Nov. 8, 1985
New World
Comedy, Horror
DVD
C-
Rudy De Luca is the main party responsible for this near monstrosity. It's one of his few directing credits (the infamous Pink Lady...And Jeff TV variety show is another), but he also penned Caveman and Million Dollar Mystery. (He also plays Lawrence Malbot, the Wolfman's father I think.) So sometimes the dumb humor works, but mostly it doesn't. The movie doesn't work as Horror either, or Horror-Comedy, particularly with most of the scenes set in daylight. So why did I get it on DVD? (With De Luca's commentary no less!) Well, it was cheap and I had blocked out things like the jokes that are as unfunny the tenth time as they are the first.
Here's what you can do to amuse yourself if you do end up watching this movie:
- Count the performers who are over 6 feet tall: Jeff Goldblum (6' 4 1/2"), Jeffrey Jones (6' 4 1/2"), Ed Begley, Jr. (6' 4"), Donald Gibb (6' 4", the Wolfman here and Mad Dog in Meatballs Part II), Michael Richards (6' 3"), Joseph Bologna (6' 1"), and Geena Davis (6').
- Ogle Goldblum and/or Davis, both of whom show off their chests. (They met on the set, so something good came out of this.)
- Savor the irony of Norman Fell's (not over 6') celebration of "crap."
- Enjoy every single rendition of the title song, from the rockin' version over the opening credits to the castle phone's ring tone to the folk tune towards the end to the closing not-exactly-Glenn-Miller big band take.
- Wonder if Carol Kane (5' 2") is more embarrassed by her role as half of a hunchback couple with John Byner, or by her briefer role in the bigger bomb Ishtar.
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