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All tagged 1960s
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but what about parody? Specifically for horror, spoofs work better when the movie (or movies) in reference is respected. Such is the case for Psycho Beach Party, Saturday the 14th and Silence of the Hams.
Jenna and Carlo go on a chronological foray into Jerry Lewis’ cartoon-like films, starting with Frank Tashlin’s Artists & Models and The Geisha Boy, to Lewis’ own The Nutty Professor. They like it, they like it!
If you watch The Party’s Over and Last Summer in a row and you'll come away realizing not only was the dream of the 1960s a lie, but we've never actually accomplished anything.
That's right folks, pretty soon we'll be able to violently murder each other next to some sweet-ass concentric circles, just like our forefathers envisioned. You might scoff, but we've been dreaming of this future for a long time.
In this double feature we're focusing on A Hard Day's Night and The System / Girl-Getters. Two British movies that came out in the same year and surprisingly have more in common than you'd first think.
In light of Deneuve's comments on #MeToo, Jenna muses on how it is that somebody so close to Repulsion could somehow miss this point of the movie entirely.
