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Best & Worst of ’10: RYAN DALEY’S BOTTOM 5 OF 2010
My ‘Worst of the Year’ list gets harder to put together each year, if only because I try to actively avoid shit I know I probably won’t like. I’ve skipped the last five Saw sequels, refused to subject myself to either of Rob Zombie’s Halloween bastardizations, and I’ve never seen a Twilight movie. What’s the point? I figure life is so short, and there are so many decent horror movies out there, why waste 90 precious minutes on a guaranteed bust like Paranormal Activity 2? But even when employing a heavy-duty entertainment filter, some shit will invariably seep through the cracks. There’s no way that I can possibly ‘unsee’ the following five films from 2010-like lingering memories of the Vietnam War, their cinematic ineptitude will forever take up space in my subconscious-but perhaps my pain and anguish can serve as a warning for any fatally curious horror fans out there. 
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RYAN DALEY’S BOTTOM 5 OF 2010
One of the more polarizing films of 2010. Some praised the sheer originality of Vincenzo Natali’s genetic horror flick, while others complained about its rampant idiocy. Let’s recap: two genetic engineers create a DNA mutant monster, complete with stinger. Sarah Polley dresses it in doll clothes and raises it as a daughter. Adrien Brody plays step-dad until it grows into a creature that’s somewhat feminine and then fucks it. The creature finally gets its revenge by stinger-raping Polley. Yeah, I’m not making any of this up.
A movie so bad, for awhile it plays like an inside joke-at the audience’s expense. A handful of B-movie has-beens gather in a cabin to play a super-gay board game and get on each other’s nerves. Like watching home movies of somebody else’s contentious family reunion. You can’t get it out of your DVD player fast enough.
Michael Madsen pulled himself away from his beer-filled mini-fridge just long enough to anchor this abysmal attempt at torture-porn. Three bickering characters screech their way through the first hour, leaving Madsen free to sleepwalk through tons of awkward exposition during the ‘climax’. And Jennifer Tisdale (Dark Ride) does her very best to annoy the living fuck out of you.
Apparently today’s teens can’t stay awake for shit. Seriously, these kids would sleep through a nuclear attack. They should rename this movie The Elm Street Narcoleptics. And is it true that Jackie Earl Hailey played Freddy? Really? His visage was buried under so much sloppy make-up, the role could have been played by Gary Coleman for all I could tell. A complete insult to fans of the franchise.
How this piece of shit made it into the 2010 Sundance Film Festival is anybody’s best guess. The Butcher Brothers’ clusterfuck of a movie is alternately irritating, confusing, boring, stupid, and exhausting. Nerds dressed as bikers awaken an alien rockabilly gang from the 1950s who turn them into face-eating zombies-or something. Trust me, it’s a mess. As of today, The Violent Kind has yet to receive a distribution deal. Which means that possibly-hopefully-this paragraph will be the last you ever hear of the Brothers’ epic Sundance fail.
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Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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