Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
March 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 38
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (10)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (12)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 14
- Police Academy (0)
- Mannequin (2)
- Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary (0)
- Downfall (0)
- Millions (0)
- Trouble Every Day (1)
- The Great Ziegfeld (0)
- The Jerk (0)
- Stripes (0)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (0)
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown (0)
- Control Room (0)
- Monterey Pop: The Outtake Performances (2)
- Gimme Shelter (0)
- Duck Soup (0)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (0)
- The Work of Director Michel Gondry (0)
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (1)
- Dracula’s Daughter (0)
- The Devil’s Nightmare (0)
- The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (0)
- In This Our Life (0)
- Song of the Exile (0)
- Pierrot le Fou (1)
- L’Eclisse (0)
- 976-EVIL (0)
- The Truman Show (0)
- Dumb and Dumber (0)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (0)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (0)
- Tropical Malady (0)
- Stop Making Sense (0)
- Sweet Charity (0)
- Weekend at Bernie’s II (2)
- M (5)
- Dear Frankie (0)
- Krull (0)
- The Hanging Woman (0)
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The Serpent and the Rainbow / USA / 1988
A notably ambituous horror film from the ’80s, but a horror film from the ’80s nonetheless. It shouldn’t be compared to Wes Craven’s more popular horror titles, but the film contains the sort of clichés that populate the genre: namely, faces that pop abruptly into the frame even though they are clearly in the frightened party’s peripheral vision, and a forced sex scene. Although the film is also the lesser media to the viewer familiar with Wade Davis’ source book (I am inclined to note that the book is nonfiction), The Serpent and the Rainbow remains to be a truly unique and engaging concept for a horror film.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Universal DVD
21 Mar 2005 11:44 AM | Comments (1)
Thomas / 22 March 2005 / 3:04 PM / URL
Agreed that the film is ambitious, attempting to tackle a topic as amorphous and misunderstood as voodooism and still tell an engaging horror story is not an enviable task. And while Craven and co. obviously stray far and wide from the nonfiction observations and experiences in Davis’s book, the film manages an aura of terrifying realism (aside from the Hollywoodish climax and the aforementioned sex scene of course) that few horror films of the 80s can claim.