{"id":11460,"date":"2008-08-19T22:58:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T02:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2008-08-19T22:58:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T02:58:16","slug":"scarlet-frys-horrorama-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/19\/scarlet-frys-horrorama-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlet Fry's Horrorama (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"horrorama-front\"<\/a>Great news everyone, the 1990 cult classic \u201cScarlet Fry\u2019s Horrorama\u201d is finally available on DVD after so many years! What\u2019s \u201cScarlet Fry\u2019s Horrorama,\u201d you ask? I don\u2019t know. Oh and I checked around the internet and no one seems to know either. So either the Matrix is on the blink and the agents have destroyed any and all evidence of the great \u201cScarlet Fry\u2019s Horrorama,\u201d or\u2026 this great news I\u2019m reading about on the press kit is only great to the folks that made this film. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that, it\u2019s just I don\u2019t like the pretense that something is rare and precious when it really isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Also, I searched vigorously and I don\u2019t have a clue who Scarlet Fry is either. I\u2019m getting an uneasy Fred Vogel\/Murder-Set-Pieces false hype vibe here, and that vibe is particularly induced by the rather terrible movie that follows. The tip off is that painfully bad sound and video quality that look like VHS transfers with fuzzy video and a canned soundtrack and sound effect track; and that was when I could play the DVD. Because after failing to finish the entire thing on my computer, I then went to my DVD player and failed there, too.<\/p>\n

I shouldn\u2019t have so much difficulty playing a movie. I\u2019m then met by a horrible make up job by a narrator who ensures a horrific six mortifying tales. The acting is abominable, and when I mean abominable, I mean that the director simply didn\u2019t know how to convey to the actors how to work for the camera. They act like cartoons most of the time and I was never sure if the director wanted us to take this movie seriously, or if it was a spoof of the horror anthology flicks. I\u2019m serious: Are we supposed to take this fiasco seriously? Am I missing a big joke here?<\/p>\n

Are the Bullcrank fellows having a laugh at my expense? Isn’t “thirty minute anthology” an oxymoron? Anyway, beyond this trouble and obstacles, the six tales here are nothing but poorly made stories that have zero structure, zero energy, and anxiously attempt surprise endings, and ironic twists to no avail, and the director tries to squeeze it all in a half hour, to boot. Here is a description of one of the stories: Manwich \u2013 \u201cTwo lumberjacks are chopping trees when one big guy eats his lunch & is still hungry and decides to eat his partner.\u201d And that\u2019s literally the whole segment!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m calling shenanigans on this \u201cCult Classic\u201d and tucking it away in my private collection (i.e. the garbage bin). Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining, and don’t call a movie a “Cult Classic” unless you can prove it. Sorry guys, but it\u2019s just garbage. To whomever moved this release along: I\u2019m never usually this hard on indie movies (even the bad ones get a pass), but \u201cScarlet Fry\u2019s Horrorama\u201d was a fail on every level. I spent twenty minutes trying to watch a thirty minute movie that the box told me was an hour. All for a really bad movie in a really bad quality transfer from a VHS tape. And this is a cult classic why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great news everyone, the 1990 cult classic \u201cScarlet Fry\u2019s Horrorama\u201d is finally available on DVD after so many years! What\u2019s \u201cScarlet Fry\u2019s Horrorama,\u201d you ask? I don\u2019t know. Oh and I checked around the internet and no one seems to know either. So either the Matrix is on the blink and the agents have destroyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[103,219,477,501,885,938],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-anthology","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-s","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}