Eco-friendliness was big back in the 1970's, even among makers of grade-B movies. Enter the animal-attack horror movie, where sweet, cuddly woodland creatures suddenly decide that Hollywood has-beens and never-weres must die to pay for the havoc wreaked upon the environment . . .
an E.T. ripoff with more product placement per square inch than any other film ever made. They really should have ditched the plot and just made a feature-length commercial for the sponsors.
If you think Asian cinema is just nihilistic Korean revenge melodramas, Hong Kong bloodbaths, or depressive Japanese ghost stories, well . . . it gets worse. SLATE's Mark Jordan Legan is along as a guide for those with weak hearts, sensitive stomachs, or tenuous grasps on reality . . .
Remember, Joan Crawford went from an Oscar to movies where she ran about threatening people with various garden implements (people besides her children). And she isn't the only one. A quick tour of life after the Little Gold Bowling Trophy . . .