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1 day agoReady or Not 2: Here I Come Needs Nastier Rich People
Ready or Not 2 portrays the wealthy as satanic cultists engaging in ritual sacrifices for status, reflecting current societal frustrations with the elite.
Dead Lover's heroine is odorous by trade, a lovelorn gravedigger of indeterminate age and origin. Glowicki's accent, roaming between Canada, Canvey Island and Canberra, becomes part of the fun—she's driven to extremes after her verse-spouting poet sweetheart perishes in a shipwreck. Part-Burke and Hare, part-Victor Frankenstein, she salvages what she can of the corpse.
When Abbott and Costello met Frankenstein in 1948's aptly named Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, it was the start of a series of horror-comedies that built on what's arguably the first cinematic universe. So it wasn't really a surprise, 75 years ago, that Abbott and Costello met the Invisible Man.
Combined with the photo of an orange, axe-wielding unicorn that bears a pointed resemblance to a certain purple dinosaur, that might be all the description anyone needs, especially if you're aware that Kelly is best known as the creator of the creepy viral smash Too Many Cooks, which managed to generate bone-gnawing dread with a campy parody of classic sitcom credits.
It's a good thing Anaconda isn't meant to be a horror movie, because the few times it tries for such moments, it's not great at it. The first reveal of the titular giant snake feels like an afterthought. The jump scares, while certainly startling in the moment, are pretty well-telegraphed in advance. However, the end result is a movie far less scary than its campy 1997 predecessor, but far funnier - on purpose.
The sequel to the 2019 Searchlight Pictures fan-favorite horror comedy follows Samara Weaving reprising her role as Grace, who ends up in another murderous game. In the trailer, Grace realizes the nightmare isn't over after surviving the Le Domas family's attack on her wedding night. At least this time around, her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) is by her side. Grace has one opportunity to survive and keep her sister alive, as well as taking the High Seat of the Council that controls the world.
They get him to pronounce the names of farm animals, move onto flash cards with important proper nouns like "Champs-Élysées" and "Great White Way." He adopts a BBC-ready accent-he's been watching a lot of Masterpiece Theater-but still stumbles through until his father takes him aside and feeds him the blood of a rabbit. Suddenly everything clicks: "I think I've got it!"
In a world that so often feels as though it's stacked against us, queer folk find solace in escapism. Sometimes, that looks like a wild night out in the crevices of some underground queer bar, spilling drinks while watching drag queens lip sync for their lives. Other times, that might be laying at home under the covers, getting lost in the horrors of another world, watching someone bashing brains out in movies, or slay monsters in video games.