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DROG/BLOG: The Clown Versus Monkey Method: Hi! So what is the process on making a chunk of Clown Vesus Monkey? So Green is easy, yellow kinda tough, red takes a long tim...

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The Clown Versus Monkey Method

Hi!

So what is the process on making a chunk of Clown Vesus Monkey?

So Green is easy, yellow kinda tough, red takes a long time. Anything Clown takes a long time. Each row is a scene. I try to do a few boxes every day. That's it! I do a pass then start over for the next ten minute chunk of movie. Rock rock.


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TEN Things I remember about Battle Of The Damned (2013)

I fell asleep during this, so here's my general impression of the movie.

1. Malaysia setting adds a lot. Asian zombies and the foreign location gave it a nice vibe.

2. Lundgren's face takes up his entire head.

3. There are robots in this, but I don't know how they got there, I must have been asleep. They have a nice 1950's vibe mixed with Apple aesthetic.

4. Lots of warrior face paint.

5. A great pace. Movie begins already in progress and never stops to breathe. Everytime I passed out some gunfight or zombie attack woke me back up.

6. They did a good job making the people have a distinct look and personality. Well, the costume designer did their job.

7. Movie looked like some friends running around with cameras, playing Aliens. The difference between professional and amateur is so small now. I've seen slicker homemade productions on YouTube. Not a bad thing. Movies now look like glorified fan films.

8. Cribs from Escape from New York,  some lines taken verbatim.

9. Zombies are so easy to defeat. They would never overrun society. The reality would be more Romero with the rednecks getting together making a weekend out of it.

10. I recommend this, it's an amalgam of so many movies you like, the fun is spotting the influences.

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I like trash.

Killlllllmeeeeeeee, pleeeeeeeaaaaseeeee.....

Abbie is getting the fever.

Morning after, no one is at the office...

except me! I am The Omega Man!

Nice! At least you're not out in snow-maggeddon!

My hotel room, hobo invasion!

Trex packing heat

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TEN Presents /// DONALD PLEASENCE THEATER Episode 1: Wake In Fright (1971)

1. Movies from 68-75. No cell phones. No computers. Story not spectacle. No technology to bail you out.  In the 70s, my parents were struggling newlyweds. Vietnam and hippies and civil rights. Look at the America in Two Lane Blacktop. It's another freaking world. And in the 70s, Donald Pleasence was still acting. As it should be. Something is broken now that D-Plez is gone. 

2. D-Plez. Loomis. Blofeld. The name above the title on Halloween movies. His death in Fantastic Voyage. His Presidential flip out in Escape from New York. But here: raw, manic, pathetic. Stealing every scene. But real. He exists, and you know him.  

3. The setting. Small country towns in the Australian outback. So many little details, the sun so brutal, the dust and rocks and dried out brush. The people's faces so weather beaten and mad, their heads baking in the furnace. You are trapped in this movie.

4. Our main character. School teacher that hates teaching. Better than everyone he meets. Condescending smirk. Feels trapped by circumstance. Unlikable but relatable.  

5. A horror movie about identity. Are we who we say we are or who we are told to be? If given permission, would we be different? I could be a monster, inhuman and sick, if given the right context. Existential terror, the best kind.

6. No one wants to hurt our hero. He is his own monster. The antagonists are nothing but nice and genuine and generous.  

7. The townspeople are wild rednecks who live on this moon base with nothing to do but drink beer and hunt kangaroo. A frat party that has been going on for generations. No escape. 

8. Kangaroo hunting shown in vivid detail. Chasing down kangaroo in a beat up jalopy over the scorched earth. Surreal. No cute fat Looney Tune kangaroos here. Instead, starving, hairless, filthy, rat-creatures, slaughtered by drunk rednecks. The movie has a disclaimer, it is all real and shown to bring awareness of their imminent extinction. It works as activism, but you will avert your eyes.

9. Coin flipping. In small towns, the men are crammed into a basements gambling away their money on coin flips. In case you wondered.

10. Ted Kotcheff. The first shot shows that you can lower your guard and trust the filmmaker. Ted was paying attention when he put the movie together. Movies where free to tell stories in ‘71. They didn't have to sell combo meals or be Oscar bait.

SHOWSTOPPER: The opening theme song. It will infect you brains.

FINAL SCORE: 8/10

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