Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

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It’s a shame that governmental satires remain relevant with cyclical predictability. The Crazies as a concept is as relatable today as it was in 2010 or 1973. Eisner understands that Romero’s foundation doesn’t have to be altered, only the presentation. Proper remakes reinvent; they don’t rehash. Watching Romero’s and Eisner’s versions of The Crazies paints a complete red, white, and bruised picture of how the government works for itself, not the American people. That’s because they’re two halves of a conversation about broken systems, neither movie stepping on the other’s lines when telling their stories. In Flagstaff, the parents of the two-year old Billy Lynch leave the boy with his Aunt Cheryl Roberts (Susan Tyrrell) to visit his grandparents. Out of the blue, the car loses its break on the road and they die. Fourteen years later, Billy (Jimmy McNichol) tells her aunt that his coach told him that a scout from the Denver University will see his next game and probably will offer him a scholarship in the university. His dominating aunt plots an evil plan to keep him at home with her, and kills the television technician Phil Brody (Caskey Swaim), claiming that he tried to rape her. However, Phil is gay and the bigoted Detective Joe Carlson (Bo Svenson) believes that Billy is also gay and his aunt is protecting him, but he cannot prove his beliefs. On the day of the game, Cheryl drugs Billy and he faints, losing his chance to show his skills. When Billy falls in love with Julia Duffy (Julie Linden), Cheryl tries to take her out of their lives. Soon Cheryl escalates her madness and obsession and begins a crime spree to keep Billy with her. Leone’s response to the comments made was humorous, deciding to take some time to promote the film in a tweet: Steven Eastin Interview (HD, 9 Mins.) - The actor talks about working with everyone in the film and his character specifically.

a b Alexander, Chris (November 29, 2016). "In Praise of 1982's Night Warning". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on February 13, 2019 . Retrieved February 13, 2019. Dennis, Jeffery P. (2006). Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys and Same-sex Desire in Film and Television. New York: Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-560-23349-7. Jimmy McNichol Interview (HD, 8 Mins.) - The actor discusses his career, coming aboard the film, his role, and working with others. Maltin, Leonard (2013). Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide: The Modern Era. New York: Plume. ISBN 978-0-142-18055-6. a b c Thompson, Nathaniel. " Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on February 13, 2019 . Retrieved February 13, 2019.Intensity jumps a few notches by treating The Crazies like 28 Days Later or other “Rage Virus” films. Eisner produces an infinitely scarier version of The Crazies on a purely visual level. Ogden Marsh’s “crazy” residents almost look zombified as they skewer, roast, and commit heinous acts of violence against their neighbors, fitting the 2000s need one-up what’s shown during weekday news segments. Eisner is going for the full-on horror experience, from righteous jump scares in sudsy car washes to gnarly killing blows in mechanic bays, if only to emphasize what Romero established years prior. He’s able to retain the anger in Romero’s themes while adding post-millennium angst and pulse-pounding tension, staying true to the original’s conspiratorial themes with a deeper bite. Released in October of 2004, Dumplings was adapted from the Lilian Lee book of the same name, and later cut into a short film collected in the anthology Three…Extremes . The star of the show is Mrs. Li, an aging starlet whose marriage is slowly dying due to her husband’s infidelity. Blaming her appearance and infertility, Mrs. Li begins paying lump sums of cash to a medicine woman named “Aunt” Mei for miracle dumplings: with a bit of ginger, cabbage, pork, and a potent secret ingredient minced extra fine, Mei cooks up dumplings that restore the youth of the eater. Just one problem…the secret ingredient is fetuses. And by the end, you’re not particularly rooting for either of them. Still, their chemistry on screen has you craving some resolution as their relationship gets messier and messier. Fruit Chan gives you just that, and a side of cruelty to go with it. Billy is trapped. And this is a narrative about how he gets out of his aunt’s prison. The film is bizarrely surreal as the aunt takes control of Billy’s life, isolating him from his friends, moving his room upstairs and, finally, surrounding him with a shitload of religious imagery in an attempt to turn him into the man she wants him to be. And the screaming as Billy learns more and more about the stranger that his aunt and primary caretaker will haunt for days after. Banal 'Butcher' doesn't cut it as a horror movie". Corvallis Gazette-Times. Corvallis, Oregon. November 27, 1981. p.17 – via Newspapers.com.

