God time to be a geek.

[J.R.]

It just occured to me that we b-movie hounds are in the fattest of times. Would you have believed six years ago that Peter Jackson's LOTR and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man would be released within a few months of each other? Hopefully the studios will learn from the successes of these (It is a Universal impossibility for Spider-Man to flop) and give Romero, Savini, Coscarelli and other B-Greats big projects.

[Vermin Boy]

The best part is that, with these successes, there's a good chance that the studios will throw obscenely large amounts of money at Raimi and Jackson to do whatever they want. This happened to Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez; They realized they basically had the freedom to do whatver the hell they wanted, so they created From Dusk Till Dawn, one of the only examples of a great splatstick film released by a major studio.

[Future Blob]

  Yes I agree that we live in a time of plenty. I myself am pleased by the wonderous corneacopea  of B--type movies that have popped up. Not only do I get to see Resident Evil, LOTR and Spider-man on the big screen, but I've found a video store that has such epics as "Flesh Eating Mothers"....truly these are the fattest of times!

[systemcr4sh]

Hey, I know a place that has Flesh Eating Mothers too. Have you seen it and is it any good?

-Dan

[Vermin Boy]

Flesh Eating Mothers seems to be a staple of "used" racks; I've seen two stores selling copies in my area, one of which I actually bought it from. It's basically a Troma wannabe without the sense of anarchy, but it has its moments, like when the mothers stretch (yes, STRETCH) an alley cat in half, and when a mother is making it VERY CLEAR to her son that she's turning him into veal, and the kid just doesn't get it. Oh yeah, and I've never seen a film that was so wrongfully snubbed for the Oscar for "Best Sound Effects."