Thursday, March 15, 2012

Things from 1989, Re-Released by Intervision Pictures- BEST FILM EVER????

I have to say, Intervision Pictures has a kind of genius to the films they have grabbed to re-issue. If there was a retro movement to make films that look like the films that Intervision Pictures re-issue like Burning Moon or Things, and a musical movement of bands that made music like the soundtracks to such films, I would care about art scenes again, maybe-because Intervision Pictures is the new hardcore, straight-to-video excrement form Germany and Canada.. Things from 1989 is a no-budget Canadian film that defies all description or understanding. It has a weird synthesizer soundtrack that sounds like the Legendary Pink Dots. It was filmed on super 8 with sound dubbed on very poorly after. The characters spend a fair bit of time sitting around a house drinking beer and watching TV. 80's adult film star Amber Lyne appears in the film periodically as a TV newscaster who reads off news stories that have nothing to do with the plot of the film, if it can be said that ThIngs has any kind of coherent plot line. About 25 minutes into the film the main character Doug's wife dies giving birth to odd monsters that look like ants with shark's teeth. Not to long after, the main characters are sitting around having a beer again. This film makes considerably less sense than this review would make you think. I don't think it was ever intended to be any kind of experimental film so much as it is a bottom of the barrel horror film that failed to make any sense. The music alone is worth the price of admission.

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