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Perhaps if I had stumbled over this film as a rental first instead of buying it outright see unseen, mark current at Best Select I might feel more suitable disposed towards it. « WTF? » you are no doubt saying at this point. « You’ve given it 4 stars and you’re saying that you don’t like the film? » Well yeah, kinda sorta. I made the mistake of buying it on impulse based on the rave reviews on the cloak, the blurb on the relieve, and some hide art that made it contemplate like the greatest thing since RE-ANIMATOR, Wrong Tedious 2, and ARMY OF DARKNESS. And I can’t afford to throw my money away like that, but I took the chance anyway. Needless to say the film didn’t express what I had been expecting/hoping for, which was something along the lines of a anecdote built around a character like the one John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin from CHEERS) played in HOUSE 2. You know, the electrician who is also an « adventurer » on the side? He takes one see inside the walls of the house and drawls matter of factly, « Yeah, it looks like you have some sort of alternate universe in there. » Of course I know better than to go into any film with preconceived notions like that, but in this case my mind unbiased ran away with me and I couldn’t benefit it.
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The film stars Robert Englund in one of his best performances in ages as a night school science teacher, Professor Crowley, who has in his class our title character Jack Brooks. Now Jack (played by Trevor Mathews who also co-wrote the chronicle on which the screenplay is based) is fair loaded with History. It seems at a very tender age he witnessed his whole family’s slaughter at the claws and fangs of some sort of man/monster while they were out camping in the woods. The only thing that saved runt Jack’s life was the fact that he ran. Running distress up taking control of the rest of his life. He ran from all of the famous things in life only to have his pent up rage at his bear perceived cowardice erupt at unexpected moments. Anyhoo, one night after class the marvelous professor asks Jack (a plumber by trade) if he could possibly conclude by his house and aid him with a scrape he’s having with his pipes. (Gather your minds out of the gutter, that’s not the kind of pipes I meant.) Jack’s got nothing better to do, so that very night he checks it out. It seems simple enough at first, but isn’t that the blueprint it is with every plumbing pickle? Before you know it all matter of disgusting matter is hitting the fan and Jack has to order a unusual gasket and approach support in a couple of days. But by then it will be too slack! For no sooner has he left than than a defective ooze seeps from the ground and its fumes originate turn the sweet ol’ professor into a meat craving monster!
This flick has an unpleasant lot going for it. For one thing there is (as far as I can instruct) absolutely no CGI anywhere! Everything is done the marvelous ragged fashioned way–with prosthetics, puppets, and men in monster suits. Professor Crowley literally erupts into a tentacled creature from hell that sucks the life out its victims and turns them into flesh eating beasts themselves. MONSTER SLAYER is, as it claims to be, a tribute to some of the best flicks from the 1980s, but yet it unprejudiced doesn’t do it for me. The humor it claims to have simply isn’t there for one thing, and for me that is a very, very substantial point indeed. The 1980s was the Golden Age of scare comedy and a immense share of the appeal of those flix WAS the humor, whether it was the comic wit of RE-ANIMATOR or the « splat-shtick » reach of Sam Raimi in Dismal Tiring, 2. And what’s worse JACK BROOKS is a very bland hero! I believe the role practically screams for someone who can characterize an ordinary everyday man and then rip away all that blandness and channel the funny book spirit of Bruce Campbell when the set calls for it!
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I don’t know, I objective don’t know. Perhaps when I gape this film again in a few months all the improbable parts, the ancient school effects and so forth, will triumph over my disappointment. That’s why I’ve given it 4 stars instead of 3. Perhaps they intend to originate a series out of this character. That has some gigantic possibilities. Oh no! Don’t originate thinking about what COULD be again, it will only lead to disappointment.
Do you abominate CGI??
Jack Brooks does.
Do you miss the days of corn syrup, latex, and paper-mache’??
Jack Brooks obvious does.
Not only is Jack Brooks whipping monster arse,
cracking their jaws in half & taking their homely names,
but he’s doing it old-school style.
Jack Brooks likes the old-school.
Plenty of monsters there.
Plenty of monsters, but not 1 Computer Generated Image in gape.
But……(there’s always a but)
Jack Brooks has a bit of an infuriate scrape.
One he’s having worry controling.
Ok so it’s a major nettle pickle.
But can you blame the guy?!?!
His family was killed by a forest troll when he was honest a boy.
A helpless boy who stood by unable to relieve.
Now Jack Brooks has a psychiatrist.
A partiularly useless one.
One who might need to obtain punched in the face.
And then there’s school to exertion about too.
Which is hard enough in itself,
without having to deal with a teacher mutating into Krueger The Hutt.
Yeah it’s a hard life for Jack Brooks,
but a monster slayers gotta do what a monster slayers gotta do.
Ok seriously though,
You’re gonna admire this movie.
It has superior character development brought to life by a immense cast.
It has barrels of black-comedy laughs.
And lots of Non-CGI monsters. (remember those?? )
I went into this one thinking it was going to be as lame as a tremulous sloth.
But boy was I pleasantly suprised!!!
You’ve made me a believer Jack.
Now I’d like to peep Mr. Brooks prefer on monsters that exist in other movies.
Tremors, Critters, Vampires, Sleepwalkers, whatever!!
MORAL OF THE STORY:
So many monsters. So slight time.
OR
Anger Management is the ability to kill 2 monsters at once.
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