October 26
Vampires in Havana is the best animated vampire turf war mixed with revolutionaries fighting back against a police state, mixed with a romance, mixed with a hero myth, mixed with a comedy, mixed with a musical that is likely to ever be made. Yes, these are all the things that happen in this 72 minute film, and that's not even everything! Decidedly on the adult side of the animated feature spectrum, this film is not likely to win any awards for its animation in any time in history, but it makes up for it by being so jam-packed with ideas and pacing itself so quickly that it's hard not to get caught up in this mix of lewd humor, trumpet music and gangsters. It's not going to be scaring anyone anytime soon, though it is nice that they give the vampire form a more harsh visual and aural appearance and they surprisingly don't skimp on the messy deaths throughout, but that's hardly the appeal as vampires dance, sing, screw, pirouette after teleporting, shoot stake-loaded shotguns, drink blood from taps labeled for the alcoholic they're being fed from, make deals with Al Capone and chase each other all over Havana for a formula that can make them walk out in the daylight. Seriously, I could spend even more time going over all the fascinating and silly things for more sentences than I think I can write and I still won't be able to cover everything that happens in the film. If you can stomach ultra-crude animation, and that might still be overselling the quality, then there's a lot to enjoy in this film.
Films for October 27: Like, ohmigosh, I'm doing two movies on a Thursday and, like, it SOOOOOO happens that they're both about weird stuff going down at the mall and junk. Night of the Comet is about these two Valley girls who have to live in a world that was obliterated by a comet, or something, and they have to fend for themselves in the biggest mall and they get all the cool digs and makeup for free now! Jealous much! And then, there are these gang of kids that go to another mall, a Chopping Mall, and, like, the security is totally not stopping at kicking them out, and they're so mean because they're robots and they just don't get us at all. Whatever!
Vampires in Havana is the best animated vampire turf war mixed with revolutionaries fighting back against a police state, mixed with a romance, mixed with a hero myth, mixed with a comedy, mixed with a musical that is likely to ever be made. Yes, these are all the things that happen in this 72 minute film, and that's not even everything! Decidedly on the adult side of the animated feature spectrum, this film is not likely to win any awards for its animation in any time in history, but it makes up for it by being so jam-packed with ideas and pacing itself so quickly that it's hard not to get caught up in this mix of lewd humor, trumpet music and gangsters. It's not going to be scaring anyone anytime soon, though it is nice that they give the vampire form a more harsh visual and aural appearance and they surprisingly don't skimp on the messy deaths throughout, but that's hardly the appeal as vampires dance, sing, screw, pirouette after teleporting, shoot stake-loaded shotguns, drink blood from taps labeled for the alcoholic they're being fed from, make deals with Al Capone and chase each other all over Havana for a formula that can make them walk out in the daylight. Seriously, I could spend even more time going over all the fascinating and silly things for more sentences than I think I can write and I still won't be able to cover everything that happens in the film. If you can stomach ultra-crude animation, and that might still be overselling the quality, then there's a lot to enjoy in this film.
Films for October 27: Like, ohmigosh, I'm doing two movies on a Thursday and, like, it SOOOOOO happens that they're both about weird stuff going down at the mall and junk. Night of the Comet is about these two Valley girls who have to live in a world that was obliterated by a comet, or something, and they have to fend for themselves in the biggest mall and they get all the cool digs and makeup for free now! Jealous much! And then, there are these gang of kids that go to another mall, a Chopping Mall, and, like, the security is totally not stopping at kicking them out, and they're so mean because they're robots and they just don't get us at all. Whatever!