Here I am again on the lower East side, doing my thing.
1. 
The Chumscrubber - 2005 - Arie Posin
Pretty funny suburban dystopia about a boy who finds his best friend committed suicide in his room. At school the next day he's approached by students who want to find the dead kid's pill stash. As much as I enjoyed this movie, I think this genre of film is really played out. Whether fiction or on talk shows, I think we all have the point that rich children and adults are just as fucked up as their lower class peers. It has a running theme about the over medication of today's youth but again, I don't think this is a particularly novel concept and it wasn't done any better that its counterparts. I wonder how many of these screen writers are actually putting their passion into the idea or are churning mimics out like a chick flick or action movie formula.
2.
Polyester - 1981 - John Waters
Yeah.. I've loved John Waters since I was about thirteen and I accidently rented Pink Flamingos. I've now seen every released film of his but I kind of wish I hadn't seen this one. I didn't laugh once and even the dysfunctional family humor worked a lot better in Serial Mom. Maybe the entire novelty of the film came from Smell-O-Vision card which I didn't have but even the irony of scratching and sniffing dirty shoes wouldn't have woken me up from the pulling-out-my-eyelashes-in-boredom. And I don't even know how to give a synopsis of the plot because it was 82 minutes of absolute pointlessness. The only upside for me was Divine looked amazing through the entire film. Oh, John. Why did you forsake me in 1981?
3.
Bread and Circus - 2003 - Martin Loke
If you gave George Orwell a couple of hits of acid, a lot of liquor, dropped him off in Norway, and told him to make a political film drawing most of it's influence from Peter Jackson's Bad Taste.. this is what you'd have. Which is not to say it's particularly great because when people weren't being birthed through giant vaginas in the ground or crawling up the anus of Mother Earth it was sort of dull. If I want to watch an eighty minutes of guns, penises, gore, and beer bottles up someone's ass I'll stick to low budget porno. I'll give it credit that popped in my head after reading imdb, a big reason why I didn't care for it may stem from not understanding Scandinavian humor.
4.
The Toolbox Murders - 2004 - Tobe Hooper
Saying this could probably get me shot in a horror movie community but I think this is a great example of why people need to stop whining about remakes. The original was boring, copied the movies that came out around the same time, but without any of the charm the others had. This, however, was a lot of fun and has Angela Bettis. The building was perfect for atmosphere, the acting was a lot better than expected, and the gore was done well without relying entirely on it. I'm a sucker for cameos too and it was fun to see Sherri Moon Zombie in the opening scene. Poor Tobe has been going downhill recently and things have finally been looking up for him with the release of them and the Masters of Horror episode he did.
The Chumscrubber - 2005 - Arie Posin
Pretty funny suburban dystopia about a boy who finds his best friend committed suicide in his room. At school the next day he's approached by students who want to find the dead kid's pill stash. As much as I enjoyed this movie, I think this genre of film is really played out. Whether fiction or on talk shows, I think we all have the point that rich children and adults are just as fucked up as their lower class peers. It has a running theme about the over medication of today's youth but again, I don't think this is a particularly novel concept and it wasn't done any better that its counterparts. I wonder how many of these screen writers are actually putting their passion into the idea or are churning mimics out like a chick flick or action movie formula.
2.
Polyester - 1981 - John Waters
Yeah.. I've loved John Waters since I was about thirteen and I accidently rented Pink Flamingos. I've now seen every released film of his but I kind of wish I hadn't seen this one. I didn't laugh once and even the dysfunctional family humor worked a lot better in Serial Mom. Maybe the entire novelty of the film came from Smell-O-Vision card which I didn't have but even the irony of scratching and sniffing dirty shoes wouldn't have woken me up from the pulling-out-my-eyelashes-in-boredom. And I don't even know how to give a synopsis of the plot because it was 82 minutes of absolute pointlessness. The only upside for me was Divine looked amazing through the entire film. Oh, John. Why did you forsake me in 1981?
3.
Bread and Circus - 2003 - Martin Loke
If you gave George Orwell a couple of hits of acid, a lot of liquor, dropped him off in Norway, and told him to make a political film drawing most of it's influence from Peter Jackson's Bad Taste.. this is what you'd have. Which is not to say it's particularly great because when people weren't being birthed through giant vaginas in the ground or crawling up the anus of Mother Earth it was sort of dull. If I want to watch an eighty minutes of guns, penises, gore, and beer bottles up someone's ass I'll stick to low budget porno. I'll give it credit that popped in my head after reading imdb, a big reason why I didn't care for it may stem from not understanding Scandinavian humor.
4.
The Toolbox Murders - 2004 - Tobe Hooper
Saying this could probably get me shot in a horror movie community but I think this is a great example of why people need to stop whining about remakes. The original was boring, copied the movies that came out around the same time, but without any of the charm the others had. This, however, was a lot of fun and has Angela Bettis. The building was perfect for atmosphere, the acting was a lot better than expected, and the gore was done well without relying entirely on it. I'm a sucker for cameos too and it was fun to see Sherri Moon Zombie in the opening scene. Poor Tobe has been going downhill recently and things have finally been looking up for him with the release of them and the Masters of Horror episode he did.