A haunted castle movie starring Steve Guttenberg and Daryl Hannah, oh sign me up (SARCASM!)
OK because of the holiday my netflix movies are delayed so I had to "scare" something else up for my new movie of the day. This film was on a double bill with the ever brilliant "Vampires Kiss" starring Nick Cage and if you haven't seen it, its amazing and thats not meant to be ironic in any way. Its fucking great. Anyways.. Even though the concept sounded dreadful I thought i`d give it a chance.
Movie# 46 High Spirits 1988
Oh the 80s, a simpler time when the Guttenberg was contractually obligated to be in every other film. High Spirits has a stellar cast including the great late Peter O Toole, Liam Nelson and Beverly D'Angelo as well as Jennifer Tilly. The production values are decent as well but what sinks this film like a stone is the god awful script. Nothing about it is original and the humor falls way flat. Its also like the screenwriter at a certain point just threw up his hands and said Oh fuck it, who cares. Hannah was nominated for a Razzie at the time for this and I gotta say I agree with him. Its really sad to see Toole doing bottom of the barrel hacky comedies like this. This proves that even with a solid cast and decent production values without a sharp script its going to be a bomb. Not even a so bad its good, its so bad its sad. Do you hear that? Its Peter O Toole spinning in his grave every time someone presses play on this.
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