In Flagstaff, the parents of the two-year old Billy Lynch leave the boy with his Aunt Cheryl Roberts to visit his grandparents. Out of the blue, the car loses its break on the road and they die. Fourteen years later, Billy tells her aunt that his coach told him that a scout from the Denver University will see his next game and probably will offer him a scholarship in the university. His dominating aunt plots an evil plan to keep him at home with her, and kills the television technician Phil Brody, claiming that he tried to rape her. However, Phil is gay and the bigoted Detective Joe Carlson believes that Billy is also gay and his aunt is protecting him, but he cannot prove his beliefs. On the day of the game, Cheryl drugs Billy and he faints, losing his chance to show his skills. When Billy falls in love with Julia Duffy, Cheryl tries to take her out of their lives. Soon Cheryl escalates her madness and obsession and begins a crime spree to keep Billy with her. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The film’s most memorable song is Mei’s renditions of “Wave after Wave in Honghu Lake”, a CCP folk song whose tune changes throughout the film as she sings it to Mrs. Li. It is ultimately completely changed in meaning and tone by the time it is played through the film’s final moments, reflecting the shift in the cultural and political landscape of Hong Kong since the handover. The excellent cast is another strong feature of this movie. Bo Svenson is solid as a homophobic police detective. A young Jimmy McNichol is touching as an attractive teen desperately trying to have a normal life. The greatest of all though is Susan Tyrrell as one of the most demented villains you'll ever see! Also among the cast is a young Bill Paxton in one of his earliest roles.

BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER is a film that i had heard about long before I actually got a chance to see it. I had heard some pretty crazy things about the picture but in all honesty, nothing you read can prepare you for what an incredibly strange picture that you're going to see. I've seen a lot of very weird and very surreal movies in my life but there's really not another picture out there like this one. Is that a good thing? Probably so because this thing is just so out there in so many ways. Before credits roll, a brief narrative explains that Bill stood trial for Carlson's death, but was unanimously acquitted due to “temporary insanity.” It also states that Billy and Julie are attending college together. High school senior Billy Lynch lives with his protective aunt Cheryl, who has raised him since infancy after his parents died in a car accident. A gifted basketball player, Billy is offered a chance at a scholarship to attend the University of Denver, but Cheryl dismisses the idea, assuming that Billy will stay with her to "contribute". At school, Billy is bullied by one of his basketball teammates, Eddie, who is jealous of Billy's close camaraderie with their coach, Tom Landers; meanwhile Julia, the school newspaper photographer, begins to take a romantic interest in Billy. The film was re-released in January 1983 under the title Night Warning, first screening in the California cities of San Francisco [19] and Santa Cruz, [20] as well as Indianapolis, Indiana. [21] Critical response [ edit ]Now, I say this because the 2004 film Dumplings by director Fruit Chan made me fall out of love with dumplings for months after I had watched it. It is a film that I will never forget and utilizes food on film to tell a bizarre, tragic story in a way very few have.

Horror contemplates in great detail how young people handle inordinate situations and all of life’s unexpected challenges. While the genre forces characters of every age to face their fears, it is especially interested in how youths might fare in life-or-death scenarios. NIGHTMARE MAKER is one of the better films that were singled out for prosecution in the UK in the early 80’s and lumbered with the tag ‘video-nasty’. Director William Asher is best known for his work in TV situation comedy ( I Love Lucy, Bewitched) and for the string of Beach Party movies he made in the 1960s. But he occasionally veered into darker territory, as with this 1981 film—part horror movie and part psychological thriller—which was also shown under the title Night Warning. Aunt Cheryl’s insidious transformation coincides with Billy’s maturation. His interest in girls, particularly high school sweetheart Julia ( Julia Duffy ), and his plans for college both trigger Cheryl. She accommodates Billy’s academic ambition after expressing dismay, however, this is not a compromise so much as it is a part of her master plan. Not long after getting the supposed thumbs-up to fly the nest, McNichol’s unaware character comes home on his seventeenth birthday to find his blood-spattered aunt holding a knife and standing over a dead man’s body.

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Tyrrell gives a frighteningly unhinged performance as Billy’s aunt. She’s intense and psychotic and, as the movie goes on, totally hawks the “sanity” seen in the opening 30 minutes like few other actresses can in similar roles. And the blunt brutality that echoes in the final arc of the screenplay written by Stephen Breimer makes for a twisted 90 minutes where anything can (and certainly does) happen. I mean, you suspect something is amiss by the freeze-framed smile as she clutches the young child in her arms, but what is unleashed – including the frenzied secrets – make for an unforgettable movie. District theaters". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. January 7, 1983. p.E9 – via Newspapers.com. Susan Tyrrell Interview (HD, 10 Mins.) - A super-fun interview where it looks like Susan is in character from the film talking about the movie. Movie times". Vancouver Sun. Vancouver, British Columbia. March 26, 1982. p.L36 – via Newspapers.com.