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...Antonio mold problem dates back to the 1980s, but the first clean-up attempt wasn't made until 1994. By that time, workers say, fungi were literally dropping out of the ceiling vents into their coffee. When the fabric used as a wall covering was removed, the wallboards underneath were coated with black mold. All the renovations, including removal and replacement of mold-infested carpeting, ceiling tiles and wallboards, and chemical scouring of the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system, were done while employees were working...
...maintains respect and love for the parts of Christmas that are genuine. He thinks fondly of "the tarnished diversity of ornaments Dad and Mom hauled down annually from the Waterville attic," musing that "Christmas ornaments are as close as most regular families ever get to an art collection." Underneath his jaded perspective lies a search for what is real, for what he can cling...
What The Cable Guy had, Very Bad Things lacks: a comedic actor working with disturbing material, scenes of psychological violence and moments when the veil of horror is rent, revealing dark humor underneath. What Very Bad Things has, The Cable Guy did not: an ensemble of characters who--despite including pseudo-stars like Christian Slater--never quite mesh, scenes of physical violence and moments when the superficial horror turns out to conceal nothing besides yet more superficiality. And blood. Blood, limbs and gore, in all of their nauseating variations. Here is where Very Bad Things shows itself to be neither...
...happy couple, soon to be married. Kyle goes with his buddies to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. They do a lot of drinking and a little murdering. They return. Their sins themselves do not haunt them, but rather the realization that they have always been savages underneath. So is everyone else. The happy couple is not as happy as they seem. Surprise...
...challah and concentration camps. This is what we know, the extent of what we see; and we, proud of our superficial knowledge of a culture other than our own, see little need to learn more. We have mastered the outward symbols of an ethnic group, but what lies underneath often escapes our childlike attention...