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Playing House (V)
“What would happen if you took Fatal Attraction, dulled it down, replaced the daughter with a Steven Page (singer of Barenaked Ladies) lookalike, the bunny with a cat, and Glenn Close with a young, wooden stripper? You’d get something close to the film Playing House!”
What would happen if you took Fatal Attraction, dulled it down, replaced the daughter with a Steven Page (singer of Barenaked Ladies) lookalike, the bunny with a cat, and Glenn Close with a young, wooden stripper?
You’d get something close to the film Playing House!
Written by Tom Vaughan and Kristy Dobkin, and also directed by Vaughan, the premise is as follows: Married couple Jen, a chef, and Mitch, a doctor, ask their best friend Danny to move in with them so they can afford their dream house. Everything is fine for ten minutes until Danny brings home the “stunning temptress” Blair. She wants everything they have and will kill anyone who gets in her way…
My first thoughts as the movie began, with Jen (Sarah Prikryl) and Mitch (Craig Welzbacher) macking on each other after awaking from a good night’s sleep, was I don’t understand why the people in movies never have morning breath. Sadly, this is as complex as my thought process became as we got into the movie. Jen is a cat lover while Mitch has a Claritin addiction and Danny (Matt Lusk) has no luck in the lady department. Jen tells Danny to try online dating and soon enough Jen finds Blair (Mayra Leal) making breakfast one morning, buttcheeks hanging out and all, and has no problem with it. Because people never have a problem waking up to find a half naked stranger cooking breakfast in their kitchen!
Soon, however, we come to find out that Blair’s last boyfriend died mysteriously – and perhaps her good intentions, like naked cooking (and swimming, there is that, too), are not so good after all. She turns a bit nutty, offs Danny, sets her sights on Mitch and the movie is pretty much that.
Now, don’t get me wrong. This film IS entertaining. Yet, its predictability was so blatant that I had a hard time downing it without drifting over to the computer to see if I had missed an email or tweet. It wasn’t so much the acting (which really wasn’t that bad except for poor Mayra Leal) that had me tuning out – it was more the idea, like I stated above, that this film has been done before. Be it a version of Play Misty for Me, Fatal Attraction, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Swimfan, The Crush – there could have been an extra good twist that wasn’t there and I was left far from captivated by this specific spin on the whole obsession movie.
There are absolutely no extras on the DVD, which made me a bit sad. I felt at least a little something could’ve helped it. However, it does arrive this coming Tuesday if you still would like to check it out!
Also, don’t forget! You can enter to win a date with Ms. Mayra Leal starting June 21st!
The official Resident Evil trailer has arrived this morning, bringing a closer look at the nonstop survival horror ride filled with references to Capcom’s classic game series and T-virus gore.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The trailer below introduces Austin Abrams (Weapons) as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Cregger directs from a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapters 3 & 4).
The trailer keeps its focus on the central human character arriving amidst an outbreak, revealing very little in the way of its mutated threats. The film’s director previously teased not to expect a zombie-heavy film.
Cregger explains, “This movie doesn’t utilize zombies that much. It’s much more focused on the weird creature stuff than the zombies. There’s really only two scenes, maybe three, where there’s proper zombie stuff going on. And two of those three are in the trailer.”
“But other than that… I wouldn’t call this like a zombie movie,” Cregger previews. “I just feel like, you have this opportunity for the T-Virus to do all these really fascinating things to the human body, and to the world around you, and so to just limit it to zombies feels like a squandered opportunity. So I tried to really vary it up.”
According to the film’s listing on the AMC Theatres website, the runtime for Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is 1 hour, 35 minutes, making it one of the franchise’s shortest movies.
And we are expecting a very intense, fast-paced 95 minutes from the film.
Watch the new trailer below, spot the signature Resident Evil shotgun shells and more.