Personally, the morbid-curiosity draw isn’t seeing the giant hairy beast, but watching The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams square off against The Partridge Family’s Danny Bonaduce. Not since ’80s pop tarts Tiffany and Debbie Gibson matched wits in Mega Python vs. Gatoroid has The Asylum’s casting been this interesting. Williams plays a former rock star turned […]
The Asylum
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Shark Week
Patriot Games‘ Patrick Bergin is Tiberon (get it?), a madman who clutches a pearl necklace, has Kick-Ass’ Yancy Butler draped on his arm, and channels John de Lancie. He’s collected these poor souls for reasons unbeknownst until the final five minutes; you can gather it’s for personal revenge. He forces them into his baby shark-infested […]
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Evil Things
Unlike the knock-offs that followed in “Blair Witch”‘s wake a decade ago (“The St. Francisville Experiment,” anyone?), the new crop realizes there’s more to the subgenre than merely tweaking the title. (Well, everyone but The Asylum and their “Paranormal Entity.”) In first-time writer/director Dominic Perez’s “Evil Things,” five college students (whose actors are largely as […]
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Mega Python vs. Gatoroid
It attests to the overall laziness of the “we have the title, so just crap it out” production. So do all the shadows that give away the day-for-night shots, and the green-screened elements sporting rough edges. Once competitors on the ’80s pop charts, Debbie Gibson and Tiffany are competitors in this swamp-set sigh-fi thriller. Deb’s […]