Review of Dark and Stormy Night (2009) by Bill B — 15 Sep 2012
Larry Blamire is sort of the Christopher Guest of kitsch--his movies are silly, affectionate parodies of old B-movies, such as The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (still his best) and sequel, Trail of the Screaming Forehead and this movie.
He utilizes the same cast of funny, talented (and under-appreciated) actors in all these works, and Dark and Stormy Night uses this to full advantage. It's the weakest of his films (the production design and cinematography are both pitch-perfect recreations of the old dark house movies he riffs on here, but the jokes often fall flat and Blamire's deliriously circular trademark dialogue only sporadically elicits laughs), and is at least ten or so minutes too long, but it's still a passably entertaining bit of silliness.
This review of Dark and Stormy Night (2009) was written by Bill B on 15 Sep 2012.
Dark and Stormy Night has generally received positive reviews.
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