Before he poked fun at the Holocaust, Roberto Benigni used slightly less tact to deal with sexual assault.
With mistaken identity as an excuse for escalating physical gags and verbal sparring into an intense comedy of errors, it is very much in the spirit of his earlier Johnny Stecchino. The plot involves Benigni as an unpleasant but ultimately harmless miscreant who the police suspect to be a sexually violent serial killer, and send a police officer (Nicoletta Braschi) undercover to…
Enthropy.
A few weeks before the release of the blockbuster, Jurassic Park, producer Roger Corman unleashed his own entry into the genetically engineered dinosaurs eating people genre, Carnosaur. It was followed by two sequels in 1995 and 1996 respectively, to increasingly colder receptions. The effective puppets and massive set pieces of the first are replaced by men in rubber costumes, with Raptors only slightly more fierce looking than the inflatable T-Rex costumes that are all the rage these days. Carnosaur…
On the eve of its demolition, a doctor remembers his intern days at Ansaeng Hospital – a building with more than its share of ghosts. Memories set during the later part of the Japanese occupation, see a serial killer targeting soldiers, which barely scratches the surface of the sinister happenings swirling around the institute.
Epitaph kicks off with faux 40s surgery footage, which provides a gory hook, but incorporates anachronistic shots which betray the levels of artistry the film will…
