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Here is an uncompromising look at the treatment of homosexuals in films and the Hollywood movie system. The documentary shows many different film clips from movies with either homosexual themes or undertones. The filmakers interviewed at least two dozen famed movie actors, writers, directors and producers, a good portion of them gay. The people talk about how certain films came about and the feelings toward the film system's biased treatment of gay characters. Various film clips include an early Thomas Edison experimental film, showing two guys dancing cheek to cheek. Besides depicting the evolution of the sissy, a character that was used mostly as comic relief, the film also presents an image of lesbian characters during the 40's and 50's cast as cold-blooded killers. Finally, it comes into the 70's and 80's, where Hollywood is attempting to come to terms with the subject of homosexuality.The interviews are both insightful and funny, as they interview Gore Vidal on the undertones of Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston's characters in Ben-Hur. Tony Curtis describes his character development in Some Like it Hot and how the famed deleted bath scene in Spartacus came about. The most interesting interview came from Susan Sarandon on how she added her own little touches to the lesbian scene in The Hunger. This is an extremely pessimistic and ugly look at the homophobia surrounding the movie industry through the past 100 years, so don't look for anything really nice in this picture. The interviews are intelligent and come off unbiased for the most part and the quick editing with the old movie clips is astounding. This is probably one of the best documentaries that has come out in a long time!
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George Romero finishes up his Living Dead trilogy with a less than exciting entry. The story is basically the same. The dead have risen and a small band of humans, while having to deal with each other must also fight off these newly arrived ghoulish creatures. This time out, it's a group of scientists battling the army of the dead, coupled with a bunch of military machos, who have set up a fascistic settlement in an underground bunker.Talk! Talk! Talk! A lot of shouting and no real action is pretty much what you get. The film is redeemed somewhat by the excellent make-up of Tom Savini and a pulse-pounding gory climax. One of the major problems is, unlike the other films, you don't get to know the human characters as well as you know the zombies. I guess if your just a gore fan, you'll like it okay. Romero has tried. I'll admit that, but he just can't seem to keep the life into his own dead (no puns intended) series.
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I tell you, I wouldn't even review this film if it wasn't considered such an acclaimed film by horror fans. Hey! I can't understand why either! This Italian made horror film rips off everything from Night of the Living Dead to The Evil Dead. A bunch of folks, you could care less about, are trapped in a movie theater, which has turned a good portion of the audience into blood-thirsty, long-toothed demons. So now, they must find some way to escape without getting killed or becoming one of the ghastly little buggers.Enough said I think! Everything about this is miserable. It's the perfect BAD horror film though. No understandable plot, no character development, no logic and absolutely nothing interesting about it. I understand why gore fans would like it, but the violence is so repellent, that there is no real point to all of it. The camera work is the only thing really good about this bottom-of-the-barrel gore fest. Whatever they had the filmakers on during the making of this film, they should have cut the dosage a bit.
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Copycat is one of a string of a 90's film noire genre. Sigourney Weaver stars as an expert on serial killers. She, herself, was attacked by a severely deranged killer (Harry Connick Jr.) and is now helping a homicide detective (Holly Hunter) try and find another deranged murderer. The title comes from the fact that the killer uses carbon copy techniques of various famed psychos. Such murderers as Son of Sam, the Boston Strangler and Ted Bundy are horribly copied by the demented copycat. However, so that the killer is made a little different, the copycat uses the internet as part of his murder weapon. You'll find out what I mean when you see it.The script and the performances are excellent, though the suspense is sporadic at best. Also, Weaver and Hunter are great when they are acting away from each other, but when they come together, they have about as much chemistry as two rocks. As for Connick, well he isn't really convincing as a psycho. He's creepy. That's about it! Ironically, it's Connick who's the copycat in this film. He uses every movie serial killer cliche in the book. Still, the two stars are good. Just don't expect a sequel with Hunter's and Weaver's characters as buddies.
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