Sexy Cineplexy: Reviews

The Notorious Bettie Page
(directed by Mary Harron, 2005)



Kinky is in. It's all the rage! There's Kinky Boots, Basic Instinct 2 (blaaaagghhh!), there's that Mrs. Henderson Presents, which really isn't about kink, but has nude women dancing around on a stage -- and now here's The Notorious Bettie Page. For those of you who don't know about Bettie Page, let me fill you in. I didn't know much about her myself until I saw the movie. She was raised a good, Christian girl in the south -- her parents, of course, HATE smut, but little Bettie just grows up and becomes the queen of 1950's underground bondage porn. You see, fetishes were around in that area, they were alive and well, and there were some daring men and women who took pictures of women being tied up, wearing laced up, knee high, black leather boots, women spanking other women, that kind of stuff. Bettie, who has had a failed married, has been kidnapped and raped by a bunch of young guys, and who was a straight A student in high school till she skipped an art class and got an A- and couldn't be valedictorian and get a great, college scholarship - escapes to New York, starts modeling, starts taking acting classes, and eventually meets Irving Claw and his assistant (played by Lily Taylor, I can't remember her character name) - the dude and dudette team who use Bettie for their illegal, bondage picture business.

The movie shows how normal of a person Bettie really is, how interesting it is that she stays the good, Christian girl she was raised, despite her "dark side" profession. We do, however, learn that she fears what Jesus is going to do with her for all the "sins" she's committed. But, she assumes that if Adam and Eve were created naked, then it must be okay to be naked. There was a striking scene where Bettie talks about God and Jesus while standing, tied up, arms stretched out and legs together, like Jesus on the cross. Oh, but she can only talk during this scene whenever her photographer takes the ballgag out of her mouth.

There's more I want to reveal, but I don't want to tell you EVERYTHING, even though it's based on life and what's done is already done. You see her venture out to Miami Beach to meet Bunny Yeager, another nudie photographer, who doesn't want her to be so restrained, clothing wise, so there's a lot of Bettie posing naked on the sandy beach pictures being created. And, you know, Bettie was always this hot mama, who nobody could date in high school because of her strict parents. There's also some courtroom drama (it's not bad or boring) dealing with Irving Claw and all the work he's produced. In case you're living under a rock - and have a wi-fi connection, or something, to view this website - you know that the pornography of that era is now considered pretty tame, and Jesus probably just giggles over Bettie Page's fears of what scary, terrible vengeance he might strike upon her in the afterlife.

Gretchen Mol (who I had never heard of before) was perfect in the role of Bettie Page, and I recommend seeing the movie, if it's playing near you.

In fact, you have to see it. *cracks whip* Move!



NOTE: This review was originally posted here on April 24, 2006.

Jackass: Number Two
(directed by Jeff Tremaine, 2006)


I didn't watch 2002's Jackass: The Movie in the theatre when it came out, so I had to go see the sequel last night with a packed audience, mostly young people. The experience was necessary. For the first time ever I didn't care if people were rude and loud. I wanted to see and hear the nonstop shock the audience was going through.

I'm glad I waited for Number Two because it's better than number one. It's put together almost exactly like the first one, including segments with Spike Jones (this time he's an old woman instead of an old man) and Rip Taylor making an appearance at the end. However, what they do in this movie... is just a little more insane.

There's a cameo by director John Waters, who I love, as a magician. I realized while watching Number Two that this makes his movie, Pink Flamingos, look tame.

I don't want to go into detail about what happens in the film, as I knew going in almost next to nothing about what stunts they'd perform this time. I want to mention things, but this is a shock film and you need to be shocked. I can say that there's a lot of stuff involving snakes (and other animals), a lot of stuff that made audience members say out loud, "WTF? They're so gay!", a lot of stunts that would cause physical pain, and a lot of throw-up.

I have to say I highly recommend it.



NOTE: This review was originally posted here on September 23, 2006.

The Covenant
(directed by Renny Harlin, 2006)


It's about a group of teenage boys in Massachusetts who have magical powers that can produce special effects a la The Matrix.

It's pretty much a boring movie, but I did become interested when actor Sebastian Stan:



Took center stage as the bad guy, Chase Collins.

