{"id":22317,"date":"2016-09-16T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T20:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22317"},"modified":"2016-09-16T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T20:13:47","slug":"night-of-the-something-strange-2016-frightfest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/night-of-the-something-strange-2016-frightfest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of the Something Strange (2016) [FrightFest 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"night-of-the-something-strange\"<\/a>A group of friends hell-bent on going to the beach for spring break embark on a road trip during which they stop at a small town cheap motel. \u00a0As they arrive, an STD-like disease is ripping through town. Directed by Jonathan Straiton who wrote the story it\u2019s based on and co-wrote the script with Ron Bonk and Mean Gene.\u00a0 The story they create is completely dependent on gross out sex jokes and monster rape.\u00a0 The film still manages to keep things fairly lighthearted as things are approached in a way that works for its subject matter.<\/p>\n

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Of course, rape is one of the most distasteful subject to joke about and exploit for a laugh but they do it by way of monster which doesn\u2019t fix things but is at least not human on human (for most cases).\u00a0 They create a truly weird, outrageous story that is not for everyone.\u00a0 They put so much effort in being as offensive as can be that the actual humor, which is not bad, suffers.\u00a0 Some of the jokes do work while others are more groan-inducing.\u00a0 The ration of these varies based on each viewer\u2019s sense of humor and tolerance levels.<\/p>\n

The cast of Night of the Something Strange does decently considering the material.\u00a0 The best \u201cmonster\u201d actor here is Wayne W. Johnson as Cornelius.\u00a0 He throws all his being into the part and gives a performance that adds a good physicality to his monster.\u00a0 He makes him imposing and threatening.\u00a0 Playing the lead girl, Rebecca C. Kasek plays Christine and does well being fairly innocent and inoffensive in all the mayhem.\u00a0 As the \u201chero,\u201d Dirk, Trey Harrison starts off as a dislikable character and through the film becomes a better person.\u00a0 His arc is the most interesting and Harrison gives a good performance with the material given.<\/p>\n

Lastly, but definitely not least in a way, Michael Merchant plays his sex obsessed character of Freddy in such a despicable way, he manages to make the skin crawl more than the monsters. Creating what could be considered a good part of the characters are the special effects for the monsters and the other effects all by Colby Flinchum.\u00a0 These are well made and look appropriately gross.\u00a0 The monsterized people look still somewhat human but their skin grows boils and pustules adding even more ick factor to the whole thing.\u00a0 The monster design is complete with huge tentacles\/tongues\/dick things that attack and look a bit, or a lot, ridiculous which works for the film.<\/p>\n

Night of the Something Strange is a fairly dumb movie with juvenile humor, gross out elements, decent effect work, and is completely over the top.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely a midnight movie type of film; it\u2019s bizarre, low-brow, and entertaining against all odds. Even with its issues, all should find something entertaining in its run time even if it\u2019s just the effects or the hilarious song on the end credits.\u00a0 The humor with its rape jokes and a few homophobic ones will work for some but this reviewer found very little of this film funny besides the aforementioned song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of friends hell-bent on going to the beach for spring break embark on a road trip during which they stop at a small town cheap motel. \u00a0As they arrive, an STD-like disease is ripping through town. Directed by Jonathan Straiton who wrote the story it\u2019s based on and co-wrote the script with Ron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,477,706,1087,1219,1221],"class_list":["post-22317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-n","tag-thriller","tag-zombie-apocalypse","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22319,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317\/revisions\/22319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}