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...minutes pass, tension shows around their eyes. Schlaht begins to think he will have to turn back to base. We are in a plane that can carry more explosive power than was set off by all the participants of World War II. It looks like a flying shark, and is equipped with electronic gadgets that allow it to make a precision bombing run at midnight in the middle of a blizzard-when they work. Navigator John Kyme has crawled under the instrument panel, into the "wine cellar," with a handful of small tools and a look of determination...
Horror movies are most chilling when they call on a fear from our collective unconscious. Moviegoers can empathize with being attacked when vulnerable in a shower, being blind with a killer in the room, or swimming in shark-infested waters. But being mutilated by a formless monster living in the sand is not necessarily an ingrained fear. Nonetheless, this is Blood Beach's device, and as the movie's Detective Royko says, in typical horror movie fashion; "it will strike again and again and again until somebody does something about...
Even the neighborhood loan shark, who sometimes was demanding 60% last year, has raised his fee as high...
Gourmets of moderate means often scrimp on basic foods like breakfast cereals so that they can splurge on exotica. Jamail's, the premier gourmet store in Houston, offers this kind of shopper a spectrum of choices from Van Camp's pork and beans to shark meat pâté. Moreover, epicurean dining need not be exorbitant. Fine Italian pasta at $2.10 per lb. makes a cheaper meal than American beef tenderloin at about $4 per lb. Says Frank Cloudt, who owns a gourmet grocery in Atlanta: "People would rather have an exquisite beef stew than a mediocre...
...argued that there have been other films as bloody and violent as The Island, but most of them have been linked, however tenuously, to some observable reality or existing moral ugliness. But these pirates have no relation with common experience. They cannot even be defended, like the great white shark Benchley invented for Jaws, as projections of a deep-rooted unconscious fear. They carry no symbolic weight, and can be seen only as the figments of a desperately groping but entirely inept imagination-a hack's fever dream. It is difficult to see why anyone would volunteer money...