cj_bacon86 Reviews

Tremors (2003)

Assblasters, Shriekers, and Graboids Oh My!

[31 March 2003]

Well, when I first heard that Tremors was going to become a weekly TV series, my first reaction was WTF? I loved the original movies and still do this day, but to have Burt Gummer go up against Tremors week after week would seem pretty redundant. Until I saw the series.

The best thing about the show is that they do not focus as much on Graboids or Shriekers or Asslbasters that much at all, but rather take an X-Files approach to the series. It doesn't take itself seriously at all, and could be considered the pick-up of the humur that was lacking in many X-Files episodes. Seeing it as a continuation of the events from the last movie makes sense, as most movie-to-TV series concepts don't have the same relish as the movies (Ferris Bueller? Clerks? Clueless?), but this could really turn that feeling around greatly. I hope SciFi realizes what they have and keep it for three or four seasons.

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Halloween 6: Damned or Misunderstood?

[16 November 2002]

Out of all the Halloween sequels, none have been lauded messing up the whole story like Halloween 6 did when relased in 1995. Earlier, I may have said that it was either the best of the sequels or even the worst. Until recently.

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure to see the infamous Producer's Cut of Halloween 6. I almost did not watch it, having had the sour taste of the theatrical version in my mouth still (even the popcorn tasted bad!!)But I sat and watched it, and was amazed at how different it seemed.

First of all, I had hated it originally because A)Donald Pleasence had just passed away and that meant one thing: the death of Dr. Loomis, who had been the standpoint for all the sequels without Jamie Lee Curtis since 1988. I did not like the way they sent the character off and this was one of the reasons I refused to see it again. But in the PROD. CUT, Loomis is now cursed with the Thorn, which means that HE, the very man who set out to destroy Michael Myers's evil, the very doctor who devoted a good part of his life to, now is cursed to walk the earth like Myers, not alive, though not dead.

Secondly, the Wynn character was interesting in both versions, and he should have been around for either H7 or H8. He is third on my list of movie villains (underneath Myers who is underneath Khan Noonien Singh). He was a tormentor to Loomis and everyone else in Haddonfield.

Third and finally, Myers himself. George Wilbur played a great Myers in H4, but seven years later, Wilbur has pakced on some poundage and makes the character look bigger than he actually should have been (but it plays well in the age timeline of the character because as of H6, Michael Myers should have been 38). But because of that belly, Myers looks more like Jason Voorhees did in the last three Friday The 13th films than the slim figure of H1,2,and 4.

But I can't really complain much about these elements of the PC. Other than the fact that the Producer's Cut should be released.