Get Your Creep On
6.01.2007
GET YOUR CREEP ON - CHECK THIS OUT
A comic and a film that will give you the willies…I started Sandman a little over a week ago and am once again proud to call Vertigo my favorite imprint, which publishes Neil Gaiman’s masterpiece. Issue # 5 of the series is the scariest and creepiest comic sequential I've ever read. A malcontent with the dream god Morpheus’ all-powerful stone takes over a small town diner and proceeds to torture its patrons with gross distortions of reality. And silly me, I thought this would be the creepiest thing I encountered all day. I was wrong.
Because after finishing up this comic, I went to see Bug.Bug in theaters now and is a Cronenberg-esque thriller with a small cast but even smaller main setting. Taking place in a cramped motel room apartment, the film shows Agnes (played by Ashley Judd) character as lonely, fussy and scared of ex-husband Jerry (Harry Connick Jr) whom we learn has just been released from prison. Agnes earns money by waiting at a lesbian bar where gal pal RC (Lynn Collins) bartends. One evening, RC visits Agnes with a tall stranger in tow. His name is Peter Evans (Michael Shannon, a Jude Law look-alike) and as a Gulf War veteran, he has undergone experiments performed by the government…or has he? Complete and utter madness ensues. The slow vast opening shot of the Oklahoma desolation contrasts sharply claustrophobia that exists within Agnes’ small abode. Based on the play by Tracy Letts (who also wrote the screenplay for the film) and directed by William Friedkin, this is a psychological thriller that will leave you breathless and bothered. In a good way of course!
GET YOUR CREEP ON - CHECK THIS OUT
A comic and a film that will give you the willies…I started Sandman a little over a week ago and am once again proud to call Vertigo my favorite imprint, which publishes Neil Gaiman’s masterpiece. Issue # 5 of the series is the scariest and creepiest comic sequential I've ever read. A malcontent with the dream god Morpheus’ all-powerful stone takes over a small town diner and proceeds to torture its patrons with gross distortions of reality. And silly me, I thought this would be the creepiest thing I encountered all day. I was wrong.
Because after finishing up this comic, I went to see Bug.Bug in theaters now and is a Cronenberg-esque thriller with a small cast but even smaller main setting. Taking place in a cramped motel room apartment, the film shows Agnes (played by Ashley Judd) character as lonely, fussy and scared of ex-husband Jerry (Harry Connick Jr) whom we learn has just been released from prison. Agnes earns money by waiting at a lesbian bar where gal pal RC (Lynn Collins) bartends. One evening, RC visits Agnes with a tall stranger in tow. His name is Peter Evans (Michael Shannon, a Jude Law look-alike) and as a Gulf War veteran, he has undergone experiments performed by the government…or has he? Complete and utter madness ensues. The slow vast opening shot of the Oklahoma desolation contrasts sharply claustrophobia that exists within Agnes’ small abode. Based on the play by Tracy Letts (who also wrote the screenplay for the film) and directed by William Friedkin, this is a psychological thriller that will leave you breathless and bothered. In a good way of course!
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