As a fitting 50th post and end to the FFL "posting week," allow me to review the film I watched tonight. It's not only the end of the posting week for me, but the end of a long, leading-up-to-the-unrealistic- software-deadline-that-no-one-human-could-ever-have- met-but-I-did week. So I figured I had a night of pure, unadulterated cinema pleasure and a glass of an extraordinarily rare and expensive single malt Scotch coming to me.
I had many films to choose from. Pirated or review copies of films seen so far only by the audiences at Cannes. Art films. Serious films. Contenders-for-next- -year's-Oscars films. Good films. I decided to go for the other extreme and watch Phil Claydon's "Lesbian Vampire Killers." And I'll be damned if it wasn't a good film after all. Or at least a very funny one. It had me laughing out loud at least three times before the title screen rolled, and didn't let up appreciably after that. It's a very, very funny British horror movie parody, which is another way of saying it's right up there with Edgar Wright's brilliant "Shaun Of The Dead." That, for the uninitiated, is high praise indeed. This film should be seen as "remedial education" for prudes like BillyG and jr_esq and Edg. But that is almost certainly compassionate Hope For The Irre- deemably Stupid on my part. They'd never get it. They would be *offended* by the things that guys who still have a pair consider funny. They'd avert their eyes at the sight of the bevy of brutishly beautiful buxom British booty babes (sorry...I got stuck in a loop of alliteration there...) who adorn this movie. The only thing they'd think of when encountering women who want nothing more than to suck men dry is that that's a Bad Thing, and probably is aimed at their kundalini, not their blood or seminal fluids. Those who -- unlike the prudes mentioned above -- who still have blood in their veins and who do not break out into hives at the thought of it rushing south of the chakra border at the sight of a few attractive women, might enjoy this movie. Yeah, it's dumb, and so are the characters in it. But so was the TM move- ment, and some of us survived it. So take a chance...
