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...surprise then that she is murdered soon after? James makes the scenario slightly more melodramatic, however, by fooling around with the murder scene. Venetia is found in her office, stabbed through the heart--wearing a judge's wig and covered in blood that is not her own. The initial horror of the murder makes the subsequent investigation all the more fascinating...
...Role of Humor in Action Movies, Part II. There is a script imperative to sequels, it seems, to burlesque or mock the story's campier elements. Comedy pulls the rug out from under horror. Pretty soon, though, you have nothing: who has all the breath to laugh and gasp simultaneously...
...pony-tailed hippies, all you see is a whir of cellophane and custard. When the camera slides down the back of the alien like Fred Flintstone leaving the quarry at quitting time, we can only think of Spielberg's T. Rex--a death blow to the spit-and-steel horror of the original alien beast. Which brings...
...delicious comic relief found between Kadmos (Alvin Epstein) and Tiresias (Will LeBow) at the start of the play. One cannot help but love the funny old men as they prepare to dance in the mountains near the Bacchae, particularly Kadmos in his dress straight out of "Prom Night Horror." When they have to, however, both can instantly become powerful leaders on the brink of destruction. LeBow's Tiresias sends chills through the audience with his dark fore-shadowings to the giggling Maenads. Likewise, the perpetually-talented Epstein manages to make his bitter tirade against Agave ring with the pain...
...CHRISTMAS WISH] Build on the suddenly hot horror-film genre...