One of my favorite pastimes is watching ‘B’ movies and laughing. They’re usually cheap or “bad” movies that were made with serious intentions but had bad acting, lousy plots, horrific directing, cheap effects, or all of the above.
One the types of movies in this category that I enjoy is animal horror movies. Ones where animals either get real huge or attack in huge numbers.
Any kind of scary movie usually has moments where something that’s not visible to the camera scares or attacks someone. Maybe they’re grabbing them and pulling them into something or maybe they’re beating on a door or wall, trying to get in. You know the kind of scene I’m talking about. Somebody peeks into a hole and gets pulled in. Or maybe they take refuge in a small room with a locked door and then the “creature” starts pounding on the door, denting it, trying to get in. Or at least is shaking the flimsy walls.
That’s the role I would want. If I couldn’t play a character actor in a movie, I’d want to be the one behind the scenes that’s shaking the wall or grabbing the person. Every time I see that happen in a movie, I think, “That would be me there!”
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December 29th, 2006 at 17:28
Wow.
December 30th, 2006 at 9:21
Oh, and I also need to mention that these movies are often so bad that you end up rooting for the monster. Ha!
December 30th, 2006 at 12:05
[...] Today they’re playing a variety of animal horror movies, just like the kind I blogged about yesterday. First was Chupacabra: Dark Seas, which starred John Rhys-Davies and nobody else really. It was about a legendary beast that gets loose on a cruise ship, having been smuggled on in a crate. Of course almost every plot point occurred because somebody did something stupid, like opening the crate or going back for a bag of money. And then there were the stupid things that people did, like firing automatic weapons repeatedly in the engine room. Of course the monster could take out trained soldiers, but the young girl [...]
December 30th, 2006 at 12:12
[...] Today they’re playing a variety of animal horror movies, just like the kind I blogged about yesterday. First was Chupacabra: Dark Seas, which starred John Rhys-Davies and nobody else really. It was about a legendary beast that gets loose on a cruise ship, having been smuggled on in a crate. Of course almost every plot point occurred because somebody did something stupid, like opening the crate or going back for a bag of money. And then there were the stupid things that people did, like firing automatic weapons repeatedly in the engine room. Of course the monster could take out trained soldiers, but the young girl who teaches aerobics can keep it at bay. [...]