Twister (1989)
(★★★½)
This is a fun little story about an eccentric, well-to-do, family in Kansas.
Harry Dean Stanton is a Soda Pop and Mini Golf magnate who lives with his adult children: Howdy (Crispin Glover) and Maureen (Suzy Amis).
I first discovered Crispin Glover in River’s Edge and loved him there and this was his next film and he was wonderfully eccentric and obnoxious in this as well, so it cemented him as a favorite. he is pretty great here, especially his outfits!
But it’s just a charming movie about them bickering throughout and weathering current events in their lives: Howdy’s “fiancee”, dad’s new love (who hosts an evangelical morning show for kids), Maureen’s estranged fellow who has returned to town to win her back…
Also featuring a cameo from William S Burroughs and a brief appearance from Tim Robbins, (this was made before Jacob’s Ladder, so he wasn’t on my radar yet). But it’s really just getting to watch Harry Dean Stanton and Crispin Glover be their eccentric kinda characters that is the main enjoyment.
Love Brides of the Blood Mummy
(★★)
Such an exciting title, and such an unexciting movie.
The story of a fellow who brings an ancient Egyptian back to life, only to have the Egyptian take control of the servant, have the servant lock the fellow who brought him to life into a cage, and then have the servant track down every woman he can find so that the “mummy” can remove the clothes of all of them and drink blood from their necks.
The story could have been interesting, but it wasn’t. All in all, the most interesting character was the hand. And one of the features where they showed different edits of some of the scenes that were made to satisfy censors in different countries.
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