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...title but not the plot of a '50s exploitation epic from the vault of American International Pictures and, on a miserly budget of $1.3 million, spin a hip variation on it. So Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School) picked Shake, Rattle and Rock; Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) selected Cool and the Crazy; Joe Dante (Gremlins) chose Runaway Daughters; Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) took Confessions of a Sorority Girl; William Friedkin (The Exorcist) got Jailbreakers; Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) chose Reform School Girl; Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) took Dragstrip Girl; John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial...
Avery is worth the attention. His best cartoons inhabit a dog-eat-cat, male- chase-female, everyone-humiliate-everyone-else world -- a place at constant war over food crises and turf disputes. It is also a world wholly aware of itself as an artistic fabrication. A joke will apologize for itself by sprouting an ear of corn (Get it? Corny!). A character will pluck a vagrant "hair" from the film-projector lamp, or abruptly go monochrome because he passed a reading technicolor ends here. "Ain't we in the wrong picture?" asks Red Riding Hood of the wolf in Swing...
...poigniancy to these roles. Supporting them is the hilarious Thora Hird who plays Deric's mother. Slightly schezophrenic, she will call Deric and leave her end of the line unoccupied. When she finally returns to the phone, she conducts a three-way conversation between her son, herself and her cat, whom she refers to as Deric's brother. All the while she is putting sugar on the cat's food. The introduction of her character, and the moments when we see her provide much-needed relief for the weightiness of the rest of the film. Only in the smallest moments...
...pick it up and continue reading. After the third or fourth angry outburst like this, Gus asks Ben what he's reading about. He goes on to tell the story of an 87-year-old man run over by a bus. Then he tells how two children killed a cat. "It's enough to make you wanna puke!" is one of Ben's final comments about one story...
...woods and Laura is left to deal with the police. But don't think it stops there. As Laura talks gives her testimony to the police and her father, we notice her eyes glowing with the golden sheen indicative of werewolf infection. She too, slinking in her black cat suit looking like something from a Dewar's Scotch ad, slips into the woods to run with Will. And so, presumably, they live happily ever after running through the woods killing innocent deer and waiting for some unbeknownst driver to hit them on a snowy night...