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“FROG-G-G!”: CAN A GOOD-NATURED FOAM AND LATEX MONSTER FLICK MAKE IT IN TODAY’S HARSH CGI WORLD?

By | October 2003

How frightened can today’s audiences be of an oversexed amphibian who looks like an actor in a frog costume?

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“FROG-G-G!”: CAN A GOOD-NATURED FOAM AND LATEX MONSTER FLICK MAKE I

There’s something deeply reassuring about Cody Jarrett’s “Frog-g-g!” In this era of super-realistic special effects and multi-million dollar...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: NAKED NAZIS AND HUNCHBACKED MIDGETS

If your taste in movies is like mine, there's no way a film featuring naked Nazis having all kinds of kinky sex can fail. That very description means it...

“FROG-G-G!”: CAN A GOOD-NATURED FOAM AND LATEX MONSTER FLICK MAKE IT IN TODA

The Frog-g-g! Prints But the “Hollywood connection” most central to the success of “Frog-g-g!” may have been cinematographer David Diano, who...

“FROG-G-G!”: CAN A GOOD-NATURED FOAM AND LATEX MONSTER FLICK MAKE IT IN TODA

“On the Same Lily Pad” Cody Jarrett’s innate enthusiasm appears to have affected every aspect of the production. Actor Todd Malta, who plays the...

TOM SAVINI: A REAL SEX MACHINE

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with “The Godfather of Gore” himself, Tom Savini – the makeup artist that inspired many of my generation to...

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FLESH EATERS

There's nothing like B-Horror. Audiences are so forgiving as long as you show some gore. Bad dialog, bad lighting, whatever... that guy got his head cut...

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THE BEYOND (DVD)

Well, here it is! It's taken over five years, all the way back when it was going to be a laser disc release by Grindhouse Releasing, on through it's...

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MIMIC 3: SENTINEL (DVD)

If there’s one thing that’s usually erroneous with sequels, it’s that most of them are merely a re-hash of the original. From “Psycho 2” to “I...

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INTOLERABLE CRUELTY

As they made clear with "The Hudsucker Proxy," Joel and Ethan Coen have a thing for the stylish, rapid-fire screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s. As...

SXSW 2004 CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS

The South by Southwest Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 2004 film festival. Only works completed in 2003, or works that will be...

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