I had a little trouble following the story as I had to deal with two stupid mothers who brought their bratty kids into a 9:40 pm showing and two obnoxious gay men sitting in front of me (the left one begging his boyfriend on the right to start making out with him - the one on the right coughing nonstop). But from what I could make of it, the lead guy is about to turn 18 and go through an "ascending" where he will become more powerful than ever. This puts him, his girlfriend, and all his Covenant buddies in jeopardy as Chase Collins wants his new powers.

Although I didn't think it was downright horrible, it's not a good movie. Very amateurish. It may be enjoyed by fans of Charmed and repressed (and nonrepressed) homosexual guys (Chase Collins kisses the lead guy, says he's going to make him his wiotch, and there's a locker room scene purely put in to show off bare male behinds).

If you have a serious case of spider phobia (whatever that's really called) you might also want to stay away.



NOTE: This review was originally posted here on September 15, 2006.

Scary Movie 3
(directed by David Zucker, 2003)


Let this be the end of the Scary Movie series.

Can you believe they'd make a Scary Movie film PG-13? I didn't either, and it shows. This lite version of the first two films doesn't feel like the others - and not just because of the jokes. Gone are the Wayans brothers, the creator of the series, still in are Anna Faris (Cindy Campbell) and Regina Hall (Brenda Meeks), the girls of Scary Movie.

It's The Ring meets Signs and The Sixth Sense, and strangely, 8 Mile. I'll explain: 20 Miles from Washington D.C. (which, as an audience member in front of me pointed out is Manassas, VA -- WHERE I LIVE) crop circles are appearing in the cornfield outside a farm house, where Charlie Sheen lives. Oh yeah, and next to Charlie Sheen's house is a trailer, where Simon Rex is -- Simon Rex is playing Eminem from 8 Mile. Uptown, Cindy Campbell is now a news anchor and she's taking care of her nephew, Cody, a psychic kid who's playing the Haley Joel Osment role from The Sixth Sense. Cody's teacher is Miss Brenda, Cindy's always resurrected and annoying friend, and my favorite person from the Scary Movie series. Cindy and Brenda go to the Battle of the Rap Stars (VERY LONG AND BORING SCENE) to see Eminem sing - Cindy gets a crush on him when he goes to pick up his niece in Miss Brenda's class, who's the daughter of Charlie Sheen. (and btw, they don't do anything with her glasses of water in this movie!)

Yadda yadda yadda... Cindy and everyone else watch The Ring video tape, they have to save their lives, aliens are coming... well, I don't want to say anymore. Unless you really don't want to see the movie but want to know what happens - PM me.

I liked it more than Scary Movie 2. This new one is quirkier and pays off better than part two. I didn't find it hysterical, but there are some pleasing sight gags -- and there's actually a gay character in the movie named Mahalik, which is pronounced the same as my last name. That was really cool, I just wish they had said his name more (I only heard it two times). Why they gave him that name, I don't know.

Lots of well known celebrities in this film -- Queen Latifah, George Carlin, Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy -- they certainly made the film more memorable. If you saw the previous entries of the series, you can go see this one. Definitely don't miss it out - but don't have any high standards.



NOTE: This review was originally posted here on October 24, 2003.

2011 UPDATE: Whew, has it really been almost 8 years since I reviewed Scary Movie 3? Anyway, it just became a classic because Charlie Sheen's in it. Go see it, y'all, if ya still haven't after all these years!

House of 1000 Corpses
(directed by Rob Zombie, 2003)


This movie is Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!

Thank god I never cared about it. So many horror "buffs" have been like "Well, when is this movie going to come out?! It's Rob Zombie's movie! It is going to reinvent the old style of horror films!"

BULL****.

For those of you who've been waiting three or so years for it's wide release, you wasted valuable thinking/obsessive time. Furthermore, there's nothing VALUABLE about this movie. It's a complete and utter ripoff. Rob Zombie, who's full of himself, designed a freakish carnival ride that's as tricky as a hall of mirrors and about as boring as... well, trying to think of something boring. (Sorry, I don't like to be bored, which unfortunately, I was last night.) It should have been called House of 1000 Yawns.

