There's something about Terrence Malick's "Badlands" that haunts you long after the end credits. The movie might be a neo-noir based on grizzly real-life murders, but the grittiness that marked the original genre (and many other films released in the '70s) is replaced with a simple, childlike worldview. How many other movies see their protagonists seek refuge in an elaborate, fantastical treehouse? How many killing sprees are fueled by puppy-dog love? For all its bloodshed and dark undertones, "Badlands" is remarkably light-hearted, largely because it's filtered through the eyes of a misguided, briefly passionate teen.
Surprisingly, the creation of "Badlands" was itself just as passionate — and impossible — as Kit (Martin Sheen) and Holly (Sissy Spacek)'s travels. While the film's protagonists left a trail of blood in their wake only for the young girl to lose interest in her beau, Malick described the process of creating the movie as "painful.
Surprisingly, the creation of "Badlands" was itself just as passionate — and impossible — as Kit (Martin Sheen) and Holly (Sissy Spacek)'s travels. While the film's protagonists left a trail of blood in their wake only for the young girl to lose interest in her beau, Malick described the process of creating the movie as "painful.
- 9/11/2022
- by Demetra Nikolakakis
- Slash Film
Well, here we are again, back in Corman waters. Why do we keep coming back? What is the pull of a Roger Corman production that calls to us like a syphilitic siren wailing from the rocks, beckoning us home? My guess is quality chafing the walls of quantity. There are a lot of exploitation movies out there, and most were justified their position on the lower rung of a double bill on a Tuesday night at the drive-in. But un film du Corman is different – he’s always had an innate gift for corralling talent on the rise, and kind enough to foster it on the way down. His turn of the decade monster mash Humanoids from the Deep (1980) is a perfect storm of his wondrous cinematic sensibilities.
And of course I mean ‘wondrous’ as it applies to our station, the gloriously trashy and deliciously weird. Humanoids fits neatly into...
And of course I mean ‘wondrous’ as it applies to our station, the gloriously trashy and deliciously weird. Humanoids fits neatly into...
- 4/16/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
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