Willard Huyck

Horror film written and directed by the writers of American Graffiti (!) is quite effective due to pretty good acting and very effective set design. It's all very Lovecraftian, and we could definitely do with a bit more backstory, especially for the Michael Greer character, but somehow it all works. The best two scenes are in a grocery story and a theater.

Half star for the delightful and ridiculously gratuitous soft-porn scenes. Interesting technique for quieting a restive infant for all you new dads and moms offered early on in "The Devil's Nightmare" (what would the devil's nightmare be, really? Waking up thinking he was holding a winning Powerball ticket? Streaming Dora Hall music drowning out the cries of the harrowed and hopeless? What a crap film).

A film starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat and Charles Martin Smith (Universal, 1973).

Four teenage friends stay out all night.

C (Indifferent).

I can see how it's a classic; it's an extremely imitated movie. A few of those imitations are even good movies. But I don't get the appeal of this one. Is it a nostalgia thing? (Nostalgia for what was only 10 years ago when this came out? It's weird, having grown up in the 90's when everything was Boomer Nostalgia 24/7, to realize pop show more culture could be nostalgic for something so recent.)

(May 2023) show less

An ordinary duck man from a planet of duck people is teleported to Cleveland.

2/4 (Indiffernt).

I almost like this movie. It's weird, and it leans into it's own dumbness (possibly not intentionally). But the third act is boring, and the dialog is so bad.

(May 2022)