Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Ebert endorsed

I'm sure you guys all know about Jose di Gregorio's art show opening at Bows Gallery on Friday, right?  I'm stoked!  It was fun interviewing Jose.  Here's the interview if you haven't seen it.  I was up late worrying the other night that I used peripatetic incorrectly.  I know what it means, but I don't know if Jose has moved around quite enough to use it.  This is what I worry about at three in the morning.

Have you ever seen the original Last House on the Left? Wow, what a mind fuck.  The original video box used to scare me as a kid, and I seem to remember (accurately, it turns out) that Roger Ebert endorsed it.  It's a pretty good Halloween movie, but I won't really recommend it.  It's too rape-y.  Looks like in Ebert's review he points out that Last House has the same plot as The Virgin Spring, which Wes Craven does not mention in the extra footage.

Verge movie night got a super sweet yelp review!  I guess I did keep repeating that those were garden tomatoes.  I tend to start repeating things when I've been drinking.

OMF did a new Crosleykook post.
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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:08 PM

    To hell with Craven. Once a hack, always a hack.

    -DB

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  2. beckler2:21 PM

    wow! I am interested to hear you say this, because Last House was so ineptly directed and edited (Craven wrote, edited and directed). So pretty much what he did was rip off the plot of a far superior movie and then do a crappy version of it. I wasn't sure how much of it was because it was so low budget. Some of the acting was good, but he does not have a way with exposition. I do love the original Nightmare On Elm Street. What about the People Under The Stairs? I remember that one being good.

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  3. ducko2:48 PM

    Gal?

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  4. Liv Moe8:11 PM

    Virgin Spring = one of the most traumatic cinematic experiences of all time. And I would say not to be watched immediately prior to attending a punk show unless you just want to stand around and stare and think uncomfortable thoughts.

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  5. Anonymous9:05 PM

    I've never actually seen a "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie. It is one of the films on my list of Movies I Can't Believe That I Haven't Seen. It is moving up the list considerably, since I finally watched "Birth of a Nation", "Man With a Movie Camera", "Steamboat Bill, Jr.", "Up in Smoke", "Eraserhead", "The Pawnbroker", "Enter the Dragon", "Forbidden Games", "Intolerance", "Pepe le Moko", and "Cars 2" this summer.

    I'm just not a Craven fan, though.

    -DB

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  6. Anonymous11:33 AM

    Isn't Craven the price the world had to pay for John Carpenter's movies? That's how I see it.

    Last House is an extreme version of those TV movies of the week from the 1970 in which it proven beyond a doubt why you shouldn't cavort with scuzzy, long-hair hippies.

    --knowcebo

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  7. Anonymous11:38 AM

    I haven't seen 'Nightmare' in a long time, but I remember it sucking hard.

    But how 'bout that 'Steamboat Bill Jr'... now THAT'S a movie!

    -omf

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  8. Anonymous12:28 PM

    Sacramento's own "Steamboat Bill, Jr."!

    You can find some good pictures of the Sacramento location shoot here:

    http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/SteamboatBillJr/

    -DB

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  9. shawnsumtin2:03 PM

    off topic* Tis shawn, saw you over the weekend at the bday party. I still got a lambic 4 years young. email me if your ever going to be near sac city and i can bring a bottle for you to pick up. couchdive @ gmail.

    Cheers

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  10. Anonymous7:33 AM

    "Nightmare" is a stand out in the genre. So many spooky
    Images. OMF is off his rocker!

    Charles

    Ps. Typo! My last sentence should read, "OMF is a rocker"

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  11. Anonymous1:15 PM

    The Pawnbroker was alright in the sense that Steiger was amazing at being an actor playing an old man. It was like a two hour screen test. Last House would have been the most disturbing rape flick of that time had it not been for I Spit On Your Grave, which Siskel famously trashed. Now it is only the second creediest "torture porn" flick ever thanks to The Killer Inside.

    Ed

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