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japanesedream_72Quite recently, I have been entertaining thoughts of shaving my head & buying a nice wig. Although, more often than not, I find that I am not as ugly as I feel.
I’m always in the mood for horror movies, but most especially at this time of year. I’ve already started scouring the tv book to see if any good ones are coming on. But since there weren’t any on last night, I pulled out an old fave: a fun, silly, only slightly gruesome yet still thoroughly enjoyable pseudo-zombie flick called “The Granny”.
A rich old battle-axe of a woman, whose greedy family (which includes, among others, a nymphet grand-daughter anxious to screw her lecherous uncle, & a daughter-in-law who gets sexually aroused by the old lady’s fur coat collection) can’t wait for her to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on her cash (all except her kind-hearted but unfortunately plain-Jane grand-daughter, played by Shannon Whirry, the sexiest nerd on celluloid!), is given the opportunity to attain immortality. Because of her substantial donations to humanitarian causes, she is deemed worthy by a secret order of immortals who bestow the gift of eternal life on only the most deserving. It comes in the form of an energised liquid known as the Qui Chou (think Isabella Rossellini’s potion in “Death Becomes Her”). The only problem is that the Qui Chou cannot be exposed to sunlight, or else it mutates, turning anyone who drinks it into a murderous, demon-like zombie.
You can guess what happens.
“The Granny” isn’t quite as off-the-wall as Peter Jackson’s “Dead Alive” (note: "Dead Alive" must be seen uncut, ‘cuz there are edited versions out there butchered worse than the chick who got run over by the lawnmower in “Frankenhooker”!), but it’s a must for fans of cheezy 80’s horror, chock-full of wonderfully bad one-liners, & featuring such goodies as death by mink, a Thanksgiving dinner scene that’s funny as all get-out, an ode to (or perhaps an inspiration for) Lorena Bobbitt, & a dead cat. (Anyone who has known me prior to my joining LJ will know why that last one’s funny.) ^_^
Links to films I mentioned:
The Granny - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113210/
Death Becomes Her - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/
Dead Alive - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/
Frankenhooker - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099611/
I’m always in the mood for horror movies, but most especially at this time of year. I’ve already started scouring the tv book to see if any good ones are coming on. But since there weren’t any on last night, I pulled out an old fave: a fun, silly, only slightly gruesome yet still thoroughly enjoyable pseudo-zombie flick called “The Granny”.
A rich old battle-axe of a woman, whose greedy family (which includes, among others, a nymphet grand-daughter anxious to screw her lecherous uncle, & a daughter-in-law who gets sexually aroused by the old lady’s fur coat collection) can’t wait for her to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on her cash (all except her kind-hearted but unfortunately plain-Jane grand-daughter, played by Shannon Whirry, the sexiest nerd on celluloid!), is given the opportunity to attain immortality. Because of her substantial donations to humanitarian causes, she is deemed worthy by a secret order of immortals who bestow the gift of eternal life on only the most deserving. It comes in the form of an energised liquid known as the Qui Chou (think Isabella Rossellini’s potion in “Death Becomes Her”). The only problem is that the Qui Chou cannot be exposed to sunlight, or else it mutates, turning anyone who drinks it into a murderous, demon-like zombie.
You can guess what happens.
“The Granny” isn’t quite as off-the-wall as Peter Jackson’s “Dead Alive” (note: "Dead Alive" must be seen uncut, ‘cuz there are edited versions out there butchered worse than the chick who got run over by the lawnmower in “Frankenhooker”!), but it’s a must for fans of cheezy 80’s horror, chock-full of wonderfully bad one-liners, & featuring such goodies as death by mink, a Thanksgiving dinner scene that’s funny as all get-out, an ode to (or perhaps an inspiration for) Lorena Bobbitt, & a dead cat. (Anyone who has known me prior to my joining LJ will know why that last one’s funny.) ^_^
Links to films I mentioned:
The Granny - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113210/
Death Becomes Her - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/
Dead Alive - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/
Frankenhooker - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099611/