Step by step: Movie begins with a very short prologue of some Dr. Frankenstein guy opening the film, kinda like the Cryptkeeper before his tales or Elvira before her movies. However, it's really short, and really forgettable, which is basically what the whole movie is. I won't bore with you all the details, but it's incredibly lacking in originality. There's nothing bold, there's nothing new, it's all very modern and updated, however, I get the feeling that they tried, miserably, to not be pop-culturish. It's set in 1977 ~ the 70s were when big, gritty and dark horror films like Texas Chainaw Massacre and Halloween came out. Four young adults are traveling on the highway, visiting little stops on the way as research for a book they're writing. They come across Captain Spaulding's place, it's like a gas station only with a ride in the back, where you learn about murderers as a fat, ugly clown gives you the tour. They pick up a hitchhiker, who I thought was Madonna. Somehow, her Music tour bus left her, so she hitches a ride from the foursome, and she acts all giggly and horny in her cowboy hat. Then they go to the House of 1000 Corpses (!) which is home to Anna Nicole Smith's mom, Karen Black, as "Mother Firefly". And then there's this Dr. Satan guy, people die, but not before being tortured, with fake body parts everywhere, and an annoying redneck screaming at them all the time, while Madonna and Anna Nicole Smith's mom run around doing god-knows-what....

You can barely understand what's going on. A lot of the movie is very psychadelic -- scenes cut in at random, flashing across the screen, colors fading out to that weird psychadelic look --- it's very much a ripoff (or homage!) to Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers.

Now! Let's get to the point about this Texas Chainsaw Massacre business. People saying that this film is just like TCM, and that it's a return to the old style of horror films from that heyday, ARE OUT OF THEIR MIND. No way does 1000 Corpses resemble TCM. It may steal a 1000 ideas from TCM, making it a huge "homage!" to that film, but there is no substance, no emotional merits, NOTHING that would compare 1000 Corpses to the terrifying, electric, mad film Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It is pure garbage in its intellectual and emotional worth as a horror film. It is embarrassing.

My friend who I saw it with loved it, claiming that it would be so popular soon and it will be a cult film, and that he wants to take a group of people next time to see it. I just . It really annoys me. I love GOOD horror films, even those that got bad reviews when they first came out, like Hellraiser. This is far from that. If anyone wants to battle with me over the pros and CONS of this movie, please, have at me. But for now, all I've got to say is....

Do watch it alone ... spare your friends!



NOTE: This review was originally posted here on April 12, 2003.

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Trailer Park Boys:
Countdown to Liquor Day
(directed by Mike Clattenburg, 2009)


Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day was surprisingly a lot better than I expected it to be considering it's the sequel to a movie based on a popular Canadian TV show. The show and the movies are about three friends, Ricky (Robb Wells), hot and sexy Julian (John Paul Tremblay), and oddball Bubbles (Mike Smith) that are always getting into trouble and doing stupid crime related things around their trailer park, called Sunnyvale. I am actually not very familiar with them and was only inspired to watch this movie after seeing some clips of them on Youtube.

I haven't even seen the first Trailer Park Boys movie, so it's kinda silly to be starting with the movie's sequel, but I have to start somewhere. This was available to me first. Well, first off, the film is filmed like a documentary. They always have a camera crew following them around. Apparently, this was also the case on the TV show.

Countdown to Liquor Day begins with the three guys getting out of jail - I assume they were taken there at the end of the first film. Bubbles, the oddball with the strange glasses, comes home to his shed and discovers that all of the kitties in the neighborhood he loves to take care of haven't ate from his giant Food Mountain of cat food because someone boarded up the little cat door in the shed. The cats have been rounded up and taken to a local animal shelter and it's there that he learns he'll have to pay thousands of dollars to get them out. He cares about the kitties that much. He also meets a friendly lady at the shelter who tells him to come back after working hours and she'll sneak him in to see his cats, among other things.

Meanwhile, Julian and Ricky have already robbed a liquor store and turned their trailer into an unsuccessful auto-body shop. A guy named Jim Lahey has opened a fancier trailer park and he has plans to demolish the Sunnyvale trailer park. However, because of a sewer line problem, he needs Julian to move to his trailer park before he can do anything. Oh, did I mention that Jim is this old guy who has a history of being an alcoholic and he's got this boyfriend living with him named Randy that's got a big beer belly and has a history of being a crossdressing manwhore? Not to mention Jim has the hots for Julian, which is totally understandable (he's the dark haired trailer park boy).

