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Hex (1973)
Kinda goofy but entertaining as heck.
When it really comes down to it, this is not a sophisticated movie. There's this soundtrack, see, and it's pretty goofy with lots of jaw harp boing boing and fiddle-de-doo tunes and that certain barnyard pig chase type music that often accompanies country/co boys falling in the dirt with that "aww, shucks" look upon their faces. But, like with all sorts of movies, there's just something about this (the copy I have of it is called "The Shrieking") movie that I adore. I'm not sure if it's the audacity of the movie for being as weird and unruly as it is yet still holding together, not sure if it's the way the actors all bounce off each other in a nice way or what...I think mostly it's just the unexpectedness of the script, truly one of the strangest stories I've ever seen on film and by the end we can look back at all the oddities and know that whoever wrote it must have had a very healthy supply of something that was probably illegal in the early seventies, because this is a drug movie. I GUESS it could be called "horror" but it isn't that exactly, and it is a "teen movie" more or less, but not like any other "teen horror movie" I've ever seen, and it does have a serious propensity for the incredibly goofy, but that goofiness makes the horror (when it actually does happen) quite horrific (the scene with the frog comes to mind)...I notice that this film has a very low rating on IMDb, and that's a shame because it's funny and kinda scary at times, and altogether interesting and entertaining, not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but worth watching. Anyone else notice this one "feels" very similar to "Dead Birds"?
The Boondock Saints (1999)
Why was this thing even made?
Forty-seven harrowing hours of people being very, very boneheaded with a little bit of homo-erotica thrown in for good measure, probably not worth seeing unless you like brother/brother slash fiction and even for those purposes it's not all that great because you still have to sit through the thing which is forty-seven hours of people being very, very boneheaded with a lot of vigilante violence and a tremendous performance by Willem DeFoe as one of the most unlikable characters ever (unless you really like seeing self-hating gays)... A movie filled with plot and twists and championing things and lots of man pecs and a few moments of something resembling humanity that don't exactly make a lot of sense. It is true, however, that in the end it ends (I guess there's a sequel though!) and that is a good thing for this movie to do. I would give it zero stars if possible as watching it was harrowing and painful and seemed to last forever and I still sometimes wake up at night screaming due to watching it. Seems a lot of people like it though.