Word: psychos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What do you get when you blend the female psycho-killers of "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct" with unabashed, potentially idiotic slapstick? Carl Reiner's "Fatal Instinct," that's what. True to its synthetic title, the movie satirizes various psycho-thrillers of recent years, including "Cape Fear," "Body Heat," and "Sleeping with the Enemy...
...this reign of consumerist psycho-terror cannot last forever. Hearken closely, Mother Harvard: Rebecca's blue corn tortillas alone will not sate...
...comping is silly. I enjoyed the Crimson news comp--I cannot tell a lie--but it aged me. I watched psycho-compers rise and fall; I watched my own stories crump; I stayed up late; I probably messed up the Tommy...
Also, Kaufmann spoils valuable shock potential by casting edgy-psycho specialist Ray Wise as an important senator. There's no question the senator is up to something after Wise's first goofy leer. Some unexpectedly intense eroticism seems thrown in to earn the film its thriller merit badge, but excellent, brooding camera work goes a lot further to keep our interest. The Crichton hit factory churns...
...article, Frederick argued that "like" is particularly effective for dulling harsh critcism. One can say, for example, "May dad is, like, an anal retentive psycho." Such a phrase means that the person's father is not exactly an anal-retentive psycho, but he is like an anal-retentive psycho. Frederick wrote...