The movie deals with people who are living a difficult, troublesome existence and are only trying to fight their demons and be the best they can. Ricky, after getting out of jail, plans on being successful without the help of his friend Julian and also hopes to pass an exam which would give him a diploma. There's also drama when Jim the homosexual turns to hard liquor again and his boyfriend, Randy, leaves him to hit the streets and turn tricks as a woman. There's also some hair drama as Randy gets his head shaved as revenge for accidentally messing up Bubbles' hair with some clippers and Randy now walks around with dark hair he's drawn on with a permanent marker that won't wash off.

I don't know if you should start off your Trailer Park Boys experience (if you've never seen them) with the sequel to the movie based on their show, but if you do, I believe you'll be pleasantly surprised with the quality of the writing and work they put into this. It was actually very heartfelt and down to earth while also being shocking, rowdy and ridiculously fun. I had a good time and I chuckled often. I'm looking forward to more Trailer Park Boys stories -- lucky for me, there's plenty more before this one to check out.

I have always wondered if I would like the movie as I liked the show, maybe now I will watch them Thanks Sexy

I have very diverse taste in movies

The Adjustment Bureau
(directed by George Nolfi, 2011)


Matt Damon plays a young politician named David Norris who starts off the movie running in an election to be a senator. At first he's everybody's favorite and he looks like a shoo-in to win, but when his competitor exposes him for an old college prank in which David bared his beautiful Matt Damon buttocks, I started detaching myself from the movie right away. I don't understand why Matt Damon mooning a bunch of people would cause him to have less power in the world! I would bow down and worship. I would give him my ballot slip.

Anyway, feeling like crap for being ruined, David retires in one scene to a men's restroom where, after thinking he's alone and talking to himself, he discovers that Emily Blunt's character, Elise, has been hiding in a stall. The two soon fall for each other as she's a crazy eccentric who's hiding from security guards because she dared herself to crash a wedding. The fact that they met and fell in love here starts a whole chain of events in which we meet The Adjustment Bureau.

The Adjustment Bureau is a team of guys, mostly old white men and one single heartfelt black man, Harry (Anthony Mackie), that are involved with making sure certain huge events in the world are carried out as planned because apparently there is no free will. The lead bad guy is played by John Slattery until we eventually meet a more authoritative character played by Terence Stamp (Bernadette from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert -- TRUST ME, this was perfect casting - I always pay attention to Bernadette. ALWAYS.)

Honestly, I thought this movie was terrible. It's trying to be some kind of mind humping movie, like The Matrix or Inception, but it's terribly flat, corny, lukewarm and feels more like a deep psychological study about men and their issues with controlling father figures. That's what I see going on here -- a subconscious story, as if the whole thing was a dream, about an overbearing father figure that doesn't want his son to marry the woman he wants.

Women probably won't like it (the woman I was with didn't even like it and it was her idea to go.) It tries to be a romantic movie but it's avalanched by male psychodrama and too many obnoxious chase scenes and sequences where characters keep running through doors and ending up in different locations. Emily Blunt does a good job as Matt Damon's love interest and Matt Damon himself was sexy and adorable in the role, but the science fiction parts are terribly draining and the movie DRAGS. Literally - it dragged so much that Terence Stamp put on his Bernadette costume from Priscilla and did a campy drag act at an hour into the film to comment on the movie itself:



Final Word: Depressing, mediocre, tiresome, feels like a rough draft, has a message about God and free will. Sometimes it's sweet but it could have been done better. Horrible execution. Illogical. We never get to see footage of Matt Damon's butt. It's good if you want a little mind trip. Stoners with girlfriends might wanna go see it. Fans of romantic comedies or even general romance movies might wanna give a lot of thought before going in. This is a trippy science fiction movie for men first, but it's still lacking a lot of sophistication.

Here is a different bureau.

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It sounds like X-files meets the Truman Show. Thanks SC, a torrent it is.

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The Roaring Twenties
(directed by Raoul Walsh, 1939)



Ugh... The Roaring Twenties? More like The SNORING Twenties!

Although, it really wasn't half bad. It just has a very boring middle part of the film. The movie begins rather violently and sadistically: James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart are fighting at the end of World War I. Also with them is Jeffrey Lynn, who plays Lloyd, and both he and Humphrey appear again later in the film. Let me just say that this is a very depressing movie. Maybe I'm just sensitive, but this movie has death, failure, a sweet, dedicated girlfriend turning into a slut, war violence, depression, alcohol guzzling, gangs, rude people -- all the men in this movie are practically evil and mean. This is Pulp Fiction in 1939.

