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“Masters of Horror: Dance of the Dead” (2005)
I’ve really come around on Hooper’s Masters of Horror episode Dance of the Dead.
It remains Hooper at his most guilelessly anti-chic and hopelessly pro-irritating (I fear listening to his commentary on the DVD and hearing him go on, so nice and supportively, about how kewl or rad the episode’s actually not-that-cool, actually clearly-never-not-annoying double-exposure/flicker effect is): it’s a torturous, overripe punk-youth melodrama taking place in a tortuously concocted lawless metalhead post-apocalypse. But, thankfully, it also shows Hooper being his usual extra-ordinarily deliberate and ambitious-in-staging-and-emotional-acuity self, with the most consistent, dreamily saturated eye for the visually eloquent.
The stills above are from the film’s highly-stylized, highly striking “Night Ride” scene, in which the stretch of road the protagonists tear through with reckless abandon plays out not over landscape but through a vivid flurry of primary colors. A superb sequence that I’ll be giving more attention in the future.
I also gave The Damned Thing another look. Not as devoid of the Hooper spark as I remembered, but it’s still pretty lame.
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