Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem a sacrament: baptism and extreme unction in a single dab. The healing scenes will evoke tears, some of them earned. And there's a lot of sharp acting, led by Hanks' pained restraint. The two villains are vigorously portrayed: a sadistic, craven guard (Doug Hutchison) and a strutting, rabid inmate (played with a daringly lunatic, dark-star quality by Sam Rockwell), whose crimes are even worse than we feared. At the core, though, one finds a slacky, sappy film. The human mystery that breathed so easily in Shawshank is often forced here. Grandstanding reaction shots of teary guards...
...best friend! I must be more passionate! More beautiful! More full of love! They think that I sing so loud because I am "sexually frustrated." They compare my voice to a "screaming banshee who is being beaten with barbed wire and then being chopped up and fed to a rabid goat." Everyone knows that there are no goats in Canada. Then they suggest that I am not "pretty and sweet" like I seem, but rather "pure evil and not from this planet...
...grassroots rabble-rouser because it keeps him on TV and sells books, and because no one else much wants to be one. He has the give-'em-hell attitude to excite the Reform party's lunatic fringe, and comes with his own built-in constituency ? a rabid band of anti-abortion, pro-prayer protectionists who are fightin' mad over the Republicans' slow-but-insistent move back to the center under George W. Bush. With a Reform party nod, Buchanan gets a brand-new pan-partisan forum for his populism ? in his third go-round, his act is wearing thin with...
...direct proportion to our sense that they were made without adult supervision. The tradition was carried on by filmmakers like David Cronenberg; though later celebrated for the high-toned horror of The Fly and Dead Ringers, he never matched the shocks of his early, amateurish offerings such as Rabid and They Came from Within. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, directed by Tobe Hooper in 1974, was almost comical in its killer-on-the-loose hysteria, but it set a new standard for slasher films to come. The masterpiece of the genre remains John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). Despite some Hollywood...
WILD THINGS If you happen to be around caves or attics this summer, consider this: bats that bite are twice as likely to carry rabies as bats that don't. Just like infected raccoons and other animals, rabid bats act aggressively and lose their natural fear of humans. The message? Stay away from the critters--especially if they stand their ground when you approach...