[net.movies] The Soul of a New Horror Film

pds (02/19/83)

     Did anyone out there find TSOANM as incredibly dull as I did?
After all, who wants to read a book about what is essentially everyday
life at the office for a great portion of the engineers in this country?
And a movie from it?  I shudder at the thought of sitting through such a
film.  Should rank right up there with "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes."

                                           ...uvacs!pds

kk9w (02/24/83)

I happened to really like Attack of the Killer Tomatos.  Much better than
a lot of stuff on the silver screen, anyway.

Dave Andersen

turner (03/01/83)

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ucbesvax!turner    Mar  1 01:08:00 1983


	You mean "right DOWN there" with "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes",
    don't you?

	As for how boring SOANM (or "Attack of the Killer Bus Glitches")
    was as a book, not to mention a movie: the book had spectacle value.
    Sure it dragged, but the interesting thing was that it could be done
    at all.  "Death in the Afternoon" probably made bull-fighters yawn
    a lot (I suspect, being Real Men, that they don't read novels, anyway)
    but impressed many other people.

	Of course, there might be an element of narcissism in all this...

	    Michael Turner