Birth Year Challenge (25/36)
A fake trailer for a blaxploitation movie starring (actors as) Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, and Chuck Norris, directed by a stuntman. It hooked me right away with a slight against Superfly, because no one ever talks about how that movie kinda sucks, so it made me laugh. And then it’s just a very fun, very silly 8 minutes of low-budget action. I was into it.
Hooperstar 666 Film #1
Bonus Category: Queer Horror (1/3)
Based on the true story of a German man who wanted to eat someone, so he put an ad on the internet and got a response from someone wishing to be eaten. It takes awhile to get going, with the cannibal being rejected over and over. But once the two men find each other, it’s a pretty adorable romance. We see them hanging out and fucking and making plans for what’s…
"All we get these days are remakes and reboots! What happened to original ideas??" - film audiences in 1897
I saw this as a cynical, shitty teenager, and hated it. Even before revisiting it, I was deeply ashamed of this fact because I knew in my heart I was wrong. I am proud of how much I have matured in the last 17 years as a viewer of cinema, and that I can now recognize Face/Off as one of the greatest films of all time.