Anyway, James Cagney, as Eddie Bartlett, comes home from the war and goes back to living with a chubby guy named Danny and they share a modest apartment with $4/week rent. He tries to go back to his old job but he's not wanted there, so he finds himself unemployed. That is until he meets Panama Smith (played well by Gladys George) who gets him into the boot-legging business -- selling alcohol during Prohibition. There's also Jean Sherman (played by Priscilla Lane), a character that annoyed me, for not only is she dull to begin with by appearing sweet and innocent as a little blonde songbird, but she also cheats on Eddie. Eddie used to get letters from her when he was fighting in the war. She sent him a picture of herself in costume from a high school play where she looked much older and floozy-like (her true colors, probably).

After about the first 45 minutes, the movie started turning into The Snoring Twenties on me. I almost fell asleep. According to Wikipedia's plot summary for the film, James Cagney runs into Humphrey Bogart again -- I do remember their reunion scene, two ships passing in the night (literally) and the water and general environment they were in looked unsettling and frightening. Uhhh... there was a bad business deal and... oh, see it yourself. I'm not here to tell the whole story.

I will tell you, though, that I didn't fall asleep and the movie picked up again in the third act. There was a great shootout scene, some drama with slutty Priscilla Lane, and a great moment between Cagney and Bogart. I also thought it had the perfect ending... but man, what a depressing movie. This is the first James Cagney movie I've ever seen and I heard he likes to sing and dance, so I went into The Roaring Twenties -- not knowing a thing about it -- thinking this was gonna be a gay old time that would put me in a jubilant mood. Instead, I walked away wanting a Prozac!

Not much sexiness going on here, either. Cagney is mildly attractive. He has an intensity about him that makes him sort of spellbinding and he's quite a fierce tough guy. Bogart is more physically attractive, but in my opinion he's softer and less threatening than Cagney. Priscilla Lane is a major creampuff that probably later married The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, but Gladys George has a real Spunky Sputnik personality and was perfect for Panama Smith, a hard edged, tough, sassy 1920's woman.

I do recommend it if you're wide awake and like black & white gangster movies.

Nice review Sexy thanks.

BLACK SWAN
(directed by Darren Aronofsky, 2010)


Black Swan is one of the best films that has come out in YEARS. Although it gets a little out of control at the very end of the movie, being out of control was totally the point. The cinematography is fresh and darkly beautiful in its lush overabudance of blacks, greys and whites. The acting is perfect. The story is engaging and rich and potent. The overall effect is one of genius and power. A twisted tale of a neurotic mother and her daughter who's driven to perfection, I was reminded of Brian De Palma's Carrie. I think this is one of the most substantial movies to have come out in a long time. The female curse of striving to work sexiness, purity, sluttiness, sanity and absolute beauty is examined here, from all its ups and downs, culminating in a creation that is timeless and sincere.

Natalie Portman stars as Nina Sayers, a young ballet dancer who dreams of being The Swan Queen in Swan Lake. To be The Swan Queen, you must embrace the good and bad sides of the Queen - the White Swan and the Black Swan. Nina is a pro at being the White Swan -- thanks to her years of always working towards perfection, aided by her destructive home life given in large part to her mother, a failure in the eyes of the world. However, being the Good Girl has severely contained and restricted Nina's dark side -- but it's there. An extreme white has to have an extreme black. When she goes to see the director about landing the part of The Swan Queen, he tries to seduce her with a kiss - she bites him. She refuses his kiss of death and lands the role of The Swan Queen.

The rest of the movie is about her work as she prepares to become the perfect Black Swan. This requires a lot of deterioration of her sanity and the persona she's carried with her for probably all of her life. She becomes angrier, she hallucinates, she hangs out with the bad girl and even has a lesbian sex scene (straight guys, take note.) She is preparing for her role, whether she realizes it or not.

Darren Aronofsky, who also directed The Fountain, which was a mind blowing tour de force, is a grade A mastermind of motion pictures. Black Swan deserved the Best Picture award at the Academy Awards this year. I still haven't seen The King's Speech, but I'm sure it can't beat this. Don't even try to waste your time persuading me. I'll make my judgement later when I've seen it.

Winona Ryder has a small role in this movie, which surprised me. She is the former Swan Queen. She was perfectly cast. Her age and her own private dark history allowed her to fit into what she was here so well. Natalie Portman is not someone I've cared much for as an actress before, but she has finally found a role she was meant to be in and her Academy Award for Best Actress was deserved.

