I watched 8 movies last week:
- The Leopard Man isn’t one of the best Val Lewton-produced movies for RKO, but it’s a well made B-movie, directed by someone who also directed the best Val Lewton-produced movies.
- Sudden Fear gets a little silly, but the performances are fantastic, and it’s genuinely suspenseful.
- The MGM Kildare movies are hokey and dated, but they’re also pleasantly diverting and sometimes very funny. The Secret of Dr. Kildare is no exception.
- Tasha Robinson, then of the AV Club, had it right about Repo! The Genetic Opera when she wrote, “It’s like nothing else out there, but there’s a perfectly good reason why.: Despite some impressively garish and gaudy visuals, the songs are mostly loud but lousy, the acting is inconsistent, and the story, such as it is, is repetitive and thin to the breaking point.
- I’m not sure Marty, Life Is Short is deeply revealing as a documentary, but it’s very sweet and honest and funny.
- Crack in the World is a goofy ’60s disaster B-movie, never quite schlock, but decent performances and good fun.
- Creatures the World Forgot is an interesting idea for a movie, no so interesting in execution.
- The Snow Woman was shorter than I expected, but also a sad an ethereal folk tale.
