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Review: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Filed under: Comedy », Horror », Independent », Theatrical Reviews »
In a marketplace of increasingly generic titles and often disingenuous marketing, the horror genre tends to bring a certain honesty to the table. Think about it: the words 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2' can simply never paint as vivid a mental picture as, say, 'Zombie Strippers'. These offerings may be comparatively lower in brow and budget, and no, not for all tastes, but with a film like that -- a title like that -- or Evil Aliens, or Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, for that matter, what-you-see-is-what-you-get chutzpah is on their side, and while that quality might not alone do the trick when it comes to their ultimate entertainment value, it certainly doesn't do any harm.
That said, like those films (well, okay, maybe not that Pants one), Jack Brooks may not quite be the cult classic in the making that it so clearly sets out to be, but at least its influences and intent are always worn plainly upon its blood-stained sleeve.
New Goodies from 'Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer'
Filed under: Action », Comedy », Horror »
I caught the very entertaining Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer as part of the Slamdance 2008 line-up -- and I knew I had another indie horror flick on my hands that was worth hyping. (Review here.) Bolstered by a canny script and some strong work from actors Trevor Matthews and Robert Englund, JB:MS is a colorfully scrappy little monster movie with a very sly tongue-in-cheek attitude, and I'm certain it's a movie that the horror geeks will embrace once Anchor Bay unleashes it later this year. And those horror geeks have been pretty patient, so here are a few new goodies.Under the jump you'll find a brand-new Jack Brooks poster (which is slightly different from the one Bloody-Dee is sharing right here), but there's also a newly-redesigned website for the monster maniacs to click around in. The movie will open in its native land (somewhere called "Canada"?) throughout July, but fest-freaks can meet Jack Brooks when he plays at Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival on July 5. As far as U.S. distribution goes, that's up to the merchants of mayhem over at Anchor Bay.
Anchor Bay Captures the 'Monster Slayer'
Filed under: Comedy », Horror », Deals », Distribution »
If there is anything to say about this new flick, it's that it sure puts Buffy on the brain. The Hollywood Reporter has posted that the Slamdance film Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer has been picked up by Anchor Bay Entertainment for US distribution. So yes, first there's the whole slayer angle -- and while Buffy was called a vampire slayer, she pretty much slayed anything that was evil, so long as it wasn't human. To top that off, this flick deals with an ancient evil, which just makes me think of both Primeval, and Giles' Epiphany in Restless (you can hear it here, the first part of the clip). But enough fangirl...This slayer is neither slight, nor blonde, and he is certainly not a girl (its Canadian actor Trevor Matthews). But, just like the cinematic Buffy had a big name lurking about (Donald Sutherland), this horror comedy has the nightmare man himself, Robert Englund. According to THR, the film is about "a teen (Trevor Matthews) who is haunted by the murder of his parents. As his rage builds, he accidentally awakens an ancient evil, prompting chaos in the vein of '80s horror-comedy creature features."
Want to know more? Back in September, RvB posted about the film's trailer, which he said: "includes cyclops, African witch doctors, filed-toothed maniacs and something that looks like an evil clown ... all scheduled to be battled with all the weapons in a plumber's toolbox." Hmm... Did Buffy fight all those years with the wrong set of weapons?
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