Do see Black Swan.

I thought Barbara Hershay was Fab as the mother

He may have liked to sing and dance, he didn't do it very often and never in a gangster movie. You want to see him at his toughest (and craziest), watch another Raul Walsh movie, White Heat. I don't know if you will like it, but you won't fall asleep. "Top of the world, ma"

Creepshow 2
(directed by Michael Gornick, 1987)



Creepshow 2 is an old favorite of mine that I happened to catch in high definition on TV the other night. The screenplay by George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) is based off stories by Stephen King that are interesting, funny and sometimes disturbing. The original Creepshow, released in 1982, featured five stories, all stemming from a comic book based on old EC horror comic books of the 1950's. Very much like the TV show, Tales from the Crypt. Creepshow, however, is nastier, often more surreal, darker, bloodier, grosser. Creepshow 2 is gorier than the first Creepshow, and it only features three stories, but the overall effect is fun and creepy while being a little bit of a letdown.

The first story Old Chief Woodn'head revolves around an old couple, played by Dorothy Lamour and George Kennedy, that have a little general store in a small town that's got nothing going for it. Outside, they keep a wooden Indian statue, called Old Chief Woodn'head. A local Native American guy brings them some precious jewels from his people that are worth $10,000 and as soon as he leaves, the Native American guy's grandson robs the general store with two friends of his. Dorothy Lamour and George Kennedy get killed in the process. Next thing you know, Old Chief Woodn'head, the statue, comes to life and seeks revenge. This is a very good story that isn't really scary or horrific. Think Kill Bill if Uma Thurman had been a Cigar Store Indian. The evil Native American grandson, played by Holt McCallany, turned in a really good performance and there's a lot of laughs as he obsesses over his sexy long black hair. The funniest part is that the little small town general store has a photo booth machine you can step into and have your picture taken for $1.00 or something, and the grandson takes a moment during the robbery to use the photo booth and discuss how once he gets to Hollywood (the reason he's robbing the store, to get money) his hair will get him "paid and laid."



The second story, The Raft, which is based on a Stephen King story found in his book Skeleton Crew, is in my opinion the scariest and most disturbing part about Creepshow 2. A group of young college students drive down to a hidden lake in the middle of September and go swimming while stoned. They all end up on a raft together, but, oh no, there's a man eating oil slick swimming around them, out to get dinner. The oil slick is not funny or anything -- it's serious, methodical and frightening. Well, okay, it does burp at one point. Some of the acting here wasn't too great, but the death scenes involving the oil slick snatching up its victims, causing great pain to them as it ate away at their flesh, was nightmare material.



The final story, The Hitchhiker, is a much needed relaxing horror story, as it is mainly comical. A rich, snotty woman who's been out having an affair on her husband leaves her man whore after reportedly having six orgasms with him and ends up running over a black hitchhiker. More scared for her car and her reputation, she ditches the hitchhiker and continues on her journey home... till she soon passes the dead hitchhiker on the road, waving her down! She tries to brush it off as her guilty imagination at work -- with classic lines like, "You're seeing things, bitch." -- but suddenly, the Hitchhiker is at her window, shouting, "THANKS FOR THE RIDE, LADY!" which becomes his catchphrase. The rest of the story features the woman trying to get away from him, running him over and over and over again, shooting at him with a gun and finally smashing him several times into a tree. He never goes down, though. He just gets gorier and gorier.



There's also an animated wraparound story involving a boy getting harassed by some bullies until he unleashes some man eating venus fly traps on them. The stories are introduced by The Creep, a wisecracking old man ghoul that's kind of like The Cryptkeeper of this movie.



Overall, Creepshow 2 is a somewhat more entertaining film than the first movie. Not as classic, but worth a look and definitely good popcorn fun. I always wished there had been a Creepshow 3 followup -- there actually is a Creepshow 3, which came out not too many years ago, but it has nothing to do with Stephen King & George A. Romero and is more of a fan project/money making scheme that somehow got to use the Creepshow name. I never saw it and don't feel a need to. But Creepshow 2 is genuine - quite different in tone than the first movie, but I think it holds up.

i found AB more enjoyable. Yeah it was Inception lite, but i enjoyed the chemistry and the flow of the story a bit more. Hope it does make the majority of its money back.