Me, when the catty lesbians died: “Noooo, not the catty lesbians!!”
Wild movie, gorgeously shot. John Saxon, you charming bastard. You really pulled off that fedora.
If Jaws and Alien had sloppy, drunk sex, this would be the resulting baby. It may not have the excellent camera work, dialogue, or acting that made those two movies masterpieces…perhaps this is the movie Tommy Wiseau watched prior to making The Room…
In short, this movie is objectively terrible, but I was bellowing laughter for most of the runtime, so four stars.
This is a five star two star movie. So four stars, I guess? Seriously love this one. Wacky, cheesy, and sacrilegious.
A wonderful low budget homage to the original 1922 silent-era masterpiece with a killer performance from Doug Jones, a sweeping classical score, and some gorgeous lighting work. The sequence on the boat is particularly effective in this “remix” film. It played so well in a beautiful historic theater like the State.
I was fortunate enough to co-host a Q&A with Doug Jones after the movie, which was surreal having grown up a monster kid watching his work in awe. He was a lovely human, and one of the easiest and smooth interviews I’ve ever done. Class act. What a surreal night.
Gathering my thoughts and then I’ll write something more elaborate, but for now:
Holy shit.