, part love letter to 90s TV, part allegory for growing up in the wrong body, wrong place, wrong time, just feeling...wrong. And more importantly it's about what it's like to feel seen, to feel found, to find your place, whether that's with friends, real people, or through the parasocial warmth of your favourite TV show.
While I can't relate to the grander, intimate metaphor on display here,…
