"It's like sitting in your basement, watching those weird movies with your friends" -- this was the original vision for Mutant Reviewers. For over 11 years, our crack staff of writers have put themselves through a gauntlet of some of the best and worst cult flicks in the world, all for the sake of research, entertainment and bragging rights.
This is our story.
”’I don’t care who’s fault it is; his, hers, or the milkman’s. If one of them comes to me, it means they’re both miserable. That’s my job-putting people out of their misery.“
The Scoop: 1990 R, directed by Jack Nicholson and starring Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel.
Tagline: They say money makes the world go round. But sex was invented before money.
Summary Capsule: The unloved little brother of Chinatown throws JJ Gittes into a world of money, murder, and mineral rights as the ghosts of his past come back to haunt him.
“Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, be happy.”
The Scoop: 1971 R, directed by George Lucas and starring Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasance, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie
Tagline: Visit the future where love is the ultimate crime.
Summary Capsule: George Lucas’s horrifying vision of a future where love and sex are forbidden, people are expendable and there’s nothing on TV but reality programming.
“When somebody asks me a question, I tell them the answer.”
The Scoop: 2008 R, directed by Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan, and starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor and Saurabh Shukla.
Tagline: What does it take to find a lost love?
Summary Capsule: Young man becomes a contestant on the Indian ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ to gain the attention of his true love and maybe fulfill his ultimate destiny
Tagline: CLINT EASTWOOD…the deadliest man alive…takes on a whole army with two guns and a fistful of dynamite!
The Scoop: 1970 PG, directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine
Summary: A money-minded gunslinger and a sexy nun team up with Mexico for a showdown against the French, and afterward everyone will eat Freedom Fajitas.
“When somebody asks me a question, I tell them the answer.”
The Scoop: 2008 R, directed by Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan, and starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor and Saurabh Shukla.
Tagline: What does it take to find a lost love?
Summary Capsule: Young man becomes a contestant on the Indian ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ to gain the attention of his true love and maybe fulfill his ultimate destiny
”’I don’t care who’s fault it is; his, hers, or the milkman’s. If one of them comes to me, it means they’re both miserable. That’s my job-putting people out of their misery.“
“Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.”
“I will shoot you. And I know robot karate!”
The Scoop: 2008 R, directed by Darren Aranofsky and starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood
“Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, be happy.”
“When somebody asks me a question, I tell them the answer.”
“To your virtues…and especially your vices, Sara”
“Your eggo is preggo, no doubt about it.”