Cult Cuts Volume 18 (80s Horror Retrospective #2)
#3/4: The Peanut Butter Solution (1985) (SPOILER WARNING)
(7/10): From the Great White North of Canada, Quebec specifically, comes an extremely odd kids film that is mostly remembered now for being again, very strange, but also traumatizing many children.
It follows a young boy named Michael who lives at home with his older sister and father while his mother is away. His father is an artist and Michael also attends art classes with a very peculiar and strict teacher who penalizes creativity.
One day after his game practice was canceled him and his friend decided to go and take a look at an old abandoned building and Michael climbs all the way up through the window only to be frightened by something and fall unconscious.
The next day he awakens to find that he has gone completely bald due to fright and now he's become miserable and the butt of many jokes at school.
He does meet ghosts in the middle of the night who teach him a formula that can help him get his hair back with the secret ingredient being peanut butter but only a little bit of peanut butter as he is warned, but like all kids he disregards the warning and loads it full of peanut butter and the next day he starts growing his hair back but at an alarming rate.
The hair becomes a problem at school and then shortly afterwards him and many other kids go missing.
They are found abducted by the same art teacher who is using his hair to paint magic paintings.
I didn't know how else to go into this film without pretty much breaking down the entire story as a lot of its weird and bizarre aspects come from just how strange the plot is.
The film is really quite wholesome as much as it is odd and also not necessarily the greatest. It's also very much a family film first with the horrific attributes sprinkled in much akin to Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice in that manner.
It also does feel somewhat familiar in that it feels oddly like E. T.: The Extra Terrestrial but also feels nothing like it at the same time.
It's truly a perplexing film that is incredibly unique in its level of imaginative storytelling in spite of its flaws.
It's a tough one to go out and recommend as it's very much a film that is rooted in nostalgia and also any newcomers to it will either not like it due to lack of attachment or if they're young might also end up being traumatized by the fear of being bald like many kids were.
So I say if you want to check it out go for it but if not then that's fine, this one is a tough one to not view in its nostalgic lens.
#3/4: The Peanut Butter Solution (1985) (SPOILER WARNING)
(7/10): From the Great White North of Canada, Quebec specifically, comes an extremely odd kids film that is mostly remembered now for being again, very strange, but also traumatizing many children.
It follows a young boy named Michael who lives at home with his older sister and father while his mother is away. His father is an artist and Michael also attends art classes with a very peculiar and strict teacher who penalizes creativity.
One day after his game practice was canceled him and his friend decided to go and take a look at an old abandoned building and Michael climbs all the way up through the window only to be frightened by something and fall unconscious.
The next day he awakens to find that he has gone completely bald due to fright and now he's become miserable and the butt of many jokes at school.
He does meet ghosts in the middle of the night who teach him a formula that can help him get his hair back with the secret ingredient being peanut butter but only a little bit of peanut butter as he is warned, but like all kids he disregards the warning and loads it full of peanut butter and the next day he starts growing his hair back but at an alarming rate.
The hair becomes a problem at school and then shortly afterwards him and many other kids go missing.
They are found abducted by the same art teacher who is using his hair to paint magic paintings.
I didn't know how else to go into this film without pretty much breaking down the entire story as a lot of its weird and bizarre aspects come from just how strange the plot is.
The film is really quite wholesome as much as it is odd and also not necessarily the greatest. It's also very much a family film first with the horrific attributes sprinkled in much akin to Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice in that manner.
It also does feel somewhat familiar in that it feels oddly like E. T.: The Extra Terrestrial but also feels nothing like it at the same time.
It's truly a perplexing film that is incredibly unique in its level of imaginative storytelling in spite of its flaws.
It's a tough one to go out and recommend as it's very much a film that is rooted in nostalgia and also any newcomers to it will either not like it due to lack of attachment or if they're young might also end up being traumatized by the fear of being bald like many kids were.
So I say if you want to check it out go for it but if not then that's fine, this one is a tough one to not view in its nostalgic lens.