Colossal was our first movie. It's a 2016 monster from the ID sort of movie, too much time with the humans, and so little with the monsters. It's the work of Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo. I've only seen his 2010 movie Timecrimes, I didn't care for it much. Colossal is a better movie, but I'm not caring that much for it, there just aren't any very likeable characters.
Anne Hathaway plays a drunken gal who gets kicked out her boyfriend's apartment for being too much trouble. She moves to a house in her home town and meets an old pal. He gives her a job in his bar. While all this is happening a monster appears in Seoul Korea. Ann soon discovers that the monster is connected to her. It had appeared in Seoul once time previous, 25 years before when Ann was a little kid. It happened at 8:05 AM while Anne and her pal were on the way to school. The whole movie seems to hinge on this traumatic event being the cause of the psychic event. I question that. The area where the traumatic event happened is now a park and the psychic hot spot is the sand around the climbing equipment. When Ann walks in the sand area at 8:05 AM the monster appears in Seoul. When she leaves the sand area it disappears. Turns out Ann's old pal can make a giant robot appear in Seoul too. The old pal becomes more of a monster as the story progresses. Finally Anne has to throw him out of the picture. It took a long time to get to that and it didn't do much to get me to like the picture.
They say it's a black comedy but it's mostly drama with a bit of monster in-activity. Is this a postmodern kind of monster movie? Some praise the mash up style but it's lacking any entertainment value for me. Spending time with that group of losers isn't much fun. I like my monsters big and loud. Now that I've seen it, I won't be picking up the DVD and I like giant monster movies. I can't see ever watching it again.
The Night Of The Sorcerers is a 1974 Spanish movie about a trip into the jungle that goes badly. Amando de Ossorio is the writer and director. I'd seen two or three of his other pictures. I didn't know any of the actors but all the ladies get their kit off pretty regularly. Greg knew who Jack Taylor was and when I looked him up I had seen a few of his pictures. He's still around and was acting up until 2014.
When the movie opens we see some Africa natives performing a voodoo ritual. A woman is tied, spread eagle, to a couple of trees, her clothes are whipped off her body. They put her on the alter and off goes her head. Shortly after some soldiers arrive and slaughter everyone. The government has deemed the voodoo practice to be illegal. Of course, it goes under ground. When the research expedition stops near the area where the slaughter took place, something is sure to happen.
There's a bit of gore, people get their heads chopped off, and the leopard clad zombie chicks do some bloody biting. When they run, it's in slow motion, it made me laugh. As I mentioned earlier, there's a lot of nudity, but there's a fair bit of personal drama going on for an expedition of a half a dozen. It's not great but it has at least a bit more entertainment value than the previous film. It's certainly not so pretentious.
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