So many great things wrapped up in one!

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OK. Not just Legos.

Not just Lego Zombies.

Paintings of Lego Zombies.

Sick of people commenting about how you have nothing on your walls at home? Tired of hearing how you’re home is constantly being referred to as a cave by the (few) people that visit?

This will shut them up.

My hat is off to you, Brian Colin.

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Editor email change

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Hello all! :)

 

I will no longer answer emails at my personal email address.  Yes, that’s what I said, I finally got an editor email for contacting me personally-it was just too hard to sift through personal email and BBT email.  I can now be contacted at sreditorbbt@gmail.com

 

Have a great day!

~Bonnie Stone, Senior Edior

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Soylent Screen: Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes, 2007)

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BBT critic Jef Taylor takes on yet another low-budget time travel movie!

 

It may be time to accept that the low budget time travel movie is its own subgenre.  Primer, The Sticky Fingers of Time, La Jette, and now the terribly titled Timecrimes, all explore the possibilities and paradoxes of time travel without benefit of Swartzeneggers or DeLoreans.  Timecrimes, (Los cronocrímenes)  from an award-winning young Spanish filmmaker whose first name is really "Nacho," is one of the best of this subgenre I have seen.  It manages to weave the tangled threads of a character’s movement through overlapping timelines most succinctly, and without requiring the viewer to refer to a written record of who’s who and when’s when.  In large part this is due to the script restricting itself to the motions of four characters, over the course of about an hour and a half of linear time.

Hector was relaxing in the big back yard of his new house when he trained his binoculars on a shocking and bizarre image in the woods beyond.  "Don’t go in there, Hector!" the horror fan screams, but if protagonists didn’t make bad decisions, most scary movies would end before the opening credits.  And, as my wife remarked during our viewing: "If you want to trap a man, use boobs as bait."  Chasing the boobs into the woods, Hector becomes firmly ensnared in a temporal loop.  His next few experiences are terrifying and baffling.  His actions become violent and arbitrary, as he sets into motion a cascade of events in which he is a multiple player.


"Why am I doing this?  Because it’s SCARY!"

Hector’s odd actions are first seemingly motivated by fear and confusion, then through a kind of rash acting out.  He transforms from Victim to Monster, mysteriously following the design of fate, and becoming his own tormentor.  Finally, resigned to his role in the unfolding of predetermined events, he takes hold of them without changing what he has already seen.  Unlike in Groundhog Day, in which an unhappy man must find himself in order to escape the time trap, the hero/villain/antihero of Timecrimes must commit crimes in the hope of fixing the awful events he already has seen happen.   He never should have followed those boobs into the woods.

Special thanks to my wife, who gave me flimsy justification to use the word "boobs" three times in a short movie review.

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Horror Double Features Perfect for the Drive-In

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AMC’s Horror Hacker has a terrific list of movies that would be great back-to-back at the drive-in. I’m assuming there is no drive-in within a gajillion miles of you, so you’ll have to watch them at home on DVD!

Night of the Living Dead with Shaun of the Dead? Of course!

By the way, if you’re into drive-ins, or you want to know more about this crazy concept of which I speak, check out   Water Winter Wonderland. They’re compiling photos and stories about old drive-ins and theaters around the U.S. like the one above.

 

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Happy Father’s Day!

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Soylent Screen: Centipede! (2004)

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BBT Critic Jef Taylor brings you a movie with a subject dear to his heart: animals with (many) more than four legs.

 

I like centipedes.  Let me just get that out of the way.  I know it’s aberrant, perhaps even perverted, to have affection for a creature whose very existence makes people crazy with disgust.  I think they are cool looking, and I appreciate their interesting place near the base of the arthropod family tree.  So I was excited to learn of a horror movie called Centipede! but I was also prepared to be very disappointed.

Oh please, Centipede, kill this character first!

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