If you were to take a classic “whodunit” and replace all the major players with cats, you’d probably end up with something like Felidae. Hailing from our friends in Germany, Felidae carries the distinction of being the most expensive German animated feature film ever produced costing in excess of 10 million marks (about $7,453,381.23). However,…
Watership Down (1978)
My fascination with the darker aspects of animated features has led me to review Watership Down. Based on the book of the same name by Richard Adams, Watership Down centers around a group of rabbits who must embark on a perilous exodus or risk being slaughtered by, you guessed it, humans. Unlike The Plague Dogs,…
Slime City (1988)
Once in the glorious 80’s, there was a great movie about people eating slime and the mayhem it ensued. That movie was The Stuff, Slime City is about a single man who just melts away and kills random undesirables. We don’t get as much of a narrative here about renegades from the social takeover of…
The Vindicator (1986)
Sometimes a movie comes alone and is a blantant rip-off of another popular movie at the time, but still holds up pretty well. Vindicator is a combinatinon of Robocop and Spawn, but tells a decent story in the mean time, so you can’t fault it all that much. It starts out with a chimp in…
Bug (2002)
Once in a while I’ll end up watching a movie that falls outside my usual genre comfort. I’m not entire sure what genre this is; it’s billed as a Comedy, and it’s not quite a drama. Whatever it is, it’s entertaining and keeps your interest from start to finish. The story (or stories really) follow…
The Plague Dogs (1982)
I’m always amazed when I re-watch cartoons from my younger years. Ren & Stimpy, Rocko’s Modern Life, even Rugrats to some degree all had little kernels of adult humor I only now get. Rugrats had a very cerebral vibe with a lot of the background characters parodying many different roles from adult television shows (NYPD…
Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
Dennis Hopper, David Boreanaz, and Danny Trejo, how can we go wrong. Well Edward Furlong and Tara Reid for starters. But so many other things go wrong in this movie. I guess technically I can’t say it has no plot, since it copies the plot from the original. To recap: man loves girl, man wants…
Animal Farm (1954)
I was surprised when I found out there was a cartoon adaption to one of George Orwell’s most celebrated novels. Not because I didn’t think it deserved the honor of being immortalized through animation, but simply because I wasn’t sure kids were going to be able to digest this kind of story. The novel was…
Autopsy (2008)
Of many of the movies I’ve seen lately, this one comes out a little better than most. It’s not really bad in a b-movie way, and it’s certainly not a hollywood remake/clone piece, so that’s certainly in its favor. It does tread in similar mid-range budget films the likes of After Dark Horrorfest entries though,…
Big Man Japan (2007)
While the idea of monsters attacking Japan isn’t really a new idea, this movie certainly takes a different approach. First off, the monsters are ridiculous. They are all CGI based, as is the hero, but it isn’t meant to be 100% realistic so they in turn went the other direction and thought up the most…