Muscade Reviews

Elvis Gratton: Le king des kings (1985)

One of the worst movies I've seen

[27 October 1998]

Excuse me? This is supposed to be one of the best movies from Quebec ( along with _Louis_19:_le_roi_des_ondes_ and _Les_Boys_), and it makes _Showgirls_ (1995) look like a masterpiece. This film is disgusting, gross, kitsh ( in the worst way...), sexist, vulgar, and looks like it was shot by a first grader with a VHS-C handycam. The acting is OK, tough. Why our best movies can't even measure up with the best American or even French movies?

IMPORTANT NOTE: For you American/French/Japanese/etc. people, here in Quebec we aren't all as stupid and disgusting as the people portrayed in that horrible piece of garbage. Most of us are kind of just like you...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Surely one of the best scary/fun flicks I've ever seen!

[10/10 · 11 September 1998]

I've seen this movie for the first time when I was 13 years old, watching it in three parts, after school, and even if it was daytime, it scared me to death. Some images of it are still haunting me, such as the ending, well... just the way an ending should be, just plain maddening.

The plot features a brand new idea, alien plants, and has a dark, moody and paranoid atmosphere. There is no gore, just unrelenting suspense. You never quite know who's possessed by the alien form, you suspect everyone and it's almost unbearable. Nancy Cartwright delivers a great performance -- she looks soooo scared! -- and the ensemble cast is convincing. The same subject has been filmed in 1956, under the same title (it's OK, but the remake is better) and in 1994 under the title Body Snatchers ( almost every good idea is wasted in this one, tough it's entertaining if you haven 't seen the others).