{"id":124,"date":"2009-01-06T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2021-04-03T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T12:49:49","slug":"zombie-cannibals-read-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/zombie-cannibals-read-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Cannibals Read the Guardian<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Movies: First week of January 2009<\/h2>\n

Generally after making tea, doing dishes and catching up on random e-mails we settle down to a movie, anything from rom-com to horror to world cinema.<\/p>\n

So far the ones which I haven’t blocked out this year have been:<\/p>\n

Dead Creatures<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n

Catacombs<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n

Crime and Punishment in Suburbia<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n

Dead Creatures<\/cite> was quite a fun romp. This is described as similar to Trainspotting<\/cite> in style. A group of young women have been bitten and turned into people who crave human flesh and move from place to place drugging men in pubs, prostituting themselves or just attacking in dark alleys to find victims. Quite cheesy in places but enjoyable. The best scene is one of the girls leaving a newsagent with a copy of the Guardian<\/cite> when her arm starts to not function. The first sign that the zombieitis is starting to control her.<\/p>\n

Catacombs<\/cite> was a horror set in France, bought on the cheap on the basis that it was by the people who produced Saw<\/cite> and also starred Pink. Her acting was actually alright until her final scenes in the movie at which point I was bursting out laughing at it, and at the plot spoilers etc<\/em>. Meh, might watch again at some point.<\/p>\n

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane<\/cite> was quite good and a bargain in Grouchos 3\/\u00a35 shite bin section (where a large amount of my movie collection comes from). Some decent acting from loads of people in their second or third films. Lots of the actions were incredulous due to shitty writing rather than poor acting. Ok subversion of slasher movie tropes.<\/p>\n

Crime and Punishment in Suburbia<\/cite> was watched for the second time, and I had forgotten it starred Vincent Kartheiser (Connor in Angel<\/cite>). He is quite good as an obsessed stalker of the hot girl in school yadda yadda. Abusive parent played remarkably well by Michael Ironside who will forever be refereed to as Richter from Total Recall<\/cite> no matter what he does.<\/p>\n

Looks like we will have to hit rom-com\/comedy territory to balance out film intake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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