Aki Vs. Evil – The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster

It’s been a while (almost a year and a half) since I last wrote anything in this series but that’s just because you don’t often see good films in the horror comedy genre. Sure, I’ve seen four Toxic Avenger movies, a seemingly deliberately bad Finnish movie called Bunny the Killer Thing (being purposefully bad does not make for a good movie), Two Thousand Maniacs! and so forth. On the other hand, there are some I might want to talk about, like Heart-Eyes, The Ugly Stepsister, Deadstream, Deathgasm, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Slumber Party Massacre… We’ll see. Maybe this series gets another (third) lease on life?

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Aki Vs. Evil – Tremors

According to Kevin Bacon, at some point of his career, he called this the most fun he had had making a movie. It does have that kind of a feel. There is another story where he practically broke down about the idea of making such a movie he saw as a career low at the time. He went later on to do a TV series called I Love Dick as the titular character, so that might not have been the last time he felt that way. However, I do think Tremors is a good movie and definitely something to be proud of despite the creature-feature premise.

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