{"id":2209,"date":"2006-10-31T03:24:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T08:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2006-10-31T03:24:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T08:24:39","slug":"masters-of-horror-the-damned-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/31\/masters-of-horror-the-damned-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of Horror: The Damned Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What do you know, after a long break, \u201cMasters of Horror\u201d returns. With a season of ups and downs, and mostly downs, the premiere is backed by the one and only Tobe Hooper whose last entry \u201cDance of the Dead\u201d left much to be desired in terms of intelligence, coherency, and all around entertainment value. \u201cMasters of Horror\u201d was a season of safe scares, and that\u2019s a shame. Is this season premiere any better? Yes. Yes it really is. \u201cThe Damned Thing\u201d has everything that was missing from the first season. There is a substantial amount of engrossing story, wonderful characterization, a stern tone, and cogent direction a la Hooper who rebounds from the abysmal \u201cDance of the Dead.\u201d After his father goes on a violent fit of rage suddenly, killing his mother on his birthday, Kevin Reddle, now a sheriff, is preparing for \u201cthe damned thing\u201d to come, but how prepared is he?<\/p>\n

Hooper\u2019s film, from what I\u2019ve read, isn\u2019t very faithful to the source story, but his take focuses on this small town who has unlocked something utterly demonic when drilling for oil. Hooper\u2019s entry into the series connects the discovery and greed for oil, with a creature that brings out the worse in humanity and causes them to turn on one another bringing about their downfall, and eventually manifesting itself consuming them in its black essence.<\/p>\n

Subtle as it may be, Hooper connects the oil affair with the country with this morbid tale, and puts to use the talent of Sean Patrick Flannery whose conflicted character confesses his thoughts in his own inner dialogue that chronicles his inevitable facing off against the creature that brings about a morbid and utterly surreal climax that managed to satisfy this viewer who\u2019d found no true horror release in the first season. Shit, now this is more like it. Hooper moves away from the dung stain that was “Dance of Dead” and wows audiences with a creepy, and utterly tense installment about an invisible creature that brings out the worst in humanity thanks to a certain black substance. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the season holds for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you know, after a long break, \u201cMasters of Horror\u201d returns. With a season of ups and downs, and mostly downs, the premiere is backed by the one and only Tobe Hooper whose last entry \u201cDance of the Dead\u201d left much to be desired in terms of intelligence, coherency, and all around entertainment value. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[103,419,477,638,1008,1087,1132],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-year-enders","tag-anthology","tag-gore","tag-horror","tag-masters-of-horror","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","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=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}