Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

 Today when I got home from an Easter get-together with my mom and just a busy morning overall, my daughter watched Critters 2 (1988) and Night of the Lepus (1972) with me. The moos were quieted as the Crites and giant Rabbits went on the feeding frenzy rampage. Mick Garris, with his Stephen King adaptations, may end up being more known for his Easter horror Critter sequel if that truly remains in the zeitgeist while western television director, Claxton, probably hoped when alive most forgot about the cute bunnies scurrying about miniature towns meant to portray devastated locations in the Midwest.

 I have to imagine I'm not the only one who found the Cretins just vandalizing, motorcycling through, spraypainting, and crashing the high school strangely cathartic, as if living vicariously through them; at some point, a good many of us just dreamt of releasing those kind of tensions, akin to a "rage cage". Tossing desks, books, and tables off the top of school building, even crushing the earth globe, and leaving rooms a disaster; the Cretins seem to really live their dream. I have to imagine the cast involved had a blast just laying waste to Tromaville High School. Speaking of Tromaville, I'm not sure bragging about being the mecca of nuclear waste is something to be proud of... --- I decided to just put this here on the blog. I read it and it might be wrongfully read as if I was pro destruction of property and school, but it was just seeing the free flowing anarchy that I figured students who just hate school would dream of just unleashing on the place. The film s

 This was the next to last episode of the second season and while it is a domestic story about capitalist greed where miners are subjected to terrible treatment in terms of pay, working and living conditions, and fraudulent activity, there includes an erupting volcano that adds a lot of danger and intrigue to String and Dom's efforts to help out the exploited workers and their families while contending with the scum lording power over them as they combat substantial difficulty. Juanita Mahone is the vocal force to be reckoned with Mills Watson wants to silence while Laraine Day ("Foreign Correspondent" and a great history of television) is the wife of the mining company's dead CEO; Mills, the police, and a reluctant accountant (William Cort; "Heathers"/"Elvira: Mistress of the Dark") will need to quell any resistance, not to easy when String and Dom arrive to stir up trouble for them. Of course, the end has Mills and his chopper pilots targeting th

 Well, Hank just drives down a road and has women throwing their phone numbers at him or meets him at a little dinner (though his ex, Karen), wanting to get high and fuck upstairs in one of Bill and Karen's rooms. That's just sort of how it works out for Hank. He can't seem to figure out what to write, sort of stuck in this hell in LA, a city he just hates. He moved out there, sure, but New York is his love, so any real acclimation to the city seems difficult at best. Adding to the complication of not being able to move on from Karen, Hank also tries to recover from the fact that he slept with an underage daughter of the man who wants to marry his real first true love, Bill. Even worse, perhaps, is that Bill owns a website looking to hire Hank; he learns this at the end of the dinner party night when confronted by 16 year old Mia, Bill's daughter, who clearly still wants to fuck him. So Hank has a lot on his mind, for sure. With all the conversation on "vaginal rej

 A good bit of the first season really leaned on The Firm missions for the Airwolf, plenty of global and government espionage and intrigue, politically charged and the stories were seemingly never too far away from sky battles with terrorism plots even woven in. Then the second season seemed to change a lot, veering away from String and Santini tackling serious missions, instead opting to stick them with stunt jobs to help fund their helicopter company. "Out of the Sky", to me, is the bottom of the barrel in terms of wasting the initial premise in favor of mediocre plots...a Country music star (Misty Rowe) kidnapped while a doppleganger is set up to be crushed by a prop spaceship loaded with explosives to go off so the audience is provided a light show...Rowe's agent (Mayf Nutter) decides to kill her off so the record sales increase substantially in order for him to pay off his debts! Stringfellow Hawke is smitten with the singer/songwriter and wants to make sure she is r

 So all the world's a...snowglobe? -- If that was my life and Anna Falchi kept popping up, it sure wouldn't be that bad at all. I just love how the police inspector keeps popping up, only to tell Francesco (Everett) he's not a suspect (when he should be), only for our cemetery caretaker/walking dead destroyer to react with frustration and even anger is just perfect as is how Falchi just keeps showing up over and over, multiple characters, in the same locality. And they all seem drawn sexually to Francesco and vice versa. I cracked up when the third Falchi tells Everette "the medicine doesn't seem to work". That hypo sure seemed full, though!  -- There is just cool shit right up my alley, like the makeout in the puddled ossuary where a kiss is shared between both participating parties passionately except with head coverings, Francesco burning papers when visited by Death convinced to "use his gun before the bodies are buried" who resembled The Ghost o

 The second episode of season 1 has Duchovny and his dog Stella exiting a diner where his PO Box is located, picking up a coffee before opening a folder to reveal another letter, this time from an ad exec, Diane (Laura Johnson) near an isolated industrial area of Los Angeles near train tracks. Diane discusses a period of time where she was working late in her office, noticing who she thought might be an investment banker or lawyer (Arnold Vosloo of "The Mummy"!!!). They lock eyes and this mysterious man sends her a fax, daring her to tell him her name. During the course of the episode, the nights they trade faxes, they dare each other to do some naughty things like remove clothing, all the while tempting a potential hookup. While Diane certainly plays her part, it is the mystery man across the street in an adjacent building who proposes they meet in person to fuck. Vosloo even fucks a woman on his desk in his office with the shades open, looking right at Johnson, hoping this