Up until now I have reviewed American films and I thought it should be time to break that up a bit. I could come up with any number of reasons why it took me this long to get to a foreign film, a film I watched weeks ago, and had originally intended to be my second installment in this series. But it really comes down to a single detail, I couldn’t find a stinking trailer for the film anywhere.

You see, I’ve come to rather enjoy posting a preview of the next week’s piece by including a trailer of the film. It gives people something to look forward to, and might even rekindle the memory of when the movie first came out. Now sure, I am reviewing films that are less then beloved, so I expected this to be an issue at some point, only not on my second attempt. I must admit I didn’t handle the situation well. I was completely flummoxed by the conundrum and pulled a classic bait and switch, substituting The Hidden for my original fare. Of course none of you knew this, but let me tell you it was hell backstage when the final decision was made. Eventually I had to personally fire my production assistant because of the gaffe, a process made all the more difficult because I am my own production assistant.

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I don’t know if this has happened to other people, but I’ve been traumatized more then once by movies when I was a child. Now sure, most people will talk about how Poltergeist forever put them off clowns, but I’m trying to crawl into my past to point out some of the more ridiculous things that scared me as a child. And well, clowns were creepy to begin with. My own personal belief is that their painted on smiles trigger that ancient residual instinct from when we viewed teeth as a threat. But I am rambling.

The first time I ever had the pants scared off of me by a movie would have been around 1980. The event is still fresh in my mind, which probably means it is 100% inaccurate. It was early in the afternoon and my mom was at home. You see, is the distant past families were once able to survive on only one income. Quaint, to be sure. Nowadays people like that would most certainly be labeled lazy, a drain on society, or worse yet, Democrats. But I am rambling. (more…)