By Guillermo del Toro, who did MIMIC, BLADE II and HELLBOY
Huh. I didn't know that. Mimic is the only one I've seen, and I remember liking that one, even though it was cheesy and reminded me of the aliens from The X-Files movie.
Oh! There was also this little Canadian movie called Reflecting Skin, which had very young Viggo Mortensen and Lindsay Duncan (now playing Servilia in Rome) as lovers, and was narrated by this boy protagonist who was Viggo's brother and thought Duncan's character was a vampire. It was an extremely disturbing flick, with the theme of child abuse weaving through the narrative. I've only seen it once, but it's the sort of film one has difficulties forgetting--it was very vivid, and tragic in a hallucinatory way. (Plus, there was an exploding frog!) I could probably track it down, but I'm afraid rewatching it would lessesn my memory of its impact.
Matt! How could you forget
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves?
One of the fun things about
Near Dark
is that it's very, very straight, as a movie. So it's all about blood=sex, but not at all homoerotic. The big sexual image is of a guy on his knees, sucking hungrily at a woman's wrist (which is at about waist height).
It was -- refreshing. Funny, that a vampire movie featuring a boy and a girl should feel so revolutionary (in modern context). Like it went all the way to the end of the conventionalness scale, and came out the other side.
There is also the part where it takes place in rural Texas, and nobody ever says the word "vampire."
Opa!, askye. He likes hard-boiled carrots.
(Not quite like being befriended by Oprah, George, but I'll do what I can for you.)
Matt! How could you forget Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves?
I'm not forgetting it, I just wasn't aware that Costner was bothering to try for a British accent in it.
I liked
The Wisdom Of Crocodiles.
Y'know, I've never seen
The Addiction.
I'll have to track it down.
The accent went in and out. And then at some point, I believe that he just stops trying.
I remember Cary Elwes busting on him in Robin Hood: Men in Tights about how, unlike some other Robin Hoods, he spoke with an English accent.
a period ghost story I memfault on the name of
The Devil's Backbone. I think.
I'm writing this like I don't have the internet.
checks imdb
Yeah, The Devil's Backbone. T'was great fun.
