smartestjane

I'm so glad people are re-discovering horror as a serious genre because the endless SCREAM rip-offs were getting more tiresome than even the previous decade's endless HALLOWEEN rip-offs. MAY not only operates as a great horror film, it also is a wonderful character study of social dysfunction. Angela Bettis is wonderfully painful to watch in her attempts at love. She's an actress to keep your eyes on in the future. The ending gets a little more standard but is just creepy enough to keep you on the edge of your seat.

A worthless film. A useless film. No, I'm not talking about Vincent Gallo's recent comments at cannes about THE BROWN BUNNY, I'm talking about this piece of puke that I made the mistake of renting a couple weeks ago. I guess curiousity killed the cat. "How bad could it be?" I thought. I don't shy away from violence, and I'll say it for the record that HANNIBAL is actually less graphic than people have made it out to be. But the depths of stupidity and complete waste of cast and director is unforgivable. Why Anthony Hopkins would ever choose to do this film is beyond me. Didn't he say he was going to quit acting a few years ago because everything he's made thus far was a "piece of sh#@." Well, he can add one more to the top of that list. Jody, baby, you made the right decision in avoiding this trash.

Wow, I need to take a shower. This is the kind of film Godard would have made if he'd grown up with THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE instead of THE MALTESE FALCON. Based on this and Noe's new film IRREVERSIBLE I'd say Gasper's got a few issues he's hammering out and he's taking us down into the depths with him. It's a very well made film. He uses one repetitious devise that just about gave me a heart attack the first time it was used. I won't tell you what it is, but I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone who suffers from a hyperactive nervous system. If you have a strong stomach and love great filmmaking, though, I'd definately recommend this artistic, sadistic shocker.