On Friday nights (and special occasions!), Indieview after dark Takes a pace to honor the Fringe Cinema in the current age.
In March 2025 we highlight favorites from the puppet Paul Lewis – with Two midnight movies (and one muppet!) That affected the “rule of Jenny Pen.”
Read first BAIT: a strange and wonderful choice from at any time in film. Then try BITE: A degradation behind the scenes of the end of the project, the impact and all other spoilers you want.
“The Rule of Jenny Pen” is found in theaters and streams on AMC + and Shudder March 28.
Bait: “It’s a thousand hours of my life you just saw”
If TV writing is not a job anymore, must TV magician be completely screwed up, huh? In 1978 Psychological Horror Classic ”Magic” Anthony Hopkins -Aka everyone’s favorite cannibal psychiatrist-trades in their red-haired FBI agent from “Silence of the Lamb” for another type of dinner date.
As the disturbed illusionist Corky cuts the decorated British actor (who was 41 then and who is 87 now) straight into the side show -like action with a scary first appearance. Corky is a skilled trade in fraud by greatness and starts the film by trying to wow an audience that could care less. Soon he dresses them for their coldness and disinterest, the hundreds of working hours they can’t see and wonder if he will ever live his dream of performing his action for broadcast.
“I did everything right – just no one cared a lot“The defeated magician will comment later.
Corky is talented but slippery in more ways than one, and he will take a long way to learn a valuable lesson: if something is of all stories “perfect”, it by definition may not be. Directed by the legendary Richard Attenborough (a best director and best image winner for “Gandhi”), this straight story from William Goldman is an important post for all Cinephile who like their other script. The late author’s career extended from the barren horror of Stephen King’s “Misery” to the lush story in his Owen timeless romantic comedy, “The Princess Bride.”
By combining influences as multicolored spotlight gels weave Goldman a fairly standard puppet-Centric Nightmare — about a Rovman approaching the end of his rope (strings?) As he starts talking to his Ventriloquist-Dummy-to a spinning trial. Caught somewhere between the creepy of “taxi driver” and the unbroken intensity of the real magical castle in Los Angeles, “magic” co -stars Hopkins and the rapidly talking fats for a two -hand for self -destructive obsession in the pursuit of archaic greatness.
The Hollywood Starlet Ann-Margret is opposite to both as the most obvious party in risk party in proof of the cool-inducing force in violent desperation ski. Chunky and sometimes lurking no one with their winding character logic, there is a reason why most of the prices that this movie went to Hopkins. His performance “saves it” as a mainstream genre recommendation, but for many midnight files, the beauty will be in the eye of the slack-cured doll and hi-murderous holders.
Surprisingly in the exquisite “Let’s Scare Jessica to death” in a kind of way, “Magic” is not an obvious choice for counter -programming at St. Patrick’s Day 2025 – but hear me out. Last year we covered Sean Connery’s “Zardoz”, famous filmed in Ireland. The sci-fi excursion is undoubtedly puzzling (and still worth checking out when you have time), but “magic” is unpolished in every way with stains of obvious happiness sparkling in almost every scene. The movie has the kind of deficiencies that only really skilled artists can see in their movie and choose Submitting, at the same time, severe Cinephiles dared to consider how this sleeping cult favorite pulled off his bag of tricks while their work looks easy.
Lots of music lovers don’t care about jazz, and many entertainment fans can’t worry about watching magic tricks. But just like Corky’s agent, Ben Greene (the incredible Burgess Meredith), begins to realize how fast his client becomes unclear, “Magic” lets the cards fall where they can – move quickly to a strange haunting climax that you would be a dummy to skip.
“Magic” (1978) Flows free on Tubi, Peacock, Amazon Prime Video and More.
Bettet: Can you shut up for five minutes?
Come back in a function length. Are you looking at “Magic”?
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