(I've already talked about this on bluesky so forgive me if you're reading about it here too but lemme throw a bone to my Letterboxd friends! Let my letterboxd friends also give me attention!!!)
As I've mentioned before I have set a strict NO PURCHASING VHS ONLINE rule for myself, I only buy tapes I find in the wild and I never pay more than $10 for a tape. I made an exception yesterday, not for my beautiful Gorgon tape…
I threw on Summer Rental as a farewell to the season and a hello, I miss you to John Candy, unfortunately the movie was soulless with a terrible score* and underutilization of John Larroquette who was looking extra DILFy but had almost no lines, his character was completely useless besides standing around looking cute in a threatening to a marriage but not worked into the plot in an interesting sorta way.
*Okay, so if I've deemed the 1990s as desert…
Just because a movie pays homage to vastly superior genre classics doesn't give Malignant or its makers any credibility. Please spare me saving the outlandish horror for the final half of the bloated running time, lean full into unbelievable bullshit by amping up the gore and surreal horror or lean into the boring fucking cop & family drama and imbue your characters with personalities, flaws, quirks, souls. I prefer horror to evoke an emotional response that isn't me sighing & rolling my eyes for two god damn hours. Drab, ugly, predictable, exactly what I expect from new horror and why I avoid it.
