This will continue every day until my demands are met
Last night I watched [The] Pit. I don't want to say too much about it here, so all I'll do is recommend that you run (don't walk) to find as many copies of it as you can, in any format, and buy each one. We need to send Hollywood the message that we will not stand by and let new movies like The Pit not be made. Thank you, and goodnight.
P.S. OKAY, damn it, I can't not talk about the content of this movie. It's about this kid...The IMDb summary calls him austistic, but I think it would be incredibly unfair to actual autistic people to consider him that...He's more like just an irritating, anti-social little fuck-up. I'm a doctor, and that's my second-opinion diagnosis. Anyway, this is the last kid on Earth that you'd want to find a big sinkhole in the woods with some cannibalistic troglodytes living in it, but guess what happens? So one-by-one he tricks his enemies into walking out there with him, and in they go. Three happy cave monsters (with people-filled bellies) in a pit.
But that's just the skeleton of the story...They really tried to make it a compelling character study about this little prick. That's how it looked on paper; now, here's what they actually accomplished at the end of the day: The kid is a sex perv. That's it. Here's an example of just how likable the lead character in this movie is: He lusts after the local librarian, who happens to live just up the street from him, so he records himself saying that he's kidnapped her niece and will only let her go if the librarian takes her top off. He calls her, plays the tape over the phone, and runs across the street with his Polaroid to peep in her window and get some pictures. And it totally works, too...I mean, what kind of responsible exploitation filmmaker would set something like that up without letting us see some boobs? (By the way, when the movie was first coming out my parents sued for them to shorten the title from the original The Pit: The Taylor Dahl Story.)
This movie is in the same "must have been conceived of and produced under the influence of some kind of unknown drug from outer space" league as The Carrier, Devil Times Five, The Baby, etc. Which means, of course, that I liked it. I should write a book.
P.P.S. I went with the Teen Wolf icon because I just saw that the girl who plays the kid's babysitter played the voice of Boof on the animated Teen Wolf show. In case any of you were wondering. And I know you were. Let me just say "Boof" again: Booooof.
P.S. OKAY, damn it, I can't not talk about the content of this movie. It's about this kid...The IMDb summary calls him austistic, but I think it would be incredibly unfair to actual autistic people to consider him that...He's more like just an irritating, anti-social little fuck-up. I'm a doctor, and that's my second-opinion diagnosis. Anyway, this is the last kid on Earth that you'd want to find a big sinkhole in the woods with some cannibalistic troglodytes living in it, but guess what happens? So one-by-one he tricks his enemies into walking out there with him, and in they go. Three happy cave monsters (with people-filled bellies) in a pit.
But that's just the skeleton of the story...They really tried to make it a compelling character study about this little prick. That's how it looked on paper; now, here's what they actually accomplished at the end of the day: The kid is a sex perv. That's it. Here's an example of just how likable the lead character in this movie is: He lusts after the local librarian, who happens to live just up the street from him, so he records himself saying that he's kidnapped her niece and will only let her go if the librarian takes her top off. He calls her, plays the tape over the phone, and runs across the street with his Polaroid to peep in her window and get some pictures. And it totally works, too...I mean, what kind of responsible exploitation filmmaker would set something like that up without letting us see some boobs? (By the way, when the movie was first coming out my parents sued for them to shorten the title from the original The Pit: The Taylor Dahl Story.)
This movie is in the same "must have been conceived of and produced under the influence of some kind of unknown drug from outer space" league as The Carrier, Devil Times Five, The Baby, etc. Which means, of course, that I liked it. I should write a book.
P.P.S. I went with the Teen Wolf icon because I just saw that the girl who plays the kid's babysitter played the voice of Boof on the animated Teen Wolf show. In case any of you were wondering. And I know you were. Let me just say "Boof" again: Booooof.