Imagine the offspring that would ensue if the puppets from Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal procreated randomly with Trolls and the monstrosities of Foodfight! during a week-long psychedelic mushroom-fueled orgy and you have a sense of the film’s character design.
I’ve written about some of David Bowie’s biggest and most important films and performances for this column but I’ve gravitated towards oddball projects even hardcore fans probably don’t know exist, obscurities like B.U.S.T.E.D, Just a Gigolo, Bandslam, The Hunger TV show and August.
I also recently began a series chronicling the films of bad boy auteur Oliver Stone. This generous patron is now paying for me to watch and write about the cult animated show Batman Beyond and I also recently began even more screamingly essential deep dives into the complete filmographies of troubled video vixen Tawny Kitaen and troubled former Noxzema pitch-woman Rebecca Gayheart.
I’m deep into a project on the films of the late, great, fervently mourned David Bowie and I have now watched and written about every movie Sam Peckinpah made over the course of his tumultuous, wildly melodramatic psychodrama of a life and career.
Or you can be like three kind patrons and use this column to commission a series of pieces about a filmmaker or actor. The price goes down to seventy-five dollars for all subsequent choices. It’s the career and site-sustaining column that gives YOU, the kindly, Christ-like, unbelievably sexy Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place patron, an opportunity to choose a movie that I must watch, and then write about, in exchange for a one-time, one hundred dollar pledge to the site’s Patreon account. I, of course, clearly err on the side of you can’t show too much, and Leigh disagrees with me and he’s probably right.Welcome, friends, to the latest entry in Control Nathan Rabin 4.0. “You have to reveal enough that people are going to want to go see the movie, but not too much that having seen the trailer will negatively impact your experience of seeing the movie,” producer Jason Blum tells Digital Spy about backlash to “The Invisible Man” trailer.
So much seemed to be revealed in “The Invisible Man” trailer that film writer Britt Hayes compared it to a “Cliff’s Notes version of a movie.” The trailer started filling in the background of the title character and included one moment where the invisible man appeared visible. Universal dropped the movie’s official trailer February 7, and it gave so much of the film’s plot away that many horror fans were left thinking the entire film had been spoiled (trailer posts warned viewers not to watch it and complained the film’s whole plot had been given away). Such was the case for Blumhouse and Universal’s upcoming horror release “ The Invisible Man,” starring Elisabeth Moss and directed by “Upgrade” filmmaker Leigh Whannell. The biggest complaint against movie trailers is they give the entire plot of their respective films away, ruining all the surprises a director has in store for moviegoers.