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Texas Rangers reliever John Rocker will soon star in a low-budget movie “The Greenskeeper,” a low-budget flick about a slasher-killer at a golf club (“It’s Par For The Corpse,” the movie’s website raves). Better known for his earlier work as “The Bigot” in a 1999 Sports Illustrated interview in which he made derogatory comments about blacks, foreigners, homosexuals and the city of New York, Rocker appears at least somewhat...
Moviemaking--it's all so easy. Actors earn $25 million for a few months' work. Directors talk about the vision thing even when they are making a slasher or snowboarding epic. And producers...well, what do producers do anyway, besides read scripts and do lunch...
...Ultimately "From Hell" the movie amounts to little more than a costume slasher picture, complete with punched-up "boo" effects. For those who have read the book the driving narrative of solving the mystery is moot, leaving little else to do except look at how pretty Depp and Graham are. The clear sense of artistic vision has been clouded by the commercial vision of making a blockbuster. In comparison, "Ghost World," with it's integral participation of the original artist, remains the truer, and far more meaningful adaptation...
Following a decade of poorly executed slasher flick franchises, the recent Scream trilogy managed to restore an interest in the teen thriller genre, only to be followed once again by a slew of pitiful imitators. Desensitized audiences no longer feel the same fear when a suspenseful silence is broken by a cold, metallic telephone ring. The film Joyride attempts to revive this tired cliché by moving its potential victims from an old creaky house to a car in the rural Midwest. Unfortunately, even with this unconventional twist, there is no novelty to Joyride. Director John Dahl (Rounders) is good...
...distorted guitar. Cannier still is the band's use of costumes at a time when metal is dominated by average dudes in sweatshirts. The band's macabre looks, like its hyperbolic lyrics, suggest the teenage alienation it sings about is a horror on par with the evils depicted in slasher pics--which is how teenagers see it too. Like it or not, Slipknot isn't likely to slip away...