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The American Astronaut (2001)
An original off-the-wall indie for the ages.
One of the best quirky indie original off-the-wall comedies to see over and over again. I've seen some indie original stuff and The American Astronaut delivers with unexpected results. Why explain the unexplained? I liked it. You will like it. You won't be able to rationally explain it, but who can explain a Fun-house anyways? It's a Saturday Matinée kind of film. A fun film. An alternative universe where the men grow up on one planet and the women grow up on another. Thus goes the plot of a space cowboy who has to transport a girl in a box, a cat, and a boy who has actually seen a woman's breast. Did I mention that it is also a musical? Well, it is and you don't see that everyday.
Isle of the Damned (2008)
Slick City guys meet hungry hungry cannibal tribesmen
I attended a special screening of this film via snail mail invitation. We were picked up by a strange white box truck that looked like a refurbished ice-cream truck. You could still smell the children. We were blind-folded and driven what seemed like hours. We ended up behind a McDonalds. Our blindfolds were taken off and there was a white sheet hung on a dumpster. There were 13 chairs. I sat on one of them and watched 'Isle of the Damned'. The host handed us what I hope was roast beef.
What followed next was every man's nightmare. Some guys are in the woods and they hear screams. It's too late to run. It's the cannibals. A family on a family outing becomes the lunch for the sadistic cannibals. Some cool city folk arrive and try to rescue one of the ladies. What happens next is too horrible to describe. Some of the roast beef came back up into my mouth , I chewed it up some more and swallowed it. There was a lot of running through the woods. Men with bushy mustaches and guns. Cannibal folks with bow and arrows. Lots of screaming. After the movie I took the bus home and wrote this.
Aswang (1994)
Phillipino Southern Gothic Horror
I enjoyed this blend of horror. Something old. Something new. Of course, we old schoolers have seen this before....an old family with a sinister secret is hiding something and it's up to an outsider to find out what it is before they themselves are destroyed or consumed by it. In this film, it's something we didn't really expect so therein lies the true horror element. Not just a true horror element, but a taboo one at that. One of the best uses of horror in this film is the off screen presence of lurking doom. What is it? When will it strike. Who will it strike? How do you destroy or kill it? Is it human? Was it human? It's the same fear you get when walking in the woods near dark. A good creepy fear.