Flavours of the Month: July & August 2024...

Seventies sauce, humorous horror, and seeing how far the rabbit hole goes is just some of what's been setting the tone of my July & August 2024...

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Flavours of the Month: February - March 2022...

A new era for a beloved franchise, televisual hits and misses, and a smoke-spewing screaming tear through the wasteland are just some of what's been setting the tone of my February and March 2022...

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Quadruple Bill Mini Musings: Killer Fish, Outback Heroes, Several Nutters, and Delayed Nuptials...

Piranha 3DD:
What's it about?
Sequel to Alexandre Aja's ultra-exploitation 2010 remake about killer fish chewing on nubile young things, this time directed by John Gulager (son of Clu, Director of the three Feast movies), and taking place in a water park where the life guards are "water certified strippers".
Who would I recognise in it?
Danielle Panabaker, David Koechner, Katrina Bowden, Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Bush, Gary Busey, Clu Gulager.
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?
With a diminished budget, and from a movie proudly boasting that it features David Hasselhoff, you know you're about to witness a turkey - and that's exactly what you get. Clocking in at a not-so-hefty 80 minutes, where 1/8th of the entire running time is end credits mixed with distinctly unfunny bloopers and excised moments (really), it's almost entirely flaccid. The direction is anonymous at best, inept at worst, and often veers into utterly moronic territory (even for a schlocky horror) with some truly awful dialogue and some achingly dull characters thrown into the unsatisfying mix. However...

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