Ah, summer. A season of overblown budgets and extravagant productions. For movie goers everywhere, this three and a half month stretch is what they have waited for all year. So as always, the prediction for this summer is: Hollywood makes oodles of money. Over these next few months, this column will be examining the phenomena of counter programming and how well it stacks up to the popcorn flick of the week.
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I am, unashamedly, a Stuart Gordon fan. Re-Animator and From Beyond are both horror staples in my eyes, with Dagon having the potential to be a cult classic of the decade. Even his lesser fare, such as Castle Freak and Dolls, is entertaining, albeit very silly and mindless. Gordon occasionally ventures outside of the genre, to varying results. Not many people are familiar with these films, but if you’re a genre fan, you’ve surely sat through Space Truckers, Edmond and/or Fortress. None of them redefined my childhood like his script for Honey, I Shrunk The Kids did but they all certainly have their charms about them.
Stuck, which premiered at TIFF last year, was a film that I had heard a lot of good word-of-mouth about. I was told if I went in expecting a dark thriller rather than a gory horror romp like Gordon’s more prominent films, I’d enjoy myself. When it was announced that the film would be part of the Florida Film Festival this year, I jumped at the chance to watch it on the big screen because up until this point, I hadn’t seen a Gordon film on its theatrical run. And as much as I wanted Stuck to be a brilliant and engaging film, it was, for lack of a better phrase, extremely stupid.
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