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  • Two movies for the price of one

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    Carolyn Brandt probably gets more screen time than the titular characters due to a production shift by Steckler from straight-up thriller to slapstick comedy. And, really, that's not such a bad thing.

    I didn't know Rat Pfink a Boo Boo's history going into it, but the shift in tone didn't startle me. You kind of expect these kinds of films to fly by the seat of their pants anyway. Plus, each half of the film works in and of itself. The opening sequence of the three thugs stalking a young woman is especially unsettling.

    Like with his Incredibly Strange Creatures, Steckler does know how to pay things off, i.e. if you want to compare the finale creature rampage sequence of the first film to the extended fight scene that comes at Rat Pfink's climax. Also, I think the closing car chase is one of the longest ones in cinema history. Not one of the best, but one of the longest.


  • A surreal masterpiece

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    Elevator Movie  (2008)

    Elevator Movie is the ultimate "meet cute" movie. What do you get when a perverted virgin and a Born Again ex-slut walk into an elevator? A sick, twisted epic of surrealistic extremes. This is a Twilight Zone episode as directed by David Lynch.

    They say opposites attract, but these two lonely souls on opposite sides of the great sexual divide are like opposing magnets, alternately attracting and repelling each other as the hours they're stuck together drags on into days, months and maybe even years.

    It's an outlandish premise, but director Zeb Haradon really makes the situation work by ratcheting up the sexual tension to unbearable levels. And if the idea of two people stuck in an elevator for years on end isn't extreme enough, it gets even odder when one of them starts becoming something that isn't quite human.

    Read my original review on Bad Lit.


 

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