Eat this!

Back in the 80's, movies were FUN. Lots of SFX made on set, lots of creatures quickly made out of nothing - almost. Gremlins was such a worlwide success that many companies decided to get their own creatures. Roger Corman, always on the prowl,  had his Munchies. Charles Band has his Ghoulies... but before that came the Critters. 

Same recipe as Gremlins : a mix of family comedy and horrible creatures attacking some perfect place in the USA. New Line sold Critters everywhere and it worked pretty well at the same time... the sequel was on its way. Mick Garris (the producer of Masters of Horror) made his first theatrical entry with Critters 2 : The Main Course, and it was... fun as hell! Less original than the first but still, worth a look. The SFX were way much better and, strangely, so was the violence. The budget was twice bigger, but it unfortunately bombed at the B.O. Nevertheless, two direct-to-videos sequels were made (the third launching the carreer of some guy named Leonardo DiCaprio. Dah.). Nicholas Pike made an entertaining score and he won the award of best soundtrack at the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival in 1989 with it. Love the "Critters Roll" track, a real gem, halfway thru adventure, suspense, rythmn & cartoon. Perfect match for the movie.

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Caper at the Coffee House

When I usually hear the Perry Mason theme, it's like getting a Hammer Blow on my head. Call me Mr.Lucky if you like, but I hate walking around the French Quarter, meeting some Floozie Late at Bailey's pad. Just like a bad Mirage. In this case, I just shoot to kill, like an Arabesque in the middle of a Danube Incident. A Taunting Scene, isn't it? 

But that's a real Experiment in Terror : being in the middle of the Asphalt Jungle, Where I Live. Like when my polish landlady toss me a scalpel and, bang, I'm cleaning up for Jenny. 

She waited so long for my Prison Break ... but it ended as a Caper at the Coffee House. 

Gee, I'm real lucky.

This is for Alex, Lalo, Henry, Joseph, Leith, Stan, Quincy, Miklos, Warren, the Universal-International Orchestra, the Warner Bros Star instrumentalists... and all those who made this Crime Jazz music the classics we love to hear.

(Tracklist and link in the comments)

Christopher Power!

As I previously said, Christopher Lambert made some really interesting movies in France or Europe. Gabriele Salvatores' Nirvana back in 1997 was one of them. Not a great success box office speaking I'm afraid but a very clever variation on virtual reality, a bit ahead of The Matrix on the subject (but without all the wham-bam-thank-you-spaceman SFX and daring visuals). Surreal and sometimes creepy, this sci-fi flick had some amibtion mais maybe not the budget to do so. Where a virus gets in a videogame and gives life to the characters.

The soundtrack was very curious, too, an eerie mix of 90's electronic music, indian references and cyberpunk culture. Kinda Simon Boswell if you absolutely wants to label it. Mauro Pagani & Federico de Robertis' work is ambitious too, atmospheric, relying on somes strange sound effects to give some kind of despair. Something worth discovering.

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