We’re only three months into 2007 and already it’s shaping up as one of those legendary cinematic years like 1939, when Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Ninotchka, and The Rules of the Game all hit the screen. So far this year we’ve already had 300, and the Grindhouse twofer is opening next week. And just two weeks after that The Tripper opens, featuring Zombie Ronald Reagan dismembering hippies with an axe. This is David Arquette’s first venture as a director (although he’s a veteran of some fairly nifty horror/schlock films, like the Scream trilogy and Eight-Legged Freaks), and it’s been suggested by some, including Arquette himself, that the film is a dark satire on the Reagan years and Republicans in general. Regardless of the director’s intent, I expect to enjoy this as much as I enjoyed watching Leonidas hacking up Persians. The fact is, Arquette seems to go back and forth on the deeper meaning of The Tripper. I did like his comment from this interview: “I… became a Grateful Dead parking lot crasher and made it up to an amazing concert, Reggae on the River, and it was there that I thought it would be great to see all these hippies massacred.”
(Via Hot Air.)
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Cosas que hacer en sábado cuando no estás muerto…
Más de Bill Plympton: 25 Ways To Quit Smoking y el clásico Push comes to shove. –Y luego dicen que Hollywood sufre una crisis de ideas: “The Tripper” opens, featuring Zombie Ronald Reagan dismembering hippies with an axe. –Los……
I, too, have had many dark fantasies about chopping up hippies at Reggae On The River. It is there, as a young man, I learned to hate the filthy hippie in all its incarnations.
This movie I must see.
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