Here (http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=440http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=440) is news on two up-and-coming DVDs: Squirm and Blue Sunshine and a possible sequel.
I've seen both released films. Sunshine I don't remember that much of, except that I didn't like the end. Squirm however, I liked. I liked a lot. Seeing the R rated version will be cool.
Sequel sounds interesting, but that's nothing. A lot of sequels sound interseting.
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Also in the news (http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=441) is Van Helsing . Again, it sounds intersting, EXCEPT for the director. Stephen Sommers is not the greatest helmer. I liked Deep Rising and sort of enjoyed The Mummy , but neither will ever be confused with classics.
One other thing: I don't think there's been a "monster mash" type movie that's worked.
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Summers isn't just the director, he also wrote the film. That pretty much guarantees it will be an incredibly moronic film.
He wrote "Deep Rising" as well, I think, and perhaps both "Mummy"s. Haven't seen either "Mummy," but I hated "Deep Rising" so much I begged my friends to let me leave the theatre. (Bastards.)
Paul naschy has done an excellent job at a monster mash movie called "Assignment Terror"(1970),where the Wolfman takes on Dracula,Frankenstein's monster,and the Mummy,and kick all of their asses!!!
Al Adamson also tackled that similar concept well with "Dracula Vs. Frankenstein"(1971),as did Fred Dekker with the fun-loving "The Monster Squad"(1987),so there's a chance,after all,that a really good monster mash type of film can be successfully done.
Deep Rising had a great line
"If the cash is there, we do not care"
I saw that one years ago. People who dropped a particular bad batch of acid (blue sunshine) in the 60s slowly turn into homicidal maniacs ten years later. Their hair falls out and they start walking around in a daze, attacking people.
There are adjectives I would use to describe Assignment Terror . Excellent is not one of them. I've never finished the movie. The first time I watched, I was at a friend's house and had to leave before it was over. Years later I bought the tape, and could only go so far before stopping the thing out of boredom. The tape was broken soon after that (not by me and not intentionally). I still don't know if I was lucky in that or not.
Adamson's Dracula v Frankenstien is, for me, incredibly dull. This is one of the few films that actually broke me down as a viewer of Crap Film. Had to fast forward to get through the thing. Not fun. Still have the tape, though, which I think says more about me than it.
Dekker's Monster Squad , on the other hand, is one I have fondish memories of. It's been an acre of years since I watched it, and I only watched it once, so my opinion of it may change for the worse. (Usually does, with films of my youth.) However, I'll call it the exception to the rule for right now.
I still stand behind what I said: Monster Mash films don't hold up well at all.
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Deep Rising was the film I wished I was watching instead of Octopus .
I think Deep Rising is the second best "giant octopus" movie in existence (even though the creature isn't an octopus, per say.) This is damning it with faint praise, considering Tentacles and the Octopus twins are its only competitors.
(The best "giant octopus" movie is, of course It Came From Beneath the Sea , which has it's own problems...)
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"People who dropped a particular bad batch of acid (blue sunshine) in the 60s slowly turn into homicidal maniacs ten years later. Their hair falls out and they start walking around in a daze, attacking people."
That was, I'm afraid, the limit of my memories of Blue Sunshine : I knew what it was about, and that I saw it, and didn't like the end.
Also, I think there's a parrot named "Rodan" in it. Not sure.
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I liked Deep Rising as well, but my brother (who I saw it with) HATED the movie. There is ample reason to detest it, but Treat Williams, Anthony Heald, and the monster just won me over in the end. I give it a three slime rating, four when I'm a really good mood - which is seldom.
And I HATED The Monster Squad.
I don't remember much more than that either. It wasn't a particularly memorable movie. Too bad, since the premise is actually pretty good.