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it's Alive
this classic Larry Cohen film ...well...
I remember when it ws one of those classic horrors everyone talked about.
1974 - that raw look I normally like, but I would it really hard to watch this time.
There's always something to be said about being the first of it's kind .. but years later it's not enough to be entertaining anymore. Godawful movie ...just silly and boring. Cohen would eventually make one of my favourite horror flicks: Q, but It's Alive isn't even remotely likeable on any level for me.
Gargoyles
This is an old made for TV horror - made in a time where a lot of TV horrors were pretty cool .. but this one is awful. rubber monsters running around the desert .. god I don't even know where to begin with this one..the premise, the writing, the 'action' ... it's like a study in ineptness. Again - silly and boring.
so I was 2 for 2 yesterday ... proving to myself that despite the 70's being my favourite time period for all genres of film ... there were still plenty of turds to navigate around.
a lot of people still love this crap because they saw it at an impressionable age (as did I) but I grew up and am able to distinguish between nostalgic childhood impressions - and quality filmmaking.
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