[HairOfTheDog]

HA! - Thanks, then, I will pass!

The knife licking is about two clicks more than I can take!

Funny thing is, I went through a phase in high school where I was really into horror flicks, all the Fri-the 13ths for example. Repetive, predictable, slash flicks.

Now I like greener, quieter pleasures. I mean really. Lurtz was already detestable. I already cheered when he lost his head in the theatrical version. I didn't need any more reason to want him dead! [shudder!]

[weegee]

In a different vein you might want to watch the movie, "Forgotten Silver" in which Peter Jackson "uncovers" the lost films a groundbreaking NZ filmmaker. The whole thing is a hoax (modern footage made to look old). There are some prank films, some Charlie Chaplin like films, and the epic Salome. He even gets historians like Leonard Maltin to share in the joke.

The DVD has commentary by Peter Jackson explaining some of the jokes (at the beginning of the film, he leads the viewer down the "primrose path" to a shed where the films were discovered).

12 years ago I wrote to Joe Bob Briggs (back when he had his newsletter). I mentioned Peter Jackson in NZ and John Woo in HK. I asked why was it that the rest of the world was making drive-in movies better than anything America had turned out in decades. All he could do was concede the point. I would say that Peter Jackson has made the transition to Hollywood a lot better than John Woo.