#21-#23

Mimic (1997)

• Guillermo del Toro 's US debut. 
• Really fun monster movie. The Judas bugs were very well done.
• The character Chuy really pissed me off. Which is fine, because there are kids out there like that I'm sure, but I wanted to smack him.
• The plot sometimes felt like it was stretched in too many directions, but never to the point of ruining the movie.
• Guillermo was brutal with the kills. Kids, dads, priests. No one was safe.

Red State (2011)

• Kevin Smith's take on religious zealots and the horror genre. Some action is thrown in there as well.
• I think this is a fairly realistic tale. The dialogue is obviously a little heightened to that Kevin Smith wit at times, but other wise, very believable.  
• Lot's of gory gun shot wounds.
• The tall kid in this reminded my wife and myself of our  friend Big Pat.
• John Goodman is awesome. I love him in almost everything.

Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961)

• Film adaptation of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
• This one keeps the ghosts ambiguous. Are they real or not? The movie works very well either way.
• This one would hold up to multiple watchings due to how many layered themes and visuals are in it.
• Some interesting Freudian sexual themes.
• Truman Capote wrote the majority of the screenplay.